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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

09BRUSSELS1343	EURO-BURMA NETWORK ENCOURAGES PRESSURE ON EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives from the Euro-Burma Network during a September 29 meeting with the Charge, lauded the recent Burma policy review and encouraged the U.S. to continue to lead coordination with the EU. The delegation was concerned that the EU will now attempt to lift sanctions an [...]	2009-10-02 14:23:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC BU EUN
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
09BRUSSELS1346	EU CLOSE TO LAUNCHING A SOMALIA SECURITY FORCE [...] (C//NF) Summary: In November, EU Foreign and Defense Ministers may approve an operation to train Somali National Security Forces in Djibouti or Uganda. On September 18, EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) Ambassadors tasked the EU Council Secretariat to make specific recommendations to [...]	2009-10-02 18:29:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MOPS MARR SO XW EUN
09BRUSSELS135	JANUARY GAERC - EU FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS GAZA, [...] (C) Summary: Meeting in Brussels January 26, EU Foreign Ministers focused their energies primarily on recent political and economic developments affecting the EU. The General Affairs Council discussed the incoming Czech presidency's priorities and energy security, while the External Affairs [...]	2009-01-29 18:53:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN ETTC KTFN IR SR BO XF ZI UP RS
09BRUSSELS1355	BELGIUM: ENERGY MINISTER WANTS TO EXTEND OLDEST NUCLEAR [...] (U) On October 1, Energy and Environment Minister Paul Magnette (Parti Socialiste) announced that he had agreed with Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to keep the Belgian nuclear power plants open until 2025. In exchange, the owner of the plants, Electrabel (a Belgian subsidiary of the French [...]	2009-10-09 06:12:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG ETRD EINV BE
09BRUSSELS1359	EU VIEWS ON KENYAN POLITICS AND DADAAB REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU shares USG concerns about the political situation in Kenya and the Dadaab refugee camp complex. On both topics, there is a sense of urgency about the need to act to avert a coming crisis and that the window of opportunity for doing so is closing. POLOFF met with the Commi [...]	2009-10-09 11:46:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL KE UNHCR
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
09BRUSSELS1363	SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER SEMINAR ON UN TARGETED [...] (C//NF) Summary: In preparation for the Belgian-hosted UN Targeted Sanctions Seminar of Like-Minded Countries, post provides the following information on Belgian attitudes toward reform of 1267 sanctions and other counterterrorism (CT) issues. This is in part based on Treasury Assistant Sec [...]	2009-10-09 15:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER KTFN ETTC PGOV EFIN PREL PINR KJUS PHUM
09BRUSSELS1366	EU SEEKS COORDINATED APPROACH TO REFORM CONGOLESE [...] (SBU) Summary: EUPOL RD Congo, the EU's police reform mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo advises the Congolese police on police structure, civil rights, justice and police-judicial coordination, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). In the coming months, EUPOL RD Congo will [...]	2009-10-13 11:35:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ZF CG EUN
09BRUSSELS1371	EP: CHARGE PRESENTS THE US PERSPECTIVE TO THE DELEGATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. A large crowd of Members of Parliament (MEPs) and staffers attended the Charge's presentation on U.S.-EU relations during the September 30th meeting of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with the U.S. This was the delegation's first meeting of the new session of p [...]	2009-10-13 16:00:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS1374	EU/IRAN SANCTIONS: CURRENT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C//NF) EU/Iran sanctions officials are currently focused on internal review procedures, but the USG can help make their discussions more forward-leaning by responding to EU requests for information and engaging in high-level diplomacy. On October 13, EU Council Director for Politico-Militar [...]	2009-10-14 07:47:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC KNNP PARM PREL PINR MNUC EFIN ETRD UNSC
09BRUSSELS1391	EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PROPOSE BINDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. The European Commission plans to propose binding energy efficiency targets for all EU Member States, according to a draft Communication outlining recommendations for improving Europe's energy efficiency. The Commission argues that the EU can only reduce energy consumption by 11 [...]	2009-10-16 12:29:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EWWT KGHG SENV TRGY
09BRUSSELS1394	EPC GMO DEBATE : RISK OR OPPORTUNITY FOR EUROPE ? [...] SUMMARY: On October 15 in Brussels, the European Policy Center (EPC) hosted a lively debate on the role of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in European agriculture. Following largely pro-GMO remarks by European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel, spea [...]	2009-10-16 15:26:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB EAGR PGOV OPIC BE
09BRUSSELS1399	EU COMMISSIONER DE GUCHTâ€™S TRIP TO ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Karel de Gucht, along with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Minister Gunilla Carlsson, traveled to Zimbabwe on 12-13 September with an EU delegation including representatives of the Council, Commission, and th [...]	2009-10-20 13:34:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ZU EU
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
09BRUSSELS1414	LISBON TREATY: THE EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Treaty of Lisbon, if and when ratified, will establish a new European diplomatic corps, known as the European External Action Service (EEAS). The EEAS would support the future High Representative of the EU for External Affairs and Security Policy. The EEAS would knit toge [...]	2009-10-22 08:20:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EUN AMGT
09BRUSSELS142	SOLANA SPEAKS ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE, GUANTANAMO, [...] (C//NF) Summary. EU Council Secretary General and CFSP High Representative Javier Solana addressed the final session of a "Study Day" on transatlantic relations organized by the EPP-ED political group at the European Parliament. During the January 29 event he discussed EU relations with the [...]	2009-01-30 17:01:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ENRG KPAL 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
09BRUSSELS1427	AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S OCTOBER 29 MEETING WITH [...] (S//NF//ORCON) Summary: Ambassador Gutman met October 22 with Foreign Minister Leterme and his Chief of Staff Frans Van Daele. FM Leterme made a strong push for Louis Michel for the next UNGA presidency. Ambassador Gutman questioned Michel's friendliness to the U.S. Van Daele termed the U. [...]	2009-10-23 17:57:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM UN BE
09BRUSSELS1454	BELGIUM: GOB ESTIMATES 15,671 NEW H1N1 CASES OCTOBER 12 TO [...] On October 22, the Government of Belgium's Interministerial Influenza Commission (IIC) announced an estimated 15,671 new cases of the H1N1 virus in Belgium for the week of October 12 to 18, continuing an increasing trend over the last three weeks. The total estimated number of cases in Belgium [...]	2009-10-27 15:36:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09BRUSSELS1470	PRESIDENT BARROSO CALLS FOR STRONG COPENHAGEN AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 28 speech, President Barroso, said that climate change is "the defining issue of our generation" and called for a strong international agreement in Copenhagen. He expressed that strong support from European business is essential to success, and Copenhagen represen [...]	2009-10-29 15:04:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EWWT KGHG SENV TRGY
09BRUSSELS1474	EUROPEAN RISK FORUM: HELP WANTED: EU CHIEF SCIENCE ADVISOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: A vibrant debate on the role of science in decision making took place at the October 13 quarterly meeting of the European Risk Forum (ERF) in Brussels. In a roundtable session on "Revisiting Science and Decision Making", private sector representatives, European Commission and Parl [...]	2009-10-30 10:56:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ETRD SENV EUN ECON TPHY TSPL
09BRUSSELS1480	NEW EUROPEAN UNION ACTION PLAN ON AFPAK: MODEST [...] (C) Summary: The new European Union (EU) Action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan, released during the monthly foreign ministers meeting October 27, presents a unified focus for further EU engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. While it does not contain significant new commitments, it doe [...]	2009-10-30 17:28:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EUN AF PK
09BRUSSELS1481	OCTOBER GAERC - AFGHANISTAN AND U.S.-EU SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: During the October 26-27 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Luxembourg, EU Foreign Ministers (FMs) discussed a range of topics including Afghanistan, the Lisbon Treaty and upcoming summits, including the November 3 U.S.-EU Summit. The General Af [...]	2009-10-30 18:21:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EUN AF BK CE MK IR
09BRUSSELS1488	BELGIUM'S FINANCE MINISTER ON FINANCIAL RECOVERY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders said Belgium is establishing a new supervisory system for banks in Belgium which would differentiate between systemic (too big to fail) banks and other, smaller institutions,. He attributed the near collapse of Belgian banks a year ago t [...]	2009-11-03 06:00:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV UNGA SENV BE
09BRUSSELS1489	EU AND CLOSE ALLIES DISCUSS CURRENT CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: On October 16, the Swedish EU Presidency convoked a meeting of EU Political and Security Committee Ambassadors with non-EU NATO Allies and EU candidate countries (the PSC Plus 8) to discuss the EU's counter-piracy operation, the EU police training mission in Afghanistan, and th [...]	2009-11-03 16:25:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL EUN
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
09BRUSSELS151	DAS BRYZA ENCOURAGES EU ENERGY INVESTMENTS AND [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Bryza met separately with Steven Everts, Advisor to High Representative Javier Solana; Heinz Hilbrecht, EU Commission Director for Security of Supply and Energy Markets; and Jean-Paul Decaestecker, EU Council Head of Unit f [...]	2009-02-03 13:24:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS1512	AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S OCTOBER 16 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with Belgian Defense Minister Peter De Crem, the Ambassador urged De Crem to take an active role in world security issues, including Afghanistan, closure of the Guantanamo prison, and climate change. De Crem was sympathetic, and indicated that Belgia [...]	2009-11-10 16:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MNUC ECON BE
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
09BRUSSELS1522	THE TREATY OF LISBON: AN OVERVIEW OF FORTHCOMING EU [...] (U) The Treaty of Lisbon, now scheduled to enter into force on December 1, is intended to streamline EU decision-making and to enhance EU effectiveness on the world scene through a series of institutional reforms. Changes of key interest to the USG include the creation of two new positions: pe [...]	2009-11-13 11:43:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN
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
09BRUSSELS1532	DPRK DEMARCHE DELIVERY TO EU COUNCIL SECRETARIAT [...] (C//NF) SUMMARY: USEU discussed DPRK sanctions non-paper with the EU's Council Secretariat. Staffers welcomed non-paper but cautioned that EU Member States ("EUMS") were unlikely to take suggested actions immediately. EUMS are politically keen to differentiate their autonomous DPRK program [...]	2009-11-17 15:22:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ETTC EUN FR KCRM KHLS KNNP PINR UK UNSC
09BRUSSELS1560	NEW EU LEADERSHIP: VAN ROMPUY AND ASHTON [...] Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy and EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton (UK) were selected by the 27 European Union (EU) leaders November 19 to become, respectively, permanent President of the European Council and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The dea [...]	2009-11-20 17:42:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EUN
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
09BRUSSELS1566	GENERAL HENRI BENTEGEAT SHARES HIS VIEWS AT THE [...] (C//NF) SUMMARY: General Henri Bentegeat welcomed DASD Jim Townsend to his office on 27 October in Brussels for a final meeting before his 4 November departure. The one-hour meeting covered a range of topics. Handing Allied Command Transformation to France was "a bold, great move" said Bente [...]	2009-11-23 10:44:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR EUN FR
09BRUSSELS1571	AFGHANISTAN CONTINUES TO DOMINATE EU MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers devoted considerable time and attention to Afghanistan at their monthly GAERC meeting November 16 and 17 (SEPTEL),with discussions on the issue at their informal meeting November 16 with EU Defense Ministers, their dinner November 16 with NATO Secretary G [...]	2009-11-23 16:49:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID KDEM EUN AF
09BRUSSELS1576	BELGIUM: H1N1 REPORT FOR NOV 9-15: NUMBER OF ESTIMATED [...] For the second week in a row, the number of estimated H1N1 cases in Belgium fell significantly, to 17,850 from November 9 to 15 (week 46),from 33,584 the previous week, according to a November 19 press release by the Government of Belgium's Interministerial Influenza Commission (IIC). One dea [...]	2009-11-24 12:43:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
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
09BRUSSELS159	GUANTANAMO: EU PREPARES DECISIONS, HAS QUESTIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 4. 2. (C) POL M-C met February 3 with an EU Council Americas Directorate staff member Christiane Hoehn at her request. Hoehn asked a dozen specific questions related to our ongoing discussions with the EU concerning the release of Guantan [...]	2009-02-04 12:03:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KAWK KISL EUN
09BRUSSELS1591	KROES CABINET CHEF ON ORACLE-SUN, BANKING [...] (SBU) Anthony Whelan, chef du cabinet to Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, told USEU November 20 that Kroes and DG COMP are carefully reviewing the complex arguments involved in the Oracle-Sun merger, and the potential concerns over Oracle's acquisition of Sun's MySQL open source databas [...]	2009-11-25 13:53:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ECON EINT ECPS EFIN ETRD EUN
09BRUSSELS1596	BELGIUM: U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met on November 24 with the Belgian Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Werner Bauwens, before Bauwens left for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting on Iran. Bauwens harbors little hope that Iran will cooperate with the IAEA and said that [...]	2009-11-27 06:32:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IR PREL BE
09BRUSSELS1597	EUROPEAN ASYLUM SUPPORT OFFICE NEARING FINAL [...] SUMMARY: The European Asylum Support Office (EASO),first envisioned in 2007, is nearing final approval. The Commission had hoped to have the office established before the end of 2009, but disagreements over the office's location and the European Parliament's role in selecting the agency's h [...]	2009-11-27 14:03:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF SMIG EUN PHUM PREL
09BRUSSELS1598	EU AGREES ON SOMALIA SECURITY FORCES TRAINING [...] (C) Summary: On November 17, EU Foreign and Defense Ministers agreed on the Crisis Management Concept for an EU-led military mission to train 2,000-3,000 Somali security forces, which will probably begin in early 2010. The EU has now started operational planning for a mission comprising 10 [...]	2009-11-27 15:17:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL EUN XW SO
09BRUSSELS1605	GTIP DEPUTY DIRECTOR NAN KENNELLY'S MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Summary. GTIP Deputy Director Nan Kennelly met October 16 with Justice Ministry officials, a federal police officer in Antwerp, and Ambassador Gutman to discuss trends in trafficking in persons (TIP) in Belgium. She also stressed to the Justice Ministry the importance of obtaining up-to [...]	2009-11-30 16:03:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KTIP PREL BE
09BRUSSELS1614	EU GRANTS VISA FREE TRAVEL TO CITIZENS OF [...] EU ministers in the November 30 Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council decided to grant visa free travel to and throughout the Schengen area for citizens of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. Ministers discussed the so-called "Stockholm Program" of EU activities in the area of freedom, securi [...]	2009-12-01 15:48:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF SMIG CVIS EUN
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
09BRUSSELS1622	BELGIAN GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT NEW APPROACH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Belgian government is prepared to welcome the new administration policy on Afghanistan. The Minister of Defense will speak publicly in support of the President's speech. The new Foreign Minister was unable to provide an immediate reaction but agreed there are strong argum [...]	2009-12-02 15:00:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR AF PK BE
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
09BRUSSELS1644	EU TO LAUNCH NEW ENERGY AGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: In a letter dated November 27, 2009, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso provided incoming Energy Commissioner Guenter Oettinger with his mandate on EU energy policies. Barroso also announced the creation of the new Directorate General for Energy, which will take [...]	2009-12-07 16:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG PREL KGHG EU
09BRUSSELS1646	VLAAMS BELANG BLUES: LONG STANDING PARTY DIVISIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The long-festering divisions inside the far-right Vlaams Belang (VB) have resulted in an open rift, with three party mainstays opting to resign from the party's executive board. Party President Bruno Valkeniers has managed to impose some face-saving cosmetic changes to the part [...]	2009-12-07 17:05:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BE
09BRUSSELS1647	US-EU OFFICIALS CONVENE ENERGY COUNCIL'S SECURITY [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar and RELEX North America Director Alan Seatter co-chaired the first meeting of the U.S.-EU Energy Council,s security and markets working group in Brussels on November 18, 2009. The meeting established when and how the work [...]	2009-12-08 12:40:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET PREL ECON TU IZ NI UP RU ZJ ZK XR
09BRUSSELS1656	CHALLENGES WITH CHINA DISCUSSED AT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recent EU-China human rights dialogue dominated discussions during the December 4 human rights exchange (HRE) on China. Participants from the EU, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Canada and the U.S. also discussed efforts to mainstre [...]	2009-12-09 14:38:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF EU
09BRUSSELS1663	EU CONSULAR CONFERENCES ILLUSTRATE IMPACT OF [...] (U) Summary: The USEU senior consular representative attended two EU consular seminars in November as an observer. The first concerned consular assistance to EU nationals in third countries and the second, international adoptions. The object of both conferences was to move toward harmonizing [...]	2009-12-11 12:20:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CVIS EUN KOCI
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
09BRUSSELS1675	RIFT OVER EU'S AUTHORITY TO REGULATE GAS SUPPLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: At the December 7 Energy Council in Brussels, Energy Ministers of the twenty-seven EU member states debated the European Commission's authority to regulate security of supply in member states. Discussions on security of gas supply revealed a split by a number of member states (Th [...]	2009-12-15 11:56:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG PREL EPET KGHG EU
09BRUSSELS1681	EUPOL COPPS LOOKING FOR EXPANSION AND GREATER USSC [...] (S/NF) Summary: The EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories (EUPOL COPPS) implements police training and mentoring programs and serves as a clearing house for EU Member States, bilateral financial contributions to the Palestinian police. Begun in early 2006 as a 33-person financ [...]	2009-12-18 06:46:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	KPMI WE EUN PREL PINS XF WBG
09BRUSSELS1702	EU WELCOMES U.S. COMMENTS ON SPACE CODE OF CONDUCT [...] (U) On December 18, poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-papers on the EU's draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities to Pierre-Louis Lempereur in the office of the EU Council's non-proliferation envoy, Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, Head of the Security Policy Unit in the European Commissi [...]	2009-12-18 16:43:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CDG ESA EUN KACT KTIA MCAP
09BRUSSELS1705	Reform of Epvisory Architecture [...] In case of decisions taken to settle disagreement between national supervisors: A Member State has one month to notify the ESA that it is challenging the ESA's decision, thereby immediately suspending its enforceability. After notification, the ESA will have one month to amend or maintain its [...]	2009-12-21 07:21:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EUN
09BRUSSELS1709	EU CRISIS MANAGEMENT CHIEF SEEKS CLOSER [...] (C) Summary: In a December 16 meeting with visiting S/CRS Ambassador Herbst, Claude-France Arnould, Director of the EU's Crisis Management Planning Directorate (CMPD),sought closer U.S.-EU coordination in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As CMPD Director, Arnould supervis [...]	2009-12-22 06:03:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL EUN AF CG
09BRUSSELS171	EU INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2009 [...] Per reftel, this is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for the European Union. Post will email Word versions as instructed in reftel. The statement covers the following categories: --Openness to Foreign Investment Q-Conversion and Transfer Policies --Expropriation and Compensation -- [...]	2009-02-06 11:28:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC 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
09BRUSSELS1721	NEW LANDSCAPE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN [...] SUMMARY: The Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union's (EU) latest reform effort, entered into force on December 1, 2009. The institutional and policy changes Lisbon brings will impact EU development and humanitarian assistance over the longer term through more integrated EU development and hum [...]	2009-12-23 16:27:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL ECON PINR EUN
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
09BRUSSELS1733	U.S.-EU Drugs Troika Advances Counternarcotics Cooperation [...] (SBU) Summary: INL Assistant Secretary David T. Johnson led the U.S. delegation (USDEL) to the U.S.-EU Informal Drugs Troika meeting on December 1, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting focused primarily on U.S.-EU cooperation in combating West African drug trafficking, and produced the foll [...]	2009-12-29 16:41:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCOR KCRM PGOV VXY EUN ZL
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
09BRUSSELS1738	MONUC HEAD AND GREAT LAKES ENVOYS DISCUSS NEED FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-30 18:13:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR MOPS CG
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
09BRUSSELS174	IRAN: EU DESIGNATIONS AFFECTED BY U.S. POLICY [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In light of German and Italian interventions over the past twenty-four hours, the Czech EU Presidency has decided to postpone an EU-level experts meeting on new Iran proliferation-related designations that was scheduled for February 11. The Italian delegation requested that th [...]	2009-02-06 17:41:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KNNC ETTC ETRD EFIN IR EUN
09BRUSSELS179	EU COMMISSION SHARK ACTION PLAN [...] (U) Summary: The European Union adopted an Action Plan outlining policy for sustainable management of sharks within the EU on February 5, 2009. The Action Plan is meant to address a wide variety of issues pertaining to the fishing, processing, sale, and study of sharks in the European Union, [...]	2009-02-09 10:27:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS SENV EUN
09BRUSSELS186	EU INVESTMENT CONFERENCE FOR UKRAINE'S GAS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a February 6 meeting DG-RELEX Energy Counselor Faouzi Bensarsa told visiting DAS Doug Hengel about EU Commission plans to host an investment conference on Ukrainian Gas Infrastructure in Brussels on March 23. Bensarsa said the fundamental key from an external policy perspec [...]	2009-02-10 09:39:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN UP
09BRUSSELS190	THE EU'S CLIMATE AND ENERGY PACKAGE; LOOKING BACK, [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Union, led by the French Presidency, completed its Climate and Energy Legislative Package in December 2008. However, what transpired between January 23, 2008, when the European Commission proposed the four pieces of legislation that made up the Climate Package, an [...]	2009-02-10 15:12:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS193	EU ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER EAGER TO ENHANCE [...] (SBU) The Charge d'Affaires met with EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas on February 9. Dimas said that he looks forward to working with President Obama's climate team toward an international agreement. He realizes that "the transition will take a bit more time" and does not underestim [...]	2009-02-11 11:03:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS196	BELGIAN COMPANY EXMAR SEES OPPORTUNITIES IN GAS CRISIS [...] During the regular natural gas disputes between Russia and some of its (former) client states that also affected Europe, Belgian gas supplies were never under threat. In 2008, Belgium imported only five percent of its gas supply from Russia, mainly thru the German-Russian Wingas group and the Fren [...]	2009-02-11 14:10:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET EU 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
09BRUSSELS202	CONSUMERS: TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMIC COUNCIL NEEDS [...] (SBU) Summary: At a February 4 meeting with USEU, TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) representatives raised concerns over and suggested new directions for the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) process. TACD is concerned about the need for more transparency in the drafting of the TEC ag [...]	2009-02-12 12:48:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND EAGR ETTC ENRG KIPR PREL EUN
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
09BRUSSELS209	BELGIUM TO REFUSE EXPORT LICENSES FOR ARMS TO [...] (U) On February 2 the Belgian Federal government held a consultation with the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels regional authorities responsible for issuance of export licenses for arms to coordinate Belgium's policy on arms exports to "Israel and the occupied territories." Arms export licenses a [...]	2009-02-13 09:49:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL BE IS
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
09BRUSSELS222	TALKING POINTS ON SATELLITE COLLISION DELIVERED TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) USEU EconOff delivered REFTEL A points separately to interlocutors at the European Union Council and Commission on February 13. Both interlocutors were appreciative of the delivery, but noted that there was no information they [...]	2009-02-17 13:25:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EUN TSPA TSPL
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
09BRUSSELS226	Barroso's economic stimulant on the rocks? [...] (SBU) Summary: The 5 billion euro EU-level portion of Europe's economic stimulus package appears to be foundering on the absence of funds, doubts about its effectiveness and plain old politics. Commission President Barroso will push hard, but a more likely outcome is a longer-term increase in [...]	2009-02-18 10:48:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG ECPS PINT EUN
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
09BRUSSELS247	AFGHANISTAN: GENERAL PETRAEUS HITS RE-SET BUTTON [...] (C) Summary. General David Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Central Command, discussed Afghanistan with representatives from all 27 EU member states and other high-ranking EU officials in Brussels February 11 and 12. General Petraeus emphasized that his objective in meeting the EU was to consult [...]	2009-02-20 16:13:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER SNAR NATO MARR AF AID BE EAID
09BRUSSELS249	BELGIUM: PETERCAM CHIEF ECONOMIST SPEAKS OUT ON [...] (SBU) This cable should not be posted on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Petercam Chief Economist Geert Noels (protect) told econoffs on February 19 that worries about Fortis' health are largely unwarranted, in his opinion. Petercam is Belgium's largest merchant bank, and has very good contacts [...]	2009-02-20 17:36:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV BE
09BRUSSELS254	U.S.-EU TERRORIST FINANCING ISSUES [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities Douglas Hengel and USEU Econoff met on February 6 with European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator (EU CTC) Gilles de Kerchove, Council Secretariat Principal Administrator for the Counter-Terrorism Workin [...]	2009-02-23 12:27:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET	ETTC KTFN PTER EFIN KCRM KJUS KHLS UNSC IR
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
09BRUSSELS260	BELGIUM: TRABELSI EXTRADITION UPDATE: BELGIAN [...] (U) The Brussels Chamber of Indictments (BCI) February 19 ruled that Tunisian-national Nizar Trabelsi may be extradited to the United States. The appellate court (that is, the BCI) reaffirmed the November 19, 2008 ruling by the Nivelles Chamber of Indictments. Trabelsi is now expected to a [...]	2009-02-24 06:17:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER CJAN CVIS KCRM BE
09BRUSSELS264	EUROPE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC REPORT: FEBRUARY [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-24 16:20:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN
09BRUSSELS269	GUANTANAMO: AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON CONFERS WITH EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson and European Union (EU) Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove discussed de Kerchove's upcoming whitepaper for the EU Council on detainee issues and its relevance for developing a common EU position on the topic. The two also spoke about whic [...]	2009-02-25 18:46:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWK KISL PTER EUN
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
09BRUSSELS28	EP PRESIDENT POTTERING RE-ITERATES INVITATION TO [...] (SBU) Hans-Gert Pottering, President of the European Parliament (EP),told Ambassador Silverberg on January 7 that the EP was very eager to welcome President-Elect Obama during his visit to Europe in April, and inquired about the status of his invitation to the President-elect, sent November [...]	2009-01-09 15:20:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OVIP OBAMA BARACK EUN

09BRUSSELS280	UNITY QUEST: CENTRAL EUROPEAN EFFORTS TO FORGE EU [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Renewed efforts by the Central Europeans to approach energy security from a common EU position are being obstructed by a lack of member state unity on the issue. Holding the rotating presidency of the European Council, the Czech Republic has made energy security [...]	2009-02-27 12:28:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN ENRG EPET XH
09BRUSSELS307	EU MINISTERS REVIEW SITUATION OF IRAQI REFUGEES, STATE OF [...] Apart from the issue of Guantanamo detainees (see USEU mail exchanges),EU Home Affairs ministers at the February 26 Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting also covered a number of immigration and asylum issues, including the situation of Iraqi refugees in Europe, the state of play of the up [...]	2009-03-05 13:48:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS PREL PREF SMIG KCRM EUN
09BRUSSELS31	RUSSIA/UKRAINE: PIEBALGS SEES SHADOW, PREDICTS [...] (C) Summary: EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs told Ambassador Silverberg January 9 that Russia and Ukraine agreed to accept an "international" monitoring team to restore gas deliveries through Ukraine to Europe. Gas flows should resume by Saturday, January 10. Piebalgs remains concerne [...]	2009-01-09 19:07:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET EUN RS UP
09BRUSSELS314	ACTING A/S CARTER'S MEETING WITH BELGIANS ON AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: Acting A/S Carter had a positive exchange of views with the Belgian MFA Africa Team at a breakfast hosted by Charge February 26. The MFA was represented by Africa Director Guy Trouveroy, Minister De Gucht's Deputy Chef du Cabinet Jean-Luc Bodson, Great Lakes Envoy Karl Dehaene, an [...]	2009-03-06 10:00:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI MARR MOPS CG BE
09BRUSSELS318	U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING ON AFRICA FEBRUARY 27 [...] (C) Summary: Acting AF Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter represented the U.S. at the troika meeting with the EU on Africa issues, held February 27 in Brussels. The agenda included the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan),Zimbabwe, West Africa (Mauritania and Guinea),the Great La [...]	2009-03-06 18:18:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EAID ETTC XA EUN CH
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
09BRUSSELS330	EU Approaches the G-20 Summit [...] (SBU) The European Union and its 27 member states have been hard hit by the global financial crisis and economic downturn, with the economy in recession and some of the world's largest financial institutions under stress. The EU has responded actively to this, with strident calls for action f [...]	2009-03-11 15:24:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON KSUM EUN
09BRUSSELS353	AREAS FOR POTENTIAL U.S.-EU COOPERATION ON CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. and EU share strong interests in coordinating economic engagement with China over a broad range of sectors, including health and safety, competition, ICT policy, trade, IPR and investment concerns. The EU is working with China actively in these areas, and seeks greate [...]	2009-03-12 15:22:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECIN ECPS KIPR ETRD EFIN CI EUN
09BRUSSELS355	EU'S ROBERT COOPER AND S/P SLAUGHTER DISCUSS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-13 09:42:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS AF PK PBK EUN
09BRUSSELS36	RUSSIA/UKRAINE DISPUTE COULD HELP, COULD HINDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The Russia/Ukraine dispute has heightened interest among EU leaders in going forward with the Nabucco project. However, EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs believes Turkey remains a huge problem for Nabucco and he is concerned that the cut-off of Russian gas to Turkey via [...]	2009-01-12 12:14:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS380	EUROPEAN COMMISSION TRADE OFFICIAL SAYS U.S. INSISTENCE ON [...] (U) Summary: On Monday March 16, European Commission Deputy Director General (DDG) of DG TRADE Peter Balas briefed the European Parliament's (EP's) International Trade Committee on the Commission's activities with regard to the upcoming G20 summit in London on April 2nd. Balas discussed the EU [...]	2009-03-17 15:50:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN
09BRUSSELS382	STRUCTURAL FUNDS OFFER CENTRAL EUROPE MEANS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. Over the next four to six years, the ten Central European Member States that joined the EU since 2004 have the opportunity to avail themselves of some $223 billion (176.6 billion Euros) of EU Structural and Cohesion funds. These funds were established to advan [...]	2009-03-17 16:56:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM EUN EFIN BEXP EIND EAID XG
09BRUSSELS390	EU COUNCIL LEAVES MAJOR ISSUES IN COPENHAGEN [...] (SBU) During their March 19-20 European Council meeting, EU Heads of State are unlikely to make any definitive statements related to the EU position at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen; instead, they will leave virtually all issues unresolved and open for further discussion in subsequen [...]	2009-03-18 16:48:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS391	INTRODUCING THE EUROPEAN UNION, PART VI: THE ACCESSION [...] The EU has been growing from the founding "Six" to the current EU-27. Enlargement is viewed as one of the EU's most successful policies and a powerful foreign policy tool for extending a zone of peace and democracy across the European continent. The tight conditions for membership and the va [...]	2009-03-18 17:41:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN TU HR CY XH
09BRUSSELS394	EU SUDAN POLICY FOCUSES ON ENGAGEMENT THROUGH [...] (C) Summary: EU foreign ministers agreed this week that EU policy on Sudan should focus not on direct engagement with President Bashir, but rather on convincing African, Arab and other countries with influence in Sudan to intervene. The EU also agreed to keep the ICC decision and the subsequ [...]	2009-03-19 15:27:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF EAID SU EUN
09BRUSSELS401	EU EMPHASIZES SUCCESS IN PSC PLUS 7 MEETING [...] (C//NF) Summary: At the March 17 Political and Security Committee (PSC) Plus 7 meeting organized by the Czech EU Presidency, representatives of Member States and the EU institutions generally gave high marks to EU-led civilian and military operations in Chad, the Gulf of Aden, Georgia, Koso [...]	2009-03-20 11:34:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MOPS PREL XF XG XW ZJ ZL XD ZF EUN
09BRUSSELS405	DEMARCHE ON PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE IN TOKYO (APRIL 17) [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-23 06:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK EUN
09BRUSSELS410	EU: DAS BRYZA'S MARCH 16 DISCUSSIONS ON ENERGY AND [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: During a Brussels stop on March 16 EUR DAS Matthew Bryza consulted EU officials on a range of regional political, security and energy-related issues, including EU enlargement, Turkey-Cyprus, frozen conflicts, and pipeline politics. DG Enlargement contacts foresaw no/no immine [...]	2009-03-23 11:57:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON ENRG ECIN EPET EUN XH
09BRUSSELS417	EUROPE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC REPORT: March 20th, 2009 [...] (SBU) On March 23, the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee of the European Parliament (EP) is set to vote on the EC's proposed Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies. The ECON Committee is expected to broaden the scope of the regulation to cover all ratings (not just those used for re [...]	2009-03-24 12:26:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN
09BRUSSELS429	EU TO SPEND 4 BILLION ON ENERGY TO STIMULATE [...] In December 2008, the European Council agreed to a European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP),whereby each member state would develop and implement a financial stimulus package. As part of the EERP, the Commission proposed an EU stimulus package of five billion euros, to be spent on energy and b [...]	2009-03-26 05:58:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EFIN EU
09BRUSSELS430	THREE FLEMISH MAJORITY PARTIES MAKE PROJECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The three major Flemish parties are in full gear campaigning for the regional elections June 7, 2009. Unable to buy more than four small TV segments, the parties are reaching out to voters through posters, mail, grass roots campaigning and any free publicity they can get in the new [...]	2009-03-26 05:59:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BE
