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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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06CONAKRY101GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE;
[...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...]
2006-01-30 12:55:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPREL PGOV MASS KDEM GV
06CONAKRY93DASD WHELAN SCORES RARE ENCOUNTER WITH GUINEAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY. In a surprise development, Guinean President Lansana Conte received Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Theresa Whelan at the Presidential Palace on January 25. Plagued by poor health, Conte has not to our knowledge held any meetings with persons outside h [...]
2006-01-27 12:58:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV PREL MASS KDEM PINS GV
06CONAKRY94GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE;
[...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...]
2006-01-27 12:59:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPREL KDEM PGOV MASS GV
06COPENHAGEN1135DANISH FM TO DISPATCH NEW MIDDLE EAST ENVOY
[...] (C) The Danish MFA notified us August 24 that FM Per Stig Moeller has decided to send his new personal representative for the Middle East, outgoing Danish Ambassador to Turkey Christian Hoppe, to Beirut, Tel Aviv and Damascus early next week to review efforts to implement UNSCR 1701. MFA Middl [...]
2006-08-24 11:56:00Embassy CopenhagenCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS LE SY DA
06COPENHAGEN778DENMARK EXTENDS ITS IRAQ DEPLOYMENTS BY ONE YEAR
[...] (C) Summary. With a one-year extension of its deployments in Iraq until at least July 2007, Denmark remains one of the USG's most stalwart partners in Iraq. In addition to maintaining a battalion in southern Iraq, Denmark is boosting its generous reconstruction aid and offering to provide the [...]
2006-06-02 09:53:00Embassy CopenhagenCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR DA IZ
06DAKAR1004GUINEA-BISSAU: BORDER CALMING DOWN FOR NOW
[...] (U) Fighting in northern Guinea-Bissau has mostly ended with all rebel bases overrun by the Bissau-Guinean military. A new wave of displaced flooded into isolated Susana during the final push, but others have begun returning home to Sao Domingos, where life is returning to normal. The World F [...]
2006-04-26 16:47:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PINS EAID PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PU SG
06DAKAR1039SENEGAL: COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP MEETING ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 27 G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting in Dakar focused as much on narcotics as it did on ideological radicalization. DCM drew on Ref A talking points and briefed the CTAG on counter-terrorism training that we have conducted in 2006. DCM noted that we are [...]
2006-05-02 10:16:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPTER SNAR CVIS KCRM KISL EAIR UN PU SG
06DAKAR1169INFANTICIDE IN SENEGAL
[...] (U) Senegalese are appalled at increasing media reports of infanticide. Though the practice seems to be limited, actual statistics are shaky. Factors which might lead parents to resort to the practice include poverty, emigration of the father, incest, the Islamic practices of polygamy and e [...]
2006-05-17 11:31:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPHUM SOCI SG
06DAKAR1204PRIME MINISTER SALL COMMENTS ON MCA, ELECTIONS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, the Ambassador called on Prime Minister Macky Sall to discuss the status of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan (PRSP) and election preparations. The Prime Minister stressed that the MCA Compact is the GOS, highest prio [...]
2006-05-18 17:04:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEAID PINR PINS PREL KMCA KHDP SG
06DAKAR1205FOUR HIGH LEVEL POLITICAL ARRESTS IN SENEGAL
[...] (U) In the past two months, there have been a series of high profile arrests of political figures. Labor leader Ibrahima Sene (Reftel),Amath Dansokho, Secretary General of the Labor Party (PIT),Jean Paul Dias, head of the center right party BCG, and Pape Diouf, Mayor of the City of Bambey, [...]
2006-05-18 18:44:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINS KJUS SG
06DAKAR1256DEMARCHES TO NAM/G-77 ON UN REFORM AND IRAN IN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-24 17:08:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC KUNR UNSC UNGA IR SG
06DAKAR1292AN INCIDENT OF PRE-ELECTORAL POLITICAL VIOLENCE
[...] (U) On May 28, in Prime Minister Macky Sall's hometown of Fatick, the ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) youth movement mixed it up with followers of Serigne Mamoune Niasse, the partially blind marabout from nearby Kaolack who is backing ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck's presidential cam [...]
2006-06-01 12:08:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV PHUM KDEM SG
06DAKAR1299SENEGALESE REACTION TO U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) On June 1, the Ambassador and DCM called on President Wade to deliver Ref A points orally, leaving him a copy of the transcript of the Secretary,s press conference. The Ambassador reminded Wade that they had discussed his planned visit to Iran when the Ambassador presented her credentials [...]
2006-06-01 14:27:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH IR SG
06DAKAR1553 COUNTRY TEAM AID PROPOSALS FOR CASAMANCE
[...] (C) The Country Team met June 14 to discuss ways to move the Casamance peace process forward. We raised two central questions. First was whether the Senegalese Government and MFDC rebel movement have sufficient political will to resolve the conflict. Second was whether USG money could mak [...]
2006-06-30 12:28:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PGOV PINS SG
06DAKAR1588SENEGAL'S BOAT PEOPLE: MORE ORGANIZED AND HEADING
[...] (U) The saga of Senegal's "boat people" continues, with reports of involvement by organized crime. With Europe grappling with the problem and tightening borders, Senegalese are talking about boats now being built to carry migrants to the United States. END SUMMARY. ORGANIZED CRIME ------ [...]
2006-07-05 18:06:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPHUM SMIG SOCI ECON PREL KCRM CV SP SG
06DAKAR1608PRESIDENT WADE AGREES TO PUT HISSENE HABRE ON
[...] (C) The African Union (AU) has asked Senegal to adjudicate the case of former Chadian leader Hissene Habre. President Wade has agreed, although under certain conditions. Human Rights Watch, the most vocal advocate of Habre's alleged victims, is optimistic, but is urging the international com [...]
2006-07-06 15:49:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM CD SG
06DAKAR1787SENEGAL,S MCA TEAM HOSTS CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM; MCC
[...] (C) Summary: On July 10, the Government of Senegal,s (GOS) &Agence pour la Mise en Oeuvre du Plateforme de Diamniadio8 (AMPMD),brought together representatives from civil society, the private sector, local government and donors to discuss Senegal,s compact development to date, solicit feedba [...]
2006-07-25 16:23:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM ECON KDEM KMCA SG
06DAKAR1813GUINEA-BISSAU HOSTS SUCCESSFUL CPLP SUMMIT
[...] (U) Guinea-Bissau hosted a successful Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) summit in Bissau. Member states renewed friendships and cultural ties and passed the Bissau Declaration, which spells out hefty development goals. In preparation for the event, the GOGB pulled off some ma [...]
2006-07-27 14:48:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON SCUL PU
06DAKAR185461ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE
[...] (SBU) Format is keyed to reftel. A. Attendance of the Head of State -- Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal -- President Wade will travel to New York following the G-77 and G-15 meetings in Havana. -- Mrs. Viviane Wade will travel to New York with her spouse. -- W [...]
2006-08-02 13:31:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP UNGA SG
06DAKAR1863WADE GOING TO DARFUR AND KHARTOUM
[...] (C) On August 2, Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told diplomats that President Abdoulaye Wade will travel to Sudan, August 4-7. During his visit, he will travel to Darfur to meet with Senegalese peacekeepers. On August 6, he is scheduled to meet Sudanese President Uma [...]
2006-08-03 16:32:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU SG
06DAKAR1897SENEGAL REACTS TO URGENT DEMARCHE ON LEBANON
[...] (C) Since the Ambassador and Minister of Commerce Mamadou Diop Decroix were chairing a follow-up to the Fifth African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum, DCM delivered Ref A demarche to Acting Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo on August 8. Ambassador Diallo repeated Senegal's call for [...]
2006-08-08 12:42:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS UN LE IS SG
06DAKAR1903SUDAN SUMMIT TO TAKE PLACE IN DAKAR ON AUGUST 9
[...] (U) President Abdoulaye Wade has invited the Presidents of Sudan, Chad, Gabon and Tanzania, as well as the leaders of the Darfur rebel groups that did not sign the Abuja Darfur peace agreement (DPA) to Dakar for an August 9 summit. The ostensible aim is to achieve a lasting peace in Darfur an [...]
2006-08-08 14:23:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS KPKO CD IR SU SG
06DAKAR1937SENEGAL ON PROPOSED UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. (C) On August 10, DCM delivered Ref A demarche to Ambassador Claude Absa Diallo and Ambassador Mankeur Ndiaye, the Secretary General and Director of Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, respectively. PolOff separately made the [...]
2006-08-11 13:39:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPHUM MOPS PREL UN IS LE SG
06DAKAR2000SENEGAL'S JUDICIARY SHAKEN BY CORRUPTION SCANDAL
[...] (U) After protracted, heated debate about the extent of corruption in Senegal, a scandal involving one of the most senior judges has come to light. An investigation launched by the Inspector General for the Judiciary (IGAJ) led to early retirement or transfers of the judges involved and pros [...]
2006-08-21 10:42:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPINS PHUM KJUS SG
06DAKAR2030DIAS FATHER AND SON ARRESTED, QUESTIONED ABOUT
[...] (U) Jean-Paul Dias, head of the center right party BCG, and his son, Barthelemy, leader of the "Socialist Vision" movement within the Socialist Party (PS),were both arrested last week in an unusual display of force. Jean-Paul Dias was detained in Rebeuss Prison until his health failed, at wh [...]
2006-08-22 18:22:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPHUM CASC PINS KJUS SG
06DAKAR2088GUINEA-BISSAU: PAIGC REQUIRED TO INVITE BACK
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A Bissau-Guinean court ordered the lead opposition party, the Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC),to allow suspended members, such as President Vieira, Prime Minister Gomes, and others, to rejoin the party. This steps up the tempo of national reco [...]
2006-08-31 09:37:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM PU
06DAKAR2091REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR GAMBIAN REFUGEE SIDI M. SANNEH
[...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. Resettlement Program on behalf of Gambian refugee Sidi M. Sanneh and his wife and daughter, who took refuge in Dakar in 2006. Sanneh has presented evidence of persecution based on his position as former Secretary for [...]
2006-08-31 11:10:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM GA SG
06DAKAR2093REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR SIERRA LEONE REFUGEE JOSEPH
[...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. Resettlement Program on behalf of Sierra Leone refugee Joseph F.M. Sankoh, who took refuge in Dakar in March 2006. He, his wife and otehr family members previously took refuge in Guinea in 1997. The family joined him [...]
2006-08-31 11:53:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM SL GV SG
06DAKAR2115ILLEGAL MIGRATION FROM SENEGAL: THE "TITANIC"
[...] (C) The supposedly U.S.-bound "Titanic" and its alleged twin (Ref B) have disappeared. According to the "Titanic's" builder, it was financed by a Lebanese businessman, (living near Soumbediounne Market (a large artisanal and fish market)) in Dakar, while a Spanish national had commissioned t [...]
2006-09-01 17:45:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPINR PHUM SMIG SOCI ECON PREL KCRM CV SP SG
06DAKAR2224DAKAR: EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETING
[...] (U) The DCM convened the EAC on September 13, 2006, to review mission security posture due to an increase in violence in the Casamance area and petty theft in Dakar. The EAC deemed the current security posture appropriate in Dakar. In light of recent banditry and rebel activity in the Casama [...]
2006-09-14 09:53:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PTER CASC PINS AMGT SG
06DAKAR2243SUDAN'S PRESIDENT ASKS WADE TO CONTINUE HIS
[...] (U) En route to Cuba, President Omar Ahmed El Bashir of the Sudan made a brief stop in Dakar on September 14, when he thanked President Wade for his interest in the Sudan and asked him to continue efforts to resolve the conflict in the Darfur region. Bashir thanked Wade for having played a si [...]
2006-09-15 14:54:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SG SU
06DAKAR2246GUINEA-BISSAU: RULE OF LAW RESOLVES TENSE SECURITY
[...] (C) Two military officers were arrested August 28 for plotting to murder the Armed Forces Chief but were subsequently released for lack of evidence. In a separate incident reflecting the army's inability to control national territory, a Senegalese Movement of the Casamance Democratic Forces [...]
2006-09-18 09:29:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV PREL KISL MARR PU SG
06DAKAR2255PUSHING BUSH-DEBY MEETING, GOUDIABY SAYS THAT CHAD
[...] (C) On September 15, Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, Counselor to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and prominent architect, came to see the Ambassador and DCM. Goudiaby, who used to work for Mobutu Sese Seko, now has several construction projects in Chad and says that he has become a friend and un [...]
2006-09-18 16:11:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPINS EPET ENRG PINR CD CH SA SG
06DAKAR2477SENEGAL: G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP FOCUSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The October 10 G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting focused on the recent wave of clandestine migrants from Senegal to the Canary Islands, rather than ideological extremism. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA) both partici [...]
2006-10-13 13:56:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER SNAR CVIS SMIG KCRM KISL PU SG
06DAKAR2748STAFFDEL BRANEGAN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff member Jay Branegan visited Dakar, November 2-3, 2006, to study the processes and procedures whereby the State and Defense Departments coordinate in embassies overseas, particularly in pursuing activities related to the Global War on Terro [...]
2006-11-15 16:52:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPTER PINR ASEC OREP SG
06DAKAR2749GUINEA BISSAU: DONORS GIVE TEPID SUPPORT
[...] (U) The GOGB fell short of its goals for program and budget support at the Donor,s Round Table sponsored by the UNDP in Geneva Nov. 7-8 but will probably still cover its budget gap due to heavy lobbying and delayed pledges. End Summary. ARM TWISTING WILL LIKELY PAY OFF --------------------- [...]
2006-11-15 17:59:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEAID SNAR PREL ECON PU
06DAKAR2876DAKAR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO)
[...] (C) The following are responses to reftel information request. (a) Post's Senior Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO): Robert P. Jackson Deputy Chief of Mission Tel: (221) 823-4296 ext. 2410 Email: (Unclass system) jacksonrp@state.gov Email: (Class system) jacksorp@state.sgov.go [...]
2006-12-01 09:51:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PETER SG
06DAKAR2893GUINEA BISSAU: RETURN OF THE RED HAT CREATES BROAD
[...] (C) Former President Kumba Yala, widely described as &crazy,8 is creating unease in Bissau as he takes the reigns of the second largest party in the National Popular Assembly (ANP),the Party for Social Renewal (PRS). There is talk by the largest opposition party, the Party for the Independe [...]
2006-12-05 10:04:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS ECON EAID PU
06DAKAR2926REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR GAMBIAN REFUGEE KHALIFA
[...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. resettlement program on behalf of Gambian refugee Major Khalifa Bajinka, his wife and three children. Bajinka took refuge in Dakar in late July 2006 and has been living in hiding here since his departure from The Gam [...]
2006-12-08 13:25:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM GA SG
06DAKAR394SENEGALESE REACTIONS TO OFFENSIVE CARTOONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese reactions to Danish cartoons have been largely muted and moderate. Nonetheless, Embassy demarched the Foreign Ministry to denounce violence and support freedom of speech. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) On February 14, Political Counselor made reftel demarche to Pape Oum [...]
2006-02-16 19:33:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL KPAO ETRD SG
06DAKAR668THE CONSULAR ROLE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY
[...] This year Embassy Dakar devoted our Consular Leadership Day (CLD) to exploring the consular section's role in transformational diplomacy. Drawing on input from several American citizen wardens, staff from the Public Affairs Section (PAS),CA's PDAS, Charge and, most importantly, the consular [...]
2006-03-15 15:22:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT APER CASC CVIS KPAO PHUM PTER SG
06DAKAR864WADE TALKS ABOUT REVIVING THE CHARGES AGAINST SECK
[...] (C) Following former Prime Minister Seck's announcement that he plans to run for President, President Wade ordered a re-examination of "illicit enrichment" charges against Seck. Privately, a member of Seck's team confided that any attempt to re-imprison Seck will be resisted by Seck and his gr [...]
