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06NEWDELHI5129	AMBASSADOR CRUMPTON LETTER TO KC SINGH [...] (C) The condolence letter from Ambassador Crumpton to Ambassador K.C. Singh was delivered on 13 July. 2. (C) We received the following response dated 14 July on 19 July. Please advise if Ambassador Crumpton wishes to receive the original of the letter. "Dear Hank, Thank you very much f [...]	2006-07-21 04:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	IN KCIP PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER

06NEWDELHI5132	PURPORTED "INDIA'S MOST WANTED" LIST EXPANDS ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-21 06:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV PINR KCRM IN PK
06NEWDELHI5135	INDIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD: ADVISING [...] (C) Summary: The National Security Advisory Board -- populated by civilians, but supported by the GOI National Security Council Secretariat -- is a little-discussed institution designed to provide creative long-term assessments to the National Security Advisor, and through him to the Cabinet [...]	2006-07-21 07:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN
06NEWDELHI5136	INDIA'S NSCS: PROFESSIONALS IN A "BUREAUCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: India's National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) was a little-known institution until a SIPDIS recent series of "Indian Express" articles alleged that several of its employees were involved in a spy ring (Ref A). From collating intelligence inputs to supporting National S [...]	2006-07-21 07:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINR IN
06NEWDELHI5138	STORM CLOUDS GATHERING OVER PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-21 10:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER ECON IN
06NEWDELHI5237	GOI AGREES WITH P5+1 INCENTIVE FOR IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel on July 24. MEA Undersecretary Jayant Khobargade (Disarmament and International Security) expressed GOI support for the initiative. Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki confirmed in an Indian television interview that several high-profile and criti [...]	2006-07-26 08:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PGOV PINR PINS PREF
06NEWDELHI5239	PURPORTED "INDIA'S MOST WANTED" LIST EXPANDS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue talks on Terrorism and Narcotics Trafficking on May 30 in Islamabad, Home Secretary VK Duggal and his Pakistani counterpart Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah exchanged their countries' "most wanted" lists of fugitives each capital seeks e [...]	2006-07-26 08:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PINR KCRM IN PK
06NEWDELHI5266	POLLING DATA SHOWS STRONG SUPPORT FOR SONIA GANDHI [...] (C) Summary: A poll commissioned by a leading Indian news network concluded that Sonia Gandhi remains India's most popular politician, with Manmohan Singh a distant third (after former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee). According to the results, Sonia Gandhi would enjoy solid majority sup [...]	2006-07-27 06:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON KMDR KPAO IN
06NEWDELHI5285	THE CIVIL NUCLEAR INITIATIVE MOVES TO CENTER STAGE [...] (C) Summary: The U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Initiative has moved to the top of the agenda in Parliament. Both the Prime Minister and Minister of State for External Affairs tried to assuage angry MPs from the Left and the Right on July 26 and 27, with limited success. Despite the dramatic floo [...]	2006-07-27 12:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PARM PINR TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
06NEWDELHI547	DEOBANDI MUSLIMS RENOUNCE THEIR LEADER'S [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, three Maulanas from the influential seminary at Deoband called on Poloff, renounced the anti-American statements made by Mahmood Madni, the General Secretary of the Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind - JUH (the political arm of Deobandi Islam) and distanced themselves from call [...]	2006-01-25 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL OVIP PHUM PINR ASEC PTER SCUL IN
06NEWDELHI5470	INDIAN MUSLIM RESENTMENT SMOLDERING OVER LEBANON AND GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Events in Lebanon and Gaza have attracted considerable attention in India, but are of particular concern to the country's 130 million Muslims. The Urdu press has treated Lebanon/Gaza events in great detail. Editorial opinion --some planted by Iranian agents-- is uniformly anti-Isra [...]	2006-08-04 09:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KISL SCUL EINV IN
06NEWDELHI5495	A GARRULOUS SONIA GANDHI OPENS UP TO MARIA SHRIVER [...] (C) Summary: In a relaxed August 3 conversation with California first lady Maria Shriver, Sonia Gandhi revealed a rare glimpse of herself. Usually withdrawn and reserved in public, she spoke at great length and radiated confidence on women's' issues and some aspects of her private life. Mrs. Gandhi [...]	2006-08-04 13:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SCUL KWMN PINS IN
06NEWDELHI556	JEHADI TERRORISM STALKS INDIA'S TIES WITH AMERICA [...] (C) Summary: India enters the new year under the continued threat of jehadi terrorist attacks that could harm American interests and negatively affect Indo-Pak relations. The nature and scope of terrorist attacks launched by jehadi groups, particularly Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),ev [...]	2006-01-25 14:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PINR ASEC KISL IN PK
06NEWDELHI5609	A/S BOUCHER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY SARAN TALK [...] (S) Summary. In an August 7 meeting between A/S Boucher and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, A/S Boucher: -- told Saran that the U.S. is committed to maintaining the spirit of the civil-nuclear deal as agreed on July 18; and -- explained concrete steps the U.S. has taken against Pakistani t [...]	2006-08-11 10:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PARM KNNP AORC UN NP PK
06NEWDELHI5621	TWO GRUMPY OLD MEN HIJACK NATIONAL POLITICS AND [...] (C) Summary: Two grumpy old men, Natwar Singh of Congress and Jaswant Singh of the BJP, have made unwise decisions that will likely end their political careers. Too proud to admit to poor judgment, both men have blamed Congress for their problems and taken the offensive. Ordinarily, their f [...]	2006-08-11 11:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM EPET IN
06NEWDELHI5692	PM'S I-DAY SPEECH WARNS PAKISTAN, LAUNCHES 2007 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Amidst suffocating security due to the very severe terror threat, PM Singh's annual Independence-day speech delivered from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Old Delhi largely ignored foreign relations and needed structural economic reforms to focus on populist domestic issues, prim [...]	2006-08-17 13:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL PTER PINR IN PK
06NEWDELHI5801	SRI LANKANS SEEK MORE INDIAN INVOLVEMENT [...] (C) Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner A. Sabarulla Khan delivered an Aide Memoire to Acting PolCouns August 21, using the occasion to mention that the same note had been recently delivered to the GOI and that MEA Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar received it positively and endorsed the notion of formin [...]	2006-08-21 13:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS CE IN
06NEWDELHI5962	BIODATA: DIXIT, SHEILA (DELHI CHIEF MINISTER) [...] (C) Chief Minister, Sheila Dixit has been the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. Her second term began in December 2003. Dixit is a Punjabi Hindu, a dominant political bloc in the capital, has remained close to the Gandhi dynasty, and remains a key political advisor to Congress Party Presid [...]	2006-08-28 11:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KWMN IN
06NEWDELHI6085	IRANIAN DFM SAFARI FINDS LITTLE LOVE IN NEW DELHI [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-31 12:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KNNP ENRG EPET KISL IR IN
06NEWDELHI6086	PROGRESS ON MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH GOI; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 30 meeting the GOI revealed that it currently has no Missile Defense capabilities - at least none it is willing to share - yet wants to pursue further R&D cooperation with the U.S. India will participate in the September 18-19 multinational BMD conference in London, [...]	2006-08-31 12:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR PINS MARR MASS MCAP KSTC IN
06NEWDELHI613	POLITICAL CHALLENGES COMPLICATE AND DIVERT [...] (C) Summary: Several simmering political developments have come to a head in the past few weeks, diverting some of the GOI's attention from foreign policy issues such as Iran, the US-India civil-nuclear agreement and the POTUS visit. The January 24 ruling by India's Supreme Court that the UPA dis [...]	2006-01-27 11:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IN
06NEWDELHI6133	THE PM PICKS A WINNER: SHIV SHANKAR MENON TO BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 31 announcement that seasoned diplomat Shiv Shankar Menon will succeed Shyam Saran as Foreign Secretary with Saran moving to a newly-created post as the PM's Special Envoy for the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal represents not only a domestic coup for PM Singh, but also bod [...]	2006-09-01 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI6254	G-8 SEEKS TO COORDINATE CT EFFORTS WITH INDIA [...] (U) Summary: G-8 officials met on August 31 to discuss joint efforts to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation with GOI in light of a rising trend in terrorist attacks in recent years. Most meeting participants stressed India's interest in gaining international cooperation against Pakist [...]	2006-09-07 12:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KTFN EFIN IN RS
06NEWDELHI6256	CUBAN AMBASSADOR CLAIMS IRAN'S NUCLEAR ISSUES WILL [...] (SBU) Cuban Ambassador to India, H.E. Juan Carretero, told a Delhi think tank discussion group that Iran's right to continue its nuclear program will not be discussed at the NAM Summit, as "NAM does not entertain individual countries' issues except for the question of Palestine and Israel's r [...]	2006-09-07 13:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN
06NEWDELHI6298	INDIA'S ROLE IN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT: [...] (C) SUMMARY: India may attempt to transform its role to that of a "bridge power" between the developed North and the impoverished South during the upcoming NAM Summit in Havana. In the context of considerable public and internal GOI debate about the utility of NAM and India's proper place in t [...]	2006-09-08 13:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON ECIN IN
06NEWDELHI6511	INDIAN PUBLIC RESPONDING POSITIVELY TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-19 05:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI6513	DELHI AND DHAKA TRY TO DIAL DOWN THE HEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: After weeks of tough talk about cross border insurgency, disputed boundaries, and illegal Bangladeshi immigration, both sides agreed at the recent Indo-Bangladeshi Home Secretary-level talks to tone down the rhetoric and undertake a "joint visit initiative" to resolve boundary di [...]	2006-09-19 07:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER KDEM KTIA KISL MOPS
06NEWDELHI6523	KASHMIR: POLICE REPORT TERRORIST INFILTRATION [...] (S) Summary: Military leaders in India sounded an ominous warning last week, just as Prime Minister Singh was leaving for his meeting with Pakistani President Musharraf in Havana, that terrorist infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir had risen sharply this year. Like many similar press releases [...]	2006-09-19 11:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI6568	READOUT ON FRANCE-INDIA SECURITY TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During visits to France in early September by Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Advisor Narayanan, Indian officials confided that they are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. On Middle East issues, France and India agreed that the GOI [...]	2006-09-21 07:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	AF FR IN IR KNNP LE MNUC PA PARM PGOV PINR
06NEWDELHI657	UPA CABINET SHUFFLE GOOD FOR AMERICA [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 13:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON ENRG EPET EMIN EAID MASS
06NEWDELHI6583	DELHI STRIKES: 4 DEAD; CONGRESS LEADERSHIP [...] (U) On September 20, four people died in clashes between police and protesters during a "bandh," or general strike the Trader's Association ordered in Delhi. The Trader's Association ordered the strikes in response to action taken by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to fulfill a Supreme Cou [...]	2006-09-21 12:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ELAB IN
06NEWDELHI6584	MEA ENGAGED ON AFGHANISTAN, DOUBTFUL ON PAKISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent discussion, MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha told US that India: -- Could do more in Afghanistan but was worried about security -- Doubted the wisdom of Pakistan's agreements with Waziristan tribes -- Envisioned a robust economic conference that would not be a don [...]	2006-09-21 13:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS ENRG EPET KISL PK
06NEWDELHI6647	KASHMIR: SELF RULE, SOFT BORDER SOLUTION GAINING [...] (S) Summary: Indian government responses to Musharraf's recent book, in which he discussed a four part solution to the Kashmir issue, are likely to be harsh publicly, and targeted for domestic consumption. However, journalists with access to the Prime Minister's office say the proposal is ve [...]	2006-09-25 12:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI6737	INDIAN PM FACING OUTCRY AGAINST ANTI-TERROR PLAN [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Singh has come under fire in India for his agreement with Pakistan to combat terrorism jointly. Opposition BJP leaders and hardliners in PM Singh's own party and India's security establishment have unleashed a barrage of statements criticizing the agreement. They [...]	2006-09-27 12:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI6766	"PRAGMATIC" MAOISTS GETTING CLOSER TO KOIRALA? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepalese Maoists are getting closer to PM Koirala, according to Sudhindra Bhadoria of the left-leaning New Delhi-based South Asian Forum for People's Inititatives, because they are pragmatists who are not "hard and fast" on the issues of arms and the role of the monarchy in the fu [...]	2006-09-28 12:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS KDEM PK NE IN
06NEWDELHI6770	INDIA WELCOMES COORDINATION WITH US AS IT PURSUES [...] SUMMARY: India's senior foreign ministry official charged with managing relations with Asia, Ashok Khanta, unofficially expressed interest in pursuing a four-party dialogue with the US, Japan, and Australia with a focus on regional issues including maritime security, science and technology c [...]	2006-09-28 12:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR AORC EAID EIND MOPS OVIP PHSA
06NEWDELHI6841	INDIA ACCUSES PAKISTANI INTELLIGENCE OF DIRECTING [...] (S) Summary: India's new Foreign Secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon, struck out at Pakistan on October 1 in his first few hours in office, backing Mumbai police claims to have hard evidence that Pakistani intelligence was behind the July 11 bombings in Mumbai. Menon further tied the success of the [...]	2006-10-03 13:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN
06NEWDELHI6886	PRIME MINISTER COUP IN POLITICAL BATTLE ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-05 08:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	OTRA PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PINR SOCI IN
06NEWDELHI7005	HIGH STAKES FOR INDIA IN NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: India's stakes in Nepal are high, yet, of all its neighbors, Nepal is the easiest to manage, according to MEA Americas Director Santosh Jha. Jha said the Maoists are long on guns, but short on strategy. They have created an "aura" of support, said Jha, but would be exposed in e [...]	2006-10-11 10:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM NE IN
06NEWDELHI7153	CONGRESS AT THE HALF WAY MARK - MORE CONFIDENT [...] (C) Summary. At the halfway mark of the United People's Alliance (UPA) government, Congress Party Chief Ministers met late last month in Nainital to sort out internal issues. Congress emerged strong and confident, having patched-up feuds and solidified party support behind flagbearers PM Manmohan [...]	2006-10-17 12:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAGR PINR PREL IN
06NEWDELHI7273	KASHMIR: PENDING EXECUTION CAUSING STRIFE FOR CONGRESS NEW DELHI 00007273 001.2 OF 003 [...] (C) Summary. The Srinagar Valley erupted in protest during the first weeks of Ramazan when the Indian Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for Mohammad Afzal Guru, a convicted facilitator of the 2001 attacks on the Indian Parliament. The Indian President has granted Afzal's family a temporary re [...]	2006-10-20 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI7338	PRANAB MUKHERJEE NAMED INDIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (C) After much delay, Prime Minister Singh named Pranab Kumar Mukherjee to fill the External Affairs Minster slot vacated by the departure of K. Natwar Singh in December 2005. PM Singh has been acting as MEA Minister since K. Natwar Singh's exit under a cloud for his alleged role in the oil f [...]	2006-10-24 14:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV INR PINR IN
06NEWDELHI7358	A.K. ANTONY NAMED MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (U) In an October 23 cabinet reshuffle, President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam named Former Chief Minister of Kerala A.K. Antony Minister of Defense. See paragraphs 3-7 for biographical information on Antony. 2. (C) Our sources tell us that Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and PM Singh [...]	2006-10-26 13:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IN
06NEWDELHI7359	INDIA DEFENDS MUMBAI BLAST EVIDENCE POINTING TO [...] (S) Summary: Indian officials remain convinced that Pakistan is behind the July 11th Mumbai attacks, and worry that the US is setting the bar too high for "solid evidence" of Pakistani intelligence involvement. In an October 25th meeting with the Charge, Home Secretary Duggal indicated that [...]	2006-10-26 13:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
06NEWDELHI7360	INDIA DEFENDS MUMBAI BLAST EVIDENCE POINTING TO [...] (S) Summary: Indian officials remain convinced that Pakistan is behind the July 11th Mumbai attacks, and worry that the US is setting the bar too high for "solid evidence" of Pakistani itelligence involvement. In an October 25th meeting with the Charge, Home Secretary Duggal indicated that t [...]	2006-10-26 13:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
06NEWDELHI7442	CABINET SHUFFLE GENERATES LITTLE EXCITEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary; The opposition BJP and de facto opposition Left parties (supporters of the UPA coalition),criticized the government's October 24 Cabinet shuffle. The BJP interpreted the move as confirming the overriding influence of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi over the Prime Ministe [...]	2006-10-30 12:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IN
06NEWDELHI7577	DECADES OF CORRUPTION LEADS TO URBAN CHAOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since 1962, shopkeepers aided by corrupt civil servants in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have ignored New Delhi's Master plan and illegally constructed over 50,000 shops in residential zones. After residents, angered by the i [...]	2006-11-03 12:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ECON EINV PINR IN
06NEWDELHI7585	NARAYANAN SEES PAKISTANI EFFORT TO BUILD TERRORIST [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador met with National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan to discuss counter-terrorism issues and the state of India-Pakistan relations ahead of the Foreign Secretary talks on November 14th and 15th. Narayanan warned that the recently thwarted terrorist attack in Mysore [...]	2006-11-03 15:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI7661	NEW DEFENSE MINISTER ANTONY ASSURES AMBASSADOR OF [...] (C) Summary. In a courtesy call by the Ambassador, new Defense Minister A.K. Antony: -- emphasized the importance of concluding the civil nuclear cooperation agreement; -- said India is consciously seeking to expand its defense relationship with America; -- confirmed he will follow the [...]	2006-11-08 07:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PINR IN
06NEWDELHI7667	FOREIGN MINISTER MUKHERJEE POSITIONED TO HELP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first call on Pranab Mukherjee in his new position as Minister for External Affairs (bio in reftel),the Ambassador emphasized the importance of the broad vision for US-India relations outlined by the President, to which Mukherjee readily added his support and commitment. [...]	2006-11-08 08:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL
06NEWDELHI7748	BOUCHER DISCUSSES PAKISTAN, IRAN, AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Indian Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha on November 10th to discuss India's relations with Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Boucher emphasized the importance to the United States that India voice its conc [...]	2006-11-13 08:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI7759	BOUCHER DISCUSSES NUCLEAR TALKS, BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reflecting the rapid maturation and quickly broadening scope of US-India strategic coordination, visiting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Subramanyam Jaishankar discussed the o [...]	2006-11-13 10:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI7762	AN INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH COMMUNIST LEADER [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with PolCouns, CPI(M) leader and ideologue Sitaram Yechury expressed a desire to maintain regular relations with the Embassy. With a straight face, Yechury was adamant that good relations benefited both India and the US and had moved beyond the stage of [...]	2006-11-13 11:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PGOV PINR PREL IN BG NP SL
06NEWDELHI7764	BAD VIBES BEFORE HU JINTAO'S INDIA VISIT? [...] SUMMARY: (C) China's presidential visit to India may not culminate in any major breakthroughs in Sino-Indian relations. Despite Chinese claims that a momentous announcement will be made during President Hu's possible address to a joint session of the Indian Parliament on his upcoming visi [...]	2006-11-14 01:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PBTS IN CH
06NEWDELHI7767	BOUCHER AND MENON TOUR D'HORIZON: PAKISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Secretary Menon told Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher SIPDIS and Ambassador Mulford in a Nov. 10 meeting that countering Pakistani mistrust about India's role in Baluchistan will be difficult. India is concerned about the growin [...]	2006-11-14 04:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
06NEWDELHI7797	INDIA-PAKISTAN FOREIGN SECRETARIES RESUME DIALOGUE [...] (C) At their just concluded their meetings in New Delhi, Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries Shivshankar Menon and Riaz Mohammad Khan agreed to a fourth round of composite dialogue despite ongoing Indian concerns about continued terrorist attacks. Press reports said Indian Foreign Minis [...]	2006-11-15 11:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI7824	WHAT DO UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS MEAN FOR [...] (C) Summary: Uttar Pradesh (UP) is larger than most countries in the world and, with 80 MPs, has the largest Parliamentary delegation in the 545 seat Lok Sabha. For decades, the state has seen growing misrule by kleptocratic and caste-ridden regional parties, accompanied by increasing viole [...]	2006-11-16 12:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL IN
06NEWDELHI7827	DELHI TRADERS BEND TO RULE OF LAW, FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY The long simmering crisis in Delhi surrounding the "sealing" of illegal businesses seems to be inching towards a dramatic conclusion. On November 6, the Supreme Court (SC) stuck by its earlier decision (reftels),denying a petition by traders seeiing relief and ordered the Municipa [...]	2006-11-16 13:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV KJUS PHUM PREL PINR ASEC SCUL IN
06NEWDELHI7870	FS MENON TELLS USDP EDELMAN INDIA WILL EMPOWER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 15 November meeting with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, visiting Under Secretary of SIPDIS Defense for Policy, Eric Edelman, outlined the reorganization of the Department of Defense (DOD) Policy Office, noting the addition of an Assistant Secretary for all Asia incl [...]	2006-11-20 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER MOPS IN
06NEWDELHI7937	NEPALESE MAOIST SUPREMO PRACHANDA CONQUERS DELHI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepal's Maoist Chairman Prachanda made a splashy debut in New Delhi last week, addressing a leadership conference and sharing the stage with world leaders like Afghan President Karzai and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Prachanda criticized Stalin and Lenin, preached [...]	2006-11-22 12:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM IN
06NEWDELHI7942	HU JINTAO'S VISIT TO INDIA: LOFTY WORDS BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 20-23 visit to India of Chinese President Hu Jintao, while not earth-shattering, appears to have concentrated on economic agreements through a "ten-pronged strategy" while downplaying contentious border disputes. The Joint Declaration announced on 21 November conta [...]	2006-11-22 13:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD EINV MNUC PARM IN CH
06NEWDELHI7954	INDIA-PAKISTAN FOREIGN SECRETARIES LAUNCH COUNTER-TERROR JOINT MECHANISM, REVIEW SIACHEN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-22 14:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	IN KDEM KISL MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
06NEWDELHI7986	BJP FLEXING ITS MUSCLES AGAIN ON TERRORISM, [...] (C) During the first three days of the Winter Session of Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flexed its muscles, galvanized its base and reinvigorated its role as an opposition party. On November 22, the BJP staged a massive demonstration in Delhi. Reports put attendance somewhere b [...]	2006-11-27 07:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KISL IN
06NEWDELHI7997	INDIA REBUILDING ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL [...] (S) Summary: In a November 24 conversation, Israeli DCM Yoed Magen described to us a renewed positive trend in India's relationship with Israel. Magen told the DCM that Israeli National Security Advisor Ilan Mizrachi is coming to Delhi from November 27th through 30th for a high level intell [...]	2006-11-27 13:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI8003	INDIA'S COMMUNIST PARTIES DEBATE HOW TO USE THEIR [...] (C) Summary: India's Left parties have a guaranteed niche in Indian politics and enjoy some advantages. India has the largest number of poor people of any country on earth, including many of the most exploited and oppressed populations found anywhere. These make a natural constituency for [...]	2006-11-28 06:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON IN CH NP
06NEWDELHI8020	NARAYANAN TELLS PISTOLE INDIA SEEKS TERRORIST [...] (S) Summary: In a frank November 27th discussion with FBI Deputy Director Pistole, National Security Advisor Narayanan explained that while the overall intelligence relationship had improved, the U.S. could only strengthen its counter-terrorism cooperation with India by sharing signals intell [...]	2006-11-29 04:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN
06NEWDELHI8042	A COMMUNIST LEADER DISTANCES THE CPI(M) FROM CHINA [...] (C) Much of the press coverage of the recently concluded visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao commented on the frosty nature of the visit and depicted the nefarious role of the CPI(M) in working on behalf of Chinese interests in India. One of the most outspoken CPI(M) critics was DNA columnist [...]	2006-11-29 11:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON IN CN
06NEWDELHI8067	HU JINTAO FAILS TO COMMIT TO INDIAN RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: There are more questions than answers in the aftermath of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-23 visit to India - the first by a Chinese president in 10 years. While taking moderate strides on economic confidence-building measures, it appears that hopes for forward moveme [...]	2006-11-30 12:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD EINV MNUC PARM IN CH
06NEWDELHI8129	INDIA'S MEA PROVIDES READOUT OF SRI LANKA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs' Joint Secretary responsible for Sri Lanka, Mr. Mohan Kumar, SIPDIS provided Polcouns with a readout of Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee's meeting with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Kumar said that Mukherjee hammered home [...]	2006-12-04 12:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER KTIA MOPS IN CE
06NEWDELHI8156	RUMORS ABOUT BANGLADESH; MEA CONTINUES TO DENY AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Burma Sri Lanka, Maldives) Mohan Kumar informed PolCouns that rumors are rife in Dhaka that the U.S. wants neither Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League (AL),nor Khaleda Zia, head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),to win January's s [...]	2006-12-05 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MASS PTER KISL IN BG
06NEWDELHI8191	INDIA DOES NOT DISMISS MUSHARRAF PROPOSAL, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Mukherjee told Ambassador December 6 that Pakistan President Musharraf's proposal on Kashmir contained no new ideas, but was instead an effort to repackage old proposals. He said the GoI would carefully assess Musharraf's message, adding that he saw "no negative [...]	2006-12-06 15:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
06NEWDELHI8250	S/CT DEPUTY COORDINATOR PALMER AND ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary. In a December 7 meeting, S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer and Ministry of External Affairs Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh discussed: -- Indian flexibility on dates for the next CTJWG, presumably in February; -- Pakistani-based terrorism, i [...]	2006-12-08 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN
06NEWDELHI8273	BURNS AND MENON DISCUSS PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 7 U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue working lunch, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon discussed: -PAKISTAN: Menon said that the latest round of Foreign Secretary-level talks was productive, but Pakista [...]	2006-12-11 12:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PARM PBTS IN PK
06NEWDELHI8276	MUKHERJEE EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR CIVILIAN [...] (C) Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee t/ld Under Secretary Nicholas Burns on December 8 he appreciated the Bush Administration's efforts to negotiate language for the civilian nuclear legislation that was favorable to India, and said Indian officials were preparing to address their remaining c [...]	2006-12-11 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC EAID ECON EAGR PINR PTER KDEM
06NEWDELHI8278	U/S BURNS MEETING WITH INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN [...] (C) Summary: On December 7, Under Secretary Burns and National Security Advisor Narayanan discussed the impending passage of the U.S-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Bill and hopes that a 123 Agreement could be implemented quickly. They agreed that after conclusion of the historic a [...]	2006-12-11 13:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR MOPS IN
06NEWDELHI8298	INDIAN MP'S ARE GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE [...] (C) Summary: A selected group of Members of Parliament from the India/US Forum of Parliamentarians (IUFP) discussed a broad range of issues with U/S Burns and Ambassador Mulford during their December 8 meeting. The MPs were mostly from the Congress party, although the BJP and regional partie [...]	2006-12-12 10:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC EAID ECON EAGR PINR PTER KDEM
06NEWDELHI8365	PIPELINES, EDUCATION AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL ASIA: [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a Dec. 13 meeting, Joint Secretary (Eurasia) Jaimini Bhagwati expressed concerns to P/DAS Steven Mann about whether Turkmenistan could live up to its obligations in a proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline. Citing the Indo-Pak relationsh [...]	2006-12-15 06:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KISL EPET ELTN TX KZ TI KG
06NEWDELHI8373	MOVING THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP FORWARD: PDAS MANN AND JOINT SECRETARIES JAISHANKAR AND KUMAR [...] (S) Summary: On December 13, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Steven Mann met SIPDIS with out-going MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar and his designated replacement Ms. Gyatri Kumar to follow-up on the progress made during Under Secretary Burns' [...]	2006-12-15 08:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PINR EAGR MASS IN
06NEWDELHI8463	CRUCIAL MUSLIM CONSTITUENCY SPLIT BEFORE IMPENDING [...] (C) Summary: The crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is facing an election in early 2007 that could displace the current Samajwadi Party (SP) government. Muslims have long been considered a crucial SP "vote bank." A December 11-13 trip to the Muslim dominated areas of Rampur, Moradabad and [...]	2006-12-21 11:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
06NEWDELHI93	PRODUCTIVE PREP TALKS POINT TO A SUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: A well-organized and highly motivated National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) Information Security Specialist and head of the National Information Security Coordination Cell Commander Mukesh Saini met on December 20 with PM/PPA Deputy Coordinator for International Critical [...]	2006-01-05 12:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KCIP TINT PTER EFIN ECPS KTFN EAIR
06NIAMEY672	NIGER: GROWING INTEREST IN NIGER'S OIL AND [...] BEGIN SUMMARY. (SBU) Over the past six months, there has been growing interest in Niger's mining and oil sectors by foreign investors, notably from China, Canada and France. As indicated below, the GON is pushing hard to attract investment in the gold, uranium and oil sectors, and to impro [...]	2006-06-26 14:36:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BTIO EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ECON ELAB PREL PINR
06NICOSIA1607	TURKISH CYPRIOT POLITICS: AMBITIOUS LEFTISTS, [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-21 12:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR TU CY
06NICOSIA1691	TURKISH CYPRIOT CABINET UNVEILED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish Cypriot "PM" Soyer has unveiled his new cabinet, a coalition with the newly-formed Freedom and Reform Party (OP),which has replaced the DP of former "FM" Serdar Denktash as the center-left CTP's junior governing partner. The new cabinet contains some new faces -- most n [...]	2006-09-29 13:10:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAID PINR TU CY
06NOUAKCHOTT1000	THE GREATEST THREATS TO THE DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION [...] (C) The current democratic transition was set into motion following the coup of August 2005, and ironically, a new coup presents the largest threat to the ultimate success of the transition. As the transition to democracy will not end with the presidential elections in March, but will take yea [...]	2006-08-16 18:04:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ASEC KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1004	JUNTA LEADER FAL WELCOMES ELECTION OBSERVER [...] (U) On August 17, Ambassador paid a farewell call on Col. Fal, at which the two discussed the democratic transition and Mauritanian policy on the situation in Lebanon (reftel). Also present were FM Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed and DCM (notetaker). 2. (C) Ambassador stressed the importance to the USG [...]	2006-08-18 12:05:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAO EAID EFIN PINR MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1027	GOVERNMENT TO REOPEN VOTER LISTS IN SEPTEMBER [...] (U) The transitional government has announced a series of procedural steps in preparation for the coming municipal and legislative elections. The announcements, made through military council decree and Ministry of Interior authority, formalize much of what the transitional government has alre [...]	2006-08-22 15:54:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1039	MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR JULY AND AUGUST 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on August 22, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Mohamed Salem, Abderrahmane Ould Mohamed El-Houcein Ould Aliases: Abdel Ghader, El-Hadj Ould, Youssouf Al-Mauritani Nationality: Mauritanian L [...]	2006-08-25 10:22:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1081	PRDR: RE-BRANDED, BUT STILL AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (C) Following the August 2005 coup, former president Taya's political party (The Democratic and Social Republican Party - PRDS) lost a significant amount of members, power, and influence (ref A). Parliament, which PRDS dominated, was dissolved, and the new transitional government took several [...]	2006-09-06 12:19:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1144	LEADING POLITICAL PARTY COALITION FALLS APART [...] (U) On August 31, the AJD (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) announced that it had split from the BPC (Bloc For Change) political party coalition. The BPC was Mauritania's first political party coalition, and the only coalition with a clearly defined platform, namely, supporting the rights o [...]	2006-09-13 17:31:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1149	GOVERNOR OF CENTRAL BANK REPLACED [...] (U) On September 13 the governor of the Mauritanian Central Bank (BCM) Zeine Ould Zeidane was replaced by Ousmane Kane. While rumors of such a change had been circulating for months, the timing was surprising, coming on the heels of the highly successful IMF visit which concluded the previous [...]	2006-09-15 07:27:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV EAID ECON BEXP EFIN ETRD EINV
06NOUAKCHOTT1193	POLITICAL PARTIES ACCUSE GOVERNMENT OF MEDDLING IN [...] (C) Over the past 10 days, a majority of Mauritania's influential political parties and party coalitions have accused the government of interfering in the electoral process. The alleged interference comes at a key moment in the political transition. Registration of candidate lists for Novemb [...]	2006-09-27 11:27:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1197	ISLAMISTS PLANNING TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIONS [...] (C) Jemil Ould Mansour, a key figure in Mauritania's Islamist movement, met with Charge September 27 to discuss Islamists' plans for the coming elections. Mansour began the meeting by explaining that Mauritanian Islamists, represented by his unrecognized political party The Centrist Reformist [...]	2006-09-28 17:06:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1208	ELECTORAL COMMISSION BRIEFS EMBASSIES ON ELECTORAL [...] (U) The National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) met with chiefs of the U.S., French, Spanish, German, EU and UN missions September 28 to discuss preparations for the municipal and legislative elections set for November 19. ----------- CENI UPDATE ----------- 2. (C) CENI preside [...]	2006-10-03 16:27:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1235	BALLOT PRINTING PITS UN AND ELECTORAL COMMISSION [...] (U) An October 12 UN Steering Committee meeting, including representatives from the EU, UN, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) and the embassies of Spain, France, Germany, and the U.S., focused on the government's ballot printing plan for Novembe [...]	2006-10-13 11:43:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1275	BALLOT PRINTING PROBLEM RESOLVED, BUT PARTNERS [...] (U) The government has selected the London company Smith and Ouzman LTD to print the ballots for the upcoming municipal and legislative elections. The company will deliver the four million ballots by November 10 at a cost of $700,000. 2. (C) According to UN ResRep Cecile Molinier, the Secr [...]	2006-10-26 16:09:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT140	MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR JANUARY 2006 [...] Post's Visas Viper Committee met on February 9, 2006. Post's Visas Viper Coordinator is CONS/ECON/COMM Officer Anita Ghildyal. 2. Post has no names to submit for the month of January 2006. LeBaron [...]	2006-02-14 18:15:00	Embassy Nouakchott	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR
06NOUAKCHOTT1431	MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR DECEMBER 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on December 19, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Ould Al-Hassan, Bouh Nationality: Moroccan (Western Saharan) Location: Mali Ref: TDX-315/64300-06 Name: Sall, Mohamed Beshir Nationality [...]	2006-12-22 12:40:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR
06NOUAKCHOTT151	HIGH-LEVEL US DELEGATION DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY AND [...] (U) During a three-day visit to Mauritania February 7 - 9, an eight-member interagency delegation headed by AF PDAS Bobby Pittman and including members from S/CT, DRL, AF, NSC, OSD and USAID met with transitional government and election's officials to assess Mauritania's transition to democracy [...]	2006-02-15 18:32:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR
06NOUAKCHOTT152	HIGH-LEVEL US DELEGATION DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY AND [...] (U) During a three-day visit to Mauritania February 7-9, an eight-member interagency delegation headed by AF PDAS Bobby Pittman and including members from S/CT, DRL, AF, NSC, OSD and USAID met with political party and civil society representatives to assess Mauritania's transition to democracy [...]	2006-02-15 18:40:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR

06NOUAKCHOTT154	THE HIGH-LEVEL US DELEGATION'S VISIT TO MAURITANIA [...] (C) The high level mission to Nouakchott headed by AF PDAS Bobby Pittman contributed significantly to the advancement of our policy in Mauritania. The delegation met with government officials (septel) and members of political parties and civil society (septel). 2. (C) The Embassy's assessm [...]	2006-02-15 18:47:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR
06NOUAKCHOTT200	SUBJECT: CENSUS BEGINS, MARKING SIGNIFICANT STEP [...] (U) During two days of observations in Nouakchott and Rosso areas February 21-22 organized by the local UN Secretariat for Electoral Assistance, EmbOffs followed census SIPDIS takers, witnessed voter registrations and met with representatives from the Ministry of the Interior, the National [...]	2006-02-23 16:27:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR
06NOUAKCHOTT279	AFRO-MAURITANIAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION ON THE [...] (U) A breakaway wing of the exiled Afro-Mauritanian opposition group, African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM),has called on the Mauritanian transitional government to address the plight of the estimated 20,000 Afro-Mauritanians refugees living in Senegal and Mali. The refugees fled so [...]	2006-03-08 11:19:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR
06NOUAKCHOTT287	SEVERE CENSUS PROBLEMS BUT SUCCESSFUL VOTER LIST [...] (U) Emboffs met with members of the UN's Electoral Assistance Team, an NDI representative and a member of the National Independent Electoral Commission March eighth and ninth to discuss the status of the census/voter registration drive currently scheduled to end March 16. ------------------- [...]	2006-03-10 09:49:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR
06NOUAKCHOTT291	YOUTH EVENT REVEALS A PASSIONATE BUT ILL-INFORMED [...] (U) Local National Democratic Institute (NI) Political Party Prrogram Director Eric Duhaimeb"riefed Ambassador on NDI's highly successful "Yuuth Day" which the Ambassador opened with remarks in classical Arabic. The ten-hour program held a rch 8 and attended by over 700 students, youth rroups [...]	2006-03-13 09:09:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT313	AFRO-MAURITANIAN COALITION PESSIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (U) On March 13 PollOff met with Mohamed Ould Sidi Ould Dellahi, President of the "Group of Parties for Change," the leading Afro-Mauritanian political party coalition, to discuss the outlook for Afro-Mauritanians in the coming elections. -------------------------------- "ELECTIONS WON'T CH [...]	2006-03-17 11:15:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT317	NATIONAL CENSUS AND VOTER REGISTRATION UPDATE [...] (U) Ambassador met with four census teams during a four-day swing through northern Mauritania March 13-16, visiting provincial capitals and several major towns and large villages. Concurrently, PolOff participated in two days of observations in the Nouakchott and Brakna regions March 13-14 or [...]	2006-03-20 13:41:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT321	MAURITANIAN - BURKINABE RELATIONS WARMING [...] (U) Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore arrived in Nouakchott March 16 for a two day "friendship and working" visit. Compaore, who had been invited to Mauritania by Colonel Fal, became the third West African head of state to visit the country since the August 3 coup. -------------------- [...]	2006-03-21 15:50:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT326	AFRO-MAURITANIAN TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT; CLAIMS [...] (U) In a meeting with Ambassador March 20, political party president Ba Alassane discussed Afro-Mauritanian concerns regarding the census and coming elections. Alassane's party, the Party for Liberty, Equality and Justice (PLEJ) is one of only three recognized Afro-Mauritanian political partie [...]	2006-03-23 11:22:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT336	SPAIN TEAMS WITH MAURITANIA TO STOP MIGRANT FLOW [...] (C) The flow of sub-Saharan migrants from Mauritania's northern port city of Nouadhibou to the Canary Islands has developed into a crisis for the Spanish Government. According to the Spanish Consul Alvaro Diaz Duque, their response to the crisis has taken two paths, "first we are working with [...]	2006-03-24 12:23:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT409	DISCRIMINATION PREVENTING AFRO-MAURITANIANS IN THE [...] (C) As the census to register voters finishes its first phase of door-to-door canvassing and enters into April's "fixed post" phase, there are indications that Afro-Mauritanians have been undercounted in relation to the general population. But hard statistics are impossible to get. The popul [...]	2006-04-06 17:53:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT435	UN AGREES THAT SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS EXIST IN [...] (C) Representatives of partners for the UN Basket Fund Steering Committee met April 7 to discuss preparations for the first official Steering Committee meeting scheduled for April 20. The group, which included UN, EU, French, Spanish, German, and US representatives, discussed the addition of [...]	2006-04-13 10:21:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT438	REPORT OF JOURNALIST ARREST ERRONEOUS [...] (U) On April 9 the local online Arabic newspaper Al-Akhbar reported the arrest of Abdallah Mimine, a Mauritanian news correspondent who covers West Africa for the Iranian Arabic-language satellite news channel, Al-Alam. Al-Alam is a popular satellite channel here. 2. (U) According to the A [...]	2006-04-13 11:00:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT440	MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR MARCH 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on April 12, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Mohamed ETOURAH Alias: Mohamed al-Turath, Tourath Citizenship: Mauritanian Residence: Bassiknou, Mauritania Profession: Trader REF: TD-314/25 [...]	2006-04-13 13:12:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR
06NOUAKCHOTT457	MILITARY COUNCIL RESHUFFLES DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) In late March the Military Council for Justice and Democracy replaced several of Mauritania's Ambassadors and Consuls to key African and Middle East countries. The shuffle, which had been expected since the August 3 coup d'etat, surprised many observers in that it drew largely from the fo [...]	2006-04-19 16:49:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT468	UNPUBLISHED OFFICIAL REPORT CONFIRMS PROBLEMS WITH [...] (C) In an unpublished report from the National Independent Electoral Commission's regional commission in Trarza (one of Mauritania's southern, predominately Afro-Mauritanian regions) the commission has found that significant problems persist in the process of applying for National ID cards (re [...]	2006-04-20 17:27:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT479	FAL SPEAKS OUT ON CORRUPTION, FOLLOWING UP ON [...] (U) In a speech April 20, Colonel Fal called on government officials and businessmen to bring an end to Mauritania's long-standing problem of corruption. The speech, attended by numerous governmental officials, political leaders, businessmen and the press first focused on Mauritania's legacy [...]	2006-04-24 16:07:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT480	EXTRAORDINARY SLAVE CASE DEMONSTRATES PERSISTENCE [...] (U) On March 28, the local human rights NGO SOS Esclaves (SOS Slaves) publicized the case of Sidi Ould El Mijriya, a Black Moor living in the small village of Daber II in the central Mauritanian province of Tagant. According to SOS Esclaves, Mijriya recently had to buy his freedom from his fo [...]	2006-04-24 17:08:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT487	MAURITANIA STILL SHORT $4-$5 MILLION FOR ELECTIONS [...] (U) An African Union (AU) sponsored Donors' Roundtable met in Nouakchott April 25 to solicit funds for Mauritania's electoral transition. Attendees included the AU, EU, UN, International Organization of Francophone Countries (OIF),and various Ambassadors and representatives from European, Af [...]	2006-04-26 09:55:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT494	EUROPEAN COMMISSION RECOMMENDS STEP TO ENABLE [...] (C) According to EU Counselor Bruno Gatta, his mission recently informed the Mauritanians that the European Commission has recommended to the EU Council of Ministers to close the consultation phase of the Article 96 process under the Cotonou agreement, and the council will make its decision a [...]	2006-04-27 10:49:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT495	MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR APRIL 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on April 26, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Hadramy OULD HAMMA Alias: Abdellah MOHAMED DOB: 1970 Father: Ahmed Salem OULD HAMMA Mother: Salla MINT EL BAUBADIU Comment: Emotionally distu [...]	2006-04-27 10:53:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR
06NOUAKCHOTT561	CHINESE FM TO STOP BRIEFLY IN MAURITANIA [...] (U) The Peoples Daily Online, China's official online news source, has reported that Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing will make a "technical stopover" in Mauritania as part of his visit to six Latin America and Middle East countries between May 17 and 25. 2. (U) According to local sourc [...]	2006-05-12 12:33:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT562	IN POSSIBLY HISTORIC TURN, MAURITANIANS START [...] (U) At a ceremony commemorating the 17th anniversary of the outbreak of ethnic violence in Mauritania, key political parties and NGO's called on the transitional government to address the plight of the estimated 20,000 Afro-Mauritanian refugees living in Senegal and Mali. 2. (U) In a separa [...]	2006-05-12 12:37:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR
06NOUAKCHOTT568	SUMMARY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND COALITIONS IN MAURITANIA, MAY [...] AJD: Alliance pour la Justice et la Democratie (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) -- Small Pular party making the issue of Black African deportees and refugees the centerpiece of its agenda. -- One of four political parties in the coalition "Bloc of Parties for Change," that has committe [...]	2006-05-15 15:35:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT569	MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a ha [...]	2006-05-15 19:08:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT578	MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a h [...]	2006-05-16 07:59:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT584	MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a h [...]	2006-05-16 08:24:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT585	MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a h [...]	2006-05-16 08:40:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT605	IN A SIGNIFICANT MOVE, FAL ACKNOWLEDGES PAST HUMAN [...] (U) Colonel Fal visited three of Mauritania's southeastern regions May 12-14 as part of a national presidential tour that began April 28. Fal's speeches focused on the democratic transition and the National Constitutional Referendum scheduled for June 25, but also addressed other national top [...]	2006-05-18 17:59:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT621	THREE WEST AFRICAN PROTESTANT PASTORS ARRESTED [...] (C) Three West African Protestant pastors were arrested in Nouakchott on May 18. According to an American elder in the local Protestant church who meets with the three regularly, authorities arrested the men, searched and seized religious materials from each of their churches, then padlocked t [...]	2006-05-23 11:40:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT632	GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (U) The transitional government's cabinet adopted a bill establishing a National Human Rights Commission May 17. The idea for the commission was first proposed in "National Consultations" that took place in October between political parties, NGO's and transitional government authorities (ref [...]	2006-05-24 15:45:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT658	EMBASSY VISITS TO TWO SMALL PRISONS SUGGEST [...] (C) On May 18 Poloff visited two small prisons in the remote southeastern towns of Ayoun and Nema as part of an ongoing effort to investigate reports we have received alleging torture and dreadful confinement conditions. This was the Embassy,s first visit to these two prisons. Poloff spoke [...]	2006-05-31 14:32:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT664	FAL ADDRESSES SLAVERY ISSUE [...] (U) Fal spoke to a crowd of several thousand in the northern city of Akjoujt May 27 as part of a national presidential tour that began April 28. Fal's speech focused on getting-out-the-vote for the National Constitutional Referendum scheduled for June 25. At the end of his speech, Fal commen [...]	2006-06-01 18:36:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT665	LIBYA LOOKING TO FINANCE MAURITANIAN POLITICAL [...] (C) On May 30, National Democratic Institute (NDI) North African Regional Director Gerard Latulippe briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania prepare for elections (septel). During the meeting, Latulippe said that while in a hotel in Tripoli three weeks earlier, he h [...]	2006-06-01 18:41:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT695	NDI'S ACTIVITIES AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS [...] (U) On May 30, National Democratic Institute (NDI) North African Regional Director Gerard Latulippe and recently arrived Resident Director Jacques Veilleux briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania prepare for elections. ----------------- NDI'S PROGRAMMING ------ [...]	2006-06-07 15:41:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT699	FAL CLARIFIES HIS POSITION ON SLAVERY; EMBASSY [...] (U) Fal spoke to a crowd of several thousand in the southern city of Rosso June 3 as part of a national presidential tour that began April 28. While the speech was originally planned to get-out-the-vote for the National Constitutional Referendum scheduled for June 25, Fal used more than half [...]	2006-06-08 08:53:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT745	NDI NEEDS HELP AS ELECTION CLOCK TICKS DOWN [...] (U) On June 9, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa Jeffrey England briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania transition to democracy. ------------------- WAITING FOR FUNDING ------------------- 2. (C) [...]	2006-06-14 16:18:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT764	SEVERAL ARRESTED FOR COUP PLOTTING [...] (C) The Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD) last night arrested several high-ranking military officers. The motivation for the arrests is unclear at this time, but is believed to be related either to a coup attempt, coup plotting, or to an effort to disrupt the coming June 25 Nat [...]	2006-06-20 11:59:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT770	ARREST UPDATE [...] (C) The Embassy has continued meeting with civilian and military officials in an effort to get more information regarding last nights arrests of high ranking military officers and civilians associated with former President Taya (reftel),and to encourage Mauritanians to continue their commitme [...]	2006-06-20 17:42:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO CASC MR
06NOUAKCHOTT774	FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON ARRESTS [...] (C) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed briefed Ambassador June 21 on the government's recent arrests of high ranking military officers and civilians associated with former President Taya, going over much of the material already covered in reftels. -------------- [...]	2006-06-22 14:39:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO CASC MR
06NOUAKCHOTT778	SUBJECT: STRONG "YES" VOTE LIMITING POWER OF [...] (U) Colonel Fal opened the official campaign period for the Constitutional Referendum with a speech, in the Capital city of Nouakchott, June 10. In the speech, Fal focused on the important role of women and youth, and urged all Mauritanians to unite in support of the June 25 Referendum and ab [...]	2006-06-23 12:08:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT784	THE REFERENDUM -- 97% VOTE "YES" TO [...] (C) The extraordinarily high percentage of yes votes notwithstanding, the evidence available to us suggests the referendum met international standards for a free and fair election. There could, of course, have been fraud that we have not yet uncovered, and we explore that possibility below in [...]	2006-06-27 19:18:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT791	PUBLIC STRONGLY SUPPORTS REFERENDUM RESULTS -- [...] (C) Following the landslide victory of the June 25 national referendum (reftel),public reaction has been highly supportive for both the referendum and the Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD). While nearly all political actors have expressed their support for the election results [...]	2006-06-28 16:18:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT812	BROAD AGREEMENT -- REFERENDUM "FREE AND [...] (C) Embassy staff, including the Ambassador, DCM and PolOff, have met repeatedly with representatives from the UN, EU, Western Embassies and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to exchange views on last Sunday's referendum vote. All partners agree that while there were several procedural l [...]	2006-06-30 12:59:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT842	SUBJECT: LARGE PROTEST CALLS FOR BREAK WITH ISRAEL [...] (U) Several thousand Mauritanians participated in a pro-Palestinian rally in the streets of the capital city Nouakchott on July 4. The peaceful rally, organized by a newly-formed political party coalition, ended with speeches calling for Mauritanian unity with the Palestinian people, an end t [...]	2006-07-05 17:52:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC CASC MR
06NOUAKCHOTT847	POWERFUL POLITICAL PARTY COALITION FORMS -- MAKES [...] (U) On June 28 ten political parties formed the "Coalition of Forces for Democratic Change" (CFDC). The coalition, which includes some of Mauritania's most powerful political parties, has committed to working collectively to prevent any candidates from the former regime from being elected, and [...]	2006-07-07 11:57:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC CASC MR
06NOUAKCHOTT894	UN CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR ELECTORAL PROCESS [...] (C) UN Under Secretary General of Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari formally announced the UN's continued support for the democratic transition process in a letter to Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed on July 18. The letter, which UN Resident Representative provided [...]	2006-07-19 08:58:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT901	NDI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION [...] (U) On July 18, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Senior Program Officer Gregory Houel and Resident Director Jacques Veilleux briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania prepare for elections. ------------------------------------------ NDI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEMOCRAT [...]	2006-07-20 09:01:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT979	SUMMARY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND COALITIONS IN [...] AJD: Alliance pour la Justice et la Democratie (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) -- Small Pular party making the issue of Black African deportees and refugees the centerpiece of its agenda. -- One of four political parties in the coalition "Bloc for Change," that has committed to presen [...]	2006-08-08 08:30:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT993	POLITICAL POWER IN THE RUN-UP TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) The political environment in Mauritania is constantly changing, with political parties and coalitions regularly forming and dissolving, and new presidential hopefuls declaring their candidacy every week. Few political actors have strong platforms, and little separates one party from the n [...]	2006-08-14 14:20:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR
06OSAKAKOBE238	CHOSEN SOREN'S 5-YEAR PLAN: FROM BAD TO WORSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The surprise raid in March by Japanese National Police on the Osaka office of the North Korean Association Chosen Soren stunned its members. The raid and its aftermath highlights the gradual decline in ideological, financial and operational relevance of the organization in th [...]	2006-05-02 08:12:00	Consulate Osaka Kobe	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV PINR PREL JA KN
06OSLO1495	NORWAY: PARLIAMENTARY PRESIDENT ON SENDING FORCES [...] (C) In a December 8 meeting with DCM and P/E Couns, Thorbjorn Jagland, Parliamentary President and senior Labor Party statesman, reviewed Norway's debate over sending forces to southern Afghanistan. Jagland has very publicly favored sending more troops, and is optimistic that the GON will rec [...]	2006-12-11 15:12:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV AF NO
06OSLO1496	NORWAY: MANAGING THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary. On December 6, MFA State Secretary Liv Monica Stubholt, who recently took on the US portfolio, met with the Ambassador for a tour d'horizon. Both agreed that key ways to deepen the already strong relationship included increasing educational exchanges, finding joint projects rega [...]	2006-12-11 16:27:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG NO PGOV PINR PREL
06OSLO1524	U.S.-NORWAY ENERGY TALKS FOCUS ON HIGH NORTH, [...] (C) A delegation of USG energy analysts headed by Department of Energy Intelligence Chief Rolf Mowatt-Larssen visited Oslo December 7 for an energy symposium with Norwegian officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Petroleum and Energy, and other government agencies. The talks include [...]	2006-12-21 06:13:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL SENV PINR RS NO
06OSLO166	PM COMMITTED TO AFGHANISTAN, FOCUSED ON HIGH NORTH [...] (C) During the Ambassador's introductory call on Prime Miniter Stoltenberg on February 14, the Prime Minsiter made sure that we knew that Norway remains commited to supporting ISAF and will not be deterred by the recent attack on the Norwegian provincial reconstruction team in Meymaneh. The [...]	2006-02-15 11:27:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PINR AF NO
06OSLO401	NORWAY CONSIDERS JORDAN POLICE TRAINING [...] We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Global Security Section advisor Torn Dramdal. Dramdal was pleased to receive our request and promised that Norway would carefully consider providing police instructors to the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC). 2. Comment: In its Octo [...]	2006-03-31 12:48:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PINS IZ JO NO KJUS KCRM
06OSLO59	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FM STOERE [...] (C) Summary. In the Ambassador's introductory call on Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere January 13, the FM said that maintaining close ties to the United States was a top priority and noted that the U.S. is "Norway's most important ally." FM Stoere is keen to promote even closer cooperatio [...]	2006-01-17 10:37:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NO
06OSLO690	C-RE6-00473; NORWAY, ISAF AND THE FARYAB PRT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-26 16:20:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MASS MOPS PTER AF NO
06OSLO72	AMBASSADORÂ´S CALL ON DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SOLHEIM [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador made his introductory call on International Development Minister Erik Solheim January 19 and discussed Solheims upcoming trip to Sri Lanka, the state of play in Sudan, and the Ministers development priorities. Solheim stressed that he is eager to cooperate with the Unite [...]	2006-01-23 12:52:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CE SU NO
06OTTAWA3010	CANADA'S TAKE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) On October 4, Janice Fitchett (Senior Nuclear Non-Proliferation Advisor at Foreign Affairs) provided POL M/C with initial Canada's comments on the GI draft documents, which she said had been widely cleared throught the Department. She confirmed that these comments were also being shared [...]	2006-10-04 20:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KGIC KNNP MCAP PINR PINS CA
06OTTAWA3561	NEW LIBERAL LEADER DION LIKELY TO PUSH [...] (SBU) Summary. The victory of former Environment Minister Stephane Dion in the federal Liberal leadership battle seems certain to keep the environment and especially the Kyoto Protocol squarely in the center of domestic political discourse. As Environment Minister, Dion was closely identifie [...]	2006-12-08 12:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG PINR CA
06PANAMA1029	PRD FORCES TORRIJOS TO GIVE GROUND [...] (C) President Torrijos's attention -- to the exclusion of virtually all else -- is consumed by political maneuvering within his party, the PRD, and the approaching must-win Canal expansion referendum (probably in October 2006). Torrijos has tried to sell Canal expansion as a non-political "mat [...]	2006-05-31 22:45:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ETRD KPAO PM VE CU
06PANAMA1072	PANAMA CITY MAYOR PESSIMISTIC ABOUT CANAL [...] (SBU) During a brief but intense conversation on May 22, Panama City Mayor Juan Carlos Navarro told Emboffs that possibilities for the GOP to win a potential Canal referendum in 2006 are close to null. Navarro, a usually cheerful and positive character, was pessimistic when explaining why he, [...]	2006-06-05 21:03:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA1187	Money Laundering Panamanian Style [...] (SBU) Acting jointly, DEA and several Latin American authorities knocked out a sophisticated multi-national drug cartel that smuggled tons of cocaine on a monthly to the U.S. Drug lord Pablo Rayo Montano was arrested on May 16 in Brazil. Authorities have seized millions of dollars in assets a [...]	2006-06-16 22:29:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA14	PANAMA: MIGUEL ANTONIO BERNAL'S QUEST TO SAVE UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA [...] (SBU) In May 2005, when newspapers reported that the University of Panama (UP) had issued thousands of false diplomas, Professor Miguel Antonio Bernal quickly took the lead in denouncing the school's administration. Bernal went even further and filed criminal charges against university rect [...]	2006-01-05 14:43:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR PM SCUL LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
06PANAMA1629	SCENESETTER FOR FINCEN DIRECTOR WERNER VISIT [...] (U) This message is confidential. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Panama, I would like to extend our warmest welcome on your upcoming visit to Panama. Your visit provides support for our Mission's anti-money laundering programs. Your dialogue with key anti-money laund [...]	2006-08-18 21:07:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PTER SNAR PINR KCOR KCRM PM
06PANAMA1868	PANAMA'S LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING PROCEDURES [...] Embassy Panama's Political Section has developed a system to coordinate Leahy Amendment vetting. All candidates for USG-funded travel, training (military or civilian),or material assistance -- in-country or in the United States -- must be vetted on human rights, corruption, narcotics, or cr [...]	2006-09-22 16:06:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	AADP MARR MASS SNAR PINS PREL PHUM PINR PM
06PANAMA190	PANAMA: INCREASING URGENCY ON CANAL REFERENDUM [...] (U) A flurry of recent detailed discussions at the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to discuss the proposed Canal expansion suggest that the GOP is speeding up its internal technical process, in order to hold a constitutionally mandated referendum in 2006. Amid the hubbub at ACP headquarters, one [...]	2006-02-01 21:51:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SNAR PM
06PANAMA267	PANAMA: RULING PARTY LEGISLATORS DISGRUNTLED AT [...] (SBU) PRD legislators are angry at President Martin Torrijos for failing to consult and for ordering them around. Several ruling-party legislators told Emboff recently that they are disappointed and feel "used" by a Torrijos leadership style they see as arrogant, high-handed, presumptuous, an [...]	2006-02-10 22:06:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SNAR PM
06PANAMA337	PANAMA -- CHINA RECOGNITION HANDWRITING IS ON THE [...] (U) This message contains an action request. (See para 3.) SUMMARY ------- 2. (S/NF) Panamanian presidential advisor Jorge Ritter on February 20 detailed Panama's thinking about diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for DCM, which he called a "medium-term" pros [...]	2006-02-21 21:50:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM SP CH TW HO
06PANAMA376	PANAMA: IRANIAN DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN LATIN [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 17:00:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PM
06PANAMA486	PANAMA HOSTS CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Seven presidents, one prime minister and one vice president met in Panama March 8-9 to sign a lengthy and wordy declaration calling for the negotiation of a Central America-Panama free trade agreement (FTA) and possibly FTAs with the European Union and CARICOM. Panamanians mostly do not [...]	2006-03-16 22:00:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA502	PANAMA: INTERNAL RULING-PARTY DYNAMICS AS JOSTLING [...] (U) This is part one in a three-part series. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) With over three years to go before the May 2009 presidential elections, the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is already full of ferment and rumors as potential candidates joust for position. The U.S.-educated [...]	2006-03-21 14:52:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA525	PANAMA: INTERNAL RULING-PARTY DYNAMICS AS JOSTLING [...] (U) "The Unwanted One" is Part II in a three-part series on Democratic Revolutionary Party inner dynamics. Part I (reftel): The Front Runners. Part III (septel): The Veeps. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Ernesto Perez Balladares (PB) is widely seen as angling for another shot at Panama's presidency, [...]	2006-03-23 22:04:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA534	VP/FORMIN LEWIS FINDS CASTRO "HEALTHY" AND [...] (C) Panamanian First Vice President/Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro (SLN) told Ambassador on March 23 that he met for the first time with Fidel Castro in Cuba over the March 18-19 weekend. He said Castro appeared to be in good health, as he turned what SLN expected to be a 15-minute "p [...]	2006-03-24 18:00:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ENRG ETRD PM CU
06PANAMA540	PANAMA: INTERNAL RULING-PARTY DYNAMICS AS JOSTLING [...] (U) "The Veeps" is Part III in a three-part series on Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) inner dynamics. Part I: The Front Runners (reftel A). Part II: The Unwanted One (reftel B). SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The PRD's vice presidential candidate in 2009 is likely to be Balbina Herrera o [...]	2006-03-24 19:20:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA544	PANAMA BRACES FOR NORIEGA'S RETURN [...] (SBU) On Thursday, March 16 Panamanian newspapers reported in banner headlines that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to release former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega on September 9, 2007, after 17 years in a Tampa, Florida prison, and that Noriega would return to Panama. [...]	2006-03-24 20:36:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA824	PANAMA: PRESIDENT TORRIJOS SHAKES UP CABINET [...] (SBU) President Martin Torrijos announced three major changes in his cabinet during a nationwide radio and TV address this afternoon. The much anticipated changes come twenty months into the Torrijos presidency and were the subject of widespread rumors for several weeks. In the Ministry of [...]	2006-04-28 22:45:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PM PREL
06PANAMA919	PANAMA: REHABILITATING THE DICTATORSHIP [...] (C) A joke making the rounds in Panama is that the only ex-Panamanian Defense Force (PDF) officer who hasn't found a job in the Torrijos government is Manuel Noriega. The late-April elevation of former Dignity Battalions chief Benjamin Colamarco to the cabinet as Minister of Public Works is [...]	2006-05-12 21:40:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PM VE CU
06PARAMARIBO399	DESI BOUTERSE AND SHAHEED ROGER KHAN ACTIVITIES [...] (S/NF) WHAT IS THE STATUS OF DESI BOUTERSE AND SHAHEED "ROGER" KHAN'S CURRENT RELATIONSHIP? Khan and Bouterse are partners in the drug trade, according to sensitive sourcing. The police suspect that Surinamese citizen Steven Douglas, the owner of local fishing and hunting store "Tacklebo [...]	2006-06-23 18:39:00	Embassy Paramaribo	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV GY NS
06PARAMARIBO431	MORE ON THE CHINESE IN SURINAME [...] (C) Summary: Recent interactions with the departing Chinese ambassador reflect his country's deepening presence in Suriname as well as a tolerance for unsavory politicians on the local scene. The new Chinese ambassador to Suriname comes from the PRC Embassy in Washington, D.C. End summary [...]	2006-07-11 19:34:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINR CH
06PARIS1031	SEGOLENE ROYAL DISCUSSES STRATEGY FOR 2007, TRIP [...] (C) Summary: In a February 8 meeting with Ambassador, Socialist Party (PS) presidential hopeful, current media darling and president of the Poitou-Charentes region Segolene Royal left no doubt as to her determination to win election as president of France in 2007. She matter-of-factly assessed [...]	2006-02-17 16:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS1113	UDF LEADER FRANCOIS BAYROU REVIEWS HIS CENTRIST [...] (C) Summary: At a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on February 16, Union for French Democracy (UDF) leader Francois Bayrou reaffirmed "that France needs a centrist alternative" (ref B). He admitted, however, that the French persist in thinking in terms of "right and left," making it unlikely [...]	2006-02-23 12:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS1118	TOGO/FRANCE: EX-MINISTER BOKO UPSET AND AFRAID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's ex-Interior Minister Francois Boko said on February 17 that he was very upset by apparent press leaks concerning his testimony about the November 6, 2004, bombing incident in Cote d'Ivoire. Boko had told a French judge investigating the incident that French authorities h [...]	2006-02-23 14:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR PINR TO IV FR
06PARIS1251	FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAYMOND BARRE SHARES [...] (C) In a February 21 meeting with Ambassador Stapleton, former prime minister Raymond Barre cautioned against any overconfidence that right-wing, nativist and xenophobic sentiment in France might be something of the past. If anything, in Barre's view, popular reaction to urban unrest and other [...]	2006-02-28 17:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS1347	2/27 STRAW - DOUSTE-BLAZY MEETING: MAINLY MIDDLE [...] (C/NF) Summary: UK embassy contacts described the February 27 Straw-Douste-Blazy working dinner as focused primarily on the two ministers' planned joint trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, with no agreement on timing. Douste-Blazy wants the trip to take place before Israeli electio [...]	2006-03-03 13:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPAL IS IR PARM ECON PINR UK AF FR
06PARIS1487	SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE AND GERMANY: [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 17:15:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL TU GM FR
06PARIS1681	SARKOZY ADVISOR ON FIRST EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, END [...] (C) Summary: Former Industry Minister and close Sarkozy advisor Patrick Devedjian predicted March 15 that student and labor union opposition to the First Employment Contract (CPE) was spreading and might yet become a major test for the government. In any event, he believed that PM de Villepin [...]	2006-03-16 15:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PREL FR SOCI PINR EUN
06PARIS1720	FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER RICHARD: INSIGHTS ON EU [...] (C) In a meeting March 9, Ambassador Stapleton and former defense minister Alain Richard exchanged views on the roles of NATO and the ESDP, on the steady continuity in France's defense policies under Richard's successor (current Defense Minister Michele Aliot-Marie),and on French domestic pol [...]	2006-03-17 15:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON MARR
06PARIS1893	UPDATE ON "SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE" [...] (S/NF) Per reftels, following is an update to actions taken by post regarding the presence of the PKK on French soil. 2. (S/NF) DCM met with Turkish DCM Suleyman Ozyildiz to review our approaches. Ozyildiz traced the history of French openness to Turkish exiles and tendency to view more l [...]	2006-03-24 13:33:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL TU FR
06PARIS1919	MEETING WITH GILCHRIST OLYMPIO: "I'M READY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gilchrist Olympio, Paris-based UFC chief and opposition leader, told us March 23 that he was prepared to engage in national dialogue with the Faure regime but asserted that the regime was blocking the dialogue by not agreeing on the naming of a mediator/facilitator of the talks [...]	2006-03-24 16:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PREF PINR TO FR
06PARIS1966	FORMER PRESIDENT GISCARD D'ESTAING ON A TROUBLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing characterized the current social upheaval in France over the First Employment Contract as the latest episode in France's deep-seated resistance to change ("in no way pre-revolutionary"). He argued [...]	2006-03-27 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ELAB FR EUN PINR
06PARIS1967	FRANCE BRACES FOR ANOTHER DAY OF PROTESTS, AS [...] (SBU) The weeks of protest (ref A) against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) could well peak tomorrow, March 28. Leftist student associations, backed by the full organizational weight of France's major trade union federations and the center left Socialist Party (PS),h [...]	2006-03-27 18:05:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS2006	MARCH 28 PROTESTS SIZABLE -- ORGANIZERS VOW [...] (U) As of 1900 hours Paris time on March 28, preliminary police reports cite a turn-out for today's (ref A) nationwide demonstrations of over a million, double that recorded during previous protests against the Villepin government,s First Employment Contract (CPE). Earlier in the day, Prime [...]	2006-03-28 19:03:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI
06PARIS2048	AFTERMATH OF MARCH 28 PROTESTS: PRESSURE TO DEFUSE [...] (SBU) Following March 28's sizable demonstrations against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) (refs A and B),there is a growing sense among both the French public and political class that leadership on both sides of the issue should find a way to defuse the burgeoning [...]	2006-03-29 19:47:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CASC EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS2086	SUBURBAN UNREST AND STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS: HOW [...] (C) Summary: Unlike the anarchic violence of November, the current demonstrations by students and organized labor against the First Employment Contract (CPE) have largely proceeded peacefully despite violent acts by bands of underclass suburban youths directed against police and demonstrator [...]	2006-03-30 16:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB ECON FR PINR CASC SOCI
06PARIS2095	CPE LAW DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL -- CHIRAC TO [...] (U) At 2000 local time March 30 France's Constitutional Council announced that it had decided that the Equal Opportunity Law -- including its controversial First Employment Contract (CPE) article -- did not/not violate the constitution (refs A and B). According to initial press reports, the [...]	2006-03-30 19:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI
06PARIS2127	IMPROMPTU "SMS GRAPEVINE" DEMONSTRATIONS BY [...] (U) During the day of March 31, most university and high school students who have mobilized against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) (ref A) took in the news of President's Chirac's likely promolugation of the controversial law (ref B). Some however, engaged in a rang [...]	2006-03-31 17:00:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS2137	IIC FOLLOW-UP: FRENCH INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) In the wake of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) reports into Oil-for-Food Program (OFF) corruption, the GoF has launched investigations of a number of French nationals named in the IIC reports, though so far none have been charged with a crime. The GoF investigation is being l [...]	2006-03-31 17:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KFIN PGOV PINR IZ FR
06PARIS2177	IIC FOLLOW-UP: FRENCH INVESTIGATIVE JUDGE VISITS [...] (C) On April 3, poloff spoke with financial investigating judge Philippe Courroye, who heads the independent judicial inquiry into potential French involvement in Oil-for-Food Program corruption. Courroye said the Le Figaro article in para 3 of reftel was "behind the times," since he had alrea [...]	2006-04-03 15:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KFIN PGOV PINR IZ FR

06PARIS2314	FRENCH MUSLIM LEADER DESCRIBES BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR [...] (C) Summary: National Federation of French Muslims (FNMF) president Mohammed Bechari provided a frank assessment of the current state of French Muslim communities and institutions to Poloffs March 31. Bechari described disaffected, suburban Muslim youth in the throes of an identity crisis, an [...]	2006-04-07 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PTER PINR SOCI MO FR
06PARIS2348	TOGO: APRIL 5 MEETING WITH EX-MINISTER BOKO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's ex-Interior Minister Francois Boko said during an April 5 meeting that the regime in Togo feared active U.S. intervention in Togo's affairs and that the U.S. could readily influence events in Togo if it chose to do so, and even compel the leadership to step down, as in Ha [...]	2006-04-10 14:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM TO FR
06PARIS2391	MFA OFFICIALS DISCUSS C.A.R. AND CHAD WITH DRL/CAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA desk officers Charlotte Montel (C.A.R.) and Lt. Col. Marc Conruyt (Chad) briefed DRL/CAR desk officer Stuart Crampton on April 6. Regarding C.A.R., Montel noted limited but growing contact between French and C.A.R. parliamentarians and recent calls for increased government [...]	2006-04-12 07:49:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR CT CD FR
06PARIS2425	CABINDA/ANGOLA: FLEC CONFUSED ABOUT USG INTENTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an April 11 meeting, FLEC (Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda) representative Antonio Nzita Bembe (Nzita) revealed divisions in the ranks of the Cabinda "resistance" movement caused by the apparent defection of former FLEC/Renovada head Antonio Bembe (Bent [...]	2006-04-12 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PINS PHUM AO FR
06PARIS2499	CHAD: FORMER PM ALINGUE PREDICTS "WAR" IF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister of Chad Jean-Bawoyeu Alingue called on us April 12 to discuss events in Chad and report on his activities in Paris. Alingue said he had met last week with Presidential AF Advisor Michel de Bonnecorse and MFA AF A/S-equivalent Bruno Joubert in Paris, but cl [...]	2006-04-14 13:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PINS CD FR
06PARIS2772	EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MINISTER DESCRIBES CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Junior Minister for Promotion of Equal Opportunities Azouz Begag provided the Ambassador April 19 with a candid assessment of the current situation of minorities in France. Begag blamed discrimination for unemployment levels as high as 40 and 50 percent in many of the ghetto-like [...]	2006-04-27 10:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI SCUL KISL PINR KPAO FR
06PARIS3035	C.A.R.: FRENCH WORRIED ABOUT POSSIBLE SUDANESE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA C.A.R. Deskoff Charlotte Montel on May 5 expressed concern about a possible Sudanese presence in northeastern C.A.R., following the mysterious landing of a plane in the Tiringoulou area on April 25 (reftel). Locals reported that the 50-some soldiers who deplaned appeared to [...]	2006-05-09 15:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR CT FR
06PARIS3152	LAURENT FABIUS ON EUROPE AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY'S [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-12 12:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV FR PINR EUN
06PARIS3178	CHIRAC/VILLEPIN/SARKOZY AND THE CLEARSTREAM SCANDAL [...] (C) Summary. As ref A Paris Points document, the "Clearstream" scandal has become a classic French "affaire d'etat," a scandal which threatens the life of the government and the careers of many leading political, judicial, and even military figures. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin continu [...]	2006-05-12 16:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV FR EUN PINR
06PARIS3360	DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN ON CLEARSTREAM, HIS [...] (C) Summary: In a remarkably wide-ranging tour de force equally remarkable for its candor, former finance minister and leading Socialist party presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn shared with Ambassador Stapleton May 16 his views that: the Clearstream scandal is far from over; the Soc [...]	2006-05-19 07:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON FR PINR EUN
06PARIS3426	CLEARSTREAM SCANDAL: GETTING EVER CLOSER TO [...] (C) Summary: Still no smoking gun in the "Clearstream" affair aimed at smearing Interior Minister Sarkozy, but the circle of suspicion continues to tighten around Prime Minister de Villepin. A key player and Villepin confidant has now admitted to having furnished the documents that implicat [...]	2006-05-22 11:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON FR PREL PINR
06PARIS3482	(C) UK EMBASSY UPDATE ON KHADDAM TRAVEL TO UK, [...] (C/NF) UK Embassy First Secretary Tom Fletcher (protect throughout) updated poloff May 19 on the planned travel of former Syrian Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam to the UK, which has now been postponed to the last week of May/first week of June. Fletcher reported that Khaddam had delayed his [...]	2006-05-23 14:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR UK SY FR
06PARIS3716	(C) MFA EXPRESSES PRIVATE CONCERN ON EMBASSY [...] (C) MFA Advisor for Religious Affairs Laurent Stefanini summoned Acting Pol M/C and poloff to his office June 1 to express concern about embassy Muslim outreach efforts, in generally polite but largely elliptical terms. Stefanini, who was accompanied by Deputy MFA Religious Affairs Advisor De [...]	2006-06-05 08:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PGOV PINR FR
06PARIS3783	(C) MUSLIM LEADERS IN LYON STRESS UNITY AT [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the regional Muslim Council (CRCM) in Rhone-Alpes stressed a message of unity and moderation during a joint meeting with poloff in Lyon May 31. The CRCM leaders, who represent three rival factions within the national French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM),stresse [...]	2006-06-06 12:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PINR SOCI MO AG TU FR
06PARIS3901	SARKOZY ALLY ON CHIRAC'S ISOLATION AND SARKOZY'S [...] (C) Over lunch on June 1 with Ambassador Stapleton, center-right candidate for mayor of Paris and Sarkozy ally Francoise de Panafieu gave a somber portrait of President Chirac's growing isolation. She conveyed Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) legislators' growing apprehension that the publ [...]	2006-06-09 10:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS4080	NUDGING DEBY ON DIALOGUE. MFA REMARKS ON CHAD, [...] (C) Summary: French Minister of Cooperation Girardin will deliver a clear message to President Deby in Chad this week on the necessity for national dialogue, according to MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Foucher. The unusual presence of French Presidential Africa Adviser Bonnecorse on Girardin's trip [...]	2006-06-15 14:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR IV CT TO CD FR
06PARIS4175	(C) HARIRI ADVISOR ON RISING IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 13 discussion, longtime Hariri family advisor Basile Yared put a positive spin on the recent Brammertz report, which he viewed as compounding pressure on Syria. Yared viewed the SARG as seeking to destabilize the GoL, via arms and money transfers to Palestinian mili [...]	2006-06-16 17:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY IR PINR PTER EAID FR
06PARIS4247	SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER ON HOW PS-LED FRANCE WOULD [...] (C) Socialist Party (PS) First Secretary Francois Hollande and PS National Secretary for International Affairs Pierre Moscovici briefed the Ambassador June 8 on the turbulent race for the presidential nomination within the PS and the hurdles facing the party as it looks to next year's presiden [...]	2006-06-21 08:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS4386	DEPARTING MFA NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT JEAN-FRANCOIS [...] (U) Post offers the following biographic report on Jean-Francois Thibault, newly named French Ambassador to Rabat, who leaves his current position as MFA A/S-equivalent for North Africa/Middle East on June 27, 2006 and is expected to arrive in Rabat shortly thereafter. His MFA successor has n [...]	2006-06-26 13:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR XF MO FR
06PARIS4411	FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAFFARIN: CHIRAC SHOULD REIN [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin confided to Ambassador Stapleton during a June 15 lunch that he was worried by President Chirac's waning authority. Raffarin said he had advised the president on the importance of restoring the respective roles of the presidency, prime minister an [...]	2006-06-26 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS5000	MEMBER OF PROMINENT FRANCO-ALGERIAN FAMILY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Mehdi Zerhouni, a member of a prominent Franco-Algerian family and a relative of Algerian Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni, told us July 22 that discrimination in France against young men of Arab extraction remains "a big problem" for the country. While acknowledging that Interio [...]	2006-07-24 13:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PINR FR
06PARIS5106	CHAD: FORMER FM SALEH KEBZABO CRITICIZES DEBY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Chad FM Saleh Kebzabo (1996-1997) called on Africa Watcher July 6 to discuss current developments in Chad and the region. Kebzabo,s distaste for Deby and his government was easily discernible. Kebzabo saw little hope that Deby would engage with opposition figures. Kebza [...]	2006-07-27 15:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PINS CD FR
06PARIS5239	FRANCE: ENDING CHAD'S SUPPORT TO DARFUR MILITIAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A demarche, MFA DAS-equivalent Foucher said on August 2 that France shared the USG's concerns about Chadian support for militias in Darfur but believed that President Deby was not responsible for this support, which was being provided by other Chadians over w [...]	2006-08-02 16:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR CD SU FR
06PARIS5320	FRANCE: STATUS UPDATE ON HSPD-6 TERRORIST [...] (SBU) Since we last reported on HSPD-6 in October 2005 (ref B),the GOF has continued to express reservations about it based on its experience with No-Fly watchlisting, pending issues regarding data privacy and doubts about the potential benefits of data exchange. It has been careful however [...]	2006-08-07 12:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PTER PINR PGOV PREL FR
06PARIS535	PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS: FRANCE CONCERNED, WILL SEEK [...] (U) In a first official GOF reaction to Palestinian elections, Prime Minister Villepin said on January 26 that "we are in a situation that leads me to express my concern." He added that in order to work with the Palestinian government, certain conditions had to be met, including renunciation o [...]	2006-01-26 17:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR FR KPAL
06PARIS5974	FRENCH ELECTION 2007: NICOLAS SARKOZY -- THE [...] (C) Eight months before France's 2007 Presidential election, Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy remains the best positioned of the many contenders for France's presidency. He is a markedly different presidential heavyweight, pro-American and committed to free-market principles. Notwithstanding [...]	2006-09-06 15:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS5975	INTERIOR MINISTER SARKOZY ON EVE OF HIS TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told Ambassador September 5 he was "proud and honored" to be meeting with President Bush on September 12. President Chirac had pressured him "not to go to the U.S.," Sarkozy said, but this would not stop him from "affirming my loyal friendship" for the [...]	2006-09-06 15:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS6042	FRENCH AGREE WITH U.S. ON SERBIA'S NEED TO [...] (C) French MFA officers responsible for the Balkans confirmed on September 7 that the GOF was "completely in line" with U.S. thinking on Serbia's need to demonstrate effective cooperation with the ICTY. France, he said, had been skeptical about the EU "Action Plan" from the start and was now [...]	2006-09-08 15:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SR YI FR
06PARIS6246	FRANCE/COTE D'IVOIRE: NO EASY SOLUTION TO IMPASSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Charlotte Montel on September 15 expressed frustration with the stalled peace process and said there was no easy solution. Concerned countries had to continue efforts to move the process forward, however, in order to maintain some semblance of mo [...]	2006-09-18 14:59:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PINR IV FR
06PARIS6511	FRENCH MFA PLEADS FOR USG TO SEEK HRC SEAT [...] (C) MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini welcomed reftel demarche with affirmations of broad agreement between French and U.S. positions on the Human Rights Council (HRC) during a 9/27 meeting with poloff (ref A). Giacomini concurred on the necessity of maintaining country-specific mandate a [...]	2006-09-28 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC PINR CU FR
06PARIS6537	FRANCE/GUINEA: HOW WILL THE SUCCESSION PLAY OUT? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The succession question in Guinea remains a focus of French concerns, according to MFA desk officer Damien Syed. President Conte, in ill health, has not done much to prepare for it, and the GOF is concerned that the military, led by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colone [...]	2006-10-02 07:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID GV FR
06PARIS6611	NIGER/FRANCE: ENCOURAGING DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Encouraging the development of Niger's budding democracy is France's principal concern for that country, according to MFA desk officer Michael Deslaimes. France shares the U.S.'s general approach to Niger. In the GOF view, Niger enjoys relative stability when compared with its [...]	2006-10-04 14:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PINR PHUM KDEM NG FR
06PARIS6655	FRANCE/DJIBOUTI: MFA COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENTS IN [...] (C) MFA Djibouti Desk Officer Francois Gautier on October 6 commented on the Borrel case and investigative judge Sophie Clement's recent decision to issue warrants against four Djiboutians for their alleged knowledge of or involvement in the death of French magistrate Bernard Borrel in Djibo [...]	2006-10-06 13:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ICJ DJ FR
06PARIS6753	FRANCE/COTE D'IVOIRE: ECOWAS MEETING FAILS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Montel on October 10 expressed frustration that the October 6 ECOWAS summit accomplished little in moving the peace process forward, although she identified a number of points made by ECOWAS that were helpful (condemnation of Afi N'guessan, affirm [...]	2006-10-13 11:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KDEM UNSC IV SF FR
06PARIS6781	ELECTION 2007 TIMELINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The first round of France's next presidential election will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2007. Between now and then, the nomination of their candidates by the two major parties, the composition of the (long) list of participants in the first round of the election, and the [...]	2006-10-13 14:40:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS7153	TOGO: GILCHRIST OLYMPIO'S OCTOBER 23 MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: UFC leader Gilchrist Olympio on October 23 told visiting U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn that the UFC would be willing to participate in Togo's government of national unity under certain conditions, such as naming a UFC member to head a notional new ministry charged with over [...]	2006-11-02 07:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS7177	FRANCE SEES POST-DEBY CHAD APPROACHING [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's African Affairs Counselor Michel de Bonnecorse admitted to visiting U.S. Ambassador to Chad Marc Wall in an October 20 meeting that Deby's Presidency could be nearing its close, with assassination a growing possibility. The manner and place of Deby's demise - [...]	2006-11-02 14:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR KPKO SU CD FR
06PARIS7182	TOGO: FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR'S OCTOBER 26 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Africa Advisor Michel de Bonnecorse on October 26 said that the recently announced Togolese government was a "reasonable formula," in a meeting with transiting Ambassador David Dunn. He characterized Gilchrist Olympio, his UFC associates, and other non-participant [...]	2006-11-03 07:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS7200	TOGO/FRENCH MFA: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 24 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn, MFA DAS-equivalent Bruno Foucher said that Togo was evolving well. He complained that German caution was impeding the unblocking of EU funding for Togo; resuming economic assistance rapidly would help prevent To [...]	2006-11-03 13:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS7202	TOGO/FRENCH MOD: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn met with French Ministry of Defense officials on August 24. The discussion focused on Togo's military and how to decrease its involvement in internal security affairs, which should be handled by the police and gendarmerie. However, defining a [...]	2006-11-03 13:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR TO FR
06PARIS7335	TOGO: MEETING WITH ERIC AMERDING (UFC) [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Senior UFC member Eric Amerding on November 8 said that he had discussed Togo with EU Commission members on November 7, in response to an EU request for UFC views on developments in Togo. Amerding told the EU representatives that the Faure regime was not acting in [...]	2006-11-09 16:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS7364	FRANCE/SUDAN SANCTIONS: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION [...] (C) MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal provided the following biographical information to Africa Watcher on Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) (Ref A). Le Gal confirmed on November 7 that Ibrahim remains in France, where he has been unable to renew his tr [...]	2006-11-14 10:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR PTER PINS CD SU FR
06PARIS7393	COTE D'IVOIRE/FRANCE: INVESTIGATION OF NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: France's judicial investigation of the November 6, 2004, bombing of French forces in Cote d'Ivoire by the Ivoirian Air Force may be drawing to a close, according to recent developments reported by the press. Nine French military personnel and an Amcit civilian were killed in t [...]	2006-11-15 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MOPS IV TO BO RS UP FR
06PARIS741	TOGO: EX-MINISTER BOKO DISCUSSES RECENT EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's former Interior Minister Francois Boko on January 31 discussed Togo-Cote d'Ivoire arms trafficking (planes piloted by Belarusian mercenaries were involved in the November 2004 bombings in Cote d'Ivoire and had transited Togo, but France did not pursue information Boko says [...]	2006-02-03 15:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR PINR TO FR
06PARIS7424	SEGOLENE ROYAL'S VICTORY MOVES HER CLOSER TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Segolene Royal's overwhelming first-round victory in the November 16 Socialist Party (PS) presidential primary makes it official -- she will be the candidate of the center-left in next year's presidential election, likely in a tight race against the center-right's Nicolas Sarkozy. [...]	2006-11-17 14:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS7523	ASMARA FACILITATION IS A NON-STARTER, SLM LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Andrew Natsios met SLM Abdulwahid El-Nur on October 18. Nur said he and the SLM felt shunted aside by the U.S. and appealed for a strategic alliance to end the genocide in Darfur. SE Natsios emphasized the need to unify Darfur rebel factions and bring DPA non-sig [...]	2006-11-24 11:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR ER SU FR