09BRUSSELS437	DG RELEX HOPES TO FINISH EU VERSION OF TEC [...] SUMMARY. European Commission (DG RELEX) officials told USEU they are nearly ready to share a draft medium-term workplan for Transatlantic Economic Council/Transatlantic Economic Framework (TEC/TEF) activities with EU Member States. RELEX said they hope the draft workplan could be adopted at [...]	2009-03-27 05:14:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECIN PREL
09BRUSSELS443	STATUS OF SCHENGEN INFORMATION SYSTEM II [...] (SBU) Delays to the upgrading of the current Schengen Information System (SIS),the EU's primary system for cross-border sharing of lookout information, may result in the project being scrapped entirely. Numerous technical and political obstacles have delayed the project since 2003 when the [...]	2009-03-27 12:23:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CMGT EUN
09BRUSSELS447	THE STOCKHOLM PROGRAM: EUROPEAN UNION'S NEXT [...] (U) The European Union (EU) will adopt a new five-year program in the area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) in 2009, which will succeed the Hague Program in place since 2005. This program will outline EU-wide policy priorities and objectives for the years 2010-2014. In honor of the (July t [...]	2009-03-27 15:13:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN PREL KCRM SNAR PGOV SOCI CVIS
09BRUSSELS449	EU COMMISSION PLEASED BY MAJOR ECONOMIES FORUM [...] (SBU) Representatives from the cabinets of EU Commission President Barroso and Environment Commissioner Dimas and from DG Environment expressed their pleasure at the initiative shown by President Obama to continue the Major Economies Process in the form of the Major Economies Forum on Energy a [...]	2009-03-27 15:32:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS450	EUROPEAN COUNTERPARTS SEEK MORE ROBUST DEVELOPMENT [...] European counterparts within the Commission, Czech Presidency, and EU Member States have indicated strong interest in elevating development to a more important place on the trans-Atlantic agenda. In their view, the new U.S. Administration is likely to be receptive to these efforts, given a s [...]	2009-03-27 15:43:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL ECON EFIN ETRD EUN IO EAGR
09BRUSSELS452	BELGIANS TELL S/R HOLBROOKE ADDITIONAL MILITARY, [...] (C) Summary: If last minute intra-coalition politics do not get in the way, the Belgian government intends to announce a new support package for NATO operations in Afghanistan before the April 4 Strasbourg summit, Belgian FM De Gucht told Special Envoy Holbrooke on March 23, 2009. On the mil [...]	2009-03-30 10:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MARR PREL
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
09BRUSSELS464	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU ON URGING IRAN TO RELEASE [...] (C) On March 30, USEU Mission officers delivered reftel demarche to EU Council Secretariat and Czech Presidency officials on the need for diplomatic pressure on Iran to release detained American citizen Roxana Saberi. Mission officers reviewed the case separately with Daniel Mic, Counselor [...]	2009-03-31 13:50:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EUN IR
09BRUSSELS47	EU/UKRAINE/RUSSIA: LIVING UP TO THE AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 14 the EU Commission's point person on monitors for the Urkaine/Russia gas crisis, Director for Security of Supply and Energy Markets Heinz Hilbrecht, described the events leading up the current crisis and highlighted the challenges ahead. Hilbrecht believes there [...]	2009-01-14 15:11:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS472	Belgium: Financial Sector Bonuses Shrouded in Silence [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While most countries in Western Europe are vigorously debating the pros and cons of large banking bonuses, no such discussion has been taking place in Belgium. The involvement of quasi-public banks Dexia and Ethias is one reason why politicians have treaded delicately until now [...]	2009-04-01 13:41:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ELAB BE
09BRUSSELS476	MIDDLE EAST: NOTES FROM MARCH 27-28 INFORMAL [...] (C/NF) An EU member country contact gave to the Charge the following text (paras 2-5),based on a Czech Presidency readout of the informal discussion on the Middle East among EU foreign ministers at the March 27-28 Gymnich, held in Hluboka in the Czech Republic. As is usual with the semi-annu [...]	2009-04-01 15:31:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPAL EUN
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
09BRUSSELS496	CENTRAL EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE SHOWS COALITION [...] (C) Summary and Introduction. Experts agree that effective EU policymaking is driven by coalitions among member states. They also agree that the Central European states that joined the EU since 2004 have only recently begun to employ coalition building. As a corollary, some EU experts cont [...]	2009-04-02 16:20:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EUN XG ECON EFIN SENV
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
09BRUSSELS529	SENIOR EUROPEAN COMMISSION OFFICIALS AFFIRM [...] SUMMARY: During recent meetings with Acting USAID Administrator Alonzo Fulgham in Brussels, senior European Commission (EC) officials responsible for both policy and operational matters affirmed strong interest in elevating development to a more visible role within the ongoing trans-Atlantic [...]	2009-04-07 16:06:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IO EAGR EUN ECON EFIN
09BRUSSELS536	IRAN SANCTIONS: AA/S GLASER BRIEFS EU ON PRIORITY [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During a March 2-3 visit to Brussels, Daniel Glaser, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, assured an uncertain European Union that the United States remains committed to the dual track approach to Iran and said [...]	2009-04-08 12:23:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC KNNP PARM KTFN PTER EFIN KCRM KJUS KHLS
09BRUSSELS537	IRAN SANCTIONS: AA/S GLASER CONSULTS KEY AMBASSADORS IN BRUSSELS REF: A. BRUSSELS 205 B. BRUSSELS 41 C. 2008 BRUSSELS 1468 D. BRUSSELS 101 [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On March 2 and 3 Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Glaser briefed EU-27 non-proliferation and Iran experts on U.S. sanctions against Iran's illicit conduct in the areas of nuclear proliferation and terrorism. On the margin of the formal briefing (reporte [...]	2009-04-08 12:24:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC KNNP PARM KTFN PTER EFIN KCRM KJUS KHLS
09BRUSSELS540	IMPROVING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN CHAD: JOINT [...] Summary: The European Commission DG ECHO) and the U.S. Government (State/PRM and USAID/OFDA) delivered joint recommendations in late March to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN Office for the Cordinator of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for te improvement of assistance to r [...]	2009-04-08 15:59:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL SU CD EAID EUN
09BRUSSELS550	EU CONTINUES TO WEIGH ISRAEL AND SYRIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: As reported reftel the 27 EU Foreign Ministers, meeting March 27 in the Czech Republic in the semi-annual informal "Gymnich" format (at which formal conclusions are not reached) discussed a number of Middle East issues, including whether and how to proceed with an upgrade of EU- [...]	2009-04-09 15:16:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EU
09BRUSSELS551	BELGIUM:SPLIT BETWEEN LEFTISTS AND CENTRISTS COULD [...] (C) Summary: The Flemish Socialist Party (sp.a) is undergoing an internal struggle between leftists and centrists that could send it into the opposition after the June 7, 2009 regional elections. The party is currently part of the three party Flemish regional government with the Christian Dem [...]	2009-04-09 15:32:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BE
09BRUSSELS559	CONTINUED WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR INFLUENCING EU [...] (SBU) EU Commission officials explained to officials from EPA, State/OES, USTR, and USEU that the recently passed Directive on the use of renewable energy (the Renewables Directive) left open several issues related to biofuels methodology and criteria, which the Commission is required to close [...]	2009-04-14 15:18:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS560	EU COMMISSION OFFICIAL DETAILS CHINA,S SATELLITE [...] (S//NF) An EU Commission official provided insight to China,s efforts within the EU to acquire sensitive technologies, specifically those developed for the Galileo Satellite Navigation program. He explained that the mehods employed by China's Ministry of Science nd Technology (MOST) have only [...]	2009-04-15 05:15:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	CH EAIR ECON ETRD EUN PGOV PREL TSPA EINV
09BRUSSELS561	EU COMMISSION OFFICIAL DETAILS CHINA,S SATELLITE [...] (S//NF) An EU Commission official provided insight to China,s efforts within the EU to acquire sensitive technologies, specifically those developed for the Galileo Satellite Navigation program. He explained that the methods employed by China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) have on [...]	2009-04-15 05:28:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	CH EAIR ECON ETRD EUN PGOV PREL TSPA EINV
09BRUSSELS577	SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Welcome to Brussels. Your visit comes as the EU struggles to develop a common energy policy, internally and externally. The Europeans view energy security in broad terms -- to include alternative sources and supply of gas, development of additional renewable resources, research into c [...]	2009-04-17 15:29:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS578	BELGIUM: FEDERAL POLICE DIAMOND OFFICERS SAY DUBAI [...] (C) Federal Judicial Police working on diamond-related cases in Belgium's diamond center, Antwerp, told econoff April 8 that the lack of law enforcement cooperation from Dubai officials to Belgian police information requests seriously hampers their ability to successfully prosecute in Belgiu [...]	2009-04-17 17:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON EFIN ASEC ZI BE
09BRUSSELS579	EU REACTION TO BURMA POLICY REVIEW UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Brussels-based EU officials working on Burma policy issues appreciated receiving reftel points on the status of the ongoing U.S. policy review. Although the EU still intends a straight rollover of its Common Position and restrictive measures, Foreign Ministers may issue politic [...]	2009-04-17 19:33:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ETRD BM EUN
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
09BRUSSELS589	BELGIAN LT GENERAL BUYSE SHARES LESSONS LEARNED IN [...] (C) Summary: Belgium's Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, Lieutenant General Jean-Paul Buyse, shared Belgian experience and lessons learned in Africa with Africom's Commander, Gen. William Ward and his staff during a visit to Africom HQ in Stuttgart on April 15. Buyse provid [...]	2009-04-22 15:10:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM CG BE
09BRUSSELS6	RUSSIA/UKRAINE - THE EU PERSPECTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. The EU is ramping up engagement on the Ukraine/Russia gas dispute. Today, it dispatched a fact finding mission to Kyiv and convened an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Representatives. Later this week, the College of Commissioners and Foreign Ministers will convene in P [...]	2009-01-05 18:07:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS601	SPECIAL ENVOY MITCHELL'S EU MEETINGS [...] (U) 22 April 2009, EU Council Justus Lipsius Building, Brussels. 2. (U) U.S. Participants: Special Envoy George Mitchell NEA DAS David M. Hale NEA/IPA Payton L. Knopf NEA/IPA Alon Sachar NSC Mara E. Rudman USEU Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Christopher Murray USEU PolMinsCouns Christop [...]	2009-04-27 18:02:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN IS XF
09BRUSSELS609	MGSF01: BELGIUM: SWINE FLU: INITIAL SEVEN [...] (U) Belgian authorities reported April 28 that seven suspected cases of swine flu (H1N1) in Belgium tested negative. Belgium is advising travelers to avoid visiting areas in Mexico and the United States that have been affected by H1N1. Travelers arriving at Brussels' Zaventem International [...]	2009-04-28 16:12:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09BRUSSELS616	EU TERRORISM SANCTIONS: TROUBLE CONTINUES [...] (U) This message contains an urgent Action Request (paras 31-32). Please see also Summary and other Action Requests paragraphs 6-7, 12, 17-18, 23, 25, 29 and 37. 2. (S//NF) SUMMARY/COMMENT: Due in part to recent European court rulings, EU implementation of UN and autonomous sanctions ag [...]	2009-04-29 16:28:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC KTFN PTER EFIN KCRM KJUS KHLS UNSC PINR
09BRUSSELS622	INTRODUCING THE EU, PART VII: EU-U.S. COOPERATION UNDER THE [...] (U) Policy consultation and coordination between the United States and European Union has grown enormously over the past decade, and in many respects now rivals the level of discussion we have with such key allies as the UK, Germany and Japan. Our policy relationship with the EU differs from [...]	2009-04-30 13:22:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EUN
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
09BRUSSELS627	MGSF01: BELGIUM: H1N1 FLU: MORE POSSIBLE CASES [...] (U) Belgium's Interministerial Influenza Commission (IIC) in a statement posted late April 29 to its website, www.influenza.be, announced that four of seven additional suspected cases of H1N1 from April 28 had tested negative, with results pending for the other three, while an additional fou [...]	2009-04-30 16:07:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09BRUSSELS637	BELGIUM: MAY 29 PIRACY CONTACT GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref A demarche on the May 29 Contact Group meeting to Peter Vandevelde, Counselor for European Security and Defense Policy in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on May 5. Vandevelde said that the GOB will be represented at the May 29 meeting in New York. However, a [...]	2009-05-05 14:42:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR ECON PREL BE SO
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
09BRUSSELS651	SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Richard Holbrooke met with European Union leaders on March 23 during his first visit to Brussels as Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He expressed appreciation for EU support to Afghanistan and Pakistan, applauded the EU for deploying the only inte [...]	2009-05-08 05:19:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS EAID KDEM SNAR PINS PTER EUN
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
09BRUSSELS659	WALLONIA AND BRUSSELS REGIONAL ELECTIONS OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Belgian voters will go to the polls in regional elections on June 7. The outcome of the election is not likely to shake the foundations of the federal government coalition unless a major upset of one of the federal coalition parties occurs, which would discredit some of the tr [...]	2009-05-08 16:17:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON BE
09BRUSSELS670	SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR DISCUSSES EU ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 22-23 Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar met with EU and industry officials to discuss U.S.-EU cooperation on energy security. In these meetings, Ambassador Morningstar gave his European counterparts an overview of the Administration's Eurasian ene [...]	2009-05-12 07:39:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN
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
09BRUSSELS69	BELGIAN TRAINERS LEAVE TO BEGIN TRAINING AFGHAN [...] At its first cabinet meeting on December 30, the government of new Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy gave final approval for the sending of Belgian troops to Afghanistan as an Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT),charged with training soldiers of the Afghan National Army. The first [...]	2009-01-16 16:26:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS NATO AF BE
09BRUSSELS693	CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY MAIN OBSTACLE TO BELGIAN [...] (C) Summary: The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Thomas Baekelandt, told Charge on May 13 that Belgium's main concern about taking detainees from Guantanamo is the risk to Belgian and European security. He also said he would want to know why the U.S [...]	2009-05-15 14:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV BE AF
09BRUSSELS696	OVERVIEW OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S 1 BILLION [...] SUMMARY: In early summer 2008 the European Commission (EC) proposed using leftover agriculture support funds to build a 1 billion Euro (USD 1.3 billion) Food Facility to assist developing countries struggling under the weight of the international food price crisis. However, EU member state [...]	2009-05-15 18:36:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR ETRD EUN SOCI
09BRUSSELS700	MGSF01: BELGIUM: THREE MORE POSITIVE TESTS BRING [...] Belgium now has five confirmed cases of H1N1, with Belgian health authorities announcing cases three and four late on Friday, May 15, and a fifth case on May 16. All three individuals had had close contact with a male who had recently returned to Belgium from New York. Health authorities ha [...]	2009-05-18 15:44:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR KFLU ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09BRUSSELS702	BURMA: EU CONSIDERING ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: Outraged over the arrest and trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) on the eve of her release, EU Foreign Ministers directed Council and Commission staff on May 18 to begin looking at additional restrictive measures (including new sanctions) that might be tak [...]	2009-05-18 17:52:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETTC ENRG EPET EFIN KJUS BM EUN
09BRUSSELS715	DONNYBROOKS AND DEBACLES: BELGIUM'S REGIONAL [...] Summary: The Belgian regional and European elections will be held on June 7, and both Flemish and Francophone parties have used mudslinging tactics to get ahead in the polls. For the Flemish elections, the media fight between the Liberals and the populist Lijst Dedecker have hurt both parties, [...]	2009-05-20 16:11:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL BE
09BRUSSELS720	Belgium: KBC Bank Comes Back for Thirds - Another [...] The Government of Belgium (GOB) provided a third bailout to Kredietbank (KBC),Belgium's third largest bank, on May 15, announcing it would provide cash of 2 billion euro and the possibility of loan guarantees worth almost 15 billion euro. KBC received earlier bailouts in October 2008 (3.5 bn [...]	2009-05-22 11:45:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ELAB BE
09BRUSSELS732	TURKEY SEEKS TO EXCLUDE IRAQI GAS FROM THE NABUCCO [...] (SBU) On May 27 Econ Officer spoke with a European Commission official involved with the Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) negotiations, about the status of the IGA. The official was quite concerned over the state of negotiations. He said that negotiations had taken a turn for the w [...]	2009-05-27 14:22:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN IZ TU
09BRUSSELS738	EUROPE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC REPORT: May 19th, 2009 [...] (SBU) On May 27, the European Commission will publish a Communication setting out its vision for a new European supervisory framework, based on two new pillars: --The European Systemic Risk Council (ESRC),which will monitor and assess the risks to financial stability, provide early warning of [...]	2009-05-28 08:42:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN
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
09BRUSSELS750	A/S CARTER'S APRIL 23 MEETING WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] (C) Summary: The Charge hosted a breakfast April 23 for visiting Acting A/S for African Affairs Phillip Carter and NSC Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin with the Belgian MFA Africa Team. The Belgian guests were Deputy Chief of Cabinet to FM De Gucht Jean-Luc Bodson, Africa Director Gu [...]	2009-05-29 15:35:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CG BE
09BRUSSELS755	EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS I: THE SETTING [...] SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP),the only multinational parliamentary assembly in the world elected by universal suffrage, will be re-elected 4-7 June across the 27 member states of the European Union for another five-year term. The EP's 754 members will represent 500 million citizens. [...]	2009-06-02 11:11:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EUN ECON
09BRUSSELS769	U.S-EU CONSULTATIONS ON HUMANITRIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Summary: Acting Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Mgration Samuel Witten led a U.S. delegation of PRM and USAID officials in Brussels May 19 or the annual humanitarian Strategic Policy Dialogue (SPD) between the U.S. and the European Commission, the world's two largest hum [...]	2009-06-03 15:37:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL EAID EUN
09BRUSSELS770	EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS III - A WHO-WILL-BE-WHO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Key posts in the European Parliament (EP) will be distributed in July. The five-year EP Presidency is likely to be shared between Jerzy Buzcek (EPP-ED, Poland) for the first half-term and Martin Schulz (PES, Germany) for the second, although other contenders are in the wings. T [...]	2009-06-03 16:20:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR EUN ECON
09BRUSSELS776	BELGIUM: H1N1: THREE NEW CASES REPORTED, BRINGING [...] (U) Belgium has now reported 13 confirmed cases of H1N1, with two new cases reported May 30 and another, on June 1, involving the son of one of the May 30 cases. Health authorities consider all three cases mild. Belgium has tested approximately 190 persons for H1N1 as of June 3. CASE ELE [...]	2009-06-04 13:33:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO
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
09BRUSSELS792	BELGIAN FRANCOPHONE GREEN PARTY GEARS UP TO FORM [...] (C) Summary: In a May 28 meeting with the Charge d'Affaires, Belgian francophone green party Ecolo co-president, Jean-Michel Javaux, struck a warm and appreciative tone as he spoke of his relationship with the United States. He identified the election of President Obama and his more environme [...]	2009-06-08 13:29:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SENV BE
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
09BRUSSELS813	FLEMISH POLITICAL INSIDERS' ON REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of the June 7 Flemish regional elections, Poloff and Polintern met with members of the four political parties that are likely to participate in the next Flemish regional government. The Flemish Christian-Democrats (CD&V) and current Minister-President Kris Peeters [...]	2009-06-12 09:46:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BE
09BRUSSELS816	REGIONAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS STRENGTHEN GREENS AND FLEMISH [...] The results of the June 7 regional and European elections of June 7 will allow the Belgian federal government of Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy (CD&V) to carry on, but the formation of regional government coalitions in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels could cause a reconsideration of the exis [...]	2009-06-12 15:41:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV BE
09BRUSSELS825	BELGIAN MFA VIEWS ON CORFU CONFERENCE AND EUROPEAN [...] On June 15, Poloff used reftel as an opportunity to discuss the Corfu ministerial meeting and the future of European security with Francois De Kerchove, acting Director for Security Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium. Foreign Minister De Gucht will attend the ministerial. [...]	2009-06-16 13:09:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR OSCE BE
09BRUSSELS830	BELGIAN POLICE PREPARING FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR [...] (U) This telegram contains an action request for SCA-A. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Belgian Federal Police are preparing a report on the feasibility of sending two to four police trainers to Afghanistan. The contribution is likely to be in the framework of EUPOL-Afghanistan. Belg [...]	2009-06-17 14:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL EAID NATO AF BE
09BRUSSELS839	EU LENGTHENS COUNTER-PIRACY FORCE MANDATE [...] (C) On June 15, EU foreign ministers approved an extension of the EU counter-piracy Operation ATALANTA's mandate until December 13, 2010. According to the EU,s official public statement announcing the extension, the decision was taken with a view to facilitating future force generation for [...]	2009-06-19 05:03:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN EWWT MARR MOPS PREL XW
09BRUSSELS84	EU FOREIGN MINISTERS PRESS LIVNI ON OPENING GAZA, [...] (C) Summary: Tomas Smetanka, Middle East Advisor at the Czech Permanent Representation in Brussels, told us that, during their January 21 dinner meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, EU Foreign Ministers pressed for an immediate humanitarian opening of Gaza, for a permanent ope [...]	2009-01-22 17:20:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM EU
09BRUSSELS847	EU LEADERS BACK BARROSO FOR NEW TERM AS COMMISSION HEAD; [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting unanimously backed Jose Manuel Barroso for another five-year term as Commission President, but stopped short of a formal nomination, pending consultations with the European Parliament. Newly elected MEPs will now have an opportu [...]	2009-06-19 12:09:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN
09BRUSSELS848	EU LEADERS BACK BARROSO FOR NEW TERM AS COMMISSION HEAD; [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting unanimously backed Jose Manuel Barroso for another five-year term as Commission President, but stopped short of a formal nomination, pending consultations with the European Parliament. Newly elected MEPs will now have an opportu [...]	2009-06-19 12:12:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN
09BRUSSELS850	BELGIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE VIEWS ON CHICAGO 2016 OLYMPIC [...] (U) On May 11, the Charg sought the support of the President and the Secretary General of Belgium's Olympic Committee for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Games. The Charg also raised the U.S. desire for the re-admittance of baseball and softball to the Games. The Belgians said they ha [...]	2009-06-19 12:17:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EEOC KPAO OEXC SCUL BE
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
09BRUSSELS855	EU LEADERS AGREE ON GUARANTEES FOR IRELAND; NEW IRISH VOTE [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting painfully agreed on the format of guarantees designed to persuade Irish voters to back the Lisbon Treaty in another referendum. The specific guarantees do not alter the Lisbon Treaty but provide interpretation of it. They basic [...]	2009-06-22 05:52:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN EI
09BRUSSELS856	EU LEADERS AGREE ON GUARANTEES FOR IRELAND; NEW IRISH VOTE [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting painfully agreed on the format of guarantees designed to persuade Irish voters to back the Lisbon Treaty in another referendum. The specific guarantees do not alter the Lisbon Treaty but provide interpretation of it. They bas [...]	2009-06-22 06:29:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN EI
09BRUSSELS859	U.S.-EU EXCHANGES ON SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: During the June 8 U.S.-EU meetings on South and Central Asia, SCA Bureau Deputy Assistant Secretary Michael Owen stressed the need to work together to produce internationally credible elections in Afghanistan. The European Commission's James Moran responded the EU would do "whate [...]	2009-06-22 12:16:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	AF EAGR ETRD ETTC EU EUN IN KDEM MARR MOPS
09BRUSSELS869	ECHO TO USAID AA: SUDAN FRAGILE, GENOCIDE LABEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Acting USAID Assistant Administrator Earl Gast, transiting Brussels en route to Sudan, spent June 12 in Brussels meeting with Commission counterparts at the EC's Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO),EUROPEAID and DG-DEV. Interlocutors at ECHO described a fragile situation in Suda [...]	2009-06-24 18:10:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI PREL ECON
09BRUSSELS872	GOVERNMENT COALITIONS BEGIN TO FORM AFTER BELGIAN REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the June 7 regional elections, Belgium's political parties have been conducting talks on forming regional government coalitions. In Francophone Belgium, formal negotiations have started on a Socialist (PS)-Christian Democrat (CDH)-Green (Ecolo) coalition. In Flanders, [...]	2009-06-25 14:15:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV BE
09BRUSSELS877	EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: GROUPS PREPARE FOR VOTE ON BARROSO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 24, Joseph Daul, the chairman of the European People Party (EPP) group in the newly-elected European Parliament (EP),confirmed that the EPP would push for a confirmation vote of Jose Manuel Barroso as Commission President at the July 15 EP plenary session. The Progressive [...]	2009-06-25 16:11:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EUN
09BRUSSELS878	EU DEVELOPING COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO FIGHTING PIRACY [...] (C//NF) Summary: In several recent meetings, in the run-up to the GAERC's decision to extend the Atalanta mission to December 2010, EU Officials outlined to us the thinking behind High Rep Solana's effort to prompt discussion among member states on a bigger EU role in Somalia. The EU is fu [...]	2009-06-25 16:15:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EWWT KCRM MARR MOPS PINS PREL XF XW EUN

09BRUSSELS881	BELGIUM: NO DECISION ON IRENA MEMBERSHIP [...] (SBU) Econoff raised reftel points on June 25 with Ambassador Philippe Nieuwenhuys, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' energy unit. Nieuwenhuys said Belgium is not yet in a position to join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Because of Belgium's political system, the f [...]	2009-06-26 08:12:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KGHG SENV BE
09BRUSSELS885	EU AND NATO CONCERNED ABOUT BOSNIA, BUT PLANS FOR [...] (U) This is a joint cable from USEU and USNATO. 2. (C) Summary: On June 22, NATO and EU Ambassadors met in the NAC-PSC format to discuss Bosnia. Most presenters lamented the lack of political progress in Bosnia, noting that High Rep Inzko had invoked Bonn powers over the weekend, but [...]	2009-06-26 10:43:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL XG BK EUN
09BRUSSELS886	AFGHANISTAN, GEORGIA & PIRACY DISCUSSED BY [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Czech EU Presidency's Ambassador Ivo Sramek chaired a meeting of the EU Political Security Committee (PSC)ambassadors with NATO Allies and EU accession states on June 23. Topics were the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM),the EU's Civilian Police mission in Afghanist [...]	2009-06-26 14:07:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN MARR MOPS PREL EAID KDEM PINS PTER MASS
09BRUSSELS887	ENERGY CHARTER SECRETARIAT CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Andre Mernier, Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat, told Econ Officers June 22 that he is cautiously optimistic Russia will be willing to work to add to the existing Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to address their concerns over gas transit, rather than w [...]	2009-06-26 14:48:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS888	NIZAR TRABELSI EXHAUSTS LAST BELGIAN JUDICIAL [...] (U) Belgium's highest court, the Cour de Cassation, ruled June 24 against Nizar Trabelsi's appeal to block a U.S. request to extradite him to the United States. The Court found no irregularities in the U.S. extradition request. Trabelsi has exhausted all Belgian legal options, and the Belgian [...]	2009-06-26 15:03:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER CJAN CVIS KCRM 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
09BRUSSELS916	Commission Hosts Discussions on U.S. - EU Development [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 15-16, the European Commission hosted a Technical Meeting on Development in Brussels. The meeting was a continuation of a series of discussions between the U.S. and EU aimed at promoting a renewed trans-Atlantic dialogue on development. Sessions were held on food securit [...]	2009-07-06 05:01:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EIND ETRD SENV EUR ECON EAGR TPHY TSPL
09BRUSSELS918	COMMISSIONER DIMAS OUT OF CLIMATE CHANGE PICTURE; [...] (C) Summary. As the EU intensifies efforts to secure a climate agreement in Copenhagen, the Swedes have asserted their leadership role while Environment Commissioner Dimas has taken himself out of the picture. Both Swedish and Commission officials agree that European criticism of U.S. emissi [...]	2009-07-06 09:24:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS923	GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: S/E FRIED THANKS E.U. FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 16:18:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER EUN
09BRUSSELS931	EUROPE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC REPORT: July [...] (SBU) At the July ECOFIN Council - the first one under the Swedish presidency ministers will exchange views on the preparation of the forthcoming G-20 meetings, i.e., the G-20 finance ministers meeting preceding the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh in September. There Council will also discuss: 1) pr [...]	2009-07-07 14:42:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN
09BRUSSELS948	TEC STAKEHOLDERS PRAISE DAY-LONG OUTREACH EVENT [...] (U) Over 70 EU business, consumer group and European Commission representatives joined USEU staff June 29 for an energetic discussion of the Transatlantic Economic Council and Transatlantic Economic Framework(TEC/TEF),organized jointly by the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) and USEU in [...]	2009-07-08 15:35:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EIND ECIN EAGR EINV ETTC OECD PREL
09BRUSSELS963	AFRICAN PEACE FACILITY: AN IMPORTANT BUT LIMITED [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU's African Peace Facility (APF) has provided over 440 million Euros to African peacekeeping operations and capacity building since its inception in 2004 and will provide 300 million more between 2008 and 2010. A European Development Fund (EDF) instrument administered by [...]	2009-07-13 13:57:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN MARR MOPS PREL XA EAID
09BRUSSELS965	EU MILITARY CAPACITY-BUILDING IN AFRICA: EURO [...] 1. (C) Summary: The EU's capacity-building program to train African civilian and military leaders is struggling to overcome the African Union's absorption capacity and recruitment challenges. The EU effort, named EURO RECAMP, is halfway through a training cycle for the African Union (AU) t [...]	2009-07-13 15:09:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN MARR MOPS PREL XA
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
09BRUSSELS978	JERZY BUZEK ELECTED EP PRESIDENT [...] (U) Summary: The European Parliament (EP) on July 14 elected as its new president former Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek, the candidate of the European Peoples' Party (EPP-Christian Democrats). Buzek, a confirmed proponent of strong transatlantic ties, included the "strategic alliance with t [...]	2009-07-16 09:58:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR EUN
09BRUSSELS985	BELGIUM'S PERSPECTIVE ON UNHRC [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph six. 2. (U) Poloffs met July 13 with MFA Director for Human Rights France Chainaye. Chainaye discussed Belgium's role as President of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the GOB's perspective on its work. 3. (U) Chainay [...]	2009-07-17 14:57:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UN PINR BE
09BRUSSELS986	CONFIDENT NEW FLEMISH GOVERNMENT READY TO GO [...] (U) On July 13 the nine members of the 2009-2014 Flemish government were sworn in by the Flemish Parliament. Kris Peeters of the Christian Democratic Party (CD&V) will lead his second Flemish government, in a three-party coalition that includes the CD&V, the Socialists (sp.a),and the nationa [...]	2009-07-17 15:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BE
09BRUSSELS988	BELGIUM: NEW FOREIGN MINISTER YVES LETERME [...] (SBU) Former Prime Minister Yves Leterme was sworn in on July 16 as Belgium's new Foreign Minister, replacing Karel De Gucht who has moved to the European Commission as Commissioner for Development Assistance. Leterme served as Prime Minister from March 20 to December 22, 2008. Controversy ov [...]	2009-07-17 15:55:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BE
09BUCHAREST110	ROMANIA: CONTROVERSY OVER OFFSHORE ENERGY CONCESSIONS [...] (SBU) Romania's initial euphoria after prevailing over Ukraine in a Black Sea boundary dispute has given way to political finger-pointing over offshore energy concessions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a February 3 ruling awarded Romania exclusive rights to 3,745 square miles of [...]	2009-02-20 07:13:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PBTS ECON PGOV 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
09BUCHAREST132	DEEP THROAT: PSD LEGISLATOR DISHES ON PSD INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: PSD legislator Georgian Pop predicted that Parliament would succesfully refer the Nastase corruption case to prosecutors next week. He underscored that Geoana was consolidating his hold on the PSD with the support of local barons including Constanta Mayor Mazare and Bucharest PS [...]	2009-02-27 14:02:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL 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
09BUCHAREST180	ROMANIA: INCREASINGLY GLOOMY 2009 OUTLOOK SETS [...] (C) Romania needs the stability of an IMF agreement to finance the private external debt gap, protect foreign exchange reserves, and advance structural reforms in a difficult political environment, officials told DAS Judy Garber and U.S. Treasury visitors in meetings March 10-11. Still, Roman [...]	2009-03-19 11:49:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL IMF EUN 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
09BUCHAREST205	ROMANIA AND IMF REACH AGREEMENT ON 19.5 BILLION [...] (U) International Monetary Fund (IMF)-led negotiations with the Government of Romania (GOR) over a financial assistance package successfully concluded on March 25th. The IMF, European Commission (EC),World Bank (WB),and other international financial institutions (IFIs) (principally the Eur [...]	2009-03-26 05:51:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON IMF EUN PREL PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST234	ROMANIA: RETROSPECTIVE ON NATURAL GAS CUTOFF [...] (C) While Romania successfully survived the January cut-off of natural gas imports from Russia, working-level officials at the Ministry of Economy (MOE) believe that pain was averted largely through lucky timing. Cornel Zeveleanu and Liviu Stoican, officials in the MOE's General Directorate [...]	2009-04-06 13:42:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST237	ROMANIA: IMF AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION POSES REAL [...] (C) Romanian officials are congratulating themselves on the external financing package (reftel) concluded with the International Monetary Fund (IMF),European Commission (EC),and World Bank (WB) as "much better than we expected," according to one Ministry of Finance (MOF) interlocutor. With [...]	2009-04-08 05:22:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL IMF EUN 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
09BUCHAREST247	DNA CHIEF PROSECUTOR MORAR: MORE BOMBSHELL [...] (C) Summary: DNA Chief Prosecutor Daniel Morar warned Emboffs that the fast-track code reform package now being debated in parliament is flawed, given inadequate consultations and provisions that would lower or eliminate criminal penalties for corruption, reductions in the statutes of limitations, [...]	2009-04-10 14:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS 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
09BUCHAREST272	ROMANIA: SOURCES OF CONDUCT [...] (C) Summary: Though the fundamentals of Romania's foreign policy have not changed under the new coalition government led by Prime Minister Emil Boc, the combination of Russia's August 2008 incursion into Georgian territory, followed by another disconcerting Russian action in the region (the J [...]	2009-04-22 10:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ECON ENRG RO