2006-04-07 14:43:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON SG
06DAKAR876THE "LIBYAN GUIDE" GIVES PLENTY OF GUIDANCE TO
[...] (C) President Wade celebrated Senegal's 46th anniversary of independence surrounded by five other African heads of state, but the presence of Mouammar Qadhafi drew the most fanfare. Foreign Minister Gadio told the Ambassador during her introductory call that there was no discussion of Sudan [...]
2006-04-11 16:43:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV EINV FR LY SU SG
06DAKAR898SENEGALESE COMMENTS ON GAMBIAN COUP PLOT
[...] (U) On March 30, President Abdoulaye Wade condemned the March 21 coup attempt in The Gambia. Wade told the Council of Ministers that "Senegal will never be a sanctuary for coup plotters." The Gambian Foreign Minister visited Dakar on April 7, and the next day the Senegalese Ministry of Fore [...]
2006-04-12 14:40:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS GA SG
06DAKAR939AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER EXAMINES SENEGAL'S POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Director of West African Affairs Phillip Carter visited Dakar, March 26 through 29, to assess the political and economic situation. He had informative exchanges with a variety of GOS officials, Islamic leaders and opposition politicians. Carter praised recent steps taken by the [...]
2006-04-18 18:31:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ENRG PGOV PHUM KMCA SG
06DAKAR940AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER DISCUSSES SUDAN AND WEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: AF/W Director Phillip Carter discussed peacekeeping and Darfur with Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG P.K. Fall early in his visit. Carter concluded his successful visit to Senegal with a tour d,horizon of African issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Ambassador Mankeur [...]
2006-04-18 19:01:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU GA GV IV MR PU SG US
06DAKAR959POLITICAL LEADERS HARASSED BY POLICE
[...] (SBU) The police's Criminal Investigation Department (DIC) in recent weeks has called in several opposition and labor leaders for interrogation. Senegal being ten months away from legislative and presidential elections, the increasingly organized opposition has stepped up attacks against Pre [...]
2006-04-20 16:59:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SG
06DAKAR985SUDAN: LEVERAGING MORE SENEGALESE TROOPS TOWARDS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-24 17:04:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SG
06DAMASCUS1159SYRIA-IRAN RELATIONS FLOURISHING; IS FURTHER
[...] (C) Summary: By official Syrian accounts, the country's relationship with Iran has flourished since the January visit of Iranian President Ahmadinejad to Damascus. Embassy contacts largely dismiss the immediate economic benefit of increased ties, but note that the two countries have formed [...]
2006-03-16 15:37:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SY IR LE IZ
06DAMASCUS1261SARG TRUMPETS BURGEONING ECONOMIC TIES WITH RUSSIA
[...] (C) Summary. The recent meeting of the Russian-Syrian joint ministerial committee is one in a series of recent events ostensibly reflecting the increasing economic activity between the two countries. Though Syria remains a difficult place for anyone to do business, the Russians are reportedl [...]
2006-03-22 10:50:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETTC SY
06DAMASCUS1361SYRIAN VP VISITS EGYPT, SAUDI, AND IRAN
[...] (U) Syrian VP Farouk al-Shara'a met with Egypt's President Mubarak March 23 in Sharm El Sheikh, Saudi King Abdullah March 24 in Jeddah, and Iranian President Ahmadinejad March 25 in Tehran. In his first regional trip since becoming VP, Shara'a delivered to each leader a letter from Syrian Pr [...]
2006-03-27 16:56:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SY LE EG IR SA
06DAMASCUS2032SYRIA PLAYS WITH THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE
[...] (C) Summary: Since Palestinian Authority FM Zahar's April visit, the SARG has showcased its public support for the Palestinians, with a fund-raising campaign on behalf of the Palestinian people, public statements, and participation at a rally in a Palestinian refugee camp. According to an E [...]
2006-05-03 10:39:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL SY
06DAMASCUS2318DAMASCUS-BEIRUT DECLARATION CALLS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Several hundred prominent Syrian and Lebanese citizens have signed the Damascus-Beirut Declaration, which includes a ten-point "joint future national vision" for reconciliation between the two countries. The document covers the spectrum of Syrian-Lebanese diplomatic, historic [...]
2006-05-17 14:01:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SY LE
06DAMASCUS2392FOUR MORE DAMASCUS-BEIRUT DECLARATION SIGNATORIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Four signatories of the Damascus-Beirut Declaration (DBD),including prominent human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni, were interrogated on May 21 by investigatory judges at the Palace of Justice Criminal Court in Damascus. Bunni, who has been on a hunger strike for the last two days [...]
2006-05-23 12:40:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS2668PA ENVOY VISITS DAMASCUS, FACTIONS REPORTEDLY
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting Palestinian Authority (PA) Special Envoy Ahmad Qureia (Abu Ala'a) met June 5 with Syria's President Bashar al-Asad, delivering a message from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and discussing Syrian-Palestinian cooperation and developments in the Palestinian arena, according to [...]
2006-06-07 14:01:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALKPAL PREL SY
06DAMASCUS3998ASAD SPEECH, ON-THE-GROUND REALITIES, FORESHADOW
[...] (C) Summary: Until the August 15 speech of President Bashar al-Asad, the SARG adopted a tone of cautious, critical tone in its reaction to UNSCR 1701, expressing little enthusiasm but avoiding statements that could be read as outright rejection. Asad's combative speech was much more critica [...]
2006-08-15 13:03:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SY LE
06DAMASCUS404ANTI-EUROPEAN RIOTS HIT DAMASCUS, AS FOUR
[...] (C) Summary: Mobs angered about cartoon depictions of the prophet Mohammed published in Europe ransacked and set on fire the Norwegian Embassy and the building housing the Danish, Chilean, and Swedish Embassies in Damascus in the late afternoon of February 4, destroying the first and heavily damagi [...]
2006-02-05 14:36:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC SY
06DAMASCUS4092SYRIANS DO A LITTLE DAMAGE CONTROL ON BASHAR
[...] (C) Summary: Political and economic contacts in Damascus have largely written off the August 15 speech of President Bashar al-Asad as ill-timed and reflecting the young Syrian leader's inexperience and lack of political judgment. The speech has prompted renewed personal criticism of Bashar [...]
2006-08-21 12:05:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY LE
06DAMASCUS4186SYRIAN POLICY POST ASAD SPEECH: NO FUNDAMENTAL
[...] (C) Summary: Despite Syrian President Asad's confrontational rhetoric in his August 15 speech, there is unlikely to be any fundamental change in the overall orientation of Syrian policies, either foreign or domestic, although periodic damage control will be evident as a tactical adjustment, [...]
2006-08-24 16:22:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY LE
06DAMASCUS4314SYRIA'S RIAD SEIF A HALF PRISONER, DAMASCUS
[...] (C) Summary: Former Damascus Spring detainee Riad Seif met with A/DCM for 90-minutes August 30 to discuss ongoing events in Syria, including organizing by the Damascus Declaration group. Recently the group issued a statement criticizing the August 15 speech by Syrian President Bashar al-As [...]
2006-09-05 06:37:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS4340WITH TALK OF "RESISTANCE" ON THE GOLAN, ACCENT IS
[...] (C) Summary: Recently contacts have reported that there is a still developing shift in regime thinking about the supposed benefits of continuing to keep the Golan front quiet. Press accounts have reported the nascent formation of "Syrian popular resistance" groups, modeling themselves on Hi [...]
2006-09-05 16:12:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS4448LOCAL PRESS REACTION TO ATTACK ON U.S. EMBASSY
[...] (U) No one has yet claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack, but the SARG is publicly blaming militant Islamists. Asharq Al-Awsat reported that a "Syrian security member was killed by the bullets of an American Marine element that was on the roof of the Embassy." However, the RSO confirms [...]
2006-09-13 15:39:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS4482MEETING WITH SYRIA'S RIAD SEIF, DAMASCUS-BEIRUT
[...] (C) Summary: A/DCM met with Damascus Declaration leader Riad Seif on September 12, just shortly before the attack on the U.S. Embassy. Seif said he had chosen to stop reporting to the security services and was traveling outside the city, including to Homs to meet with recently released Dam [...]
2006-09-14 12:40:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS4614REACTIONS TO ATTACK ON EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS
[...] (C) Summary: Syrian contacts have expressed relief that no Americans were killed or injured in the September 12 attack on the Embassy. Partly due to the almost complete lack of official information from the SARG on the attack, many contacts, echoing widespread street views, are speculating [...]
2006-09-22 08:56:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER SY
06DAMASCUS4737"WHISTLE PAST THE GRAVEYARD" SYRIAN RESPONSE TO
[...] (C) Summary: The SARG has publicly reacted positively to the latest Brammertz report but officials are privately troubled by some of its language, including the focus on linkages between the Hariri assassination and other politically-targeted killings that occurred in the same time frame. [...]
2006-10-02 15:52:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY LE
06DAMASCUS4877SYRIA'S DAMASCUS DECLARATION GROUP PLANS TO GO MORE PUBLIC
[...] (C) Summary: Damascus Declaration leader XXXXXXXXXXXX said in an October 3 meeting with A/DCM that the Damascus Declaration group turns a year old this month and plans to expand its activities from internal group organizing to public outreach. The group is still waiting for a response about [...]
2006-10-11 16:12:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS5031U.S.-SYRIA RELATIONS, SITUATION IN LEBANON,
[...] (C) Summary: Describing U.S-Syria relations as at their lowest point ever, pro-regime foreign policy analyst Imad Shueibi, told A/DCM October 15 that anger and frustration in the regime towards the U.S. have reached new heights in the wake of the September 12 attack on the Embassy and what is [...]
2006-10-22 05:49:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL SY LE IS
06DAMASCUS5328THE VIEW FROM THE SYRIAN HINTERLAND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A/DCM, ACCOMPANIED BY A/ARMA, VISITED DEIR AZOUR, NOVEMBER 13-14, MEETING TWICE WITH THE HEADS OF TWO LARGE BEDOUIN TRIBES THERE. THE TWO EXTREMELY URBANIZED SUNNI TRIBAL LEADERS WERE FOCUSED ON U.S. POLICY IN THE REGION AND ASKED REPEATEDLY ABOUT WHETHER THE US. HAD MADE OR IN [...]
2006-11-22 16:58:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS5378SYRIANS REFUSE TO DEPORT ACCUSED AMCIT MURDERER
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) The Syrian MFA notified us by a dipnote (text included below) received December 2 that the SARG has rejected our request to deport Amcit accused murderer Muaz Haffar (AKA to the Syrians as Omar al-Sawwaf). The dipnote, dated [...]
2006-12-07 16:54:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CASC ASEC SY
06DAMASCUS5381RIAD SEIF, OTHERS, VIEW LEBANON STRUGGLE AS
[...] (C) Summary: Opposition figure Riad Seif and other Syrian contacts insist that the current political struggle in Lebanon is "the critical battle" for the U.S. and Europe. For Seif, that battle "must not be lost," if the U.S. wants to retain influence in the Middle East. He recommended U.S. [...]
2006-12-10 15:11:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY LE
06DAMASCUS728DAMASCUS-BASED HAMAS OFFICIALS TO TRAVEL TO MOSCOW
[...] (C) Russian DCM Alexsey Erkhov told Polchief on February 26 that Hamas political leaders, including those based in Damascus, would likely travel at the beginning of March to Moscow where they would meet with Russian FM Sergei Lavrov and Deputy FM Alexander Saltanov. When asked whether Hamas [...]
2006-02-26 13:25:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALKPAL PREL SY RS
06DARESSALAAM1059COMPLIANCE DIPLOMACY VISIT TO DAR ES SALAAM: DR.
[...] (U) SUMMARY: VCI/PDAS Ford and his VCI team visited Dar es Salaam June 19-23, 2006, to hold compliance diplomacy discussions with key host country interlocutors and embassy staff on the U. S. approach to verification, compliance assessment, and compliance enforcement of arms control, nonprol [...]
2006-06-27 12:39:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDPHARM UNGA CDG NPT IAEA CWC OPCW
06DARESSALAAM1260TANZANIA READY FOR ACOTA ACTION; OPEN TO ARTICLE 98
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Tanzania is eager to get the ACOTA program underway. In mid-July meetings with ACOTA's Chip Beck, officials from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) addressed specific training and equipment options while Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials showed increased interest in, and [...]
2006-07-27 15:02:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamSECRETPREL MARR ASEC TZ
06DARESSALAAM1273TANZANIA SUPPORTS RESOLUTION ON IRAN
[...] (C) Tanzania supports the resolution on Iran (reftel) and has sent instructions to support it as is, Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Multilateral Division, told DCM the morning of July 31. Mulamula said that Iran had requested that any Securi [...]
2006-07-31 09:53:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IR TZ
06DARESSALAAM1309TANZANIA WANTS INTERNATIONAL FORCE IN LEBANON,
[...] (C) Tanzania supports a stabilization force in Lebanon and welcomes the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations' meeting in New York on August 3, Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Division, told Poloff on August 2. Mulamula said the cre [...]
2006-08-03 09:56:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC LE IZ TZ
06DARESSALAAM1320TANZANIA ON SUDAN AMIS TO UNMIS TRANSITION TIMING
[...] (C) Tanzania is in full agreement with the need to transform AMIS to UNMIS and sees the period of October through December 2006 as a time of transition, Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Multilateral Division, told Poloff on August 2. Mulamula [...]
2006-08-04 09:20:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU TZ
06DARESSALAAM1410TANZANIA: DEMARCHES TO GAIN SUPPORT FOR UN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Deputy Chief of Mission delivered directly to the State House through a personal assistant of President Kikwete August 17 the Ref A points, stressing the importance of Tanzania's efforts to convince President Bashir of Sudan to accept the expansion of the United Nations Missio [...]
2006-08-18 09:00:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU UNSC TZ
06DARESSALAAM1473TANZANIA CONSIDERING CO-SPONSORING DARFUR
[...] (U) Co-sponsorship of the draft UN Security Council resolution on Darfur is "under serious consideration" by Tanzania, Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Poloff August 30. Poloff inquired as to whethe [...]
2006-08-30 15:32:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC SU TZ
06DARESSALAAM1495ZANZIBAR'S OPPOSITION PARTY: YOUTH WANT RESULTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Continuing our probe into the future of Zanzibari politics, the Deputy Chief of Mission met recently with two Civic United Front (CUF) leaders who currently serve as elected members in Zanzibar's House of Representatives. The CUF representatives underscored the growing frustration [...]
2006-09-05 13:53:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV ECON TZ
06DARESSALAAM1503THE SECRETARY'S REGIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE
[...] (C) At Africa's first Regional Strategic Initiative (RSI) Conference in Nairobi (reftel),Embassy Dar es Salaam asked to take the first cut at a "Regional Counterterrorism Action Plan" for the Horn of Africa. Our action plan presents a set of recommendations for greater regional collaboration [...]
2006-09-07 12:30:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PHUM KCRM SNAR TZ
06DARESSALAAM1560ZANZIBAR OPPOSITION: STARTING TROUBLE OR SAVING
[...] (C) SUMMARY. At a September 9 political rally, Ibrahim Lipumba, national leader of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF),set a deadline for breaking the political impasse on Zanzibar, provocatively suggesting Lebanon's Hezbollah as a model for action if the stalemate on the isles continues. [...]
2006-09-19 08:45:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON PINR PHUM PBTS TZ
06DARESSALAAM1829TANZANIA: DEMARCHE ON BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTION
[...] (U) Ambassador Mulamula, Director of the Multilateral Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Poloff on November 15 that Tanzania would abstain from voting on the U.S. sponsored country-specific resolution on Belarus in the Third Committee. She stressed that Tanzania's [...]