06PARIS7541	FRENCH STRESS REGIONAL FALL-OUT OF DARFUR, PLEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy for Sudan Natsios and Ambassador Stapleton met on November 18 with French Presidential Africa Counselor Bonnecorse and MFA/AF A/S-Equivalent de Gliniasty Bonnecorse stressed French concern at the regional fallout of the Darfur catastrophe. The Sudanese program of [...]	2006-11-27 08:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPKO PINR CD CT SU FR
06PARIS7548	CHAD: FRENCH BELIEVE REBEL OFFENSIVE HAS RUNS ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA officials on November 27 said that the rebel offensive in Chad seemed to be subsiding after gains that peaked during the weekend. They believed that rebel elements were withdrawing eastward towards Sudan. President Deby, in contact with French officials in N'djamena, seeme [...]	2006-11-27 15:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MOPS PGOV PINS CD FR
06PARIS7549	RWANDA/FRANCE: "WE'RE BACK TO ZERO" [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-27 15:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RW FR
06PARIS7795	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH JACQUES [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried met with recognized intellectual and long-time Segolene Royal confidant Jacques Attali on December 6. Attali underlined that Royal, even though she is a leading contender for France's presidency in next spring's elections, has had very little experience making and [...]	2006-12-14 13:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EUN PINR SOCI ECON PREL FR
06PARIS953	EUR PDAS VOLKER'S FEB 3 MEETING WITH SARKOZY [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kurt Volker reviewed on February 3 with Patrick Devedjian, a former industry minister and key advisor to Interior Minister Sarkozy, how a possible Sarkozy administration would likely approach relations with the U.S. Devedjian said a Sarkozy [...]	2006-02-14 17:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS986	COMOROS PRESIDENT UNDERSCORES U.S. FRIENDSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Comoros President Assoumani Azali underscored to the Ambassador his cooperative relationship with the USG, including signature of an Article 98 agreement and counter-terrorism efforts. He regretted the absence of an accredited American ambassador to the Comoros. Azali related [...]	2006-02-15 18:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR PTER CN FR
06PHNOMPENH1927	CAMBODIAN RESPONSE ON NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Pol/Econ Chief raised the North Korean refugee issue with MFA Secretary of State Long Visalo on October 19. Visalo said that he would provide the copy of reftel non-paper to the Minister and brief him on the USG request. On the question of sensitivity to [...]	2006-10-24 08:14:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL ASEC PINR CB
06PODGORICA12	MONTENEGRO - COLLECTION OF TERRORIST DATA OVERSEAS [...] (SBU) Montenegro has a central immigration database kept in the Ministry of Interior headquarters which is used for tracking entries and exits. The database includes the registry of Montenegrin citizens, arrest warrants, etc. Montenegro has still not established a network to connect all border [...]	2006-11-30 11:47:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS
06PORTAUPRINCE1028	LAVALAS REUNIFICATION MEETING FAILS [...] (C) A June 2 meeting among Famni Lavalas (FL) leaders in Port-au-Prince ended in acrimony, as the participants failed to select a new ad interim leader (in the absence of former President Aristide). The meeting was reportedly spurred in part by an intense effort by Aristide to orchestrate hi [...]	2006-06-12 17:30:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1141	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEPORTEES WITH INTERIOR [...] Summary: The Ambassador called on the Minister of Interior Paul Antoine Bien-Aime on June 22. They discussed the Minister's priorities, the deportation and rendition programs, and ways to further US-Haitian law enforcement and security collaboration. Bien-Aime stated that internal security, [...]	2006-06-23 19:13:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1184	PREVAL TO GET ORGANIZED SOON [...] (C) Presidential advisor Alix Fils-Aime on July 27 told Polcouns that President Preval would complete the organization of his staff after his return from Europe on July 6, naming a chief-of-staff and moving operations to the national palace. Preval would not replace government staff below th [...]	2006-06-30 16:47:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1213	NOT QUITE READY FOR PRIME TIME? THE PREVAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-07 18:06:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1265	"REPORTS OF MY DEATH ARE GREATLY [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Haiti's infamous gossip network went into overdrive Tuesday and Wednesday as reports circulated widely that President Preval had died of a heart attack July 11 while working at the Presidential Palace. Pre [...]	2006-07-13 16:38:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1279	PREVAL ON SECURITY, POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT: "I [...] (C) Summary and comment. I met with President Preval early morning July 11 to discuss the current security environment, political issues, and his development priorities. I also pressed him on Haiti's position regarding Venezuela's bid for the UNSC seat (reported septel.) Preval contends Haiti [...]	2006-07-14 20:14:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ETRD EAID HA
06PORTAUPRINCE130	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH UN ASG FOR PEACEKEEPING [...] (C) Ass't Sec'y Gen'l Hedi Annabi (strictly protect) of DPKO came over for dinner a deux at the Residence 18 January to talk the issues: a Deputy SRSG position still MIA; Haitian pressure on SRSG Valdes to perform better; weakness in Jordanian military performance and possible U.S. actions t [...]	2006-01-19 19:55:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINS PINR PHUM HA JO
06PORTAUPRINCE1361	ASSISTANCE OF ICE OFFICERS TO U.S. EMBASSY, [...] The U.S. Embassy in Haiti wishes to express its appreciation to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Miami for its assistance in locating and interviewing a member of the Haitian Coast Guard who failed to return from training earlier this month. 2. Haitian Coast Guard Agent Ma [...]	2006-07-27 17:04:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR SMIG HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1365	JULY 20 REPATRIATION OF 139 HAITIAN AND 2 CUBAN [...] According to lead UN Police Maritime advisor, Officer Pat Evans, Haitian Coast Guard Detachment Cap-Haitien intercepted a 40 foot Haitian sailing sloop with 141 persons on board near Point Picholet on July 20 at 0315. The vessel was escorted back to Maritime Operations Center/Coast Guard Stat [...]	2006-07-27 18:41:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR SMIG HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1466	HAITI: INEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN CHAMBER OF [...] (U) Steven Benoit, L'Espwa deputy from Port-au-Prince, told poloff on July 27 that the Chamber of Deputies had not yet held a session that focused on its legislative agenda since opening the legislative season. During parliament's opening weeks, at least 70 deputies showed up for the thrice-w [...]	2006-08-09 17:08:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1561	PREVAL APPOINTS FORMER JEAN DOMINIQUE PROSECUTOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 18:05:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM PINR AA
06PORTAUPRINCE1604	FL MILITANT RENE CIVIL ARRESTED [...] (C) The Haitian National Police (HNP) on Friday, August 25 arrested Fanmi Lavalas (FL) militant Rene Civil in the upper-class Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, charging him with carrying an unlicensed firearm, driving a stolen car, and "association with malefactors." Government pro [...]	2006-08-29 17:53:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM KJUS ASEC PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1661	PREVAL HOME ALONE [...] Summary. Over four months into Preval's presidency, he has yet to form a staff allowing him to carry through policy initiatives. Preval confidante and advisor Robert Manuel serves as chief counselor. Gabriel Verret, who appears to have grown in influence advises Preval on economic matters. [...]	2006-09-07 17:40:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1690	SUB-CABINET SHAKEUP [...] (U) Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on September 7 announced the replacement of 10 of 18 directors general (DGs) in cabinet ministries and four of nine DGs in government agencies. DGs are third in the bureaucratic hierarchy, serve as chief operating officers, and traditionally manage pe [...]	2006-09-11 17:51:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	HA PGOV PINR
06PORTAUPRINCE1734	ARREST ORDERED FOR NUMBER 3 POLICE OFFICER [...] (U) Judge Napela Saintil on September 12 issued a bench warrant for Michael Lucius, the third highest ranking official in the Haitian police (HNP) who serves as the director of the criminal investigation unit (DCPJ). The warrant stems from charges of "complicity in kidnapping" that Saintil br [...]	2006-09-14 15:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1789	THE ROLE OF THE MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY RELATIONS [...] Sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. Summary: (SBU) Joseph Jasmin, a member of President Preval's Lespwa party and former deputy, serves as minister of parliamentary relations. The Preval administration created the position in hopes of improving the tumultuous relati [...]	2006-09-21 13:14:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE179	51 HAITIAN MIGRANTS REPATRIATED JANUARY 20 [...] (U) The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Decisive repatriated 51 Haitian migrants (48 men, three women) January 20 to Cap Haitian after interdicting a Haitian sail freighter approximately 40 miles south of Great Inagua, Bahamas January 18. The migrants came from the upper Northwest peninsula of Hait [...]	2006-01-25 16:18:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR SMIG HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2187	JUDICIAL/POLICE BATTLE RAGES [...] (C) Summary. Judge Napela Saintil on November 11 recused himself in the case against the Michael Lucius, the third-ranking member of the Haitian National Police (HNP) and director of its investigative unit (DCPJ). Port-au-Prince prosecutor Claudy Gassant (ref B) on November 13 subsequently a [...]	2006-11-14 19:52:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM SNAR PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2413	PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (U) President Preval's admission that he is undergoing treatment for recurring prostrate cancer (reftel) has refocused Haitian's attention on the constitutional provisions for succession to the presidency, only three yea [...]	2006-12-20 18:20:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE931	HAITI ELECTIONS: FINAL CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES LIST [...] Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Reftel reported final results of Haitian April 21 legislative elections and included the names of the 27 Senators elected. Below are the names of the 88/88 Deputies elected with available biographic information. The pending [...]	2006-05-24 16:55:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE936	PARLIAMENT TO CONSIDER ALEXIS NOMINATION FOR PM [...] (C) Summary: Parliament is set to open discussion on President Preval's nomination of Jacques Edouard Alexis today, May 24. Most observers expect a vote on Alexis by the end of this week. Political leaders have voiced objection to Alexis, but appear to be positioning themselves to negotiate [...]	2006-05-24 17:51:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE999	PROPOSED HAITIAN CABINET [...] (U) Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Eduoard Alexis presented his "general policy" (politique general) and introduced his proposed cabinet ministers to the national assembly today, June 6. As of this writing, Alexis is answering questions from each of the 27 senators. National assembly leader [...]	2006-06-06 18:49:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR HA
06PORTLOUIS722	MAURITIUS - NOVEMBER ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] Mauritius joined the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy),the fiber-optic undersea cable which will connect more than 20 African nations from South Africa to Sudan, as part of a wider plan to turn the country into a key Indian Ocean IT hub. The GOM Minister of Information Technology and [...]	2006-11-29 13:09:00	Embassy Port Louis	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV PINR MP
06PORTLOUIS743	MAURITIUS MOVES TOWARDS GREATER PEACEKEEPING ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary. Top Mauritian security officials committed publicly to increasing participation in international peacekeeping efforts. U.S. military officers training Mauritians say their constabulary Special Mobile Force is ideal for PKOs. Additional Mauritian attributes are the population,s [...]	2006-12-11 10:29:00	Embassy Port Louis	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PINR MP AU UN SADC
06PORTMORESBY170	VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN HONIARA [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-19 00:39:00	Embassy Port Moresby	SECRET	PGOV PINR CASC BP
06PORTMORESBY175	HONIARA STABILIZED - SOLOMON ISLANDS STILL A MESS [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-20 06:56:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CASC BP
06PORTMORESBY185	SOLOMON ISLANDS REMAINS TENSE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-24 07:04:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CASC BP
06PORTMORESBY188	SOLOMONS GETS DICEY - TIME FOR A U.S. STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-26 07:02:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BP
06PORTMORESBY338	SOLOMON ISLANDS - RAMSI FACES A BLEAK TIME [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-22 06:28:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BP
06PORTMORESBY353	SOLOMON ISLANDS - RIOT, ARSON, NOW MURDER [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-30 01:39:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BP
06PORTMORESBY381	SOLOMON ISLANDS: PM KICKS AUSTRALIA IN THE SHIN [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 07:13:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR BP
06PORTMORESBY385	SOLOMON ISLANDS: EXPRESSING USG CONCERNS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 06:50:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR BP
06PORTMORESBY400	TIME TO SPEAK ON SOLOMON ISLANDS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-22 06:00:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR BP
06PORTOFSPAIN1123	THE DELAWARE/T&T PARTNERSHIP: TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN [...] SUMMARY: Delaware Governor Ruth Minner's recent visit to T&T under the auspices of DOD's State Partnership Program was extraordinarily successful. The Delaware/T&T partnership should serve as a model not only for expanding military to military relationships but for effecting transformational [...]	2006-09-22 20:49:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MARR PINR TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1138	ARNOLD PIGGOTT, NEW TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO FOREIGN MINISTER [...] On September 29, the GOTT announced that present T&T High Commissioner to Canada Arnold Piggott has been appointed Foreign Minister, replacing Knowlson Gift who resigned his position on September 25. Arnold Piggott was immediately sworn in. 2. Since an official Ministry of Foreign Affairs [...]	2006-09-29 19:26:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR TD
06PORTOFSPAIN618	PRELIMINARY REPORT ON CARIBBEAN MUSLIM FORUM [...] (C) Political officer met with Imtiaz Ali, organizer of the Caribbean Muslim Forum (CMF),on May 15. Ali mentioned that initial planning was for this year's CMF to be held Easter weekend, to establish a pattern following the 2005 CMF, but that due to difficulties with organizing it for April [...]	2006-05-19 15:14:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KISL TD
06PORTOFSPAIN767	CARIBBEAN MUSLIM FORUM IN T&T [...] (U) The 2006 Caribbean Muslim Forum took place at the Trinidad campus of the University of the West Indies on June 18-19. Pol intern attended forum. Approximately 40-50 people attended, most from Trinidad but with a handful from throughout the region. The crowd was made up of about 2/3 East [...]	2006-06-22 18:56:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PTER KISL TD
06PORTOFSPAIN974	NEW CHIEF OF DEFENSE STAFF FOR T&T [...] According to press reports, T&T President George Maxwell Richards will promote Colonel Edmund Dillon to the rank of Brigadier General, on August 15, thereby officially making him Chief of Defense Staff. Dillon, who has been acting Chief of Defense staff, will succeed Brigadier General Ancil A [...]	2006-08-17 13:15:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MARR PINR TD
06PRAGUE1100	CZECHS REQUEST CLARIFICATION OF U.S. POSITION ON [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (C) Summary: The Czech Government is hesitant to use its upcoming meetings with Serbia to deliver a tough message on ICTY compliance because it is hearing mixed messages on how significant ICTY compliance will be i [...]	2006-09-11 05:05:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SR YI EZ
06PRAGUE1508	GWOT INFORMATION EXCHANGE: SEEN AS LINKED TO THE [...] (C) The Czechs have a modern immigration database available at all ports-of-entry, a comprehensive watchlist is in use, and they began issuing biometric passports in early September 2006. Biometric systems will be introduced at ports-of-entry once the Czech Republic joins the Schengen zone. [...]	2006-12-13 14:39:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CMGT CVIS EZ KVPR PGOV PINR PREL PTER
06PRAGUE1510	CZECH ATTITUDES TOWARD AFGHAN OPIUM PRODUCTION AND [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel, Czech authorities said that the increased production of opium in Afghanistan will not change the character of Czech operations in Afghanistan. Ministry of Interior officials doubt that the increased production would have a negative impact on Czech society as [...]	2006-12-14 07:43:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR EAID EUN SNAR AF EZ
06PRAGUE2	NEW CZECH DEPUTY PM FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS JIRI [...] (U) Czech Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Martin Jahn left office as expected December 31. Jahn is expected to begin working for an unnamed private sector firm in February; he is rumored to be assuming a position on the managing board of Skoda Auto. Jahn's replacement is Jiri Havel, Ch [...]	2006-01-03 09:43:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PINR EZ
06PRAGUE427	MARTIN BURSIK, MEAN GREEN CHAMELEON, POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. It looks increasingly likely that the Czech Green Party will cross the 5% threshold in the June 2-3 parliamentary elections, and have a say in the formation of the next coalition government. Martin Bursik, who became Chairman of the party six months ago, and who is given credit [...]	2006-04-25 10:46:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EZ PGOV PINR PREL
06PRAGUE535	CZECH ELECTIONS - THE FADING STIGMA OF COMMUNIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The stigma of having some form of association with either the pre-1989 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, or with its post-1989 successor, seems to be fading. A growing number of Czechs, though still in the minority, do not seem to mind the Communist Party. One major turning po [...]	2006-05-18 17:10:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL EZ
06PRAGUE745	RADIO FARDA DISPUTE AT CENTER STAGE IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-01 09:48:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC ENRG PGOV PINR CVIS EZ IR
06PRAGUE754	RADIO FARDA DISPUTE AT CENTER STAGE IN [...] (C) INTRODUCTION and SUMMARY: This is the first of three cables on Czech-Iranian relations. This message looks at several aspects of current ties, notably the impact of Prague-based broadcasting to Iran. The other two cables will focus more directly on non-proliferation. Czech-Iranian r [...]	2006-07-03 15:13:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC ENRG PGOV PINR CVIS EZ IR

06PRETORIA1158	SOUTH AFRICA: MOELETSI MBEKI SAYS DONORS HOLD THE [...] (U) Summary. Donors hold the key to economic reform in Africa, says Moeletsi Mbeki, businessman, political analyst, and brother of South African President Thabo Mbeki. In a recent address, Mbeki said that donors leverage more power than Africa's military or political elite. Mbeki explained t [...]	2006-03-22 10:27:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN PGOV EAID PINR SF
06PRETORIA1299	SOUTH AFRICA SHINES FATF SPOTLIGHT ON DEVELOPING [...] (SBU) Summary. The Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) demonstrated its commitment to Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) as observers during the February Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meetings in Cape Town. South Africa, as the c [...]	2006-03-31 10:21:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KFTN PTER ETTC PREL PGOV KCRM PINR SF
06PRETORIA2122	POLITICAL ANALYST WEIGHS IN ON ZUMA, ANC [...] (C) Summary: The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is currently in turmoil due to the ongoing battles between opponents and supporters of President Thabo Mbeki, according to noted political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi. Party deputy president Jacob Zuma's acquittal on rape charges and the su [...]	2006-05-24 10:28:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SF
06PRETORIA2138	PRESIDENT MBEKI ANNOUNCES CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (U) President Mbeki announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on May 22, following the May 7 death of Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau. Four serving ministers, all women, were appointed to new positions, and one deputy ministerial position was left vacant. 2. (U) Most notable was the appoin [...]	2006-05-25 11:51:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SF
06PRETORIA2545	THE MECHANICS OF SELECTING THE NEXT ANC PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The question of who will be elected the next president of the ruling African National Congress (and almost certainly national President in 2009) is one that has been hotly debated, from township shebeens to the op-ed pages, since Jacob Zuma was fired as Deputy President one year a [...]	2006-06-21 06:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SF
06PRETORIA3462	SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA SAYS PRESS FREEDOM IMPERILED BY [...] (U) A government proposal to amend South African's Films & Publications Act has been met by howls of protest from media groups who say it would bring back pervasive censorship not seen since the apartheid era. Currently, the Act exempts newspapers from the publications covered by its censorshi [...]	2006-08-23 07:14:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF
06PRETORIA4310	SOUTH AFRICA: VIEWS ON JACOB ZUMA'S POLITICAL [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. This is the first in a series of cables that will explore strengths and weaknesses of emerging candidates for the ANC and national presidencies in South Africa. Ref A provided brief profiles of possible contenders. This message presents current views of South [...]	2006-10-17 13:23:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KHIV KJUS SF
06PRETORIA4513	SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION CIRCLES ITS WAGONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The embattled South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) took another hit to its credibility with the unauthorized release of a report confirming the Managing Director of its News and Current Affairs Division banned certain commentators, in some cases for politically motivated [...]	2006-10-31 08:43:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF
06PRETORIA4593	SHAIK APPEALS UNANIMOUSLY DISMISSED [...] (SBU) On 6 November, the Supreme Court of Appeal unanimously rejected Schabir Shaik's appeals against his June 2005 fraud and corruption charges, almost guaranteeing that Shaik will begin his 15-year prison term within the next 72 hours. (Note: Shaik was sentenced to 15 years in prison on eac [...]	2006-11-06 13:01:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS SF
06PRETORIA4598	NEC MEMBER EBRAHIM SAYS TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: This is the second in a series of cables on the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging candidates for the ANC and national presidencies in South Africa (Ref A). This messages presents the view of Ebrahim Ebrahim, ANC National Executive Council member and forme [...]	2006-11-06 14:46:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SF
06PRETORIA4619	SHAIK APPELLATE DECISION PAVES ROAD FOR ZUMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. US Department of Justice Intermittent Legal Adviser (ILA) believes that the Supreme Court of Appeal's (SCA) 7 November verdict upholding Schabir Shaik's conviction is legally sound, provides little to nothing for Shaik to credibly challenge, and further bolsters the State's cas [...]	2006-11-07 15:48:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS SF
06PRETORIA4632	(C) IDASA'S MASAMVU SAYS SOUTH AFRICA PUSHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Africa wants Zimbabwean President Mugabe to annouce at the upcoming ZANU-PF congress that he will retire in 2008, according to IDASA analyst Sydney Masamvu. Masamvu says that former President Mandela met privately with Mugabe October 23 to encourage him to retire. Senior A [...]	2006-11-08 12:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ECON ZI SF
06PRETORIA4825	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLICLY CONFIRMS MBEKI-BUSH MEETING [...] (U) Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad yesterday confirmed to reporters that President Mbeki will be meeting President Bush at the White House on 8 December. Pahad admitted that the agenda has not been finalized, but added that free trade negotiations will inevitably be on the agenda as well a [...]	2006-11-24 15:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR ETRD SF
06PRETORIA4838	ANC RESPONDS TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS [...] (SBU) ANC National Assembly Chief Whip Mbuelo Goniwe was effectively stripped of his powers on 17 November, pending the outcome of a hearing by the party's National Disciplinary Committee (NDC). Goniwe is alleged to have demanded sex from a 21-year-old ANC intern on 25 October after she serve [...]	2006-11-27 14:54:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KWMN KJUS SF
06PRISTINA1052	KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERBS SKEPTICAL ABOUT PROPOSED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Croatian MP Dr. Milorad Pupovac is discretely working at the behest of Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku to organize an all-Kosovo Serb Congress to unify Kosovo Serbs and help them better represent themselves. Kosovo Serbs are skeptical about this endeavor, and key leaders are spl [...]	2006-12-09 12:12:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1053	'TIS THE SEASON ... SERB CCK OBSTRUCTION FORCES [...] (C) Summary: A newly appointed hard-line Serb CCK leader in Gjilane/Gnjilane reportedly exerted strong pressure on the parents of Serb children who were allowing their children to sing in a USOP holiday concert. The Serb children from the Gjilane area are members of Kosovo's only mixed-ethnic [...]	2006-12-09 12:29:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL PINR KDEM YI
06PRISTINA1072	KOSOVO: GORANI EDUCATION DISAGREEMENT ILLUSTRATES [...] (SBU) A long-simmering disagreement between Gorani leaders, Kosovar education officials, and Belgrade's Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK) highlights the complex situation of the Gorani, a Muslim minority who live in the southern part of Dragas municipality and speak a dialect o [...]	2006-12-15 10:43:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA1091	KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS: OMPF REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) has asked the USG to pay the salaries up to three forensic specialists to assist with ongoing exhumations, autopsies and identifications of war victims. OMPF is very concerned about the lack of local capacity to carry out [...]	2006-12-20 16:10:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI
06PRISTINA1099	KOSOVO: NEW MISSING PERSONS COMMISSION NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo Government's new missing persons commission met for the first time on December 13 to discuss its composition and competencies. While the establishment of the commission is a positive step on a political level, the government is currently unprepared to take on the h [...]	2006-12-22 17:12:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
06PRISTINA1117	KOSOVO ASHKALI LEADERS THREATEN TO WITHDRAW FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina District Court sentenced Kosovo MP and President of the Ashkali Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDAK) Sabit Rrahmani to five months in prison for fraud. Fellow PDAK party leaders do not deny the charges, but told us that Ashkali are being targeted for prosecution, an [...]	2006-12-28 13:44:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
06PRISTINA232	SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 24 VISIT OF CODEL VOINOVICH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo has a new, stronger government, and is starting to get serious about the compromises needed to ensure that status negotiations result in the independence they so desire. The Kosovo Albanian negotiating team has made a well-received proposal on decentralization, but need [...]	2006-03-15 18:19:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA240	KOSOVO'S NON-SERB MINORITIES LOOKING FOR MORE CLOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo's non-Serb minorities are trying to increase their role in the new Kosovo government and solidify their participation on Kosovo's delegation to status negotiations. Non-Serb minorities currently control the health ministry, fill a rotating seat in the Assembly Presidenc [...]	2006-03-16 16:10:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA242	NEW KOSOVO PRIME MINISTER ROARS OUT OF THE GATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In two meetings this week, COM found new Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku already deeply immersed in policy and quickly getting up to speed on economic issues that demand rapid resolution. He has gained the attention of his cabinet by announcing that the tenures of all ministers will [...]	2006-03-17 13:41:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA265	KOSOVO: PROGRESS NEEDED ON MISSING PERSONS CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina and Belgrade delegations at the March 9 meeting of the working group on missing persons agreed that progress on the identification and return of remains from the 1999 conflict is too slow. Kosovo's delegation demanded the immediate return of the 180 remaining bodi [...]	2006-03-24 10:05:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA285	KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU REACHES OUT TO MINORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Fatmir Sejdiu visited Dragas/Dragash and Orahovac/Rahovec municipalities and discussed (in Serbian) standards implementation, freedom of movement, inter-ethnic relations and economic development in public meetings with minorities. He plans to make more outreach trip [...]	2006-03-30 14:22:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA290	KOSOVO SERB PUBLIC SERVANTS FORCED TO CHOOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 21, Belgrade-based chief of the Kosovo Coordination Center (CCK) Sanda Raskovic-Ivic told public sector Kosovo Serbs that Serbia will no longer pay salaries to employees who also receive salaries from Pristina. Many Kosovo Serbs believe that if they choose Pristina, [...]	2006-03-31 16:42:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA333	VISIT OF SENATOR VOINOVICH TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In meetings with Prime Minister Agim Ceku and President Fatmir Sejdiu during his March 24 visit to Kosovo, Senator George Voinovich urged the new leaders to reach out to Kosovo Serbs and to show them and leaders in Belgrade that Kosovo's government is serious about creating a K [...]	2006-04-19 15:23:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA338	UNMIK FACILITATES OUTREACH TO NORTH KOSOVO SERBS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 19 UNMIK hosted the first meeting of the Mitrovica Focus Group to encourage engagement between northern Kosovo Serb leaders and the international community. The regional CCK representative, the mayors of the three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the UNMIK adv [...]	2006-04-21 13:42:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA352	KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...]	2006-04-26 13:08:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA381	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO INR BALKAN ANALYST [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to INR Balkan Analyst Robert Nash to visit Pristina May 18 to May 20, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to meet with host government officials and representatives of political parties and other groups on domestic and regional issues. C [...]	2006-05-05 07:25:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PINR SR ASEC YI
06PRISTINA384	KOSOVO SERB POLITICIANS VIE FOR POWER IN PRISTINA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After several tumultuous months, the Serbian Democratic Party -- the only Kosovo Serb party actively participating in the Kosovo government -- held an extraordinary party assembly on April 29 and re-elected Slavisa Petkovic as party president over the protests of a strong mino [...]	2006-05-05 16:38:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KCRM PINR UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA410	BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: KOSOVO PAST AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) removed Nexhat Daci as Kosovo Assembly president on March 10, 2006, and replaced him with Kole Berisha. Both will visit the United States in the coming week. Their diametrically-opposed leadership styles engender continued criticism for Da [...]	2006-05-12 17:18:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA427	KOSOVO: NON-SERB MINORITIES AMBIVALENT ABOUT [...] (SBU) Kosovo's non-Serb minority leaders are glad to be involved in the status negotiations in Vienna and generally pleased with the work of the Communities Consultative Council, but are concerned about what they see as Belgrade's efforts to manipulate non-Serb minority issues for its own adv [...]	2006-05-18 15:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA437	KOSOVO SCENESETTER FOR MAY 21-23 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wisner's visit finds Kosovo Albanian final status negotiators struggling to cope with the new shuttle phase of talks on decentralization. They are quickly learning that they are not as well prepared for the give-and-take of bargaining as they were for developing broad [...]	2006-05-19 14:58:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL YI
06PRISTINA448	RELATIONS BETWEEN DECANI MONASTERY AND LOCAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the month since SRSG Jessen-Petersen extended the controversial protection zone around Decani Monastery, relations between the Monastery and the local Kosovo Albanian community have improved. KFOR has removed the fixed checkpoint outside the monastery and replaced it with [...]	2006-05-24 15:10:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA450	SCENESETTER FOR MAY 26 VISIT OF CODEL INHOFE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The new Kosovo government, formed in March after the death of President Ibrahim Rugova in January, is focused on status negotiations, implementation of the "Standards for Kosovo" program, and the transfer of governing competencies as UNMIK winds down its presence in Kosovo. Alt [...]	2006-05-24 18:44:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA461	KOSOVO: ICTY DEFENSE TEAM VISIT TO MASSACRE SITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The unannounced visit of two Serbian ICTY defense lawyers to a rural village that was the site of a 1999 Serb-on-Albanian massacre caused an uproar among village residents, virtually all of whom are relatives of the victims. Kosovo Albanians blocked the main village road and s [...]	2006-05-30 06:29:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA480	FUNDING FOR MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the recent confrontation between police and families of the missing in Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa demonstrates, missing persons remains a volatile issue in Kosovo (Ref A). The USG has helped fund both UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) and the Kosovo oper [...]	2006-06-05 16:45:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA484	KOSOVO SERB HARDLINERS CALL FOR SELF DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to the OSCE, 500-700 people participated in a June 5 demonstration in Zvecan against recent acts of violence against Kosovo Serbs. Local leaders announced a resolution by the Zvecan municipal assembly to end contact with the Kosovo government until the crimes are s [...]	2006-06-06 16:38:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA495	RIFT WIDENS BETWEEN HARD-LINE AND MODERATE SERBIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ever since moderate Bishop Teodosije welcomed Kosovo President Sejdiu to Decani Monastery on Orthodox Easter, the rift between Teodosije and hard-line Bishop Artemije has widened. After the visit, Artemije blasted Teodosije in the media, and the hardline Serbian National Coun [...]	2006-06-09 17:07:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR SOCI KIRF KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA518	SECURITY HEIGHTENED IN NORTH AFTER SERB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Municipal assemblies in all three of Kosovo's northern Serb-majority municipalities have passed resolutions calling for a cessation of existing minimal ties with the central government in Pristina. The resolutions express dissatisfaction with the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) a [...]	2006-06-16 17:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA534	KOSOVO: VIOLENT DEATH OF ELDERLY SERB RAISES FEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An elderly Kosovo Serb returnee was found dead on June 20 from a gunshot wound to the head in western Kosovo's Klina municipality. Police tell us informally that the path of the bullet (entry through the front of the neck and exit through the top of the head) would ordinarily [...]	2006-06-21 18:37:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PREF PREL PGOV PINR SCUL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA554	KOSOVO: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER ICTY VISIT; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several widows from the Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa massacre say they first assisted a visiting UN convoy on May 25, but then grew suspicious when the convoy showed interest in the local Serb graveyard and the homes of former Serb residents. One widow expressed no remorse over [...]	2006-06-27 16:03:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA564	KOSTUNICA VISIT TO KOSOVO SPARKS ONLY ISOLATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica visited Gracanica monastery in Kosovo on June 28 to commemorate Vidovdan. Despite receiving UNMIK permission to visit Kosovo only for personal, religious reasons, Kostunica used the opportunity to make a provocative speech in which he [...]	2006-06-29 16:30:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA575	NORTH MITROVICA LEADERS CLARIFY MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two influential Kosovo Serbs from north Mitrovica clarified recent declarations issued by Kosovo's three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the Mitrovica advisory board ostensibly cutting off ties with the government in Pristina. UNMIK representatives say the declarati [...]	2006-07-07 13:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PREF
06PRISTINA579	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GONZALEZ, WALDRON AND KAHRS [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Biographic Officer Ana-Christina Gonzalez and Political Officers Brooke Waldron and Susan Kahrs to visit Pristina July 15-19, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to consult with and debrief USOP officials regarding key government and op [...]	2006-07-10 12:23:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR OTRA SR
06PRISTINA584	SERBIA REPATRIATES FINAL SETS OF HUMAN REMAINS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an emotional handover on June 30, Serbia repatriated to Kosovo the final sets of human remains found in known mass grave sites in Serbia. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is now working to perform autopsies on the remains and return the few that were i [...]	2006-07-11 17:52:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID
06PRISTINA598	NORTHERN KOSOVO SERB MAYORS NOT MASTERS OF THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The mayor of the Serb-majority northern Kosovo municipality of Zvecan insisted to USOP that his decision to cut ties with the Kosovo Government was a reasonable expression of frustration with the failure of the Kosovo police to solve crimes against Serbs. The mayors of the other [...]	2006-07-17 17:36:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA608	KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS FORENSICS HAMPERED BY LACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is faces severe staffing and funding shortages which are hampering its ability to resolve cases of missing persons. Despite fewer leads on potential new grave sites, OMPF is still very busy with a few ongoing exhumations [...]	2006-07-19 18:00:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID
06PRISTINA614	MODERATE KOSOVO CHURCH LEADERS, UNOSEK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Father Sava told PolOff that he personally supports UNOSEK proposals for the protection of cultural heritage. He said the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),however, cannot support the proposals publicly so long as the government in Belgrade continues to oppose them. Sava critic [...]	2006-07-21 16:40:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA639	COM URGES MODERATE KOSOVO SERB LEADERS TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During introductory meetings with moderate Kosovo Serb leaders Oliver Ivanovic, Bishop Teodosije and Father Sava, COM echoed recent comments by Ambassador Wisner about the importance of active and direct engagement in status negotiations during the coming weeks. Ivanovic, Teod [...]	2006-08-02 16:22:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA647	MODERATE OLIVER IVANOVIC CLAIMS TO BE LAUNCHING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Moderate Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic has filed papers with the OSCE to establish a new political party and has requested funding for a new NGO designed to reduce the influence of Belgrade political parties on Kosovo Serbs. However, his new party is a local branch of a [...]	2006-08-04 15:23:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA663	KOSOVO: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN BABIN MOST [...] (SBU) On August 6, the priest in the ethnic-Serb majority village of Babin Most (Obiliq/Obilic municipality) reported that unknown perpetrators vandalized and robbed his church. He said that several icons were damaged or stolen, along with 800 euros in church funds. On August 6 the Acting Chi [...]	2006-08-11 09:00:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PHUM KRIF
06PRISTINA726	KOSOVO: SERB LEADERS CLOSE THEIR EYES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kosovo Serb leaders, particularly in the north, are abundantly aware that the likeliest outcome of the status process is independence. Nevertheless, they continue to deny that a status decision will apply to them. Some express hard-line views on secession and violence if indep [...]	2006-09-01 18:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA742	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HALLBERG, DUDLEY AND MEGES [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Political Officers Kent B. Hallberg and Mark Dudley and Economic Officer Daniel Meges to visit Pristina September 10-13, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to consult with USOP officials. Point of contact is Political Officer David W [...]	2006-09-08 09:17:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR OTRA SR
06PRISTINA766	KOSOVO: SOUTHERN SERB MUNICALITY OF STRPCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kosovo Serb leaders of Strpce municipality complain that despite running "the only real multi-ethnic municipality in Kosovo," their efforts are severely hampered by dwindling resources from Pristina. While admitting that they also receive financial transfers from Belgrade, these [...]	2006-09-12 16:53:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA781	KOSOVO: TURKISH LANGUAGE LAW MOTION REJECTED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A motion to make Turkish an official language of Prizren municipality and change the population requirement for official languages from 6% to 5% was rejected September 14 in a 48-41 vote of the Kosovo Assembly. Though Assembly votes are anonymous, all signs indicate the majority [...]	2006-09-16 15:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA782	KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS DIALOGUE: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Families of the missing gathered in Pristina and Gracanica on August 30 to commemorate the International Day of Missing Persons, protest lack of progress in resolving cases and bring public attention to the almost 2,300 persons still missing from the Kosovo conflict. Although [...]	2006-09-18 12:24:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA803	KOSOVO: SMALL NEW SERB PARTY DARES TO POSIT A [...] (C) SUMMARY. The newly-formed Autonomous Liberal Party (SLS) seeks to represent Kosovo Serbs who want to stay and integrate into Kosovo institutions and society, regardless of the outcome of the status process. Party President Slobodan Petrovic told us the SLS is more concerned with the impa [...]	2006-09-22 14:46:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA853	FERIZAJ LEADERS AGREE TO REPAIR ROOF ON VANDALIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 6 Ferizaj/Urosevac Municipal leaders promised visiting poloff and a U.S. sergeant involved in civil-military operations in the area that they would pay for the August theft of the copper roof of the St. Uros church. (The thief, who was apprehended shortly after the [...]	2006-10-10 14:33:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA924	KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERB PROPOSES ALL-SERB ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Apart from his work as owner and director of TV Mir, former Kosovo Serb politician Nenad Radosavljevic has suggested several mechanisms that he says will ensure that Kosovo Serbs can effectively participate in post-status institutions. In a recent meeting with USOP, he proposed [...]	2006-11-03 14:52:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA985	KOSOVO: BELGRADE'S COORDINATION CENTER VIEWED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Several prominent Kosovo Serbs shared with us their disdain for the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK),the Serbian state institution established ostensibly to take care of their needs. Moderates and hardliners alike called the CCK a "money laundering" operation, [...]	2006-11-20 14:09:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06QUITO1702	NEW MINGOV NAMED [...] Summary: As part of an ongoing cabinet reshuffle on July 11, President Palacio replaced Minister of Government Felipe Vega with Antonio Andretta and Minister of Public Works Derlis Palacios with Pedro Lopez Torres. While Vega, Palacio's fifth Minister of Government, has been linked to charg [...]	2006-07-13 11:41:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EC PINR PREL
06QUITO1803	ECUADOR,S NEW ECONOMIC CZAR: SCUFFED GOODS, [...] (C) Summary: New Ecuadorian Economy Minister Armando Rodas recently presented a sober six-month economic plan, lending a technocratic polish to an appointment painted in politics. End summary. 2. (C) On July 17, Ecuadorian Minister of Economy and Finance Armando Rodas (for biodata, see reft [...]	2006-07-21 17:57:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EC EFIN ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV PINR PREL
06QUITO1860	WHO'S ON FIRST? PALACIO NAMES FIFTH TRADE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the embarrassment of Roberto Illingworth,s hasty resignation ended his tenure of less than one week (which in turn had followed the very brief turn in the office by Joaquin Cevallos),Ecuadorian President Alfredo Palacio named relative unknown Tomas Peribonio as his [...]	2006-07-28 19:11:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EC EFIN ETRD PGOV PINR PREL
06QUITO2138	A THOUSAND CHARIOTS IN THE FIELDS: CHINESE PLAYERS [...] (C) Summary: With their $1.4 billion acquisition of Canadian EnCana, China's state oil companies announced their entrance as major players in Ecuador's and the region's petroleum industry. Now with active participation in at least five of Ecuador's petroleum blocks, and with further investmen [...]	2006-08-25 12:31:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PINR PREL ETRD EC CN
06QUITO2315	GOE'S UNGA PRINCIPALS: EXPERIENCED PERMREP, [...] (C) Summary: This report on the GOE's UNGA principals responds to questions posed by the Department in Ref A. The GOE has an experienced and capable UN PermRep in Diego Cordovez. Relations between President Alfredo Palacio and FM Francisco Carrion are generally close, but include tensions [...]	2006-09-15 20:52:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR UN EC
06QUITO2434	Ecuador's Presidential Spokesman Resigns and Criticizes [...] (SBU) The Palacio administration remains rife with internal divisions and instability, most recently reflected in the resignation of the Presidential spokesman. Enrique Proano, Secretary of Communication and spokesman for Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio, resigned on Sept. 25, 2006, and pu [...]	2006-10-03 21:20:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV EC
06QUITO2549	MINISTER OF ECONOMY RODAS RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Economy and Finance Armando Rodas submitted his resignation late on October 17. On October 18 President Palacio named Jose Jouvin as the new Minister of Economy, the fifth to occupy that position since Palacio became president in April 2005. While Rodas's resignati [...]	2006-10-18 22:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PINR EC
06QUITO2714	FEAR AND LOATHING IN ECUADOR: NERVOUS APPLAUSE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Substantial media attention given to the Department's approval of a 212(f) visa revocation for corruption of a prominent Ecuadorian politician, Xavier Neira, has elicited broad approval from opinion makers and the general populace. The impetus for the revocations, Neira,s corrupt [...]	2006-11-08 20:55:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KIPR CVIS PINR ETRD EINV EC
06QUITO3072	CORREA DEBT MANAGEMENT: ECUADORIAN OBSERVERS [...] (C) Summary. President-elect Correa and Economic Minister-designate Patino continue to talk about rescheduling Ecuador's external debt. However, former and current Ministry of Economy officials agree that Correa will be pragmatic and conclude that it is not in Ecuador's interest to default. [...]	2006-12-20 10:08:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV KBIO PINR EC