09BUCHAREST306	ROMANIA: IRAN GAS AND TURKISH TAKE-OFF DEMANDS ARE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General and lead Nabucco negotiator, Calin Stoica, summoned EconCoun and EconOff to the MFA on May 5 to provide a readout on the latest round of Nabucco Inter-State Agreement (IS [...]	2009-05-08 04:45:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL IR RO
09BUCHAREST337	ROMANIA: REGULATIONS CHOKE PHARMA COMPANIES [...] (SBU) Summary: American and other foreign pharmaceutical companies are upset that the Ministry of Health (MOH) has recently passed several ordinances which, taken together, severely impact their ability to operate profitably in Romania. With its "universal" healthcare system, the Government [...]	2009-05-18 13:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV TBIO PGOV SOCI AMED KHIV RO
09BUCHAREST354	DEVELOPMENT MINISTER BLAGA: PEOPLE WANT STABILITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-27 14:05:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RO
09BUCHAREST385	ROMANIA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON IRAN AS A SOURCE OF [...] (C) Acting DCM and EconOff delivered ref A demarche points to Romania's chief negotiator for the Nabucco inter-state agreement (ISA),Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General (DG) Calin Stoica, on June 2. (Stoica had been unavailable earlier, as he was in Vienna for the latest roun [...]	2009-06-05 13:41:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL RO
09BUCHAREST390	ROMANIA'S EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RESULTS [...] (U) The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) on June 8 announced the results of the European Parliamentary (EP) elections held in Romania on Sunday, June 7. The PSD and PC coalition led the PDL by just over a percentage point (30.07-29.71). PNL came in at 14.52, PRM 8.65 and independent (and Presid [...]	2009-06-09 14:07:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RO
09BUCHAREST427	ROMANIA: PROPERTY FUND MOVES FORWARD EVEN AS [...] (SBU) Summary. The long process of property restitution in Romania took a step in the right direction with the June 9 announcement that the American firm Franklin Templeton had won the bid to manage the Property Restitution Fund ("the Fund"). As reported reftel, delays in the manager selecti [...]	2009-06-23 08:22:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD ECON CASC PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST494	ROMANIA: NANOTECHNOLOGY POTENTIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: EconOff recently visited the National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies (IMT),an open-source institute that has received significant national funding. IMT represents a promising future for nanotechnology in Romania, but will need continued investment an [...]	2009-07-15 11:22:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TNGD TPHY TSPL EINV RO
09BUCHAREST497	ROMANIA: A 'EUROPEAN' MODEL FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Romania (GOR) is considering the creation of two vertically integrated energy companies formed out of existing state-owned assets, reversing a decentralization process that the GOR now sees as having been flawed. Instead, two "national champions" able to compe [...]	2009-07-16 08:45:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EINV PGOV KGHG RO
09BUCHAREST55	GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH STRUGGLES TO REGAIN [...] (SBU) A Parliamentary committee will soon discuss a draft law which, if passed, will fundamentally alter the process of church restitution in Romania. Since the end of communism, the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, which represents less than ten percent of the population, has struggled with lit [...]	2009-01-28 08:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL RO
09BUCHAREST556	ROMANIA: STATE CARRIER TAROM STILL INTERESTED IN [...] (C/NF) The Director-General of the state-owned airline Tarom, Ruxandra Brutaru, informed EconOff in an August 5 meeting that Tarom intends to consolidate its medium-range aircraft fleet around a single aircraft type within the next year. This fleet is currently composed of eleven Boeing 737s, [...]	2009-08-11 13:27:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAIR ECON BEXP PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST563	ROMANIA AND IMF: REVISE AGREEMENT AS THE ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary. Romania's economy is contracting at a much faster pace in 2009 than originally forecast and its agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) requires important modifications as a result, an IMF monitoring team announced on August 10. Concluding their first quarterly revi [...]	2009-08-13 14:37:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD EIND PGOV IMF EUN 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
09BUCHAREST58	PD-L VICE PRESIDENT STOICA: LOOKING BEYOND THE [...] (C) Summary: PD-L Vice President Stoica evinced confidence in the prospects for the new Boc government, noting that Prime Minister Boc enjoyed many attributes including his position as head of a large party; the full support and confidence of the President; and lack of any corruption baggage. [...]	2009-01-29 06:34:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RO
09BUCHAREST593	ROMANIA: NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY MIRED IN SUMMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The center-right National Liberal Party (PNL) is on a losing streak. After its exclusion from the governing coalition following the November 2008 parliamentary elections, the party underperformed in the June 2009 European Parliament (EP) elections and PNL presidential candidate [...]	2009-08-27 07:14:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RO
09BUCHAREST60	ROMANIA: BASESCU UNDERSCORES NABUCCO SUPPORT, [...] (C) Summary: Europe needs to capitalize on the sour mood left by the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute to forge a tougher EU energy policy and to press forward with the Nabucco pipeline, President Traian Basescu told visiting EUR DAS Matt Bryza on January 29. Basescu said he has made this argument [...]	2009-01-30 12:44:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EFIN PREL PGOV 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
09BUCHAREST63	SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR LAZAROIU: OPRESCU IS [...] (C) Summary: Senior Presidential Advisor Lazaroiu noted that--despite a beating from the press--recent internal polling data underscored that the Boc cabinet's approval ratings compared well with those of the first Tariceanu cabinet. President Basescu's overall favorability ratings remained h [...]	2009-02-03 15:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS RO
09BUCHAREST662	COALITION TEETERS - WILL CAPTAIN BASESCU SAVE THE [...] (C) Summary. PM Emil Boc's September 28 announcement that he intended to replace Interior Minister and Deputy PM Dan Nica has led to a potential showdown between the coalition members in the current government, the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) which Boc chairs and the Social Democratic Par [...]	2009-09-30 12:37:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST669	COALITION COLLAPSES AS PSD MINISTERS RESIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 1 President Traian Basescu dismissed Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Dan Nica of PSD and appointed Regional Development Minister Vasile Blaga of PDL to assume both portfolios. PSD chairman Mircea Geoana responded by announcing that all PSD members of the PDL [...]	2009-10-01 13:15:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST671	BASESCU OUTLINES ROMANIA'S BLACK SEA ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: President Traian Basescu told visiting U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar on September 30 that Romania remains solidly behind the southern corridor strategy for diversifying sources and routes of energy supply to Europe, and is actively pursuing stronger [...]	2009-10-02 09:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL AJ EUN TU TX RO
09BUCHAREST676	ROMANIA GENERAL STRIKE: POSTURING OR PRELUDE? [...] (SBU) In what the media and labor unions billed as the largest public sector strike in the post-communist era, some 800,000 government workers across Romania stayed home on October 5 to protest the unitary salary law which the Government of Romania (GOR) forced through Parliament in September [...]	2009-10-06 13:02:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EFIN ECON PGOV IMF RO
09BUCHAREST691	CABINET FALLS IN FIRST SUCCESSFUL POST-1989 [...] (C) SUMMARY. For the first time since the 1989 revolution a Romanian government was toppled when the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) Cabinet fell on October 13. Using strict party discipline the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) received the votes necessary to [...]	2009-10-14 04:25:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST694	BASESCU, OPPOSITION NAME COMPETING CANDIDATES FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following the first successful no-confidence motion in Romania's post-Communist history (ref A),the opposition coalition of the National Liberal Party (PNL),the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UMDR) are attempting to force Presid [...]	2009-10-15 14:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST714	ROMANIA: VP BIDEN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BASESCU [...] (U) Summary. Vice President Biden met with President Basescu on October 22, 2009. The Romanian President and Vice President Biden discussed the motivations for Biden's trip to Europe; the U.S. and Romanian relationships with Russia; missile defense; and the coalition strategy in Afghanistan [...]	2009-10-23 13:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PREL ENRG CONS XH XD RO
09BUCHAREST723	ROMANIA WON'T MEET 2009 IMF OBLIGATIONS, BASESCU [...] (SBU) With a joint assessment team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF),European Commission (EC),and World Bank (WB) having arrived in Bucharest this week to review Romania's compliance, President Traian Basescu declared to reporters that Romania will not meet all its obligations to t [...]	2009-10-29 05:27:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IMF EUN RO
09BUCHAREST756	ROMANIA: IMF TEAM DEPARTS AND TAKES ITS CHECKBOOK WITH IT [...] (SBU) The IMF assessment team charged with determining whether Romania has met its obligations for the next funding tranche packed its bags and went home on November 6, declaring in a closing news conference that it cannot complete its assessment until Romania resolves the current political impasse [...]	2009-11-10 14:01:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IMF EUN RO
09BUCHAREST758	ROMANIA Election Update: Another Day, Another Cabinet [...] (SBU) Summary. President Basescu's latest PM designate, Liviu Negoita, submitted his proposed Cabinet and governing program to Parliament on November 9. The roster is similar to the recently rejected Croitoru cabinet (reftel),except for three "independent" ministers considered PDL sympathize [...]	2009-11-10 16:02:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST764	ROMANIA: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FEATURES PLENTY OF ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: With just over a week to go before the first round of the presidential election, Romania's economic woes are foremost in the minds of voters. The leading presidential candidates have been long on rhetoric but short on specifics about how they would return the country to econom [...]	2009-11-13 14:02:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL SOCI RO
09BUCHAREST775	ROMANIA: SUCCESSFUL START TO GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK [...] In response to reftel call for posts to participate in events highlighting Global Entrepreneurship Week, post worked with Junior Achievement Romania to kick off the week at a promotional event in Bucharest on November 16th. The event attracted about 30 university students and was filmed by "T [...]	2009-11-18 08:36:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON AMGT KPAO RO
09BUCHAREST783	Romania: 11/22 Presidential Election: As Expected, [...] (SBU) Summary. With approximately 75 percent of ballots counted from the November 22 presidential election, incumbent Traian Basescu (32.8 percent) and Social Democrat (PSD) Mircea Geoana (29.8 percent) seem certain as expected to advance to the December 6 presidential runoff. Third place fini [...]	2009-11-23 13:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST787	ROMANIA ELECTION UPDATE: PNL THROWS SUPPORT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Even as final election results showed incumbent President Basescu (PDL) and challenger Mircea Geoana (PSD) only a point apart after the November 22 first round elections, third place finisher Crin Antonescu announced November 24 that his National Liberal Party (PNL) would formall [...]	2009-11-24 14:51:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST789	ROMANIA ELECTION UPDATE: PNL throws its support to [...] (SBU) Summary. With more than 99 percent of votes counted, incumbent President Basescu and Social Democrat (PSD) candidate Geoana will advance to the December 6 Presidential runoff. In a November 22 statement third place finisher Crin Antonescu (National Liberals-PNL) again ruled out support [...]	2009-11-25 14:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST799	ROMANIA ELECTION UPDATE: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Though a former Romanian Ambassador to Washington and former Foreign Minister, Social Democratic Party (PSD) presidential candidate Mircea Geoana has focused much more on domestic issues and party politics since becoming PSD Chairman in 2005. This cable profiles Geoana,s politi [...]	2009-12-02 08:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR RO
09BUCHAREST801	ROMANIA: ROMGAZ TRIES TO ADAPT TO CHANGING ENERGY MARKET [...] (SBU) One of the top two gas producers in Romania, state-owned Romgaz, echoed in a November 20 meeting the previous public statements by OMV/Petrom and other private players on the domestic market that the regulated price of domestic gas suppresses production in Romania. Until now Romgaz has [...]	2009-12-03 12:47:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EINV PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST813	DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN! INCUMBENT BASESCU DEFIES EXIT POLLS [...] (SBU) Summary: Defying pre-election surveys and most exit polls, incumbent Traian Basescu has won re-election in a hotly contested campaign. Against expectations, turnout in the runoff was very high, beating the first round by almost five points. Though there were no systematic problems, min [...]	2009-12-07 10:38:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST832	Romanian Elections: Basescu Widens Lead After Partial [...] (U) Summary. After a recount of all voided ballots, incumbent President Traian Basescu slightly widened his lead over Social Democrat (PSD) candidate Mircea Geoana by an additional 273 votes. On December 14 the electoral commission (BEC) submitted its report to the Constitutional Court, which [...]	2009-12-14 14:33:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST833	ROMANIAN ECONOMY: STILL NO RECOVERY IN THE THIRD QUARTER [...] (SBU) Summary. While there are signs that this deep recession may have finally hit bottom, the most recent statistics from the Government of Romania (GOR) offer little hope of real recovery in the near term. GDP figures for the first nine months of 2009, released on December 3, show a 7.4 pe [...]	2009-12-15 08:29:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EIND EFIN IMF RO
09BUCHAREST834	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CONFIRMS BASESCU VICTORY; [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 14 the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) closed out the presidential election drama by rejecting appeals from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and validating the re-election of incumbent President Traian Basescu. PSD challenger Mircea Geoana accepted the CCR's dec [...]	2009-12-15 12:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM RO
09BUCHAREST840	BASESCU STARTS ON A CONCILIATORY NOTE [...] (SBU) Summary. After the Constitutional Court certified his victory on December 16, incumbent president Traian Basescu adopted a new conciliatory tone, pledging improved performance in his second term and announcing "state modernization" as his main priority. Basescu declared his commitment to [...]	2009-12-17 13:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON RO
09BUCHAREST843	ROMANIA: HEALTH SYSTEM REMAINS ON LIFE SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Romanian healthcare system is in serious trouble, beset by a convergence of the economic crisis, political instability, and government budgetary woes. A recent report by the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) highlighted the major problems plaguing the system. With expenditu [...]	2009-12-21 11:21:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON AMED EAID EFIN PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST85	ROMANIA: 2009 BUDGET MIXES REALISM WITH WISHFUL THINKING [...] (SBU) The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a 2009 budget draft that is expected to be approved by Parliament without substantial amendments. The final draft combines selected doses of austerity with an effort to balance competing interests by promising priority projects to all parties; the r [...]	2009-02-11 12:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST863	ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW CABINET, ENDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 23 the Romanian Parliament approved the new Cabinet assembled by Prime Minister designate Emil Boc with an unexpectedly large majority. The new Cabinet includes members of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL),the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) [...]	2009-12-24 06:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RO
09BUDAPEST10	HUNGARY WELL-POSITIONED TO WEATHER RUSSIA-UKRAINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Monday, January 5, Hungary joined the ranks of Central European countries experiencing disrupted supplies of Russian natural gas as a result of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine dispute. Hungary's significant stored gas reserves should ensure that gas continues flowing without int [...]	2009-01-06 15:37:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU SR BH MK
09BUDAPEST121	HUGARY'S RESPONSE TO EUROPEAN UNION'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME [...] (U) On February 6, Pol/Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Miklos Szoboszlay, Director General of the Department of Environment at the Ministry of Transport (MOT). Post stressed that the U.S. has serious legal and economic concerns regarding the EU directive, which seeks to unilaterally extend [...]	2009-02-12 15:52:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON ETRD EU HU SENV
09BUDAPEST132	(CORRECTED VERSION) 2009 GYURCSANY PLAN: A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Gyurcsany on February 16 presented to Parliament a package of proposed measures intended to plug a roughly $1 billion hole in this year's budget and stabilize Hungary's careening economy through incentives to increase employment and investment. The tax adjustmen [...]	2009-02-20 14:00:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON HU
09BUDAPEST148	HUNGARY: 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] Despite the successful implementation of the National Strategy Against Trafficking in Human Beings on April 10, 2008, the GOH was unable to sustain the same level of commitment to anti-TIP activities as it had done in previous years. During the year, the GOH eliminated financial and programm [...]	2009-02-27 13:18:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP KWMN ELAB KCRM KFRD PREF SMIG ASEC
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
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
09BUDAPEST189	A BUMPY START TO 2009: EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY IN [...] (SBU) Summary. In the period between January 1 and March 5, 2009, the Hungarian forint lost nearly 15 percent of its value against the euro and approximately 23 percent against the dollar. Hungarian policymakers are becoming increasingly concerned about the forint's volatility, but have not b [...]	2009-03-10 17:36:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL 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
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
09BUDAPEST225	PM GYURCSANY'S NO CONFIDENCE OFFER - SINCERE OR [...] (U) Summary. Prime Minister Gyurcsany's surprising intention to step down from his post following a planned constructive vote-of-no-confidence on April 14 adds further heat to the already polarized political environment. While Viktor Orban's opposition party Fidesz and the small Hungarian De [...]	2009-03-23 16:04:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS 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
09BUDAPEST250	GYURCSANY - OUT AS PRIME MINISTER, OUT AS PARTY [...] (U) Summary. The Socialist and Free Democrats have agreed on a new Prime Ministerial candidate, Economic Minister Gordon Bajnai, with a constructive vote-of-no-confidence planned for April 14. With the largest opposition Fidesz and the extreme right-wing Jobbik parties continuing their call [...]	2009-03-30 14:17:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS HU
09BUDAPEST251	GORDON BAJNAI: HE WHO WOULD BE PM...FOR NOW [...] (SBU) The Socialists (MSzP) and the Free Democrats (SzDSz) identify Minister of National Development and Economy Gordon Bajnai as their choice to replace outgoing Prime Minster Gyurcsany (septel). A political outsider and investment banker by training, forty-one year old Gordon Bajnai is not a [...]	2009-03-30 15:20:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ECON HU
09BUDAPEST252	GORDON BAJNAI: HE WHO WOULD BE PM...FOR NOW [...] (SBU) The Socialists (MSzP) and the Free Democrats (SzDSz) identify Minister of National Development and Economy Gordon Bajnai as their choice to replace outgoing Prime Minster Gyurcsany (septel). A political outsider and investment banker by training, forty-one year old Gordon Bajnai is not a [...]	2009-03-31 04:55:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ECON 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
09BUDAPEST270	HUNGARY REFINES GUANTANAMO DETAINEE REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph four. 2. (C) In an April 1 meeting with the DCM, MFA Senior State Secretary Marta Fekszi provided a non-paper related to Hungary's request for further information on several Guantanamo detainees. The non-paper states that Hungary is considering [...]	2009-04-03 13:01:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV EUN HU
09BUDAPEST275	THE BAJNAI RECOVERY PLAN: DRASTIC MEASURES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-06 15:32:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL 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
09BUDAPEST297	ONE YEAR, ONE GOVERNMENT, ONE FORINT [...] (U) Summary. As expected, in a constructive vote-of-no-confidence, with opposition parties abstaining or not voting, Hungarian Socialist and Free Democrat parliamentarians joined forces to elect Gordon Bajnai as Prime Minister April 14. Prior to the vote, Bajnai outlined his economic reform [...]	2009-04-15 11:56:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINS ECON 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
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
09BUDAPEST319	GOVERNMENT RESUMES REGULAR BOND AUCTIONS [...] (U) On April 16, the Hungarian Debt Management Agency (AKK) announced it would restart regular long term government bond auctions. Regular auctions were suspended last October when demand for Hungarian government securities dropped significantly, contributing to Hungary's need to negotiate a [...]	2009-04-24 13:01:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV ECON HU
09BUDAPEST320	MOL SHAREHOLDER'S MEETING: ALL QUIET ON THE SURGUT [...] (SBU) Hungarian oil and gas giant MOL appears to have successfully barred the door, at least for the time being, against a possible takeover attempt by Russia's Surgutneftegaz (Surgut) (reftel). Econoff attended MOL's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on April 23, which, in light of widely-percei [...]	2009-04-24 15:55:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU HU
09BUDAPEST359	HUNGARY RESPONSE TO DISCUSSIONS ON MUTUAL LEGAL [...] This is an action request, see paragraph five. 2. On May 12 2009, Poloff discussed ref A talking points and draft documents with Dr. Eva Grunwald, a treaty specialist within the GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs International and EU Public Law Department. In principle, Grunwald agreed with [...]	2009-05-13 15:42:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA CJAN HU

09BUDAPEST362	JOBBIK AND RISING HUNGARIAN NATIONALISM [...] (SBU) Summary. As the European Parliamentary (EP) elections approach on June 7, many Hungarian political analysts and pollsters believe that the extreme-right Jobbik party will win at least one seat in the EP, providing it a potential "bounce" for the national elections currently scheduled fo [...]	2009-05-14 16:28:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI EU HU
09BUDAPEST376	ANTI-ROMA PUBLIC OPINION IN HUNGARY: OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: News of a "dramatic increase" in anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary has been reported by both the international and domestic press in recent weeks. However, despite the conclusion that Hungarians are growing more anti-Roma, Post's review of historical polling data calls this into qu [...]	2009-05-21 14:27:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINS SOCI 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
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
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
09BUDAPEST430	ORBAN AND FIDESZ: READY TO GOVERN [...] (SBU) Summary. FIDESZ is feeling good and is ready to govern - a confident and relaxed Viktor Orban told an international audience in Budapest on June 10, three days after scoring a major victory in the European Parliament elections. While acknowledging that the economy is the most important [...]	2009-06-16 12:16:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HU
09BUDAPEST475	STRUCTURAL REFORM COMES TO HUNGARY: GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. As Parliament wraps up its spring legislative session, the 75-day old "crisis management" government of Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai has secured passage of the major elements of the PM's economic recovery plan. Although the Bajnai government and its austerity package remain ex [...]	2009-07-02 07:31:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL HU
09BUDAPEST49	NO DIRECTION HOME: VOTERS MOVE LEFT ON ECONOMICS, [...] (C) Summary: As the MSzP prepares for party meetings which will set the course for the coming year, Prime Minister Gyurcsany's halting efforts to rekindle reform are meeting open opposition even from elements of his own party. If recent polling is correct, reforms will make little headway wi [...]	2009-01-16 16:14:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM HU
09BUDAPEST53	THE FORECAST CALLS FOR PAIN: GLOOMIER THAN [...] (U) Summary. Worse than expected economic forecasts for 2009 mean that Hungary will not meet its budget deficit target of 2.6 percent without cutting expenditures or raising taxes. The GoH is in the process of reviewing possible new measures, which are expected to be announced within the next [...]	2009-01-21 09:13:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL HU
09BUDAPEST553	HUNGARY'S PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR THEIR EU [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-30 13:29:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN HU
09BUDAPEST587	HUGARY'S GREEN SHOOTS, THE 2010 BUDGET, AND THE [...] (U) Summary. Despite a steep recession, high unemployment and weak domestic consumption, Hungary is beginning to see some "green shoots" of recovery, in the form of improving investor confidence and greater financial stability. Some credit the government's economic reform and fiscal consolid [...]	2009-08-13 14:03:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL HU
09BUDAPEST6	ECONOMIC REFORM ISSUES II: TAX EVASION AND THE [...] (SBU) Summary. This is the second report on structural economic reforms economists and macroeconomic analysts believe are needed to help Hungary achieve higher economic growth, reduce macroeconomic vulnerabilities, and remain economically competitive in the region. The low tax compliance rat [...]	2009-01-05 16:19:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL HU
09BUDAPEST612	OUTLAWED MAGYAR GARDA MARCHES ON [...] Summary. Defying authorities, the extreme-right Jobbik party swore in 620 new members for the banned Magyar Garda movement on August 22. In response, police intervened and launched legal proceedings against 176 members, including increasingly popular Jobbik President Gabor Vona. End Summar [...]	2009-08-25 10:05:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI HU
09BUDAPEST628	STORING UP GAS FOR ANOTHER WINTER CUTOFF [...] (SBU) Summary: Hungary is nearing the completion of a significant addition to its already extensive natural gas storage capacity. This new capacity will further enable gas to continue flowing to consumers in Hungary and possibly to neighboring countries in the event of a cutoff similar to th [...]	2009-09-01 11:10:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU UK 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
09BUDAPEST700	PARLIAMENT VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO EXTEND PRT AND [...] (SBU) Parliament voted unanimously September 21 to approve the extension of the Hungarian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT) missions to Afghanistan. The PRT mandate is now authorized through October 1, 2010, while the OMLT will extend until A [...]	2009-09-22 16:43:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR AF 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
09BUDAPEST717	MASTERCARD, VISA EUROPE, AND BANKS FINED FOR [...] (U) On September 24, the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) announced a fine of USD 10.4 million against Visa Europe, MasterCard, and several commercial banks for inhibiting competition by charging uniform interchange fees for card transactions. (Note: Interchange fees are fees a merchant [...]	2009-09-30 15:48:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL 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
09BUDAPEST771	HUNGARIAN PRT - HOW (IN)EFFECTIVE? [...] (S/NF) Summary. The senior Hungarian MFA representative on the ground with the Hungarian PRT in Baghlan Province says the security situation is deteriorating, with limited Afghan military capability and a Hungarian PRT that is not effectively providing security. Stating that the Provincial A [...]	2009-10-21 09:51:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PGOV PREL MCAP MOPS AF HU
09BUDAPEST792	HUNGARY INCSR PART I [...] (U) Summary: Hungary continues to be a primary narcotics transit country between Southwest Asia and Western Europe due to its combination of geographic location, a modern transportation system, and the unsettled political and social climate in the neighboring countries of the former Yugoslavia [...]	2009-11-03 06:03:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV HU
09BUDAPEST800	HUNGARY NOT READY TO LIFT BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) PolOff discussed reftel November 4 with the MFA's EU Foreign Policy Department Section Chief Karoly Sardi. Sardi stated that Hungary holds positions similar to those outlined in the talking points, commenting that Hungary "is not ready to lift sanctions now." He expressed the GoH view tha [...]	2009-11-06 12:10:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EUN BO 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
09BUDAPEST836	H1N1 OFFICIALLY AN EPIDEMIC IN HUNGARY, [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 18, with over 20,000 new reported cases of H1N1 infections in the past week, GOH health authorities officially declared an epidemic. Ample supplies of locally produced vaccine Fluval P are available, and approximately 11 percent of the population (about 1 million) h [...]	2009-11-20 14:49:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO PREL ASEC HU
09BUDAPEST843	AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR'S CONSULTATIONS IN BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Ambassador Richard Morningstar visited Budapest on November 16-17 to take part in the "Fourth Energy Forum," a conference dedicated to fostering a broad discussion on European energy security. While in Budapest, Ambassador Morningstar met with [...]	2009-11-24 14:48:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV PREL OREP HU
09BUDAPEST855	DAS QUANRUD'S VISIT TO BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary. During a November 24-25 visit to Budapest, EUR DAS Pamela Quanrud met with the Prime Minister, other senior Hungarian government officials, the opposition party's senior foreign policy expert, and media representatives to discuss USG priority issues. The Prime Minister indicate [...]	2009-12-01 10:58:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NATO ENGR AF HU
09BUDAPEST857	RESIGNATION OF HUNGARIAN MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND [...] (U) Tibor Draskovics, Minister of Justice and Law enforcement, unexpectedly announced his resignation December 2. His resignation comes two days after the Parliament passed the controversial 2010 budget (septel). Draskovics stated that "we have successfully accomplished our legislative work [...]	2009-12-02 11:45:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV HU
09BUDAPEST858	PARLIAMENT PASSES 2010 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary. On November 30, Parliament approved the Bajnai government's 2010 budget. The fiscally conservative budget calls for a deficit of 3.8 percent, but critics maintain the government will substantially overshoot its target, based on underestimated expenditures and overestimated tax [...]	2009-12-02 13:06:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV HU
09BUDAPEST86	GABOR VONA AND THE MAKING OF A HUNGARIAN POLITICAL [...] (U) Summary. Jobbik party President Gabor Vona has emerged from obscurity to pursue his ambition to be a prime actor with a leading role on the stage of Hungarian politics. Gravitating from Fidesz, Vona took over leadership of the extreme-right Jobbik party in 2006. Using the Jobbik-created [...]	2009-02-02 05:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI HU
09BUDAPEST87	NOTHING NEW UNDER THE GUN: GOH AIMS LOW ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: The GoH continues to talk loudly about its financial straits but to carry a very small stick on structural reform. Despite repeated references to the historic magnitude of the financial crisis, the Gyurcsany government appears to be aiming low by limiting its response to modest [...]	2009-02-02 08:00:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON HU
09BUDAPEST870	HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) selected thirty-five year old parliamentary faction leader Attila Mesterhazy as its Prime Minster candidate for the 2010 national elections. A party member since 2002, Mesterhazy previously served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Chi [...]	2009-12-04 16:17:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV HU
09BUDAPEST875	GYOR - JOBBIK CHALLENGING FIDESZ ON ITS HOME TURF [...] (C) SUMMARY. A popular local mayor has helped opposition party Fidesz gain control of the former Socialist party sinecure of Gyor in western Hungary. While local Fidesz politicians expect a crushing victory over the Socialists in next April's parliamentary elections, the far-right party, Job [...]	2009-12-08 15:58:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON 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
09BUDAPEST909	FOREIGN INVESTORS JITTERY OVER ACTIONS OF FIDESZ [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two recent actions by opposition party Fidesz mayors against private utility companies have rattled Hungary's foreign investors. Senior Fidesz advisors claim these are local incidents and emphasize their party has no policy to re-nationalize privatized utilities. END SUMMARY. [...]	2009-12-30 10:15:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV KCOR FR HU
09BUENOSAIRES1008	(C) CARLOS REUTEMANN, ARGENTINA'S RELUCTANT [...] (C) Summary: Peronist dissident -- and presumptive 2011 frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination -- Senator Carlos Reutemann from Santa Fe province shared his views with the CDA on the 2011 presidential race and the post-midterms strategy of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) [...]	2009-09-04 15:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAGR KPAO 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
09BUENOSAIRES1026	ARGENTINA: THERE'S LIFE AFTER THE CASA ROSADA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Eight weeks after leaving Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration, former Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa told Polcouns that he parted on good terms with CFK and "not so good terms" with CFK's husband and power behind the throne, former president Nestor Kir [...]	2009-09-15 00:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL ELAB AR
09BUENOSAIRES1042	ARGENTINA: FINANCE SECRETARY SAYS HOLDOUT [...] (C) Hernan Lorenzino, the Secretary of Finance in the Ministry of Economy and Public Finances, told a visiting Treasury delegation accompanied by Econ Couns on September 10 that the GOA is seriously pursuing negotiations with the "holdouts" from the 2005 debt repayment arrangements and that a [...]	2009-09-18 17:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD 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
09BUENOSAIRES1061	ARGENTINA: RISING PRESSURES FOR THE RIACHUELO RIVER [...] (SBU) A massive, long-delayed cleanup of the Riachuelo- Matanza River Basin, the most polluted basin in Latin America, is due to begin shortly. Funded in part through a $2 billion World Bank loan, the project is expected to define the World Bank's involvement in Argentina in the medium to long [...]	2009-09-23 14:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON EFIN EIND 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
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
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
09BUENOSAIRES1111	MEDIA REACTION: IMF-ARGENTINA; THE US IN AFGHANISTAN; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today are focused on Argentina returning to the IMF fold after its alleged "emancipation" of 2006; and the war in Afghanistan. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS - "More make up" Leading "Clarin's" political columnist Jorge Luis Velazquez [...]	2009-10-07 15:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1120	MEDIA REACTION: LATIN AMERICA MILITARY EXPENDITURES; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories are related to the deep reductions in Argentina's defense budget; Argentina's "essential" need to reach a deal with the IMF; and the State Department background notes on Argentina. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS - "Argentina, far fr [...]	2009-10-09 14:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1126	MEDIA REACTION; NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT; PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international opinion pieces and editorials are related to UN Security Council Resolution 1887 in favor of nuclear disarmament; President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize; the Project Syndicate association of newspapers' seminar on climate change; and Argentina's [...]	2009-10-13 18:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
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
09BUENOSAIRES1132	DOES THE PASSAGE OF CONTROVERSIAL ARGENTINE MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: The government of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) took a step back from the political grave in winning congressional approval of a controversial media bill. The Argentine Senate approved the bill (44-24) in the early hours of October 10, three weeks afte [...]	2009-10-15 20:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON EINV WTRO AR
09BUENOSAIRES1141	MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY; ALBA SUMMIT; THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international opinion pieces are related to President Obama's policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan; the outcome of the ALBA summit, which was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia; and the evolution of drug cartels during the last 30 years. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS [...]	2009-10-19 17:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
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