2006-11-16 13:43:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA BO TZ
06DARESSALAAM1922UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: TANZANIA SUPPORTS PEACE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-11 08:51:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA PHUM PREL SU UN TZ
06DARESSALAAM1923UNSC THEMATIC DEBATE ON MIDDLE EAST: TANZANIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-11 08:54:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IS TZ
06DARESSALAAM606 ACOTA OFFERED, WELL-RECEIVED IN TANZANIA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Meetings of the ACOTA (African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance) and Embassy team with officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Defense and National Service (MOD) were positive and produced a way forward to bringing Tanzania into the [...]
2006-04-13 03:21:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PGOV ETTC TZ
06DARESSALAAM731EAST AFRICAN FEDERATION: FAST-TRACK OR EMPTY TALK?
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Economic convergence in the East African Community (EAC) in on track, with a Customs Union expected to be fully functional by 2010. To further strengthen the region's economic ties, the EAC Secretariat also has hopes to undertake major infrastructure projects in areas such as e [...]
2006-05-04 12:26:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON ETRD PGOV TZ
06DHAKA1053JMB CHIEF ABDUR RAHMAN SURRENDERS
[...] (C) Summary: Early March 2, JMB chieftain Abdur Rahman and two accomplices surrendered to police after a 30-hour standoff inside an upscale house in Sylhet. Bangladeshis are expressing relief, while opposition Awami League figures claim the BDG staged the affair to mask its ties to JMB and pa [...]
2006-03-02 09:03:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV KISL BG
06DHAKA1072HASINA DISMISSES ZIA'S OFFER OF DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) On March 1, opposition Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina dismissed as unnecessary Prime Minister Zia,s offer in parliament to form a committee to discuss proposed electoral reforms. Speaking to a mass rally in Chittagong, Hasina declared that her proposals were clear and required n [...]
2006-03-02 10:31:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM BG
06DHAKA1525WELCOME TO SCA: THE BANGLADESH AGENDA
[...] (C) It's not George Harrison's Bangladesh anymore. Major advances in health, education, and food security have given Bangladesh a stability and a future that seemed unthinkable just 20 years ago. Bangladeshis are tolerant, moderate people who generally live at peace with their Hindu and Chri [...]
2006-03-20 09:10:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPREL PTER KISL KDEM BG
06DHAKA1865SCA DAS GASTRIGHT MEETINGS AT MFA
[...] (S) Summary: In a meeting with Foreign Ministry officials, DAS Gastright commended the BDG on recent arrests of terrorist leaders and stressed the need for further investigations and timely prosecutions. DAS Gastright offered continued technical assistance in counterterrorism efforts, especi [...]
2006-04-04 09:35:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPREL PGOV UNGA UNSC BG
06DHAKA238JMB BOMBER SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS
[...] (SBU) On January 15, the Kishoreganj town court, located 100 kilometers north of Dhaka, sentenced Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) regional commander Obaidullah Sumon, aged 25, to 15 years of "rigorous imprisonment" and fined him 2,000 taka (50 USD) for possession of four kilos of gunpowder [...]
2006-01-17 11:10:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PGOV BG
06DHAKA239STACKING THE ELECTION COMMISSION
[...] (SBU) On January 16, President Iajuddin Ahmed, acting on the advice of PM Zia, appointed two new commissioners to the Election Commission (EC): BNP loyalists Mahfuzur Rahman, former High Court Justice, and S.M. Zakaria, the now former Secretary of the EC. Both men are expected to side with [...]
2006-01-17 11:39:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BG KGOV BGD
06DHAKA2503AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON AWAMI LEAGUE
[...] (C) Summary. Hasina stated she "wants" to participate in elections but major changes are necessary to ensure a free and fair process. She credited foreign pressure for the capture of JMB leaders, and reiterated her view that the most senior levels of the BNP were behind the 2004 grenade attac [...]
2006-04-30 11:51:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BG
06DHAKA2573JMB TERRORIST INVESTIGATION MARCHES ON--UP TO A
[...] (S) Summary. The BDG's pursuit of JMB crossed a huge threshold in April with the capture of the last two members of JMB's senior leadership body. Overall, some 693 alleged JMB activists have been arrested, 141 criminal cases have been filed, and 31 defendants have been convicted and sentence [...]
2006-05-03 05:19:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPTER KISL PGOV PHUM BG
06DHAKA2739FORMER PRESIDENT CALLS HOUSE FIRE BNP
[...] (C) Summary. Former president B. Chowdhury and his son Mahi label the mysterious early morning fire that enveloped three areas of their Dhaka home an assassination attempt by BNP elements fearful of their party's allegedly growing popularity. BNP desire to deter the defection of restless parl [...]
2006-05-15 08:08:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA280YOUR VISIT TO BANGLADESH
[...] (S) Everything and nothing has changed in Bangladesh since your last visit in May 2005. JMB's stunning onslaught of violence finally forced the BDG to acknowledge that terrorism and extremism exist in Bangladesh, but domestic politics remain as polarized and painful as ever. Your BNP and MFA [...]
2006-01-20 11:54:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPREL PTER KISL KDEM BG BGD
06DHAKA3001UPDATE ON AHMADIYAS
[...] (U) The Ahmadiya community planned an event known as a Jalsa Salana to be held in Kandipara, Brahmanbaria on May 20. In connection with this event, the press claimed the local Ahmadiyas had renamed the town Ahmadiya Para. Both the gathering of Ahmadiyas and the apparent renaming of their to [...]
2006-05-23 10:26:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM
06DHAKA3002GARMENT WORKERS PROTESTS ERUPT IN VIOLENCE
[...] (U) Summary: Garment worker protests at a Savar factory May 22 quickly spilled over to other factories and then into the Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ). Police were slow to respond, but had the situation under control by late afternoon. Reports indicate one death, several injuries [...]
2006-05-23 11:23:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB ECON ASEC BG
06DHAKA338TILTING AT WINDMILLS
[...] (C) Kamal Hossain is the principal drafter of Bangladesh's constitution and the country's most prominent civil libertarian. Foreign minister in Sheikh Mujib's government, he left the Awami League, he says, to protest the AL's embrace of black money and thugery in post-Ershad politics. As cha [...]
2006-01-23 08:13:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PTER BG BGD
06DHAKA352SPECULATION ON BDG'S FAILURE TO CATCH JMB LEADERS
[...] (SBU) On January 19, 2,000 police and paramilitary personnel cordoned off an area in Kushtia, 120 kilometers west of Dhaka, to hunt for fugitive JMB leader Bangla Bhai, according to police and media reports. Five helicopters, a huge deployment for Bangladesh, supported the effort reportedly t [...]
2006-01-23 11:25:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPTER KCRM PGOV BG
06DHAKA353HARTAL KICKS OFF NEW OPPOSITION PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) On January 22, the Awami League led a nationwide strike (hartal) called to protest the recent activities of the Election Commission (EC),including the recent appointment of two controversial Commissioners and the EC's apparent determination to continue creating a new voter role (reftel [...]
2006-01-23 11:45:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV BD BGD
06DHAKA354JAMAAT ISLAMI LEADER DISCUSSES POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary: On January 19, Poloff met Jamaat Islami Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla in his JI offices. Molla predicted that the AL would join the election, and said JI would welcome Ershad's party to the BNP/JI alliance. He saw no long-term fallout from JMB's attacks on JI's [...]
2006-01-24 01:31:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PREL BG JI BGD
06DHAKA361HOME MINISTER ASSURES PEACE CORPS OF FULL
[...] (C) Summary: Home Minister of State Babar told Peace Corps Chief of Security that security would be tightened at all Peace Corps sites and urged Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV) are staying and urged that the organization remain in Bangladesh so as not to give in to the terrorists. 2. (SBU) O [...]
2006-01-24 12:13:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV ASEC BD BG
06DHAKA4743BANGLADESH: DIPLOMATIC NOTE DELIVERED ON FRAMEWORK
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-31 09:46:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KAWC PHUM PINR BG
06DHAKA4811ERSHAD NEARS ANNOUNCEMENT ON JOINING 4-PARTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Speculation increased this week that former President Ershad is poised to announce an alliance of his Jatiya Party (JP) with the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance. Ershad confirmed to us that a formal coalition was nearly certain and that there are only a few issues left to resolve, in [...]
2006-08-03 06:06:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA4975A/S BOUCHER PUSHES AWAMI LEAGUE TO PARTICIPATE IN
[...] (C) Summary: During A/S Boucher's election-focused meeting with Sheikh Hasina, the Awami League president acknowledged that her party's legitimacy hinges on participating in the electoral process. She would not, however, rule out an opposition boycott. Boucher pused for Awami League partici [...]
2006-08-08 05:18:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BG
06DHAKA5025BOUCHER DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, EXTREMISM AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 3, A/S Boucher met separately with Acting Foreign Secretary Moniruzzman and Reaz Rahman, the Prime Minister's Advisor for Foreign Affairs Rahman acknowledged concerns about the Chief Election Commissioner's performance but was upbeat on Bangladesh's relationship with [...]
2006-08-09 04:00:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALBG PGOV PREL
06DHAKA5224ANNIVERSARY OF AUGUST 17 NATIONWIDE BLASTS
[...] (C) One year after the nationwide blasts that rocked Bangladesh, political parties of all hues are holding commemorative rallies in Dhaka to condemn terrorism and Jamaatul Mujahidin Bangladesh, the group charged with the blasts and a subsequent wave of attacks. Some local media called for the [...]
2006-08-17 09:41:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL PGOV PREL BG
06DHAKA536A/S ROCCA'S MEETING WITH JAMAAT ISLAMI CHIEF
[...] (C) Summary: JI amir Nizami told A/S Rocca that JMB has "no support anywhere in the country" and that the BDG has destroyed JMB's field activists. He denied any ties between JI and JMB, declared the next elections will be free and fair, and lobbied for closer US/BDG relations. End summary. [...]
2006-02-01 04:19:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV BG
06DHAKA5388LAST CALL! CORRUPTION AT THE END OF THE BNP
[...] (C) Summary: The BNP led government is engaged in an apparently unprecedented level of grand corruption in its waning days in power. Greed and the need to finance upcoming political campaigns are driving the upswing. The widely held belief that members of the Prime Minister's and other se [...]
2006-08-24 09:26:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV KCRM BG
06DHAKA5422FADING JUDICIARY REPUTATION TAKES TWO MORE HITS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The appointment of 17 dubious judges to the High Court and the dropping of two more corruption charges against former President Ershad have further sullied the reputation of Bangladesh's judiciary. End Summary. Judges of Ill Repute -------------------- 2. (SBU) On August [...]
2006-08-24 12:17:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV BG
06DHAKA5709SAUERBREY TOURS ROHINGYA CAMPS, DISCUSSES REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen R. Sauerbrey visited Bangladesh from August 21 to 23, 2006. During the visit she toured Rohingya refugee camps and met with government and international officials to solicit their views on the refugee sit [...]
2006-09-07 05:49:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALBG PREF PHUM
06DHAKA5723OPPOSITION-LED SIEGE ON ELECTION COMMISSION ENDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Sporadic clashes broke out between demonstrators and police when the Awami League-led opposition launched a siege of the Election Commission (EC) on September 6 demanding reform of the electoral process and caretaker government. Dozens of protestors, including the political sec [...]
2006-09-07 11:22:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC BG
06DHAKA5766NGO WORKERS ARRESTED IN ADVANCE OF OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) Police across Bangladesh have arrested at least 100 members of Proshika, a giant human development NGO, to prevent them from participating in upcoming anti-government programs organized by the opposition Awami League. According to press reports, the Proshika members were arrested without [...]
2006-09-11 11:06:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM PREL BG
06DHAKA5768SQUABBLE RESOLVED BETWEEN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER AND
[...] (C) Summary. Diplomatic facilitation resolved a bizarre but potentially serious squabble between a civil society leader and the head of the GOB's Board of Investment. Neither protagonist was innocent of blame, but the dropping of defamation charges against CPD's Deb Bhattacharya is a notable [...]
2006-09-11 12:42:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BG
06DHAKA5796GOB PROVIDES NAMES FOR S&T COMMITTEE
[...] (C) Summary. After three years of foot-dragging, the GOB has provided names for an advisory committee to activate the 2003 Bangladesh-U.S. Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation. The GOB names reflect a strong nuclear bias and Science Minister Khan's determination to pursue [...]
2006-09-12 11:12:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALTSPL PREL BG
06DHAKA5828LOGJAM OVER ROHINGYAS RESOLVED WITH SIGNING OF
[...] (C) The annual sub-agreement between UNHCR and the GOB regarding UNHCR's work in Rohingya refugee camps was finally signed on September 7 (reftel). UNHCR Country Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri credited Ambassador and PRM A/S Sauerbrey's recent visit to Cox's Bazar, and our follow-up meetings wi [...]
2006-09-13 07:24:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALBG PREF PHUM
06DHAKA5836NDI MISSION PROVIDES BLUNT ASSESSMENT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. The National Democratic Institute (NDI) conducted a pre-election assessment of the political environment in Bangladesh from September 8 to 11. Its team was led by former Senator Tom Daschle and included former New Zealand Prime Minister and World Trade Organiza [...]
2006-09-13 11:36:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC BG
06DHAKA6179QUAD AGREEMENT ON BANGLADESH ELECTION THRESHOLDS
[...] (C) On October 4, the U.S., U.K., Australian, and Canadian heads of mission met and gave final approval for the UK-drafted elections threshold paper and the U.S.-drafted caretaker government engagement framework (see below). The heads of mission also discussed efforts to promote dialogue and [...]
2006-10-05 13:04:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG UK AS CA
06DHAKA6184QUAD AGREEMENT ON BANGLADESH ELECTION THRESHOLDS
[...] (C) On October 4, the U.S., U.K., Australian, and Canadian heads of mission met and gave final approval for the UK-drafted elections threshold paper and the U.S.-drafted caretaker government engagement framework (see below). The heads of mission also discussed efforts to promote dialogue and [...]
2006-10-06 03:36:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG UK AS CA
06DHAKA6225CONTROVERSIAL JOURNALIST IN HIDING AFTER DISPUTED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Controversial Bangladeshi journalist Shoaib Chowdhury is in hiding following an attack on him last week at his newspaper office. He has been in touch with us multiple occasions to express concerns about his safety. We have flagged with the Home Minister, the Foreign Secretary, a [...]
2006-10-10 11:26:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC BG
06DHAKA627KIBRIA MURDER TRIAL ADJOURNS UNTIL LATE FEBRUARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The judge of the Kibria murder trial denied most defense motions before adjourning it until late February at the earliest. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On February 7, eight defendants charged with the January 27, 2005, murder of A.M.S. Shah Kibria went on trial in a speedy tribunal [...]
2006-02-07 11:02:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM BG
06DHAKA628KIBRIA MURDER TRIAL ADJOURNS UNTIL LATE FEBRUARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The judge of the Kibria murder trial denied most defense motions before adjourning it until late February at the earliest. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On February 7, eight defendants charged with the January 27, 2005, murder of A.M.S. Shah Kibria went on trial in a speedy tribunal [...]
2006-02-07 12:00:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM BG BGD
06DHAKA6390BANGLADESH GUANTANAMO DETAINEE
[...] (C) PolOff spoke with MFA Director of the America and Pacific Wing Mahbub Saleh on October 22 to discuss the BDG's October 16 diplomatic note (ref a) regarding the Bangladesh detainee. Saleh acknowledged the note did not expressly respond to the conditions in the Embassy's July 31 diplomatic [...]
2006-10-23 12:07:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM PINS KAWC BG
06DHAKA6582OPPOSITION LEADER BLINKS ON ULTIMATUM
[...] (C) On November 3, Awami League president Sheikh Hasina unexpectedly extended until November 11 her deadline for government action on her 11 demands pertaining to the upcoming elections. 2. (C) According to Awami League contacts, she made the decision because of assurances from Chief Advise [...]
2006-11-06 10:56:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM BG
06DHAKA6642SECOND DAY OF OPPOSITION BLOCKADE GRIPS BANGLADESH
[...] (SBU) Summary. In the second day of the nationwide transportation blockade led by the Awami League, one demonstrator in Dhaka was killed and several dozen injured. Clashes, however, were sporadic, the number of demonstrators was relatively modest, and the violence was less than many had feared [...]