06QUITO3075	CORREA NAMES NEW CABINET MEMBERS, INCLUDING LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 19 President-Elect Rafael Correa announced two new cabinet level ministers and four lower level positions. The new officials named were: Antonio Gagliardo Valarezo, Minister of Labor; Raul Carrion Fiallos as Sports Minister; Monica Chuji Gualinga will be the Commun [...]	2006-12-21 07:26:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR EC
06QUITO674	VEGA NAMED NEW MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Summary: Felipe Vega de La Cuadra was announced as the next Minister of Government and will be sworn in on March 20, becoming President Palacio's fifth Minister of Government. Vega replaces Alfredo Castillo in the volatile position, after Castillo submitted his resignation amid anti-FTA [...]	2006-03-17 21:39:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR EC
06RABAT1093	THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND THE U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) On the margins of a meeting with Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Benaissa on June 5 to reinforce the May 31 conversation the DCM had with the MFA Secretary Geeral Omar Hilale on the U.S. Statement on Iran (eftels A and B). The [...]	2006-06-06 14:28:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR PGOV PREL PBTS PINR MO
06RABAT1358	PJD AND HAMAS: MOROCCAN POLITICAL PARTY SUPPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Morocco's largest Islamist political party, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) (Ref A),could win up to 46 percent of the votes in the 2007 legislative elections, according to results from a hypothetical vote question in a poll conducted by the International Republican I [...]	2006-07-17 17:07:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PINR MO
06RABAT1374	MINISTRY OF INTERIOR'S SECRET PLAN FOR MOROCCO'S [...] (U) Summary: French language weekly, Le Journal Hebdomaire (July 15),reported on the Moroccan Ministry of Interior (MOI)'s projections on the 2007 legislative elections. The projections confirmed the preeminence of the Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD),the strong position of [...]	2006-07-20 14:45:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR MO
06RABAT1415	ELECTIONS ISSUES ATTRACTING ATTENTION IN THE PRESS [...] (U) Summary: The 2007 legislative elections are getting increasing coverage in Moroccan press outlets. French-language dailies, Le Matin and Liberation, both published articles on the threat "political nomadism" presents to democracy and how the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) Party [...]	2006-07-26 12:39:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR MO
06RABAT1458	THE KINGDOM FIGHTS SEXUAL HARASSMENT [...] (U) Sexual harassment could not be openly discussed in Morocco until a group of women textile workers decided to go on strike at the Manufacture du Morocco, a textile plant in the suburbs of Rabat, because of the extreme sexual harassment company officials committed against their union leader [...]	2006-07-31 16:57:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL MO
06RABAT1483	NDI: UNCLE SAM WANTS TO "EDUCATE" MOROCCAN [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: French-language daily, l'Economiste (August 1),published an article about the "American-Canadian" National Democratic Institute (NDI),entitled "An NGO to 'educate' the parties." The article, which in [...]	2006-08-04 12:06:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR MO
06RABAT1504	TERRORIST CELL DISMANTLED [...] (U) SUMMARY: ON AUGUST 7, THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR (MOI) ISSUED A COMMUNIQU THAT THE MOROCCAN GENERAL TERRITORIAL SECURITY SERVICES (DGST) DISMANTLED A TERRORIST CELL COMPRISED OF 44 INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE PREPARING TO OPERATE IN MOROCCO. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) ACCORDING TO THE MOI, TH [...]	2006-08-08 16:41:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL MO
06RABAT1506	JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTRIES COLLABORATE ON [...] (U) On August 4, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) signed a joint communique expressing their determination to counter any violation of the legal conditions of the upcoming Upper House parliamentary elections, as reported in all major media outlets. The ele [...]	2006-08-08 17:15:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL MO
06RABAT1540	2006 THRONE DAY SPEECH: MORE CONFIDENCE, LESS [...] (C) Summary: King Mohammed VI delivered his seventh Throne Day speech on July 30 (reftel C). This year's speech followed the model established in his 1999 speech -- a recapitulation of accomplishments over the past year. Only the 2004 and 2005 (reftel A) speeches diverged from the accomplis [...]	2006-08-15 09:43:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL MO
06RABAT1579	A TERRORIST PLOT: EXPOSURE AND DISCUSSION [...] (C) Summary: On August 8, security forces reported in the press that forty-four (44) suspected terrorists were arrested in July and accused of preparing to conduct terrorist attacks. Five of the arrested are Moroccan soldiers specializing in explosives. The terrorists have been widely critic [...]	2006-08-23 15:59:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL PINR MO
06RABAT1617	MOROCCO: CANCELLATION OF FLIGHT TRANSPORTING TWO [...] (C) On August 29, Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism officer Karim Halim, formally notifying the GOM of the cancellation of the proposed flight that would have included two Moroccan national NLECs from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Morocco and several othe [...]	2006-08-30 15:48:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PINR MO
06RABAT1632	MOROCCO TIGHTENS AIRPORT SECURITY [...] (C) The arrest of four women, two married to pilots of the national carrier Royal Air Maroc, has resulted in increased security measures at all Moroccan airports. The women were arrested for involvement in the Ansar Al Mahdi terrorist cell, initially broken-up by Moroccan security forces on [...]	2006-09-01 18:46:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR MO PINR PTER
06RABAT1697	MOROCCO: NOTICE OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Poloffs met September 11 with MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism Officer Karim Halim to notify the GOM of the start of the second round of Administrative Review Board (ARB) proceedings (reftel),which will include consideration of the cases of Moroccan nationals Ahmad Abdullah Al-W [...]	2006-09-12 11:42:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PREL KAWC MO
06RABAT1745	MOROCCO: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 20, following a brief pre-meeting, Polcouns and Russian DCM Mikhail Golovanov jointly delivered the text of Statement of Principles, Explanatory Notes Regarding the Statement of Principles, an [...]	2006-09-20 18:07:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO
06RABAT1770	MOROCCO: CHANGE OF DATE FOR FIRST MEETING OF THE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 22, Poloff informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) that the United States and Russia agreed to its preference (ref A) to hold the first Global Initiative meeting in Morocco on October 3 [...]	2006-09-22 15:45:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO
06RABAT1771	MOROCCO: CHANGE OF DATE FOR FIRST MEETING OF THE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 22, Poloff informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) that the United States and Russia agreed to its preference (ref A) to hold the first Global Initiative meeting in Morocco on October 3 [...]	2006-09-22 15:45:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO
06RABAT1774	BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY MEET [...] (C) Summary: On September 14, the thirteen member Business Executives for National Security (BENS) group met with Abdallah Saleddine Tazi, Director of American Affairs, Wassane Zailachi, Chief of the North America, Mexico and Central America Division, Karim Halim, Counselor in the Directorat [...]	2006-09-22 18:06:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PINS ECON MO
06RABAT1793	MOROCCO: REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO REFUEL [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) On September 25, poloffs notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USG's intent to repatriate Moroccan detainee Ben Moujan and the request to refuel the aircraft en route to other destinations (reftel). Counselor for Bila [...]	2006-09-26 18:01:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PTER PREL MO
06RABAT1890	GLOBAL INITIATIVE: MOROCCO WELCOMES AND OFFERS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on October 6, Ambassador Riley thanked Minister Delegate Taieb Fassi Fihri for agreeing to host the Initial Partner Nations (IPNs) meeting on October 30-31 of the Global [...]	2006-10-10 15:11:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO
06RABAT2010	(C-NE6-01369) POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" East of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self-d [...]	2006-10-30 11:21:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PINR PGOV MO AG KPKO WI
06RABAT2149	IRAN BRIEFING: MOROCCO OPPOSED TO IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 10:41:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PINR KNNP IR MO
06RABAT2184	HIGH-LEVEL GOM SUPPORT FOR NEW CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT VIOLENCE [...] Summary: The Fourth National Campaign to Fight Violence Against Women was officially launched in Rabat November 27 by the Secretariat of State for Family Affairs, Childhood and the SIPDIS Handicapped. The attendance at the launch of the Prime Minister and other key GOM officials underlined [...]	2006-11-29 16:45:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL MO
06RABAT2189	HIGH-LEVEL GOM SUPPORT FOR NEW CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT VIOLENCE [...] Summary: The Fourth National Campaign to Fight Violence Against Women was officially launched in Rabat November 27 by the Secretariat of State for Family Affairs, Childhood and the SIPDIS Handicapped. The attendance at the launch of the Prime Minister and other key GOM officials underlined [...]	2006-11-30 10:00:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL MO
06RABAT2306	GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR - PURSUIT OF TERRORIST [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 14:13:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS MO
06RABAT326	WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCO SEEKS US INTERVENTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOM has asked at the highest levels that the U.S. demarche Algeria to help prevent a march of Sahrawi and European civilians across the berm in the Western Sahara, and the heavily land-mined area adjacent to the berm, reportedly planned by the Polisario to occur in conjuncti [...]	2006-02-24 14:53:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	AG KPKO MO PARM PBTS PINR PREL
06RABAT341	WESTERN SAHARA: US INTERVENTIONS CONCERNING [...] (C) Ambassador Thomas T. Riley called Foreign Minister Benaissa to update him on the steps taken by the USG (reftel) regarding a potential Polisario organized march on the berm in the Western Sahara on February 27. The Ambassador informed the Foreign Minister that the Department of State, E [...]	2006-02-24 19:02:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	AG KPKO MO PARM PBTS PINR PREL
06RABAT540	THE BERBER (AMAZIGH) IN MOROCCO, PART I [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff and PAO traveled from Rabat to Al-Akhawayn University, located in the foothills of the Middle Atlas mountain range, south to Erfoud in the anti-Atlas, west to Agdaz and north to Ouarzazate and through the High Atlas range to Marrakesh from March 10 through March 17 on a c [...]	2006-03-28 11:06:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO

06RABAT567	THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART II: ERFOUD AND RISSANI [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of cables drawn from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas from March 10-17. Erfoud is a medium-sized town, which is quickly becoming a tourist hub for the region, whereas Rissani is a small town on the road sou [...]	2006-03-30 17:01:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL
06RABAT615	THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART III: ASSOCIATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: This cable is the third in a series of cables from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas (south side of the Atlas Mountains) from March 10-17. The area discussed is part of the Meknes-Tafilalt region (reftels) and, like the Erfoud area, it [...]	2006-04-06 16:29:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL MO
06RABAT635	THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART IV: WESTERN ANTI-ATLAS [...] (C) Summary: From March 10-17, Poloff and PAO were on a combined outreach and reporting trip in the anti-Atlas, south of the Atlas mountains on the edge of the Sahara Desert. This cable is the fourth in a series. The population of the western section of the anti-Atlas is larger, and, the as [...]	2006-04-07 16:08:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL MO
06RABAT676	IS THERE AN AMAZIGH (BERBER) IDENTITY IN MOROCCO? [...] (C) Summary: While the constitution of Morocco recognizes ethnic and religious diversity, it is also clear that citizens are to think of themselves as Moroccan, not as members of separate ethnic or religious groups. Recent Amazigh history in Morocco (reftel A),however, points to the perse [...]	2006-04-14 16:33:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO
06RABAT729	SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: Morocco is engaging in a disingenuous process to delay movement toward a negotiated settlement of the Western Sahara conflict. Its domestic consultations on autonomy for the Western Sahara cannot be taken seriously, and have thus far excluded those who might offer differing p [...]	2006-04-20 18:44:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPKO UNUS MO AG
06RABAT908	AMAZIGH (BERBER) CONFERENCE DEMANDS [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) Le Reporter (April 20),a weekly French-language magazine format journal, reported the results of the April 7 and 8 Amazigh (Berber) conference held in Meknes. (Note: Meknes is located east of Rabat in the Mekne [...]	2006-05-10 08:32:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO
06RABAT913	WESTERN SAHARA: GOM WILL PROCEED WITH OHCHR VISIT [...] (SBU) MFA Director of UN and International Affairs Nasser Bourita told Polcouns May 10 that the May 15 visit of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) was going forward, and the program had been prepared. The delegation, which would not include Louise Arbour, would arrive [...]	2006-05-10 18:37:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MO PBTS PHUM PREL PINR
06RABAT918	CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN MOROCCO: IS IT ON THE [...] (C) Summary: Constitutional reform is regularly brought up by contacts and is occasionally a topic in the press. Reform, however, does not mean the entire constitution but rather portions of it which directly relate to the interest or interests of a particular group. Whereas Moroccans desc [...]	2006-05-11 13:49:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR MO
06REYKJAVIK119	ICELAND: COAST GUARD DIRECTOR SHUT OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: In informal conversation 3/31 Icelandic Ministry of Justice Deputy Permanent Secretary disclosed to Embassy that Coast Guard Director Georg Larusson has lost the confidence of Minister of Justice Bjarnason because he is not seen as a team player. This explains why decisions about [...]	2006-04-03 18:00:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PINR IC
06REYKJAVIK140	APRIL 2006 DEFENSE DISCUSSIONS: ICELAND'S RED [...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with Icelandic Government personnel and the first three meetings of a bilateral working group managing base closure issues offer indications of GOI expectations for the EUCOM briefing 4/26 in Reykjavik. Although the Icelandic leadership understands the classifie [...]	2006-04-24 11:28:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MARR MASS IC
06RIGA527	PM'S CHIEF OF STAFF ON LATVIAN POLITICAL SCENE [...] (C) Summary: Latvia's October elections should produce a politial alignment similar to the coalition currently in office, although the nationalist Fatherland and Freedom could significantly increase its seats, according to the PM's chief of staff, Jurgis Liepnieks. Liepnieks, a consummate po [...]	2006-07-06 07:55:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR LG
06RIGA566	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 17 meeting, Ambassador Bailey and Economics Minister Stokenbergs discussed outstanding trade issues Liepajas Metallurgs and Coca-Cola, building bilateral trade links, and Latvia's relations with Russia. While we had little to offer on Liepajas Metallurgs, Stokenbergs wa [...]	2006-07-18 14:38:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PINR OFPD RS LG
06RIGA633	SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE: LATVIAN MFA,S REACTION TO [...] (C) Summary: Latvia believes that the recent incident alleging that one of its diplomats in Minsk was distributing pornography was a set up meant to retaliate against Latvian support for Belarusian NGO's and Belarusian opposition forces, notably while Latvia was the EU presidency representa [...]	2006-08-08 09:02:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PINR EUN BO LG
06RIGA848	LATVIAN VIEWS ON LEBANON/SYRIA [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-17 11:10:00	Embassy Riga	SECRET	PREL PINR LE SY LG
06RIGA938	LATVIAN PARLIAMENT INSTALLS NEW CENTER-RIGHT MAJORITY [...] SUMMARY. The Saeima (Latvian parliament) voted 58-41 on November 7 to approve a new center-right government led by Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis of the People's Party. The new government took office immediately after the vote. The four-party coalition consisting of the People's Party (TP),[...]	2006-11-13 15:04:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR LG
06RIYADH1380	FEMALE SHI'A ACTIVIST: PRESSURE FOR REFORM MUST [...] (C) Summary: Aliya Al-Fareed (protect),longtime Shi'a political activist, discussed the state of reform in Saudi Arabia with PAO and PolOff in her home in Al-Safwa near Qatif. Al-Fareed was recently appointed to the National Society for Human Rights; she is the only woman among the five memb [...]	2006-03-06 11:24:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KIRF KWMN SA
06RIYADH1461	SHI'A ACTIVIST SAYS SHIRAZIS ARE MODERATING [...] (C) Shi'ite political activist Mohammed Al-Shoyoukh told PolOff that Saudi Hezbollah countenances only "peaceful" means to achieve its social and political goals. He said that the "Shirazis," who include the most politically active Shi'a such as Hassan Al-Saffar and Jafar Al-Shayeb, have been [...]	2006-03-08 08:10:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR SA
06RIYADH1741	SHI'A LEADER TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL OPPORTUNITIES [...] (C) Jafar Al-Shayeb, President and elected member of Qatif's municipal council and one of five people appointed to the Dammam branch of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR),shared with CG and PolOff on March 15 his philosophy that "every positive initiative should be utilized." He d [...]	2006-03-18 11:12:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF SA
06RIYADH275	ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE SHI'A "SHIRAZIS" [...] (C) Kamal Al-Khattee, son of a former Shi'a judge in Qaif, discussed with PolOff the evolution of the Shi'a faction known as the "Shirazis," who include Hassan Al-Saffar, Jafar Al-Shayeb, Tawfiq Al-Sayf, and others. According to Al-Khattee, they moved from Iran to Syria and elsewhere in the 1 [...]	2006-01-23 07:38:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KIRF SA
06RIYADH3673	QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER CONTINUES TO [...] (C) In a conversation with the CG on April 29, Isa Al-Muzel, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, described his work at the council as "going well, but frustrating." He said that the biggest problem council members faced at the moment was rooting out institutionalized corruption i [...]	2006-05-14 12:26:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SA
06RIYADH3852	ARAMCO CEO: THE OIL ERA IS NOT OVER [...] (C) At a dinner on May 14 hosted by businessman Badr Al-Suwaidan, President and CEO of Al-Bilad, and attended by the CG and FCS Off, Abdullah Jumah, CEO of Saudi Aramco, commented in response to a query that U.S. energy policy is "confusing" and "has no logic." He claimed that the U.S. was s [...]	2006-05-20 08:06:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH3974	BETWEEN OIL WELLS AND THE SEA: A POLITICIAN SHOWS [...] (SBU) "Over there you can see one of Aramco's wells," Nabih Al-Ibrahim, a Saudi Aramco engineer and an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, told PolOff and PAO, gesturing to his left as the group drove down the main access road into his home town of Awamiya off the Dhahran-Jubail high [...]	2006-05-22 10:09:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PINR SA
06RIYADH4539	EP SANG COMMANDER DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ [...] (C) Prince Mishari bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) in the Eastern Province (EP),told the CG on June 5 that he did not think the "problem between the world and Iran," as he described it, would come to war. The Iranians are "merchants," he [...]	2006-06-07 12:09:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PINS SA
06RIYADH4719	LEAHY VETTING FOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL MOHAMED MUTLK [...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Mutlk G. Al Dhafari, who has been identified to participate in DOD training. The course in which Lt Col Al Dhafari will participate is the National [...]	2006-06-13 05:26:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PHUM PINR PREL SA
06RIYADH4914	SAUDI HEZBOLLAH FIGURE OFFERS A SLIGHTLY TOUGHER [...] (C) In a May 28 meeting with PolOff and PolFSN, Ahmed Al-Nimr (Ahmed),brother and office manager of Shi'a cleric Sheikh Hassan Al-Nimr (Hassan),explained that Hassan would not meet with American diplomats because "he would lose the respect of people on the street, who would ask why he met w [...]	2006-06-19 12:46:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SA
06RIYADH4966	NOTICE OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Post notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on April 23 of the upcoming Administrative Review Board on the status of the Saudi detainees named in Reftel. We will notify the Department of any response from the SAG. OBERWETTER [...]	2006-06-20 12:42:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PREL SA
06RIYADH4967	SAG NOTIFIED OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Post notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on April 23 of the upcoming Administrative Review Board on the status of the Saudi detainees named in Reftel. We will notify the Department of any response from the SAG. OBERWETTER [...]	2006-06-20 12:43:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PREL SA
06RIYADH4997	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ACCEPTS FORMAL ROLE ON HUMAN [...] (C) Ibrahim Al-Mugaiteeb, President of the unregistered Human Rights First Society, told the CG on June 17 that he had accepted a formal role with the government-affiliated Human Rights Commission (HRC) run by Dr. Turki Al-Sudairy. Al-Mugaiteeb said that Al-Sudairy had offered him a position [...]	2006-06-21 04:41:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR PREL SA
06RIYADH5036	QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER ADVOCATES PATIENTLY [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with PolOff, Dr. Riyadh Al-Mustafa, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, detailed his and the council's efforts to improve Qatif's services and infrastructure. Al-Mustafa, whose constituency is the town of Qatif itself, said that the council's first priori [...]	2006-06-23 08:10:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH5042	USD EDELMAN'S MEETINGS WITH THE KING AND CROWN [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, regional security, helicopters, Iran, Iraq, and visas during separate meetings with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan on June 6. Both the King and Crown Prince were supportive of [...]	2006-06-24 14:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	MARR MASS MCAP SA PTER PREL PARM PINR
06RIYADH5079	USD EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASSISTANT MOI PRINCE [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed detainees, helicopters, infrastructure security, Iraq, and border security during a June 6 meeting with Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs Prince Muhammad bin Naif. Prince Muhammad confirmed that the SA [...]	2006-06-25 04:36:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	SA MARR PBTS PGOV PINR PINS PTER ENRG
06RIYADH5082	U/S EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASST MINISTER OF [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, Iran, and regional security during his June 6 meeting with Prince Khalid bin Sultan, Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Security Affairs. The overall tone of the meeting [...]	2006-06-25 08:36:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM PGOV PREL PINR PTER
06RIYADH5105	SAUDIS NAME NEW IRAQ BORDER LIAISON OFFICER [...] (S) General Saleh bin Ali al-Muhayya, Chief of General Staff of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and Aviation (MODA) sent a letter (classified "secret/urgent") to CHUSMTM May 30 on the appointment of a new Saudi-Iraq border liaison officer. The new officer is LTC Khalid bin Mohamed al-S [...]	2006-06-25 15:57:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PBTS PGOV PREL PINR SA IZ MARR MOPS
06RIYADH5135	THE TRANSLATED TEXT OF THE WARNING AND STATEMENT [...] (U) What follows is post's Arabic translation of the "Warning and Statement" published by 61 Saudi conservative religious scholars as discussed in septel. 2. (U) BEGIN TRANSLATED TEXT: Statement addressed to the Rulers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The statement was posted on: http://ww [...]	2006-06-27 14:20:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SA PINR
06RIYADH5136	SAUDI CONSERVATIVES LAUNCH COUNTER-REFORMATION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Following a series of reforms seen as challenging the prominence of the religious establishment in Saudi Arabia, 61 religious scholars published an open letter, called "A Warning and a Statement," to the Kingdom's rulers. This manifesto warned the SAG against a 'gang' of people [...]	2006-06-27 14:22:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV SA KISL PINR PREL
06RIYADH5167	MAJLIS AL SHOURA REJECTS FUNDING FOR THE RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-28 10:48:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH5278	RIYADH RECORD: JUNE 21-30 2006 [...] (U) This cable serves as the inaugural edition of the Riyadh Record, which will provide weekly summaries of key political events in the Kingdom. 2. (S) SUMMARY: During the course of the past few weeks, there has been an increase in the dialogue between supporters of King Abdullah,s reforms [...]	2006-07-03 13:55:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL SA PINR
06RIYADH5314	DHAHRAN DIGEST 7 [...] (SBU) Dr. Abdullah Al-Kadi, director of Al Bir, the largest charitable organization in the Eastern Province (EP),estimated to the CG that there were 3.7 million residents in the EP, of whom 20 percent (740,000) were expatriates. Al-Kadi, a U.S.-trained architect and urban planner, has constr [...]	2006-07-05 05:51:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET SOCI PINR PGOV SA
06RIYADH5456	MAJLIS AL SHOURA REJECTS FUNDING FOR THE RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-10 14:25:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH5513	SHI'A TRADITIONALIST LAMENTS SHIRAZI ASCENDANCY IN [...] (C) Kamal Al-Khatti, a Riyadh-based social researcher formerly employed by Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd and son of Qatif's late and revered Judge Abdulhamid Al-Khatti, told the CG and ConOffs that the Shirazis (ref A) now dominated Qatif and the Saudi Shi'a community politically, but that a laten [...]	2006-07-11 11:51:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL SA
06RIYADH5516	RIYADH RECORD: JUNE 30-JULY 7 2006 [...] (S) SUMMARY: Majlis al-Shoura rejects an appeal to revote on the religious police funding proposal, while at the same time rejecting a proposal for them to wear publicly-identifiable uniforms. Six women were added as part-time consultants on women's issues to the Shoura Council, bringing the [...]	2006-07-11 12:54:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6038	CONSERVATIVE SAUDI CLERICS DEBATE SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Last week, three revered Wahhabi sheikhs issued advisory opinions in their own capacity on the question of support for Hizballah. On July 17, prominent Wahhabi Sheikh Abdullah bin Jabreen issued an advisory opinion, reported as a fatwa declaring it impermissible for Muslims to s [...]	2006-07-30 07:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6058	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LEBANON CRISIS AND VISA [...] (C) Ambassador Oberwetter discussed three issues with Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal via telephone on July 29. First, they discussed the issue of the Saudi humanitarian aid convoy to Lebanon (Ref A). The Ambassador assured the Foreign Minister that Post staff was working in coordination with Saudi [...]	2006-07-30 16:33:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR CMGT SA LE
06RIYADH6103	RIYADH RECORD: JULY 21-29 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Saudi mood, as reflected in critical statements issued by clerics and appearing on internet chat sites, is becoming increasingly anti-U.S. Debate abounds among religious scholars who continue to raise the issue of Shi'a versus Sunni and the question of whether Saudis should support [...]	2006-08-01 15:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6339	SAUDI CONSERVATIVES CALL FOR BOYCOTT ON US [...] (C) SUMMARY: Beginning July 31, two prominent conservative websites posted articles calling for a boycott on U.S. consumer goods and services, ranging from fast-food franchises to shampoo brands, to begin on August 4. There was already an ongoing cellular telephone text messaging campaign. [...]	2006-08-08 13:44:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD SA LE
06RIYADH6343	SAUDI ACADEMIC WARNS THAT LEBANON FOMENTS EXTREMISM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On August 6 a politically mainstream Saudi academic and journalist, Dr. Ali Sa'ad al-Musa, published an open letter to President Bush in the widely-read al-Watan newspaper, warning that he and millions of other moderates in the Middle East are becoming extremists as [...]	2006-08-08 14:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6372	SAUDI OPPOSITION GROUP CALLS FOR FRIDAY PROTESTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The London-based, Saudi opposition group accused of having links to al-Qaeda, the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia ('MIRA'),called for political gatherings to be held Kingdom-wide at 44 specified mosques beginning this Friday, August 11. MIRA, composed of religious conserva [...]	2006-08-09 14:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6473	RIYADH RECORD: JULY 30-AUGUST 4 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The SAG provided humanitarian assistance to victims of the crisis in Lebanon through air and land convoys as well as increased financial assistance. The Saudi public's discontent increased with the SAG's perceived support for U.S. policy in Lebanon, and protesters of U.S. suppor [...]	2006-08-14 13:41:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6477	WEBSITE REPORTS LEBANON CRISIS CAUSING SPLIT IN [...] (S) The Saudi website "Al-Haramayn," citing various media sources, has claimed that the SAG's reaction to the Lebanon crisis has sparked tension among senior members of the royal family. Specifically, it alleges the existence of a split between King Abdullah on the one hand, and Crown Prince [...]	2006-08-14 14:33:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6520	ANTI-BUSH POEM EPITOMIZES CURRENT SAUDI PUBLIC MOOD [...] (C) BACKGROUND: Poetry runs in the blood of the Saudi people. They have historically utilized poetry to express public opinion over social, political, and cultural issues. They also use poetry to curry favor with their rulers, local and regional, as well as share their criticisms in an open forum. [...]	2006-08-16 12:29:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SCUL SA
06RIYADH6571	SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. President Bush's comment, that th [...]	2006-08-19 13:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6574	SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. The Arab News article reported th [...]	2006-08-19 16:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6668	170 SAUDI AND MUSLIM SCHOLARS WORLDWIDE CALL FOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: 170 Muslim scholars from more than seventeen countries, including twenty-nine Saudi citizens, issued an open statement on August 4 entitled "Statement and Appeal from Scholars of the Islamic Nation." The statement condemned Israeli "aggression" in Lebanon and Palestine, and crit [...]	2006-08-22 06:58:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA LE
06RIYADH6727	THE YEAR IN REVIEW: KING ABDULLAH MARKS FIRST YEAR [...] (C) August 1 marked the one year anniversary of King Abdullah's ascension to the throne. The King has generated considerable popularity by delivering political, economic, and social programs intended to improve the welfare of Saudi citizens. Utilizing the windfall from surging oil prices, [...]	2006-08-24 18:29:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PINS PINR ECON EFIN ETRD
06RIYADH6730	COURTS IGNORE SHARIA RULING, ANNUL MARRIAGE BASED [...] (U) Three years and two children into a happy marriage, a Saudi couple in Al-Jouf, a city in the northern part of the Kingdom, have seen their marriage annulled on the grounds that it violated social custom. According to several media reports, the woman's half-brother filed the lawsuit in Aug [...]	2006-08-24 18:40:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL PCUL SA
06RIYADH6737	RIYADH RECORD: AUGUST 5-11, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: One hundred seventy Muslim scholars, including 29 Saudis, called for unity in the Islamic Nation and condemned the Israeli 'aggression' in Lebanon and Palestine. Saudi opposition activity continues to stir in the Diaspora with a revitalization of the London-based Movement for Is [...]	2006-08-26 08:07:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6818	WEBSITE REPORTS MEETING OF THIRD GENERATION ROYALS [...] (C) A moderate Saudi-based and owned website reported on August 15 that Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz held a meeting with key princes of the royal family's third generation in his Riyadh palace earlier this month. Notable attendees were his son Prince al-Waleed, one of the wealthiest businessm [...]	2006-08-27 15:19:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6925	RADIO SILENCE FROM NEW SAUDI OPPOSITION GROUP IN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Several media outlets reported a statement on August 7 issued by Prince Talal Muhammad Al-Rasheed, a deposed royal and Saudi dissident residing in Paris, which announced the formation of the Saudi Democratic Opposition Front. The group, which is reportedly both secular and triba [...]	2006-08-30 10:29:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6940	KING ABDULLAH AND FOREIGN MINISTER PRESS COMMENTS [...] (S) SUMMARY. Recent statements to the press by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal appear to be a concerted effort by the SAG to address strong public criticism of its position on the Lebanon crisis and ties to the U.S., as well as accusat [...]	2006-09-03 11:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6976	POLITICAL POETRY PRAISES HEZBOLLAH [...] (C) Al Hayat newspaper published on August 26 a political poem entitled "Lebanon," which was written by Dr. Ghazi Al-Qusaibee, Minister of Labor and key advisor to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. Al-Qusaibee, a famous poet and writer in the Arab world, is commonly known as a [...]	2006-09-04 06:38:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KISL SA PHUM
06RIYADH7211	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD - SUCCESSFUL 9/12 MEETING [...] (S/NF) BEGIN SUMMARY. Ambassador Oberwetter and Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad called on the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud on September 12 to seek support on a range of issues relating to Iraq. The King expressed his concern about Iranian influen [...]	2006-09-16 09:43:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER KISL PINR SA
06RIYADH8003	WAMY SECRETARY-GENERAL PREACHES NEED FOR INCREASED [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) Secretary-General Dr. Saleh al-Wohaibi told PolOffs in an SIPDIS August 27 meeting that, despite negative publicity surrounding Islamic charities, WAMY has nothing to hide. Al-Wohaibi talked about WAMY's international programs, but focu [...]	2006-10-11 16:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PINR PREL PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC KISL SA
06RIYADH8173	A/DCM DISCUSSES USG REVIEW OF SAUDI TEXTBOOKS WITH [...] (C) A/DCM solicited continued SAG cooperation in support of a USG review of Saudi textbooks during an October 9 meeting with Minister Plenipotentiary Hazem Karakotly, assistant to Director General for International Organization Affairs Ambassador Dr. Turki bin Mohammed Saud al-Kabir al Saud. [...]	2006-10-15 15:49:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KISL KIRF SA
06RIYADH8414	MAKKAH DECLARATION - WHERE HAVE ALL THE SHI'A [...] (U) Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a religious leaders signed on October 20 the "Makkah Declaration," which forbids Sunnis and Shi'a to kill each other (reftel). Many are likening the ten-point declaration to a "fatwa," or religious ruling, although the signatories have not described the document as suc [...]	2006-10-24 13:41:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KISL IZ SA
06RIYADH8671	KING'S "LANDMARK" TOUR OF SOUTHERN REGION YIELDS [...] (U) Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Azziz arrived in Najran on October 31 for his first visit to the region since ascending the throne. Najranis, who closed their shops and held a festival in honor of the King, prepared for months for the visit. In conjunction with [...]	2006-11-04 15:32:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PINR SA
06RIYADH8723	RIYADH RECORD: OCTOBER 16-31 (C-NE6-01865) [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi religious leaders signed the Makkah Declaration on October 20, which forbids Sunnis and Shi'a from killing each other. King Abdullah issued a new succession law on October 20, which formalizes the succession process through the establishment of the Allegiance Committee. P [...]	2006-11-06 13:05:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KISL KWMN SA
06RIYADH8788	FOLLOW-UP ON DEMARCHES [...] (C) On November 6, Deputy Political Counselor (DPC) delivered reftels (A, B, C, D) demarches and talking points to Saudi MFA, International Organization Affairs, UNGA Issues, Mr. Talal Berri. The issues raised were: the UNGA Third Committee (Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Burma, and North Kore [...]	2006-11-07 13:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL MOPS PINR PTER USUN
06RIYADH8799	SAUDI PUBLIC REACTION TO SADDAM HUSSEIN'S [...] (C) Saudi public reaction to the November 5 sentencing to death of Saddam Hussein has been mixed. While there are those who question the legality of Hussein's trial and the credibility of the proceedings, others agree with the verdict and sentencing. At the same time, some Saudis have expres [...]	2006-11-08 10:14:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ SA
06RIYADH8815	PETITION SUPPORTS MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Culture and Information received a petition signed by 160 reform-minded scholars supporting Minister of Information Iyad bin Amin Madany. The signatories constituted a broad cross-section of Saudi society, including men and women, Sunni and Shi'a. The statement [...]	2006-11-12 10:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PKISL SA
06RIYADH8835	FACILITATING GREATER SAG ENGAGEMENT ON IRAQ - A [...] (S) This constitutes Post's response to Ref A. The situation in Iraq remains of great concern to Saudis across the political, economic, and social spectrum. The press reported on November 13 that Saudi Minister of Interior Prince Naif called Iraq a "major base for terrorism," adding that the [...]	2006-11-13 13:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON IZ SA
06RIYADH8836	SAUDIS BOLSTER TROOP NUMBERS FOR ENERGY SECURITY, [...] (S/NF) In a series of meetings with the Saudi Ministry of Interior (MOI) from November 10-11, a joint State/Energy visiting delegation learned that the Saudis have made progress in improving security at critical energy facilities. A force of more than 35,000 soldiers, temporarily drawn from [...]	2006-11-13 13:46:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
06RIYADH8840	DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI MFA, MOJ, [...] (C) Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles met on September 12-13 with the Majlis Al-Shoura (MAS) and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Justice (MoJ). These meetings were follow-up to the July 25 - 27, 2006, meeting of [...]	2006-11-14 05:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM OTRA PINR SA
06RIYADH8921	THE NEW SUCCESSION LAW PRESERVES THE MONARCHY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SUCCESSION STRUGGLE AMONG THE AL SAUD FAMILY HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO SAUDI ARABIA'S STABILITY. THE FIRST TWO SAUDI STATES COLLAPSED PARTIALLY AS A RESULT OF SUCCESSION PROBLEMS. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KING ABDULAZIZ IN 1953, A FIERCE POWER STRUGGLE AMON [...]	2006-11-22 04:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH8926	TRANSLATED TEXT OF NEW SAUDI SUCCESSION LAW [...] (U) KING ABDULLAH ISSUED A NEW SUCCESSION LAW ON OCTOBER 20 TO FORMALIZE THE PROCESS OF SELECTING A CROWN PRINCE THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ALLEGIANCE COMMISSION (REFTEL). THE BASIC LAW OF 1992 -- ESSENTIALLY THE CONSTITUTION -- WAS AMENDED TO REFLECT THE ESTABLISHMENT AND AUTHORITY OF [...]	2006-11-22 15:04:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH8989	MOI UNDERSCORES NEED FOR BROAD AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY [...] (S) Economic Counselor Silverman and Energy Attache Ross met with Dr. Saad al-Jabri, Advisor to the Assistant Minister of Interior, on November 26 to discuss the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation to improve security at critical infrastructure facilities. Dr. al-Jabri und [...]	2006-12-04 13:38:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	EPET PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
06RIYADH8990	MOI UNDERSCORES NEED FOR BROAD AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY [...] (S) Economic Counselor Silverman and Energy Attache Ross met with Dr. Saad al-Jabri, Advisor to the Assistant Minister of Interior, on November 26 to discuss the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation to improve security at critical infrastructure facilities. Dr. al-Jabri und [...]	2006-12-04 14:35:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	EPET PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
06RIYADH9	SAUDI VIEWS ON IRANIAN AND SYRIAN ACTIVITIES IN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) director Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz sought and shared views on Iran and Syria during a December 27 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad. They told the Ambassador that while it was possible t [...]	2006-01-02 14:10:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IR SA SY IZ
06RIYADH9031	COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL MEETS WITH SAG REGARDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: At Post's invitation, Colorado Attorney General (AG) John Suthers visited the Kingdom from November 14-17 to explain the Homaidan Al-Turki case to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Saudi government officials, and the Al-Turki family. The very successful visit highlighted the [...]	2006-12-09 14:47:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KPAO PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH9067	SAUDI ARABIA'S WAR ON TERROR -- NOT OVER YET [...] (C) While the SAG continues to make progress on its counterterrorism efforts (Ref A),recent events in the Kingdom clearly illustrate that the war on terror is far from over. On December 7, armed men opened fire on a guard post at Jeddah's maximum-security Al-Ruwais prison, killing two secur [...]	2006-12-13 11:31:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH9173	ENTHUSIASTIC SHOURA COUNCIL ASKS SENATOR NELSON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Enthusiastic Majlis Al Shoura members acknowledged the positive U.S. - Saudi bilateral relationship but asked Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) during a meeting on December 17 for increased engagement by members of Congress with the Council. Meeting participants agreed that any enhance [...]	2006-12-26 11:54:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KISL IZ SA
06RIYADH9174	CROWN PRINCE REITERATES SAUDI NONINTERFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-26 11:54:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KISL IZ SA
06RIYADH9175	SAUDI MOI HEAD SAYS IF U.S. LEAVES IRAQ, SAUDI [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-26 11:54:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR PTER KISL IZ SA
06RIYADH9179	DEPUTY MOI TO SENATOR NELSON:THE KEY TO WINNING [...] (S) SUMMARY. Deputy Minister of Interior Mohamed bin Naif told Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) that the key to winning the war on terror is defeating the terrorists' ideology. He echoed the senator's other interlocutors in supporting Iraqi unity and the SAG's noninterference policy. The Deputy M [...]	2006-12-26 12:18:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KISL IZ SA
06ROME1207	PRODI AIDE SAYS NEW GOVERNMENT WILL FOLLOW EU [...] (C) Summary. Acting DCM told a senior Prodi advisor April 21 that the Center Left leader's phone conversation with the PA prime minister two days before had generated surprise and consternation in Washington, in view of US and EU policy against contact with senior Hamas officials. Prodi aide [...]	2006-04-21 15:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT
06ROME1527	ITALY: A LOOK AT THE PRODI GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Romano Prodi and his cabinet of 25 ministers were sworn in May 17 by President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano. Political commentators immediately called the government composition "more left than center", but the vital ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defense, Economy and Just [...]	2006-05-18 18:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IT
06ROME1954	ITALIANS EXPRESS INTEREST IN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (C) On July 7 DCM and Russian Charge d'Affairs Andrey Maslov delivered reftel points to Deputy Director General for Political Affairs Giacomo San Felice, G8 Director Giampaolo Cantini, and Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Filippo Formica of the Italian MFA. San Fel [...]	2006-07-07 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP RU IT
06ROME2535	ICTY: ITALY CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTS INCREASED PRESSURE [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-08 14:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ICTY PINR PGOV PREL SR YI IT
06ROME310	S59-05: GOI APPRAISED OF ATTEMPTS BY IRANIAN FIRM [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel talking points and non paper to Aldo Doria, head of the Productive Activities Ministry's (MPA) Export Control Unit. Doria is familiar with Samamicro and with Angelantoni, the Italian company from which Samamicro's website offers to procure dual-use equipment. D [...]	2006-02-02 16:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL PINR ETTC IT IR CBW EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME483	HAMAS: ITALY WEIGHS IN FOR ISRAEL WITH RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary. PM Berlusconi reportedly has contacted Russian President Putin and urged that any visit of Hamas officials to Moscow be handled at as low a level as possible. Berlusconi made the call at the behest of Acting Israeli PM Olmert. End summary. 2. (C) A diplomatic advisor to Berl [...]	2006-02-16 17:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT
06ROME699	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: FRANCESCO OLIVIERI, WTO [...] (U) In January, the Italian Government appointed Francesco Olivieri as Special Adviser on WTO issues to Deputy Productive Activities Minister (Foreign Trade Minister) Adolfo Urso. Olivieri had been Ambassador to the Italian Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [...]	2006-03-07 09:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PREL PGOV IT
06SANAA1743	JMP-GPC DEAL APPEARS IMMINENT [...] (U) On July 12, the opposition Yemeni Congregation for Reform party's (Islah) internet news service, "Sahwa.net," quoted Mohammed Qahtan -- Islahi Head of External Relations and spokesperson for the Joint Meetings Party opposition coalition (JMP) -- as saying that (year-long rocky) negotiation [...]	2006-06-12 13:49:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI PINR YM
06SANAA1833	YEMENIS TELL GEN ABIZAID ABOUT IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: President Saleh and Minister of Interior Rashad al-Alimi told CENTCOM Commander GEN John Abizaid on June 18 that, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been active in Yemen since 1983, their recent support for insurgents in Yemen's Saada region was unacceptable and, along wi [...]	2006-06-24 13:16:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MNUC PINR IR YE
06SANAA2006	MAVERICK FINANCE MINISTER CHARGES AHEAD ON REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's new Minister of Finance, Dr. Seif al-Asali, may march to the beat of a different drummer, but he appears to be making progress on reform following years of corruption by his predecessor. Under Asali's leadership, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) is implementing the first phas [...]	2006-07-12 14:59:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EAID PINR KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2255	SANAA ATMOSPHERICS: LOCAL IMAMS CALL FOR JIHAD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 30, President Saleh suggested in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera that Yemen and other Muslim countries should send volunteer fighters, as well as financial and material support, to the "resistance" against Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. Average Yemenis were stron [...]	2006-08-07 08:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EPET PINR KPAL KISL YM
06SANAA2559	UNDER YEMEN'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE, THE PEOPLE'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador met Yemen's Chief Justice Esam Abdul-Wahab al-Samawi for the first time on August 29, and discovered a youthful voice for reform and moderation. Samawi expressed the need for a clearer legal framework for trying suspected terrorists and would-be jihadis. As the newly a [...]	2006-09-03 10:49:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA286	SALEH SIGNALS SHAKE UP IN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES [...] (S) CDA Requested and received a phone call from President Saleh, 2/5, on the heels of the jail break-out that yielded 23 al-Qa'ida operatives to the streets of Sanaa, and perhaps beyond. CDA stressed to Saleh the importance of working in close tandem with the USG on this critical issue and not [...]	2006-02-06 14:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PINR PREL PTER COUNTER TERRORISM