09BUENOSAIRES1161	ARGENTINA INITIATES BOND HOLDOUT DEAL [...] (SBU) Minister of Economy Boudou announced that Argentina has signed letters of engagement with three major banks to manage a new offering to holdouts from the 2005 defaulted debt restructuring. Boudou and other GOA officials had been predicting such a move for a number of weeks, and the an [...]	2009-10-26 10:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1166	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARGENTINA'S HEALTH MINISTER [...] ACTION REQUEST - See paras two and six. 2. Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by ESTH Couns, met on October 25 with Argentina's Health Minister Juan Manzur and Vice-Minister Jaime Lazovski. Minister Manzur expressed his appreciation for U.S. cooperation on H1N1 and shared his ministry' [...]	2009-10-27 20:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PREL AMED CASC AR
09BUENOSAIRES1174	AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY [...] (C) Ambassador Vilma Martinez paid a courtesy call on Minister of Industry and Tourism Debora Giorgi in the wake of the recent transfer of the agriculture portfolio to a standalone Ministry. Giorgi discussed her approach to her duties and described maintaining employment as her chief concern [...]	2009-10-30 19:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1175	Argentina's 2010 Budget: New Tricks but Same Old Story [...] (SBU) The 2010 Argentine budget does not represent a great departure from the budgets of past years during the Kirchner era. It pays lip service to fiscal restraint that is unlikely to be pursued in practice, and uses numerous accounting tricks and gimmicks to understate expenditures. However [...]	2009-10-30 20:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB AR
09BUENOSAIRES1194	ARGENTINA DEMARCHED ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (U) Poloff discussed on November 3 the reftel points regarding the Goldstone Report and the November 4 consideration by the UN General Assembly of a resolution on the topic with Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials from the General Directorate on Human Rights. Argentine officials Ed [...]	2009-11-04 18:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS AR
09BUENOSAIRES1198	ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER: GOA LOOKING FOR U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's introductory call on Minister of Economy Boudou, the two discussed the status of the GoA's latest offer to the bond ""holdouts,"" discussions with the IMF and Paris Club, and U.S. investment in Argentina. Boudou was confident of a successful deal with the [...]	2009-11-05 16:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EIND EINV PINR PREL ETRD 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
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
09BUENOSAIRES1241	(SBU) Argentina Sees Fuel Bank Proposal as Interesting but [...] (SBU) Argentine Foreign Ministry Director for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),Gustavo Ainchil, told Political Officer November 20 in response to reftel points that Argentina was not prepared to support the Angarsk Nuclear Fuel Bank proposal at the IAEA. Ainchil said [...]	2009-11-24 15:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP TRGY PREL AORC IAEA AR
09BUENOSAIRES1246	ARGENTINA: RAUL ESTRADA OYUELA, OLD LION OF CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: ESTOff met on November 9 with Raul Estrada Oyuela, a retired Argentine diplomat who specialized in climate negotiations and was Chairman of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations in 1997. Estrada Oyuela feels that the GoA now has no clear position on climate change and does not have [...]	2009-11-13 18:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG EIND TRGY PREL EAGR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1254	MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10-16; 11/16/09; BUENOS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories last week were related to: President Obama's visit to China, Japan and South Korea; the war in Afghanistan; and Israeli President Shimon Peres' trip to Argentina and Brazil. 2. PRESIDENT OBAMA'S TRIP TO ASIA - "Obama accompanies the world [...]	2009-11-16 20:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
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
09BUENOSAIRES1263	MTCR: UPDATE ON ARGENTINA'S SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV) [...] (C) Summary: ESTHCouns met on December 2 with Conrado Varotto, Executive Director of CONAE (the Argentine space agency),to discuss the latest developments in Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program (reftel). Varotto reported three unsuccessful ground tests of the SLV engine and sa [...]	2009-12-03 17:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA 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
09BUENOSAIRES1279	Argentina: Deutsche Bank Country Chief Pessimistic About [...] (C) Marcelo Blanco, Argentina Country Director for Deutsche Bank, gave the Ambassador, DCM, and EconCouns on December 7 a very pessimistic assessment regarding the chances for a holdout deal in the immediate future. Blanco is the point-man for one of the three banks working with the GOA to co [...]	2009-12-09 21:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EINT AR PGOV
09BUENOSAIRES1282	MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17-23; 11/23/09; BUENOS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international opinion pieces and editorials last week were mostly related to President Obama's trip to Asia and its impact on the US-Sino bilateral relationship; President Obama's policy on the Middle East; the Guantanamo Bay detention center; and the outcome of the FOA [...]	2009-11-23 19:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1286	Argentina: Unlikely to Achieve Aim of 2009 Holdout Deal [...] (SBU) A key Argentine Ministry of Economy official explained that the GOA hopes to launch its offer to the holdouts from the 2005 debt restructuring deal by December 15, in order to accommodate the desire of many institutional investors to clear the defaulted Argentine debt from their books be [...]	2009-11-24 22:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1291	Argentina: GOA Creates USD 6.6 Billion Reserves Fund to [...] (C) The GOA has decided to use Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) reserves to create a quasi escrow fund to guarantee the payment of its regularly scheduled 2010 debt service obligations. While many analysts think the move will facilitate further government spending and thereby damage Argentina' [...]	2009-12-18 21:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES1300	MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 24-30; 11/30/09; BUENOS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT The most important international stories were related to: the outcome of the Honduran presidential election; expectations for the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit; and implications of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil and Bolivia. 2. HONDURA [...]	2009-11-30 20:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
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
09BUENOSAIRES1314	MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 1 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ADDRESS ON [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All local dailies carry wire service stories and opinion pieces on President Obama's West Point speech. Press reaction was cautiously positive, praising Obama's determination to put an end to the war, but questioning the feasibility of the strategy. The general tone was [...]	2009-12-03 13:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL 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
09BUENOSAIRES1328	MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF DECEMBER 1 - 7; 12/07/09; BUENOS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT International opinion pieces are mostly related to President Obama's Afghanistan address; expectations about the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit; the situation in Honduras; and the outcome of yesterday's elections in Honduras. 2. AFGHANISTAN ADDRESS - " [...]	2009-12-07 20:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES133	GOA ECONOMY MINISTER ON "BUY AMERICA," DEBT SWAPS, [...] (C) Argentine Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez noted GoA concerns with the "buy America" provisions in pending U.S. economic stimulus legislation during a February 4 meeting with Ambassador that mostly focused on G-20 issues (septel). The Minister highlighted the GoA's recent successful debt [...]	2009-02-09 10:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EXIM AR
09BUENOSAIRES1356	MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ADDRESS; [...] SUMMARY Most local newspapers (leading "Clarin," daily-of-record "La Nacion," business-financial "El Cronista," conservative "La Prensa," liberal, English-language "Buenos Aires Herald") carry front-page headlines highlighting President Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. Column [...]	2009-12-11 21:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1366	MEDIA REACTION: 12/8/09 - 12/14/09; CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT; [...] SUMMARY Most newspapers reported the massive world demonstrations against climate change in 130 cities, with veiled criticism of the lack of cooperation among developed countries to reach an agreement. English-language "Buenos Aires Herald" carries an opinion piece that stresses Presiden [...]	2009-12-15 12:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES137	(C) ARGENTINA: SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE SAYS [...] (C) Summary: With his customary candor, Senate President Pro Tempore Jose Pampuro, a moderate Peronist, told Ambassador Wayne February 4 that "the biggest problem" facing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration is its inability to engage in dialogue with the opposition [...]	2009-02-09 19:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES14	Argentina: New Agricultural Measures Will Have Little [...] (U) Summary: On December 22, 2008, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced a new package of stimulus measures for the Argentine agricultural sector. Although previously announced at the beginning of December, a plan to reduce the export tax on wheat and corn by five percentag [...]	2009-01-05 17:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM 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
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
09BUENOSAIRES153	ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER PREVIEWS ARGENTINA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with Foreign Minister Taiana and Vice Foreign Minister Taccetti to exchange views on how the USG and Argentina can work collaboratively in the coming months as President Obama's administration defines its priorities in the hemisphere. They noted that there we [...]	2009-02-13 10:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES168	Argentina: Finance Secretary on GoA Crisis Response and [...] (SBU) GoA Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino told a visiting Senate staffdel February 16 that Argentina's lack of access to international capital markets has insulated it from the impact of the global financial crisis, with Argentina thus far avoiding much of the "social fallout" evident in mor [...]	2009-02-18 12:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV PREL KSUM PGOV 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
09BUENOSAIRES183	ARGENTINA: UPDATES ON THEFT OF CESIUM 137 [...] (SBU) GOA officials report that the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) have now taken the lead in the investigation of yesterday's theft of nuclear material in Neuquen, Argentina. The GOA's Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEA),Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ARN),Neuquen provincial police, and the Gendar [...]	2009-02-20 20:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG IAEA KNNP KCSA TRGY ASEC 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
09BUENOSAIRES197	ARGENTINA: ANSWERS TO FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS ON [...] (SBU) Following are Post's answers to questions raised, keyed to Ref A: A) The NRA confirms that it used equipment donated by DOE as part of the upgrade of their nuclear emergency response center. Two types of equipment were used: 1) a "SPARC", which was calibrated for CS-137 with a similar [...]	2009-02-26 10:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG IAEA KNNP KCSA ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES211	ARGENTINA: DOMINGO CAVALLO PANS GOA POLICIES, [...] (C) The post-crisis Kirchner model no longer works and Argentina is headed for "stagflation," according to controversial Argentine ex-Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo. During a meeting with the Ambassador, Cavallo suggested that returning to the IMF may be the only way to alleviate Argentina's [...]	2009-02-27 20:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON 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
09BUENOSAIRES219	ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT OPENS CONGRESS PREDICTING A [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) opened the ordinary session of Congress March 1, focusing largely on the economy, predicting that 2009 would be the most difficult one of the last 100 years, and asserting that Argentina was ready to face the economic crisi [...]	2009-03-03 18:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES229	ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT TELLS STAFFDEL LEWIS IT WELCOMES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina MFA Chief of Staff D'Alotto and Sub-Secretary for Latin American Relations Colombo Sierra told visiting U.S. Congressional Staffdel Lewis on February 16 that it welcomed a perceived opportunity to deepen and improve bilateral ties at the outset of the Obama Administrati [...]	2009-03-04 18:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON SNAR KTIP AR
09BUENOSAIRES23	Argentina: The Kirchners Give Themselves Top Grades [...] (SBU) Fed up with dozens of pessimistic surveys showing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her team's declining approval ratings, the editor-in-chief of pro-government "K Magazine" ("Revista Ka") Damian Barijhoff decided to give the Kirchners a New Year's gift: publication next [...]	2009-01-07 13:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV 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
09BUENOSAIRES256	(C) ARGENTINE BUSINESSMAN ON WORRIES ABOUT [...] (C) A very well-connected Argentine businessman told the Ambassador March 5 that senior GoA ministers are privately very concerned about the eventual effects of the world economic crisis on Argentina. This businessman has regular access to a wide range of GoA ministers and has been used for [...]	2009-03-10 14:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN 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

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
09BUENOSAIRES287	ARGENTINA: ICE EXPERTS DELIVER TIP TRAINING [...] Summary. In an effort to strengthen the Argentine government's anti-trafficking efforts, Post,s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attache Office in coordination with the political section brought down two ICE experts to address three conferences on trafficking in persons (TIP). The f [...]	2009-03-13 21:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB KWMN
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
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
09BUENOSAIRES314	Argentina: Farm Dispute Marks An Unhappy First Anniversary [...] (U) The conflict between the Argentine government and the farm sector is now over a year old, with no sign of a solution. On Tuesday, March 17, the GOA and the farm sector met for a fourth round of discussions on agricultural policy issues. Early rumors indicated that the government, eager t [...]	2009-03-19 17:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES315	ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVES NEW DATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's Lower House approved President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections from October 25 to June 28. With a vote of 136 in favor, 109 against, and eight abstentions, the ruling Victory Front al [...]	2009-03-19 17:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM 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
09BUENOSAIRES331	Argentina: GoA Ups Ante on Export Tax Debate - Announces [...] (SBU) President Kirchner announced March 19 that, via emergency decree, the GoA will share 30% of export tax proceeds on soybeans with provincial governments and municipalities. These funds, roughly US$ 1.8 billion per year at current commodity prices, are to be earmarked for "social infrastru [...]	2009-03-20 22:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV 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
09BUENOSAIRES342	ARGENTINE FARM SECTOR DECLARES SEVEN-DAY STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Farm groups initiated a seven-day strike on March 21 to protest against high export taxes and the lack of government support for the sector. Producers have stopped marketing most grains, oilseeds, and cattle, and are blocking some highways in rural areas. Support for the strik [...]	2009-03-25 12:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM 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
09BUENOSAIRES360	ARGENTINE CONGRESSIONAL MIDTERMS NOW SET FOR JUNE [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Senate approved (42-26-4) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections by four months to June 28. Theruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) obtained a comfortable majority, with five more vot [...]	2009-03-27 17:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM 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
09BUENOSAIRES365	IAEA DG RACE: ARGENTINA WILLING TO CONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: According to senior Argentina MFA advisor Rafael Grossi, Argentina will consider endorsing Argentine citizen Rogelio Pfirter as a compromise candidate for Director General of the IAEA if it receives high-level requests from the United States and a couple of other European or P5 go [...]	2009-03-27 20:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA PARM KNNP AR
09BUENOSAIRES366	Argentina: License For Nil - GoA Imposes New Import [...] (SBU) In a context of global concerns over increasing protectionist pressures, Argentina, which signed onto a November 2008 G-20 standstill agreement on new barriers to trade, is actively expanding a list of products which require non-automatic import licenses. U.S. firms and others importing [...]	2009-03-30 15:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON 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
09BUENOSAIRES370	ARGENTINES PLEASED WITH VPOTUS-CFK MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Argentine media gave highly positive coverage to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) March 27 bilateral with Vice President Biden, and Argentine Ambassador to the United States Hector Timerman confirmed to the Ambassador that the GOA was very pleased with the meeting [...]	2009-03-30 22:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES376	NEW GOVERNMENT PLAN REFLECTS GROWING IMPORTANCE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner announced a new public security plan on March 27 to respond to rising public concerns about crime. The plan is focused on the provinces of Buenos Aires and Mendoza and includes promises of 4,000 new police to patrol the streets, a redeployment of [...]	2009-03-31 22:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR ASEC PREL MASS EAID 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
09BUENOSAIRES391	ARGENTINA PASSES NEW LAW TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM VIOLENCE [...] Summary. The Argentine Congress recently passed a law to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women. The new legislation replaces a national law on domestic violence that considered violence against women a misdemeanor and only penalized crimes against sexual integrity. The new law [...]	2009-04-03 14:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES414	ARGENTINA: HEALTH MINISTER REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE IN [...] The Ambassador met with Health Minister Gabriela Ocana on April 7 at her request to discuss ways that the USG could assist with the outbreak of dengue fever in Argentina over the past couple of months. According to Ministry of Health figures, there are now 7,415 locally contracted cases of de [...]	2009-04-07 19:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES416	HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN MEETS WITH LEADING ARGENTINE HOUSING [...] (SBU) A lunch hosted by the Ambassador in honor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan was attended by a range of notable Argentines representing the development, architectural, financial, business, and government sectors, as well as by the DCM. After prior meetings with [...]	2009-04-08 17:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND EFIN PREL PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES428	Argentina: Playing the Judicial Blame Game [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) set off a political firestorm between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches on who is to blame for Argentina's increasingly dysfunctional judicial system. The courts have long been plagued by an overwhelming demand for [...]	2009-04-09 21:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM ASEC SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES429	ARGENTINA: TOP CANDIDATES IN KEY LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Former president Nestor Kirchner has once again upset the political apple cart, this time by floating the idea that he and the current governor of Buenos Aires province, Daniel Scioli, will head the Victory Front (FpV) slate of candidates for national deputies from the province o [...]	2009-04-09 22:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES430	AMBASSADOR BREAKS THE ICE IN NORTHERN PROVINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the first U.S. ambassadorial visit to the northern province of Santiago del Estero in 22 years on April 6, Ambassador Wayne sent a message that Argentina matters to the United States. Pragmatic Governor Gerardo Zamora seized the opportunity to mobilize key private and public [...]	2009-04-11 14:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SCUL SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES443	ARGENTINA: DIM ELECTORAL PROSPECTS FOR KIRCHNERS [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's ruling (Kirchner-allied) Victory Front (FpV) faces bleak prospects in the June 28 midterms in the second-tier electoral districts of Cordoba, Santa Fe, and Mendoza provinces (ref A). In Cordoba and Santa Fe, the second and third most populous provinces, the Kirchners [...]	2009-04-15 17:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON 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
09BUENOSAIRES470	ARGENTINA ELECTIONS: RADICALS INVITE PRODIGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Building on the positive public sentiments generated by the memorializing of the late President Raul Alfonsin (ref A),Argentina's once-dominant Radical Party (UCR) continued its gradual return to relevance with a successful national convention April 17-18 in Mar del Plata. The [...]	2009-04-23 18:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON 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
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
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
09BUENOSAIRES515	ARGENTINA: ALLIANCES ANNOUNCED, CAMPAIGN SEASON [...] (C) Summary: Argentine political parties have registered their alliances (but not yet their candidate slates) for the June 28 mid-term congressional elections. Although a total of 16 electoral alliances have registered in the country's top two key electoral battlegrounds, Buenos Aires province [...]	2009-05-04 21:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON 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
09BUENOSAIRES534	(C) ARGENTINA: RECENT UNSETTLING DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Recent moves by the Government of Argentina (GoA) undermine the independence and efficacy of Argentine agencies with jurisdiction over corruption cases. In early March, Manuel Garrido, Argentina's chief prosecutor for corrupton cases resigned, claiming frustration over perc [...]	2009-05-06 21:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PHUM KFRD SNAR ASEC 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
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
09BUENOSAIRES558	Argentina Elections: VP Cobos Still Popular in [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice President Cobos's presidential aspirations are riding on the fate of the slate of candidates he is backing in the June 28 congressional mid-term elections. Currently, his slate for Mendoza's five national deputy slots and three Senate seats is favored to win 40% o [...]	2009-05-11 19:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL 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
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
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
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
09BUENOSAIRES603	ARGENTINA: A USEFUL PARTNER ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] Summary: With its reliance on agricultural exports and hydro-electric power generation, Argentina is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As such, the country's plans tend to focus on adaptation rather than mitigation. Argentina was an early participant in the negotiations lea [...]	2009-05-22 11:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG ENRG PREL AR
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
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
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
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
09BUENOSAIRES695	ARGENTINA: H1N1: HEALTH MINISTRY HAS BEEN WORKING AT ALERT [...] On June 11, ESTCouns called Sebastian Tobar, Director of International Health Relations at the Ministry of Health (MOH),to discuss the recent WHO announcement that it had raised the alert level for Influenza A H1N1 from level five to level six. Tobar commented that the Argentina MOH had been [...]	2009-06-13 19:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR
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
09BUENOSAIRES721	ARGENTINA: H1N1 DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO SIX [...] Summary: H1N1 cases in Argentina continue to increase. In response, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has begun to focus on defined risk groups. Reacting to an increased pattern of local transmission rather than contagion from outside the country, the MOH has moved from a strategy of containment [...]	2009-06-19 21:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL 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
09BUENOSAIRES742	ARGENTINA'S JUNE 28 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: THE [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentina's ruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) appears headed for a nationwide defeat in the June 28 mid-term congressional elections and will likely lose its majority in the Chamber of Deputies and possibly in the Senate. The election is unlikely to clarify ful [...]	2009-06-25 21:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES748	(C) ARGENTINA: H1N1 DEATHS SURGING [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Ministry of Health (MOH) puts the number of confirmed H1N1 cases at 1486, 335 of whom are currently hospitalized. Officially, 23 patients have died, but several sources claim that there have been at least 15 additional deaths and a broader incidence of cases. Eighty [...]	2009-06-26 20:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR AMED
09BUENOSAIRES750	Argentine Mid-Terms: Kirchners Suffer a Major Setback [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's ruling party and allies suffered a major setback in the June 28 congressional mid-term elections, winning only about 30% of the vote nationwide and likely losing its majority in both chambers of Congress. In the key race of Buenos Aires province, the ticket headed b [...]	2009-06-29 17:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR AR
09BUENOSAIRES756	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK CALMLY SPINS ADVERSE [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) addressed the nation June 29 via live television to put the previous day's election results in perspective. She sought to put the best possible face on the electoral results, noting it was not unusual for [...]	2009-06-30 21:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM 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
09BUENOSAIRES776	Argentina: Transport Secretary Resigns; Other Key Changes [...] (SBU) Ricardo Jaime, Argentine Secretary of Transportation, resigned on July 1 in the face of numerous criminal charges on grounds of alleged corruption. His replacement is close to one of the President's most trusted advisors. Several other changes are rumored to be close, or even to have al [...]	2009-07-02 21:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN SNAR KCOR AR
09BUENOSAIRES778	H1N1: ARGENTINA DECLINES TO DECLARE H1N1 EMERGENCY--FOR [...] SUMMARY: The death toll in Argentina attributed to H1N1 influenza has reached 55. In the midst of this crisis, the Government of Argentina (GOA) has appointed a new Minister with extensive public health experience (reftel). Although the new Minister declined to declare a national health eme [...]	2009-07-06 11:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELAB 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
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
09BUENOSAIRES799	ARGENTINA PONDERS A POST-KIRCHNER WORLD [...] (C) Summary and introduction: As Argentines continue to sort through the implications of the June 28 congressional mid-term elections, it is still too early to determine whether president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband Nestor (NK) suffered a mortal blow or merely a tempo [...]	2009-07-08 19:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES801	ARGENTINA: POWERFUL KIRCHNER ALLY ON [...] (C) Summary: CDA and Buenos Aires Province Vice-Governor Alberto Balestrini discussed July 7 Argentina's political panorama following former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his Victory Front (FpV) slate's second-place finish in the June 28 election in Buenos Aires province. A powerful insider an [...]	2009-07-08 20:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR 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
09BUENOSAIRES817	ARGENTINE CANDIDATE FOR UNESCO SEEKS SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daniel Filmus, Argentina's former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology, is now running for President of UNESCO 35th Conference. He seeks U.S. support for his candidacy. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) The Argentine MFA hosted a meeting for chiefs of mission on July 8 to pro [...]	2009-07-13 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SCUL AORC UNESCO AR
09BUENOSAIRES82	ARGENTINA BACKS OFF BOTNIA PROTEST [...] (SBU) Summary: After allowing protesters to block the main bridge between Argentina and Uruguay for over two years, the Government of Argentina has reversed course and begun to express opposition to the protest. The Kirchner-allied governor of Entre Rios in December made headlines by concedin [...]	2009-01-23 20:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV PBTS ASEC CASC AR
09BUENOSAIRES827	NOW WHAT? THE KIRCHNERS' OPTIONS IN POST-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary/Introduction. More than two weeks have passed since Argentina's ruling first couple lost badly in mid-term congressional elections. It has taken President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband Nestor time to process the meaning of the debacle and respond. Though the GOA h [...]	2009-07-15 18:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES831	(C/NF) ARGENTINA: INTELLIGENCE CHIEF IN SANTA CRUZ [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Local press recently linked Wilfredo Roque, the chief of the Santa Cruz provincial office of Argentina's intelligence agency, SIDE, to a trafficking in persons (TIP) ring led by Alejandro Guerrero and his wife "Yani." A local TV show aired footage showing Roque's right hand m [...]	2009-07-16 13:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SNAR ASEC ELAB AR
09BUENOSAIRES839	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS AND LABOR LEADER MOYANO RENEW [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, are solicitously rewarding General Workers Confederation (CGT) leader Hugo Moyano in order to ensure his support at a time when many others seem to be defecting from govern [...]	2009-07-16 21:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB 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
09BUENOSAIRES851	ARGENTINA: DATA COLLECTION OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS RE [...] Through contacts with Argentine officials and healthcare professionals, Post developed the following timeline of public health interventions, as requested in reftel: -- First cases: The first case of H1N1 in Argentina was detected on May 7, 2009, in Buenos Aires and the second on May 22 in [...]	2009-07-22 14:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELB CASC 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
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
09BUENOSAIRES868	ARGENTINA SUGGESTS SOLUTION TO CONTROVERSY OVER ITS CLAIM [...] (SBU) ADCM and ESTCouns met on July 22 at the Argentine MFA with Rafael Grossi, Director General for Political Coordination and a close advisor to Foreign Minister (FM) Jorge Taiana, regarding the issue of Argentina's submission of its claim to the Antarctic continental platform. Grossi reiter [...]	2009-07-24 17:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTBS PHSA 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
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
09BUENOSAIRES908	ARGENTINA: UPDATE ON H1N1 INFLUENZA [...] As of August 5, Argentina had confirmed 337 deaths due to H1N1 influenza. According to the press, over half these fatalities were in otherwise healthy patients who had no pre-existing chronic conditions or ailments. Tests to determine the cause of an additional 400 deaths are still pending. [...]	2009-08-06 16:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI PREL AMED ELAB CASC KIPR AR
09BUENOSAIRES91	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S VENEZUELA VISIT GIVES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) January 21-23 visit to Caracas following her stop in Cuba (reftel A) sustained local interest in -- and criticism of -- her trip to Cuba and Venezuela. The visit prompted questions about the GOA's judgment on timing (as [...]	2009-01-28 12:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES927	(C) ARGENTINA: TAIANA TRIES TO EXPLAIN CFK'S [...] (C) Summary: The GOA confirmed August 12 President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) August 10 invitation to South American heads of government to an August 28 UNASUR meeting on the Colombia-U.S. negotiations of a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). CFK made the invitation during UNASUR [...]	2009-08-13 22:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO 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
09BUENOSAIRES952	ARGENTINA: H1N1 INFLUENZA BEGINNING TO WANE [...] As of August 20, Argentina had confirmed 441 deaths due to H1N1 influenza. Official estimates indicated that more than 800,000 people had contracted the virus to date. According to Dr. Horacio Lopez, Head of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine and Medical Advisor to the City of Bue [...]	2009-08-21 16:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI PREL AMED ELAB CASC KIPR 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
09BUENOSAIRES976	ARGENTINE MINISTER OF ECONOMY SAYS GOA IS READY TO [...] (C) Summary: CDA met August 24 with Minister of Economy and Public Finances Amado Boudou and discussed the upcoming G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Argentina's re-engagement with the IMF, an agreement with Paris Club debtors and bond holdouts, as well as Argentina's fiscal and economic outlook. [...]	2009-08-26 16:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN ENIV ETRD KSUM PREL 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
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
09BUJUMBURA222	FBI INVESTIGATES MANIRUMVA MURDER [...] (S) SUMMARY: In response to the Ambassador,s formal offer of FBI support, Burundi,s First Vice President, with the full concurrence of the President, invited the Bureau to assist in the investigation of the brutal April 8 murder of leading anti-corruption investigator Ernest Manirumva. While [...]	2009-05-06 13:49:00	Embassy Bujumbura	SECRET	ASEC PGOV 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
09BUJUMBURA342	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON [...] (S/NF) Post is responding to follow-up question per ref A. There are no marking or etchings visible on the container now that the baseket has been removed, per photographic evidence. Due to safety precautions, Post has not been in physical proximity to the container since first contact was mad [...]	2009-07-20 14:47:00	Embassy Bujumbura	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC KCRM KNNP PARM PINR PREL PTER BY XAAF
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
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
09BUJUMBURA444	JOINT DEMARCHE ON ELECTORAL CODE [...] The following text was presented to the heads of the principal political parties August 29 as part of a diplomatic effort to encourage Burundian consensus on an Electoral Code for the 2010 elections. Post will provide further details in septel. 2. BEGIN TEXT. Common demarche from South [...]	2009-08-31 11:08:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV BY
09BUJUMBURA465	BUYOYA: PROSPECTS FOR PEACE [...] (C) A discussion with former President Pierre Buyoya September 9 about the turbulent history of the past elicited his thoughts about the present and future of his country. In a word, he is optimistic. Buyoya, looking fit and younger than his sixty years, said that until he came on the scene [...]	2009-09-09 14:45:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV BY
09BUJUMBURA531	THE ICGLR TAKES STOCK, AND SEEKS ITS NICHE [...] (SBU) (Summary) The International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) is preparing a November 5-6 Roundtable and Summit in Bujumbura, to be preceded by a November 4 "Friends of ICGLR" for donor countries. At an October 3 preparatory meeting, ICGLR Ambassador Liberata Mulamula said t [...]	2009-10-06 06:18:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL BY CG KE RW TZ UG ZA

09BUJUMBURA627	FRODEBU YOUTH ARE TALKING TOUGH - HOW FAR WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Patrick Nkurunziza, president of the FRODEBU party's youth wing, stated that the group's primary objective is to "protect the party" by acting as a "deterrent" against the intimidation efforts of the ruling party's youth, the Imbonerakure (ref A). To fulfill these goals, FRODEBU's [...]	2009-11-17 16:50:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BY
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
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
09CAIRO107	NORTH SINAI REACTION TO GAZA CONFLICT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a trip to the North Sinai Governorate on January 19-20, we met with local leaders and discussed the recent fighting in Gaza, and its effect on the neighboring communities in Egypt. All the leaders, with whom we met, noted that the local population--which is a mixture of [...]	2009-01-22 14:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL PREF EAID PHUM KISL ECON IS EG
09CAIRO1096	EGYPT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED - DISCUSSIONS OF FUEL [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 07:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP TRGY IAEA EG
09CAIRO1129	FM ABOUL GHEIT ON ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-18 16:35:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PREL PGOV EAID IS EG
09CAIRO1143	ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA ON JUNE 24 MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-22 07:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO1148	AMENDMENT ON WOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-22 10:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM SOCI EG
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