2006-11-13 11:00:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM BG
06DHAKA6644NATIONWIDE BLOCKADE CONTINUES AMID NEW TALKS
[...] (SBU) Summary. There were no reports of major violence on the third day of the opposition's nationwide blockade. Last night, government officials met with representatives of the opposition coalition to discuss options for breaking the political impasse, and will meet with the former ruling c [...]
2006-11-14 10:50:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6660BLOCKADE SUSPENSION HINGES ON ELECTION COMMISSION
[...] (C) Summary. Privately, the Awami League says that purging the Election Commission would secure its participation in the upcoming election, but many Bangladeshis doubt Chief Adviser Ahmed would let that happen and fear that an intensified nationwide blockade will resume on Monday. End Summary [...]
2006-11-16 10:29:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6683TODAY'S ACTION AWAY FROM THE STREETS
[...] (C) Summary. Embattled Chief Election Commissioner Aziz may be contemplating a long leave of absence, which could remove one opposition flash point, but the Awami League now demands that Chief Adviser Ahmed also go before lifting its nationwide blockade. Rumors that Chief Adviser Ahmed suffe [...]
2006-11-20 11:06:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PHUM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6692EMBATTLED CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER EDGES CLOSER
[...] (C) Summary. Though many pitfalls remain, new flexibility from both sides may soon produce a reconstituted election commission and an end to the nationwide blockade. End Summary. Exit Strategies for Aziz ------------------------ 2. (SBU) As the opposition's renewed nationwide transpor [...]
2006-11-22 10:01:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6709OPPOSITION AGITATION CONTINUES AS ELECTION DATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The opposition continues to press wide-ranging demands through the courts and in the streets, but it is unclear whether it is prepared to resume its nationwide blockade. The Election Commission's announcement today that the election will be on January 21 may heighten anxieties [...]
2006-11-27 09:49:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6724BANGLADESH HEADS TOWARD RENEWED OPPOSITION BLOCKADE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The government and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have offered some changes in the election schedule, but the Awami League says this is not enough to avert a resumption of its nationwide blockade. Political tensions are inching up, as reflected by an apparent rampage this af [...]
2006-11-30 10:54:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PHUM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6739OPPOSITION REJECTS COMPROMISE PACKAGE BUT TALKS
[...] (C) Summary. Opposition leaders dismissed a compromise package and vowed to press on with their nationwide blockade program, but talks continue to break the logjam. The blockade is not being vigorously enforced, but inter-city transportation arteries are blocked, and some officials fear a pr [...]
2006-12-04 09:38:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6756TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER (TFCO) -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-07 08:38:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC KTFN
06DHAKA6763HASINA RULES OUT NEW TALKS WITH INTERIM MINISTERS
[...] (C) Summary. As the army deployed today nationwide "to aid civil administration," Awami League president Sheikh Hasina told Ambassador there is no point in resuming talks with Caretaker Government advisers because "they know our position and they know what to do." Publicly, the Awami League [...]
2006-12-10 09:35:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BG
06DHAKA6790UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS
[...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]
2006-12-17 03:52:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6791UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS
[...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]
2006-12-17 08:10:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6792UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS
[...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]
2006-12-17 08:11:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6808AWAMI LEAGUE DENIES RECEIVING COMPROMISE PACKAGE
[...] (C) Late December 19, presidential adviser Mukhles Rahman Chowdhury told us that a caretaker government proposal has been delivered to the leaders of the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The proposal called for Hasina's written commitment to participate in election [...]
2006-12-19 10:59:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA701VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION FOR JANUARY 2006
[...] (C) Dhaka's Visa Viper Committee met on January 31, 2006 and discussed two categories of individuals to be submitted to Visas Viper: a list of names which the Bangladesh Government has submitted to Interpol for "Red Notices" and a JMB member who admitted to surveillance of Peace Corps volun [...]
2006-02-09 06:56:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALBG CVIS PTER
06DHAKA709HOME MINISTER BLAMES INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Home Minister Babar assured CDA that he agreed "100 per cent" that BDG intelligence agencies should inform the U.S. Embassy promptly of threats against American interests, that he would remind them of this responsibility, and that he would inform the Prime Minister about this situ [...]
2006-02-09 09:59:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV BG
06DHAKA760OPPOSITION LEADER RETURNS TO PARLIAMENT: DEMANDS
[...] (SBU) On the evening of February 12, opposition leader Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League (AL) returned to Parliament ending a nearly 14 month boycott. Under Parliamentary rules, the AL had until February 14 to take their seats or forfeit them. On July 14, 2004 the AL walked out of Parliament [...]
2006-02-13 08:27:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BD BGD
06DHAKA768JAMA'ATUL MUJAHIDEEN BANGLADESH'S "THREE TIERS OF
[...] (C/NF) Summary. This telegram reviews Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh's (JMB) target selection and the evolution of its tactics since the August 17 bomb blasts. It also lays out JMB,s &Three Tiers of Threat8 as articulated to us by two senior Bangladeshi police officials, and highlights Emba [...]
2006-02-13 09:18:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPTER KISL ASEC BG
06DHAKA769BOI NO LONGER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TATA INVESTMENT
[...] (C) Summary: BOI Executive Chairman Mahmudur Rahman says the $2.5 billion Tata project is effectively dead, thanks in part to both the ruling BNP and the opposition AL have turning it into a political football. End Summary. 2. (SBU) EconOff met with Board of Investment (BOI) Executive Cha [...]
2006-02-13 10:41:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEINV ETRD ECON BG
06DHAKA846LEGAL PROCESS PUTS WORLD BANK COUNTRY DIRECTOR AT
[...] (C) World Bank Bangladesh Country Director Christine Wallich met February 12 with CDA Chammas and Econoff concerning a long-running court case involving termination of a former, politically well-connected employee. Court decisions in the case have called into question the immunity of the W [...]
2006-02-15 09:47:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID CVIS BG WB
06DHAKA866JAMAATUL MUJAHEDIN AND LAW AND ORDER IN RAJSHAHI
[...] (C) Summary: Residents of Rajshahi told poloff that Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) were once considered favorably when, at first, JMB fought back against the Sharbahara, "leftist" criminals who had plagued citizens for decades. However, the JMB began demanding money for their protection [...]
2006-02-16 08:48:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL PGOV BD BG BGD
06DHAKA867CONTRASTING LOCAL VIEWS ON DR. GHALIB
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ahle Hadith Andolan Amir Assadullah Ghalib remains in prison while Ahle Hadith supporters claim his innocence, state their movement is non-political, is not a terrorist organization, and has no ties with JMB. Ghalib's proponents say his arrest was politically motivated, possibly [...]
2006-02-16 09:05:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKISL PTER PGOV BG JI
06DHAKA994BANGLADESH DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR REQUEST FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-27 09:47:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM KPAO PREL PGOV PTER BG
06DHAKA995BANGLADESH DELIVERED DEMARCHE ON MESSAGE ON HOST
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-27 09:47:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER BG
06DILI246DILI SITREP MAY 22
[...] (SBU) The situation was more tense than in recent days as rumors and exaggerations circulated widely. An outbreak of communal violence in Becora (Dili's easternmost suburb),where gangs of eastern and western youth armed with slingshots, knives, and machetes clashed intermittently throughout t [...]
2006-05-22 15:13:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT
06DILI255EMBASSY DILI EAC MEETING ON MAY 24, 2006
[...] (SBU) On May 24, 2006, the DCM convened a meeting of Embassy Dili's EAC to review the Embassy's contingency planning in light of the deteriorating security environment. The Ambassador, RSO, POL, MGMT, USAID, CONS, and ODC attended the meeting. 2. (C) POL and ODC reported of continued factio [...]
2006-05-24 15:36:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALASEC AMGT ID TT
06DILI261EMBASSY DILI EAC MEETING ON MAY 24, 2006
[...] (SBU) On May 24, 2006, the DCM convened a meeting of Embassy Dili's EAC to review the Embassy's contingency planning in light of the deteriorating security environment. The Ambassador, RSO, POL, MGMT, USAID, CONS, and ODC attended the meeting. 2. (C) POL and ODC reported of continued factio [...]
2006-05-25 07:27:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALASEC AMGT ID TT
06DILI298EAC MEETING: REVERSE TRIPWIRES ESTABLISHED
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy Dili's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on 7 June to develop reverse tripwires related to the current political and security situation in East Timor, discuss added security measures at the Embassy, and review the Mission's policy for travel within East Timor. Deputy C [...]
2006-06-07 11:17:00Embassy DiliSECRETAEMR ASEC AMGT TT
06DILI300EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 8, 2006
[...] (SBU) Summary - GNR restricted to barracks after confrontation with Australian forces; - Provisional cooperation agreement reached between JTF and Portuguese forces; - Armed group claims Alkatiri gave them weapons to kill opponents; - Foreign Defense Attaches inv [...]
2006-06-08 19:25:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY AS TT
06DILI358JAPANESE EMBASSY VIEWS NEXT UN MISSION
[...] (C/NF) Summary: A Japanese diplomat meeting with DCM spoke highly of Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Sukehiro Hasegawa and suggested Hasegawa should head the next UN mission in East Timor. Japan will not contribute troops or police to the peacekeeping operation (PKO),b [...]
2006-07-12 07:51:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KPKO UN TT
06DJIBOUTI1131PRESIDENT HAILS BILATERAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT
[...] (U) On September 18, 2006 Ambassador W. Stuart Symington presented his credentials to President Ismail Omar Guelleh of the Republic of Djibouti. Attendees included: Susan Symington; DCM David W. Ball; Rear Admiral Richard W. Hunt, Commander Combined Joint Task Force ) Horn of Africa (CJTF-H [...]
2006-09-19 14:27:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KADM APER PINR DJ
06DJIBOUTI95STATUS OF DJIBOUTI'S DORALEH PORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-23 11:02:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL DJ
06DOHA1301DCM CONVEYS USG CONCERN OVER LEBANON CONFLICT
[...] (C) Summary: During a courtesy call with Wadah Khanfar, Al Jazeera Network Director-General, DCM conveyed USG concerns about the channel's coverage of the recent Lebanon conflict. Khanfar said November 1 is the expected launch date of Al Jazeera English channel and that a replacement for himsel [...]
2006-08-29 12:33:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALKPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA1384AL JAZEERA ENGLISH SAYS IT WILL LAUNCH AFTER RAMADAN
[...] (U) Summary: The Managing Director of Al Jazeera International told DCM the English language channel would likely launch in late October/early November, with limited U.S. distribution, at least initially. End summary. 2. (U) DCM, accompanied by PAO, made a courtesy call 9/13 on Nigel Parson [...]
2006-09-17 09:00:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA1603DEMOCRACIES CONFERENCE DOES NOT MEET EXPECTATIONS;
[...] (SBU) Summary. The International Conference of New or Restored Democracies did not meet the Qatari hosts' greater expectations and a range of participants felt that international representation was at a low level. The Israeli FM's plans to attend and then cancellation left the conference organ [...]
2006-11-02 15:07:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPAL IS QA
06DOHA1614AL JAZEERA TURNS TEN
[...] Al Jazeera celebrated its 10th Anniversary November 1 with a lavish celebration held in the open-air on the Al Jazeera compound in Doha. The event was attended by the Qatari Amir and his wife, Sheikha Moza, as well as a wide range of Qatari dignitaries and members of the diplomatic community, [...]
2006-11-06 10:36:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO QA
06DOHA1743CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION IMPLEMENTATION
[...] DCM delivered ref demarche to Dr. Hassan al-Hamadi, Head of the Legal Affairs Department at the MFA, on December 13. Al-Hamadi said that Qatar has an inter-agency committee (of which he is a member) charged with implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention. "You will see it becoming more active [...]
2006-12-14 10:35:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW BWC QA
06DUBAI292SABA TV DENIED LICENSE TO BROADCAST FROM DUBAI
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-18 14:30:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPINR ECPS IR PGOV SCUL TC
06DUBLIN1020EMERGING CONSTRAINTS ON U.S. MILITARY TRANSITS AT
[...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Although supportive of continued U.S. military transits at Shannon Airport, the Irish Government has informally begun to place constraints on U.S. operations at the facility, mainly in response to public sensitivities ov [...]
2006-09-05 14:45:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL EAIR PTER EI
06DUBLIN1284THE AMBASSADOR AND FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS
[...] (C) Summary. In a November 1 discussion, the Ambassador and Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern did a tour d'horizon of key bilateral issues. Ahern: -- urged bilateral cooperation to avoid "surprises" regarding U.S. military use of Shannon Airport; -- noted that the Irish Cabinet had charged [...]
2006-11-03 12:58:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS PREF EI
06DUBLIN1326IRELAND TO WRITE OFF NEARLY ALL IRAQI DEBT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-13 08:27:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON IZ EI
06DUBLIN1416IRELAND TO CONSIDER EXPANDED ISAF CONTRIBUTION
[...] (C) Ireland, a NATO Partnership for Peace member, is committed to maintaining its presence in ISAF (now four officers and three non-commissioned officers in Kabul),but would have to consider contributing additional personnel in the context of constraints on Ireland's current and planned peac [...]
2006-12-15 16:18:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL NATO PINS AG EI
06DUBLIN207CIRA/RIRA TERRORISTS: BOMBS FOR HIRE?
[...] (C) Summary. Over the last year, Dublin criminal and drug gangs upgraded from guns to pipe bombs in their quest for turf supremacy. The police suspect that drug barons are now hiring the skills of the Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) and Real IRA (RIRA) explosives experts to target an [...]
2006-02-28 13:04:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PINR CJUS KPAO KCRM EI
06DUBLIN256IRELAND SHARES USG CONCERNS ABOUT HAMAS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-10 16:59:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IS EI
06DUBLIN262IRELAND - 2006 ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The most significant trafficking development in Ireland in 2005 was an increase in government attention to the problem. The government formed a working group between the Department of Justice and the police and wrote legislation bringing Ireland into conformity with UN and EU [...]
2006-03-13 15:33:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EI
06DUBLIN312GOVERNMENTS WILL RECALL NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY
[...] (C) On March 23, Michael Collins, the Taoiseach's senior foreign affairs advisor, briefed Ambassador Kenny on next steps in the peace process, and thanked the President for a productive Saint Patrick's Day. He said that the Taoiseach and PM Blair plan to issue a joint statement April 6 in Arm [...]
2006-03-27 11:51:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EI UK
06DUBLIN313IRELAND CONSIDERING REDEPLOYMENT OF PEACEKEEPERS
[...] (C) Summary and Action Request. On March 23, the DCM met with Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Political Director Colm O'Floinn and UN/Terrorism and Illicit Drugs Director John Deady regarding GOI plans for the potential redistribution of its peacekeeping forces by the end o [...]
2006-03-28 07:01:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALMARR KPKO PGOV PREL EI SU XY
06DUBLIN487IRELAND TO SEND DFA DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EU
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-03 17:21:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET ECON PREL NL EU EI
06DUBLIN632GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND SUPPORTS U.S. STATEMENT ON
[...] (C) Due to the unavailability of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and Foreign Minister Ahern, Ambassador delivered reftel points to Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Dermot Gallagher early on June 1. DCM followed up later in the day, and working levels were also engaged. Gallagh [...]
2006-06-02 12:21:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IE IR
06DUBLIN778IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIANS MAKE THEIR CASE IN IRELAND
[...] (U) In a June 18-24 trip sponsored by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and organized with embassy assistance, a group of Iraqi parliamentarians visited Ireland to learn from the Irish experience of reconciliation and to plead for more Irish assistance. During this visit the group [...]
2006-06-30 15:49:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM IZ EI
06DUBLIN798IRELAND: ISLAM IN EUROPE (C-DI5-01478)
[...] (U) Summary. Embassy Dublin salutes the initiative of Washington analysts (ref A.) to look at the role of Islamic thinkers across Europe. In 2004, we launched a new outreach program to Muslims in Ireland, a group that has grown rapidly in recent years from a population of less than 4,000 ac [...]