06SANAA330	OPPOSITION TESTS LIMITS OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliament is preparing for its next session with a highly anticipated leadership race. Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar is widely expected to win re-election as Speaker, but reformers are looking to defeat President Saleh's candidates for the Deputy positions. Such a rebellion could r [...]	2006-02-11 12:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
06SANAA41	ROYG STAGGERS FORWARD IN FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Yemen's Cabinet approved a new anti-corruption law, calling for the creation of an independent High Commission for National Corruption. Neither the extent of the Commission's powers nor its relationship to existing ROYG institutions -- or the newly created anti-corruption role fo [...]	2006-01-08 13:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KMCA KMPI PGOV PINR PREL YM COM
06SANAA954	CORRUPTION KEEPS UNITEL ON TOP IN GSM TENDER [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 3, DCM met with Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, Abdullah Al-Hamami, to discuss the status of the ongoing GSM tender drama. (Ref A) In a candid discussion, the Deputy Minister stated that the law requires that the GSM license go to Unitel or to no one, despite Unit [...]	2006-04-09 10:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS EINV KMPI PGOV PINR YM
06SANJOSE1009	FERNANDO BERROCAL, MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (C) On May 8, 2006, Fernando Berrocal Soto was sworn in as Minister of Public Security and Government, along with the rest of Oscar Arias's cabinet. Berrocal has little background in security issues but extensive political and international experience, including two stints as Costa Rica's Per [...]	2006-05-11 22:46:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CS

06SANJOSE1151	MARCO VARGAS, MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO [...] Marco Antonio VARGAS Diaz will likely play a key role in the Arias Administration. Vargas is part of Oscar Arias's innermost circle of advisers. His stated role is to serve as an inter-institutional coordinator and troubleshooter, charged with ensuring delivery on Arias's campaign promises. [...]	2006-05-25 16:21:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PGOV PREL CS
06SANJOSE1162	ALFREDO VOLIO, MINISTER OF PRODUCTION [...] Alfredo Volio was appointed by President Arias to head a new Ministry of Production which is a combination of two traditional ministries, the Ministry of Agriculture (MAG) and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC). Volio is a 46-year-old businessman who has worked in food trad [...]	2006-05-26 14:39:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR EAGR EIND PGOV CS
06SANJOSE1264	COSTA RICA'S GROWING FIREARMS PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Incoming Minister of Public Security Fernando Berrocal filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General's Office on May 30, 2006, based on the disappearance of over 100 weapons, including military assault rifles, grenades, and large quantities of ammunition, from the national a [...]	2006-06-07 22:23:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KCRM PINR ASEC CS
06SANJOSE158	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RICARDO TOLEDO SWIMMING [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador on January 9, President Pacheco's confidant and former chief of staff Ricardo Toledo tried to put the best light possible on his foundering presidential campaign--a difficult task considering he has not broken 5 percent in the polls and now appears to have sli [...]	2006-01-24 14:21:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON CS
06SANJOSE1650	A/S SHANNON VISITS TOP COSTA RICAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: A/S Tom Shannon visited Costa Rica June 27-29, calling on key officials of the new Arias Administration as well as the International Relations Committee of the Legislative Assembly. A/S Shannon discussed security issues and prospects for ratification of the Central American Free [...]	2006-07-28 19:27:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CS
06SANJOSE2373	POLICE DIRECTOR RESIGNS, REPLACED BY PILOT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 19, Police Director Osvaldo Alpizar Nunez resigned to face an investigation into charges he used official cellphones to make death threats against former policeman Alexis Ugalde. Alpizar is the first high-ranking official in the Ministry of Public Security to leave off [...]	2006-10-26 18:29:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS PINR CS
06SANJOSE2379	COSTA RICAN IMMIGRATION DIRECTOR PLANS MAJOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Costa Rican Immigration Director Mario Zamora recently told us that months of intense work with 2nd Vice President Kevin Casas (a personal friend who also functions as Minister of Planning) were about to bear fruit in the form of fundamental reforms to the information systems and [...]	2006-10-27 10:32:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREF KFRD CASC CS
06SANJOSE258	COSTA RICA 2005 END-USE MONITORING REPORT [...] Per Reftel Embassy San Jose provides the following information regarding end-use monitoring of resources acquired with U.S. Department of State International Narcotics Control (INL) funds. 2. Procedures: Embassy San Jose INL section maintains an inventory of donated property using an Excel s [...]	2006-02-01 21:14:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AMGT PGOV PINR PREL CS
06SANJOSE2685	SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT ARIAS VISIT [...] (C) President Arias and his administration are making progress on the ambitious agenda outlined in his inaugural address. In October, long-planned, union-led national anti-CAFTA protests fizzled, a costly dockworkers, strike in a major port was resolved, and the legislature set a date certain [...]	2006-11-28 23:14:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON CS
06SANJOSE2702	PRESIDENT ARIAS ON HIS VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 29, the Ambassador met with President Arias to discuss the latter,s upcoming visit to Washington. The Ambassador noted Arias,s position as a leader with regional stature, and suggested President Bush would be interested in Arias,s views on developments in Nicaragua [...]	2006-12-01 21:41:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON CS US
06SANJOSE2778	GWOT: COSTA RICAN COLLECTION OF IDENTIFYING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-18 22:26:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KVPR CS
06SANJOSE443	BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON OSCAR ARIAS [...] (U) Oscar Arias Sanchez was elected on February 5, 2006, as the first repeat president in Costa Rica since 1970. Winning by a 1.12 percent margin (18,000 votes out of 1.62 million cast),Arias comes to office without the sweeping mandate he expected. He was permitted to run for president beca [...]	2006-02-24 20:58:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL CS
06SANJOSE591	FIRST VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT LAURA CHINCHILLA [...] Summary: Laura Chinchilla was chosen by Oscar Arias to be his first vice presidential running mate in the 2006 election. Along with Kevin Casas as second vice president, Arias and Chinchilla will take office on May 8. Chinchilla, currently a member of the Legislative Assembly and formerly mi [...]	2006-03-14 19:26:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PINS PGOV CS
06SANJOSE592	KEVIN CASAS, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (U) Summary: Kevin Casas, chosen by Oscar Arias to be his second vice presidential running mate, will come into the third highest political position in the country on May 8 with scant political credentials. Only 37 years old, Casas is an academic and researcher who has never held office. Int [...]	2006-03-14 20:28:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV CS
06SANJOSE706	RODGRIGO ARIAS, MINISTER OF PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Rodrigo is the younger brother and by far the closest adviser to Oscar Arias. He is the only permanent member of Oscar's inner circle and has always been at his brother's side in business and politics. Since Oscar's divorce and the death of his mother, Oscar has come to rely even more on [...]	2006-03-30 23:12:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CS
06SANJOSE751	IRANIAN PRESENCE IN COSTA RICA (C-NE6-00140) [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-06 21:11:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINR CS IR
06SANJOSE827	CORRECTION TO BIODATA FOR FIRST VICE PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-20 14:59:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PINS PGOV CS
06SANJOSE971	LABOR MINISTER FRANCISCO MORALES [...] Summary: President Oscar Arias has named 65-year-old Francisco Morales to be Minister of Labor in his administration. Morales has a long history of government service, having previously served as Minister of Labor from 1972 to 1977, and as Minister of Agriculture from 1982 to 1986. With hi [...]	2006-05-09 19:14:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PINS PGOV CS
06SANSALVADOR1012	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in March 2006. Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics refer to the month of March 2006. ------ ILEA ------ 2. (U) From March 20 to 22, two Congressional staffers from the House International Relations Committee visited Post in or [...]	2006-04-19 21:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PINR SNAR KCRM KJUS ES
06SANSALVADOR1014	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, Date of Birth: 20 Oct 1977, Place of Birth: Chalatenango, Male. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has not [...]	2006-04-20 13:58:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1047	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidate. Name: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 15 Nov 1968 POB: San Salvador Male 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above [...]	2006-04-21 19:36:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1048	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidate. NAME: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 26 Oct 1964 POB: San Salvador Male 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the ab [...]	2006-04-21 19:50:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1049	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Name: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 20 May 1961 POB: Usulutan Male Name: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 21 Jul 1964 POB: La Union Male N [...]	2006-04-21 19:51:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1080	TOPICS REGARDING PRESIDENT ELIAS ANTONIO SACA (EL SALVADOR) [...] (S/NF) This cable is a response to the questions posed in reftel. 2. (C) How does Saca react to disappointments? Can he deal with them internally, or does he lash out at others? How does Saca rationalize his own failures or those of his subordinates? Does he tolerate mistakes? Saca [...]	2006-04-25 19:49:00	Embassy San Salvador	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1085	SALVADORAN APPOINTED WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR [...] On April 21, 2006, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz named Salvadoran Juan Jose Daboub as a Managing Director of the World Bank. Daboub was one of ex-President Flores' most trusted advisors, and he served as Chief of Staff and Minister of Finance during Flores' term from 1999-2004. He is [...]	2006-04-25 21:23:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IBRD PINR ECON EAID EFIN ES
06SANSALVADOR1152	SACA NAMES TACA VETERAN FINANCE MINISTER [...] (U) On April 23, President Saca named William J. Handal Minister of Finance, to replace Gullermo Lopez Suarez effective May 1. Handal is from the Department of Usulutan, the home of President Saca. Handal graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a Bachelor,s Degree in Economics [...]	2006-05-02 15:16:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1224	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX San Salvador 24 Aug 1960 Male XXXXXXXXXXXX San Salvador 26 Apr 1962 Female XXXXXXXXXXXX San Salvador [...]	2006-05-10 13:14:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1260	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in April 2006. ------ ILEA ------ 2. (U) From April 4 to 6, the PNC hosted the second annual regional gang conference attended by representatives from Mexico, Central America, and the United States. The conference provided a forum to [...]	2006-05-12 15:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PINR PINS PREL SNAR KCRM KIPR KJUS ES
06SANSALVADOR1278	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, Date of Birth - 20 July 1953, Place of Birth - Cojutepeque, Male. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; none of the above individua [...]	2006-05-12 19:20:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1312	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX 28 Jul 1968 San Miguel Male Resource Management Course Start Date: 22 May 2006 XXXXXXXXXXXX 13 Jun 1965 [...]	2006-05-17 13:58:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1352	REDUCING THE MURDER RATE COMPLICATED BY POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The citizens of El Salvador are outraged by numerous murders occurring daily in this country. Police Director Avila is trying to professionalize his police force, but he lacks sufficient manpower and equipment. Yesterday, President Saca announced that his administration will seek [...]	2006-05-23 15:32:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KCRM KJUS ES ASEC
06SANSALVADOR1403	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, San Salvador, 17 Nov 1966, Male. Major XXXXXXXXXXXX currently serves with the Military Doctrine Command Unit. 3. Post has reviewed available hu [...]	2006-05-30 16:13:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1404	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. All candidates are male and serve with the Ilopango Air Force Unit. XXXXXXXXXXXX San Vicente 08 JUL 1975 XXXXXXXXXXXX C [...]	2006-05-30 16:14:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1413	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights record of XXXXXXXXXXXX March, 23 JUL 1964, San Salvador, Male. Major XXXXXXXXXXXX is a member of the Second Air Force Brigade. 3. Post has reviewed available human righ [...]	2006-05-30 19:13:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1414	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX Chalatenango 28 Aug 1962 Male Military Police Unit XXXXXXXXXXXX San Miguel 09 Nov 1962 Male 3rd Infantr [...]	2006-05-30 19:14:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1415	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX Rank: Major Ministry of Defense Office Chalatenango 07 May 1969 Male XXXXXXXXXXXX Rank: Major Military D [...]	2006-05-30 19:15:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1501	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 29 Oct 1971, San Salvador, Male, Naval Headquarters Unit. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; none of the above individuals has b [...]	2006-06-07 19:47:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1502	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX 18 Jun 1971 Male San Salvador Ilopango Air Force Base XXXXXXXXXXXX 03 Dec 1972 Male El Transito Ilopang [...]	2006-06-07 19:47:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1503	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 23 April 1964, Male, Santa Ana, Salvadoran Military Academy. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has not bee [...]	2006-06-07 19:51:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR158	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN FORCES PARTICIPATING IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following members of Battalion Cuscatlan, who will be participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Battalion is scheduled to depart between February 8 and February 11, under the command of XXXXXXXXXXXX. The names of the officers of t [...]	2006-01-20 21:53:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1600	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX 06 Feb 1963 San Salvador Male Naval Headquarters XXXXXXXXXXXX 09 July 1963 Cojutepeque Male Armed Force [...]	2006-06-20 19:45:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1702	EL SALVADOR: GOES FINALLY "GETTING IT" ON CRIME? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Barclay met June 27 with President Tony Saca to underscore U.S. concern about El Salvador's worsening crime problems; the President indicated that he intends to make crime his number-one priority during his remaining three years in office. A flurry of recent activity [...]	2006-07-03 18:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ES PGOV PINR PREL
06SANSALVADOR1709	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 7 Oct 1969, Sonsonate, El Salvador, Male. XXXXXXXXXXXX currently serves at the Salvadoran Armed Forces Headquarters. 3. Post has reviewed avail [...]	2006-07-05 14:02:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1783	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Please review the following list; Post included name, date and place of birth for your reference. All individuals are male. X [...]	2006-07-13 13:59:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1847	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following member of Battalion Cuscatlan, who will be participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Battalion is scheduled to depart between August 7 and August 11, under the command of XXXXXXXXXXXX. All available records at pos [...]	2006-07-21 16:33:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1848	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following members of Battalion Cuscatlan, who will be participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Battalion is scheduled to depart between August 7 and August 11, under the command of XXXXXXXXXXXX . The names and date and pla [...]	2006-07-21 16:34:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1899	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 27SEP1959, Cojutepeque, El Salvador, Male. XXXXXXXXXXXX currently serves at the Engineer Command Group. 3. Post has reviewed available human ri [...]	2006-07-31 19:52:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1921	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following individuals: XXXXXXXXXXXX San Pedro Perulapan 11-Feb-1959 Colonel 4th Infantry Brigade Male XXXXXXXXXXXX La Union 22-Dec-1958 Colonel 4t [...]	2006-08-07 19:16:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1932	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, born December 2, 1978 in San Salvador, male, Research Director for the National Council of Public Security. 3. The named individual will partici [...]	2006-08-07 21:08:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1962	(C) UNGA-RELATED QUESTIONS (EL SALVADOR) [...] (C) El Salvador's Permanent Representative to the United Nations is Carmen Maria Gallardo de Hernandez (DPOB November 28, 1949; San Salvador). Gallardo is married with two children; her husband is Xavier Hernandez, a Coca-Cola executive. Ms. Gallardo de Hernandez is the sister of Cecilia Ga [...]	2006-08-09 19:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PINR
06SANSALVADOR1990	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 14 October 1967, Santa Ana, Male, Military Industry Unit, Lieutenant Commander. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above ind [...]	2006-08-11 18:36:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1991	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 29 Mar 1970, Sonsonate, Male, Police Counternarcotic and Counterterrorism Unit, Technician. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; th [...]	2006-08-11 18:37:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1992	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 08 Mar 1977, San Miguel, Transmissions Command, First Lieutenant. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has no [...]	2006-08-11 18:37:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1993	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following individuals: XXXXXXXXXXXX 03-July-1977 La Paz Second Air Brigade Seargent XXXXXXXXXXXX 21 Jun 1978 San Vicente Second Air Brigade Seargent [...]	2006-08-11 18:38:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1994	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 19 Nov 1976, San Salvador, Engineering Command, First Lieutenant. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has no [...]	2006-08-11 18:38:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1995	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following individuals: XXXXXXXXXXXX 03 Feb 1963 Chalchuapa BESM unit Major XXXXXXXXXXXX 14 Mar 1965 Chalatenango Special Forces Sergent Major 3 [...]	2006-08-11 18:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1996	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 06 Dec 1970, San Salvador, Male, Naval Headquarters, Lieutenant. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; none of the above individual [...]	2006-08-11 18:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2120	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran Air Force Cadet Salvador Palacios Bou, DOB 10 Feb 1985, POB San Salvador, Male, Fuerza Aerea Unit, CIMA. Cadet Palacios will be training at the Defense [...]	2006-08-28 19:41:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2128	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidates for participation in the Legal Aspects on Counter Terrorism scheduled to take place at the Salvadoran Foundation for Health and Human Develp [...]	2006-08-29 18:43:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2193	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in July 2006. ------ ILEA ------ 2. (U) ILEA staff continued supervising the renovation of the ILEA - Santa Tecla facility, and made preparations to host two ILEA courses in August 2006. ----------------------- NARCOTICS INTERDICTI [...]	2006-09-07 15:02:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EFIN PINR PTER SNAR KCRM KJUS ES
06SANSALVADOR2196	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidates for participation in the Navel Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, scheduled to take [...]	2006-09-07 20:52:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2249	SALVADORAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OVERWHELMED BY VIOLENTSTREET [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 18:05:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PINR PINS KCRM KJUS ES
06SANSALVADOR2255	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidates for participation in the Cadet Troop Leader Course (Inf) at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),Ft. Benning, [...]	2006-09-14 14:19:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2297	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-20 14:35:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2300	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidate for participation in the Advance Language Instructor Course at the Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, TX scheduled to begin October 4, [...]	2006-09-20 15:20:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2307	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-20 19:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2323	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidates for participation in the Legal Aspects of Counter Terrorism and Border Patrol, at the Salvadoran Foundation for Health and Human Development [...]	2006-09-21 17:29:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2508	EL SALVADOR: FMLN "PRESIDENCIABLES" FOR 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: With two and a half years to go until the 2009 presidential election, speculation is emerging with regard to who will be the candidate of the opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). Orthodox-hardliner leader Schafik Handal was beaten soundly in 2004 by ARENA [...]	2006-10-16 21:32:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PINR PREL
06SANSALVADOR257	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Post includes name, sex, date of birth and place of birth for your reference. Please review the following list: XXXXXXXXXXXX, ma [...]	2006-02-01 17:38:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2581	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidate for participation in the multinational Standby High-Readiness Brigade for UN Operations (SHIRBRIG) Peacekeeping Operation (PKO) in Spain, schedu [...]	2006-10-26 17:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2609	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidate for participation in the Security, Defense, and Integration Subregional Conference in Guatemala City, scheduled for November 14 to 16, 2006. [...]	2006-10-30 14:48:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2623	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidates for participation in the Executive Dialogue Seminar in Washington DC, scheduled for December 3 to 9, 2006. XXXXXXXXXXXX Legislative Assembl [...]	2006-10-31 20:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2712	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights record of Salvadoran candidate for participation in the Advanced Engineer's Course, Fort Leonardwood, MO scheduled for December 18, 2006 to June 13, 2007. CAPT XXXXXXXXXXX [...]	2006-11-08 21:25:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2750	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in October 2006. ------ ILEA ------ 2. (U) ILEA staff continued supervising the renovation of the ILEA - Santa Tecla facility, and made preparations to host an ILEA course in November 2006. ----------------------- NARCOTICS INTERDI [...]	2006-11-14 14:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EFIN PINR PTER SNAR KCRM KJUS ES
06SANSALVADOR2771	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights record of Salvadoran candidate for participation in the Naval Staff College Course, scheduled for January 10, 2007 in Newport, RI. LT XXXXXXXXXXXX Naval Headquarters DPO [...]	2006-11-16 18:24:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2772	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidates for participation in the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),in Fort Benning, Georgia, scheduled for January 18, [...]	2006-11-16 19:08:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2773	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidate for participation in the International Maritime Officers Course, scheduled to begin on January 24, 2007 in Yorktown, VA. LTJG XXXXXXXXXXXX N [...]	2006-11-16 19:10:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2841	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request; please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran candidates for participation in the Basic Language Course, to be held at the Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, Texas; January 3 through July 13, [...]	2006-11-27 19:29:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR2873	EL SALVADOR'S NEW POPULIST THREAT ? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Populist 41-year-old Mayor Wil Salgado of San Miguel (El Salvador's third-largest city) has publicly expressed his intention of running for president in the March 2009 national elections. Although a Salgado national victory in 2009 is highly unlikely, his popularity in the natio [...]	2006-11-30 18:44:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR3010	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of a Salvadoran soldier to attend a Basic Language Instructor Course at the Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, TX from Jan 3, 2007 to July 13, 2007. 2LT XX [...]	2006-12-27 16:12:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR3011	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of a Salvadoran soldier to attend a Non-Commission Officer Development Course at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Assistance at Fort Benning, GA from Jan [...]	2006-12-27 16:42:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR418	VIOLENCE SPIRALS IN EL SALVADOR/GOVERNMENT GRASPS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In 2005, El Salvador eclipsed Colombia as the country with the highest homicide rate per capita in the Western Hemisphere. The GOES has responded to the epidemic of gang violence with a variety of initiatives that have thus far failed to stem the tide of violence. The [...]	2006-02-17 17:34:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SNAR KCRM ES
06SANSALVADOR448	EL SALVADOR: RESPONSE REGARDING IRANIAN [...] (S) Per reftel, note that Iran maintains no diplomatic representation in El Salvador, and to post's knowledge conducts no diplomatic activities through third parties. Butler [...]	2006-02-22 20:07:00	Embassy San Salvador	SECRET	ES IR PGOV PINR PREL PTER
06SANSALVADOR506	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Please review the following list; Post included name, date of birth and place of birth for your reference. All of the following ca [...]	2006-03-01 14:51:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR711	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Please review the following list; Post included name, sex, date of birth and place of birth for your reference. The candidate [...]	2006-03-16 16:46:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR956	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in February 2006. Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics refer to the month of February 2006. ------- ILEA ------- 2. (U) From February 20 to 24, instructors from ICE presented ILEA-sponsored training on financial crimes investiga [...]	2006-04-11 13:20:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PINR KCRM KJUS ES
06SANTIAGO1000	FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL SAYS BACHELET IS ""70 PERCENT THERE ON OPPOSING VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACYOFFERS OBSERVATIONS ON BACHELET'S STYLE [...] (C) Summary: A mid-level, well-connected Foreign Ministry official told the Embassy on May 11 that in his view President Bachelet was ""70 percent there"" on opposing Venezuela's UNSC candidacy. Acknowledging how difficult it is to know what Bachelet is thinking, because of her close-to-the-vest [...]	2006-05-12 21:07:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC PINR VZ CI
06SANTIAGO1476	MEDIA REACTION - DEA [...] On July 11, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 102,000) ran an editorial entitled "Narcotics Trafficking in Chile and the DEA Offer." Block quotes follow. 2. "The DEA...has made a proposal to the highest-ranking Chilean authorities for the creation of a new unit to stop the trans [...]	2006-07-11 17:36:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM SNAR PINR KMDR CI
06SANTIAGO170	PRESIDENT-ELECT BACHELET: ASSERTING INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Michelle Bachelet has gotten off to a quietly assertive start following her victory over Alianza opposition's Sebastian Pinera in the January 15 presidential run-off election. Her initial public statements and meetings appear designed to show her intention to govern i [...]	2006-01-25 20:32:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PINR CL
06SANTIAGO179	PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR BACHELET'S MARCH 11 [...] The Chilean government has initiated preparations for the inauguration of President-elect Michelle Bachelet and the new Congress on March 11. According to the Foreign Ministry's Protocol Office and press reports, the inauguration activities are likely to include: --March 10: President Lagos [...]	2006-01-26 18:11:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI PINR CI
06SANTIAGO2277	PINOCHET GOLD DOESN'T PAN OUT, UNDER HOUSE ARREST [...] Summary: Chinese bank HSBC declared October 26 that documents showing former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet held deposits of 9629 kilograms of gold (worth an estimated 160 million dollars) were fake. The declaration capped a week of media speculation and public debate in Chile, including a [...]	2006-10-31 11:59:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KCRM CI
06SANTIAGO2479	CHILE: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CLEARANCE FOR CYBER [...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of November 29, 2006, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Acting Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs, Harry R Kamian, certifie [...]	2006-12-01 13:34:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR SNAR KCRM CI
06SANTIAGO2606	CHILEAN OPPOSITION EMBRACES THE FOREST, BUT WANTS [...] (C) Likely 2009 rightist presidential candidate Pablo Longuiera recognizes that in a country where consensus on major issues reigns across the political spectrum, the opposition faces a difficult task in seeking to regain power. The task is made all the harder because Chile is "profoundly lef [...]	2006-12-20 20:43:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CI
06SANTIAGO315	CHILE: A/S DESUTTER HOLDS VERIFICATION VIDEO [...] Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation (VCI) Paula DeSutter spoke with 22 Chilean academics about regional threats and U.S. efforts to strengthen effective arms control regimes at an Embassy-hosted digital video conference on January 23. A/S DeSu [...]	2006-02-13 20:45:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP ETTC MARR PARM PINR PREL PGOV CI
06SANTIAGO415	BACHELET TO FORM NEW MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: President-elect Michelle Bachelet intends to establish a Ministry of Public Security, with a still to be defined mandate over funds and administration of all domestic security forces. The main goal is to improve coordination between the Carabineros (national police) and PICH ( [...]	2006-03-01 13:16:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PINR CI
06SANTIAGO425	CHILE: A/S DESUTTER HOLDS VERIFICATION VIDEO [...] Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation (VCI) Paula DeSutter spoke with 22 Chilean academics about regional threats and U.S. efforts to strengthen effective arms control regimes at an Embassy-hosted digital video conference on January 23. A/S DeSu [...]	2006-03-01 18:31:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP ETTC MARR PARM PINR PREL PGOV CI
06SANTODOMINGO2720	DOMINICAN MFA OFFICIAL COMMENTS THAT "COMPACT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to shared points regarding the "Compact with the Cuban People," Embassy received a four page written response by Ambassador Danilo P. Clime, Director of the Caribbean Affairs Section of the Dominican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Clime asserts in his response that, g [...]	2006-08-24 12:56:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CU DR
06SANTODOMINGO2726	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #1: ROUTINE AND GENERALLY [...] This is the first cable in our series on the third year of the administration of Dominican President Leonel Fernandez. Dominican President Makes Routine and Generally Positive Cabinet Changes (C) Summary: Dominican President Leonel Fernandez made a small number of adjustments in his ca [...]	2006-08-24 13:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR PGOV PREL PINR MARR
06SANTODOMINGO2785	CALL ON NEW DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL RADHAMES [...] (SBU) On August 22, Ambassador Hertell, accompanied by DCM, poloff, NAS, RSO, and representatives from DHS, FBI, USAID, and the U.S. Marshals Service, met recently sworn-in Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena in a one-hour courtesy call also attended by members of the media. Jimenez, who l [...]	2006-08-29 10:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS DR JIMENEZ
06SANTODOMINGO2838	WATCHLISTS AT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC'S POINTS OF ENTRY [...] (S) Summary. With reftels Embassy reported on the Dominican Republic's immigration database system located at seaports, airports, and border crossing points. New information reveals that at points of entry only the Dominican intelligence agency has access to watchlists provided by Interpol a [...]	2006-09-01 15:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	SECRET	PINR PINS PTER CIVS KFRD DR

06SANTODOMINGO3022	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #5: PRIMER ON THE PRD PARTY [...] This is the fifth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. PRIMER ON THE PRD PARTY (C) Despite major defeats in the 2004 presidential and 2006 legislative elections, the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) remains the [...]	2006-09-22 11:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PGOV PREL PINR
06SANTODOMINGO827	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS 2006 SERIES #2: ALFREDO [...] (SBU) This is the second cable in a series reporting on the upcoming elections in the Dominican Republic . Alfredo Pacheco: Rising Star in Dominican Politics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Opposition PRD National District president Cesar Cabrera gave politi [...]	2006-03-09 11:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR PGOV PINR
06SAOPAULO102	SAO PAULO VICE-MAYOR GILBERTO KASSAB: PFL INSIDER DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge d'Affaires (CDA),accompanied by POLCOUNS, Sao Paulo Consul General, and Sao Paulo poloff, met January 19 with Sao Paulo Vice-Mayor Gilberto Kassab. The 45-year-old Kassab, an influential leader of the state Liberal Front Party (PFL),will serve as acting Mayor through th [...]	2006-02-01 17:49:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON BR
06SAOPAULO1038	WHA PDAS SHAPIRO'S MEETINGS IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) During a September 18-21 visit to Sao Paulo to attend the WHA ELO Conference, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met with a series of experts on questions of foreign policy, international trade, and socio-economic issues. Private sector representatives painted a gloomy economic picture, noting t [...]	2006-09-27 16:34:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL EINV ETRD SOCI ECON BR
06SAOPAULO1105	RIO GRANDE DO SUL: ELECTION RESULTS REFLECT VOTER [...] (SBU) For the first time in five presidential elections, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva failed to carry Rio Grande do Sul on October 1, losing by nearly 1.5 million votes to challenger Geraldo Alckmin. At the same time, incumbent Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) Governor Germano Rigotto n [...]	2006-10-17 17:58:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO1192	PSDB STATE LEADER: LESSONS LEARNED FROM ALCKMIN CAMPAIGN; [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo State Deputy Sidney Beraldo told Poloff that state leaders of the Social Democracy Party of Brazil (PSDB) have been conducting a "lessons learned" exercise to identify what went wrong in ex-Governor Geraldo Alckmin's unsuccessful presidential campaign. One conclusion is that t [...]	2006-11-14 11:48:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR BR
06SAOPAULO1202	GOVERNOR LEMBO DISCUSSES POST-ELECTION POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (SBU) During a lunch with the CG, Sao Paulo Governor Lembo predicted that President Lula will face some opposition from within his own party, and expressed concern that if Lula has difficulty sustaining a majority in Congress, he might resort to populist rhetoric, though probably not populist [...]	2006-11-21 14:14:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO121	LULA'S GOVERNMENT IN THE CROSSHAIRS: A PT PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Although they deny it, members of President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) who attended the Sixth World Social Forum - Americas Region (WSF) in Caracas in late January had some difficult moments. The event became Hugo Chavez's show and Brazil was critici [...]	2006-02-07 17:13:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ELAB BR
06SAOPAULO1264	PT EXPECTS LULA TO ADVANCE THE PARTY'S AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials of President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) downplayed reports of tensions between the President and his party. The PT considers the 2006 elections to have been a referendum on President Lula's record and his vision for the country and believe [...]	2006-12-15 14:29:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON PREL BR
06SAOPAULO202	LULA'S RECOVERY IN POLLS EXPOSES PSDB QUANDARY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Recent polls showing President Lula recovering lost popularity have sounded alarms within the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),which is struggling to nominate a candidate to o [...]	2006-02-23 18:14:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO206	LULA'S RECOVERY IN POLLS EXPOSES PSDB QUANDARY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Recent polls showing President Lula recovering lost popularity have sounded alarms within the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),which is struggling to nominate a candidate to o [...]	2006-02-23 19:26:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO229	HOPES AND FEARS: BUSINESS COMMUNITY VIEWS OF BRAZIL'S [...] Summary: An informal survey of business leaders from Sao Paulo shows support for Finance Minister Antonio Palocci's macroeconomic policies and a general sense of relief that Lula's presidency has not destroyed the economy as originally feared. Although Lula is no longer seen as a threat to th [...]	2006-03-03 12:29:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV PINR ETRD BR
06SAOPAULO278	ALCKMIN IS PSDB CANDIDATE [...] Senator Tasso Jereissati, President of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),announced from state party headquarters headquarters in Sao Paulo March 14 that Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin is the party's nominee for president. The announcement ends over two months of uncertainty and [...]	2006-03-14 20:39:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PGOV BR
06SAOPAULO30	PMDB Leader Ponders Party's Electoral Options [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Federal Deputy Michel Temer, national president of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),believes that public disillusion with President Lula and the Workers' Party (PT) provides an opportunity for the PMDB to [...]	2006-01-11 14:02:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV ETRD BR
06SAOPAULO316	GERALDO ALCKMIN: TWO ADVISORS TALK ABOUT HOW HE BEAT SERRA, [...] (SBU) The March 14 announcement by the leadership of the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) of the nomination of Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin for President (ref A) represented the culmination of a two-month blitzkrieg by Alckmin's forces that apparently took party chieftai [...]	2006-03-22 17:36:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD BR
06SAOPAULO350	SAO PAULO STATE BANK ACCUSED OF FAVORING ALCKMIN [...] Media reports published March 26 accuse state-owned "Nossa Caixa" bank of directing advertising money to political allies of Governor (and opposition presidential candidate) Geraldo Alckmin, including several state legislators. Alckmin and senior bank officials have denied wrongdoing; however [...]	2006-03-31 12:25:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EFIN ECON PINR BR
06SAOPAULO355	SERRA ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR GOVERNOR OF SAO PAULO [...] On March 31, Sao Paulo Mayor Jose Serra announced his resignation and his candidacy for Governor of Sao Paulo state. After agonizing for months over whether - and how - to break his 2004 promise to voters to serve a full four-year term as Mayor in order to run for President of Brazil, Serra he [...]	2006-04-03 16:51:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO387	"TUCANO" TALKS CAMPAIGN, CHICKENS, CHINA [...] (U) Poloffs met April 3 with Christian Lohbauer, until recently a municipal official in the administration of Sao Paulo Mayor Serra and now a lobbyist for Brazil's poultry association. Lohbauer ventured some predictions about the upcoming presidential campaign, described some of the challenges [...]	2006-04-10 11:40:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR TBIO PGOV PREL PINR ETRD BR CH
06SAOPAULO400	PSDB OFFICIAL EYES UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (U) Poloff and Political Assistant met April 7 with Sao Paulo Municipal Secretary of Government Aloysio Nunes Ferreira to discuss the local and national political scene following Mayor Jose Serra's resignation to run for Governor of Sao Paulo state (ref A). Nunes, who is close to Serra, was sa [...]	2006-04-13 10:16:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO449	FEDERAL DEPUTY GREEHALGH SHARES VIEWS ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN, [...] (SBU) In a ninety-minute breakfast meeting with Consulate representatives, Federal Deputy Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh (PT-SP) offered his insights on a number of current political issues. He said President Lula faces a tough fight for re-election and is concerned about his prospects in populous S [...]	2006-04-28 18:30:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM ELAB EAGR BR
06SAOPAULO465	2006 ELECTIONS: A "RENT-A-PARTY" (PTB) POLITICIAN'S [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo former Governor Luiz Antonio Fleury Filho, now a Federal Deputy representing the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB),shared his views with Poloff on the upcoming national and state elections. DPO subsequently attended an event at AMCHAM where Fleury talked about his ideas for politica [...]	2006-05-03 14:10:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO492	SAO PAULO GOVERNOR CLAUDIO LEMBO TALKS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo Governor Claudio Lembo told us that despite press reports suggesting otherwise, his Liberal Front Party (PFL) will/will form an alliance with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and will strongly support the presidential candidacy of PSDB Sao Paulo ex-Governor Geraldo A [...]	2006-05-05 19:03:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO498	SAO PAULO'S ARAB COMMUNITY: DIVERSITY AND DIVISIONS [...] (SBU) While the Lebanese Christian community in Sao Paulo is active in politics, the Arab community in general (Muslim and Christian) lacks political clout at the national level. In fact, our conversations with a number of Christian and Muslim leaders of Sao Paulo's large Middle Eastern comm [...]	2006-05-09 16:00:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KISL KIRF SOCI SCUL BR
06SAOPAULO505	A BUSY TWO WEEKS FOR LULA'S PARTY: PT READIES FOR CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) The ruling Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) held its National Encounter in Sao Paulo, April 28-30, in preparation for the election campaign. Delegates authorized President Lula and party leadership to enter into electoral alliances with any willing partners, excluding only [...]	2006-05-10 18:55:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ELAB EPET BR
06SAOPAULO543	DEPUTY IZAR SPEAKS ABOUT THE ETHICS COUNCIL, THE CORRUPTION [...] (U) Federal Deputy Ricardo Izar, Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Ethics Council, is frustrated that so many corrupt Deputies have been exonerated by the full Chamber, but believes nonetheless that the political corruption scandal will have a healthy impact on Brazil's political culture. [...]	2006-05-17 19:23:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO623	PMDB LEADER RULES OUT ALLIANCE WITH LULA [...] (SBU) Former Governor Orestes Quercia, Sao Paulo state chairman of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),will support Senator Pedro Simon if he decides to run for President, but he considers it far more likely the PMDB will run no presidential candidate and will not ally with any par [...]	2006-06-02 14:25:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
06SAOPAULO643	BRAZIL'S WORKING/MIDDLE CLASS GAINS PURCHASING POWER, [...] Brazil's working/lower-middle class has been making slow but steady progress in regaining purchasing power over the last two years after seeing its economic position erode for a decade (1994-2003) (reftel). These families are becoming more sophisticated in their purchases, with the most notab [...]	2006-06-06 19:29:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PINR SOCI BR
06SAOPAULO647	ALCKMIN'S CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR CLAIMS LULA'S POLL NUMBERS [...] (SBU) Despite a series of recent opinion polls that show President Lula maintaining a lead of more than twenty points, with a chance to be re-elected in the first round, Geraldo Alckmin's campaign coordinator told Charg that the PSDB is methodically building grassroots political networks throu [...]	2006-06-07 18:49:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ETRD ECPS BR
06SAOPAULO676	PSDB INSIDER OFFERS "REALISTIC" ASSESSMENT OF ALCKMIN'S [...] (SBU) Though not sanguine about the odds, PSDB heavyweight Andrea Matarazzo thinks Geraldo Alckmin still has a chance to defeat President Lula in the election this October, provided that all the pieces fall into place. But the Assistant Mayor of Sao Paulo's downtown district thinks his party [...]	2006-06-16 18:35:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON BR
06SAOPAULO689	PMDB CHIEF AFFIRMS PARTY'S POSITION AS POWER BROKER BUT [...] (SBU) Michel Temer, President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),believes President Lula has done a masterful job of disassociating himself from the political corruption scandals that have crushed some of his closest advisers. He also has effectively expanded social programs t [...]	2006-06-21 16:05:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON BR
06SAOPAULO722	SAO PAULO MAYOR DISCUSSES PCC VIOLENCE, ELECTIONS, BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab told the Consul General (CG) June 29 that the recent gang violence in the city was a wake-up call to the public, which has responded in solidarity with the police. Kassab believes opposition candidate Geraldo Alckmin will have a hard time catching up with [...]	2006-06-30 12:18:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON ETRD EPET BR
06SAOPAULO73	ELECTION 2006: OPPOSITION PSDB TO DECIDE ON [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings in Sao Paulo on January 16- 20, Charge d'Affaires (CDA),Sao Paulo Consul General, Embassy PolCounselor and SP Poloff discussed the coming presidential election with the leading PSDB candidates - Sao Paulo city mayor Jose Serra (who is still undeclared) and Sao Pa [...]	2006-01-26 16:48:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PINR BR
06SAOPAULO734	ALCKMIN UNVEILS GOVERNMENT PROGRAM [...] (SBU) The opposition PSDB government program unveiled at the party's June 11 national convention cannot be characterized as a page-turner, but it contains a number of interesting proposals and initiatives. Its centerpiece, as is to be expected under the circumstances, is economic development [...]	2006-07-03 17:49:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD BR
06SAOPAULO810	IMPROVING POLL NUMBERS BUOY OPTIMISM OF ALCKMIN'S CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) Opposition presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin's campaign coordinator told Consul General that the campaign is coming together well and that support for Alckmin is growing, as reflected in recent polls. Joao Carlos Meirelles said that critical alliances at the state level are firming [...]	2006-07-28 16:36:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON EAGR BR
06SAOPAULO862	LULA'S BALANCING ACT: PT LEADER OUTLINES PARTY'S ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Sao Paulo State Legislator Renato Simoes outlined the strategy of Lula's Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) for the October elections. Simoes indicated that the party believes the Sao Paulo state and national campaigns have to be integrated. PT gubernatorial candid [...]	2006-08-07 18:39:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON BR