09CAIRO1176	Contract Signed for Egypt's First Nuclear Plant [...] (SBU) Key Points -- On June 18, 2009, the GoE signed an agreement with the Australian firm WorleyParsons to provide consultancy to help develop Egypt's first nuclear power plant. -- Bechtel had been engaged in months of negotiations with the GOE, but ultimately Bechtel's tender offer to pr [...]	2009-06-23 12:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG PGOV PREL EG AS
09CAIRO1177	EGYPTIAN MFA ON ARAB LG MINISTERIAL; LEBANON; YEMEN [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-23 12:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YE LE EG
09CAIRO1185	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS' VISIT TO EGYPT [...] Key Points: -- (S/NF) Since your last visit in December 2008, President Obama's well-received Cairo speech has reinvigorated the tenor of our bilateral relationship. -- (S/NF) However, a sense of renewal in our bilateral relationship has not yet resulted in tangible improvements in our m [...]	2009-06-24 08:19:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MASS MOPS IR IS KPAL PHUM KDEM
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
09CAIRO1194	MFA ON HIZBALLAH CELL, SMUGGLING, CT COOPERATION [...] (C) On June 23, MFA Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Deputy Assistant Minister Ashraf Mohsin told visiting S/CT officer Patrick Worman that the MFA believes Hizballah should be part of the political process in Lebanon. Mohsin said the GOE views Hizballah's terrorist operation in Egypt as [...]	2009-06-25 14:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CT UN IR LE EG
09CAIRO1195	SUDANESE DUP LEADER MIRGHANI ADVOCATES FOR [...] (C) Summary: -- Muhammad Osman Al Mirghani, leader of the Sudanese Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Khatmiyya Sufi sect visited Egypt to ask the Government of Egypt's assistance in the implementation of the June 2005 Cairo Agreement. He suggested a conference to recommit signatories [...]	2009-06-25 14:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU 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
09CAIRO1200	Update on banking sector reforms in Egypt [...] (SBU) Key points: -- Egypt's banking sector continues to weather the storm better than most; -- The U.S.-backed financial sector MOU has contributed to the financial sector's improvements; -- The next round of audits is unlikely to show that GOE has met the MOU's target of 62.5% o [...]	2009-06-28 08:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PREL EG
09CAIRO1201	CENTRAL BANK CUTS RATES, BUT SOME BANKS KEEP DEPOSIT RATES [...] (U) Key Points -- The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) cut interest rates for the fourth time this year. -- Several major Egyptian state and private banks responded by lowering their lending but not deposit rates. -- The CBE will continue to monitor inflation and growth rates before another [...]	2009-06-28 08:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN PGOV EG
09CAIRO1204	Economic and financial leaders debate Egypt's economic [...] (SBU) Key Points: * At the Ambassador-hosted Economic Roundtable, leading economic minds in Egypt believe that sound macroeconomic policies have contributed to Egypt's 7% growth the last several years. * The Roundtable believed that Egypt will weather the current economic downturn better than [...]	2009-06-28 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV 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
09CAIRO1225	JONES APPAREL: EGYPT'S QIZS ARE GOOD FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) KEY POINTS -- Compliance Officers from Jones Apparel Group told us that labor conditions in the factories of their Egyptian suppliers are generally good. -- Jones Apparel has not seen evidence of worker mistreatment in QIZ factories. -- As a result of the QIZ and proximity to U.S. [...]	2009-06-30 11:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB EINV PGOV ETRD 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
09CAIRO1306	SUDANESE UMMA PARTY ENGAGING WITH OTHER OPPOSITION [...] (S) Key Points: -- According to Former Sudanese PM and Umma Party leader, Imam Al Sadiq Al Mahdi, the Umma Party is reaching out to other opposition parties such as the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) [...]	2009-07-09 12:46:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL SU CD EG
09CAIRO1307	SECURITY FORCES PREVENT COPTIC CEREMONY, [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR),a credible NGO, briefed us July 7 on its fact-finding mission to the village of Ezbet Boushra where sectarian clashes broke out June 21. -- (C) EIPR said the clashes began when security forces prevented village Copts fr [...]	2009-07-09 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1311	Minister of Investment Talks Economic Reform, Privatization [...] (SBU) KEY POINTS - Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieddin told the Ambassador that successes in the Egyptian economic reform program have helped mitigate the impact of the global economic crisis. - The Ministry of Investment looks to the USG for continued support and technical assistance. [...]	2009-07-13 09:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD EAID PGOV PREL EG
09CAIRO1333	EGYPT'S SPEAKER OF THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-13 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO1349	GENERAL PETRAEUS' MEETING WITH EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN [...] Key Points: -- (S/NF) During a June 29 meeting with CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus, Egyptian General Intelligence Service (EGIS) Chief Omar Soliman shared his views on Iraq, Iran, and ongoing efforts on Palestinian reconciliation. -- (S/NF) On Iraq, Soliman assessed that Arab leaders [...]	2009-07-14 11:44:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MASS IR IZ KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO1352	SUDAN: SLA-MINAWI ADVOCATES FOR CONTINUING U.S. ROLE IN DARFUR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-14 12:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU CD EG
09CAIRO1366	EGYPT: PROPOSED EXAPANSION OF JUDICIAL BODY BRINGS [...] Key Points: -- (C) The proposed expansion by presidential decree of the constitutionally-mandated Supreme Judicial Council (SJC),the judiciary's governing body, has drawn fire from judges who accuse Minister of Justice Mamdouh Marei of seeking to exploit the changes to the SJC to increase the numb [...]	2009-07-15 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM 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
09CAIRO1393	POWER POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DELTA CITY [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) On July 15 we visited the Delta city of Mansoura, with a population of 1 million, high unemployment and a formerly agricultural economy transitioning to light manufacturing and other trade. -- (C) One local businessman and NGO leader told us that in the past six months t [...]	2009-07-19 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO1394	MINERS CLASH WITH POLICE IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (C) On July 16, in the most recent example of Egypt's ongoing wave of labor strikes and demonstrations (ref A),quarry workers and owners protesting a local government imposed tariff on cut stone clashed with police in the Upper Egyptian city of Minya. According to local media reports, a pol [...]	2009-07-20 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO1456	GARBAGE CITY: AFTERMATH OF THE GOE PIG CULLING PLAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-29 14:15:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV EAGR CASC PREL EAID EG
09CAIRO1464	"APRIL 6" MOVEMENT CONSOLIDATES RANKS, LOOKS [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) "April 6" movement leader Ahmed Saleh told us July 26 that the group has ejected Islamist and Nasserist members to try to preserve its secular, western orientation. -- (C) Saleh urged U.S. pressure on the GOE for international monitors for the 2010 and 2011 elections. He [...]	2009-07-30 13:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
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
09CAIRO1495	EGYPT'S BAHA'I FRUSTRATED WITH LACK OF PROGRESS ON [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) During a July 28 meeting, leaders of Egypt's Baha'i community reported no progress in obtaining government identification documents. -- (C) According to the Baha'i, following the April 15 issuance by the MoI of a decree establishing procedures for members of "unrecognized" religio [...]	2009-08-03 13:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1503	FM ABOUL GHEIT ON MUBARAK VISIT, MB, STRATEGIC [...] (C) Key Points: -- FM Aboul Gheit said Egypt's main goal for the upcoming Washington visit was to build "rapport" between the two presidents, emphasizing Egypt's "strategic" relationship with the U.S. and continuing discussion of key regional issues. -- The Muslim Brotherhood remains a "challenge" [...]	2009-08-04 10:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1552	GOE INFLUENZA PLANNING WELL UNDER WAY FOR ANNUAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-10 07:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV EAGR CASC PREL EAID EG
09CAIRO1576	MFA ON FATAH CONGRESS ELECTIONS, PALESTINIAN [...] (C) On August 11, Poloff met with new MFA Director of Palestinian Affairs, Hesham Seif al-Din and MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, Ahmed Hamshari. Seif Al-Din said he was adopting a "wait and see" attitude towards the Fatah elections, but doubted that the elections would result [...]	2009-08-13 11:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO1615	NEXT STEPS ON THENILE BASIN INITIATIVE REF: CAIRO 1506 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-20 11:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TSPL BY CG ET KE RW SU TZ UG EG
09CAIRO1618	EGYPTIAN MFA ADDRESSES PIRACY AND SOMALIA [...] He said the fisherman had "nothing to lose" because the GoE refused to pay a ransom to the pirates, and had discouraged the ship owners from doing the same. Marzouk had met personally with the families of the men to explain the GoE position and assured them that the MFA and Egyptian intelligence we [...]	2009-08-20 14:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS MARR EWWT KCRM SO 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
09CAIRO1690	S/E GRATION PARTICIPATES IN FOUR-PARTY TALKS ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-30 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LY SU EG
09CAIRO1714	EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 08:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG
09CAIRO1723	EGYPTIAN ISLAMIST MEETS WITH STAFFDEL HOGREFE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL EG
09CAIRO1727	REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON GOE ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 16:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PREL PGOV EFIN 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
09CAIRO1743	EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON IAEA GC NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Key Egyptian interlocutors say Egypt has worked in good faith to achieve consensus in Vienna, including showing substantial flexibility on the GC President's initiative. They are willing to continue to work toward this goal via the now-circulated MES text. In the Egyptian view, Israe [...]	2009-09-09 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM IAEA IS IR EG
09CAIRO1758	THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CHILDHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-10 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG
09CAIRO1761	CHALLENGES OF SINAI ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Key Points: -- Although security restrictions and other factors associated with working in the Sinai will continue to make it more difficult to implement our programs there, progress is being made. -- In May 2009, the Governor of North Sinai agreed to help facilitate access, and USAI [...]	2009-09-10 16:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PREL PGOV EG
09CAIRO1766	FRAUD SUMMARY - CAIRO [...] COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Widespread poverty and a lack of perceived economic prospects drive a significant number of Egyptians to look for opportunity outside of their homeland. Boatloads of Egyptians have been intercepted traveling north across the Mediterranean towards Europe. Such economic migran [...]	2009-09-13 13:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC 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
09CAIRO1819	"APRIL 6 MOVEMENT" RAISES ITS PROFILE TO ATTRACT [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On September 15, "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh told us that the group is working to attract new members through a campaign of helping citizens "stand up for their rights" and receive government services. -- (C) As part of this effort, he said "April 6" has succes [...]	2009-09-17 15:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1852	REFUGEES CAUGHT IN EGYPT-ISRAEL BORDER CROSSFIRE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PREF PTER PBTS KWBG KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO1857	ENGAGING AYMAN NOUR [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-27 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO1874	EGYPT'S ECONOMY: SEMPTEMBER 30 PRESS ROUND-UP [...] (U) The following are notable economic news stories that appeared over the past week in the Egyptian press: -------------------------------------- Exports to Agadir Member States up 22% -------------------------------------- 2. (U) The Ministry of Trade and Industry reported that Egypt's [...]	2009-09-30 14:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EAGR EPET PGOV EG
09CAIRO1892	FOUNDER OF EGYPT'S FIRST INDEPENDENT UNION ON [...] Key Points: -- (C) On September 30, Makram Labib, who with Kamal Abu Eita established the Real Estate Tax Collectors Union (RETU),Egypt's first independent trade union (ref B) since the 1950s, told us that RETU has achieved most of its economic objectives through negotiation with the Ministry of F [...]	2009-10-01 15:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM 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
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
09CAIRO1927	GOE MINISTERS SAY EGYPT REMAINS COMMITTED TO ECONOMIC REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-08 16:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG ETRD PGOV PREL
09CAIRO1929	EGYPT'S EQUITY MARKET: IS THERE MORE ROOM TO RUN? [...] (U) KEY POINTS - The Egyptian stock market has been a strong performer in 2009. The large cap index is up over 45% and the broader index is up nearly 100%. - Optimism about the Egyptian economy along with continued low commodity prices have been catalysts for buyers of Egyptian equities. [...]	2009-10-08 16:54:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG
09CAIRO1932	RACHID REVIEWS TRADE TIES, UPCOMING TRIP TO U.S. REF: A. CAIRO 1793 B. CAIRO 1550 C. CAIRO 1522 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-08 17:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL EFIN EAID EG
09CAIRO1967	EGYPT TRAINS POLICE ON PROTECTING TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) On October 11, Poloff attended the opening ceremony of an International Organization for Migration (IOM) training program for Egyptian law enforcement officials on "Protecting Victims of Trafficking and Investigating Traffickers." The two-week program, conducted under the auspices of Egypt's [...]	2009-10-15 08:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP PHUM PREL PGOV EG
09CAIRO1977	EGYPT: POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SUGGEST CHANGE [...] (C) Key Points -- Political activists at an Ambassador-hosted lunch were pessimistic that the upcoming elections would offer opportunities for real change. -- Most agreed that voter apathy and low voter turnout in previous elections can be explained by the absence of a "political culture," pressu [...]	2009-10-19 08:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO2011	UPDATE ON REPORTS OF DIVISIONS WITHIN THE MUSLIM [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-21 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO202	SALAFISM ON THE RISE IN EGYPT [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-04 14:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PTER KIRF SOCI SCUL PGOV EG
09CAIRO2031	POLICE HARASSMENT AT NOUR EVENT [...] (C) Key Points: -- (C) Ayman Nour confirmed reports of police harassment at an event for artists and poets held on the evening of October 21 in support of his campaign against succession. Items seized by police were returned except a laptop used to store information about the campaign. Nou [...]	2009-10-22 16:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG KDEM
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
09CAIRO208	THE ARAB LEAGUE ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-04 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UN MR SO SU EG
09CAIRO2082	CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT RELEASES CORE INFLATION INDEX [...] (U) Key Points: -- The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) released its core inflation index on 25 October. -- Core inflation better reflects underlying inflation and is the statistic that the CBE uses in determining its monetary policy. -- The release of these statistics is a precondition for [...]	2009-11-03 09:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV EG
09CAIRO209	POWER TRIP: RESTRUCTURING THE PETROLEUM [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-05 13:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL EG
09CAIRO2111	CIVIL SOCIETY'S EXPECTATIONS FOR ELECTIONS LOW, [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-05 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ELAB EG
09CAIRO2120	EGYPT'S ECONOMY: November 9 PRESS ROUND-UP [...] (U) The following are notable economic news stories that appeared over the past week in the Egyptian press: ---------------------------------------- The Central Bank Ends Interest Rate Cuts ---------------------------------------- 2. (U) The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank o [...]	2009-11-09 13:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG PGOV EG
09CAIRO2122	ANGER AND DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS OVER QIZ [...] (SBU) KEY POINTS -Public and private sector contacts continue to complain about the delay in implementing the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ) program in Minya and Beni Suef, although the delay is largely due to the GOE's slowness to provide accurate information on the factories in the two [...]	2009-11-10 07:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV EG
09CAIRO2157	POPULATION MINISTER FOCUSING ON FAMILY PLANNING [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN KIRF ELAB EG
09CAIRO2166	EGYPT: NDP READY TO RUN ON A "FOR YOU" PLATFORM REF: 2008 CAIRO 2310 Classified By: Minister-Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO217	GOE RESUMES PRESS FOR HOSNY UNESCO CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-05 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL EG
09CAIRO218	EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON COUNTER PIRACY, SOMALIA AND SUDAN REF: A. KHARTOUM 51 B. KHARTOUM 75 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-05 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KCRM EWWT SO SU EG
09CAIRO2183	EGYPT: MB LEADERS RELEASED [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 16:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS PTER EG
09CAIRO2189	EGYPT'S ECONOMY: November 23 PRESS ROUND-UP [...] (U) The following are notable economic news stories that appeared over the past week in the Egyptian press: --------------------------------------------- ----- Mubarak Addresses Economy in Speech to Parliament --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) President Mubarak add [...]	2009-11-23 12:29:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG EAGR PGOV EG
09CAIRO219	TEN MEN DETAINED FOR ALLEGED HOMOSEXUAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-05 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO2209	MUBARAK'S ANNUAL SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT OFFERS [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-25 15:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS ECON 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
09CAIRO2236	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT ASSERTS TIP PROGRESS TO [...] (SBU) Ambassador at Large for Combating Human Trafficking Luis CDeBaca visited Egypt November 13 through 15 and met with GoE officials and others involved in Egypt's anti-trafficikng efforts, including Egypt's Public Prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, Egypt's Minister of State for Family and Populati [...]	2009-12-03 12:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV UN 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
09CAIRO2249	SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-07 08:16:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PTER EAID SOCI SNAR SCUL KPAL KCRM IS EG
09CAIRO2279	EGYPT: EL BARADEI'S "CONDITIONED" PRESIDENTIAL RUN [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-10 13:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO2292	BANKING REFORM CONTINUES BUT IS NARROWLY FOCUSED [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-14 07:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV EG
09CAIRO2298	EGYPT: MB INTERNAL CLASHES CONTINUE [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS PTER EG
09CAIRO2299	NDP REFORMER SEES LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESS REF: A. CAIRO 2283 B. CAIRO 2166 C. CAIRO 1850 D. CAIRO 1181 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EG
09CAIRO2308	EGYPT: CAN KIFAYA REGAIN LOST MOMENTUM? [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO2309	SUBSIDY REFORM PROGRESSING SLOWLY - GOE LOOKS TO [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV ENRG 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
09CAIRO2311	ORASCOM TELECOM FACES FINANCIAL CHALLENGES FROM ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT ACTIONS REF: CAIRO 02261 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Do nald A. Blome [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 14:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV EINV ETRD EG AG
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
09CAIRO2346	CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT PRESSURES BANK PIRAEUS INTO [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-22 12:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EFIN ECON EG
09CAIRO2347	EGYPT: DECEMBER 2009 INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-22 13:28:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV EAGR CASC PREL EAID EG

09CAIRO2384	SPLM DELEGATION DISCUSSES SUDAN ISSUES WITH EGIS [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-29 10:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG
09CAIRO2388	ARAB LG COS ON ARAB DEVELOPMENT, IRAQ, IRAN, YEMEN, AND MOUSSA'S FUTURE PLANS Classified By: MINISTER-COUNSELOR DONALD A. BLOME REASONS: 1.4 (B) and (D) [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-29 14:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YE IR IZ 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
09CAIRO283	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S PARTY PLATFORM INDEFINITELY [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-17 14:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KDEM EG
09CAIRO300	AYMAN NOUR'S RELEASE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 09:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO302	EDUCATION REFORM IN EGYPT. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The poor quality of public education in Egypt is consistently cited by Egyptians across the board as a major impediment to both economic and political development. Reformers agree Egypt needs an education system which encourages critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and [...]	2009-02-19 10:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV EG
09CAIRO326	SENATOR LIEBERMANâ€™S FEBRUARY 17 MEETING WITH GAMAL MUBARAK [...] (C) During an hour-long meeting on February 17, Gamal Mubarak discussed with Senator Joseph Lieberman the problems with Gaza and Palestinian reconciliation, as well as the broader political split within the Arab world. Senator Lieberman sought Gamal's advice on ways for the U.S. to engage Iran; Gam [...]	2009-02-23 13:07:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KPAL ECON IR SY IZ EG IS QA
09CAIRO328	DINNER WITH PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On February 22, the DCM hosted a dinner for several members of the Foreign Relations Committee of the People's Assembly. The attendees included two National Democratic Party (NDP) MP's, one independent, and two Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentarians, including the head of the M [...]	2009-02-23 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL PTER EAID KPAL PA IS EG
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
09CAIRO349	EGYPTIANS SIGNALLING WILLINGNESS TO RESOLVE ESF [...] (C) Summary: Ministers of Finance and International Cooperation both indicated unofficially to the Ambassador recently that they believed the GOE would agree to the FY2009 level of $200 million for ESF if the U.S. could acknowledge that the process of setting the amount had been unilateral [...]	2009-02-26 09:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN PREL EG
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
09CAIRO379	EDUCATION REFORM IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The poor quality of public education in Egypt is consistently cited by Egyptians across the board as a major impediment to both economic and political development. Reformers agree Egypt needs an education system which encourages critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and [...]	2009-03-03 13:07:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV EG
09CAIRO383	2009 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Based on continued efforts by the Government of Egypt (GOE) to protect intellectual property rights in Egypt, we recommend that Egypt stay on the Special 301 watch list. On the pharmaceutical and software sides, the Ministry of Health and Minister of Telecom are taking a much [...]	2009-03-04 12:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR 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
09CAIRO408	Egypt: Local Dairy Farmers Demand GOE Price Support [...] (U) Key Points -- Falling international prices of milk are threatening local milk producers who are demanding action by the government to save the dairy industry. -- Egypt is a net importer of dairy products with the majority of its imports coming from Australia and New Zealand. The U.S. [...]	2009-03-10 10:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD ELAB PGOV EG
09CAIRO416	ARAB LEAGUE CONCERNED ARREST WARRANT THREATENS [...] Key Points -- (C) The Arab League (AL) believes that the ICC arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir threatens the peace and stability of Sudan, but the AL advisor on African Affairs to SYG Moussa told us that the Doha peace talks were still possible because the genocide charge was dism [...]	2009-03-11 11:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SU EG
09CAIRO44	PROGRESS ON WOMEN'S ISSUES, DESPITE SOME GOE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The past six months have seen significant progress on women's issues in Egypt. Recent advances for women on combating female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual harassment and assault have stood out in an environment characterized by backsliding on issues such as pre [...]	2009-01-12 09:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO443	DOWN IN THE DELTA: ANECDOTES ON EGYPT'S SLOWING [...] (U) KEY POINTS -- Companies in the Egyptian Delta are beginning to feel the effects of the global economic slowdown, though the full extent of the impact is not yet known. -- In the Gharbia and Dakahlia governorates, we have yet to see evidence of large-scale layoffs or business cl [...]	2009-03-16 08:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV EINV EG
09CAIRO447	EGYPT: G-20 SUMMIT PARTICIPATION [...] (C) Key points: -- In a March 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit asked the U.S. to encourage the British to issue a "last minute" invitation to Egyptian President Mubarak to attend the G-20 summit in London, hinting that Egypt would be prepared to deliver on some [...]	2009-03-16 10:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL EG
09CAIRO453	EGYPT'S BAHA'I WIN LEGAL BATTLE [...] KEY POINTS - (SBU) On March 16, Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court dismissed a legal challenge filed by an Islamist lawyer that had heretofore blocked the implementation of a January 2008 court decision directing the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to issue identification documents to members [...]	2009-03-16 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO456	EGYPT'S ECONOMY: WEEKLY PRESS ROUND-UP [...] The following is a summary of notable economic news stories as they appeared over the past week in the Egyptian press. REF: CAIRO 209 Energy Sector ------------- 2. On March 5, Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy spoke to the Canada-Egypt Business Council about the impact of the global [...]	2009-03-17 08:27:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EPET EFIN EAGR ETRD ENRG PGOV EG
09CAIRO468	"APRIL 6" LEADER PESSIMISTIC ABOUT STRIKE; [...] (S) KEY POINTS -- (S) "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh is pessimistic the group will be able to organize an effective strike on April 6 to protest political and economic conditions. He cited an Egyptian public distracted by other problems and probable State Security (SSIS) interference [...]	2009-03-18 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KISL 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
09CAIRO515	EGYPT: ESF DISCUSSION WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Key points: -- In a March 23 meeting, Minister of International cooperation Aboulnaga told the Ambassador that Egypt is "very pleased" with the approach taken by the new Administration but is concerned that any proposed ESF for FY 2010 should demonstrate USG commitment to compensate Eg [...]	2009-03-25 11:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN PREL PARM EG
09CAIRO532	EGYPT SEEKS ENGAGEMENT WITH U.S. ON SUDAN [...] (C) Key Points --The Government of Egypt (GOE) views stability in Sudan as essential to its national security because of concern over its access to Nile waters and increased Sudanese refugee flow into Egypt. --Egypt disapproves of the GOS' expulsion of NGOs from Darfur, and is focused fin [...]	2009-03-26 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO PHUM QA SU EG
09CAIRO544	BLOGGERS MOVING FROM ACTIVISM TO BROADENING DISCOURSE AND SELF-EXPRESSION [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-30 13:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF KWMN SOCI EG
09CAIRO549	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL SCHWARTZ [...] Key Points -- (SBU) U.S.- Egypt military relationship is strong, but should change to reflect new regional and transnational threats. -- (SBU) More focus is needed on combating emerging threats, including border security, counter terrorism, civil defense, and peacekeeping. -- (S/NF) Egypt continues [...]	2009-03-31 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL MASS PARM MOPS KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO56	EGYPT RECEIVES REQUEST FOR VIGILANCE OF SUDAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-12 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MASS EG IS SU
09CAIRO567	INFLUENTIAL SUDANESE BUSINESSMEN ADVOCATE "NO [...] (C) Key Points -- Two influential North Sudanese businessmen in Cairo, Kamal Ibrahim Ahmed (protect),Chairman of TransExport Trading Company and Muhammad Abdel Moneim (protect),Chairman of Wadi El Nil Flour Mills urged the USG not to compromise with the Government of Sudan (GOS),warning t [...]	2009-04-02 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF SU EG
09CAIRO571	MFA SENIOR ADVISOR ON PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (S/NF) Key points -- MFA Senior Cabinet Advisor and Spokesman Hossam Zaki told DCM April 2 that Egyptian-sponsored negotiations on Palestinian government formation that resumed April 1 are "going nowhere." He did not articulate a contingency plan, and argued that the USG should not insist o [...]	2009-04-02 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IS SY SU QA CD SA EG
09CAIRO575	NEW MINISTER ON FAMILY PLANNING, GIRLS' EDUCATION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On March 29, New Minister for Families and Population Moushira Khattab told the Ambassador and the USAID Mission Director that significant economic development in Egypt will not be possible without limiting population growth. -- (C) Minister Khattab said that girls' educa [...]	2009-04-05 08:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KWMN SOCI EG
09CAIRO591	APRIL 6 STRIKE AND PROTESTS FIZZLE INTO A NON-EVENT [...] KEY POINTS -- (SBU) The strike planned by the "April 6 Movement" to protest political and economic conditions failed to disrupt normal traffic and business activity throughout Egypt, in contrast to the more successful April 6, 2008 strike. -- (U) In downtown Cairo, there were a few demonst [...]	2009-04-07 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM ELAB SOCI 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
09CAIRO604	CODEL MCCONNELL'S APRIL 5 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Key Points -- President Mubarak told CODEL McConnell he feared that the new Israeli government would be "very difficult to work with," in particular Foreign Minister Lieberman, whose public statements have already had a very negative impact on Arab public opinion. -- On Palestinian re [...]	2009-04-08 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PHUM KDEM PTER PARM PGOV SOCI SY
09CAIRO605	EGYPT: PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS ON ECONOMY AND DOMESTIC [...] (U) KEY POINTS -- On April 6, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif addressed the Egyptian parliament and discussed the global economy and President Mubarak's proposed budget for fiscal 2009/10. The key points he made were: -- The Egyptian economy continues to grow, but growth is slowing. [...]	2009-04-08 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV EG
09CAIRO613	EGYPT: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS USG ESF OFFER [...] (S) Key points: -- Prime Minister Nazif and Ambassador discussed way forward on ESF on April 9. His bottom line up front: "the relationship is more important than ESF." --Nazif also expressed appreciation for the Administration's approach to Egypt and appreciated that the Secretary had [...]	2009-04-09 18:11:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EAID ECON PREL EG
09CAIRO614	CODEL MCCONNELL'S APRIL 6 MEETING WITH GAMAL MUBARAK [...] (C) Key Points -- Gamal Mubarak told CODEL McConnell that Egypt remained committed to economic reform despite the global financial crisis. -- Egypt wants increased trade with the U.S.; however, it is looking elsewhere for trade opportunities as well, including the EU, Russia, and China. [...]	2009-04-12 10:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PGOV ETRD IZ EG IS IR
09CAIRO615	CODEL TAUSCHER'S APRIL 9 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Key Points -- Iran: President Mubarak told CODEL Tauscher that using diplomacy and economic sanctions with Iran is far better than using force. Using force to solve the problems with Iran will led to instability in the region and an increase in terrorism. Mubarak has no plans to resto [...]	2009-04-12 10:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IR EG SY
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
09CAIRO629	EGYPT'S ECONOMY: APRIL 13 WEEKLY PRESS ROUND-UP [...] (U) The following are notable economic news stories that appeared over the past week in the Egyptian press: ------------------ Inflation Declines ------------------ 2. (U) According to the Egyptian government's official statistics agency, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and St [...]	2009-04-13 10:54:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV 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
09CAIRO64	AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON LATEST TRAVAILS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, told us that Nour has been baselessly accused of assaulting a prison guard, and now faces solitary confinement as punishment. She said that Nour is "terrified" of solitary confinement, as the [...]	2009-01-13 14:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM 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
09CAIRO695	"APRIL 6" LEADER PLANS U.S. TRAVEL; DESCRIBES [...] (C) On April 22, "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh told us that he plans to travel to Washington from May 2 to May 9 to testify in a May 7 Congressional hearing on a draft resolution on human rights in Egypt sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA). Saleh said that Dina Guirgis of the Washingt [...]	2009-04-23 15:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO7	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 4 [...] (S) As of 1500 hrs. local on January 4, Egyptian military contacts said Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing on January 4 after the Israelis gave advanced warning of their ground invasion and additional air strikes on the smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Rafah border. According to the Egypt [...]	2009-01-04 13:28:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM EG IS
09CAIRO721	EGYPT MAKING PROGRESS TO COUNTER TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Key Points: -- Since the November 2008 visit of G/TIP Coordinator, Ambassador Mark Lagon to Egypt, the Government of Egypt (GOE) has continued to make progress to address trafficking in persons by beginning to implement the anti-trafficking amendments to the child law (reftel),opening [...]	2009-04-28 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS EG
09CAIRO722	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR ROSS' VISIT TO EGYPT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (S) President Mubarak sees Iran's attempts to exert influence throughout the region as Egypt's primary strategic threat. However, Mubarak's focus on the Iranian threat differs somewhat from ours. While he will readily admit that the Iranian nuclear program is a strategic and ex [...]	2009-04-28 15:34:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM KPAL IS LE SU IR EG
09CAIRO724	EGYPT:LET'S KILL ALL THE PIGS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: While Egyptian authorities have been responding to the virus formerly known as Swine Flu (and now known as H1N1) in measured ways -stepping up a mostly moribund program to move swine out of urban areas to the countryside, testing swine and swine workers for the H1N1 v [...]	2009-04-29 08:17:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR KISL KIRF USDA
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
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
09CAIRO77	Egypt's Tourism Hurt by the Global Financial Crisis [...] (U) SUMMARY: Signs of a slowdown in the Egyptian tourism sector are beginning to emerge as a result of the global economic crisis and may have a significant impact on revenues, employment and growth in 2009. Tourism in Egypt is the top foreign exchange earner and made up 19% of forex revenu [...]	2009-01-15 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL 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
09CAIRO79	GOE STRUGGLING TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-15 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO816	Treasury meets with Finance Ministry and Central Bank [...] (U) Key points: -- In percentage of GDP, next year's deficit is likely to nearly reach the size that Boutros-Ghali inherited in 2004. -- Next year's budget contracts in nominal and real terms. Revenues projected to fall fast. -- The Ministry of Finance is trying to keep fiscal sustaina [...]	2009-05-13 08:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET EFIN EAGR ETRD ENRG PGOV EG
09CAIRO821	PROPOSAL TO EXPAND GSP COVERAGE [...] (U) Key points: -- Potatoes are grown by smallholder farmers throughout Egypt who have successfully exported their crops to the Gulf and to Europe. Spinach is not widely grown, although analysts believe that this crop might have potential. -- Increased farm incomes are key to alleviating [...]	2009-05-13 19:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR ECON PGOV EG
09CAIRO839	NGO SAFE -- FOR NOW [...] (C) On May 10, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received a letter from the Ministry of Social Solidarity's (MOSS) Director of Central Administration for Associations noting that the ministry is not attempting to dissolve EOHR. EOHR Secretary-General Hafez Abu Seada told us Ma [...]	2009-05-14 13:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO84	EGYPT TO RATIFY MADRID PROTOCOL [...] After a December 16 joint Shura Council/People's Assembly Committee decision to approve the Madrid Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, the Shura Council has approved the treaty for ratification. The People's Assembly began discussion o [...]	2009-01-19 12:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID KIPR EG