2006-07-07 16:45:00Embassy DublinSECRETPINR PTER SCUL KTFN AU PINS KPAO BE FI FR
06DUBLIN891SHANNON FIVE FOUND NOT GUILTY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 25, a jury found five anti-war protesters not guilty of criminally damaging a U.S. aircraft at Shannon Airport on February 3, 2003. In an unprecedented decision, Judge Miriam Reynolds allowed the accused, who had pleaded not guilty, to argue that they had a "lawful excu [...]
2006-07-29 05:28:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PTER KJUS IZ EI
06DUSHANBE1233TAJIKISTAN: JAPAN READY TO PROVIDE MORE BORDER ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) The Japanese Ambassador to Tajikistan Hiroshi Takahashi said the Japanese government intends to provide increased technical assistance to Tajik border guards and rebuild another road in the south of the country from Dusti to Kurgan-Tyube. In a meeting with Chargi d'Affaires and Post's Se [...]
2006-07-03 06:53:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TI
06DUSHANBE1283TAJIKISTAN: MODERATE IRPT DEPUTY REFUSES PARTY CHAIRMANSHIP
[...] (C) Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan's (IRPT) First Deputy Chairman, Muhiddin Kabiri refused to accept the party's chairmanship. Kabiri told PolOff at the Embassy's July 4th celebration that the party's current chairman, Said Abdullo Nuri, asked Kabiri to be the next IRPT head, but Kabi [...]
2006-07-06 09:10:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KIRF KISL TI
06DUSHANBE1296RUMSFELD VISIT AND RUSSIA - WHO'S ON THE SIDE OF THE
[...] (S) Russian Charge Viacheslav Svetlichny was the first diplomat to seek a readout of Secretary Rumsfeld's visit to Tajikistan and his meeting with President Rahmonov. The Ambassador joked with him on July 12 that Svetlichny must surely already have a near-verbatim treatment of the meeting fro [...]
2006-07-12 11:35:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETPREL PGOV MARR TI
06DUSHANBE1314TAJIK AIR STILL DOESN'T GET IT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five months after taking the helm of Tajikistan State Airlines (TSA),Director Hakimsho Tilloyev declined to identify any improvements or changes under his leadership and instead complained about Turkish Air stealing TSA's passengers to Istanbul. He informed PolOff July 12 tha [...]
2006-07-13 12:23:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EAIR EINV TI
06DUSHANBE1434IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...]
2006-07-27 13:11:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1435IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...]
2006-07-27 13:11:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1462U.S.-RUSSIA COOPERATION STILL POSSIBLE IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] (C) The departing U.S. Ambassador hosted a final farewell reception at the U.S. Residence July 31. Russian Charge d'affairs Vyacheslav Svetlichniy, a career diplomat, attended. He pulled the Ambassador aside and said he sincerely wished our two governments could attain the same degree of mutu [...]
2006-08-01 10:43:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE1498RADIO SILENCE CONTINUES FOR BBC IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Tajikistan's State Radio and Television Committee (SRTC) announced August 2 it refused to give BBC a license to broadcast in Tajiki/ Farsi on FM radio. Margaret Belof, the British DCM, told PolOff August 3 the committee based its refusal on two grounds: the BBC is still not properly re [...]
2006-08-04 11:51:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE16RUSSIA PLEASED WITH BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH TAJIKISTAN
[...] (C) The year 2005 was very fruitful for Russia in Tajikistan, according to the Russian DCM Viacheslav Svetlichny. He highlighted the realization of long-standing commitments, particularly those made by President Putin in October 2004 to withdraw Russian border forces and increase economic ass [...]
2006-01-03 10:58:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ENRG TI RS
06DUSHANBE1661TAJIKISTAN CONSIDERS NUCLEAR FREE ZONE TREATY "OPEN AND
[...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov said that Tajikistan had not made a final decision about signing the Central Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (CANWFZ) agreement in Kazakhstan September 8, and that they regarded the treaty as "open." In a 90-minute meeting with DCM and PolOff September 6 ( [...]
2006-09-07 10:18:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MARR KNNP UN TI
06DUSHANBE2019DUSHANBE ELECTRICITY CONFERENCE PRODUCES MEMORANDUM OF
[...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan moved three steps closer to establishing a regional transmission system and electricity market at the Second Central and South Asia regional electricity market conference. During the October 26-28 conference in Dushanbe, [...]
2006-11-03 07:07:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALECIN PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF KG PK
06DUSHANBE204NDI LOCAL DIRECTOR DEPARTS
[...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan left Tajikistan on Wednesday morning, February 1, after a final unannounced police check and brief detention on the evening of January 31. The NDI Director had been wrangling with authorities for the past week or so, sinc [...]
2006-02-01 10:39:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI
06DUSHANBE2113WHETHER TO COOPERATE: MIXED SIGNALS FROM THE RUSSIANS IN
[...] (C) Summary: On September 21 Embassy Dushanbe, together with our Russian diplomatic and military colleagues, commemorated the 1992 evacuation of American diplomats from Dushanbe at the start of the Tajik civil war. The Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division resident in Dushanbe was instrumental in [...]
2006-11-22 14:03:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL RS TI
06DUSHANBE2226HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe commemorated International Human Rights Day/Week with a variety of events: having students paint a mural on the Embassy walls, showing a Human Rights related movie followed by a discussion group, and hosting a number of public speaking events focused on the theme "De [...]
2006-12-19 12:52:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KPAO KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE268NDI REGISTRATION: YOUR DOG'S TAIL IS CROOKED
[...] (SBU) Tajik folk wisdom has it that even if all your papers are in order, inspectors will find something wrong -- your dog's tail is crooked -- for example. After many promises that re-registration for National Democratic Institute (NDI) personnel was solved, it turns out to be unsolved. DCM [...]
2006-02-08 12:18:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PREL PINR PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE269NDI REGISTRATION: YOUR DOG'S TAIL IS CROOKED
[...] (SBU) Tajik folk wisdom has it that even if all your papers are in order, inspectors will find something wrong -- your dog's tail is crooked -- for example. After many promises that re-registration for National Democratic Institute (NDI) personnel was solved, it turns out to be unsolved. DCM [...]
2006-02-08 12:27:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PREL PINR PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE304BBC IN DUSHANBE: "DON'T DIS A SMALL COUNTRY AND YOU CAN GET
[...] (C) In a surprisingly tough meeting February 14, the Ambassador joined his European and OSCE colleagues for what was supposed to have been a joint Western demarche about the BBC Tajik Service having lost its permission January 10 to broadcast on FM-106 in Dushanbe (reftel). French Ambassador [...]
2006-02-15 05:54:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KPAO UK TI
06DUSHANBE306ONE STEP FORWARD: NDI ACTING DEPUTY RE-REGISTERED BY TAJIK
[...] As First Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov categorically promised the Ambassador February 14, the Tajik Government re-registered National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Deputy Director Nurul Rakhimbekov February 15, the last possible day before his legal status would have lapsed. 2. DCM [...]
2006-02-15 09:00:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE316TURNING THE PROPAGANDA OF COMPETITION INTO THE PUBLIC
[...] U.S. Ambassador Hoagland and Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov jointly presented certificates to the first 15 graduates of the U.S.-funded Ministry of Interior Criminal Intelligence Analytical Center February 17 in Dushanbe. With INL funding, the United States renovated and equipped the [...]
2006-02-17 11:37:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PROP PTER SNAR KCRM KPAO RS TI
06DUSHANBE327TAJIK HYDROPOWER 201: ADVANCED GAME THEORY
[...] (C) In Tajik hydropower, a new conventional wisdom is emerging. If we want the Central Asian Infrastructure Initiative to succeed in Tajikistan, we need to consider the following: 2. (C) The United States is behind the curve on hydropower. Russia is building Sangtuda I and has first grab [...]
2006-02-21 11:54:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV ENRG ECON PREL TI AF
06DUSHANBE410TAJIK BORDER UPDATE
[...] (SBU) This begins a series of cables summarizing Tajikistan's border security developments and activities of Embassy Dushanbe's Border Law Enforcement Working Group (BLEWG). Led by the DCM, with participation from the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor (SLEA),the EXBS advisor, the Defense Attac [...]
2006-03-02 11:25:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE513TAJIKISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH CUBAN DELEGATION
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov met with Deputy Foreign Minister Eumelio Rodriguez on March 17 in Dushanbe along with Cuba's regional Ambassador from Almaty. Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries, and Sherali Jononov, Head of Tajikistan's MFA Leg [...]
2006-03-17 11:58:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CU TI
06DUSHANBE577TAJIK AND AFGHAN BUSINESSWOMEN NETWORK AT KHATLON
[...] Maybe sewing really IS women's work? At a March 29 conference in Qurghon-Teppa, 50 Tajik and Afghan women entrepreneurs came together to network and seek business cooperation, but had few examples of success outside the sectors of handicraft. Enthusiasm and energy were abundant, but the con [...]
2006-03-30 13:02:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EAID EAGR SOCI KWMN AF TI
06DUSHANBE734POSSIBLE IRANIAN SURVEILLANCE - DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN (APRIL
[...] (S/NF) On April 18, 2006 at approximately 1400 hours, RSO was contacted by the Surveillance Detection (SD) supervisor who stated that at approximately 1306 hours local, SD personnel spotted two male subjects located at Rudaki Avenue and Said Nosir street intersection (approximately 2 blocks f [...]
2006-04-19 12:15:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNASEC TI
06DUSHANBE776INDIA LOOKS TO REVIVE SILK ROAD HERITAGE, NOT GREAT GAME
[...] (SBU) In an April 26 meeting with U.S. DCM, Indian Deputy Chief of Mission Govinda Khampa took great pains to explain India's priorities in Tajikistan. Far from extending India's "strategic reach," the repair of the Ayni Airfield outside of Dushanbe is part of India's Technical Economic Coope [...]
2006-04-26 09:57:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR MASS ECON ETRD TI
06DUSHANBE909TAJIKISTAN HOSTS REGIONAL CN CONFERENCE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies along with U.S. CENTCOM and Tajikistan's Committee on State Border Protection organized the International Conference on Counter Narcotics and the second Meeting of the Central and South Asia Counter Narcotics Securi [...]
2006-05-18 13:22:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETPGOV PREL SNAR TI
06DUSHANBE928PENJIKENT: ANCIENT CITY, MODERN PROBLEMS
[...] (U) Penjikent, one of Central Asia's ancient cities, faces many modern problems, all compounded by its double isolation. Cut off from Dushanbe and its markets to the south by snow-blocked mountain passes six months of the year, and now restricted from the markets of neighboring Uzbekistan due [...]
2006-05-22 07:14:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID SOCI UZ TI
06DUSHANBE945TAJIKISTAN: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVT FORMATION
[...] DCM delivered talking points per reftel to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs May 22. Nasredinov promised to pass the points on to the MFA's Asia and Africa desk and will respond to the Embassy if the desk has any [...]
2006-05-23 11:14:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KPAO IZ TI
06DUSHANBE986TAJIKISTAN: A RESOLUTION TO THE SYNAGOGUE'S PROBLEMS?
[...] Local Tajik news sources have reported that Alexsandr Mashkevich, president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) and Kazakh oligarch, agreed to fund the construction of a new synagogue in the center of Dushanbe. The existing synagogue has already been partly demolished along with other bu [...]
2006-05-26 07:45:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KIRF KISM TI
06FREETOWN322 Sierra Leoneans React to Human Rights Report
[...] On April 13, the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee hosted its second annual workshop on the status of human rights in Sierra Leone and used the State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices as its basis for discussion. Human Rights Committee Chairman Dr. Alusine Fofana used t [...]
2006-04-19 17:11:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB KDEM KSEP PGOV PREL SL
06FREETOWN542EAC MEETING: ACUTE WATER SHORTAGE -- POST PLANS
[...] A July 5 Emergency Action Committee meeting discussed the acute water shortage in Freetown and what actions post can take to mitigate its effects. The Guma Valley reservoir is seriously drawn down and municipal water rationing was instituted last week. On July 4, the Government established [...]
2006-07-06 16:27:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT AEMR ASEC CASC EAID SL
06FREETOWN646IMF REP ON SIERRA LEONE COMPLETION POINT: MAYBE BY
[...] (C) The IMF Representative for Guinea and Sierra Leone told DCM on August 4 that Sierra Leone has hard work to do on increasing government revenues and controlling expenditures. With substantial effort, the HIPC completion point (put off several times) could be reached by late 2006. Collecting [...]
2006-08-10 13:04:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EINV SL
06FREETOWN776SIERRA LEONE'S RULING PARTY THREATENS RIVALS
[...] (C) During a recent trip to ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) strongholds in southern and eastern Sierra Leone to gauge the popularity of Charles Margai's SLPP breakaway party, the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC),PolOff found a disturbing pattern of manipulation, intimi [...]
2006-09-15 16:49:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM SL
06FREETOWN876REQUEST TO PURSUE STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT WITH
[...] This is an action request. See Para. 5 2. Since 2001 DOD has assigned at least three U.S. Military personnel to serve as U.S. liaison at the International Military Advisory Training Team (IMATT). Although the UK concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Sierra Leone (G [...]
2006-10-26 17:13:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PREL SL
06GENEVA2169DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES' GENEVA HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles held a series of bilateral meetings in Geneva August 31 and September 1 with select missions to discuss the upcoming Human Rights Council (HRC) session. The meetings are summarized below. United Kingdom -------------- 2. (C) DAS Barks-Ruggles discussed w [...]
2006-09-06 15:31:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNHRC
06GEORGETOWN1011JAGDEO EXPLAINS RATIONALE FOR SUPPORT OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a September 27 press conference, President Jagdeo cited national interest and assurances that Venezuela will not advance its claim on the disputed Essequibo border region as justification for Guyana's support of Venezuela's bid for the U.N. Security Council (UNSC). The statement [...]
2006-09-28 20:12:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET KPAO UNSC GY
06GEORGETOWN1148MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS OUT OF LOOP ON KERIK ISSUE
[...] (C) On November 1, Legal Attach Kevin Currier, Assistant Legal Attach Marvin Freeman, and DCM paid a friendly and productive introductory courtesy call on newly appointed Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee. The FBI thanked Rohee for assistance in several cases, to include the 2005 Thomson [...]
2006-11-02 19:05:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV GY
06GEORGETOWN119VISAS VIPER: JANUARY 2006 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT
[...] Post's VISAS VIPER Committee met on February 1, 2006, covering the period January 5, 2006 to February 1, 2006. Conoff Wells chaired the meeting. DCM, ECON, POL, CONS, RSO, and MLO attended. Non-resident LEGATT was queried separately. 2. No VISAS VIPER telegrams were submitted during this [...]
2006-02-02 21:03:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL GY
06GEORGETOWN1224DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTION ON
[...] A/DCM delivered reftel talking points to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 17. Hamer had no substantive response. Post will follow-up with the Foreign Ministry early the week of November 20. ROBINSON [...]
2006-11-17 19:49:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UN GY
06GEORGETOWN137DEATH THREAT AGAINST U.S. AMBASSADOR AND PROMINENT
[...] (S) Ambassador met with Major General (ret.) Norman McLean on February 8 at McLean's request. At the meeting, McLean handed Ambassador a sheet of paper listing information he had received from a policeman who has access to the Buxton area. This paper described a discussion regarding an operati [...]
2006-02-08 23:27:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETASEC PTER PGOV PREL SNAR GY
06GEORGETOWN14VISAS VIPER: DECEMBER 2005 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT
[...] Post's VISAS VIPER Committee met on January 4, 2006, covering the period December 7, 2005 to January 4, 2006. Conoff Wells chaired the meeting. DCM, ECON, POL, CONS, RSO, and MLO attended. Non-resident LEGATT was queried separately. 2. No VISAS VIPER telegrams were submitted during this [...]