06SAOPAULO907	PMDB LEADER PREDICTS NARROW LULA VICTORY, AND A [...] (SBU) Federal Deputy Delfim Netto predicted President Lula will win a "fairly close" election in the second round if he can avoid committing too many more gaffes. Lula's Workers Party (PT),however, will take a serious hit because of corruption scandals and will end up with fewer than 50 Fede [...]	2006-08-18 13:24:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON BR
06SAOPAULO935	Despite Sagging Poll Numbers, Alckmin Adviser Thinks [...] (SBU) Fernando Braga, Sao Paulo State Secretary for Economy and Planning, argued that former Governor Geraldo Alckmin will make it to the second round of the presidential election, where he will take advantage of Lula's high negative numbers in the polls to "win in the last five minutes." He [...]	2006-08-28 10:43:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON BR
06SAOPAULO968	POLLSTER GIVES AlCKMIN A FIGHTING CHANCE IN ELECTIONS, SEES [...] SUMMARY: Marcia Cavallari Nunes, Executive Director of the prestigious "IBOPE" polling firm, believes opposition candidate Geraldo Alckmin still has a chance to deny President Lula a first-round electoral victory, but that it would require an unpredictable combination of events between now and [...]	2006-09-06 13:11:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR ECON BR
06SAOPAULO988	COMMANDER OF CARANDIRU MASSACRE FOUND MURDERED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The police commander who was in charge of operations during the infamous 1992 police massacre of inmates at Sao Paulo's Carandiru Prison was found dead in his apartment on Sunday night, September 10. Early reports indicate that Ubiratan Guimaraes, who retired from the police f [...]	2006-09-12 18:49:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM PHUM PINR SOCI BR
06SARAEVO2307	BOSNIA ON ELECTION EVE - EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-29 12:20:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
06SARAJEVO1148	BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM FOUNDERING ON ROCKY SHORES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 3, the Police Reform Directorate (PRD),by majority vote, approved a plan for a a single police structure consisting of two tiers (state and local) with budget and legislation at the state-level (BiH Parliament). Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik has publicly oppose [...]	2006-05-22 17:25:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS BK
06SARAJEVO1235	BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Police Reform Directorate (PRD) held its 12th and 13th meetings on May 24 and 31 with the Republika Srpska (RS) representative (RS police director Smajlovic) in attendance solely as an observer. RS PM Dodik revoked full RS participation in the PRD, in part because of its Ma [...]	2006-06-02 09:54:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS BK
06SARAJEVO1451	BOSNIA: NEW REPUBLIKA SRPSKA POLICE DIRECTOR - [...] (C) The Republika Srpska (RS) confirmed the appointment of relatively unknown Uros Pena as the new RS Police Director on June 23, replacing controversial former director Dragomir Andan. Andan resigned in April under pressure from ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who accused Andan of cr [...]	2006-06-27 14:55:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KJUS PTER PGOV PINR PREL BK
06SARAJEVO1664	BOSNIA: ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten years after the war, Bosnia remains in many ways a traumatized, post-Communist, post-war society. Crime and corruption are serious problems and touch nearly every aspect of life. Criminal clans aligned with politicians and political parties are still prospering and are desc [...]	2006-07-25 10:47:00	Embassy Sarajevo	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR KJUS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER KCRM BK
06SARAJEVO1747	BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM AND RS PM DODIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Police Reform Directorate (PRD) held its 16th meeting on July 26 and is close to an agreement on the basic model, but without Republika Srpska (RS) input, because the official RS representative is an observer-only. Prior to the meeting, the Ambassador discussed police reform [...]	2006-08-03 17:47:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS BK
06SARAJEVO1852	BOSNIA - OPERATION STORM STIRS UP A TEMPEST [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The airing of two videos allegedly documenting war crimes committed against Serbs during Operation Storm in 1995 has set off a political firestorm in Bosnia. The intensity of the political firestorm has been fueled in part by Serb accusations against a prominent Bosniak war he [...]	2006-08-14 09:54:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KAWC KJUS PGOV PINR PREL
06SARAJEVO1860	BIH POLITICIANS CHOOSE HIGH-ROAD IN RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political reaction to the bombing of Former BiH President Alija Izetbegovic's grave, with the exception of one Serb-based party, has been surprisingly measured in this pre-election period. Although the investigation into the attack has yielded few results, some groups, including [...]	2006-08-14 17:24:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BK
06SARAJEVO1892	BOSNIA - IVANIC SHARES THOUGHTS ON DOMESTIC ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 16 meeting, Mladen Ivanic, Foreign Minister and leader of the Republika Serpska-based Party for Democratic Progress (PDP),shared with us his thoughts on the October elections, Brcko and police reform. Ivanic predicted that the elections would not result in major chan [...]	2006-08-18 07:54:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BX
06SARAJEVO1916	BOSNIAN ELECTIONS - THIS TIME THEY COUNT [...] (U) This is the second in a planned series of election-related telegrams. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Since 1996, Bosnia has been generally successful in forging a democratic process under close supervision of the international community. However, this year's elections, in our judgment, the country's [...]	2006-08-21 11:14:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
06SARAJEVO1980	BOSNIA - HIREP LAYS OUT POLICE REFORM STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 24, OHR High Representative Schwartz-Schilling and Head of the EU Police Mission Coppola briefed key Ambassadors, including the U.S., about police reform. Schwartz-Schilling announced that he planned to conduct political negotiations on police reform, but only on the ba [...]	2006-08-29 10:09:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KCRM KJUS BI
06SARAJEVO2140	BOSNIA - KEEPING THE OHR HORSE IN THE BARN ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with OHR High Representative Schwartz-Schilling on September 13 at the HighRep's request to discuss constitutional reform, police reform, and the transition from his position as High Representative to the EU Special Representative. On constitutional reform, Sch [...]	2006-09-14 15:46:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BK EU
06SARAJEVO2160	BOSNIA: POLITICIANS PLEDGE TO RESTRUCTURE THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the election campaign reached the halfway mark this week, comments on constitutional reform by Bosnian politicians are featuring prominently in the press. Representatives of the Patriotic Block coalition, who helped defeat the April constitutional reform package met with HighR [...]	2006-09-15 15:07:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK EU
06SARAJEVO2199	BOSNIA - SERB PARTIES SET BACK OUR BRCKO AGENDA [...] (SBU) The final pre-election session of the State-level House of Representatives (HoR) took place on September 18. The HoR had been scheduled to take up amendments to the Law on the Council of Ministers (CoM) that would provide a permanent legal basis for the Brcko District Office (BDO) in Sar [...]	2006-09-19 15:29:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS BK
06SARAJEVO2307	BOSNIA ON ELECTION EVE - EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, [...] (U) This is the final in a series of planned pre-election telegrams. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Bosnians go to the polls in two days, October 1, to elect their national and entity governments (Ref E). International observers and Bosnian officials expect an orderly and fair election, though lingering c [...]	2006-09-29 12:20:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
06SARAJEVO2569	BOSNIA - FINAL 2006 ELECTION RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: This afternoon the Central Election Commission (CEC) provided us with an advance copy of the final election results, which they made public at a 1700 press conference in Sarajevo. The results are in line with our earlier assessments based on partial results the CEC had released s [...]	2006-10-18 17:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
06SARAJEVO2575	BOSNIA: BOSNIAKS MORE SENSITIVE ABOUT U.S. [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the past, Bosniak (i.e., Muslim) politicians and the Bosniak public have been strong supporters of U.S. counterterrorism policies. This includes the work of the Citizenship Review Commission (CRC),one of our top counterterrorism priorities in Bosnia. Criticism of the CRC gen [...]	2006-10-19 13:11:00	Embassy Sarajevo	SECRET	PTER PINR PHUM PGOV PREL BK
06SARAJEVO2699	BOSNIA - DAS DICARLO PROBES NEWLY ELECTED BOSNIAK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 19 before the Peace Implementation Council (PIC),DAS Rosemary DiCarlo met separately with the outgoing Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency and leader of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA) Sulejman Tihic; Republika Srpska (RS) PM and leader of the Alliance of Indepe [...]	2006-10-27 15:31:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
06SARAJEVO2876	BOSNIA - NEXT STEPS ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six weeks after the October 1 elections, Bosniak (Muslim) opposition to and anxiety about the U.S.-brokered package of constitutional amendments remains a problem. Newly elected Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic continues his public and private campaign against [...]	2006-11-15 08:12:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
06SARAJEVO2971	U.S. ORGANIZED DAYTON COMMEMORATION EVENTS FOCUS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 21, the 11th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, Embassy Sarajevo sponsored and/or hosted several events in and around Sarajevo. The highlight of the day was an event for more than 500 guests at the National Theater, which featured speeches by the [...]	2006-11-22 17:46:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ODIP BK
06SARAJEVO3069	STATE COURT UPDATES PART ONE: WAR CRIMES CHAMBER [...] INTRODUCTION: This is the first of two cables summarizing cases currently before the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This cable summarizes war crimes cases. Cases underway in the State Court Special Section for Organized Crime, Financial Crime and Corruption will be discussed septel. [...]	2006-12-04 13:44:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED	ICTY KAWC PHUM PINR BK
06SARAJEVO3070	STATE COURT UPDATES PART ONE: WAR CRIMES CHAMBER [...] INTRODUCTION: This is the first of two cables summarizing cases currently bfore the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. his cable summarizes war crimes cases. Cases unerway in the State Court Special Section for Organzed Crime, Financial Crime and Corruption will b discussed septel. The [...]	2006-12-04 13:51:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED	ICTY KAWC PHUM PINR BK
06SARAJEVO3089	MILORAD DODIK RECONFIRMED AS RS PREMIER [...] (SBU) Milorad Dodik was confirmed for his third term as Republika Srpska (RS) Premier by the RS National Assembly November 30. Both in personnel and policy matters, Dodik,s new RS Government will differ little from his previous cabinet. Eleven of sixteen ministers have retained their posts, [...]	2006-12-06 10:37:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL BK
06SARAJEVO3090	NEW DODIK GOVERNMENT: MOST MINISTERS REMAIN [...] (SBU) The RS National Assembly (RSNA) elected Milorad Dodik for a second consecutive term as Republika Srpska (RS) Premier November 30, by a vote of 60 to 18 with 2 abstentions. Dodik and his government slate received the support of his own Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD),Mla [...]	2006-12-06 10:40:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL BK
06SARAJEVO3185	BOSNIA - FEDERATION POLICE CHIEF FACES OUSTER [...] (C) Longstanding political and personal feuds between Zlatko Miletic, Director of the Federation Police, and members of the Federation government have resulted in procedural attempts to remove Miletic from his position. Miletic has been an effective mission counterpart on security issues and h [...]	2006-12-18 11:58:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM PTER BK
06SARAJEVO3187	BOSNIA - DELPONTE GIVES RS MINISTER CADJO 30 DAYS [...] (S) SUMMARY: The HighRep on December 15 told the Ambassador that ICTY Chief Prosecutor had delivered an ultimatum to RS Minister of Interior Cadjo demanding action within 30 days against ICTY indictee Stojan Zupljanan. The HighRep indicated that he would be prepared to use his Bonn Powers to [...]	2006-12-18 14:02:00	Embassy Sarajevo	SECRET	ICTY KAWC PHUM PINR BK
06SARAJEVO3203	BOSNIA - HIGH REP PRESSES FOR "REAL ASSESSMENT" ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prior to the December 6-7 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) in Brussels, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rosemary DiCarlo meeting with High Representative (HighRep) Christian Schwarz-Schilling. Schwarz-Schilling urged the U.S. to support a "real review" about O [...]	2006-12-20 06:46:00	Embassy Sarajevo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC BK
06SARAJEVO3209	BOSNIA - GBIH OPTS FOR UNILATERAL ACTION ON [...] (C/NF) Summary: After several years of lobbying the United Nations to revise its stance on police officers decertified by the United Nations International Police Task Force (UNIPTF),the Bosnian Government has opted for unilateral action. Rather than accept a UN proposed compromise to allow t [...]	2006-12-20 17:05:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS EUN BK
06SARAJEVO3271	BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM DIRECTORATE REPORT COMPLETE [...] (C) Summary: The Police Reform Directorate (PRD) issued its final report on December 22, but the process of political approval and implementation remains at an impasse despite US and EU warnings that without agreement Bosnia cannot sign a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) until poli [...]	2006-12-29 13:45:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KCRM KJUS EUN BK
06SARAJEVO768	BOSNIA: CONTROVERSIAL REPUBLIKA SRPSKA POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Controversial Republika Srpska (RS) Police Director Dragomir Andan tendered his resignation April 7th. The immediate catalyst for his resignation was a letter sent to RS PM Milorad Dodik and the High Rep by ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte. The letter alleges lack of coope [...]	2006-04-12 10:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS BK
06SECTION01O02HONGKONG2311	JUNE 4 CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN HONG KNG [...] (C) Summary: According to ong Kong's "Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China," their annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military suppression in Beijing's Tiananmen Square drew a crowd of 44,000 on Sunday evening, slightly short [...]	2006-06-05 10:23:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR HK
06SEOUL102	THE ROK'S NEW MINISTER OF UNIFICATION: LEE [...] (S) Incoming Minister of Unification (and Chairman of the National Security Council Standing Committee) Lee Jong-seok is a left-leaning nationalist who supports the ROK playing a more active and independent role in the world, particularly on issues involving North Korea. The Embassy has worke [...]	2006-01-09 09:04:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PREL PINR KS KN
06SEOUL1295	HAN MYUNG-SOOK CONFIRMED AS PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Assembly April 19 confirmed Han Myung-sook as Korea's new prime minister, making her the first woman to assume the nation's number two job. Han, a two-time former Cabinet minister and former dissident, told fellow lawmakers that she hoped to use her tenure to ame [...]	2006-04-19 09:26:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KS
06SEOUL1789	ROK GENERALLY UPBEAT ON STRONGER TIES WITH NATO, [...] (C) According to officials from South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),the ROK was generally positive toward strengthened cooperation with NATO and eager to participate in global efforts to maintain peace and stability. The underlying concern for Seoul in assessing area [...]	2006-05-26 08:10:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINR PINS AS JA NZ KN KS
06SEOUL1964	OPPOSITION LEADER DISCUSSES ALLIANCE, FTA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a June 6 luncheon with the Ambassador, Park Geun-hye, leader of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP),reaffirmed the primacy she placed on the U.S.-ROK alliance. On North Korea, she criticized the Roh Administration's "unconditional" engagement with the North, but opined [...]	2006-06-13 05:59:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KS
06SEOUL2190	SOHN HAK-KYU, THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF KOREA? [...] (C) Sohn Hak-kyu (GNP),outgoing Gyeonggi Province Governor and presidential hopeful, outlined his qualifications and vision for leading the ROK to the Ambassador June 29. Sohn currently trails other presidential hopefuls in the polls, but hopes to bolster his standing as the "progressive" c [...]	2006-07-03 05:35:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS
06SEOUL2855	DPRK TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL FLOOD AID [...] In addition to the previously announced 100,000 metric tons of rice in response to extensive flooding in the North (reftel),the South Korean government will also send material for reconstruction and repair. Official estimates of death and damage were also released following discussions betwee [...]	2006-08-22 03:55:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PREL PINR KS KN
06SEOUL3103	AMBASSADOR VERSHBOW DISCUSSES OPCON WITH GNP FLOOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition GNP Floor Leader Kim Hyoung-o told the Ambassador several times in a meeting on September 6 that the Grand National Party (GNP) strongly urged the U.S. not to discuss a timetable for the handover of wartime operational control (OPCON) at the September 14 summit or the [...]	2006-09-08 09:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL3217	SOHN HAK-KYU: THINKING MAN'S PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a Buddhist-run youth hostel at the foot of scenic Mount Sorak, GNP presidential hopeful Sohn Hak-kyu met with poloff over tea on September 17. The former Gyeonggi Province Governor, dressed in plain workman's clothes and sporting an unkempt beard, described his 100-day tour o [...]	2006-09-18 07:59:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS
06SEOUL3249	AMBASSADOR VERSHBOW DISCUSSES OPCON WITH GNP [...] (C) SUMMARY: GNP National Assembly Vice Speaker Lee Sang-deuk told the Ambassador on September 19 that the Grand National Party (GNP) was opposed to OPCON transfer. Lee emphasized that the purpose of his planned September 20-23 visit to the United States was to ask that OPCON talks be suspen [...]	2006-09-20 09:03:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL3369	AMBASSADOR VERSHBOW DISCUSSES OPCON WITH GNP [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26 over lunch, Ambassador Vershbow discussed OPCON transfer with three National Assembly members from the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP). The members gave the Ambassador feedback from their September 19-25 trip to the United States and explained in detai [...]	2006-09-29 09:27:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL3684	GNP PARLIAMENTARY VICE SPEAKER LEE SANG-DEUK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a lunch meeting on October 25 with the Ambassador, GNP National Assembly Vice Speaker Lee expressed concern over the Roh administration's handling of the U.S.-ROK alliance, OPCON transfer, North Korea and expressed general dissatisfatction with Roh. Lee's clear message was th [...]	2006-10-27 02:30:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL3861	FORMER GYEONGGI GOVERNOR SOHN HAK-KYU ON NORTH [...] (C) Over lunch with the Ambassador on November 3, GNP Presidential hopeful and former Gyeonggi Province Governor Sohn Hak-kyu asked many probing questions about where U.S.-ROK relations were headed and offered his views on North Korea and his assessment of the ROK political scene, including h [...]	2006-11-09 01:30:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL3881	URI PARTY REP. CHUN JUNG-BAE ON NORTH KOREA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Uri Representative Chun Jung-bae made his case why the Uri Party has a chance to maintain the Blue House in next year's presidential election and why he might be the person to lead the Uri Party charge. Chun, the former Justice Ministe [...]	2006-11-09 09:20:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL3885	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KOH GUN ON NORTH KOREA, [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch with the DCM and PolMinCouns on November 9, former Prime Minister Goh Kun, among the leading candidates in the 2007 presidential election, emphasized that his experience as acting President in 2004 made him realize that national security was the most important consider [...]	2006-11-13 00:36:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KS KN
06SEOUL4014	LEE MYUNG-BAK: THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF KOREA? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 20 meeting with the DCM, former Seoul Mayor and leading presidential hopeful Lee Myung-bak said that the December, 2007 ROK presidential elections will be about the economy above all else. He said the Korean economy should be growing at a 7 percent rate instead of [...]	2006-11-21 05:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL4039	FORMER PRIME MINISTER KIM JONG-PIL'S LAST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil told the Ambassador on November 16 that U.S.-ROK relations were paramount and that the administration had to change in 2007. Kim said he would support the GNP candidate, whoever that may be, provided that he/she agreed to "sweep out the debris" o [...]	2006-11-22 07:48:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL4073	SEJONG INSTITUTE PRESIDENT BAEK JONG-CHUN EXPECTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Roh Moo-hyun this week is expected to name Baek Jong-chun, currently President of the government-supported Sejong Institute, as National Security Advisor to replace Song Min-soon, who is becoming Foreign Minister. Baek's appointment will mark the completion of Roh's na [...]	2006-11-27 09:08:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KS KN
06SEOUL4247	GOVERNOR ROMNEY VISITS KOREA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney visited South Korea on December 6-7 and met with a wide range of government and non-governmental leaders, gave a speech to AMCHAM, visited the DMZ and received a briefing from USFK. The Governor's meetings focused on North Korea and the curren [...]	2006-12-14 00:21:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL4297	PURSUIT OF TERRORIST INFORMATION EXCHANGE: ROK [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-18 06:51:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS KS
06SEOUL4336	THE SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC OPINION (C-AL6-01891) [...] (C) Poloff met with Secretary to the President for Public Information, Cho Yong hyu and Assistant Secretary Park Si young on Friday December 15. Despite the Secretary's initial reluctance to meet with Embassy staff, Cho was very cordial and spoke openly about his office and their responsibili [...]	2006-12-20 07:30:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KS
06SEOUL498	FORMER KIM IL SUNG UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SAYS [...] (SBU) Dr. Cho Myungchul, a think tank researcher who defected to South Korea in 1994 after years of living among the DPRK elite, told poloff on February 8 that social discontent among the DPRK's working class was kept in check through propaganda and periodic acts of decency by the state, rath [...]	2006-02-14 05:02:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SOCI MNUC PINR EAID ECON KN KS
06SEOUL590	CHUNG DONG-YOUNG RETAKES HELM OF RULING URI PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Minister of Unification Chung Dong-young was elected chairman of the ruling Uri Party on February 18. His election is seen as further proof of his voter appeal and augurs well for his bid to win the party's nomination for the 2007 presidential election. Chung's first ch [...]	2006-02-23 07:35:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KS
06SEOUL595	THE DPRK LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION: ROK OBSERVERS [...] (SBU) ROK academics interviewed in recent weeks by poloff were divided on whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il would name his successor in the near future, and on whether Kim would choose one of his sons as his heir or seek outside the Kim family. Most believed Kim Jong-il's second son, Ki [...]	2006-02-23 07:58:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR MNUC SOCI KN KS
06SEOUL632	ROH TO RESHUFFLE CABINET NEXT WEEK [...] (SBU) Roh Administration officials, including the Prime Minister, have signaled another partial Cabinet reshuffle to be announced next week. Three ministers -- Oh Geo-don (Maritime and Fisheries),Oh Young-kyo (Government Administration and Home Affairs),Lee Jae-yong (Environment) -- appear [...]	2006-02-27 08:58:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KS
06SEOUL663	ROH ANNOUNCES CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] As previewed in reftel, Roh announced the resignation of five Cabinet ministers, four of whom will run in the May 31 regional elections. The Blue House announced replacements for four of the five positions: - Government Administration and Home Affairs: Lee Yong-seop, Blue House Senior Secr [...]	2006-03-02 09:30:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KS
06SEOUL740	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SEOUL MAYOR LEE MYUNG-BAK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 7 the Ambassador met with Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak, a leading contender to become the opposition Grand National Party's (GNP)' nominee in next year's presidential election. Lee said that he was looking forward to his visit to the United States the week of March 13, in [...]	2006-03-08 07:58:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
06SEOUL902	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 17 LUNCH WITH FORMER PM GOH KUN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister Goh Kun, a leading presidential contender, expressed to the Ambassador March 17 his deep concern about the apparent lack of communication between Washington and Seoul. He pressed for the ROK's inclusion in the Visa Waiver Program and expressed confidence a [...]	2006-03-21 07:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC PINR KS KN
06SEOUL973	HAN MYUNG-SOOK NAMED PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Roh on March 24 nominated Han Myung-sook, a two-time former Cabinet minister and current Uri lawmaker, to be his new prime minister, subject to parliamentary confirmation. She would replace Lee Hae-chan, who stepped down earlier this months in the wake of a golf sca [...]	2006-03-24 08:51:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KS
06SHANGHAI6459	EAST CHINA VIEWS ON PEACEFUL RISE AND HARMONIOUS WORLD [...] (C) Summary. According to East China scholars, China's foreign policy doctrine is moving beyond the concept of "Peaceful Development" to "Harmonious World." President Hu, determined to put his stamp on China's foreign policy, had initially supported the "Peaceful Rise" concept promoted by f [...]	2006-10-12 01:36:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EINV ECON CH
06SHANGHAI6460	SHANGHAI CHINA CONFERENCE A PRELUDE TO 6TH PLENUM [...] (C). Summary. During an international conference of China Studies, top Chinese scholars discussed China's political development and foreign policy, in a prelude to discussions at the October 2006 Plenum and even the 2007 Party Congress. Chinese scholars characterized China as committed to t [...]	2006-10-12 04:29:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH

06SHANGHAI6957	PENSION SCANDAL CLAIMS MORE; POLITICS AS USUAL [...] (C) Summary: The Shanghai pension scandal, to date, has snared some 50 business and political leaders, with the number continuing to rise. Four of our well-placed contacts recently took the view that the current investigation was not primarily designed to clean up Shanghai--although that was [...]	2006-10-27 11:51:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
06SHANGHAI7112	CITI'S RICHARD STANLEY ON GDB AND BANKING IN CHINA [...] (C) Summary: On December 1, Citibank China CEO Richard Stanley updated a visiting Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) delegation led by Governor Kevin Warsh on the status of Citi's efforts to purchase a minority stake with management control in the Guangdong Development Bank (GDB). According to Stanle [...]	2006-12-08 03:51:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV PINR CH
06SHANGHAI7121	(C) BIO DETAILS UFWD HEAD LIU YANDONG'S HUSBAND [...] (C) Summary: On December 4, Poloff met with Yang Yuanxing (STC: 2799/0337/1932),husband of Hu Jintao protigi and United Front Work Department Head Liu Yandong, in connection with a visa referral for his upcoming tourist trip to the United States on December 20. Liu has been rumored to be in [...]	2006-12-12 09:17:00	Consulate Shanghai	SECRET	PGOV PINR EINV ECON KPAO CH
06SHANGHAI7129	SHANGHAI LEADERSHIP UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. In the continuing fallout of the pension scandal that led to the ouster of former Party Secretary Chen Liangyu (Ref A),four Shanghai contacts viewed acting Party Secretary Han Zheng as a transitional figure likely to be SIPDIS replaced at, or before, the 17th Party Congress. [...]	2006-12-14 09:35:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON KPAO CH
06SHANGHAI7137	SHANGHAI ELECTIONS--A MIX OF PAGEANTRY AND FICTION [...] (C) Summary: Despite efforts to portray them as paragons of democratic virtue, three contacts descriptions of Shanghai's district-level People's Congress elections reflected little more than choreographed political pageantry. Congenoffs visited elections in two separate Shanghai districts, Mi [...]	2006-12-21 04:18:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
06SHANGHAI7139	CONSULTATIVE DEMOCRACY YIELDING FRUIT IN WENLING [...] (C) Summary. An open budget initiative that is moving into its third year in Zeguo Township of Zhejiang Province's Wenling municipality, has introduced an unusual level of participatory democracy. The process was launched out of the Zeguo Party Secretary's frustration with competing voices fo [...]	2006-12-21 09:42:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
06SHANGHAI7140	WENLING PUSHING THE BOUNDARY OF POLITICAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Riding on the coattails of the successes with "democratic consultative meetings (minkenhui) and participatory democracy reforms in other townships, Wenling municipality in Zhejiang Province has moved forward and implemented further reforms in the township of Xinhe, which put the e [...]	2006-12-21 09:55:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
06SINGAPORE3110	LEE KUAN YEW: MINISTER AND PATRIARCH [...] (C) Summary: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's October 9-23 visit to the United States will be an opportunity for him to discuss with senior USG officials the broad strategic developments that affect Singapore's future, notably the rise of China and India. The reemergence of these two powers on [...]	2006-09-27 08:12:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON SN
06SINGAPORE3224	INR A/S FORT AND GOS DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (S) Summary: The rise of China and India was creating a new dynamic in the region and the United States should not rely exclusively on its traditional alliance system to maintain its influence, MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told INR Assistant Secretary Fort during his Octobe [...]	2006-10-11 04:02:00	Embassy Singapore	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV ECON PINR SN
06SKOPJE1037	MACEDONIA: EUR DAS DICARLO'S OCT 23-24 MEETINGS [...] (SBU) During meetings with high-level GOM officials in Skopje October 23-24, EUR DAS DiCarlo underscored the need for the government to build consensus with the opposition to gain buy-in for key legislative and reform initiatives, for redoubled efforts to implement the reforms required for NATO [...]	2006-10-30 10:22:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MK
06SKOPJE1078	MACEDONIA: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ELECT NEW PARTY [...] (C) During a November 5 party congress that lasted into the early hours of the following day, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) delegates elected by a landslide former Deputy Prime Minister Radmila Sekerinska as the new party president. The delegates chose as the party's secretary g [...]	2006-11-09 11:37:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR MK
06SKOPJE1090	(CORRECTED COPY) MACEDONIA: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ELECT [...] (C) During a November 5 party congress that lasted into the early hours of the following day, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) delegates elected by a landslide former Deputy Prime Minister Radmila Sekerinska as the new party president. The delegates chose as the party's secretary g [...]	2006-11-14 16:45:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR MK
06SKOPJE1095	MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DREIER'S VISIT, [...] (U) Welcome to Macedonia! HDAC,s assistance to the Macedonian parliament, both the provision of IT equipment and the opportunity for a professional visit to the United States earlier this year, has made a real contribution here. Your visit, nearly three months into the new government,s man [...]	2006-11-16 12:09:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR MK
06SKOPJE1096	MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DREIER'S VISIT, [...] (U) Welcome to Macedonia! HDAC's assistance to the Macedonian parliament, both the provision of IT equipment and the opportunity for a professional visit to the United States earlier this year, has made a real contribution here. Your visit, nearly three months into the new governmentQs mandat [...]	2006-11-16 14:02:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR MK
06SKOPJE1144	MACEDONIA: RENEWED ACTIVITY IN 45 MILLION EURO [...] (SBU) On November 15, Macedonia's special Organized Crime prosecutor issued detention requests for former Export Import Bank Director Metodija Smilenski, and former National Bank of Macedonia (NBM) Governor Ljube Trpeski. They are accused of defrauding the NBM of over 45 million Euros in 2004. [...]	2006-12-05 07:42:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR MK
06SKOPJE1164	MACEDONIA'S AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO WASHINGTON, [...] (SBU) The Macedonian government has nominated Zoran Jolevski, a close associate of late President Trajkovski's and a longtime USAID local Chief of Party (COP),as Macedonia's next Ambassador to the United States. Never strongly identified with any single political party, Jolevski nevertheless [...]	2006-12-13 07:56:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR MK
06SKOPJE1174	MACEDONIA: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK -- [...] (SBU) Leaders of Macedonia's four main parties (government and opposition) met December 13 behind closed doors, with U.S. and EU facilitation, in their second meeting to discuss how to move forward on Macedonia's main Euro-Atlantic integration reforms (reftel). Three of the four parties reach [...]	2006-12-18 13:13:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MK
06SKOPJE38	MACEDONIA'S SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT NOMINATED AS [...] (SBU) The GOM has nominated Speaker of Parliament Ljupco Jordanovski as Macedonia's next ambassador to the United States. A long-time parliamentarian, Jordanovski is meticulous, hard-working, and a consensus builder. He is widely-respected as an administrator and has presided over an ambitio [...]	2006-01-17 08:31:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PREL PGOV MK
06SKOPJE383	U.S. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE WISNER'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) During a tete-a-tete meeting April 13 in Skopje, President Crvenkovski gave Amb. Wisner his assessment of Serbian President Tadic as "pragmatic" in dealing with Kosovo status issues, while characterizing Serbian PM Kostunica as unlikely to compromise and more likely to walk out of the stat [...]	2006-04-21 16:34:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KS MK
06SKOPJE779	MACEDONIA: YOUNG TECHNOCRATS DOMINATE NEW [...] (SBU/NF) Prime Minister-designate Gruevski's proposed cabinet lineup, which the parliament is likely to approve on August 25, is comprised of mostly young technocrats without extensive bureaucratic experience. That bodes well for a fresh start, with Gruevski likely to exercise greater control [...]	2006-08-17 14:39:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL MK
06SKOPJE848	MACEDONIA SUPPORTS IMPROVED SERBIA-ICTY COOPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 14:52:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SRYI AA MK
06SKOPJE887	MACEDONIA NOMINATES FORMER FM SRDJAN KERIM FOR [...] (U) MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva confirmed on September 16 press reports that the GOM has nominated former Foreign Minister and former Macedonian PermRep to the UN Srdjan Kerim for the 2007 UNGA Presidency. Kerim currently is the general director of the local med [...]	2006-09-20 01:37:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR UNGA MK
06SKOPJE898	MACEDONIA: POLITICS TRUMPS FAITH -- ELECTION OF [...] (SBU) Self-proclaimed moderate Islamic cleric Sulejman Rexhepi was elected Reis-ul-Ulema (head) of the Islamic Community of Macedonia (ICM) on September 20. The election itself was uneventful, but the electoral process was marred by the political intervention of ethnic Albanian governing coal [...]	2006-09-25 12:53:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PGOV MK
06SKOPJE953	MACEDONIA: POLICE LAW IMPASSE:GOM-OPPOSITION TALKS [...] (C) The parliamentary impasse between the VMRO-DPMNE-led government and ethnic Albanian opposition party DUI over the draft police law continues, with DUI insisting that it will not respect the police law unless it is passed with a qualified (Badinter) majority. PM Gruevski and DUI President [...]	2006-10-06 13:39:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV MK
06SKOPJE980	MACEDONIA: OPPOSITION SDSM LEADER AXED IN [...] (SBU) SDSM President and former Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski lost an October 7 intra-party confidence vote, setting the stage for rival Radmila Sekerinska, an SDSM vice president, to run for the party presidency at the SDSM's extraordinary congress on November 5. Buckovski was ousted due to [...]	2006-10-17 08:15:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR MK
06SKOPJE983	MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS DICARLO'S VISITTO SKOPJE, [...] (U) Your visit comes at the right time, two months into the new VMRO-DPMNE-led government of PM Gruevski, to deliver the following core messages to the government and opposition: Government: --Need broad consultations and consensus-building with DUI and opposition parties on key legislatio [...]	2006-10-18 14:30:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR MK
06SOFIA126	BULGARIA: NEW CORRUPTION STRATEGY OFFERS LOFTY [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) After weeks of delay and last-minute revisions, the Council of Ministers finally adopted its new National Anti-Corruption Strategy on January 12. The strategy clearly seeks to address Brussels' criticism that Bulgaria has made little progress in curbing corruption, particularl [...]	2006-01-27 16:37:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PREL PINR
06SOFIA1518	BULGARIA NAMES POPULAR, PRO-U.S. MINISTER AS EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: The government on October 26 nominated European Affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva to serve as Bulgaria's first EU Commissioner. EC President Jose Manuel Barroso welcomed the nomination and assigned Kuneva the consumer protection portfolio. One of Bulgaria's most respected politica [...]	2006-11-02 13:56:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EUN BU
06SOFIA1655	BULGARIA STRUGGLES TO DISCLOSE COMMUNIST-ERA FILES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria's parliament passed groundbreaking legislation on December 6, to open up the files of the former communist secret services. Under the law, adopted after heated debate, all senior officials in the Presidency, Parliament, government, the Judiciary, academia, mass media, [...]	2006-12-11 15:17:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BU
06SOFIA1694	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFO ON BULGARIAN ARMY [...] (C/NF) Post provides the following answers in response to reftel questions: - Are the bribery charges against LTC Lyutskanov an isolated case of wrongdoing or part of a broader pattern of bribery and corruption within the Bulgarian Armed Forces? Based on prior experience, open-source infor [...]	2006-12-21 13:29:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR BU
06SOFIA647	BULGARIA'S MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN: GREAT HOPES, [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Sofia Mayor and former Interior Ministry General Boiko Borisov has stormed onto the national political scene in recent weeks, founding a new movement that has quickly become the most popular political force in the country. Borisov has denied rumors that he will be a candidate [...]	2006-05-09 10:04:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR MARR ASEC KCOR KCRM BU
06SOFIA661	BULGARIA: EXTREME NATIONALISTS REAPING WHAT THEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extreme nationalist party Ataka is reeling from self-inflicted wounds just one year after its founding. A recent scandal steming from the erratic behavior of several Ataka members following a highway accident has contributed to a sharp decline in the party's support and led [...]	2006-05-10 11:47:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR PINR SOCI RU BU
06SOFIA786	STATE SECURITY FILES COME BACK TO HAUNT BULGARIA [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The unfinished sixteen-year-old debate over Bulgaria's communist-era State Security files was unexpectedly revived in recent days when Interior Minister Rumen Petkov revealed that several prominent journalists and political figures, including the country's highest Islamic lead [...]	2006-06-05 13:39:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR BU
06SOFIA82	BULGARIA: SELECTION OF NEW CHIEF PROSECUTOR IS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The main event on Bulgaria's political calendar this year is often considered to be the November presidential election, but in fact the selection of a new Chief Prosecutor today may have more of a lasting impact on Bulgaria's future. As previewed with the Ambassador by Interior [...]	2006-01-19 17:28:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KCOR KCRM BU
06STATE175460	SIPDIS adds RSS, Advanced Search, and Concise Displays [...] (U) State's Net-Centric Diplomacy (NCD) system now supports an Advanced Search function, which helps users find cables by MRN, Date Range, or Subject Line; Really Simple Syndication (RSS),which allows users to receive NCD cable content of interest through an RSS reader; and a new concise displ [...]	2006-10-19 15:35:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ACOA AOMS PINR KCCP
06STATE182789	Net-Centric Diplomacy Biographic Files Moved to [...] This message is to inform all posts that foreign leadership biographic files in State's Net-Centric Diplomacy (NCD) database have been moved to Intellipedia, the inter-agency wiki on the USG's classified network (aka SIPRNet/Intelink-S). All posts are encouraged to use this secure, USG-only to [...]	2006-11-03 21:28:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINR ECON MGMT
06STATE61225	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' APRIL 10 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: Acting EAP A/S Kathleen Stephens, reason 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) Participants: Morning meeting U.S. Under Secretary Burns EAP A/S Kathy Stephens (acting) P Special Assistant Andrew Shaw EAP/J Director Wendell Albright (acting) JAPAN Deputy Foreign Minister Ni [...]	2006-04-18 15:23:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PREL MARR MCAP MNUC PARM PINR SNAR IZ IR IN AF JA
06STATE66104	Deputy Secretary Zoellick's April 18, 2006 [...] (U) April 18, 2006; 4:00 p.m.; Washington D.C. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary D Staff Aaron Jost Ambassador William Hudson Embassy Pol/Econ Deputy Susannah Cooper Tunisia Deskoff William Lawrence (notetaker) Tunisia Defense Minister Kamel Morjane Ambassador Neji [...]	2006-04-26 22:11:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PINS ECON EAID
06STATE83673	ALLIED SHARING AND SIPRNET [...] (U) This is an action message. As a part of the continuing war on terrorism and in response to recommendations of the 9/11 and the WMD Commissions, the Congress and the President have mandated a number of changes in the way information is to be shared, within the federal government, between t [...]	2006-05-23 22:18:00	Secretary of State	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT AOMS PINR ACOA KCCP
06STATE89712	FURTHER GUIDANCE ON THE SIPDIS CABLE CAPTION [...] (SBU) The Department in December 2005 distributed general guidance (05 State 00226504) concerning the use of the new SIPDIS distribution caption (5FAH-2 H-440). The SIPDIS caption (which means SIPRnet distribution) facilitates inter-agency information sharing, a top State Department priority [...]	2006-06-02 16:03:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ACOA AOMS PINR KCCP
06STATE93016	(U) ISLAMIC FINANCE (C-TN6-00207) [...] (C) AS POSTS ARE AWARE, POLICY MAKERS ARE INTERESTED IN THE GROWTH AND IMPLICATIONS OF ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, WHICH OFFER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH ISLAMIC LAW, WHICH FORBIDS PAYING OR RECEIVING INTEREST, MANDATES THAT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS BE BASED ON REAL ECON [...]	2006-06-07 23:17:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECIN EFIN AL BA BK EG ID KU MU MY PK QA SA
06STOCKHOLM1489	SWEDEN'S SEPTEMBER 17 ELECTIONS [...] (c) Swedes go to the polls September 17 to elect a new parliament that will decide their government for the next four years. The race has been the tightest Sweden has seen in decades, with opinion polls see-sawing, but mostly giving a slight lead to the opposition "Alliance for Sweden" over [...]	2006-09-15 14:00:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM1501	SWEDEN'S ELECTIONS: CENTER/RIGHT ALLIANCE FOR [...] (c) Sweden voted Social Democrat Prime Minister Goran Persson out of office September 17, giving the mandate to Moderate Fredrik Reinfeldt and the center/right Alliance for Sweden. Reinfeldt is the big winner, with his Moderate party earning a larger vote total than his three Alliance allies [...]	2006-09-18 13:57:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM1632	SWEDEN'S NEW GOVERNMENT IS NAMED, MAKES POLICY [...] (c) Fredrick Reinfeldt, who was formally elected Prime Minister by the Swedish parliament on October 5, named his cabinet and gave the new government's statement of policy on October 6. Ministers from Reinfeldt's Moderate Party will lead about half the ministries, including many of the key o [...]	2006-10-06 14:41:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM1646	SWEDEN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER, FREDRIK REINFELDT [...] (u) Fredrik Reinfeldt became Sweden,s Prime Minister October 6, following the victory of a four-party center-right coalition in September parliamentary elections. Reinfeldt,s Moderate party led the coalition; the Moderate party alone won over 26 percent of the total vote. Reinfeldt became th [...]	2006-10-11 11:45:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM1924	IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN CALLS ON AMBASSADOR WOOD [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Ambassador to Sweden, Ahmad Bamarni, visited Ambassador Wood and DCM on December 11 and provided a frank reaction to the Baker/Hamilton report, personal views on the interests of Iran and Syria in Iraq, comments on the sectarian violence, the role of U.S. forces, and the [...]	2006-12-11 14:09:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL SW
06STOCKHOLM527	SWEDEN: THE NEW POST "CIA PLANES" REALITY -- [...] (c) What could have been a routine diplomatic flight clearance for a 4/4 Department of Homeland Security deportation "ICE" flight to land briefly and refuel in Sweden enroute to final destinations in the Middle East developed into an urgent situation when late in the game Swedish authorities [...]	2006-04-18 13:32:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR MARR PGOV PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM952	SWEDEN: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MODERATE PARTY [...] (c) Ambassador, accompanied by Polcouns, met June 26 with Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt, the virtual shadow Prime Minister of the center-right (in the left-skewed Swedish spectrum) opposition. Reinfeldt, who took the lead in forming the opposition's Alliance for Sweden, said the Se [...]	2006-06-28 15:50:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ELAB SW
06SUVA201	FORMER FIJI PM RABUKA ARRESTED ON 2000 MUTINY [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has been arrested in Fiji and charged with inciting the military mutiny that took place in November 2000. Rabuka has been released on bail and his case has been transferred to the High Court, where a preliminary hearing will take place Jun [...]	2006-05-12 01:42:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS CJAN PREL MARR PGOV PINR FJ
06SUVA206	FIJI'S ELECTION: ALL IS CALM AS COUNTING BEGINS [...] (C) Voting has ended in Fiji's national election, and all remains peaceful as counting begins today, May 15. Some of the smaller constituencies with a dominant favorite will know results today. A number of swing constituencies are not likely to have a first-ballot victor and will require co [...]	2006-05-15 02:49:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PINS PINR ASEC FJ
06SUVA209	FIJI ELECTION TO QARASE'S SDL...PROBABLY [...] (C) In Fiji's general election, Prime Minister Qarase's SDL and Opposition Leader Chaudhry's FLP garnered nearly all seats, with the SDL, supported by two independent candidates, likely to form government with a tiny majority. Final, marginal-seat results are still trickling in. The FLP hasn [...]	2006-05-17 02:42:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ASEC FJ
06SUVA214	QARASE CONFIRMED AS FIJI'S PM; MILITARY COMMANDER [...] (C) By scraping through to a win in a disputed seat, Prime Minister Qarase's SDL party secured a tiny parliamentary majority in Fiji's national election. Two SDL-oriented independents add cushion. The losing FLP may still sue, but that is an issue only for the longer term. Qarase has announ [...]	2006-05-18 02:56:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PREL MARR ASEC FJ
06SUVA218	FIJI'S NEW MULTI-PARTY CABINET: CONTINUITY AND [...] (C) Fiji Prime Minister Qarase has named his Cabinet of 24 Ministers, plus 12 Ministers of State. FLP leader Chaudhry plans to be Leader of the Opposition, but his party will take 9 portfolios under a multi-party cabinet provision of Fiji's Constitution. A number of FLP leaders want to give [...]	2006-05-23 02:23:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR FJ