09CAIRO843	PROFILE OF MRS. SUZANNE MUBARAK [...] (U) Summary and introduction: First Lady Suzanne Mubarak will accompany President Mubarak during his May 24-26 visit to Washington. This will be her first visit to the U.S. since 2004, when she accompanied her husband on a six-day state visit. Suzanne Mubarak is an active and very visible firs [...]	2009-05-14 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON OVIP EG
09CAIRO86	DRAFT LETTER ON POLICE PROGRAM GIVEN TO EGYPTIANS [...] (C) In a January 14 meeting, DCM passed to General Ali Hegazy, Director of the International Relations Department of the State Security Investigations Service (SSIS),a copy of the draft letter to the GOE regarding the continuation of a USG-funded community policing training program for the Eg [...]	2009-01-19 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG
09CAIRO862	EGYPT EXCLUDES BECHTEL'S TENDER OFFER TO HELP [...] (SBU) KEY POINTS: --Bechtel's tender offer to provide consultancy in developing Egypt's first nuclear power plant has been excluded by the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE). --The Ambassador met with Bechtel and Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younes to voice our concerns [...]	2009-05-18 08:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON ETRD PREL EG
09CAIRO868	UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY DISCUSSES TERRORIST FINANCE [...] Key Points -- (S) Egyptian interlocutors confirmed to U/S Levey their concern about Iran and their desire to keep financial pressure on Iran. -- (S) Central Bank Deputy Governor indicated that he would discuss with the Governor and others the possibility of a formal policy directive prohi [...]	2009-05-19 09:46:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EFIN EG IR IS KDEM KPAL NP PGOV PREL PTER
09CAIRO873	ARAB LEAGUE ON ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT AND [...] (C) Key points: -- In a May 11 meeting, Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told us that AL SYG Moussa was very encouraged by the Administration's early position on Middle East peace. He said that the AL had agreed to resume Israeli-Palestinian negotiations only if Israel satisfact [...]	2009-05-19 12:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO874	SCENESETTER: PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S VISIT TO [...] (S/NF) Introduction: President Mubarak last visited Washington in April 2004, breaking a twenty year tradition of annual visits to the White House. Egyptians view President Mubarak's upcoming meeting with the President as a new beginning to the U.S.-Egyptian relationship that will restore a [...]	2009-05-19 12:58:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM ECON EG IS IR IZ
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
09CAIRO936	EGYPT NOT AFFECTED BY SAUDI RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO [...] (C) Key Points: -- The Government of Egypt (GOE) was not influenced by the Saudi decision to recognize Kosovo. The Saudi decision will have more impact on Gulf countries. -- Egypt and other Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) countries oppose Albania's OIC resolution to recognize [...]	2009-05-26 09:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KO AL EG
09CAIRO937	SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO VISIT [...] (SBU) Mission Cairo welcomes your visit, the first by a U.S. president to Cairo since President Clinton's in 1990. The Egyptian Government will also warmly welcome you, as will the Egyptian people, who are proud that the U.S. has recognized what they view as Egypt's central role in the Arab [...]	2009-05-26 09:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO945	CONVERSATION WITH EGYPTIAN MUSLIM TELEVANGELIST [...] Key Points: -- (C) According to Moez Massoud, a rising star among Egyptian Muslim televangelists, Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) are competing fiercely for influence among Egypt's youth. -- (C) Massoud said Salafist influence - which has been present in Egypt since the movements founding [...]	2009-05-27 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KIRF KPAO SOCI EG
09CAIRO975	UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY DISCUSSES IRAN [...] Key Points -- (S) Egyptian interlocutors confirmed to U/S Levey their concern about Iran and their desire to keep financial pressure on Iran. -- (S) Central Bank Deputy Governor suggested that it would not be difficult to issue a formal policy directive prohibiting Egyptian banks from opening or [...]	2009-05-28 12:49:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EFIN EG IR IS KDEM KPAL NP PGOV PREL PTER
09CAIRO999	ARAB DARFUR LEADERS IN CAIRO ADVOCATE FOR DARFUR [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-02 12:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU CD QA SA EG
09CANBERRA1012	VISITS SIGNAL WARMING RELATIONS WITH CHINA [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A pair of recent visits by high-level Chinese officials signals that China is willing to move past recent tensions with Australia. PLA Chief of Staff General Chen Bingde and Vice Premier Li Keqiang both met with Prime Minister Rudd and other senior officials during their visit [...]	2009-11-18 07:08:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	AS CH PGOV PREL
09CANBERRA1017	AND THE LIST GOES ON, U.S. SECURITY DIALOGUES WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United States has a wide range of ongoing security dialogues with Australia that date back decades. There are several large, formalized dialogues that take place throughout the year and a virtually endless number of smaller working groups and direct military to military ta [...]	2009-11-19 06:01:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM AS
09CANBERRA1024	HIGHER AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR MAY LEAD TO STRUCTURAL CHANGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Underpinned by strong demand for Australian resources, a resilient post-GFC domestic economy, rising interest rates, and comparatively slower recoveries among other advanced economies, the Australian dollar (A$) has been one of the strongest currencies in 2009. The strong dolla [...]	2009-11-20 07:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EMIN ECON ETRD PGOV AS
09CANBERRA1047	G8 L'AQUILA SUMMIT FOOD SECURITY: AUSTRALIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia,s estimated commitment emanating from L,Aquila on food security programs is A$464 million for food aid (ref C). Australia believes that food aid should be included and is seeking clarification of the criteria used to calculate the amount, which depending on the metho [...]	2009-11-27 03:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID AS
09CANBERRA105	"BUY AMERICA" PROVISION RAISES CONCERNS IN [...] (C) Summary. The "Buy America" provisions on the purchase of US steel for infrastructure projects in the recently-passed House economic stimulus bill have raised considerable concern in Australian, provoking negative headlines and commentary in the Australian media as well as from key contact [...]	2009-01-30 06:49:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL AS
09CANBERRA1054	AMBASSADOR BLEICH MEETS TREASURER SWAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Treasurer Wayne Swan welcomed Ambassador Bleich during an introductory meeting on November 27 and expressed optimism about Australia's economic outlook. Swan was pessimistic about the fate of the emissions bill being hotly debated in Parliament, as well as that of Opposition lea [...]	2009-11-27 06:34:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL AS
09CANBERRA1057	AMBASSADOR BLEICH CALL ON ENERGY MINISTER FERGUSON [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy, Resources and Tourism Minister Ferguson told Ambassador Bleich during an initial courtesy call that Australia is "in lockstep" with the U.S. on energy policy, technology goals, and views on climate change. Ferguson sees Australia, a major liquefied natural gas (LNG),co [...]	2009-11-30 04:10:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON SENV ETRD AS
09CANBERRA106	JOB LOSSES THREATEN POLICIES ON CLIMATE PLAN AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rising unemployment will be the Rudd government's biggest political problem in 2009. The opposition Liberal-National Coalition, traditionally associated with strong economic management, believes an increase in joblessness could erode political support for the Australian Labor P [...]	2009-01-30 07:15:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB SENV ECON AS
09CANBERRA1070	RUDD'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME DEFEATED IN SENATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Rudd government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was defeated in the Senate after the Opposition changed leadership and subsequently rejected the scheme. The government will re-introduce the bill on February 2, but consensus is that the current deal is dead. In [...]	2009-12-02 07:06:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG PREL AS
09CANBERRA1071	AUSTRALIA WELCOMES THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON [...] (C/NF) Australia welcomes the President's announcement of the way forward in Afghanistan and is committed to providing support, Foreign Minister Smith told Ambassador Bleich December 2. Ambassador Bleich delivered reftel message prior to the President's speech. In addition to the discussion [...]	2009-12-02 07:25:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL AS
09CANBERRA1096	ANTICIPATED LABOR SHORTAGE COULD STRENGTHEN UNIONS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australia's resources and energy sector is forecast to continue growing but companies are worried about skilled labor shortages and new labor laws, which unions are keen to exploit. The GOA estimates there are 80 planned or approved energy and resource projects that are likely [...]	2009-12-13 20:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EMIN ECON ETRD PGOV AS
09CANBERRA1099	RUDD STEPS UP RHETORIC ON WHALING [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia is growing increasingly frustrated with lack of progress on whaling with Japan as the Japanese whaling fleet is about to start its annual hunt in Antarctic waters. PM Rudd will raise whaling with Japanese PM Hatoyama in response to perceived Japanese escalation of t [...]	2009-12-14 07:24:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV EFIS PREL AS
09CANBERRA1107	AUSTRALIA'S 3Q GROWTH SLOWER THAN EXPECTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australia's economy slowed to 0.2% GDP growth in the September quarter, despite forecasts of double this result. Treasurer Swan said global conditions are still challenging and the lower-than-expected growth "is a cautionary reminder that growth momentum in the Australian econom [...]	2009-12-17 02:46:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ECON ETRD PGOV AS
09CANBERRA1123	RUDD GOVERNMENT REPORT CARD 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rudd government remained politically dominant in 2009, largely on the back of better than expected economic conditions, Rudd's enduring high popularity, government unity, and a dysfunctional opposition. Foreign Minister Smith stepped out of Rudd's shadow and the resignation [...]	2009-12-23 06:11:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AS
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
09CANBERRA116	AUSTRALIA ROLLS OUT NEW STIMULUS PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Responding to increasingly dire economic forecasts, PM Kevin Rudd announced February 3 a A$42 billion (US$26 billion) economic stimulus package, the second in four months, equal to about 4% of GDP. It is largely focused on rapid spending on education infrastructure and cash pay [...]	2009-02-03 07:06:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN AS
09CANBERRA117	CHINALCO ACQUIRING RIO STAKE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australian media is reporting that Chinese state-owned aluminum company Chinalco is negotiating with Rio Tinto to either increase its stake in Anglo-Australian resources giant Rio Tinto or buy specific resource assets. Reeling from falling commodities prices, Rio is scrambling t [...]	2009-02-03 21:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV AS CH
09CANBERRA132	COMPARING GAZA TO HOLOCAUST CAUSES MUSLIM-JEWISH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Australia's Jewish community leaders have threatened to sever relations with their Muslim counterparts after the chairman of Australia main Islamic group refused to withdraw his comparison of the Israeli Gaza incursion with the Holocaust. During Israel's push into Gaza in January, [...]	2009-02-06 07:45:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI AS
09CANBERRA136	VICTORIA WILDFIRES: CANBERRA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Though the worst of the fires appear to be over, Australia is reeling as rescuers discover more victims from Victoria's wildfires, with the death toll expected to pass 200 (ref B). Deputy PM Gillard termed the fires "one of the darkest days" in Australia's peacetime history. T [...]	2009-02-10 21:00:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID SENV AS
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
09CANBERRA142	SEA SHEPHERD BACKS OFF, AUSTRALIA PESSIMISTIC ON [...] (C) Summary: The aggressive actions by both the Sea Shepherd group and the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean during the week of February 2-6 have resulted in the Sea Shepherd's calling off of their harassment campaign for this season. The Australian government is taking a low-key a [...]	2009-02-12 06:21:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV EFIS PREL AS
09CANBERRA150	SENATE PASSES RUDD'S ECONOMIC RESCUE PACKAGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 13, the Senate passed the Rudd government's $42 billion economic stimulus package, a day after rejecting it. The key factor was the government upping the cash for projects favored by independent South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, whose no vote was crucial to the [...]	2009-02-13 06:45:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON AS
09CANBERRA153	SENATE PASSES RUDD'S ECONOMIC RESCUE PACKAGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 13, the Senate passed the Rudd government's $42 billion economic stimulus package, a day after rejecting it. The key factor was the government upping the cash for projects favored by independent South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, whose no vote was crucial to the [...]	2009-02-13 07:17:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON AS
09CANBERRA154	SENATE PASSES RUDD'S ECONOMIC RESCUE PACKAGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 13, the Senate passed the Rudd government's $42 billion economic stimulus package, a day after rejecting it. The key factor was the government upping the cash for projects favored by independent South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, whose no vote was crucial to the [...]	2009-02-13 07:17:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON AS
09CANBERRA156	AUSTRALIA: PM'S ADVISOR ON AFHANISTAN-PAKISTAN [...] (C) In response to the U.S. invitation to contribute ideas to the Afghanistan-Pakistan strategic policy review, Prime Minister Rudd's senior international adviser said Australia has been hard at work on its own review and believes the U.S. and Australian efforts can complement one another. On [...]	2009-02-17 07:14:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM EFIN MARR AS
09CANBERRA163	AUSTRALIAN MILITARY RECRUITMENT FLAT DESPITE POOR [...] (C/NF) Contrary to recent media reports of recruiting increases linked to potentially poor domestic economic performance from the global financial crisis, there has been no change in actual recruiting levels. Systemic personnel issues limit Australian Defence Force (ADF) staffing flexibility, [...]	2009-02-18 06:31:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MCAP PREL AS
09CANBERRA180	CHINESE INVESTMENT OFFERS PILE UP IN AUSTRALIAN [...] (C) Summary: The pace of Chinese efforts to invest in key Australian mineral companies has picked up. While the Chinalco-Rio Tinto investment (reftel) has drawn the most attention, other Chinese companies are seeking to take advantage of the troubled economic state of many Australian miners. [...]	2009-02-20 07:49:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ETRD EINV EIND AS
09CANBERRA188	ALP FACTIONS BIDE THEIR TIME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite the apparent desire of Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to end the power of ALP factions, the January outbreak of a dispute between members of the Right faction in Victoria is a reminder that they still control politics at the local level. [...]	2009-02-25 07:23:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB AS

09CANBERRA213	FITZGIBBON AND DEFENCE UNDER FIRE OVER SAS PAY [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon and senior Defence officials have come under intense pressure over bungled handling of salary payments to Special Air Service (SAS) troops, the elite special forces who are doing the bulk of Australia's fighting in Afghanistan. In Parliament la [...]	2009-03-03 05:41:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR AS
09CANBERRA214	AUSTRALIAN RESERVE BANK HOLDS RATES AMID MIXED ECONOMIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Reserve Bank of Australia decided to leave interest rates unchanged at 3.25%, despite mixed economic news and increased reports of job losses. The RBA indicated that monetary and fiscal policy changes have been significant and need to work through the Australian economy before [...]	2009-03-03 21:13:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AS
09CANBERRA220	AUSTRALIA - INPUT FOR G-20 [...] (C/NF) Summary: The top concern for the Australians going into the G20 summit will be coordinated international action to restore global confidence, bolster the stability of the international financial system, and produce outcomes that lead to tangible results. PM Rudd wants to coordinate wi [...]	2009-03-04 21:09:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN AS
09CANBERRA245	FORMER TREASURER COSTELLO CASTS A SHADOW OVER [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: With the economy the dominant political issue, a growing number of Liberal and Australian Labor Party (ALP) politicians believe that former Treasurer Peter Costello, who refused the Liberal Party leadership when John Howard tried to hand it to him after their 2007 electoral def [...]	2009-03-12 07:24:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV AS
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
09CANBERRA252	AL-MALIKI STRENGTHENS COMMERCIAL LINKS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a meeting in Canberra March 12, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd agreed to strengthen agricultural and commercial links. Iraq will again buy wheat from Australia, which will also provide assistance to the agricultural and petroleu [...]	2009-03-13 07:28:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EAID EAGR EPET IZ AS
09CANBERRA255	AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION SLASHED 14% [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-16 06:53:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG PREF ELAB ECON AS
09CANBERRA261	GREENS' LEADER WELCOMES OBAMA, PESSIMISTIC ON [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Green Party Leader Senator Bob Brown told Charge that the Greens could not support the Rudd Government's proposal for a 5-15% reduction in carbon emissions and will continue to press for a 40% reduction from 1990 levels. He said he looked forward to a good relationship with th [...]	2009-03-17 06:35:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV SENV AS
09CANBERRA285	RUDD HEADS FOR THE US AFTER A GOOD WEEK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a week that began badly with the Senate's defeat of a Government tax designed to curb binge drinking, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd leaves for the United States with two significant political victories. His labor relations bill received parliamentary approval last Friday, and [...]	2009-03-23 08:08:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB AS
09CANBERRA295	Australian coking coal contract prices fall 58% [...] (SBU) Summary. Contract prices for coking (metallurgical) coal dropped 58% to US$115 from US$300 last year, due to the global economic crisis and depressed world steel production. Coking coal is Australia's largest export commodity, ahead of iron ore and thermal coal. The new price is actually [...]	2009-03-24 05:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ENRG ECON AS
09CANBERRA296	NBN DECISION NEARS [...] (SBU) Summary. As the deadline approaches, nobody who knows is saying who will win the tender for the National Broadband Network. The only thing all observers seem to agree on is that it won't be Telstra. Minister Conroy and his staff are keeping mum. Telstra has been aggressively pushing [...]	2009-03-24 05:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON ETRD AS
09CANBERRA305	NEW LABOR LAW FULFILLS CAMPAIGN PROMISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 20, the Australian Senate passed the Rudd Government's new labor law, undoing substantial sections of the unpopular "WorkChoices" legislation introduced by former Prime Minister John Howard. While Deputy Prime Minister and Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard had [...]	2009-03-26 05:09:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB AS
09CANBERRA323	AUSTRALIAN MEDIA SEEK GREATER TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Saying that Australia lags well behind most major democracies in press freedom, 12 major media outlets have joined together to push for reforms in Australian laws on freedom of information, privacy and whistleblower/shield protections. The group, which has organized its effort as Austral [...]	2009-03-30 21:01:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PGOV PHUM PINS AS
09CANBERRA324	AUSTRALIAN MEDIA SEEK GREATER TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Saying that Australia lags well behind most major democracies in press freedom, 12 major media outlets have joined together to push for reforms in Australian laws on freedom of information, privacy and whistleblower/shield protections. The group, which has organized its effort as Austral [...]	2009-03-30 21:01:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV PHUM PINS AS
09CANBERRA327	AUSTRALIA BLOCKS CHINESE INVESTMENT ON SECURITY [...] (C) Treasurer Wayne Swan announced March 27 that the Australian Government would block the A$2.6 billion (USD 1.7 billion) bid by Chinese state-owned Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals to purchase OZ Minerals, Australia's third-largest mining firm, on national security grounds. This is the first [...]	2009-03-31 06:54:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN PREL CH AS
09CANBERRA33	AUSTRALIA BROADBAND - A SNAPSHOT (CORRECTED COPY) [...] (U) Summary: In Australia 4.3 million households (52%) have broadband connections, an increase of 800,000 through the Australian fiscal year ending June 30; 78% of Australian households with internet access have broadband. There has been more than a five-fold increase in the number of househo [...]	2009-01-09 06:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON AS
09CANBERRA335	DEFENSE MINISTER LIKELY TO SURVIVE - FOR NOW [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon appears safe in his portfolio in the short-term, as the media hype surrounding his link with Chinese-born businesswoman, Helen Liu, subsides (reftel). Prime Minister Rudd has publicly backed him, an independent audit of a payroll bungle affecti [...]	2009-04-03 00:41:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV MARR AS
09CANBERRA338	RENEWABLE ENERGY FUND: GEOTHERMAL LEFT OUT? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Rudd government's A$435 million (US$305 million) Renewable Energy Demonstration Program (REDP) provides the best vehicle for companies seeking to commercialize new renewable energy technologies. The program is currently taking applications for what will eventually be 8-10 A [...]	2009-04-03 04:32:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV ECON AS
09CANBERRA339	CORRECTED COPY -- RENEWABLE ENERGY FUND: [...] (SBU) Summary: The Rudd government's A$435 million (US$305 million) Renewable Energy Demonstration Program (REDP) provides the best vehicle for companies seeking to commercialize new renewable energy technologies. The program is currently taking applications for what will eventually be 8-10 A [...]	2009-04-03 04:54:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV ECON 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
09CANBERRA352	POLL BOOST FOR RUDD DESPITE FITZGIBBON CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rudd Government's lead in the latest Newspoll has increased, despite controversy over his Defense Minister's relationship with a Chinese-born business woman, Opposition accusations that Rudd is a "roving ambassador for China," and press reports that Rudd verbally abused a fli [...]	2009-04-07 06:19:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AS
09CANBERRA353	RATES CUT IN RESPONSE TO WORSENING ECONOMIC NEWS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) today reduced interest rates by 0.25% in response to worsening global and domestic economic news and increased reports of job losses. The RBA indicated that while monetary and fiscal policy changes to date have been significant, the further dete [...]	2009-04-07 07:03:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AS
09CANBERRA366	SMALL TOWN CONCERNS IN COOMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff and Econ adviser visited Cooma, New South Wales (NSW) on April 7. Local political and business leaders say that the economic downturn has dried up financing for small businesses. Over the longer term, leaders are worried about the threat of climate change on nearby sk [...]	2009-04-09 06:51:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SENV AS
09CANBERRA368	CORRECTED COPY -- SMALL TOWN CONCERNS IN COOMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff and Econ adviser visited Cooma, New South Wales (NSW) on April 7. Local political and business leaders say that the economic downturn has dried up financing for small businesses. Over the longer term, leaders are worried about the threat of climate change on nearby sk [...]	2009-04-09 07:15:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SENV AS
09CANBERRA387	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO CONDITIONS PLACED ON TCG [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-15 07:32:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM 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
09CANBERRA398	BORDER PROTECTION CONTINUES TO DOMINATE POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Border protection is dominating the political debate this week as investigations into last Thursday's boat explosion continue (Ref A). The Opposition maintains there is a link between the government's immigration policies and the increased flow of asylum seekers, while the gove [...]	2009-04-21 06:19:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AS PHUM PREF PREL
09CANBERRA401	INDIGENOUS ISSUES: STILL LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: After thirty years of bipartisan support for a range of policies based on self-determination and self-management, the Australian Government, in reaction to increasing evidence of policy failure, has embarked on policies involving direct intervention in the lives of indigenous [...]	2009-04-21 08:21:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AS PHUM SOCI
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
09CANBERRA414	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH JAPANESE DEPUTY FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: During a bilateral meeting on the margins of the U.S.-Australia-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) Senior Officials Meeting in Canberra on April 21, Under Secretary Bill Burns and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae agreed that the United States and Japan woul [...]	2009-04-28 00:17:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC KNNP MOPS PARM PHUM PREF PREL PTER AS JP
09CANBERRA418	TSD SENIOR OFFICIALS MEETING, APRIL 21 [...] (S/REL AUS/JA) Under Secretary Bill Burns joined Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Kenchiro Sasae and Australian Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Michael L'Estrange at the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in Canberra on April 21. The of [...]	2009-04-29 01:58:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	PARM PREL MOPS KNNP ECON EFIN SENV JA 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
09CANBERRA428	AUSTRALIA LIKELY TO BACK KOSOVO FOR IMF/WORLD BANK [...] (C) Summary: Australia likely will vote in favor of Kosovo's membership in the IMF/World Bank. In order to avoid the curtailment of the vote by the lack of a quorum, Australia will urge the 13 other nations in its IMF constituency to vote; however, they do not feel that advocacy on behalf of K [...]	2009-05-01 00:12:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL KV AS
09CANBERRA437	RUDD PULLS PLUG ON EMISSIONS TRADING IN 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia will delay implementation of its proposed economy-wide emissions trading plan until July 2011 in response to strong political opposition (reftel) and the global recession. PM Kevin Rudd announced May 4 changes to the government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPR [...]	2009-05-04 07:17:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ECON AS
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
09CANBERRA446	AUSTRALIAN BUDGET PREVIEW: INTO DEFICIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The upcoming Federal budget (release date May 12) will see a deficit of around A$70 billion (US$53b),due to significantly decreased revenue because of the effects of the global financial crisis and economic downturn. Indications are that the Rudd government's second budget wil [...]	2009-05-10 22:22:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON MCAP PGOV AS
09CANBERRA452	BUDGET: BIG DEFICIT, RECOVERY BEGINNING IN 2010 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a decade of almost continuous budget surpluses, the 2009-10 budget announced May 12 projects a deficit of A$$58 billion or 4.9 percent of GDP, the largest in the postwar period. The budget forecasts that unemployment will peak at 8.5 percent in 2010-11, economic recovery [...]	2009-05-13 07:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV AS
09CANBERRA456	RUDD BUDGET INVESTS HEAVILY IN CCS, SOLAR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Rudd government's 2009-2010 budget (ref A) stakes out US$3 billion in new money investments in energy developments. As expected, the budget invests heavily in clean coal and carbon capture and storage (CCS),closing the domestic circle with the Global Carbon Capture and St [...]	2009-05-14 06:49:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV AS
09CANBERRA46	AMBASSADOR PUSHES LIFTING OF AUSTRALIAN BAN ON US BEEF AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 13, Ambassador McCallum spoke with Australian Minister of Agriculture, Tony Burke, to urge Australia to lift its ban on the import of US beef and beef products. Citing the need to remove this non-science based import ban, the Ambassador urged that removing this would [...]	2009-01-14 04:30:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR AS
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
09CANBERRA470	AUSTRALIA OPTIMISTIC ENTERING KOREAN FTA TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Australia's lead negotiator is optimistic going into the first round of talks for an FTA with Korea. She expects agriculture and services to be the toughest areas to resolve. No deadlines, but DFAT has an internal goal of concluding this before the expected dates for Australia's [...]	2009-05-18 04:07:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD AS KS
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
09CANBERRA489	AUSTRALIA RAMPS UP INNOVATION SPENDING [...] (SBU) Summary. Australia has committed A$8.6 billion (current exchange rate is $.78) between now and 2013 to upgrade its national innovation systems. The Rudd government released its policy response paper on May 12, alongside the federal budget, to highlight the substantial increase in fundi [...]	2009-05-22 06:46:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL ESTH AS
09CANBERRA491	AUSTRALIA H1N1 SITREP MAY 26, 2009 [...] (SBU) The following is the latest SITREP covering Australia's response to the H1N1 outbreak. 2. (SBU) Government Response: Australia confirmed more than 20 new cases of H1N1 over the Memorial Day weekend, and raised its response level from Delay to Contain late on May 22. According to the [...]	2009-05-26 06:44:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09CANBERRA492	AUSTRALIAN OPPOSITION SEEKS TO DELAY EMISSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Opposition Coalition (Liberal and National Parties) announced May 26 that they will move a motion in the Senate to delay a vote on the government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) (ref A) until 2010. The attempt to put off a decision on the CPRS is based on the curr [...]	2009-05-26 07:29:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV KGHG ECON 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
09CANBERRA531	AUSTRALIA H1N1 CASES CONTINUE TO RAMP UP [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: In per capita terms, Australia surpassed the U.S. for confirmed H1N1 infections on June 4-5. The rapid internal spread of the disease following a lengthy period with only a few, foreign-connected cases highlights the difficulty [...]	2009-06-05 07:24:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU AS
09CANBERRA537	RIO SPURNS CHINALCO, EMBRACES BHP [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto today rejected a $19.2 billion deal with state-owned Chinese company Chinalco. Instead, Rio immediately announced a $5.8 billion joint venture with fellow resource giant BHP Billiton to combine their existing iron ore operations in the Pil [...]	2009-06-06 03:19:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EINV EIND ECON AS CH
09CANBERRA545	GILLARD: ON TRACK TO BECOME AUSTRALIA'S NEXT PRIME [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Described by her many supporters as "smart, tough, loyal, and the best parliamentary performer in the Australian Labor Party (ALP)," Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard - who visits Washington later this month - has positioned herself as the heir apparent to Prime Minister Kev [...]	2009-06-10 22:19:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB AS
09CANBERRA568	GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA-INFORMATION COLLECTION, [...] (U) The Australian government is forward leaning in both maintaining border security and providing assistance to partners in the fight against terrorism. To that end, robust and dynamic protocols are in place to ensure that the movement of suspected and known terrorists are monitored and thwar [...]	2009-06-17 23:10:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CVIS KVPR PGOV PREL PTER
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
09CANBERRA575	Australia's Dependence on Foreign Capital [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Australia is reliant on foreign debt and continued borrowings to finance the current account deficit. It has been a longstanding concern of the IMF that the very high dependence of Australian banks on international wholesale markets creates a "roll-over risk". Australia's foreig [...]	2009-06-19 07:13:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AS
09CANBERRA583	OPPOSITION DELAYS EMISSIONS TRADING BILLS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-23 06:31:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV KGHG ECON AS
09CANBERRA591	OPPOSITION DELAYS EMISSIONS TRADING BILLS -- [...] (SBU) Summary. The Rudd government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) suffered an important defeat this week in the Senate as the Government was unable to force an early vote. This could allow the Opposition to either defeat it or defer a vote until next year (ref A). The Mandatory [...]	2009-06-26 01:04:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV KGHG ECON AS
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
09CANBERRA597	POLLS BODE ILL FOR OPPOSITION LEADER TURNBULL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three opinion polls have confirmed the Opposition has been significantly damaged by the "Utegate" fake e-mail affair (reftel),shattering the momentum it had been building in recent weeks. The biggest worry for the Coalition is the massive slump in Opposition Leader Malcolm Tur [...]	2009-06-29 07:35:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AS PGOV
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
09CANBERRA624	AUSTRALIAN CAR INDUSTRY BENEFITS FROM INCENTIVES [...] (SBU) The Australian car industry has experienced a recovery in vehicle sales due to a range of government policy initiatives. While imports account for 85% of the Australian market, local producers Ford, GM Holden and Toyota have nevertheless benefited from economic stimulus policies and parti [...]	2009-07-07 06:41:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AS
09CANBERRA639	AUSTRALIA H1N1 SITREP JULY 10, 2009 [...] (SBU) The following is the latest SITREP covering Australia's response to the H1N1 outbreak. 2. (SBU) Government Response: The GOA has not altered their response posture since 17 June, but confirms that all jurisdictions are now compliant with the PROTECT phase of the Australian national pa [...]	2009-07-10 04:45:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
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
09CANBERRA657	AUSTRALIAN READOUT ON MEF LEADERS' MEETING [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia is generally pleased with the final statement of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) meetings in L,Aquila July 8-9, but fears that generating momentum towards an agreement at Copenhagen will probably require another meeting of MEF leaders before the December UNFCCC negot [...]	2009-07-16 07:05:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV KGHG AS
09CANBERRA659	DATA COLLECTION OF HOST GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS [...] (SBU) Australia has only undertaken a limited number of the interventions listed in reftel (as reported by Post sitreps since April - ref B). We have listed below the steps Australia has taken and dates they were reported. 2. (SBU) Interventions: 4/28/09 Making influenza a notifiab [...]	2009-07-17 05:18:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PROG PREL AS
09CANBERRA699	CLIMATE CHANGE: BILLS LIKELY TO PASS IN NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Federal Opposition, although fractured over whether to support the Rudd government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, has opened the door to passing emissions trading legislation this year. Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull issued a statement laying out nine demands tha [...]	2009-07-31 07:34:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV KGHG ENRG PGOV AS
09CANBERRA710	AUSTRALIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RESPONSE TO THE [...] (U) The Australian Attorney General's Department has prepared a multi-agency response to the president's request for a report on initiatives countering torture from various allies. 2. (U) The Australian response: Begin text.. Australian Initiatives to Counter Torture and Assist Victims - [...]	2009-08-04 06:11:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UN AS
09CANBERRA732	CLIMATE CHANGE: WONG PREPS GROUND FOR VOTE [...] (SBU) Summary: Climate Minister Wong made laid out the government's final argument for passage of the CPRS on August 10. Regardless, the GOA will probably not pass its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) (ref A) legislation in a vote scheduled for August 13, but the Opposition's inabili [...]	2009-08-10 07:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG AS
09CANBERRA755	QANTAS FEELING IMPACT BUT WEATHERING ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Though Qantas definitely felt the effect of the global financial crisis, the Australian national carrier appears to have weathered through it better than most in the airline industry. The company should post between USD80 to 160 million in profit for the year ending June 30, [...]	2009-08-14 07:23:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON AS