2006-01-05 16:06:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL GY
06GEORGETOWN21CARICOM A/SGY DISCUSSES PROPOSED MINISTERIAL
[...] (U) On January 4, Ambassador and DCM met with Ambassador Colin Granderson, CARICOM A/SGY for Foreign and Community Relations, to discuss the agenda for the Secretary's proposed February meeting with CARICOM SIPDIS foreign ministers. 2. (SBU) Granderson is awaiting responses from CARICOM [...]
2006-01-06 14:50:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL XL CARICOM
06GEORGETOWN248EMINENT GUYANESE WARN DIPLOMATS OF ELECTION THREATS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Members of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) met with donors March 8 and 10 to discuss their deep concerns about preparations for Guyana's upcoming elections, the deteriorating security situation, and the disturbing nexus between the two. These Guyanese civil society figures a [...]
2006-03-14 16:43:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN254INCSR Sparks Lively, Constructive Debate in Guyana
[...] SUMMARY. The 2006 INCSR has resonated with the Guyanese public and generated considerable dialogue in the media in the two weeks since its release. All television and radio news programs carried the 2006 INCSR as their lead story on March 1 and the next morning. TV news and talk shows revolve [...]
2006-03-17 15:14:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL KCRM KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN258DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-CARICOM INITIATIVE TO
[...] DCM delivered demarche per reftel March 17 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General. Harper was receptive to the concept of the initiative to Combat Illicit Trafficking In Arms. She recognized the proposal as a step towards moving the U.S.-CARICOM dialogue [...]
2006-03-17 20:25:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MASS PARM PREL XL GY CARICOM
06GEORGETOWN278SECRET TAPE, RAID ON DRUG LORD'S ASSETS ROCK GUYANA
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Georgetown is flush with intrigue as a joint army/police team conducted raids March 19-20 on drug lord Shaheed "Roger" Khan's properties and, concurrently, a secret recording of Police Commissioner Winston Felix's phone conversations was anonymously and widely distributed to the [...]
2006-03-23 20:33:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETSNAR PINS PGOV KCOR KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN63CARICOM SYG DISCUSSES MINISTERIAL MEETING AGENDA
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with CARICOM SYG Carrington January 17 to discuss proposed ministerial between Secretary and CARICOM FonMins. Carrington suggested postponing the meeting until the week of March 27. CARICOM is in general agreement with the five broad agenda topics, but requested [...]
2006-01-19 12:26:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL XL CARICOM
06GEORGETOWN685JAGDEO DETERMINED TO HOLD ELECTIONS ON AUGUST 28
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo is determined to hold national elections on August 28 -- one to two weeks sooner than expected -- and within the constitutional deadline. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) needs to push hard to be ready by then. The pressure is also on donor countries and [...]
2006-07-13 19:23:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN815(U) GUYANA ELECTION PREPARATIONS (C-AL6-01121)
[...] (U) Post presents response to ref A. 2. (C) WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS WITHIN THE GUYANA ELECTIONS COMMISSION (GECOM)? HOW IS CHAIRMAN STEVE SURUJBALLY VIEWED WITHIN GECOM? (C) The much-maligned GECOM has withstood constant criticism and is on track to deliver free and fair el [...]
2006-08-14 17:42:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETPINR PGOV SNAR GY
06GEORGETOWN854GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT AUGUST 28,
[...] (U) As of 15:30, election day is proceeding as smoothly as could be expected. We have spoken with all 17 OAS observer teams that include U.S. Mission personnel. Eight of these teams are around Georgetown, the others are dispersed throughout the country. Altogether, these teams have observed a [...]
2006-08-28 20:08:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN855GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 29
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown remained quiet overnight as the consensus solidified that the August 28 national and regional elections proceeded better than expected on a technical level. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin made a statement to this effect after the polls closed. Field reports from Embassy pers [...]
2006-08-29 18:50:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN903DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NAM SUMMIT AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] EmbOff delivered Iran NAM demarche using talking points in Ref A to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Hamer said she will convey the points to Minister Rudy Insanally, who is currently attending the NAM ministerial in Havana. H [...]
2006-09-12 15:03:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PTER IAEA IR GY
06GEORGETOWN96CARICOM TO OBSERVE HAITI ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-27 19:29:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM HA XL
06GEORGETOWN974WHO NEEDS A GOVERNMENT? GUYANA NOT BOTHERED BY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The PNCR and AFC have both filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the delay in convening Parliament and of the swearing-in of government ministers before they were formally elected to Parliament. Also, in an unprecedented move President Jagdeo left the country for [...]
2006-09-22 20:37:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM OAS GY
06GUATEMALA1051GUATEMALA: URGING PSI ENDORSEMENT
[...] (C) Following up on an April 29 working-level demarche with Foreign Ministry officials, the Ambassador presented reftel points to Foreign Minister Briz on May 24. Briz affirmed strong GOG support for PSI, and instructed his subordinates to see how an endorsement could be done in the quickest [...]
2006-05-30 16:17:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP GT
06GUATEMALA2080GUATEMALA: REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO NEGOTIATE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH),a component command of U.S. Southern Command, plans to carry out two Special Operations Forces (SOF) Joint Combined Exercise Training (JCET) deployments to Guatemala in Fiscal Year [...]
2006-10-23 22:38:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALMARR KTIA GT
06GUATEMALA2471ILLEGAL ALIEN DETENTIONS IN THE U.S. REVIVE
[...] (C) Summary: The December 12 raids of Swift meatpacking plants in the U.S. that resulted in the reported detentions of some 500 Guatemalans have generated a media storm. Critics of the Berger Government have renewed charges that the GOG does not do enough to protect undocumented Guatemalans [...]
2006-12-19 16:13:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL SMIG GT
06GUATEMALA428GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT WRITES TO PRESIDENT BUSH ON
[...] At a February 28 meeting with the Ambassador and DCM (septel),Guatemalan President Berger handed over a letter to President Bush and asked that it be forwarded to the White House. The Embassy is sending the original to WHA/CEN by pouch but provides text of the letter in para 2. 2. Embas [...]
2006-03-01 17:25:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC CVIS SMIG EAID PREF ETRD MASS SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA429GOG WEAKNESSES AND U.S. SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The February 23 announcement that TPS (Temporary Protected Status) has been extended for citizens of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua prompted immediate critical reaction from President Berger, Vice President Stein and Foreign Minister Briz, culminating in a reproachful meet [...]
2006-03-01 19:05:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SMIG CVIS ETRD MASS SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA99VENEZUELAN INTRIGUE IN THE GUATEMALAN OIL MARKET?
[...] (C) Summary: The Franco-US oil company KLP Industries has contacted the Embassy repeatedly alleging that it is the victim of a plot to revoke an exploration contract it won from the Government of Guatemala (GOG). The contract has, in fact, been revoked by the GOG. KLP believes that it has be [...]
2006-01-19 19:55:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ETRD EINV ECON PGOV PINR GT VE
06HANOI1235 VIETNAM SUPPORTIVE OF NEW GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN will publicly congratulate the new Government of Iraq and will re-extend its invitation to senior Iraqi officials to visit Vietnam, including the Minister of Trade. Vietnam says it has a long history of friendly relations with Iraq and would like to get them back on tra [...]
2006-05-22 23:46:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO IZ PREL KDEM VM
06HANOI1337 IRAN: Demarche Delivered to Vietnam
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-31 10:50:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV IR VM
06HANOI1338 VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCE NEW PARTY; GVN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The DPV made the public announcement today of the reestablishment of the long-defunct DPV, and there was no overt reaction by the GVN. The MFA did, however, call in representatives of the Embassies who met with the DPV leadership on May 30 to protest foreign involvement in "il [...]
2006-05-31 10:55:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYHUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1598MISSION VIETNAM CONDUCTS AI TABLETOP EXERCISE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 7, selected members of the Mission Avian Influenza Working Group (AIWG) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City participated in a table top exercise responding to an avian influenza pandemic scenario. The exercise, which was conducted via digital video conference, was designed s [...]
2006-06-29 06:39:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2143PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE SETS SIGHTS ON CORRUPTION,
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Party's Central Committee met for its third Plenum from July 24 to 27, and, among other tasks, approved new Party working regulations and pledged to tackle corruption (job number one for the Party since its April Congress). According to our contacts, the new worki [...]
2006-08-23 02:42:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI2152MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES PRESIDENT'S VISIT, HIGH-LEVEL
[...] (SBU) On August 22, MFA Americas Department Acting Deputy Director General Pham Van Que reviewed a number of issues of bilateral concern with the DCM. According to Que, the GVN's top two goals for the President's visit are passage of PNTR and removal of Vietnam's CPC designation; the GVN also [...]
2006-08-23 10:36:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KIRF PHUM OVIP OTRA CASC VM
06HANOI2161 U.S. COAST GUARD ASSESSMENT TEAM FINDS VIETNAM IN
[...] Summary: From August 6-18, a team from the United States Coast Guard's International Port Security Program conducted a review of Vietnamese commercial shipping ports in accordance with the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA) and the recently-adopted set of security standards re [...]
2006-08-24 09:57:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ECON EFIN VM
06HANOI2305CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: POINTS TO RAISE WITH THE GVN ON
[...] (U) Action Request. See paragraph 5. This request was coordinated with ConGen HCMC (Ref A). Summary ------- 2. (C) Mission Vietnam is concerned about an up-tick in police activities directed against ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands who are in cellular telephone contact with [...]
2006-09-08 08:18:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM
06HANOI2319DOE VISIT IDENTIFIES SECURITY CONCERNS AT
[...] (SBU) Keith Young, Physical Security Protection Specialist from Sandia National Laboratories, working under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE),conducted a site assessment of a radioactive waste storage facility approximately 47 kilometers NW of Hanoi on August 28. Young visited the [...]
2006-09-11 09:03:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALENRG KNNP OTRA PARM VM
06HANOI2328AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH HANOI PROTESTANTS
[...] (C) Summary: IRF Ambassador John Hanford met with Protestant leaders in Hanoi on August 16. They noted that the overall environment for religion in the north and Northwest Highlands is "significantly less threatening" than in the past, as the number of arrests, attempted forced renunciations [...]
2006-09-12 06:35:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
06HANOI2344CORRECTED COPY DOE VISIT IDENTIFIES SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Keith Young, Physical Security Protection Specialist from Sandia National Laboratories, working under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE),conducted a site assessment of a radioactive waste storage facility approximately 47 kilometers NW of Hanoi on August 28. Young visited the [...]
2006-09-13 04:15:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALENRG KNNP OTRA PARM VM
06HANOI2399COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS UPDATES DCM ON RELIGIOUS
[...] (SBU) On September 15, Chairman Ngo Yen Thi of the GVN's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) briefed the DCM on recent religious freedom developments in Vietnam. The CRA reports that eighteen congregations have been chosen in five out of 19 northern provinces for "pilot registration." These [...]
2006-09-19 10:39:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2412RECENT GVN ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS: SMOKE AND
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of several high-profile corruption scandals, the GVN is taking steps, both substantive and symbolic, to address corruption involving government and Communist Party officials. In August, the National Assembly Standing Committee passed a resolution specifyi [...]
2006-09-20 09:45:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KCOR VM
06HANOI2663NEW DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE FORMS
[...] (SBU) This message was coordinated with ConGen Ho Chi Minh City. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Using strong language, local activists announced on October 18 the establishment of an umbrella alliance of democratic organizations with the aim of pushing for a multi-party system in Vietnam. Th [...]
2006-10-19 08:15:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPHUM VM
06HANOI2710MFA OUTLINES BUREAUCRATIC DIFFICULTIES IN ADVANCING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 23, the DCM met with MFA Americas Department Deputy Director Nguyen Ba Hung to discuss the status of bilateral issues in advance of the POTUS visit. The DCM reviewed the list of as-yet unresolved official and commercial agreements that need to be concluded, noting our [...]
2006-10-24 10:32:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI2749GVN SEEKS ADVICE ON POINTS FOR TEHERAN VISIT
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On October 26, MFA Americas Department Deputy Director General Nguyen Ba Hung informed us that Vice Foreign Minister Vu Dzung plans to travel to Iran and three African countries in late November. The Iran portion of the tour is [...]
2006-10-27 08:51:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP VM IR
06HANOI3021 MFA Protests Ambassador's Remarks in Support of Greater
[...] (SBU) During a roundtable with foreign correspondents on December 13, the Ambassador spoke on the issue of human rights, freedom of expression and the GVN's treatment of activists and others who peacefully voice their political views. Responding to a reporter's question about the activities of [...]
2006-12-18 00:23:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KPAO VM
06HANOI421TAIWANESE ASK FOR HELP WITH DISCRIMINATION IN APEC
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Hanoi (TECOH) representatives expressed concern over inequitable treatment they claim they are experiencing in both the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the World Health Organization (WHO),a result, they sa [...]
2006-02-22 10:07:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALAPEC ECON IO PREL TW VM
06HANOI504AVIAN INFLUENZA: VIETNAM WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 3
[...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 105 days. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to report no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005. The Prime Minister [...]
2006-03-03 10:21:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI505AVIAN INFLUENZA: VIETNAM WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 3
[...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 105 days. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to report no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005. The Prime Minister [...]
2006-03-03 10:21:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI601A/DCM'S MEETING WITH MOFA VFM PHUNG ON WTO AND APEC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Acting DCM Greg Stanford, accompanied by ECON/C and Econoff, met March 14 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Vice Foreign Minister Le Cong Phung at his request to discuss WTO negotiations. Phung said senior Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials heard informally during a re [...]
2006-03-15 11:04:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDECON APEC ETRD WTRO VM
06HANOI896UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, UNSC, NEXT SECRETARY-
[...] (SBU) The DCM met April 19 with MFA International Organizations Department Acting Director General Vu Anh Quang to deliver reftel's points and letter from the Secretary to Foreign Minister Nguyen Dzy Nien. Quang said SIPDIS that the MFA values U.S. viewpoints on multilateral issues such as [...]
2006-04-20 10:11:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UN UNSC KUNR PHUM GT VE VM
06HARARE1280LOOK EAST "SUCCESSES" FALL FLAT
[...] (C) In the GOZ's most recent flirtation with countries to its east, state-controlled media on October 10 reported that a Russian delegation had signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the GOZ totaling US$300 million. South African journalists checking into the contracts, however, coul [...]
2006-10-24 14:57:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE252ZIMBABWE ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Zimbabwe is a country of origin and transit for trafficked persons. This year there were also two cases of girls trafficked to Zimbabwe from South Africa. Most of the information about the scope of trafficking remains anecdotal, however, the government and the police investigate and tra [...]
2006-03-02 09:53:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB ZI KWMN KFRD
06HARARE383MFA OFFICIAL CRITICIZES GOZ FOR STATE OF U.S.
[...] (C) In a March 27 courtesy call on the Ambassador, the outgoing MFA Head of Protocol and new DCM at the Zimbabwean Embassy in Washington, Gideon Gapare, told the Ambassador that the GOZ wanted dialogue with the U.S. The Ambassador responded that the U.S. was also open to dialogue but that the [...]
2006-03-28 13:48:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL ZI
06HAVANA10189CARTAS DE CUBA, SPRING 2006
[...] (U) The latest installment of Cartas de Cuba features the following items: - GOC Delirious Over HRC Win - PR on the Prowl - PR vs. BR - Robinson Liked His Whiskey - Party Shuffle - Feisty - New Strategy: Give 'Em Money, Make 'Em Spend It - Just Below the Surface - CDRs... Who [...]
2006-05-12 16:54:00US Interests Section HavanaSECRETPGOV PINR PINS ECON EFIN EAGR SOCI UN CU
06HAVANA11234CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP
[...] (C) Summary: The health of hunger-striking dissident Guillermo Farinas has taken a turn for the worse, and he is threatening to leave his hospital to "go home to die." The "Ladies in White" are to be awarded Human Rights First's annual prize. Activists reacted positively to their May 24 con [...]