06SUVA262	TONGA'S POLITICAL EVOLUTION: HOW FAR AND HOW FAST? [...] (C) The public drive in Tonga for political change seems to have decelerated in recent months, though debate is no longer about whether change should occur, but about the pace and degree. New Prime Minister Sevele's series of modest reforms may have reduced pressure. Also, people may be awa [...]	2006-07-05 22:49:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR PGOV PINR EFIN CVIS TN CH
06SUVA97	TONGA'S CROWN PRINCE FAVORS CHANGE ASAP [...] (C) Tonga's Crown Prince Tupouto'a has seen the light: reform to a more democratic system needs to happen ASAP. He envisions a constitutional monarchy with the King delegating all day-to-day government business to an elected government. The current King, ill in New Zealand, has not signed off [...]	2006-03-07 02:17:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SCUL ECON TN
06TAIPEI10	Economic Briefing for December 2005 [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in December 2005: -- Macro Economic Performance -- Taiwan-China Integration -- Taiwan Banks -- New Tax -- Finance Reform -- Plan to Attract Investment -- High-speed Rail -- Scientific Cooperation -- Avian Influenza Macr [...]	2006-01-03 22:42:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW ESTH
06TAIPEI109	Overview of Taiwan's Investment Climate [...] Summary: Septel transmits AIT's mandated annual report with Taiwan's "Investment Climate Statement." Here we attempt to answer a different question: Are local and international investors, especially long-term investors, satisfied with Taiwan's investment climate, looking at both political a [...]	2006-01-12 06:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN PINR OPIC KTDB USTR TW
06TAIPEI123	TALK SHOWS IN TAIWAN: WHO CARES? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AIT met with Taiwan media analysts, talk show hosts, and AC Nielsen to assess the viewership and influence of Taiwan talk shows. Analysts agree that only the older generation watches talk shows, and those who watch them are already set in their political beliefs. Thus, talk sh [...]	2006-01-12 23:07:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PREL PINR TW
06TAIPEI1325	TAIWAN SEEKING TO COUNTER THE PRC IN INDIA [...] (C) The following is in response to questions posed in C-AL6-00293 (reftel) on Taiwan's efforts to enhance bilateral ties with India. 2. (C) Summary: Taiwan is pursuing closer economic ties with India to bolster its political relationship and counter a growing reliance on the PRC economy. [...]	2006-04-14 10:11:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PINR PREL TW XR
06TAIPEI1344	KMT-CCP Meeting Pushes Taiwan Markets Up [...] During the week of April 10 - 14, Taiwan's stock market rose in anticipation of favorable results from the April 14-15 KMT-CCP economic forum. Taiwan portfolio investors started heavy trading in stocks before opening of the forum on April 15. Taiwan's stock price index rose 2.5% from 6,782 p [...]	2006-04-17 22:44:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI138	KUOMINTANG STRATEGY TOWARD CHEN SHUI-BIAN [...] (C) This cable is in response to Ref A's request for AIT input regarding, inter alia, Kuomintang (KMT) strategy toward the legislative and political agenda of President Chen Shui-bian and his Democratic People's Party (DPP),KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's control of the party and its cross-Strai [...]	2006-01-13 08:16:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV TW
06TAIPEI1469	Economic Briefing for April 2006 [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in April 2006: --Exports boost Q1 economic growth --Central Bank fights inflation --U.S. companies eye Taiwan lottery --Irony: PRC words and deeds --KMT-CCP meeting improves cross-Strait relations --WTO consultations with PRC [...]	2006-04-28 07:50:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI1549	Moral Hazard Spurs Delinquent Card Debt [...] Moral hazard has contributed to a sharp increase in delinquent credit/cash card debt in 2006. This debt remains manageable for Taiwan's banking industry as a whole, but has exposed several foreign and Taiwan banks to significant risks. END SUMMARY. Moral Hazard ------------ 2. Media [...]	2006-05-05 06:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI1618	PRC VICE MINISTER LEADS INFOTECH DELEGATION TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PRC Ministry of Information Industry Vice Minister Jiang Yaoping arrived in Taipei on May 9 with a delegation of 45 government officials and business executives for the second Taiwan-PRC information industry standards forum through which Taiwan firms are seeking a competitive [...]	2006-05-11 05:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR ETRD CM TW
06TAIPEI1652	NO COMPROMISE FROM DPP LEGISLATORS [...] (C) Summary: DPP legislators expressed a range of views to the AIT Director on May 10, including that if KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou were elected president he would surrender Taiwan to the PRC. The legislators also discussed corruption, cross-Strait trade, and the recent transit flap. End Summ [...]	2006-05-15 08:00:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECON PREL PGOV TW
06TAIPEI172	IS THIS A TAIWAN BANK? [...] (C) Wells Fargo Asia Regional Manager/Senior Vice President recently contacted AIT/Econ for advice on a problem involving the Taiwan-China relationship. The problem he described illustrates some of the complexities in cross-Strait banking, the mixed ownership of multinational companies, and [...]	2006-01-18 21:31:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PINR TW CH HK
06TAIPEI1744	KMT LEGISLATORS DEFEND OPPOSITION TO DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: KMT legislators debated each other and sheepishly defended their opposition to the stalled defense procurement legislation during a May 18 meeting with the Director. There was a strong difference of views on the upcoming Economic Sustainable Development Conference (ESDC) between [...]	2006-05-22 23:09:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECON PREL PGOV TW
06TAIPEI1788	TAIWAN IPR DELEGATION VISITS CHINA [...] (C) Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) Deputy Director General Lu Wen-hsiang confirmed to AIT on May 23 that TIPO Director General Tsai Lien-sheng and three TIPO Department Directors are currently traveling in China to meet with PRC IPR officials. The TIPO officials have joined a dele [...]	2006-05-25 08:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR PREL CM TW ETRD KIPR
06TAIPEI1789	TAIWAN FINANCIAL SUPERVISORS ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Department of International Affairs Acting (DIA) Director General Mr. Andrea Lee told AIT on May 16 that former KMT Chair Lien Chan's trip to China in April had set the stage for improvements in cross-Strait economic issues, and he [...]	2006-05-25 08:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR EFIN TW
06TAIPEI1900	TAIWAN TIFA: Public and Private Outcomes [...] (U) This cable reports public and private outcomes of the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) consultations between the United States and Taiwan in Taipei during May 25 - 26, 2006: --Doha and economic developments in Asia-Pacific --Government Procurement Agreement --Agricultural [...]	2006-06-02 09:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ECON ETRD PINR TW
06TAIPEI1918	Taipei Economic Brief for May [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in May 2006: --TIFA talks --2006 economic growth --Cross-Strait cooperation --Taiwan IPR officials in Beijing --Taiwan relaxes PRC investment rules --Solar and biomass energy --Taiwan Sugar to produce bio-ethanol --Communic [...]	2006-06-06 00:43:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI197	VICE PREMIER-DESIGNATE TSAI ING-WEN ON [...] (C) Summary: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tsai Ing-wen, an expert on cross-Strait and economic issues, has accepted appointment as vice premier in the new cabinet to be headed by Su Tseng-chang. Tsai is expected to play a leading role on cross-Strait issues, compensating for [...]	2006-01-20 09:25:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL PINR CH TW
06TAIPEI221	TAIWAN'S NEW VICE PREMIER TSAI ING-WEN - [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 19, Legislator Tsai Ing-wen (DPP) was named Vice Premier. Tsai, elected as a legislator-at-large for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in December 2004, will take charge of economic and financial issues after the latest cabinet shuffle by President Chen Shui-b [...]	2006-01-23 07:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL TW
06TAIPEI2364	Taipei Economic Brief for June [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in June 2006: --Inflationary pressure building --Cross-Strait integration fuels trade expansion --Taipei AmCham issues white paper --MOEA's white paper response --Cross-Strait agreement on charter flights --Restrictions on fo [...]	2006-07-13 00:24:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI243	UNEXPECTED Q4 TAIWAN TRADE SURPLUS PUSHES UP GDP [...] As recently as November, Taiwan's official data projected a sharp decline in the overall trade surplus. However, an unexpected expansion of Taiwan's 2005 trade surplus will likely push up real GDP for 2005 and lays the basis for growth in 2006. Exports enjoyed accelerated growth as developed [...]	2006-01-24 21:36:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2467	Vietnam: Taiwan's 2nd Largest Export Base [...] Vietnam has become an important export base for Taiwan companies including a growing number of manufacturers of labor-intensive industries that have relocated from China. Taiwan has become the Vietnam's largest source of foreign direct investment and the largest source of its trade deficit. [...]	2006-07-21 09:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2493	ChinaTrust Bank Chairman Jeffrey Koo Penalized [...] On July 20, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) ruled that ChinaTrust Financial Holdings (CFH) and CFH's subsidiary ChinaTrust Commercial Bank (CCB) violated regulations in their acquisition of equity shares in Mega Financial Holdings. The violations included failure to disclose C [...]	2006-07-25 08:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2574	Taipei Economic Brief for July [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in July 2006: --Economic Conference offers 516 recommendations; --Economy expected to slow in H2; --Taiwan to streamline insurance policy review; --Restriction on foreign professionals relaxed; --TSMC vaults to 4th largest sem [...]	2006-08-01 08:47:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2634	Steve Chen Promoted to Economic Minister [...] On the afternoon of August 4, Premier Su Tseng-chang announced that Economic Minister Hwang Ing-san (Morgan) had resigned due to poor health and Vice Minister Chen Ruey-long (Steve) would be promoted to Economic Minister. A brief bio of Mr. Chen is as follows: 2. Steve Chen, 58, has been [...]	2006-08-04 09:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2695	NTD Loans Considered Foreign Direct Investment [...] Taiwan monetary authorities recently began permitting secured NT dollar (NTD) bank loans to serve as foreign direct investment (FDI) in Taiwan as a way to absorb excess liquidity. However, Taiwan's financial supervisory authorities are concerned that Taiwan companies may be vulnerable to host [...]	2006-08-09 08:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2783	New Senior Financial Officials [...] Summary: In early August, three new ministerial-level officials were inaugurated: Economic Minister Chen Ruey-long (Steve),Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chairman Shih Jun-jih, and Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) Chairman Chen Shu (Gordon). Steve Chen replaced Hwang Ing-san (reftel). S [...]	2006-08-16 06:23:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2816	New MOTC Minister Tsai Duei [...] On August 14, Taiwan Premier Su Tesng-chang announced that Tsai Duei will be promoted from Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) Political Vice Minister to MOTC Minister. A brief bio for Tsai follows: 2. Tsai served as MOTC Administrative Vice Minister from August 2000 to [...]	2006-08-16 22:13:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2817	Foreign Portfolio Investment Exempt from AMT [...] Summary. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) recently announced it will exempt foreign institutional investors (FIIs) from Taiwan's 10% alternative minimum tax (AMT) if the investment capital comes from offshore. The MOF decision is designed to attract foreign portfolio investment and has interage [...]	2006-08-16 22:14:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2880	New Economic and Finance Vice Ministers [...] Summary: Following the promotion of Steve Chen from Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Political Vice Minister to Minister (reftel),the Executive Yuan (EY) shifted Shih-Yen Shiang (Note: Shih-Yen is his family name.) from MOEA Administrative Vice Minister to MOEA Political Vice Minister and [...]	2006-08-21 01:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2911	Dump Bian Campaign Impacts Markets [...] Summary. Financial analysts view the campaign to force President Chen Shui-bian to resign as a primary cause of the August 22 stock index plunge of 3.2% in the Taiwan stock index. Local institutional investors who are more concerned over political unrest than their foreign counterparts sold [...]	2006-08-23 07:20:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3013	VICE PRESIDENT LIU SEES ANTI-CHEN MOVEMENT [...] (C) Summary. Vice President Annette Lu told the Director that she believes the "Depose Chen" movement will blow over in the next few weeks, but expressed concern about the potential for violence by anti-Chen demonstrators. She steadfastly defended President Chen Shui-bian and gave no outwar [...]	2006-08-31 22:09:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR TW
06TAIPEI3044	Taipei Economic Brief for August 2006 [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in August 2006: --Taiwan firms in China boost economy; --419 Microsoft Managers from PRC Attend Taipei Meeting; --Cross-Strait tourism ready; --Evergreen rolls out modified 747; --TSMC sues PRC-based SMIC again; --Foreign inv [...]	2006-09-06 03:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3051	Taiwan Economy: Sunny With Polychrome Clouds [...] (SBU) Summary: Local think tanks forecast rising exports will keep Taiwan's economic growth rate at around 4% in 2006 and 2007 and bring Taiwan's unemployment rate below the current 3.9%. Private consumption and investment (75% of GDP) are recovering from high card debt and inventories, and [...]	2006-09-06 06:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3156	TAIWAN INVESTMENT IN CHINA GROWS [...] (SBU) Taiwan's approved investment in China in the first half of 2006 shot up 35.2 percent from the corresponding period in 2005, totaling USD 3.56 billion and reversing a one-year decline. Much of the investment comes from firms expanding existing China operations. This strong growth suggest [...]	2006-09-12 10:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3407	Taipei Economic Brief for September 2006 [...] This cable summarizes selected September 2006 economic events in Taiwan: --Exports sustain Taiwan economic growth; --High-tech manufacturing grows; --Semiconductor counter-complaint; --More Taiwan technology flows to China; --Taiwan pharmaceutical plants; --State ownership in Chunghwa Telec [...]	2006-10-03 08:45:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3603	New Taiwan Foreign Currency Bond Market [...] (SBU) Taiwan has established a foreign currency bond market and expects the first bond listings in October. The move is another in a series of measures designed to better utilize Taiwan's surplus capital. However, restrictions such as limits on PRC investment and the lack of incentives will [...]	2006-10-20 08:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3723	EU Advocates Improved Taiwan-China Ties [...] (U) The just-published European Chamber of Commerce in Taipei (ECCT) 2006-2007 White Paper urges Taiwan to take immediate action to improve cross-Strait relations or suffer bleak economic consequences. The report also urges Taiwan to abide by its WTO commitments, and provide better tax incent [...]	2006-11-01 08:16:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3737	Taipei Economic Brief for October 2006 [...] This cable summarizes selected October 2006 economic events in Taiwan: --Economic Performance --Taiwan 4th in US Patents --Bank Acquisition through Open Market Trading --Legislature Reviewing 2007 Budget --Draft CO2 Emissions Law --R&D Subsidies for SME --Fourth Nuclear Power Plant --CM [...]	2006-11-02 07:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3945	Foreign Investment in Taiwan Surges 291 Percent [...] SUMMARY. Inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased by 291 percent so far this year. Major factors behind the sharp increase include Philips Taiwan transferring local holdings to Philips Holland; several large merger and acquisition (M&A) projects; and a new regulation which allow [...]	2006-11-24 06:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN EIND ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3985	Another Taiwan-PRC Rumor Bites the Dust [...] SUMMARY: Local and international media have erroneously reported Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) would be freed for China investments if Carlyle Group acquires and de-lists ASE from the Taiwan stock exchange. In fact, Taiwan's 40% ceiling on investment in China applies to all compani [...]	2006-11-29 03:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN EIND ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3986	Taiwan's Latest Economic Vision [...] (U) Taiwan recently announced a new ten-year economic plan to double per capita GDP. In the first three-year phase, Taiwan will encourage investment by reducing land costs and ensuring sufficient labor supply. The first phase will require investment of NT$3,287.2 billion (US$99.6 billion at [...]	2006-11-29 04:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN EIND ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI3993	Trade Performance Better Than Expected [...] Taiwan's trade in Q3 this year was better than predicted, with both exports and imports growing faster than previously estimated by think tanks. Higher export growth and a larger trade surplus should lead to upward adjustment of Taiwan's 2006 economic growth. High-tech industries, the backbone [...]	2006-11-29 08:44:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI4004	Taipei Economic Brief for November 2006 [...] This cable summarizes selected November 2006 economic events in Taiwan: --Domestic Demand to Sustain 2007 Growth; --Foreign Direct Investment Quadruples; --Carlyle to Acquire World's Largest Chip Packaging Firm; --Long-term Goals and Medium-term Development Plan; --Overseas Taiwan Firms En [...]	2006-11-30 09:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI401	Foreign Stake in Major Taiwan Finance Firm [...] SUMMARY. Foreign investors plan to acquire 27% equity in Taishin, Taiwan's eighth largest financial holding company (FHC),for NT$31 billion (US$970 million at NT$32 per US dollar). As part of the deal, Taishin increased its 2005 reserves for bad debt, thereby changing a profit to a loss in [...]	2006-02-09 04:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI4067	CHINA RATCHETS UP DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE ON TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary. Bejing is ratcheting up its global drive to contain and undercut Taiwan, Taiwan Foreign Minister James Huang told the Director on December 6. In particular, PRC pressure in Central America and Africa is keeping the heat on Taiwan, said Huang, who just returned from relations-st [...]	2006-12-06 22:57:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR TW

06TAIPEI4077	WEF Ranks Taiwan 100th in Banking Soundness [...] The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently gave Taiwan's banking system a ranking of 100th out of 125 rated economies. Taiwan's banking regulators have expressed dismay, disagreement, and have pointed out flaws in evaluation method. End summary. Poor Ranking ------------ 2. In its 2006 [...]	2006-12-08 05:47:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI4078	NT Dollar Loans to Foreign Borrowers [...] (U) Taiwan's monetary authorities in November started permitting banking institutions to lend NT Dollars (NTD) to foreign borrowers in Taiwan which may be used to finance direct investment, securities trading, and real estate purchases. The new measure relaxes the conditions for using NTD loa [...]	2006-12-08 05:47:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI4104	KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU ON DEFENSE BUDGET, [...] (C) Summary. KMT Chaiman Ma Ying-jeou told the Director that the 2007 defense budget is moving toward legislative approval in the near future, though he was non-committal on a possible supplemental budget next Spring for PAC-III missiles. Ma was very cautious in discussing the status of KMT [...]	2006-12-12 22:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR TW
06TAIPEI4175	Taiwan Takes Over Problem Bank [...] (U) In mid-December 2006, Taiwan took over the insolvent Taitung Business Bank (TBB). TBB board directors may not leave Taiwan. The Central Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) has sufficient funding to address TBB, but insufficient funds to resolve seven other problem banking institutions. [...]	2006-12-22 04:35:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN EIND ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI514	Export Boom Continues in January 2006 [...] In January 2006, Taiwan began using new UN guidelines to compile its trade statistics and to revise its trade data for past years. Seasonally adjusted, Taiwan continued to enjoy an export boom in January 2006, particularly in its electrical and electronics industries. Greater China (mainlan [...]	2006-02-17 00:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI55	CHEN SPEECH - SPECIAL IMPACT ON HIGH-TECH COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: As reported in refs a-d, Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian in his annual New Year's speech poured cold water on hopes for improved cross-Strait relations in the near future. The President in his address altered the accepted formulaic language on cross-Strait relations and announce [...]	2006-01-08 22:58:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PINR TW CH
06TAIPEI64	Capital Inflow Lifting Taiwan Markets [...] SUMMARY. Expectations of a weaker U.S. currency in 2006 have prompted portfolio investors to move capital from the United States to East Asia recently. Huge capital flows have contributed to substantial rises in stock prices and appreciation of currencies across the region. In the first si [...]	2006-01-09 09:00:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI82	(U) TAIWAN'S EVERGREEN MARINE CORPORATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-10 09:12:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR EWWT EAIR TW CH PM
06TAIPEI895	ECON VIEW OF TAIWAN FUTURE/U.S. INTERESTS, PART II [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan Minister-without-portfolio Ho Mei-yueh expressed economic-strategic views emphasizing China's threat to traditional U.S. allies in East Asia during a recent meeting with AIT Acting Director. (Part I, reftel, discussed Ho's use of strategic arguments to support a U.S.-Taiwa [...]	2006-03-17 09:16:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR PREL TW JP
06TAIPEI902	MA YING-JEOU: READY FOR THE U.S. STAGE? [...] (C) Summary: Taipei Mayor and Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou sees his upcoming visit to Washington as a key step in his run for the presidency in 2008. He hopes to burnish his credentials as a statesman who knows how to handle the big political and security issues including U.S.-Ta [...]	2006-03-17 10:09:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR TW
06TALLINN1086	ESTONIA: BIOS OF PRESIDENT ILVES?S ADVISORS [...] (SBU) Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has surrounded himself with trusted, experienced advisors he has known for most of his political career. For the most part, these officials gained experience in the early days of re-independence, and comprise some of the most thoughtful and well c [...]	2006-12-07 14:14:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV EN
06TALLINN1091	ESTONIA: LANNEOTS APPOINTED AS NEW CHOD [...] (C) Summary. Major General Ants Laaneots was confirmed as Estonia's new Chief of Defense Forces (CHOD) on December 5. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) hopes Laaneots's appointment will heal the rift between the MOD and Estonian Defense Forces (EDF),which existed under the previous CHOD. Laane [...]	2006-12-11 15:31:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	EN MARR PGOV PINR PREL
06TALLINN833	ESTONIA ON SERBIA'S ICTY COOPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 07:03:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SR YI EN
06TASHKENT1358	FM GANIEV OUT, NOROV IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Confirming rumors post picked up through the day, President Islom Karimov issued a decree July 12 naming former Ambassador to Belgium, NATO and the EU Vladimir Norov as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. Former Foreign Minister Elyor Ganiev returned to his old post of Minister [...]	2006-07-13 14:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UZ
06TASHKENT2324	NEW STATE ADVISOR ON RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS BAKHROM [...] (C) Summary: Bakhrom Abdukhalimov has been appointed State Advisor to the President for Religious Affairs and Interethnic Relations. Abdukhalimov is an expert in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He has spent much of his career at the Al Beruni Oriental Studies Research Institute under the Academ [...]	2006-12-13 11:58:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF UZ
06TASHKENT326	TAJIBAYEVA - NOT A RUN-OF-THE-MILL SHOW TRIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a dramatic departure from Uzbekistan's recent Soviet-style show trials, human rights activist Mutabar Tajibayeva and her attorneys are putting up a spirited defense in her criminal trial. The judge has opened the proceedings to outside observers: journalists, diplomats and NGO [...]	2006-02-14 01:49:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PINR UZ
06TASHKENT465	(S) VIDEO SHOWS MAFIA TIES TO GOU [...] (S) Summary: Video footage obtained by Post suggests close ties between families of senior GOU officials and organized crime. The footage shows the wives of four top GOU Ministers and two Deputy Prime Ministers, with the family of Tashkent crime boss Salim Abduvaliyev and the wife of a foreign-base [...]	2006-03-09 10:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	KCRM PGOV PINR PREL UZ
06TASHKENT888	(S) UZBEK AMBASSADOR TO CHINA FEARS RECALL [...] (S) Summary: Uzbekistan's Ambassador to China, Sabirjon Yusupov, told an Embassy contact visiting China that he fears being recalled. Yusupov said that President Karimov is dissatisfied with his performance, and considering replacing him with former Primer Minister Utkir Sultanov. He specu [...]	2006-05-04 13:24:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR CH UZ
06TASHKENT902	(S) MAFIA BOSS FIXES GOU TENDERS AND JOBS \ [...] (S) Summary: A well connected Embassy contact described a \ mafia chieftain's role in helping businessmen to secure GOU \ tenders and job applicants to "buy" government jobs. Crime \ boss Salim Abduvaliyev puts bidders for tenders in touch with \ an Iranian businessman holding British citizenship [...]	2006-05-05 12:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	KCRM PGOV ECON PREL PINR UZ
06TASHKENT980	LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS TOLD TO BUILD TIES WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) The GOU is encouraging local NGOs and civic leaders to focus their international activities on cooperation with Russia and China. In a meeting on March 8 in celebration of International Women's Day, Deputy Prime Minister Svetlana Inamova told a group of local women civic leaders that they [...]	2006-05-19 05:34:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL UZ
06TEGUCIGALPA1000	(S) UNDER ATTACK, HONDURAN VICE PRESIDENT TROUBLED [...] (S) Summary: Honduran Vice President Elvin Santos respects President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, but fears the influence that certain leftist advisors surrounding him are exercising over Honduran policy. Zelaya is trying, in his view, to "play both sides" but will be unlikely to abandon his c [...]	2006-06-02 16:19:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL EPET ENRG PGOV PINR VZ HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1101	HONDURAS: WHO IS ADRIAN RECCA? BACKGROUND ON THE [...] (C) As reported in reftels, Honduras has made clear its intention to import Venezuelan oil on preferential financing terms. Precisely how such a plan would actually work remains a mystery. But it seems that each time Post inquires more deeply about some aspect of the proposal (financing, stor [...]	2006-06-15 19:07:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1102	HONDURAN INDUSTRIALISTS ASK GOV FOR DIRECT [...] (C) Summary: The Honduran Industrialists Association (ANDI) has written a letter to the Government of Venezuela seeking a direct PetroCaribe arrangement, modeled after deals recently struck with mayors in El Salvador and Nicaragua (ref B). PetroCaribe is a government-to-government program, so [...]	2006-06-15 20:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL PINR VE HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1104	HONDURAS: FIRST OFFICIAL BOLIVARIAN CIRCLE MEETS [...] (U) According to press reports, on June 14 Honduras hosted its first official Bolivarian circle (a grass-roots mobilization effort originally created to support Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution.") Television coverage of the event appeared to show 30-50 people in atte [...]	2006-06-15 21:37:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET ENRG PINR VE HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1179	HONDURAN POPULIST PRESIDENT ZELAYA: MELISTAS PUSH [...] (C) Summary: Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and his Administration have now been in office approximately five months. Zelaya is acting more and more like a populist, and has stumbled through a series of missteps ever since his meeting with POTUS June 5. His willful mis-characteri [...]	2006-06-30 18:46:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KCRM SMIG SNAR PINR VZ HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1238	HONDURAS: DIPPSA SALE MAY GO TO TRAFIGURA, BUT [...] (C) Summary: The draft Terms of Reference (TOR) for the national bid were reportedly sent by bid consultant Robert Meyeringh to the GOH for review June 29. Ambassador has called for an appropriate and CAFTA-consistent review and comment period of the TOR once they are formally released (expec [...]	2006-07-11 22:11:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1329	Honduran President Zelaya Discusses Fuel, [...] Classified by: Ambassador Charles Ford for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (C) Summary. Ambassador and A/DCM met with Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and Foreign Minister Milton Jimenez for more than an hour during the evening of July 23. Zelaya was relaxed and discussed plans for a [...]	2006-07-25 21:36:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG PGOV PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1331	HONDURAS: DIPPSA SALE A PDVSA FRONT? ALSO: FUEL [...] (S) Summary: The Terms of Reference for the international fuel bid solicitation are due to be released on July 25. The TOR are expected to be "ex-tank," meaning bidders will be responsible for both importing and storing the fuel. This gives an apparent bidding advantage to companies that alr [...]	2006-07-25 22:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1345	HONDURAN PRESIDENT ZELAYA: JULY BETTER THAN JUNE, [...] (C) Summary: Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and his Administration have now been in office six months. Zelaya continues to act like a populist, although he makes fewer obvious errors, fired his most incompetent minister (the Minister of Health),and has, since the Embassy's U.S. I [...]	2006-07-28 19:35:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KCRM SMIG SNAR PINR VZ HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1375	HONDURAS: RECA DENIES HE'S BEHIND CARIBBEAN [...] (S) Summary: Adrien Reca Salaburu denied he is involved with or in any way related to U.S. firm Caribbean Petrochemical Company -- a firm created in Miami on June 13 and which claimed on July 21 to have purchased DIPPSA. Reca admitted, however, that he continues seeking to purchase DIPPSA, [...]	2006-08-03 14:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1393	(C) HONDURAS: RECENT HONDURAS ENERGY DISCUSSIONS [...] (S/NF) The following responds to tasker C-AL6-01066 transmitted ref M. All responses are keyed to questions contained in reftel and repeated below. A. (U) PRESIDENT ZELAYA. 1) (C) WHERE DOES ZELAYA STAND WITH RESPECT TO THE VENEZUELA OIL TALKS? WHAT ARE HIS MOTIVATIONS FOR INVOLVE [...]	2006-08-04 23:16:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR EPET PGOV HO VE
06TEGUCIGALPA1427	HONDURAS: DIPPSA NOT SOLD YET, BUT BOTH RECA AND [...] (C) Henry Arevalo, President and owner of Honduran gasoline distribution company DIPPSA, confirmed to Ambassador and EconChief on August 8 that he had not concluded the sale of his company and continues to seek a buyer. According to Arevalo, uncertainty surrounding the pending national fuel [...]	2006-08-09 19:18:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET PINR PGOV HO VE
06TEGUCIGALPA1430	(C) HONDURAN VICE PRESIDENT SEEKS TO SUPPORT U.S. [...] (S) Summary: Honduran Vice President Elvin Santos reached out to Post August 8 to better understand U.S. strategy and concerns on the upcoming national fuel bid. In the next few days Santos stated he will be trading his unwilling public support of the bid process for a strict evaluation of [...]	2006-08-09 21:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	EPET HO PGOV PINR
06TEGUCIGALPA1469	HONDURAN VP SAYS PRESIDENT SEEKS CLIMATE OF [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Elvin Santos, an outsider within his own government, continues to work to moderate the influence of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales' leftist advisors. At Zelaya's request, Santos recently again publicly pledged loyalty, but remains true to his free-mark [...]	2006-08-14 20:52:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR EPET HO VE
06TEGUCIGALPA1559	OIL COMPANIES AND GOH NOW TALKING, THOUGH NO [...] (C) Summary. Throughout the week of August 18, President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales reverted to his former style of publicly hurling invectives, largely blaming the international oil companies, particularly Esso and Texaco, for his continuing difficulties in implementing the proposed fue [...]	2006-08-25 18:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR EPET ENRG PGOV HO VE
06TEGUCIGALPA1649	HONDURAS: CONGRESS REVIEWS FUEL BID TERMS; DIPPSA [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-05 23:40:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA1747	HONDURAS: VENEZUELAN FUEL SCHEME IN EL SALVADOR [...] (C) Summary: A recent meeting in San Salvador has detailed a potential deal involving Venezuelan fuel that may be used to influence upcoming elections. The deal involves oil trading company Trafigura Beheer SV, which has links to Venezuelan fuel company PDVSA and has been in serious negotiati [...]	2006-09-18 16:27:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA192	HONDURAN PRESIDENT ZELAYA'S INAUGURATION GOES WELL [...] (SBU) Summary: On Thursday, January 26, 2006 a U.S. Presidential Delegation, led by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, arrived in Tegucigalpa to attend the inauguration of Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales. While the weeks and days leading to the events were plagued with confusion and inde [...]	2006-01-31 22:08:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD ECON KJUS SNAR PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1921	HONDURAS: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: LEION "LEO" [...] (S) Biographical Note: Leion Starkman Milla (DPOB 17 May 1968, San Pedro Sula, Honduras) served until recently as Minister without portfolio for Investment Promotion and later simultaneously as Director General of the parastatal electric company ENEE. Starkman has been criticized for failin [...]	2006-10-11 21:38:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR TBIO ENRG PGOV HO
06TEGUCIGALPA193	HONDURAN PRESIDENT ZELAYA HOLDS FIRST BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Directly after his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, January 27, 2006, President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales met with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and the rest of the official U.S. Presidential Delegation. While a variety of issues were discussed in a short time, it [...]	2006-01-31 22:08:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KJUS SNAR SMIG PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA1935	HONDURAS: FUEL BID FAILURE AN INCREASINGLY LIKELY [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-12 21:22:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA2048	HONDURAN FUEL BID: TRAFIGURA MAY INCREASE STAKE [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-28 15:44:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREF
06TEGUCIGALPA2095	RESIGNATION OF ADVISING MINISTER ON HOUSING NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Advising Minister on Housing Hector Briceno resigned in a huff on 10/27, lamenting a lack of political support from President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya. Briceno, whose appointment to an "advising ministry" (with no agency to direct) was a political payoff in the first place, is [...]	2006-11-02 22:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI HO
06TEGUCIGALPA214	HONDURAS APPEARS TO BE CONSIDERING CHANGE OF [...] (U) This is an Action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (S/NF) The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) appears to be attempting to extend its influence into the Central American region at the expense of Taiwan. The left-of-center ideological shift of the Zelaya administration has provided the PRC [...]	2006-02-06 13:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ETRD ECON PINR CH TW HO
06TEGUCIGALPA2265	HONDURAS: CONOCOPHILLIPS WINS CONTROVERSIAL FUEL [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-02 00:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA2309	HONDURAS: CONOCOPHILLIPS FUEL BID MAY BE IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-13 20:49:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA2372	HONDURAS: FUEL BID MISSES KEY DEADLINE; FREE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-27 20:08:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA271	NEW HONDURAN TELECOM LAW PUT ON HOLD [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the face of rising opposition, a new draft telecommunications law designed to open the market to competition and meet CAFTA requirements was not introduced to Congress. A last-minute attempt to introduce competition specifically into international calling was also derailed. K [...]	2006-02-13 22:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS ELAB HO KJUS KPRV PGOV PINR
06TEGUCIGALPA355	HONDURAS DEMARCHED ON RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) AMB and PolChief met February 15 with Foreign Minister Milton Jimenez Puerto and delivered ref A demarche on relations with Taipei/Beijing. AMB particularly emphasized that the GOH should not rush into any hasty decision on relations. 2. (S) Jimenez appreciated the information, noting [...]	2006-02-24 21:26:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ETRD ECON PINR CH TW HO
06TEGUCIGALPA433	RECENT SECURITY INCIDENTS MAY INDICATE A TREND OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the transition into power one month ago of the elected Liberal Party government of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, RSO has seen a slow but steady increase in the reported cases of armed robberies, muggings, murders, and other violent crime throughout Honduras. These e [...]	2006-03-06 21:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KSAC PGOV PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA521	HONDURAN PRESIDENT ZELAYA NOW CLAIMS HE SECRETLY [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see para 11. 2. (S) Summary: In a private meeting, President Zelaya told Ambassador he was solely responsible for the decision to move to a state-run fuel import regime, but that he had done so in the hopes the affected companies could convince the Hondur [...]	2006-03-15 23:23:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR VZ HO
06TEGUCIGALPA524	ZELAYA ADMINISTRATION'S FIRST 45 DAYS - PRO-U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and his Administration have now been in office approximately 45 days. While Zelaya is clearly a friend of the USG, as Post predicted his personality, administration, and policy decisions are making working with him a challenge. On the [...]	2006-03-16 16:25:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD KCRM PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA526	ZELAYA ADMINISTRATION'S FIRST 45 DAYS - PRO-U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and his Administration have now been in office approximately 45 days. While Zelaya is clearly a friend of the USG, as Post predicted his personality, administration, and policy decisions are making working with him a challenge. On the plus si [...]	2006-03-16 20:23:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD MOPS SMIG PINR KCRM HO
06TEGUCIGALPA534	HONDURAN FUELS: THE SEARCH FOR A CALM DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: At present the decision on if and how to implement the recent decision to have the GOH itself offer a public fuel tender rests with the GOH. Over the coming weeks, however, Post plans to encourage both GOH and private sector interlocutors to engage in a process of calm and reason [...]	2006-03-17 23:01:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR VZ HO
06TEGUCIGALPA622	HONDURAN PRESIDENT ZELAYA ON FUEL BID, CAFTA, [...] (C) Summary: On March 28, Ambassador and DCM met with Honduran President Mel Zelaya and Foreign Minister Milton Jimenez regarding Zelaya's June visit to Washington. DEA agents later joined the meeting for a candid anti-narcotics briefing. A relaxed Zelaya appeared to waiver somewhat on a [...]	2006-03-30 22:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV EPET SNAR MOPS PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA623	HONDURAN FUEL BID CONSULTANT REPORTEDLY HIRED; [...] (C) Summary: Honduran press reports that the GOH has signed a one-year contract with U.S. citizen consultant Robert Meyeringh to develop a national fuels bid strategy; other sources consulted by Post doubt the deal is completed yet. Comments from key GOH officials on the proposed bid were mix [...]	2006-03-30 23:09:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA645	END USE MONITORING: POST STILL WAITING FOR [...] (U) This is an Action request for Embassy Santiago. Please see para. 3. 2. (C) PolMilOff, MILGP Commander, and DAO delivered ref A demarche and both English and Spanish non-papers on end use monitoring to Minister of Defense (MOD) Aristides Mejia on February 16. Although the issue was a se [...]	2006-04-03 21:15:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM ETTC PREL PINS PINR PGOV KOMC CI HO
06TEGUCIGALPA676	HONDURAS: FUEL BID CONSULTANT LEAVES WITHOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The main fuel consultant pushing for an international fuel bid left the country abruptly March 31 when agreement was not reached on his contract to run a proposed international fuel bid. Honduran President Jose Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya continued to support the hiring of the consulta [...]	2006-04-07 19:52:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA684	The Early Stages of the New Honduran Congress and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The new Honduran Congress is made up of every extreme, with politics permeating every part of it. Because of the political diversity of this group, it has been hard for them to come to agreement on many of the issues that they face. Within Congress, the Liberal Party has the m [...]	2006-04-07 23:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KCOR KWMN PINR ECON HO
06TEGUCIGALPA809	HONDURAN-PETROCARIBE DEAL MAY BE SIGNED FOR POWER [...] (C) Summary: Rumors continue to swirl that a deal for bunker fuel for electricity generation has been signed between Honduran parastatal energy company ENEE and PetroCaribe, the Venezuelan fuel sales scheme. The unconfirmed deal may involve Honduran gasoline distributor DIPPSA. Meanwhile, th [...]	2006-05-04 00:56:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA853	WHA DAS MADISON MEETS WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: WHA DAS Kirsten Madison visited Honduras April 26-28 and met with Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, key members of his cabinet, congress, and the business community. Key themes of the visit included cooperation on regional security problems such as narcotrafficking, Ho [...]	2006-05-09 22:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KCRM SMIG SNAR PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA897	HONDURAS: ALLEGED PETROCARIBE - ELECTRICITY FUEL [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-16 21:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
06TEGUCIGALPA942	HONDURAN FM JIMENEZ TELLS AMB THAT CENTRAL [...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Beijing, Embassy Mexico, and the other Embassies in Central America. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) During a May 22 meeting between Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales and Foreign Minister Milton Jimenez Puerto and AMB, DCM, and Pol [...]	2006-05-24 22:10:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON PINR CH TW HO
06TEGUCIGALPA972	HONDURAN PRESIDENT SIGNALS PETROCARIBE DEAL [...] (C) Summary: In a private lunch, President Zelaya signaled to Ambassador that a PetroCaribe deal was likely, reiterated the many areas that GOH worked closely with the USG, and asked for "reciprocity" of support from the USG for the GOH in its time of need. Zelaya stressed that any such deal [...]	2006-05-30 12:22:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR HO
06TEGUCIGALPA985	(S) HONDURAS: USG SHOULD KEEP ZELAYA NERVOUS ABOUT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (S) Summary: In preparation for his June 5 meeting with POTUS, President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales is explicitly seeking USG reassurance that we will not object to a GOH deal with Venezuela for oil. Zelaya has on several recent occasi [...]	2006-05-31 21:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR VE HO
06TELAVIV1008	ISRAELI MFA DDG YA'AR SUPPPORTS UNRWA [...] (U) This message was drafted by the Amman-based regional refugee coordinator and has been cleared by PRM, Embassy Amman and ConGen Jerusalem. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Israeli MFA officials told PRM PDAS Greene and other visiting PRM officials over the last week that UNRWA will form a critical part [...]	2006-03-13 14:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PREF PINR ECON KWBG KPAL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1061	C-NE6-00442 KADIMA'S CAMPAIGN FOR CONTROL OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Less than two weeks before Israel's elections, the Kadima Party is on course to win a plurality of seats in the next Knesset despite minor up and down swings in the weekly polls. Kadima's broadly accepted political goal of unilaterally defining Israel's borders will allow the pa [...]	2006-03-16 11:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KDEM GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS
06TELAVIV1083	JCG: ISRAEL NSC'S 2/23 SESSION WITH S/CT AMB. [...] (C) On February 23, S/CT Coordinator Henry Crumpton was hosted by National Security Adviser Giora Eiland at Israel's NSC in Ramat HaSharon. (NOTE: The February 22 meeting of the U.S.-Israel Joint Counterterrorism Group is covered in reftel. END NOTE.) A panel discussion involving experts from Israe [...]	2006-03-17 14:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR PINS ASEC IS COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1164	BIBI SAYS UNDECIDEDS, TURNOUT RATE MAKE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Likud Chairman Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu told the Ambassador and DCM March 22 that the main factors to consider in this election are the continuing high number of undecided voters so close to election day and the possibility of a low voter turnout. Netanyahu underlined his concer [...]	2006-03-23 12:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KPAL PINR IS GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV117	ISA DISKIN DISCUSSES HAMAS AND PLC ELECTIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Israel Security Agency (ISA or "Shin Bet") Director Yuval Diskin briefed Representative Gary Ackerman January 5 on the future of Israeli politics in light of Prime Minister Sharon's health, the revolution within Fatah, and the implications of a Hamas victory in upcoming Palestinia [...]	2006-01-09 14:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV IS KPAL KDEM GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1181	ISRAELI MARKETS STABLE IN FACE OF ELECTION [...] (C) Israel's three main parties have all responded to the unusual attention being paid to social-economic issues in this election campaign. They have devoted considerable attention in their platforms to the need to narrow the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. The Labor Party, [...]	2006-03-24 14:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EFIN ELAB PINR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS
06TELAVIV1183	ISRAEL'S ELECTIONS AT THE HOME STRETCH: KADIMA [...] (C) Summary: The March 28 Israeli election will cement the long-predicted victory of the new, centrist Kadima party by a dominant plurality of the votes, with its sparring partners, Labor and Likud, most likely coming in distant second and third places, respectively. Neither Labor nor Likud [...]	2006-03-24 16:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IS PINR GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS
06TELAVIV1184	A CENTRAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE PRIMER ON MARCH 28 [...] Summary. The chairperson of the Israeli Central Elections Committee (CEC),Supreme Court Judge Dorit Beinisch, told the Ambassador March 22 that she is confident of the solid organization of Israeli elections, and explained details of the voting process as it will unfold on Election Day. Ex [...]	2006-03-24 17:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR IS GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS
06TELAVIV1197	BIG PARTIES SPEND BIG BUCKS ON BIG DAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Kadima and Likud have budgets for election day at least 50 percent larger than that of the Labor Party, Labor will draw on an extensive and experienced organizational network at the local level. Kadima party organizers say they must work particularly hard to get out the [...]	2006-03-27 17:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM IS PINR GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS
06TELAVIV1198	A CALM ELECTION DAY IN ISRAEL -- SHOPPING, [...] Summary: Entering the evening hours of election day in Israel, the prognosticators of voter apathy are claiming victory. Only 47 percent of the electorate had voted as of 1800 (local time),by which time -- historically speaking -- well over half the electorate usually would have cast their [...]	2006-03-28 17:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINR ASEC IS GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS
06TELAVIV1218	ELECTION RESULTS OFFER MANY OPTIONS FOR OLMERT [...] Summary: The March 28 election results confirmed a Kadima plurality, the status quo of Labor, the relative demise of Likud and less so of the religious Zionist parties, the stability of the ultra-Orthodox and Arab parties, the surprise electoral success of the Pensioners' Party, and the long [...]	2006-03-30 04:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR IS GOI INTERNAL ELECTIONS
06TELAVIV145	PERES TELLS CODEL BAYH THAT OLMERT WILL BE NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 6 meeting, former Vice Premier Shimon Peres told Senator Evan Bayh, that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of returning to political power are ""nil,"" and that Alternate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be the next Prime Minister of Israel. Peres discussed the fu [...]	2006-01-11 08:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV IR IS KPAL PINR ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1523	SENATOR LIEBERMAN MEETS LIEBERMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Joseph Lieberman met with Yisrael Beiteinu Party chairman Avigdor Lieberman on April 14 to discuss the political landscape in Israel. Avigdor, fresh from a negotiating session with the lead Kadima Party negotiator, Yoram Turbovitz, expressed confidence that his party [...]	2006-04-18 14:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM PINS KPAL IS JO IR IZ LE ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV1628	REP. SHAYS AND ISRAELI FM LIVNI DISCUSS HAMAS, [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Representative Christopher Shays April 20 that there is no Palestinian partner with whom Israel can negotiate. She described A/PM Ehud Olmert's "convergence" plan, in which Israel seeks to define a new eastern border after evacuating isol [...]	2006-04-26 14:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KWBG KPAL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1722	FM LIVNI TELLS VISITING NSG TROIKA NUCLEAR-ARMED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli FM Livni told representatives of the visiting Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Troika and U.S. Consultative Group Chairman Richard Goorevich April 27 that a nuclear-armed Iran represents "the greatest threat to Israel since the Holocaust." She also stressed that Israel suppo [...]	2006-05-02 14:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC PINS PINR PGOV KNNP PARM IR IS UN UNSC GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1728	OLMERT'S NARROW COALITION GOVERNMENT: ROOM TO GROW? [...] (U) Summary: Israel's 31st government, comprising 25 ministers from the Kadima, Labor, Shas and the Pensioners parties, is scheduled to be sworn into office on May 4, after Acting Prime Minister Olmert presents his Cabinet to the Knesset. At that time, Olmert will announce the basic lines of [...]	2006-05-02 15:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR IS GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV1752	FM LIVNI OPPOSES USG ASSISTANCE TO ABBAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni cautioned Senator Joseph Lieberman April 20 that by strengthening President Mahmud Abbas the USG could lend legitimacy to the Palestinian Authority (PA) without changing Hamas. Livni also said that the GOI does not plan to involve the Palestinians in [...]	2006-05-04 15:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PINS PTER KWBG KPAL IS
06TELAVIV1787	NSG TROIKA CONDUCTS OUTREACH WITH ISRAELI [...] (C) Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) troika representatives held discussions April 27 with an inter-ministerial team led by the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) as part of the NSG's outreach to Israel. Current NSG Chairman Ambassador Naess (Norway) updated the Israeli side on changes made [...]	2006-05-08 14:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC PINS PINR PGOV KNNP PARM IR IS UNSC UN GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1864	CONVERGENCE COHORT: INFLUENTIAL ADVISERS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a bid to make his office more "presidential," Prime Minister Olmert has decided to name Dr. Yoram Turbowicz as his chief of staff, a new position that will reportedly make the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO) more effective in terms of policy coordination. The incoming cha [...]	2006-05-11 17:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV1865	ISRAEL COUNTERTERRORISM BUREAU CHIEF REQUESTS HELP [...] (S/NF) In a May 10 meeting with Ambassador Jones, Israel NSC Counterterrorism Bureau (CTB) Director BGEN Dani Arditi reviewed the structure and mission of the CTB, and requested the Ambassador's assistance in encouraging the Department of Homeland Security to develop operational cooperation wit [...]	2006-05-11 17:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PINR KPAL KWBG EG JO IS COUNTERTERRORISM
06TELAVIV1870	NEW NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Olmert has appointed as the new chairman of National Security Council Ilan Mizrahi, a former Deputy Head of the Mossad, to replace Giora Eiland, who will retire in several weeks. The National Security Council (NSC),created in 1999 during the tenure of then-PM Bi [...]	2006-05-12 10:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS IR GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV1874	THE PENSIONER PARTY: THE YOUNGEST PARTY OF [...] With seven new members of the Knesset whose average age is 72 years, and of whom only two were expected to capture seats in the country's parliament, the leaders of the Pensioner Party are now billed as the custodians of Israel's "social agenda" -- a title dearly coveted by Labor Party leader [...]	2006-05-12 13:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR IS GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV1979	OLMERT'S COS DISCUSSES COALITION NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador and DCM on June 18, PM Olmert's chief of staff, Yoram Turbowicz, confirmed ongoing talks with the ultra-orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party to join the coalition. He said that such a step would provide cover for the other main religious part [...]	2006-05-19 17:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IS GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV204	ISA CHIEF DISKIN SAYS HAMAS TO DO WELL IN PA [...] (C) Summary: NEA A/S David Welch and DAPNSA Elliott Abrams met on January 12 met with Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Chief Yuval Diskin, who gave an assessment of the January 25 Palestinian elections and developments inside Fatah and Hamas. Diskin said that the most probable election scen [...]	2006-01-13 13:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KWBG PGOV PINR IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV2120	GOI HITS SNAG IN MEDICAL AID DISTRIBUTION; [...] (C) Summary: In a May 31 meeting, COGAT head General Yossef Mishlev said that the GOI intends to use NIS 50 million from frozen clearance revenues to purchase goods in Israel and transfer them through NGOs/international organizations to Palestinian hospitals or to the central medical supply w [...]	2006-06-01 16:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL PINR IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID
06TELAVIV2224	MOD'S AMOS GILAD ON ABBAS AND EGYPT [...] (C) Israeli MOD Political-Military Bureau Chief Amos Gilad told A/S Welch and the Ambassador June 6 that Israel could help PA President Mahmud Abbas the most by staying quiet. Welch stressed the importance of supporting President Abbas and working to help the Palestinian people avoid a human [...]	2006-06-09 11:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR KWBG KPAL PGOV IS EG GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV2225	PERETZ SAYS HE WILL TAKE RISKS TO HELP THE [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Amir Peretz told A/S Welch June 7 that he is willing to take maximum possible risks allowable in light of security demands to ease the pressure on the Palestinian people. He noted his efforts to keep the Karni crossing open -- as it is currently -- in both direc [...]	2006-06-09 12:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR KWBG KPAL EU IR IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV230	OLMERT SHUFFLES THE KADIMA CARDS IN HIS CABINET [...] On January 18, Alternate PM Ehud Olmert's Cabinet approved the appointment of three Kadima ministers to fill the Foreign Affairs, Agriculture/Rural Development, Education and Health portfolios in his transitional government vacated following the January 15 resignation of four Likud ministers [...]	2006-01-19 16:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IS PINR ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV2301	ALLEGED ISRAELI CORRUPTION AT KARNI IMPEDES U.S. MARKET ACCESS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-14 11:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET//NOFORN	ETRD ECON PGOV KWBG PINR IS SCRM ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV2517	MOF CONFIDENT BANKING CRISIS WILL BE RESOLVED [...] (C) Stressing the need to prevent a humanitarian crisis in the territories, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) DG Yossi Bachar and his senior advisor said on June 20 that the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) was acceptable to the MOF as long as it did not become an avenue for sending funds [...]	2006-06-26 14:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PINR IS KWBG KPAL SCRM PREL ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV282	NEW FOREIGN MINISTER TZIPI LIVNI [...] Summary: Alternate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert named Kadima MK Tzipi Livni, who continues to hold the Justice and Immigration portfolios, to head the Ministry of Foreign Affairs upon the departure of Likud Minister Silvan Shalom. This decision, which the cabinet approved on January 18 (septel [...]	2006-01-20 05:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV2879	MOSSAD CHIEF DAGAN ON LEBANON, HEZBOLLAH AND IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mossad Director Meir Dagan briefed CODEL Hoekstra on the Israeli campaign against Hizballah and the greater long term threat posed by Iran. Dagan stated that the initial aims of the Israeli campaign in Lebanon were focused on eliminating strategic weapons held by Hizballah and symbolic [...]	2006-07-24 15:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PTER KPAL KWBG IS LE
06TELAVIV2961	ZELIKOW AND GILAD DISCUSS TRAITS OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: MG (RES) AMOS GILAD, ISRAELI MOD ADVISOR FOR POLITICAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, TOLD COUNSELOR ZELIKOW 29 JUL 06 THAT INTERNATIONAL FORCE MUST BE EMPOWERED TO ENFORCE CEASEFIRE AS NECESSARY, TO DEPLOY FROM BLUE LINE NORTH TO NAHR AL LITANI, IF NOT NAHR AL AWALLI, AND TO TRAIN THE LEBANESE [...]	2006-07-30 17:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PTER KPAL KWBG IS LE
06TELAVIV3195	FM LIVNI: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST DO ITS [...] (C) During her August 14th late morning briefing of the Diplomatic Corps in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni opened by expressing the hope that UNSCR 1701 would reshape the region and asserting that the Government of Lebanon (GOL) and the international community shared the burden of its [...]	2006-08-14 12:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL LE PINR PREL
06TELAVIV3272	ISRAEL: POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS IN POST-CEASEFIRE POLLS [...] Precisely 48 hours after implementation of the Lebanon ceasefire prime-time Israel Radio was offering a hotline to traumatized victims of the month-long Hizballah bombardment of northern Israel, but poll results from the center of the country, show that those outside the bombardment zone are al [...]	2006-08-18 05:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR IS

06TELAVIV3395	NO BUDGET: NO COALITION -- AND VICE VERSA [...] This year, the budget wrangling got under way early in the form of a government attempt to slash 2 billion NIS from its own 2006 expenditure in order to free up funds for rehabilitation of the Katyusha-battered north of Israel. Initial attempts to secure Knesset Finance Committee approval for [...]	2006-08-25 07:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR IS
06TELAVIV3399	INITIAL IMPACT OF ISRAEL-HIZBALLAH WAR ON ISRAEL [...] (C) In the wake of the 34-day Israel-Hizballah War, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are reviewing their performance across the board, and taking stock of achievements and mistakes with an eye towards assigning blame, where necessary, and gathering lessons learned for application in future suc [...]	2006-08-25 11:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PINR LE IS
06TELAVIV3440	NEW ISRAELI MOD DG ASHKENAZI OUTLINES HIS GOALS [...] (C) New Israeli MOD Director General MGEN (Ret.) Gabi Ashkenazi told the Ambassador August 24 that his first priority is complete transformation of Israel's export control system and restoration of U.S. trust in it. He promised to personally involve himself in the legislative process so that Israel [...]	2006-08-29 16:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC MOPS MASS PINR SY LE IS
06TELAVIV366	ISRAELI NSC SAYS CLARITY NEEDED ON HAMAS IN NEW [...] (C) During their January 25 meeting at Israel's National Security Council, NSC Director MGEN (Ret.) Giora Eiland and his deputy, Eran Etzion, told NEA DAS Robert Danin the following: -- USG, GOI and Quartet statements on a HAMAS presence in the new Palestinian government need to be clear and [...]	2006-01-26 14:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL PEACE PROCESS
06TELAVIV3705	POWERS OF INQUIRY: THE PROPOSED WINOGRAD COMMITTEE V. A [...] Summary and Introduction: After several false starts (reftels),Prime Minister Olmert proposed and the government approved a "Government Review Committee" to "examine the functioning of both the political leadership and the security establishment regarding the campaign in the north." The Gov [...]	2006-09-18 10:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KJUS IS LE
06TELAVIV390	LABOR'S NUMBER TWO: ELECTIONS WILL BE A FIGHT FOR [...] (C) Summary: Labor Party MK Itzhak Herzog told NEA DAS Robert Danin January 25 that Kadima, Labor, and Likud will be battling over the some 80 Knesset seats that he assesses will go to the political center, as well as for the Russian vote. Herzog expressed resignation that Labor would not win [...]	2006-01-27 16:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL PINR IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS EXTERNAL SETTLEMENTS
06TELAVIV391	SHIMON PERES ON THE PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS [...] Former Vice Premier Shimon Peres discussed Hamas with Senator Joseph R. Biden, SFRC Democratic Staff Director Antony Blinken and SFRC Professional Staff Member Puneet Talwar on January 25. Commenting before the vote tallies were in, Peres put a positive spin on the Palestinian elections, whic [...]	2006-01-27 17:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IS PINR KPAL ETRD EG JO KISL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV3910	AMBASSADOR AND SHIN BET CHIEF DISKIN DISCUSS GAZA, [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-04 14:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR KPAL KWBG EG IS
06TELAVIV4002	ISRAELI ACADEMICS OFFER POST-LEBANON WAR [...] (C) Summary: The Charge, Political Counselor and PAO recently discussed Israeli politics and regional developments in the aftermath of the Lebanon war with leading academics and area experts from Israeli universities and think tanks. These academics, who spoke to us under the Chatham House ru [...]	2006-10-11 13:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS LE SY IR IZ
06TELAVIV4013	LIEBERMAN'S GAME PLAN [...] (C) Summary: In the midst of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, when most government officials are on holiday, and on the eve of the resumption of Knesset activity on October 16, political pundits are making hay of reports that Prime Minister Olmert will soon expand the governing coalition to incl [...]	2006-10-11 15:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IS
06TELAVIV4032	USSC DAYTON RAISES RAFAH, AMA AND BADR BRIGADE WITH ISA DISKIN [...] (C) Summary: Israel Security Agency (ISA) Director Yuval Diskin told the USSC, LTG Keith W. Dayton, that Israel's primary concern with the normalization of operations at the Rafah terminal are derived from U.S. and Palestinian failures to follow through with commitments made in the November 15, 20 [...]	2006-10-12 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KPAL KWBG MASS PINR EG JO IS
06TELAVIV4034	LABOR PARTY OBJECTS TO YISRAEL BEITEINU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Labor Party MKs have awakened to the political challenge posed by coalition-broadening talks between Prime Minister Olmert and Yisrael Beiteinu party leader Lieberman, but have yet to speak with one voice. Although Party Chairman Peretz conveyed his opposition to the Yisrael Bei [...]	2006-10-12 15:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IS KPAL
06TELAVIV4107	OLMERT PUSHES LIEBERMAN-LIKE REFORM IDEAS IN [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Olmert opened the Winter session of the Knesset October 16 in the conspicuous absence of President Moshe Katsav, who ducked the occasion rather than face a firestorm of protest from MKs who are calling for the President's resignation amidst serious allegations of s [...]	2006-10-17 16:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS
06TELAVIV4148	READOUT OF ISRAEL MOD POL-MIL BUREAU CHIEF'S VISIT [...] (C) On October 17, the chief advisor to Israeli MOD POL-MIL Bureau Chief Amos Gilad gave poloff a readout of Gilad's meetings with Chinese MFA and MOD officials during his September 25-28 visit to Beijing. During those meetings, the Chinese officials reportedly said that China: A) will not [...]	2006-10-19 14:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PTER ETTC KPKO MASS MARR MNUC CH
06TELAVIV4177	PERETZ WANTS MERETZ, BUT BEILIN IS BETTING ON BIBI [...] (C) PM Olmert's courting of Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu (YB) party as a potential coalition partner has forced Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz to look left to Meretz for political survival. Meretz MK Avshalom Vilan last floated the idea of a Meretz-Labor partnership at the end of S [...]	2006-10-20 16:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KPAL IS
06TELAVIV4256	LIEBERMAN JOINS THE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on October 24, Yisrael Beiteinu (YB) party leader Avigdor Lieberman confirmed that he would join the governing coalition with the titles of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Threats, perhaps as early as October 25. Lieberman would [...]	2006-10-25 16:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KPAL KWBG IS IR EG JO LE SY
06TELAVIV4303	THE LIEBERMAN FACTOR IN ISRAEL POLITICS AND U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu (YB) party is poised to formally join the governing coalition on October 30, following negotiations with PM Olmert and the grudging acceptance of this deal by Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz. Although several Labor MK's have made their vocife [...]	2006-10-27 16:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KPAL IS US
06TELAVIV4349	(S/NF) PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI SECURITY [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, embassy submits the following answers to questions posed in reftel. These answers were formulated with contributions from SIHO, DAO Tel Aviv, ConGen Jerusalem, and the U.S. Security Coordinator's office. 2. (S/NF) The answers below correspond to the questions [...]	2006-11-01 12:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PBTS PGOV PREL GZ IS
06TELAVIV4481	ISRAELI REGIONAL EXPERTS SHARE VIEWS ON IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: During his recent visit to Israel, the Ambassador hosted a dinner at which DNI Negroponte asked a diverse group of Israeli experts to share their views on Iran, particularly Israeli perspectives on the intentions of the Iranian leadership. The DNI also solicited views on the pos [...]	2006-11-09 16:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS IR IZ SY KPAL
06TELAVIV454	ISRAEL-CHAD RELATIONS ON HOLD; MFA DENIES ANY GOI [...] (C) Oren Anolik, advisor to the Israeli MFA's director general, informed poloff January 31 that the GOI has sought to reestablish diplomatic relations with Chad, which were broken in 1972. There is no Israeli charge d'affaires in N'Djamena, according to Anolik. As reported in reftel and in [...]	2006-01-31 15:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SU CD IS ML NG XY GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV4730	AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN'S THOUGHTS ON PALESTINIAN ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and DAPNSA Elliott Abrams discussed Israeli-Palestinian relations with Minister for Strategic Threats Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) on November 29. Lieberman had requested the meeting to share his latest thinking on the Palestinian question ahead of his pl [...]	2006-12-05 07:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL IR EG CY JO
06TELAVIV4736	ISRAEL'S OPPOSITION TO SPAIN'S MIDDLE EAST PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: Israel is strongly opposed to the Middle East peace initiative proposed by Spanish PM Zapatero. Israeli FM Livni bluntly informed Moratinos of this position on November 16 and urged him to put the initiative aside or at least to discuss it with the GOI before proceeding f [...]	2006-12-05 15:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV EUN SP IS
06TELAVIV4742	THE PROPER ORDER OF GOVERNMENT: CORRUPTION AND THE ROLES [...] The proliferation of allegations and investigations into the conduct of public sector officials recently prompted questions as to whether Israel's norms of public life have indeed reached an unprecedented nadir, or whether oversight in the person and functioning of the Attorney General and the [...]	2006-12-06 12:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KJUS IS
06TELAVIV4892	CODEL NELSON AND ISRAEL DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On December 12, Colonel Amit Aviram of Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI) briefed Senator Bill Nelson (FL) on regional security threats facing Israel. Aviram described the Middle East as caught in a struggle between moderates and Iranian-backed extremists, and said the growing Iranian [...]	2006-12-20 10:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR KPAL IR SY LE IS
06TELAVIV4914	OLMERT TELLS CODEL DODD/KERRY HE IS READY TO MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: SENATORS CHRISTOPHER DODD (CT) AND JOHN KERRY (MA) DISCUSSED THE CHALLENGE FACED BY THE U.S. AND ISRAEL IN DEALING WITH EXTREMISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT ON DECEMBER 21. AT THE TOP OF THEIR MEETING, SENATORS DODD AND KERRY AND PRIME MINISTER [...]	2006-12-22 11:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL IR SY LE IZ
06TELAVIV4929	SENATOR NELSON'S MEETING WITH LIKUD LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Senator Bill Nelson (FL) and his senior staff met with former prime minister (PM) and current Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu on December 12 to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat. Netanyahu urged the U.S. to mobilize all its diplomatic and national efforts against Iran. [...]	2006-12-26 09:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER IS IR IZ SY KPAL US
06TELAVIV5007	FM LIVNI URGES CAUTION ON SYRIA IN MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) discussed Syria, Iran and efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian Roadmap with FM Tzipi Livni on December 27. Describing his recent trip to Damascus, Senator Specter said Syrian President Bashar al-Asad had expressed an interest in negotiating with [...]	2006-12-29 15:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL IR SY LE
06TELAVIV518	SHIMON PERES ON PALESTINIAN 'COHABITATION' [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Shimon Peres reiterated a pitch for U.S. financial support for Negev/Galilee development and political support for private-sector-led development of the Jordan Valley. The Ambassador stressed the importance of supporting the careta [...]	2006-02-06 07:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN EG IS JO KWBG PGOV PINR PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS
06TELAVIV53	CONTINUITY OF ISRAELI GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP [...] The powers of the Prime Minister have been transferred to Kadima minister Ehud Olmert in his capacity as Alternate Prime Minister, in accordance with Israel's Basic Law. Should Sharon die, Olmert is almost certain to be chosen as acting prime minister to serve until the forthcoming elections. [...]	2006-01-05 15:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL
06TELAVIV55	EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR ON GAZA BORDER AND ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary: In a January 5 meeting with Ambassador Jones, Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Mohamed Asem Ibrahim stressed that Mubarak will sincerely miss Sharon, whom he views as a real partner. Ibrahim expressed concern about the instability of the Israeli party system, suggesting that both Li [...]	2006-01-05 15:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER KPAL IS EG GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV596	GOI RESPONDS TO NEW PATTERN OF CROSS-BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli National Police (INP) Colonel Avshalom Peled told G-TIP Reports Officer Gayatri Patel January 11 and poloff in subsequent phone conversations that his Ramon Border Police Brigade, which guards Israel's southern border with Egypt, has captured 85 Palestinians from the Gaza [...]	2006-02-08 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS EG PGOV PREL JO PINR PREF PBTS SNAR KCRM GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS EXTERNAL SOCIETY
06TELAVIV638	ISRAELI REACTTION TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S STATEMENT [...] (C) Over the past week, GOI officials have commented without solicitation on President Bush's February 2 remarks to Reuters to the effect that the U.S. would defend Israel in a crisis with Iran, saying Israel welcomes America's support, but is prepared to defend itself. These comments reflect [...]	2006-02-13 08:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MARR MASS IS ISRAEL RELATIONS MILITARY
06TELAVIV688	IRAN-IAEA: ISRAELI ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION [...] (S) In a February 7 meeting, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) Director General Gideon Frank told Ambassador Jones the following: A) On February 16, the EU3 MFA directors general are going to meet with an Israeli interagency team in Israel at the MFA to discuss Iran and the way ahead. [...]	2006-02-15 15:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PINR MNUC KNNP IR EU AORC IS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV696	ISA CHIEF DISKIN: HAMAS ON THE HORIZON [...] (S) Summary: ISA (Shin ... [...]	2006-02-16 16:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PINR KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
06TELAVIV756	GOI ADOPTS POST-PLC MEASURES; EFFORTS TO [...] (C) Summary: Following the first meeting of the new Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC),the GOI has adopted a number of measures aimed at increasing security and preventing funds from reaching Hamas, according to General Yossef Mishlev. Mishlev said the GOI will end assistance for PA secu [...]	2006-02-22 18:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KWBG PINR IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV826	ISRAELI MILITARY INTEL CHIEF'S 2/23 MEETING WITH [...] (S/NF) In a February 23 meeting at the MOD, Israeli Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) Major General Amos Yadlin discussed with State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism (CT) Henry Crumpton (A) USG and GOI priorities in the war on terror; (B) ways to coordinate between the intelli [...]	2006-02-27 16:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR PTER PINS PGOV KWBG KPAL MARR MCAP MOPS ASEC EG IS JO COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS
06TELAVIV840	EGYPTIANS TELL GOI TO GIVE HAMAS TIME [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Defense Political Advisor Amos Gilad told the Ambassador February 21 that Egyptian officials encouraged Israel to give the Hamas government time and rely on Cairo to deal with the terrorist group. He believed that this "change" in Egypt,s position is motivated by Egyp [...]	2006-02-28 07:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON KPAL KWBG PINR IS GOI EXTERNAL COUNTERTERRORISM
06TELAVIV858	MOD ADVISOR ON HAMAS, ABBAS, NEIGHBORS, IRAN AND [...] (S) Summary: Ministry of Defense Political Advisor Amos Gilad told NEA DAS Dibble that Israel was on a collision course with a new "Hamastan." He said the Hamas leadership was very clever and would seek international acceptance while retaining the intent to annihilate Israel. He agreed that [...]	2006-02-28 14:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER ECON PINR KWBG KPAL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV885	MFA TELLS DAS DIBBLE THAT GOI GRAPPLING WITH [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials told NEA DAS Liz Dibble that the GOI is going through a comprehensive inter-agency process to define humanitarian assistance and formulate how best to continue it to the Palestinians without benefiting Hamas. They also want a mechanism that would permit the GOI to tra [...]	2006-03-02 15:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON KPAL KWBG PINR IS GOI INTERNAL HUMANITARIAN AID ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV92	SCENESETTER FOR JANUARY 11, 2006 JOINT POL-MIL [...] (C) The Joint Pol-Mil Group (JPMG) meeting will be taking place at a time when Israel's domestic political situation is in flux and recent progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has stalled. PM Sharon suffered a significant brain hemorrhage on January 4, and is now in critical condition, [...]	2006-01-06 16:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PINR PGOV PTER MASS OTRA PARM ISRAEL RELATIONS MILITARY GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV922	U.S.-ISRAEL JOINT COUNTERTERRORISM GROUP (JCG) [...] (C) On February 22, the Israeli MFA hosted the latest session of the U.S.-Israel Joint Counterterrorism Group (JCG) -- the prior one having occurred over a year and a half earlier. The Israeli side stressed the importance it placed on the JCG's resumption (following the January meeting of the [...]	2006-03-07 05:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR PINS PGOV KPAL KWBG ASEC EG JO IS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV991	ISRAELI MOD'S AMOS GILAD ON GAZA-WEST BANK [...] (C) Israeli MOD Political-Military Bureau Chief Amos Gilad requested an urgent meeting with Ambassador Jones on March 10, stressing that he had been instructed to personally deliver messages from DefMin Mofaz to the Ambassador. In the meeting, he relayed DefMin Mofaz's decision to open the Kar [...]	2006-03-10 17:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR KWBG KPAL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06THEHAGUE1001	ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDS [...] (U) SUMMARY: There are a growing number of Islamic schools in The Netherlands, but they are hardly madrassas. All are state funded, follow the national Dutch curriculum, teach in Dutch, and have largely Dutch personnel. Although the number of Islamic schools is small - 47 in the whole country - the [...]	2006-05-04 15:11:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE1109	AYAAN HIRSI ALI: PARLIAMENTARIAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY [...] (S) SUMMARY: The surprise decision by Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk to strip maverick parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali of her Dutch citizenship has sent shock waves through the Netherlands. Hirsi Ali announced on May 16 that she was immediately resigning from parliament. Verdonk's [...]	2006-05-16 16:15:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	KISL NL PHUM PINR PREF PREL
06THEHAGUE1141	AYAAN HIRSI ALI: FIRESTORM CONTINUES [...] (S) SUMMARY: The debate over Ayaan Hirsi Ali's citizenship status continues to divide the Netherlands. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk was roundly criticized during a marathon May 16 Parliamentary debate for hastily stripping Hirsi Ali's Dutch citizenship, and Prime Minister Balkenende has [...]	2006-05-19 15:04:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PREL PHUM PGOV PINR PREF KISL NL
06THEHAGUE1184	DUTCH SOCIALIST PARTY (SP): NOT YOUR FATHER'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under the charismatic leadership of Jan Marijnissen, the Dutch Socialist Party (SP) is reconfiguring itself to become a credible left-wing alternative to the increasingly centrist Labor Party (PvdA) of Wouter Bos. In a rare meeting with Ambassador Arnall on May 16, Marijnissen and [...]	2006-05-24 15:27:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EU NL
06THEHAGUE1378	DUTCH CT COORDINATOR REITERATES CONCERN OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY. National Counter Terrorism Coordinator Tjibbe Joustra told the Ambassador June 9 that he was seriously concerned about Islamist radicalization, through both the Internet and a handful of problematic mosques; he said radicalization now seemed to be moving at a faster pace, in par [...]	2006-06-20 12:39:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR KCRM PGOV PREL NL
06THEHAGUE1708	NETHERLANDS: TURKISH IMAMS DENIED RESIDENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Netherlands, new, tighter immigration policies are causing friction with the country,s 436 mosques, which rely heavily on foreign-born clerics to lead their congregations. At least 18 Turkish mosques are without imams as a result of immigration delays. Meanwhile, the Neth [...]	2006-08-04 16:47:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL PREL PGOV PINR PTER SOCI SCUL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE2277	SCENESETTER FOR ATT... [...] (SBU) We warmly welcome your visit to the Netherlands, the first by an Attorney General since Attorney General Aschroft visited in September 2004. There are four important issues where you can advance our law enforcement agenda: (1) Establish a strong working relationship with new Minister o [...]	2006-10-19 15:25:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PTER SNAR PREL PGOV KJUS PINR NL
06THEHAGUE2415	SIX SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOR JIHAD RECRUITM... [...] The National Crime Squad (NR) arrested five men and one woman in Amsterdam and The Hague on November 6 and 7 for suspicion of recruitment for Jihad, participating in a terrorist organization, and obtaining false travel documents. According to the National Prosecutor's Office, the arrests are [...]	2006-11-08 16:22:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PINS KPRP PGOV NL
06THEHAGUE2515	EMBASSY HOSTS DUTCH-U.S. MUSLIM DIALOGUE [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Embassy and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund convened the mission's most extensive outreach effort to date on November 1-2 when more than 120 Dutch and American Muslims, government officials, policy experts, civil rights and business leaders gathered fo [...]	2006-11-29 16:12:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SCUL SOCI KPAO PHUM PREL KISL PINR NL
06THEHAGUE2577	Integration: Netherlands Searches for a "New [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The diverse opinions heard during November 3 meetings between Farah Pandith, Director for Middle East Regional Initiatives, National Security Council, and Dutch government and think tank representatives capture the debate on what integration means for all of Dutch society. Agree [...]	2006-12-08 12:57:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KISL NL SCUL SCOI PINR
06THEHAGUE2595	SHARPER TOOLS FOR THE CT TOOLBOX: DUTCH [...] SUMMARY: The Dutch Parliament approved three significant pieces of counter terrorism legislation in 2006. The first, permitting the use of intelligence information in criminal proceedings, went into effect November 1. The other two, which will expand the use of special investigative techniq [...]	2006-12-12 15:28:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PINS PGOV NL
06THEHAGUE2611	THREE-YEAR REVIEW OF DUTCH INTEGRATION [...] Summary. Three years after the Balkenende government instituted significant changes to Dutch immigration and integration policies, "there is still a long way to go" on the integration of ethnic minorities, according to the Justice Ministry's Annual Memorandum on Integration Policy. The Memor [...]	2006-12-14 14:34:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PINS PGOV KISL NL
06THEHAGUE308	NETHERLANDS/OUTREACH: CHARGE MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge met with Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen February 3 to discuss opportunities for Muslim outreach in the city. Cohen complained that the media had distorted his recent comments on "unrest" in Amsterdam, but acknowledged religious/ethnic tensions remain a serious problem. He cr [...]	2006-02-10 12:08:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE314	UPDATE ON DUTCH REACTIONS TO CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: The Danish cartoons remain a hot topic in the Netherlands. So far, there have been no violent reactions here, but officials are watching closely a planned "peaceful demonstration" in Amsterdam on February 11. PM Balkenende and other government officials have expressed support f [...]	2006-02-10 17:11:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE357	NETHERLANDS/ISLAM: MORE ON CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Danish cartoon controversy continues to resonate in the Netherlands. Two small, generally peaceful demonstrations were held February 10 in Maastricht and February 11 in Amsterdam. Two well-known Muslim Amsterdam officials have attempted to downplay the issue in an effort t [...]	2006-02-16 15:34:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE368	RADICAL IMAMS EXPELLED FROM THE NETHERLANDS [...] (S) SUMMARY: The last of the three radical Eindhoven-based Muslim clerics that Immigration and Integration Minister Verdonk ordered deported in June 2005 had left the country by year's end. Verdonk accused all three of tolerating the recruitment of terrorists within a mosque and inciting vi [...]	2006-02-17 13:08:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PTER PINR PINS PGOV NL
06THEHAGUE374	NETHERLANDS/MUSLIM OUTREACH: MISSION SUCCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In August 2005, Post established an Integration Issues Working Group (IIWG) to coordinate outreach and reporting activities related to the Dutch Muslim community. This approach succeeded in considerably expanding Embassy The Hague's and Consul General Amsterdam's contacts in the Dutc [...]	2006-02-17 15:43:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KPAO KISL NL
06THEHAGUE380	DUTCH MAKE PROGRESS TOWARD AN EFFECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: The GONL has taken important steps since 2001 to bolster its ability to counter terrorism. It has passed tough new legislation, revamped institutional structures, strengthened the security of critical infrastructure, and devoted substantial personnel and financial resources to the coun [...]	2006-02-21 11:37:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PINS PGOV NL
06THEHAGUE402	DUTCH MUSLIM BUSINESS COMMUNITY - A GUIDE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The number of ethnic Muslim entrepreneurs and related business organizations in the Netherlands has increased significantly in recent years. Over the last few months, Emboffs have met with some of these organizations, as well as with traditional Dutch employer associations th [...]	2006-02-23 11:51:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI PHUM PREL PGOV KISL PINR NL
06THEHAGUE406	REACHING OUT TO THE DUTCH MUSLIM BUSINESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An Embassy lunch with members of the Dutch Muslim business community on February 8 succeeded in launching a constructive dialogue on discrimination in Dutch employment practices, unemployment among young ethnic Muslims, and the pros and cons of membership in ethnic business [...]	2006-02-23 12:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI PHUM PREL PGOV KISL PINR NL
06THEHAGUE488	DUTCH TERROR THREAT LEVEL REMAINS SUBSTANTIAL [...] On March 2, Justice Minister Donner and Interior Minister Remkes submitted the National Counter Terrorism Coordinator's quarterly terror threat assessment to Parliament. The report maintained the current threat level in the Netherlands at "substantial," where it has been since June 2005. "S [...]	2006-03-07 16:35:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR KCRM PINS PGOV NL
06THEHAGUE527	HOFSTAD GROUP RULED A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION [...] (U) The Hague court ruled March 10 that the Hofstad group was a terrorist organization, because it aimed to incite hatred, violence, and intimidation, according to press reports. Nine of the 14 defendants were found guilty of membership in a criminal-terrorist organization. One of those conv [...]	2006-03-10 16:08:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KCRM KPRP PINR PREL PGOV CASC NL
06THEHAGUE591	FOLLOW-UP ON FOREIGN FIGHTERS TO IRAQ:NETHERLANDS [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Netherlands has taken internal and external steps in recent years to prevent its citizens from traveling to Iraq and other conflict areas to train or participate in jihad. Closer cooperation between Dutch intelligence and police authorities has yielded concrete results, incl [...]	2006-03-20 16:24:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	ASEC PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER IZ NL
06THEHAGUE610	NETHERLANDS/MUSLIM OUTREACH: INTEGRATION EXAM [...] Summary: Effective March 15, certain nationalities will need to pass a civic integration exam to immigrate to the Netherlands. Initial reactions in local and foreign press have been divided on whether such a policy will result in better integration of immigrants in the country or only further [...]	2006-03-22 06:13:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE834	AIVD REPORT... [...] (U) SUMMARY. The AIVD, the Dutch civilian intelligence service, issued a report March 30 on the terrorist threat in the Netherlands, entitled ""Violent Jihad in the Netherlands: Current Trends in the Islamist Terrorist Threat."" The report concludes that the terrorist threat in the Netherlands now [...]	2006-04-18 05:45:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR PINS PGOV NL
06TIRANA352	ALBANIA SCENESETTER FOR AMB. WISNER, U.S. SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Albanian governments, past and present, support independence for Kosovo, but within the international framework. In contrast to generally quiet diplomacy of the past, the Berisha government, via FM Mustafaj (and Sabri Godo, his informal advisor on Kosovo),has more openly and [...]	2006-04-07 09:55:00	Embassy Tirana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR AL
06TIRANA365	ALBANIA: PROTESTING THE IRANIAN REGIME'S [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief raised reftel demarche with Mimoza Kondo, Office Director for the Americas desk at the MFA. Kondo was not aware of the issue, and thanked us for the information. She noted the sensitive nature of religious issues in Albania, but agreed that religious tolerance was somethin [...]	2006-04-10 13:02:00	Embassy Tirana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINR AL
06TIRANA420	ALBANIA: SCENESETTER FOR VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY'S [...] (C) Background/Summary: Albanians describe their relationship with the U.S. as "strategic" and consider it their most important bar none. Politically, and militarily Albania looks to the U.S. first, and is deeply appreciative of our help. In return, Albanians have worked hard to make themse [...]	2006-04-27 08:52:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR AL
06TIRANA434	ALBANIA SEEKS SEAT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (C) FM Minister Mustafaj told Ambassador May 1 that Albania would put its name forward for a spot on the UN Human Rights Commission, and asked for USG support. Mustafaj told the Ambassador that former UN SecGen Boutros-Boutros Ghali had written to Francophone countries in support of Albania's [...]	2006-05-02 14:49:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PREL OPDC PHUM PINR UNGA AL
06TIRANA467	FM MUSTAFAJ ON MEETING WITH CHINESE AMBASSADOR ON [...] (U) Ambassador met with Albanian Foreign Minister Besnik Mustafaj on the afternoon of May 8, following Mustafaj's meeting with Chinese Ambassador Tian Changchun and the release of a statement by Tian to News24, an Albanian television news channel. 2. (S) Mustafaj said Tian was "very tough" [...]	2006-05-09 02:59:00	Embassy Tirana	SECRET	PREF PTER PHUM PREL PINR AL CH
06TIRANA486	SAM SEEKS MILITARY COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 5. 2. (C) Mimoza Kondo, MFA Office Director for the Europe, America, and Russia, told Pol/Econ Chief that Albania has been approached by Serbia-Montenegro regarding the possibility of formally establishing military cooperation. She also pro [...]	2006-05-11 06:25:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MOPS AL
06TIRANA506	VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM: OBELISK BUT NO ACCESS TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-17 08:41:00	Embassy Tirana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM AL
06TIRANA564	GOA CRACKING DOWN ON ORGANIZED CRIME AND PASSPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two unrelated, but widely reported arrests were made in recent days, both of which highlight the fight of Albanian police and prosecutors against corruption and organized crime. In the first case, seven members of a drug trafficking network who were laundering proceeds through c [...]	2006-05-30 11:53:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KCRM PGOV ASEC PINR KFRD CVIS KRIM AL
06TIRANA597	FORMER SENATOR DECONCINI SHINES LIGHT ON ISSUE OF [...] (U) Former U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcini, who visited Tirana May 22-24 as a guest of Albanian Ombudsman Dobjani, focused on the plight of missing and trafficked children. DeConcini held meetings with PM Berisha and other Cabinet members, saw the heads of several NGOs that focus on TIP, and was [...]	2006-06-06 13:45:00	Embassy Tirana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PINR AL
06TIRANA600	SHKODRA REGION RELIGIOUS TENSIONS CONTINUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Religious tensions that flared in Shkoder when a statue to Mother Theresa was proposed for a public spot in central Shkodra have settled somewhat, but there is still lingering resentment between the Muslim and Catholic communities. Both sides cite foreign influence(meaning fore [...]	2006-06-06 13:54:00	Embassy Tirana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR AL MW
06TIRANA657	WORLD BEKTASHI LEADER INVITED TO TURKEY: [...] (SBU) On June 12, Bulent Arinc, head of the Turkish parliament, visited the world headquarters of Bektashism in Tirana, Albania. Arinc invited Reshat Bardhi, head of the World Bektashi Community, to come to Turkey to participate in a Bektashi feast August 16. This would be the first official c [...]	2006-06-19 16:31:00	Embassy Tirana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR AL
06TIRANA662	EXHUMATION OF WW II SOLDIERS SPOTLIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent exhumations of Greek soldiers killed in Albania during WW II and the construction of mausoleums here for their re-interrment have sparked considerable controversy and reportedly the cancellation of the Greek Defense Minister's visit to Albania. The exhumations generated co [...]	2006-06-21 06:33:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR AL GR
06TIRANA740	BERISHA VS. SOLLAKU: ONE ROUND IN A BROADER BATTLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Parliamentary investigative committee looking into allegations of incompetence and misconduct against Prosecutor General (PG) Sollaku has issued a report claiming evidence of serious misconduct and recommending not only that President Moisiu dismiss the PG, but that criminal pr [...]	2006-07-13 05:10:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM AL
06TOKYO1004	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/24/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-24 08:40:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1023	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/27/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-27 02:49:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1039	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/27/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-27 08:16:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1048	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/28/06 [...] Date of submission 2. Proponents 3. Reasons 4. Result Â [...]	2006-02-28 06:50:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1058	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/28/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-28 07:58:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1085	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/01/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 06:03:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1090	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/01/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 08:15:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1096	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/02/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 01:52:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1120	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/02/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 08:17:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1126	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/03/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-03 01:23:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1139	BIOGRAPHIC DATA ON JAPAN'S DIET FRESHMEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since the September 2005 election of 83 freshmen Diet members, Post has had several opportunities to gather biographic data on some of them. What follows is a summation of that data. END SUMMARY. 2. (C//NF) Yoshitami Kameoka of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) revealed d [...]	2006-03-03 05:43:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PREL PGOV ECON JA
06TOKYO1149	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/03/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-03 08:06:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1169	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/06/06-2 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-06 01:25:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1170	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/06/06-2 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-06 01:28:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1186	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/06/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-06 07:52:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1199	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/07/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-07 00:53:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1217	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/07/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-07 08:21:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1224	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/08/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 01:01:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1249	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/08/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 08:05:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1257	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/09/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 05:23:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA

06TOKYO1268	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/09/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 08:14:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA

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