09CANBERRA758	PEAK BODY VIEWS ON OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY DOWN UNDER [...] (U) SUMMARY. Australia has an expanding LNG sector (see Perth septel) and contracting oil sector. The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) represents both and has argued for increased government incentives and regulatory simplicity to encourage further oil expl [...]	2009-08-17 02:43:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV AS
09CANBERRA759	RESERVE BANK SIGNALS ECONOMIC RECOVERY [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) believes the economy has weathered the global financial crisis better than expected. The RBA Governor stated August 13 that this may turn out to be one of Australia's mildest post-war downturns. The RBA believes its monetary policy has been eff [...]	2009-08-17 03:13:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EINV AS
09CANBERRA78	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - AUSTRALIA [...] Following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Australia. Note that the exchange rate between the US and Australian dollars fluctuated very widely over the year 2008; we have used the exchange rate as of January 21, 2009 (A$1 = US$.66) throughout. ----------------------------------- [...]	2009-01-22 03:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB ETRD EINV ECON ELAB OPIC AS
09CANBERRA800	HAGUE ADOPTION CONVENTION: AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO [...] (U) August 6, consoff presented Vicki Parker, Assistant Secretary, Intercountry Adoption Branch, Access to Justice Division, Australian Government, Attorney-General's Department, with the USG's Annual Letter on the Hague Adoption Convention. On August 19,the Consular Section received the fo [...]	2009-08-31 00:06:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KOCI CASC CVIS CMGT ADCO
09CANBERRA862	BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE: END-USER CHECK LICENSE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 6. 2. (SBU) Rotorlift Ltd., Tasmania's only helicopter rescue and patrol operator, appears to maintain adequate security, record keeping, and positive control over night vision devices imported from the U.S. (ref A). Econoff conducted a site v [...]	2009-09-18 08:09:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ECON AS
09CANBERRA863	BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE: END-USER CHECK LICENSE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 6. 2. (SBU) Rotorlift Ltd., Tasmania's only helicopter rescue and patrol operator, appears to maintain adequate security, record keeping, and positive control over night vision devices imported from the U.S. (ref A). Econoff conducted a site v [...]	2009-09-18 08:09:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ECON AS
09CANBERRA866	BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE: END-USER CHECK LICENSE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 6. 2. (SBU) Rotorlift Ltd., Tasmania's only helicopter rescue and patrol operator, appears to maintain adequate security, record keeping, and positive control over night vision devices imported from the U.S. (ref A). Econoff conducted a site v [...]	2009-09-18 08:35:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ECON AS
09CANBERRA878	TELECOM GIANT WILL NEGOTIATE, UP TO A POINT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra is open to negotiate its own restructuring with the government. The government needs Telstra's network infrastructure in order to move forward with its ambitious telecom modernization plan. Telstra, however, will require [...]	2009-09-23 02:14:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS ETRD AS
09CANBERRA893	GOVERNMENT CLOSES IN ON CLIMATE BILL VOTE [...] (SBU) Summary: Views on the Rudd government's climate change legislation continue to evolve as the government maneuvers to bring the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) before the Senate for a second vote in November. The government could try to force the opposition to support the legis [...]	2009-09-29 08:02:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV ECON ETRD AS
09CANBERRA90	PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AT CONSULATE PERTH [...] On Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 12:30 PM, there was a demonstration described as peaceful but angry by the Pro-Palestine community in Australia at the Consulate Perth. The group, calling itself the "Friends of Palestine WA," consisted of about 55 people and was a mixture of all ages of men, [...]	2009-01-23 05:09:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC
09CANBERRA900	NEW FOREIGN INVESTMENT GUIDELINES TARGET CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australia has placed new guidelines on foreign investment in resources. A Chinese mining group abandoned a A$770 million deal after the Foreign Investment Review Board applied new foreign ownership limits on investment in resources projects. Separately, the Defense Minister rej [...]	2009-09-30 07:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EIND ENRG ETTC ETRD 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
09CANBERRA95	AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO SUPPORT COMMERCIAL [...] (C) Summary: The GOA has announced a new plan to provide liquidity to commercial property projects, to prevent job losses and support Australian banks. The Government's prompt action to support lending to the commercial property sector - with a focus on projects under construction - highlight [...]	2009-01-27 07:18:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN AS
09CANBERRA953	ON G8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP: YES TO PARTNERSHIP, NO [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia supports the extension of the G8 Global Partnership beyond 2012 and is open to making a contribution to that effort. After making a significant pledge to the Global Partnership when it was launched in 2002, Australia is interested in greater involvement in Partnersh [...]	2009-10-23 07:12:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AS KNNP MNUC PARM
09CANBERRA965	AUSTRALIAN VIEWS ON THE BANGKOK UNFCCC MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary. Australia is generally positive about the outcomes of the recent Bangkok UNFCCC meetings. The assessment that the negotiations will be tough has not changed, but there is a strong sense that key issues like adaptation, legal form of an agreement, and REDD can be moved ahead at [...]	2009-10-28 06:57:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG PREL AS
09CANBERRA967	BLUE LANTERN: BROKER INQUIRY K-1647 [...] (SBU) The Political/Economic Section of U.S. Consulate Sydney spoke on the phone with JOANNE GARDINER, Office Manager of EYLEX PTY LTD (10 Anella Avenue, Unit 9, Castle Hill, New South Wales) on October 20, 2009. The following information is intended to answer questions in reftel: -- Confi [...]	2009-10-29 01:42:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AS
09CANBERRA982	POSITIVE BUDGET REVISION; RATES GO UP, AGAIN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Treasury released on November 2 revised budget estimates showing the economy will undergo higher growth, lower unemployment, lower deficits, and lower debt than previously expected. Given the more positive outlook - and constant criticism by Opposition of overspending - the GOA a [...]	2009-11-04 20:55:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD AS
09CAPETOWN102	FIRST SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-07 13:33:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN106	SNAPSHOT OF CRIME IN CAPE TOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY: A recent spike in criminal activity around Cape Town has culminated in increased crime deterrence operations by the South African Police Service. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On April 29, 2009, a South African Police Service (SAPS) contact informed the RSO that several individuals had [...]	2009-05-12 14:53:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC
09CAPETOWN136	ZUMA DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS [...] (U) On June 3, Charge and Cape Town Poloff attended President Jacob Zuma's first State of the Nation address to Parliament. Zuma's theme for the Address was "Parliament entrenching people-centered democracy in achieving development goals." The event, attended by former Presidents Nelson Mandel [...]	2009-06-04 06:16:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN137	ZUMA DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS [...] (U) On June 3, Charge and Cape Town Poloff attended President Jacob Zuma's first State of the Nation address to Parliament. Zuma's theme for the Address was "Parliament entrenching people-centered democracy in achieving development goals." The event, attended by former Presidents Nelson Mandel [...]	2009-06-04 06:17:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN138	ZUMA DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS [...] (U) On June 3, Charge and Cape Town Poloff attended President Jacob Zuma's first State of the Nation address to Parliament. Zuma's theme for the Address was "Parliament entrenching people-centered democracy in achieving development goals." The event, attended by former Presidents Nelson Mandel [...]	2009-06-04 06:18:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN148	N2 GATEWAY/JOE SLOVO EVICTION RULING [...] (U) Summary: On June 10, 2009 the Constitutional Court upheld an order of the Cape High Court whereby residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement would be evicted and moved to the more remote area of Delft in order to facilitate the building of houses as part of the N2 Gateway Project. The [...]	2009-06-17 06:42:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN169	PROTESTS OVER LACK OF HOUSING CONTINUES [...] (U) On July 30, 2009 about 300 people gathered at the entrance to Masiphumelele, an informal settlement near Fish Hoek in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town to protest against lack of housing. The protesters blocked Kommetjie Road obstructing access to motorists on their way to work and burnt [...]	2009-07-31 19:14:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN189	PARLIAMENT'S FIRST 100 DAYS-OFF TO A SLOW START [...] (SBU) Parliament's first one hundred days (minus the three week recess) has been marked by new MPs finding their way around Parliament, both literally and figuratively, inefficiency and lack of clear guidance for the task at hand. Because over 60 percent of Parliamentarians are new, many MPs ar [...]	2009-08-28 07:10:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN195	PARLIAMENT'S FIRST 100 DAYS-OFF TO A SLOW START [...] (SBU) Parliament's first one hundred days (minus the three week recess) have been marked by new MPs finding their way around Parliament, both literally and figuratively, inefficiency and lack of clear guidance for the task at hand. Because over 60 percent of Parliamentarians are new, many MPs a [...]	2009-09-03 14:34:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN197	SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT HOLDS ROBUST DEBATE ON [...] Summary: South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi recently gave his first budget speech to a packed Parliament chamber. The Minister's speech came at a difficult time with an ongoing doctors' strike and a public health sector in dire straits. Minister Motsoaledi outlined the gover [...]	2009-09-04 15:29:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV PHUM SOCI TBIO SA
09CAPETOWN204	GOVERNMENT SPENDS EXCESIVELY ON LUXURY CARS [...] (U) In recent months government Ministers and senior officials have spent roughly 4 million USD on luxury vehicles. Although the spending is in accordance with the Ministerial Handbook and no regulations have been broken, the public outcry has been enormous. (Note: Ministers are entitled to [...]	2009-09-15 16:39:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN207	EASTERN CAPE ANC PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE [...] (U) On September 12 the African National Congress (ANC) concluded its sixth Eastern Cape Provincial conference by voting for the new Eastern Cape Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) and Chairperson. A total of 1963 delegates were accorded a voting status at the conference despite earlier gl [...]	2009-09-21 14:19:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN228	ZUMA PUTS AIDS DENIALISM TO REST [...] (U) Summary: On October 29, President Jacob Zuma delivered his annual address to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) under the theme "Together finding solutions to achieving the goal of a better quality of life for all." Zuma highlighted two critical challenges, which have the potential t [...]	2009-11-03 14:34:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
09CAPETOWN249	PERSPECTIVES ON MINISTER GORDHAN'S MEDIUM TERM [...] Summary: Representatives from business, labor and civil society gave their views on Finance Minister Gordhan's Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to the Standing Committee of Finance in Parliament on November 3-4. Most speakers appeared to support the Minister's MTBPS and indicated [...]	2009-11-25 08:35:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN SA
09CAPETOWN29	PRESIDENT MOTLANTHE'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS [...] (U) President Kgalema Motlanthe, the unelected "caretaker" president of South Africa, delivered his first and only State of the Nation Address at the opening of parliament on 6 February 2009. Motlanthe found himself in a unique situation as, not only is he essentially holding office for ANC Pre [...]	2009-02-06 16:48:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SF
09CAPETOWN30	ANC, COPE TO SLUG IT OUT IN EASTERN CAPE [...] (C) Summary: South Africa's Eastern Cape province is the spiritual home of the African National Congress (ANC) and one of the ruling party's strongholds since the 1994 transition to majority rule, but the ANC breakaway Congress of the People (COPE) thinks it can give the ANC a run for its money [...]	2009-02-09 10:28:00	Consulate Cape Town	CONFIDENTIAL	SF PGOV

09CAPETOWN33	COPE IN HOLDING PATTERN IN FACE OF UNCERTAINTIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress of the People (COPE) has yet to decide upon a presidential candidate for the election and increasingly is focusing its efforts on Eastern Cape and Limpopo, according to party National Spokesman Philip Dexter. Dexter met with members of the diplomatic corps on Febru [...]	2009-02-17 09:54:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	SF PGOV
09CAPETOWN35	HOLOMISA CLAIMS UDM DOING WELL, REALISTIC ABOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: United Democratic Movement (UDM) President Bantu Holomisa told members of the diplomatic corps that his party is poised to perform as well as it did in the 2004 election, when it won 9 parliamentary seats. Holomisa met with diplomats for breakfast on February 10 in Cape Town. [...]	2009-02-17 09:54:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	SF PGOV
09CAPETOWN43	UPDATES ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCE [...] (C) On February 19, Poloff met with Dr. Gerard Koornhof an ANC Member of Parliament serving on the Portfolio Committee on Defense. Koornhof told Poloff that the current spending on defense is 1.2 percent of South Africa,s gross domestic product (GDP),noting that South Africa,s defense spendin [...]	2009-03-05 13:11:00	Consulate Cape Town	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM SF MARR MOPS
09CAPETOWN55	UPDATES ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCE [...] (C) On February 19, Poloff met with Dr. Gerard Koornhof an ANC Member of Parliament serving on the Portfolio Committee on Defense. Koornhof told Poloff that the current spending on defense is 1.2 percent of South Africa,s gross domestic product (GDP),noting that South Africa,s defense spendin [...]	2009-03-10 14:34:00	Consulate Cape Town	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM SF MARR MOPS
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
09CAPETOWN57	EAST LONDON'S INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ZONE SPEEDS [...] Summary: The East London Industrial Development Zone (ELIDZ),established in 2002, is a South African Government initiative to encourage export-driven growth and to diversify the mostly rural Eastern Cape economy. Since its inception, the ELIDZ has grown quickly and now includes fourteen in [...]	2009-03-13 15:18:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND EINV ETRD SA
09CAPETOWN81	FIFA 2010 WESTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL COORDINATOR [...] Summary: Fifa 2010 Western Cape Provincial Coordinator Dr. Laurine Platzky discussed a number of key issues pertaining to the Western Cape's preparations for next year's World Cup extravaganza at a brief meeting in Cape Town on March 13. She noted that the province was already organizing sp [...]	2009-04-01 06:52:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SA
09CAPETOWN85	SOUTH AFRICA TO HOST INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET [...] (U)On March 24, 2009 Indian Premier League(IPL)chairman, Lalit Modi announced that South Africa would host the IPL Twenty20 event due to security concerns following the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan. The IPL will now kick-off on April 18 in Cape Town with the final t [...]	2009-04-08 11:44:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF SCUL
09CAPETOWN90	NORTHERN CAPE OFFERS CHANCES FOR OPPOSITION [...] (C) Support for South Africa's political opposition appears strong in the sparsely populated, but geographically huge, Northern Cape province, and opposition parties could see their best provincial showing there outside the Western Cape. As elsewhere, the ruling African National Congress's tr [...]	2009-04-20 13:53:00	Consulate Cape Town	CONFIDENTIAL	SF PGOV KDEM
09CARACAS1000	WHY CHAVEZ FEELS THREATENED BY THE COUP IN HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez's public statements and actions indicate that he feels threatened by the June 28 military ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. While initially leading the international response to the coup, Chavez is now side-lined by the mediation process led by Preside [...]	2009-07-31 16:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR VE
09CARACAS1001	VENEZUELA'S ALUMINUM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GBRV has agreed to a number of labor demands after days of protests shut down the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz. After years of GBRV mismanagement, state-owned aluminum companies suffer from deep structural inefficiencies. Low aluminum prices and rising production costs [...]	2009-07-31 16:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET
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
09CARACAS1014	SAMBIL LA CANDELARIA MALL IN COMPLETE LIMBO [...] (C) According to Bernardo Weininger (strictly protect throughout),lawyer and confidant of the Cohen family which in turn owns the Sambil chain of malls, the Sambil La Candelaria project is in complete limbo. (Note: On December 21, 2008, President Chavez ordered Jorge Rodriguez, mayor of th [...]	2009-08-04 20:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KIRF VE
09CARACAS1020	CHAVISTA MILITANT ARRESTED FOR GLOBOVISION ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) publicly announced August 4 that Chavista militant Lina Ron had been arrested and would begin court proceedings for her role in a highly-publicized tear gas attack against the pro-opposition Globovision media outlet a [...]	2009-08-05 21:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV 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
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
09CARACAS1055	VENEZUELA: OIL PRODUCTION IN WESTERN VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Energy field consultations in June highlighted Venezuela's continued crude oil production challenges and the disparity between field production estimates and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV) official production figures. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) From June 2 through 15, [...]	2009-08-13 14:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE
09CARACAS1056	VENEZUELA: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE CRUDE OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Many factors likely affect Venezuela crude oil production levels and production capacity, including recent oil service sector expropriations, challenges in securing foreign exchange authorizations, increased crude inventory levels, implementation of the joint venture (JV) model, [...]	2009-08-13 14:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU 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
09CARACAS1070	PETTY POLITICS SURFACE DURING HEAVY RAINS [...] (U) A torrential downpour in Caracas on August 12, flooded roads, closed highways and muddied Chavista credibility. While Globovision, the last remaining opposition television broadcaster showed cars in water up to their windows, Jacqueline Farias, Chavez's appointed Chief of Government for [...]	2009-08-14 16:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE
09CARACAS1080	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES EDUCATION LAW, [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly approved the Education Law late August 13, amidst well-founded accusations of procedural irregularities, just eight days after the proposed text was made public on August 5. Opposition leaders, educators, and parents have declared that the text of the law i [...]	2009-08-15 15:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO VE
09CARACAS1085	COLOMBIAN BEEF IS NOT WHAT IS FOR DINNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a result of chilly Venezuela-Colombia bilateral relations, food processors are pessimistic about Venezuela's future beef imports from Colombia. By presidential order, trade is effectively paralyzed, and some processors can only access raw materials from a domestic cattle her [...]	2009-08-17 19:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ETRD VE PGOV
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
09CARACAS1091	ZULIA'S ECONOMY STRUGGLES WITH ECONOMIC DOWNTURN [...] (C) Summary: The economy of Zulia, a major oil-producing area and Venezuela's most populous state, is suffering from long-standing Venezuelan government (GBRV) economic policies, the current economic downturn, and GBRV actions that appear to target Zulia specifically, such as the recent expr [...]	2009-08-19 21:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV VE
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
09CARACAS1130	VENEZUELA: DECREASED PETROLEUM SECTOR ACTIVITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. With the exception of Weatherford (which is aggressively seeking to expand its market share),international oil service companies continue to reduce their exposure, to decrease staffing levels, and to move idle equipment out of Venezuela. The Venezuelan rig count provides a clea [...]	2009-08-27 13:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE
09CARACAS1133	CHAVEZ'S INTIMIDATION TACTICS: POLICE ARREST [...] (C) Summary: The Prefect of the Caracas metropolitan district, Richard Blanco, was arrested by state security officers on August 26 for his alleged involvement in "injurious and law-breaking behavior." Blanco is the president of Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma's Brave People's Alliance [...]	2009-08-27 23:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1146	VENEZUELA: BANKERS SEE SUFFICIENT OIL REVENUES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an August 31 briefing, leading banker Gustavo Marturet and members of his economic research team updated the Ambassador on their perceptions of Venezuela's political and economic situation. Despite the recent downturn in the Venezuelan economy, the bank believes Venezuela will [...]	2009-09-02 18:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV 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
09CARACAS1168	CHAVEZ UPS THE ANTE: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF [...] (C) Summary: With the number of protests on the rise across Venezuela, the Venezuelan government (GBRV) is increasingly using the threat of investigation, arrest and incarceration as a political strategy to discourage demonstrators and intimidate the political opposition. Intimidation and h [...]	2009-09-04 21:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL 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
09CARACAS1232	CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez unveiled September 17 two new structures within his central government, pledging to fully explain the changes and 40 pending economic decisions in the coming days. He designated six of his Cabinet ministers as Vice Presidents with different areas of responsibi [...]	2009-09-18 21:04:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV 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
09CARACAS1270	VENEZUELA'S DEBT: MANAGEABLE FOR NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: As of June 30, Venezuela's sovereign external debt officially stood at USD 30 billion and its internal debt at 44 billion bolivars (USD 20 billion at the official exchange rate). These levels appear quite manageable given the size of Venezuela's economy. However several fact [...]	2009-10-01 13:42:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS1271	SCHOOLS ON ALERT, NO IMPLEMENTATION YET OF [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan schools and universities reopened on September 15 with little fanfare, despite earlier concerns about potential unrest as a result of the controversial new Education Law that was passed during the summer school recess (ref A). The Venezuelan government (GBRV) has not y [...]	2009-10-01 14:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1275	COLOMBIAN BEEF IS NOT WHAT IS FOR DINNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a result of chilly Venezuela-Colombia bilateral relations, food processors are pessimistic about Venezuela's future beef imports from Colombia. By presidential order, trade is effectively paralyzed, and some processors can only access raw materials from a domestic cattle her [...]	2009-10-02 13:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ETRD VE PGOV
09CARACAS1284	AFRICA-SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT SHORT ON SUBSTANCE, LONG ON HEADACHES [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-05 20:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE UNCHC EAID
09CARACAS1286	SUGAR PROCESSORS ARE BRV FAVORITES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite the BRV's overall negative attitude toward big business, Venezuela's large sugar processors have found official foreign exchange and import permits easier to obtain. A prime example is Centro Azucarero Portuguesa (CAPSA),the country's largest processor. However, facilitated ac [...]	2009-10-05 20:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON PGOV VE ETRD
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
09CARACAS1318	VENEZUELA: LOOMING POWER BLACKOUTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has not adequately invested in the electrical sector nor addressed its deteriorating infrastructure resulting in hundreds of isolated local power outages and regular nation-wide outages. Domestic electricity consumption has increased ov [...]	2009-10-14 15:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS1325	GBRV INCREASINGLY ISOLATING ITSELF ON AVIATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The International Air Transport Association (IATA),reports that all international airlines continue to experience prolonged delays in receiving dollars from the Venezuelan Commission for Foreign Exchange Administration (CADIVI). According to IATA statistics in early October [...]	2009-10-15 15:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC CVIS EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL PTER SNAR
09CARACAS1326	VENEZUELA: JOINT VENTURE WITH PETROVIETNAM NEARING [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to senior PDVSA officials, the process to launch a joint venture between PDVSA and PetroVietnam is pending a decree from President Chavez. Plans for PDVSA to build a refinery in Vietnam have fallen through, however. Nevertheless, PDVSA continues to plan to sign a long-t [...]	2009-10-15 15:52:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS1330	POLLSTER: VENEZUELANS LOVE CHAVEZ, BUT THEY DON'T [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met October 9 with Luis Vicente Leon, the director of the prominent Datanalisis polling firm, who shared his analysis of the results of his September poll. He distinguished between President Chavez's enduring personal popularity, hovering around 53 percent, and the dec [...]	2009-10-15 19:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM 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
09CARACAS1344	RUSSIA HAS NO PLANS TO BUILD NUCLEAR REACTORS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 15 initial courtesy call with Ambassador Duddy, Russian Ambassador Zaemsky denied reports that Russia would help Venezuela build nuclear reactors, saying that its nuclear cooperation with Venezuela was limited to the medical field and food controls. With respect [...]	2009-10-19 12:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET KNNP PREL RU 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
09CARACAS1352	VENEZUELA: IRAN'S PETROPARS FRUSTRATED IN CARACAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iran's PetroPars is reportedly frustrated by its inability to move petroleum projects forward in Venezuela, especially the development of Ayacucho block 7 in the Faja heavy oil belt. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX told Petroleum Attache (PetAtt) on October 15 that PetroPars is frus [...]	2009-10-20 17:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE IR
09CARACAS1367	VENEZUELA: GBRV IMPOSES WATER AND ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Faced with water and electrical shortages, Venezuelans are facing outages and rationing of both. In response to the growing electrical crisis affecting the entire country, President Chavez has announced an emergency plan that includes the creation of a new electricity ministry [...]	2009-10-23 21:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS137	PARALLEL MARKET GROWING; PDVSA CONTINUING TO [...] (C) Financial executive Miguel Octavio (strictly protect throughout) told EconOffs January 28 that the amounts transacted on the parallel foreign exchange market have grown significantly in recent months. One year ago, Octavio's company averaged USD 3 million in transactions per business day [...]	2009-02-03 13:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN VE
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
09CARACAS138	VENEZUELAN REACTION ON PORTS MUTED, NO CLOSER TO A [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-03 13:36:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EWWT EPET VE
09CARACAS1390	CENTRAL BANK LAW MODIFIED: OPEN THE FLOODGATES? [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly has approved significant modifications to the law governing Venezuela's Central Bank (BCV). The BCV will have vastly expanded powers to act as a development bank and finance a wide array of government projects. It will also be able to buy PDVSA bonds dire [...]	2009-10-30 19:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS141	REVOLUTIONARY SPUDS: IN VENEZUELA, POLITICS TRUMP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite strong interest by Venezuela's private sector to move forward on food trade protocols with the United States, and a recent warming to the topic by SASA, Venezuela's plant and animal health authority, meaningful and timely progress will be difficult. We understand that SA [...]	2009-02-03 20:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON PGOV VE ETRD
09CARACAS1423	POLLSTER: OPPOSITION NEEDS AN "EVERYDAY AGENDA" [...] (C) Summary: Pollster Alfredo Keller predicted to Polcouns on October 23 that the opposition would achieve a tactical alliance in advance of the 2010 legislative elections, but warned about its continued lack of an effective message. Keller suggested that Chavista abstentionism at the poll [...]	2009-11-06 14:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1426	GBRV LAYS BLAME FOR BORDER VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: During the weeks of October 24-November 6, Venezuelan-Colombian border tensions rose sharply as a result of the killing of 10 kidnap victims (reftel) and two Venezuelan National Guardsmen, the arrest of three alleged Colombian DAS (Administrative Department of Security) agents b [...]	2009-11-06 17:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER VE CO
09CARACAS1432	NEW CENTRAL BANK LAW IN EFFECT [...] (U) The modified Central Bak (BCV) law we reported on previously (reftel) was published in the Official Gazette dated Novembe 5 and is now in effect. There are several diffrences between the actual law and what we reported which was based on the draft approved by the Naional Assembly in firs [...]	2009-11-09 19:22:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS1434	GBRV REDUCES REVENUE FLOWING TO THREE [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan government (GBRV) continues to find ways to reduce the funding provided by the central government to state and city governments, especially those run by opposition leaders. City officials in Maracaibo project their 2009 revenues will be 25 percent below what they [...]	2009-11-09 19:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV 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
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
09CARACAS1491	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL OF FOUR PRIVATE BANKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Venezuelan government (GBRV) announced November 20 that it was taking control of four private banks recently bought (or in the process of being bought) by Ricardo Fernandez, a businessman with close ties to the GBRV. The intervention is taking place with "open doors," i.e [...]	2009-11-20 21:32:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS1501	Chavez Focuses Meeting of International Leftist Parties on [...] (C) Summary: At the November 19-20 Meeting of International Leftist Parties, President Chavez called on the parties to unite against the United States and said the Defense Cooperation Agreement between the U.S. and Colombia (DCA) threatened the entire hemisphere. He also called convicte [...]	2009-11-25 21:08:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1503	BRV's Aggressive Land Interventions Benefit Selected [...] (C) SUMMARY: Continuing their aggressive policy to "rescue idle land," Minster of Agriculture Elias Jaua and representatives of the National Land Institute (INTI) intervened in 31 farms totaling about 19,750 hectares on November 23. As before, the government underscored their determinat [...]	2009-11-25 22:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON VE EAGR PGOV
09CARACAS1515	CARACAS STRUGGLES TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 26, Caracas residents blocked a major highway with burning tires to protest the growing piles of trash that had accumulated along the streets of the Libertador municipality. Despite an earlier promise by Libertador Mayor Jorge Rodriguez to resolve the crisis by Novemb [...]	2009-12-01 20:32:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ELAB SENV KCOR VE
09CARACAS1539	Venezuela's Rice Availability Diminishing [...] (C) Summary: According to local rice producers and traders, Venezuela's rice supplies are contracting due to diminished domestic output and a slow import program. Although there have been high profile purchases in the last few months from Ecuador, Argentina, and Guyana to cover the expe [...]	2009-12-08 13:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR VE PGOV ETRD
09CARACAS1541	VENEZUELA'S MEDICAL SYSTEM IN DISARRAY AS GBRV SHIFTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuelan doctors have accused the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) of politicizing health care at the expense of the health of Venezuelans. In recent months, protests have paralyzed hospitals across Venezuela as doctors and patients have complained of shortages of medical supplies, [...]	2009-12-08 16:34:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ELAB HURI VE
09CARACAS1543	Sucre Municipality Opposition Mayor Focuses On Barrios [...] (C) Summary: Carlos Ocariz, the opposition mayor of the Municipality of Sucre in Greater Caracas, has focused on governing, rather than politicking since assuming office in November 2008. His approval ratings have increased since taking office, and his work on social programs, public services, and [...]	2009-12-10 15:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR VE
09CARACAS1545	OAS Visit Ends Student Hunger Strike; Student Confrontation [...] (SBU) Summary: Student activist Julio Rivas claimed victory and ended his 18-day hunger strike on December 8 after a visit to Caracas by an OAS team that listened to the students' concerns and announced a January 2010 visit to Venezuela by OAS Secretary General Insulza. In a separate i [...]	2009-12-10 23:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM VE
09CARACAS155	VENEZUELAN AUTOMOTIVE POLICY HAD "DISASTEROUS" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan government's automotive policy, in effect since January 1, 2008, fell far short of meeting its goal of increasing domestic car production. Car sales dropped by 45 percent in 2008 while spiraling prices due to lack of supply now have some in the government calling f [...]	2009-02-05 16:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV VE
09CARACAS1551	VENEZUELA'S MEDICAL SYSTEM IN DISARRAY AS GBRV SHIFTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuelan doctors have accused the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) of politicizing health care at the expense of the health of Venezuelans. In recent months, protests have paralyzed hospitals across Venezuela as doctors and patients have complained of shortages of medical supplies, delay [...]	2009-12-14 14:32:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB HURI PGOV VE
09CARACAS1555	CHAVEZ GOVERNMENT: DIVISION OF POWERS WEAKENS THE STATE [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez publicly echoed comments made by President of the Supreme Court (TSJ) Luisa Estella Morales December 5 that "the division of powers weakens the state." The local media has speculated that the comments suggest that Chavez might try to convoke a constituent assem [...]	2009-12-15 21:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1557	GBRV ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR ANOTHER OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Government (GBRV) issued an arrest warrant December 8 for Ramon Martinez, an ex-governor and the nominal president of the Podemos opposition party, on corruption charges. Although the case has generated only minimal press interest, the prosecution is probably tar [...]	2009-12-15 21:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1561	VENEZUELA: NEW PORT AUTHORITIES CHARACTERIZED BY DECLINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shipping company representatives report that port conditions improved immediately after the nationalization of Venezuelan port operations in June 2009 when the government retrieved thousands of containers that had been left in the ports. This improvement, though, was short-lived as [...]	2009-12-16 13:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINT EWWT VE MARR PGOV PREL ETRD
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
09CARACAS1581	Venezuela Hosts New FARC-Affiliated Organization [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting in Caracas on December 7-9, about 1,000 delegates from 24 countries established the Continental Bolivarian Movement (MCB),named FARC leader Alfonso Cano its honorary president, and expressed support for the FARC and for President Chavez's fight against "U.S. imperia [...]	2009-12-21 21:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR VE
09CARACAS1595	Venezuela: Banco Bicentenario Opens, But is the Banking Episode Over? [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez officially inaugurated Banco Bicentenario on December 21, thus effectively re-opening three of the eight banks the Venezuelan government (GBRV) has taken over or shut down since November 20. The National Assembly also passed changes to the banking law to triple the amo [...]	2009-12-23 19:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN 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
09CARACAS174	REFERENDUM UPDATE - FIVE DAYS OUT [...] (C) Summary: With less than a week until President Chavez's February 15 constitutional referendum on removing official term limits, the Venezuelan President has shifted gears from warning of an impending "civil war" to calling for peace and demanding an end to political violence by his radi [...]	2009-02-09 22:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	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