2006-05-26 21:12:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA11516"FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC CUBA" INSPIRE ACTIVISTS,
[...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists got a boost from the May 24 conference call with the "Group of Friends of Democratic Cuba," a loose alliance of US Representatives, European diplomats in Washington, prominent members of the Miami exile community and others. One of the activist part [...]
2006-06-02 20:53:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA11650CARTAS DE CUBA: EARLY SUMMER EDITION
[...] (SBU) This edition of "Cartas" features the following items: -- Paras 2-4 Medical Malpractice -- 5-8 Baseball, Music and Racism -- 9-11 China Syndrome -- 12-19 Diplomatic Corps Reflections -- 20-22 Bracing for the NAM ------------------- MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ------------------- 2. (U) NEWS: US [...]
2006-06-05 19:32:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA17126CUBAN ACTIVISTS REACHING OUT TO NAM PARTICIPANTS
[...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White" have started distributing a letter to nations that will participate in or observe Havana's September 11-16 meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement. The letter calls on foreign governments to request the immediate, unconditional liberation of Cuba's peaceful p [...]
2006-08-30 20:40:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23634CUBAN PARLIAMENT: NO FIDEL; RAUL ADMITS PROBLEMS
[...] (C) Summary: Friday December 22 was Cuba's annual parliamentary session, at which Raul Castro permitted public admission of shortcomings in transportation, agriculture and housing, just after the economy minister bragged that Cuba grew by 12.5 percent in 2006. Parliamentary president Ricardo [...]
2006-12-26 18:40:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CU
06HELSINKI1193DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNIFIED APPROACH TO
[...] (SBU) On 29 November, DCM delivered demarche to Finnish Foreign Ministry Political Director Pilvi-Sisko Vierros Villeneuve. Vierros Villeneuve welcomed US points on Georgia and agreed that maintaining US-EU unity is crucial. 2. (C) On Moldova, Vierros Villeneuve also fully agreed on the ne [...]
2006-11-30 13:08:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU
06HELSINKI1197EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: FM TUOMIOJA'S SIDEBARS WITH
[...] (C) On 29 November, DCM met with Finnish MFA Political Director Pilvi-Sisko Vierros Villeneuve and discussed FM Erkki Tuomioja's recent consultations with Georgian FM Gela Bezhuashvili and Russian FM Sergei Lavrov on the margins of the 24 November EU-Russia summit. Though Tuomioja's initial g [...]
2006-12-01 12:38:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL RU GG FI
06HELSINKI701FINNISH U/S OFFERS UPDATE ON EU PRESIDENCY'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF welcomes Israel's announcement that it could eventually accept NATO peacekeepers in Lebanon. However, U/S for Political Affairs Lyra suggested that an EU- or UN-led force -- perhaps with NATO support under Berlin Plus arrangements -- would be better than a strictly NATO-l [...]
2006-07-24 12:54:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV MOPS EUN FI
06HELSINKI725FINNISH EU PRESIDENCY ON EXTRAORDINARY AUG. 1 GAERC
[...] (C) Summary: A/DCM met with Finnish MFA European Correspondent Jarno Syrjala to discuss the Aug. 1 extraordinary GAERC. Syrjala also offered the latest Finnish EU Presidency thinking regarding a potential international force for Lebanon. End Summary. 2. (C) Regarding the GAERC agenda, Syr [...]
2006-07-28 14:40:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MOPS EUN FI
06HELSINKI816FINLAND: PRESIDENCY UPPING SRI LANKA INVOLVEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-16 13:27:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CE EUN FI
06HELSINKI842FINLAND TO STRONGLY URGE SYRIA TO RESPECT LEBANON
[...] (C) Summary: DCM and PolChief met with MFA Political Director Vierros-Villeneuve Aug. 22 to express US disappointment regarding the Aug. 23 visit of Syrian FM Walid Al-Moallem to Helsinki; to remind the GOF of the need to isolate Syria diplomatically; and to urge that the Finns use the meeting [...]
2006-08-22 12:25:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV MARR FI SY LE
06IRANRPODUBAI16REACTION TO LARIJANI'S PROPOSAL FOR IRAN-GULF ALLIANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-07 15:35:00Iran RPO DubaiCONFIDENTIALIR PREL
06ISLAMABAD10237DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA AIDS DECLARATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-02 11:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL UNGA KHIV
06ISLAMABAD11267DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] (C) On June 14, poloff delivered Ref A points on the Human Rights Council (HRC) to MFA (UN) Director Shafqat Ali Khan. Khan responded by saying that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) also wants the HRC to get off to a strong start. To that end, the GOP agrees that this initial session of t [...]
2006-06-15 03:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPK PREL UN PHUM
06ISLAMABAD11740POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR DOD U/S RYAN HENRY'S
[...] (S) Embassy Islamabad welcomes your June 25-28 visit to Islamabad. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharraf's goal of "enlightened moderation." Both viewed President Bush,s March vis [...]
2006-06-21 08:22:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPK PREL PGOV MASS
06ISLAMABAD12689PAKISTAN MANPADS COLLECTION PROGRAM: JULY 3 FIELD
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request: please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) On July 3, 2006, poloff and PM/WRA Kabul-based EOD contractor Drew Prater flew to Quetta, Balochistan to assist Government of Pakistan (GOP) Ministry of Interior (MOI) program manager COL Abbas and field manager [...]
2006-07-05 13:34:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPK PREL PGOV MASS
06ISLAMABAD12829DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GUANTANAMO ADMINISTRATIVE
[...] (C) On July 6, Poloff delivered reftel points to the MFA Director for Americas, Diyar Khan. Khan recognized the name of the Pakistani detainee (RABBANI, ABDUL AL-RAHIM GHULAM, US9PK-001460DP) and said that Rabbani has been identified as a Pakistani national. Khan took note of the thirty day [...]
2006-07-07 05:45:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD14096EMBASSY ASSESSMENT OF SUNDAY TIMES JUD TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 21, London,s Sunday Times published a story written by Marie Colvin that detailed a slavery ring run by a member of a USG designated terrorist organization, Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD). The story follows a Pakistani Christian named 'Amir', whose real name is Pervaiz Yaqoob (pl [...]
2006-07-21 14:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER PHUM PK KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD
06ISLAMABAD14208PAKISTANIS EXPEL 58 AFGHANS
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistani authorities turned over 58 Afghan nationals to Afghanistan Sunday from among the more than 200 Afghans rounded up in and around Quetta early last week. It is not known whether any of the 58 have ties to the Taliban, but Embassy contacts say the 58 were among those arreste [...]
2006-07-24 13:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV KTER
06ISLAMABAD14209JULY 24 UPDATE ON GRAND JIRGA
[...] (C) Consulate Peshawar and Post have confirmed July 23 press stories that militants in Waziristan have extended a one-month ceasefire with Government of Pakistan (GOP) army troops until August 25. On July 21, militants also released four Frontier Corps scouts that were being held captive. [...]
2006-07-24 14:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD15637LAHORE POST CLEARANCE REQUEST
[...] Embassy requests post clearance for DCM Peter Bodde, Tanya Bodde, and Theresa Grencik. The party will be visiting post for meetings and a reception. 2. DCM Peter Bodde and Tanya Bodde's itinerary is as follows: August 11 Dep Islamabad on PK 387 at 1500; arrive at 1550. August 12 Dep L [...]
2006-08-08 04:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ASEC SNAR OTRA PK
06ISLAMABAD15977GOP SIGNS CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS MAINTENANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-11 15:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETRD ETTC LY MASS MCAP PINR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD17890JULY 27-29 COALITION SUPPORT FUNDS DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. From July 27-29 CENTCOM J-8 led a team of OSD-Comptroller, OSD-Policy, CENTCOM, Joint Staff and Embassy personnel to discuss Coalition Support Fund (CSF) issues with the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) Joint Staff, military services, and Ministry of Finance. The U.S. delegation [...]
2006-09-08 09:09:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK
06ISLAMABAD17908DEMARCHE ON NAM SUMMIT DELIVERED
[...] (C) Summary: On September 5, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UN-I) Director Haider Shah. Poloff and Shah discussed the issues that might be discussed during the NAM summit in Havana: the UN Security Council race between Guatemala and Venezuela, an internationa [...]
2006-09-08 11:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU PK
06ISLAMABAD18012DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SPEECH ON GWOT DETAINEES,
[...] (C) On September 7, 2006, PolCouns presented Ref A points to MFA (Americas) Director Mansood Khan. Khan appreciated the briefing and requested additional information on draft to establish military commission and the timeline for Congressional action. DCM also presented the same points to Fo [...]
2006-09-12 03:41:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNAF KAWC PHUM PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD20669DEMARCHES DELIVERED: GOP REACTION TO DPRK NUCLEAR
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request -- please see para. 6. 2. (C) Summary: The Government of Pakistan has condemned the nuclear tests conducted by North Korea and is in the process of preparing administrative notices necessary for UNSCR 1718 to take effect in Pakistan. Despite t [...]
2006-10-20 06:29:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKN KNNP PK PREL UN
06ISLAMABAD22323PAKISTAN'S ELITE REACT DIFFERENTLY TO PRESIDENT
[...] (U) On December 4, Indian television network NDTV interviewed President Musharraf in Islamabad for an Indian audience. Although his remarks were reported widely in the international press the day after the interview, Pakistan's news media was slower in picking up the story. During the interv [...]
2006-12-06 12:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PK
06ISLAMABAD3195GOP WILLING TO ACCEPT RETURN OF PAK GITMO DETAINEE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-24 06:33:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKAWC PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD3208PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF CONDEMNS AL-ASKARIYA SHRINE
[...] (C) On February 23, 2006, per reftel instruction, PolCounselor contacted MFA Spokesperson Tasneem Aslam and MFA Americas Director General Sohail Mehmood to urge the Government of Pakistan (GOP) to issue a statement condemning the bombing of the al-Askariya Shrine. He also shared with the MF [...]
2006-02-24 11:44:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIZ KDEM KPAO PGOV PK PREL PTER PAS
06ISLAMABAD3808SLIGHT GAINS FOR PML IN SENATE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) In a follow-up to the January 2nd "retirement" of 50 Senators (reftel A),Members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs) in each of Pakistan's four provinces were charged with electing replacements on March 6. Each Provincial Assembly elected 11 Senators in a secret-ballot overseen by the Provi [...]
2006-03-08 14:31:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV KDEM
06ISLAMABAD4960COORDINATING PAKISTAN PROGRAM FOR SENATOR HAGEL
[...] (SBU) Post is looking forward to the anticipated visit to Islamabad by Senator Chuck Hagel on 12-15 March. We understand from email and telephone communications with Senator Hagel's Legislative Assistant Rexon Ryu that the Senator desires a program addressing his interests as a chair of the [...]
2006-03-24 13:57:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETAMGT PREL OTRA OVIP
06ISLAMABAD5070MFA SEEKS INFORMATION ON 1267 COMMITTEE
[...] (S) Summary: On March 24, MFA Director Tasneem Aslam advised DCM that the GOP seeks "hard evidence" from the USG that could be used in domestic legal proceedings on the implemenation of terror financing sanctions against organizations designated by the UN 1267 Committee. Aslam claimed that [...]
2006-03-27 10:55:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETEFIN ETTC PK PREL PTER KTFN
06ISLAMABAD5357TERRORIST FINANCE: LET AMENDMENT - EMBASSY
[...] (U) This message contains action requests; please see Para. 5. 2 (S) Post has had several opportunities in the past week to update the Government of Pakistan (GOP) on the USG intention to request that the UN 1267 Committee amend the designation of Lashkar-e-Tayyba (LET) to include Jammat-u [...]
2006-03-30 12:46:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPK PREL PTER KTFN UN
06ISLAMABAD5382AMBASSADOR'S BILATERAL TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FOREIGN
[...] (S) Summary: On March 29, Ambassador called on Foreign Secretary Mohammed Riaz Khan to discuss follow-on action SIPDIS after the March 3-4 visit by President Bush, particularly a time frame for the Foreign Secretary's Strategic Dialogue discussions with P - U/S Burns and cooperation on e [...]
2006-03-31 02:48:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL EAID ETRD PGOV PK AF PTER PARM KNNP
06ISLAMABAD5887TERROR FINANCE: INFORMATION DELIVERED ON 1267
[...] (S) On April 5, Poloff delivered Ref A talking points and background papers on Laskhar-e-Tayyba (LET) and Al-Akhtar Trust to MFA (UN) Director Imran Siddiqui. Poloff pressed Siddiqui of the importance the U.S. places on full and vigorous implementation of UN 1267 Committee terror finance sa [...]
2006-04-06 12:52:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL KTFN PTER ETTD PK EFIN
06ISLAMABAD7770PRINCE SULTAN'S VISIT TO PAKISTAN: MOSTLY OPTICS;
[...] (C) Summary. In the week following Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud's April visit to Pakistan, PolCouns sought assessments in separate meetings with the MFA Director General for the Gulf region Sajjad Haider, Saudi Embassy DCM Abdullah Al-Omari and a respected local journalist, Far [...]
2006-05-02 11:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PK SA
06ISTANBUL1749FAITH, REASON AND ANOTHER WORLD: TURKISH REACTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Though Pope Benedict XVI's speech delivered at the University of Regensburg on September 12 is fading from Turkey's headlines, the response from Turks is universally negative and the speech continues to be a topic of conversation. A popular view regards the speech as a call fo [...]
2006-09-25 13:02:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL1750FAITH, REASON AND ANOTHER WORLD: TURKISH REACTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Though Pope Benedict XVI's speech delivered at the University of Regensburg on September 12 is fading from Turkey's headlines, the response from Turks is universally negative and the speech continues to be a topic of conversation. A popular view regards the speech as a call fo [...]
2006-09-25 13:02:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
06JAKARTA10366INDONESIAN PEACEKEEPING PREPARATIONS FOR LEBANON
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesia is preparing to send a 1000 troops to serve in UN-led peacekeeping operations in Lebanon. The composite force includes elements from a range of Indonesian military units, including mechanized and engineering elements. Indonesia lacks airlift capability for transportin [...]
2006-08-16 11:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PFLP PREL ID LE
06JAKARTA1078INDONESIA REACTS TO RELEASE OF CAVR REPORT
[...] (C) Summary. Senior GOI figures and Indonesian politicians have reacted defensively to the allegations of human rights abuses made in the report of East Timor's Committee of Reception, Truth and Verification (reftel). East Timor President Xanana Gusmao presented the report to UN Secretary Gen [...]
2006-01-26 11:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KJUS ID TT
06JAKARTA11582INDONESIA - SEPTEMBER 18 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI)
[...] (SBU) Summary. The National Committee for Avian influenza and Pandemic Response (National AI Committee) brought together on September 15 key representatives from the government of Indonesia (GOI),donor agencies and international organizations to coordinate funding and implementation of inten [...]
2006-09-19 10:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA12547U.S.-INDONESIA SOFA TALKS LAY BASIS FOR POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. delegation's exploratory talks with the Indonesian government on October 5 in Jakarta made considerable headway in establishing a basis of understanding for possible formal negotiation of a bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Embassy shared a draft template text (r [...]
2006-10-13 11:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PREL ID
06JAKARTA12800PAPUA: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DENOUNCE ABEPURA
[...] (C) Summary. A church-affiliated task force has asked Indonesia's National Committee on Human Rights (KomnasHAM) to open an investigation into the conviction and sentencing of 23 men charged in connection with a March 16 riot in Abepura, Papua that led to the death of three unarmed policemen a [...]
2006-10-23 08:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13181NEW ZEALAND DCM CALLS ON JI'S POLITICAL WING
[...] (C) Summary. New Zealand's Deputy Head of Mission briefed us about his meeting with Irfan Awwas, the leader of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI),Jemaah Islamiyah's political wing (his reporting cable has been sent by classified email to EAP/MTS and INR/EAP). Awwas spoke about MMI's goal of p [...]