09CARACAS204	REFERENDUM CAMPAIGNS WRAP-UP, WITH "YES" LEADING [...] (C) Summary: As the February 13 deadline for campaigning approaches, both the YES and the No camps are wrapping up their activities. The GBRV refused to approve student activists' request to hold a final march in central Caracas on February 12 while Chavez announced his own "Yes" march for [...]	2009-02-13 14:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ASEC VE
09CARACAS214	PDVSA'S STRATEGY AGAINST EXXONMOBIL AND INCREASED [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a PDVSA employee interviewed following his visa renewal, PDVSA is aggressively preparing its international arbitration case against ExxonMobil (XM),is reviewing and prioritizing balances due to service companies, and is optimistic that ConocoPhillips (CP) will retur [...]	2009-02-17 11:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON 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
09CARACAS223	FEBRUARY 15 REFERENDUM - WINNERS AND LOSERS [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) party are the big winners of the February 15 referendum in which almost 55% of Venezuelans voted to remove term limits for all elected officials. Chavez now can run for a third six-year term and currently faces [...]	2009-02-17 21:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS239	PDVSA STRUGGLING WITH FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the CEO of a major domestic oil field services company, Chavez continues to spend as if world oil prices will quickly return to a minimum of $60/barrel, ignoring other budget scenarios developed by PDVSA planners. This contact avers that Venezuela is not only facin [...]	2009-02-20 20:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS258	CHAVEZ STRONGLY REJECTS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez, Foreign Minister Maduro, and other senior Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) leaders strongly criticized the Human Rights Report February 26-27. Chavez phoned a late night pro-government political talk show to denounce the report as hypo [...]	2009-02-27 21:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS26	VENEZUELAN SCIENTISTS SAY NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: In late 2008, Chavez once again made statements regarding his plans to develop a nuclear power program in Venezuela and went so far as to sign an agreement with Russia's Rosatom on nuclear energy cooperation. Several local nuclear physicists are skeptical arguing that nothing came [...]	2009-01-08 20:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO PGOV PREL ETRD ECON PARM
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
09CARACAS290	VENEZULEAN NATIONAL GUARD STILL OCCUPYING CARGILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: US agribusiness giant Cargill has yet to receive an official expropriation order following President Chavez's March 4 threat to expropriate the company's rice plant (ref A). According to Cargill Venezuela, the company has three days to respond to a citation issued as a result of [...]	2009-03-06 19:05:00	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
09CARACAS322	CHAVEZ CONCENTRATES MORE POWER AT THE EXPENSE OF [...] (C) Summary: The Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) approved an amended Organic Law of Decentralization March 12 which enables President Chavez to take control over state infrastructure, goods, and services that are "in the general public's interest." Chavez ordered the military on [...]	2009-03-16 22:10:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SNAR VE
09CARACAS330	VENEZUELAN NATIONAL GUARD OCCUPIES PORTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan Government passed a "Decentralization Law" on March 12, that moves authority over state-run airports, roads and ports to the central government (Ref A). The morning of March 16, a senior Carabobo state official reported that the National Guard had arrived and fear [...]	2009-03-17 19:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE
09CARACAS340	AS CHAVEZ EXPANDS CONTROL, OPPOSITION IMPLODES [...] (C) Summary: Opposition party leaders are considering coordinating their messages and actions more, but are still a long way from doing so. Instead, fracture lines within opposition parties are even more pronounced in the wake of President Chavez's victory in the February 15 referendum to eliminate [...]	2009-03-18 21:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS352	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT VERSUS U.S. COMPANY CARGILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cargill de Venezuela President Roberto Moro (strictly protect throughout) told the Charge on March 17 that although the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has informed the company that its rice plant would be nationalized on the grounds of "public utility," [...]	2009-03-20 19:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE
09CARACAS353	PROSECUTOR CALLS FOR ARREST OF MARACAIBO MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) prosecutor Katiuska Plaza issued an arrest order request March 19 for Maracaibo Mayor and former 2006 presidential candidate Manuel Rosales. The senior prosecutor accused the former Zulia State Governor (2000-2008) of " [...]	2009-03-20 19:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV VE

09CARACAS361	VENEZUELA: NATIONALIZED CEMENT COMPANIES GIVE UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Executive Director of Holcim Venezuela Louis Beauchemin (protect throughout) told EconOff March 19 that Holcim would seek international arbitration after giving up hope of payment for its cement operations, nationalized in August 2008. Holcim, the world's second largest cem [...]	2009-03-23 12:54:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV VE
09CARACAS368	CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES "ANTICRISIS" ECONOMIC MEASURES: [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez announced on March 21 a series of "anticrisis" economic measures. These measures do not represent any fundamental change in the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV) management of the Venezuelan economy. Instead, they are stop-gap policies [...]	2009-03-23 21:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS369	VENEZUELA: PDVSA CHEATING ON OPEC CUTS AT EXPENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Senior Chevron official confirmed that he believes PDVSA is cheating on its OPEC-mandated quota cuts to take advantage of greater demand for heavy crude. He also confirmed that PDVSA issued an informal rig stoppage order and instructed its joint venture partners to cease capital [...]	2009-03-24 11:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON 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
09CARACAS390	NOT A GOOD IDEA, BUT IT'S THE LAW: THE BRV'S LEGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although recent government interventions in the food processing industry are at once real attempts to hold food prices down and maintain a social contract with the poor, leading commentators, including legal experts and representatives of American companies, estimate that the GBR [...]	2009-03-26 16:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV VE
09CARACAS397	VENEZUELA: ACCESS TO CADIVI DOLLARS TIGHTENS [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. On March 16, the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) approved revised lists of products eligible for importation using the official exchange rate. Imports at the official [...]	2009-03-27 15:34:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PREL PGOV 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
09CARACAS426	KIMBERLY-CLARK OPERATIONS IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary. Following extensive press coverage the week of March 23 of a government "investigation" of a plant owned by Kimberly-Clark, EmbOffs met with the company March 27. Kimberly-Clark reported it was not concerned by the "routine government inspection" of its Venezuelan factory. Th [...]	2009-04-02 14:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE
09CARACAS438	GENERAL BADUEL ARRESTED AGAIN [...] (SBU) With guns drawn, plain clothed agents of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM),on April 2 unceremoniously pulled former Defense Minister General Raul Baduel out of his vehicle after leaving his sub-division in the city of Maracay. According to Baduel's wife, Cruz Maria Baduel [...]	2009-04-03 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE
09CARACAS441	OPPOSITION LEADER ROSALES STILL IN HIDING AS [...] (C) Summary: Maracaibo mayor and former opposition Presidential candidate Manuel Rosales remains in hiding, probably in Zulia State, a week after he was rumored to have fled the country in pursuit of political asylum. His lawyers provided Polcouns April 2 with a step-by-step legal rebuttal [...]	2009-04-06 20:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS445	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SEALS THE FATE OF CARACAS MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: The Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) is set to pass the Federal District Law April 7 to create a new Vice President of the Republic for Caracas, appointed by President Chavez, whose authorities are expected to completely marginalize the opposition Mayor of Greater Cara [...]	2009-04-07 21:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS452	VENEZUELAN AUTO INDUSTRY NEARING COLLAPSE [...] (C) Lack of access to controlled dollars is bringing the Venezuelan automotive sector to the point where it will begin to shut down at the end of April if the Foreign Exchange Control Commission (CADIVI) does not quickly make available large amounts of foreign exchange. The seven assemblers [...]	2009-04-08 21:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE
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
09CARACAS497	TECHNOCRAT-TURNED-RADICAL APPOINTED AS CARACAS VEEP [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez named Jacqueline Faria, a civil engineer and former cabinet member, as the new Vice President of Caracas on April 15 -- an office and appointment designed to undercut opposition Mayor of Greater Caracas Antonio Ledezma. Farias earned a reputation as a technocra [...]	2009-04-21 13:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR VE
09CARACAS511	CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL GIVES UP ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: NGO Conservation International closed its doors in Venezuela on March 31 saying it wanted to focus on countries where it can have an impact on host government environmental policies. The Venezuelan head of another US-based NGO, The Nature Conservancy, said the government would g [...]	2009-04-23 15:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR SENV VE
09CARACAS539	CHAVEZ CONTINUES ATTACKS ON THE OPPOSITION AND [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez is now using Venezuela's highly politicized judiciary to go after well-known, but vulnerable, political supporters. He and his supporters also continue to put pressure on the opposition media, pursuing charges against prominent opposition journalist Teodoro Pe [...]	2009-04-29 15:04:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
09CARACAS54	CHAVEZ BROADENS AMENDMENT LANGUAGE/OPPOSITION FINALLY BEGINS TO REACT [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez revised his amendment proposal January 5 to remove term limits for all elected officials, strengthening his argument that the proposal would "expand the political rights" of Venezuelans to choose how long to keep all officials -- not just the president -- in office. As [...]	2009-01-15 21:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS541	VENEZUELA: MORE EVIDENCE OF CASH FLOW PROBLEMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Faced with mounting receivables payable by PDVSA and other government entities, the GBRV is turning to alternative payment solutions to stay afloat during its cash flow crisis, including proposing barter swaps of commodities and the issuance of bonds. Halliburton confirmed receiv [...]	2009-04-29 21:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS545	PDVSA TO PURCHASE WILLIAMS' PLANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA intends to nationalize William's El Furrial and PIGAP II high-pressure gas injection plants but does not have the resources to pay Williams. As both of the projects involve OPIC financing, there is significant USG interest in the transaction estimated to be worth $500 milli [...]	2009-04-30 19:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON 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
09CARACAS564	PDVSA AND VENEZUELA: TWO DESTINIES INTERTWINED IN [...] (C) Summary: The cash flow crisis at PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company) is straining Venezuela's oil sector and overall economy. Since the December 2002-February 2003 oil sector strike, PDVSA has put itself at the service of President Chavez's Bolivarian revolution, fundi [...]	2009-05-06 20:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET EFIN PGOV VE
09CARACAS568	VENEZUELAN SOCIAL SECURITY LAW, INCREASED MANDATORY CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-07 16:29:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	AFSN AMGT AFIN
09CARACAS581	VENEZUELA: PDVSA SEIZES SERVICE COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the National Assembly passed and President Chavez promulgated a law permitting the expropriation (partial or total) of companies involved in the oil services industry. PDVSA officials accompanied by the National Guard quickly began the transfer of assets and operations [...]	2009-05-08 22:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS584	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT TARGETS MORE POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continues to direct the legislative and judicial branches to pursue politically-motivated charges against members of the political opposition and dissident members of President Chavez's United Socialist Party of Vene [...]	2009-05-11 11:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS595	CHAVEZ THREATENS TO CLOSE LOCAL TV NEWS STATION [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez threatened to close the opposition-oriented cable television news network Globovision during the May 10 broadcast of his weekly "Alo, Presidente" talk show. Chavez's threat follows Globovision's May 4 broadcast of U.S. Geological Survey seismic data as well as [...]	2009-05-12 16:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS602	CHAVEZ DESIGNATES OLD FACES AMONG NEW PSUV [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez has reorganized his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) putting long-time loyalists in key positions and fusing ever more closely his party and the state. National Assembly (AN) President Cilia Flores has been elevated to the number-two slot (below Chav [...]	2009-05-13 20:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR 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
09CARACAS615	VENEZUELAN AIRLINE WITH POSSIBLE DRUG TIES TO FLY [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Post requests information on whether or not Venezuelan carrier Aeropostal is cleared to commence flights to the United States and any information, derogatory or otherwise, on U.S.-based company Aircraft Parts and Pieces, Inc. 2. (C) SUMMARY: President of Venezuelan air [...]	2009-05-18 17:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR CASC CVIS ASEC
09CARACAS625	VENEZUELAN AIRLINES MAY LOSE SABRE TRAVEL SERVICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. travel services giant Sabre has sent "disconnect letters" to two privately owned Venezuelan carriers and has already suspended its contract with government owned carrier Conviasa due to non-payment. Sabre is concerned that if it discontinues its services in Venezuela, the Gov [...]	2009-05-20 16:08:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR CASC CVIS KHLS
09CARACAS666	VENEZUELA: SABRE TRAVEL SERVICES ON AGAIN OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After Sabre Travel Services suspended ticketing and reservation services to Venezuelan airlines Aserca and Santa Barbara (SBA) on May 26 it reactivated the same on May 28. Both airlines worked in an "emergency" situation, but managed to maintain operations. However, Sabre may "s [...]	2009-06-01 13:04:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR ETRD CASC PGOV CVIS KHLS VE
09CARACAS686	PRESIDENT MAKES IMPORTING FOOD MORE DIFFICULT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Director of Communications for Venezuela's foreign exchange committee (CADIVI) informed wheat and pasta industry representatives recently that three leading companies will be excluded from the "Pago a la Vista" (cash payments) system, which eases bureaucratic procedures for [...]	2009-06-04 11:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV VE
09CARACAS692	EXPLAINING VENEZUELAN ACQUIESCENCE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez's efforts to concentrate more power in his hands and undermine the democratic opposition have been met in Venezuela with more acceptance and resignation than outrage and resistance. There are numerous, credible theories to explain Venezuelans' acquiescence to an [...]	2009-06-05 15:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI VE
09CARACAS693	VENEZUELA HARASSES CLASSIFIED POUCH TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Protocol Director phoned Charge on June 4 to detail new procedures that compromise the ability of the Embassy to receive classified escorted diplomatic pouches. Despite claiming to be just "tidying up" procedures, this action represents renewed efforts to harass [...]	2009-06-05 16:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL AOPR AREP VE
09CARACAS725	VENEZUELA: U.S. COMPANY EXTERRAN ASSETS SEIZED [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA has now seized additional U.S. company assets under the auspices of the May 7 Organic Law permitting the expropriation of companies involved in the oil services industry. Exterran (formerly Hanover Compression Corporation and Universal Compression Holdings) confirmed June 8 [...]	2009-06-10 22:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS730	CHARGE'S MEETING WITH CARABOBO GOVERNOR SALAS FEO [...] (C) Summary: Carabobo Governor Henrique Fernando Salas Feo discussed increasing economic problems, his disagreements with other opposition parties, and concerns about the future of elections in a June 9 meeting at his home with the Charge d'Affaires. Governor Salas Feo asserted that Presiden [...]	2009-06-11 21:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE
09CARACAS741	VENEZUELA: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU ARE EXPECTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The experience of Swiss cement company Holcim may offer insight into what U.S. companies with recently nationalized interests in Venezuela can expect from the Venezuelan government over the coming months. In the Holcim case, a model the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of V [...]	2009-06-12 21:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV 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
09CARACAS766	GBRV TIGHTENS SCREWS ON TV NEWS STATION [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is increasing the pressure on the opposition-oriented Globovision cable news network. President Chavez has repeatedly asked his cabinet to use whatever means available to "stop Globovision." A range of GBRV ministrie [...]	2009-06-19 21:28:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
09CARACAS776	OPPOSITION STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES SURVIVING [...] (SBU) Summary: With the significant exception of the Alcaldia Mayor (Mayor of Metropolitan Caracas),states and municipalities won by opposition candidates in the November 2008 elections appear to be weathering significant budget cuts forced by central government action, particularly changes [...]	2009-06-22 20:10:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV VE
09CARACAS777	MUNICIPALITY USES REFERENDUM TO RESIST CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary: Caracas's Chacao Municipality is resisting national government efforts to obstruct the opposition-led municipality's initiatives. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is trying to stop Chacao from building a new civic center and school, a project that has [...]	2009-06-22 20:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM 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
09CARACAS781	STUDENT MOVEMENT STRUGGLES UNDER WEIGHT OF PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: Student leaders are expressing frustration with mounting political pressure and the high expectations placed on them as one of the few credible groups in Venezuela who can counter President Chavez's increasing authoritarianism. Less than a week after the June 13 death of a stu [...]	2009-06-23 20:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM 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
09CARACAS791	ALBA SUMMIT: NEW MEMBERS, NEW NAME [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela hosted an extraordinary ALBA Summit on June 24, welcoming Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda to the organization. President Chavez proposed a new name for ALBA, changing the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas to the Bolivarian Allian [...]	2009-06-25 19:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL 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
09CARACAS827	VENEZUELA: LOCAL HALLIBURTON OPERATION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Halliburton is concerned that its perceived historical connection with the previous U.S. administration and the $300 million it is owed by PDVSA may provide ample rationale for the GBRV to expropriate the U.S. oil services company. Venezuelan courts have now ruled twice in favor o [...]	2009-07-01 17:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS85	ATTACKS ON OPPOSITION BY PRO-GOVERNMENT GROUPS [...] (C) Summary. Pro-government gangs in Caracas threw tear gas canisters at the home of a prominent media director, the Holy See Mission, and student groups, as well as firebombed the car of a university student leader during the January 18-19 weekend. In addition, Chavista thugs carrying police [...]	2009-01-21 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC VE
09CARACAS850	LEDEZMA TRIES TO WIN OAS ATTENTION WITH A HUNGER [...] (C) Summary: Mayor of Greater Caracas Antonio Ledezma entered the offices of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas July 3 and began a hunger strike to demand an OAS response to President Chavez's transgressions against the opposition in Venezuela. Ledezma has argued that the [...]	2009-07-07 16:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS852	RESULTS ANNOUNCED FOR PETROBONO 2011 [...] (U) PDVSA announced on July 6 the results of the Petrobono 2011 bond auction. Interested buyers submitted offers for USD 7.9 billion worth of the bonds. PDVSA accepted all offers at or above 175 percent of face value. Of the total amount for which offers were placed, only offers for USD 1.4 [...]	2009-07-07 20:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EFIN 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
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
09CARACAS888	CHAVEZ CHALLENGES PRESIDENT OBAMA TO PROVE USG [...] (C) Summary: In an eight-hour "Alo, Presidente" TV and radio broadcast July 12, President Chavez rained criticisms on the US Government, challenging President Obama to withdraw US troops from the joint US-Honduran Palmerola military base to "prove" the US was not involved in the Honduran cou [...]	2009-07-13 20:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS891	PDVSA EXPROPRIATES REMAINING TIDEWATER VESSELS [...] (C) Tidewater's remaining assets in Venezuela were verbally expropriated the weekend of July 11-12. According to Tidewater Country Representative, Mikael Jacob (strictly protect throughout),the U.S. oil services company had four boats supporting PDVSA's PetroSucre project (formerly ConocoPhi [...]	2009-07-14 19:04:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS902	VENZUELA TO CHANGE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW TO [...] (SBU) Summary. The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is reportedly well along with plans to reform its principal industrial property law. According to press reports of remarks by Commerce Minister Eduardo Saman at a July 9 conference, however, this might only be the f [...]	2009-07-16 17:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EMIN ENIV ETRD ETTC KIDE
09CARACAS904	FROM BOLIVIA, CHAVEZ REPEATS ACCUSATIONS OF USG [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez, while giving a speech July 16 in La Paz celebrating Bolivia's bicentennial, repeated accusations that the USG -- and the State Department and CIA specifically -- were behind the coup in Honduras. In a message he has been pushing for weeks, Chavez contended th [...]	2009-07-16 21:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS908	SELECTIVE VENEZUELAN PORT NATIONALIZATIONS BENEFIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan government has seized all port operators in Maracaibo and is threatening to do the same throughout the country. The seizures have further deprived an opposition state of tax revenue and sources indicate costs and opportunities for corruption have already increased at the [...]	2009-07-17 16:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR MARR EAIR VE
09CARACAS933	CHAVEZ CALLS FOR "SOCIALIST EDUCATION"; NEW LAW IN [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez, National Assembly leaders, and the Ministers of Education and Higher Education have declared that the controversial Education Law will be passed soon by the National Assembly, possibly within the next few weeks. No text of the draft law is available for review, [...]	2009-07-20 20:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO VE
09CARACAS96	AS DICTATED BY CHAVEZ, CENTRAL BANK TRANSFERS 29 [...] (C) Summary: On January 21, Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reserves dropped by USD 12.5 billion dollars (29 percent of total reserves),apparently reflecting a transfer of USD 12.3 billion dollars to the National Development Fund (Fonden). This transfer is unprecedented for its size. While [...]	2009-01-23 18:50:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS976	CADIVI RELEASES LIST OF COMPANY-SPECIFIC HARD [...] (U) CADIVI, the GBRV entity which rations hard currency at the official exchange rate under Venezuela's currency controls, released on its website a table with company-specific data on hard currency approvals from 2004 through April 20, 2009. Each company's total is broken down between impor [...]	2009-07-28 14:52:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS982	CHAVEZ DETERMINED TO ACCELERATE HIS REVOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Hugo Chavez appears determined to enact a series of controversial laws covering the electoral process, education, social property, and the criminal penal code that are vital tenets of his Bolivarian Revolution and would further consolidate his power. Many of the laws are repa [...]	2009-07-28 20:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM 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
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
09CASABLANCA113	MOROCCO - 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of one (1) claim by United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Morocco (GOM). a. Claimant A b. 2009 2. (SBU) Claimant A is a U.S. based, private real estate investment firm and is one of the largest American investo [...]	2009-06-10 09:15:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EFIN KIDE PGOV MO
09CASABLANCA144	DEAR MOROCCAN EXPATRIATES, PLEASE SEND MONEY [...] (SBU) Summary: The global economic contraction is having a direct effect on Morocco's economy through falling remittances. Based on discussions with government interlocutors and the banking community, the outlook for inflows of expatriate funds into Morocco is increasingly somber. Morocco's e [...]	2009-07-23 13:42:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV MO
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
09CASABLANCA166	ELIMINATING SLUMS THAT BREED EXTREMISM IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of Morocco's efforts to manage the socio-economic conditions that indirectly contribute to the growth of extremism, close to 40 percent of the country's 70 urban slums have been eradicated over the past several years and its inhabitants re-housed in new government-subsid [...]	2009-08-17 14:22:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PREL KISL MO
09CASABLANCA181	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 17:17:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CASABLANCA182	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 18:51:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CASABLANCA185	BANKING ON MOROCCO'S RURAL WOMEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Official statistics do not accurately reflect the participation of rural women in Morocco's agricultural sector. As a result, women's contributions to the economy remain underreported and under-appreciated. According to the Moroccan Association for the Development of Rural Wom [...]	2009-09-18 16:19:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV KWMN MO
09CASABLANCA188	SEPTEMBER 2009 FRAUD SUMMARY - CASABLANCA [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-25 11:46:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA192	CHINA, MOROCCO, AND THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA [...] (SBU) Summary: With a controlling stake in some of Africa's largest banks and solid 2010 earning projections, China is increasingly turning to Morocco's largest banks - Attijariwafa and Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur (BMCE) - for its banking needs in Francophone Africa. To secure its [...]	2009-10-06 16:45:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV CH MO
09CASABLANCA194	WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN MOROCCO: A MODEL FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the last decade Morocco, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, has implemented a wide variety of social and economic reforms with the aim of modernizing the country. One the areas where this has been the most apparent is in the advancement of women's rights. This prog [...]	2009-10-14 09:18:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI KWMN MO
09CASABLANCA200	Disney World, Morocco, and Q-1 Visas [...] Summary: Overstays by Q-1 visa holders who serve as cultural representatives at Disney's EPCOT Center in Orlando, Florida have long been a concern. Post conducted a validation study of Q-1 recipients issued visas between September 2006 and June 2008. The results confirmed that the overwhelmin [...]	2009-10-23 13:34:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS MO
09CASABLANCA225	MOROCCAN FM CRITICIZED FOR HAIDAR CASE [...] (C) At a small December 7 dinner XXXXXXXXXXXXX spontaneously raised the case of Aminatou Haidar (reftels). He harshly criticized FM Fassi Fihri for not having provided King Mohammed VI with better counsel regarding the likely consequences and world reaction. "At a number of levels, our dec [...]	2009-12-08 12:10:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF PREL MO
09CASABLANCA226	PALACE COERCION PLAGUES MOROCCO'S REAL ESTATE SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 9 meeting, one of Morocco's leading business entrepreneurs XXXXXXXXXXXX, told EconOff that major institutions and processes of the Moroccan state are being used by the Palace to coerce and solicit bribes in the country's real estate sector. XXXXXXXXXXXX made clear t [...]	2009-12-11 17:42:00	Consulate Casablanca	SECRET	ECON EINV EFIN MO PGOV
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
09CASABLANCA34	FES MAYOR BECOMES NEW TRADE UNION LEADER AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The General Union of Moroccan Workers (UGTM),one of Morocco,s largest trade unions, elected a new secretary general at its annual congress on January 29th. The leadership of the trade unions, much like the political parties with which they are affiliated, rarely changes and oft [...]	2009-02-24 16:54:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV MO
09CASABLANCA36	MOROCCO,S MIDDLE CLASS PART I: A STATE OF MIND [...] (SBU) King Mohammed VI's August 2008 directive that all public policies should seek to develop Morocco's middle class has prompted a spirited debate and discussion on the makeup of that middle class in Morocco today. For now, there is no consensus on the definition, even within the government. [...]	2009-03-03 09:47:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON MO PGOV PREL
09CASABLANCA48	MOROCCO'S MIDDLE CLASS PART II: THE STAGNATION OF [...] (SBU) While the bustling markets that line the streets of Casablanca might suggest that Morocco's middle class is thriving, many of our contacts note that growth within this segment of society has stagnated in part due to the rising cost of living and the country,s poor fiscal policies. Middle [...]	2009-03-24 10:43:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON MO PGOV PREL
09CASABLANCA63	MOROCCO'S MIDDLE CLASS PART III: DISCONTENT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Private and public sector efforts to strengthen Morocco's middle class have done little to quell the increasing discontent among the lower echelons of Morocco's middle class. Conversations with contacts in academia and civic society reveal that this segment of society is increa [...]	2009-04-03 15:30:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KISL MO PGOV PREL
09CASABLANCA67	MOROCCO's GRAPES OF WRATH [...] (SBU) Summary: The city of Meknes is the center of Morocco's budding wine business, employing 6,000 people and producing 70 percent of the country's wine. Paradoxically, until early 2009 the city was governed by the Islamist-oriented Party of Justice and Development (PJD). The story of Mekne [...]	2009-04-10 16:16:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV SOCI KISL MO
09CASABLANCA79	WESTERN SAHARAN STUDENTS IN MOROCCO: BITING THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Students from the Western Sahara seeking higher education have no choice but to attend university far from home in Morocco. These students, the future leaders of the Saharan political society, cut their teeth on politics in the radicalized and at times violent world of universit [...]	2009-04-23 10:27:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MO
09CHENGDU101	SOUTHWEST CHINA: SICHUAN WORKER LAMENTS PARTY AND PLA [...] (C) Summary: A 55-year old worker in the southern Sichuan city of Xichang vented to us recently about how the Communist Party had ruined his life, chronic corruption in Xichang, bribery in the People's Liberation Army, and the arrogance of the Party/government elite that wastes resources on bi [...]	2009-06-10 04:07:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI MCAP CH
09CHENGDU102	SOUTHWEST CHINA: CONVERSATIONS WITH XICHANG CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Summary: According to Catholic and Protestant church members in the city of Xichang in southern Sichuan Province, urban and rural churches in the area operate relatively freely. The local Catholic community boasts nine priests and 25 nuns, regularly receives priests from South Korea and Ta [...]	2009-06-11 03:21:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV CH
09CHENGDU110	SOUTHWEST CHINA: PEASANTS, TITANIUM, AND HALTED DAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Displaced peasants, a new dam that will be second only to Three Gorges, China's largest titanium deposits, a sudden dam-halting order from the PRC Environment Ministry and the transformation of villages on Xichang's rural periphery are all linked to the construction of a va [...]	2009-06-24 03:42:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN SENV SOCI ECON CH
09CHENGDU115	SOUTHWEST CHINA: TIBETAN NEW EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: According to local official media, ten thousand Tibetan middle school graduates students are to be given three-year government scholarships under the new "Sichuan Tibetan Areas Nine Plus Three Free Education Plan." The Tibetans will attend schools in Chinese-speaking parts of S [...]	2009-06-30 01:51:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
09CHENGDU117	TIBETAN TEACHER ON PACIFYING KHAM BY JOBS AND EDUCATION [...] (C) Summary: According to an ethnic Tibetan teacher from Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, government job programs begun there over the past few years aim to give young people something to lose so they think twice about "stirring up trouble." A new program that will send ten thousa [...]	2009-07-01 01:59:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU132	SW CHINA: CHENGDU RECYCLES THANKS TO MIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Migrant worker entrepreneurs help Chengdu recycle by providing multiple filters for the city's waste, keeping recyclable material of all kinds out of landfills. Labo [...]	2009-07-24 06:31:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU141	SW CHINA: CHENGDU ENVIRONMENTALIST INDICTED FOR BLOOD DRIVE [...] (SBU) Chengdu environmentalist Tan Zuoren, who organized protests against a USD 5.5 billion petrochemical plant near Chengdu (ref A) and published online politically sensitive lists of the numbers of children killed when their schools collapsed in the May 12, 2008 earthquake (ref B),was i [...]	2009-08-04 09:49:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SENV
09CHENGDU147	SW CHINA: A TIBETAN PAP OFFICER SPEAKS POSITIVELY OF POLICE [...] (S/NF) Summary: A young Tibetan People's Armed Police (PAP) graduate of a nationalities university, leads a unit of 28 ethnic Han Chinese primary school graduates in Ngari (Ari) Prefecture in the western part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Tibetans in this remote area commonly displa [...]	2009-08-06 08:16:00	Consulate Chengdu	SECRET	MCAP PHUM PGOV CH
09CHENGDU149	US NGOS SUPPORT LIVELIHOOD PROJECTS AMONG ETHNIC TIBETANS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information -- not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Ethnic Tibetans and other minority communities benefit from income-boosting and cultural preservation projects in northwest Yunnan implemented by U.S. NGOs and fun [...]	2009-08-11 04:02:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI PGOV CH
09CHENGDU155	NEW TELEMEDICINE CENTER AIMS TO EXPAND QUAKE ZONE HEALTHCARE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Introduction and Summary: In the aftermath of the massive, May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, ConGen Chengdu has closely monitored disaster reconstruction and response efforts, [...]	2009-08-17 11:02:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI CH
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
09CHENGDU162	SW CHINA'S DIRTY WATER: WESTERN WATER GROUP BRIEFS CG [...] (U) This cable contains business confidential information, not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: U.S.-based Western Water Group (WWG) confirmed to CG that China lags behind its own goals for wastewater treatment. While WWG has been quite successful in winning contract [...]	2009-08-24 09:12:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD SENV TBIO PREL CH
09CHENGDU166	FORD PROSPERS IN CHINA AUTO MARKET; CHINESE FIRMS AS FUTURE [...] (U) This message contains business confidential information. Not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. China's 2009 car sales will be 12 million, a Ford executive told CG in Chongqing on August 7. Ford's China sales were up 21.5 percent in the first seven months of 2009 [...]	2009-08-25 08:56:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ELAB ECON PREL CH
09CHENGDU168	SW CHINA: BLOGS, TWITTER ALERT PUBLIC TO DISSIDENT'S TRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Supporters of Chengdu environmentalist Tan Zuoren, put on trial for incitement to overthrow state power on August 12, used blogs and twitter text messages to raise public awareness of the case. Tan's two lawyers, both active bloggers, and other supporters put the [...]	2009-08-26 05:05:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU184	TIBET: US NGO SAYS T.A.R. OFFICIALS WANT THEM OUT [...] (C) Summary: Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) officials want foreign residents, particularly those who speak Tibetan, out of the TAR, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF) Country Director Tony Gleason said. The situation of international NGOs (INGOs) in the TAR has steadily worsened since the [...]	2009-09-04 07:08:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI 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

09CHENGDU196	SW CHINA OFFICIALS SIGN MOU FOR MODULAR NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (C) Summary: Chinese officials from the Future Nuclear Energy Technology Application Institute (FNETA) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S.-based NuScale Power to work toward an agreement to build modular light water nuclear reactors (LWR) in China. Chengdu officials p [...]	2009-09-18 02:06:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV KNNP CH

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