2006-11-13 07:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KISL SOCI ID
06JAKARTA13329INTER-EMBASSY POLITICAL ISLAM CONTACT GROUP'S
[...] (C) Summary. On November 9, representatives from the British, Canadian, Japanese, New Zealand, Dutch, Singaporean and U.S. embassies in Jakarta met to establish a political Islam contact group; representatives from the Australian and German embassies will participate in future meetings. Most [...]
2006-11-28 23:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA13453ROH, SBY INITIAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN JAKARTA
[...] (C) Summary. On December 4 in Jakarta, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun initialed a comprehensive 32-point "Strategic Partnership" encompassing a wide rage of areas for cooperation. The Partnership serves as a baseline for the development [...]
2006-12-08 11:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG KS ID
06JAKARTA13498YUDHOYONO'S VISIT TO RUSSIA: DEFENSE COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesia and Russia signed a range of intergovernmental and other agreements during the visit of Indonesian President Yudhoyono to Russia November 29-December  [...]
2006-12-15 10:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR EINV EIND ENRG SOCI ID RS
06JAKARTA1651HELPING DENMARK AND OTHER EUROPEANS WEATHER THE
[...] (C) Summary: We have maintained close and cooperative contact with our Danish and Norwegian diplomatic colleagues as violent demonstrators have targeted Danish and American diplomatic missions. We have offered various types of security assistance and weighed in with the GOI at senior levels [...]
2006-02-08 11:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL PTER ASEC ID DA
06JAKARTA1819INDONESIA-U.S. POLITICA-MILITARY TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. and Indonesian delegations held a day of political-military talks February 1 to explore expanded bilateral cooperation following the U.S. decision in November to end restrictions on military-to-military relations. The U.S. delegation, led by Dr. John Hillen, Assistant Secre [...]
2006-02-10 12:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2529REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM POST
[...] AMBASSADOR B. LYNN PASCOE PROPOSES TO BE ABSENT FROM POST FROM SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2006 TO WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2006. PURPOSE WILL BE OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO BANGKOK FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM MEETINGS AT AMERICAN EMBASSY BANGKOK (MARCH 6) AND THE PARTICIPATION IN THE ANNUAL US-ASEAN BOARD MEETING (MARCH [...]
2006-02-24 10:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER OTRA
06JAKARTA3479REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM POST
[...] AMBASSADOR B. LYNN PASCOE PROPOSES TO BE ABSENT FROM POST FROM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2006 TO SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2006. PURPOSE WILL BE OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO SINGAPORE FOR THE CHIEF OF MISSION MEETING WITH DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF (MARCH 29-30) FOLLOWED BY ONE DAY OF PERSONAL LEAVE. PROPOSED SCHEDULE F [...]
2006-03-17 09:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER OTRA
06JAKARTA5483MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTION PREPAREDNESS
[...] Summary. Embassy held a meeting on May 1 to discuss preparedness for a possible eruption of Mount Merapi Volcano, 27 kilometers from the city of Yogyakarta in central Java. The volcano went on level 3 orange alert (ready to erupt) on April 12 and could threaten 200,000 people in the hazard z [...]
2006-05-01 10:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC SENV PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5642JAKARTA WATCHING EAST TIMOR UNREST
[...] (C) On May 4, DCM was called by his Australian and Singaporean counterparts who expressed concern about ongoing unrest in East Timor (reftels). The Australians' analysis of the situation seemed to track with the information Embasy Dili has provided. Australian DCM said that the GOA had alrea [...]
2006-05-04 11:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AS SN TT ID
06JAKARTA5705IRANIAM PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD'S MAY 10 - 13 VISIT
[...] (C) Summary. Prior to participating in the D-8 Summit in Bali on May 12 - 13, Iranian President Ahmadinejad will be hosted to a state visit in Jakarta, including meetings with President Yudhoyono and Foreign Minister Wirajuda as well as meetings with parliamentarians and appearances at univer [...]
2006-05-05 13:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP KISL AORC IR ID
06JAKARTA6653JAKARTA MAY 28 EMBASSY MEETING RE EARTHQUAKE
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador chaired a Sunday, May 28 meeting to discuss the Embassy's posture and reaction to the May 27 earthquake in Central Java, southwest of the city of Yogyakarta. Participants (DCM, POL, ECON, AID, CONS, DAO, ODC, PAS) examined the initial situation reporting, the safet [...]
2006-05-28 06:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC CASC SOCI PREF PGOV SENV ID
06JAKARTA6658INDONESIA: MAY 29 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) Summary: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck early May 27 south of the central Java town of Yogyakarta, causing widespread destruction and high fatalities. The current death toll has reached 5,010 with an additional 14,000 injured in the earthquake, with 8,000 requiring surgery (hospital c [...]
2006-05-29 11:09:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC SOCI PREF PGOV SENV ID
06JAKARTA6823REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM POST
[...] AMBASSADOR B. LYNN PASCOE PROPOSES TO BE ABSENT FROM POST FROM TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2006 TO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006. PURPOSE WILL BE R&R TRAVEL TO THE U.S. AND DEPARTMENT CONSULTATIONS JUNE 19-21. PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOLLOWS: TUESDAY, JUNE 13 5:05PM DEP JAKARTA VIA SQ 161 7:40PM ARR SING [...]
2006-06-01 06:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER OTRA
06JAKARTA7660DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON JUNE 19 - 21 OIC
[...] (C) We met June 15 with Ms. Ratu Silvy Gayatri and Ms. Carolina Tinangon of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs' International Security Directorate to deliver the demarche on the upcoming OIC conference (reftel A). Both officials were quite familiar with our views on Iran's nuclear p [...]
2006-06-16 09:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP IR ID
06JAKARTA8621INDONESIA - JULY 10 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Singaporean Embassy contacts expressed openness to revising key elements in the Singapore-Indonesia- U.S. Tangerang pilot project during a June 29 meeting with U.S. officials. The Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) office in Jakarta has received reports from a reputable private [...]
2006-07-10 11:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA8858JAKARTA EAC MEETING JULY 14
[...] (C) Summary: The Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on July 14 to discuss REFTEL advisory and the possible effect on Indonesia of increased hostilities between Israel and Lebanon. EAC members agreed the issue had traction in Indonesia and that demonstrations were possible. EAC members agre [...]
2006-07-14 10:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALASEC AEMR PTER CASC PGOV ID
06JAKARTA9333AMM TO STAY IN ACEH THROUGH ELECTIONS (NOVEMBER 22)
[...] (C) Summary: Aceh Monitoring Mission chief Peter Feith told the Ambassador in Aceh that the AMM had decided to extend its presence in Aceh through the new elections on November 22, a date which has not yet been announced publicly. The Ambassador, accompanied by USAID Mission Director Frej an [...]
2006-07-25 09:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ID
06KABUL120ELIMINATION/ERADICATION UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: In a series of meetings over the past weeks, INL Kabul and the British Embassy Drugs Team (BEDT) have worked closely with officials from the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) to finalize governor- and centrally-led eradication plans. A key compone [...]
2006-01-10 13:46:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
06KABUL152TERRORISM FINANCE: POST VETTING
[...] (S) POST DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT DESIGNATING HIG AS A PARTY WOULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON ELIMINATING SOURCES OF FUNDING TO GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR, BUT COULD HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THE ONGOING RECONCILIATION PROCESS. AS MENTIONED IN REF A OF REFTEL, THE CURRENT STATUS OF ANY TIES BETWEEN [...]
2006-01-11 13:32:00Embassy KabulSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL PTER ETTC AF
06KABUL1615: PSA ASSESSMENT: FARYAB PREY TO WARLORDS, WEAK
[...] (C) Summary: Afghan and senior international leaders assess that the roots of conflict in Faryab province stem both from the rivalry between the two factions of Junbesh and Azadi, and from the weak governance that allows those private militias to operate. In a recent Provincial Security Asses [...]
2006-04-11 11:19:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC KJUS PREL AF
06KABUL1977PRESIDENT KARZAI'S VISIT TO INDIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Karzai had a productive visit to India earlier this month to discuss a variety of bilateral and regional issues. The visit of President Karzai and his 109 member delegation, including nine parliamentarians, religious leaders, and businessmen, reinforced the close r [...]
2006-05-02 14:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EAID ETRD EFIN MARR AF IN
06KABUL2234EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable ?
[...] EXBS: The Afghanistan EXBS Advisor issued invitations to the Senior Advisor to the Minister of Commerce and to the Director of International Transit and Trade KABUL 00002234 006.3 OF 006 Facilitation to participate as observers at the 8th Central Asia and Caucasus Regional Forum on Exp [...]
2006-05-16 14:51:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AF
06KABUL2285OPTIONS FOR US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
[...] (SBU) Officials from the Japanese Embassy in Kabul are anxious to restart work on their portion of the Ring Road between Kandahar and Herat as soon as possible. The Japanese Government is considering all options, including recontracting the work to a non-Japanese contractor. The US Army Corps o [...]
2006-05-20 07:50:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ELTN AF
06KABUL2366REPORT FROM KANDAHAR: CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN U.S.
[...] (S) Conflicting reports about the U.S.-led forces (CJSOTF) attack the evening of May 21 on the village of Azizi in Panjwai district about 25 kilometers from Kandahar City reflect, in part, an ongoing Taliban psychological operations (psyops) campaign to misrepresent coalition military operat [...]
2006-05-24 16:01:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL PGOV EAID PTER AF
06KABUL2386BILATERAL DETAINEE AGREEMENTS WITH THE GOA
[...] (C) Summary: Four nations ) Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the U.K. ) have signed bilateral agreements with the Government of Afghanistan concerning the transfer of detainees. With the exception of Denmark, these nations are already engaged in military action as part of OEF or are lo [...]
2006-05-25 06:54:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PTER PREL AF
06KABUL2424PRT/TARIN KOWT - URUZGAN'S DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Governor Monib, of Uruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan, has been on the job for two months and is still working to build up functioning institutions from the administrative rubble left behind by his incompetent and corrupt predecessor. Visits to Tarin Kowt in recent days b [...]
2006-05-29 12:42:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL2425PRT-QALAT - GOVERNOR ARMAN'S FIRST YEAR IN ZABUL:
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Governor Arman has been a strong governor and, overall, Zabul Province has improved over the past year. However, as he well realizes, security and high-level visits are not enough for effective government, and the GoA still lacks the ability to provide goods and services to its [...]
2006-05-29 12:43:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC SNAR KCRS AF
06KABUL2436SITREP 5/29 1600: MILITARY CONVOY ACCIDENT LEADS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A vehicle accident on the outskirts of Kabul involving a US military supply convoy resulted in at least one Afghan casualty and led to rioting around Kabul on May 29. The situation in Kabul as of 1600 local time was calm except for some small protests in the northwestern suburbs [...]
2006-05-29 13:55:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PTER AF
06KABUL2473PARLIAMENT REACTS TO CONVOY CRASH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Both houses of the Afghan Parliament resumed debate on security in closed session on Tuesday, May 30. According to MPs, the US military convoy vehicle accident of May 29 was discussed, but debate quickly moved to larger security issues. No statements were made calling into quest [...]
2006-05-30 14:26:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PINS AF
06KABUL2512PARLIAMENT'S STATEMENT ON US CONVOY ACCIDENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 31, the Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan National Assembly) issued a press release summarizing its debate on the US convoy crash on May 29. The release called for legal action against those responsible for the crash. While the release is non-binding, it accurately [...]
2006-06-01 13:11:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PINS AF
06KABUL2551PARLIAMENT APPROVES REVISED BUDGET
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Afghan National Assembly approved a revised national budget, including modest increases in government salaries and payments to the disabled, on June 3. The new budget, which did not go above the previously agreed ceiling, accommodates Parliament's most significant concerns; [...]
2006-06-04 14:03:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR ECON EFIN KDEM AF
06KABUL2619COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BRENT HARTLEY AND
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Brent Hartley, EUR/RPM Incoming Principal Deputy Director and Richard Olson, Incoming DCM USNATO, and grants country clearance for their visit to Afghanistan on June 12-14, 2006, to participate in a delegation led by SACEUR General Jones. Control Officer is Marie Richa [...]
2006-06-08 12:30:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PTER ASEC PREL AF
06KABUL265PRT/KHOST: BOMBINGS IN KHOST TARGET CIVILIANS; NEW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-18 10:27:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER
06KABUL2707AFGHAN BUDGET DEBATE (C-NE6-00713)
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable is a response to Department's request for additional reporting on the Afghan National Assembly debate on the budget (REF A). END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Below are the responses, by question: A. What were the major points of debate on the budget? Please see REF C, par [...]
2006-06-14 10:44:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPINR ECIN ECON PGOV AF
06KABUL2727PARLIAMENT'S FIRST SESSION: REVIEW AND ATMOSPHERICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Afghan National Assembly ended its first session on June 5 having achieved several key milestones, including the confirmation of 20 ministers and the passage of the budget. Notable trends in the first session of Parliament included occasional hints of ethnic divisions beneat [...]
2006-06-15 11:13:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL2932EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable -
[...] (U) The Border Management Initiative (BMI) has identified immediate needs at the Islam Qalah Border Crossing Point (BCP). Working with Afghan ministries, CFC- A, CSTC-A, USAID/Bearing Point and international donors, BMI has identified areas of concern that are being addressed within the tim [...]
2006-06-28 11:02:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AF
06KABUL3001KHOWST DLEGATION PRESS FOR NEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A delegation of elders and a parliamentarian from Khowst Province told A/DCM and PRTOff June 19 that Governor Merajoddin Pathan's administration is overrepresented by former Communist government officials, leading to weakening of GOA legitimacy in Khowst. The group warned ant [...]
2006-07-05 13:11:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM AF
06KABUL3123PRT/KHOWST - TAKING THE ERRATIC POLITICAL PULSE OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Khowst's July 2, IRI-sponsored town hall meeting for GOA officials to discuss security, corruption, and reconstruction issues devolved into a heated series of speeches denouncing and defending the GOA, local officials, and the international community. Two MPs made negative rem [...]
2006-07-12 13:01:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL3179DEPT FOR THE PREVENTION OF VICE AND THE PROMOTION
[...] (C) The feared Department of the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue that existed during and before the Taliban era may resurface again if Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice Shinwari has his way. Two months ago, at a meeting of the National Ulema Council for Afghanistan, Shinwari and [...]
2006-07-17 08:11:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI PINR AF
06KABUL328KANDAHAR: A GOVENOR'S INTENTIONS
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Neumann and senior Embassy staff had several meetings with the Governor of Kandahar, Asadullah Khalid, between December 26, 2005 and January 14, 2006. In these meetings Govenor Khalid spoke about his intention to fight illegal poppy cultivation, detailed his problem with the m [...]
2006-01-24 13:30:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
06KABUL339PRT/TARIN KOWT: AUSTRALIANS LOOK KEENLY AT TARIN
[...] (S/NF) Summary: After Australia,s agreement in principle to send a PRT team to Afghanistan this year, the Australian Force Commander and his POLAD have proposed to Canberra to embed a small number of Australian military personnel in the Tarin Kowt PRT in order to learn more about its operation [...]
2006-01-25 10:55:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR NL AF AS
06KABUL3449MP FAIZULLAH ZAKI HEALTHY, FOCUSED ON STABILITY IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In an August 1 meeting with DCM, Faizullah Zaki, MP from Jowzjan, pronounced himself in good health, and interested in downplaying the attack on him in June (REFTEL). While not explicitly stating that Dostum was behind the attack, Zaki said that he wanted to minimize reaction to [...]
2006-08-02 09:24:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL3456INTERIOR MINISTER ZARAR ON KOREAN CHRISTIANS:
[...] (C) DCM, accompanied by polmiloff, met Minister of Interior Zarar Moqbil today, August 2, to deliver reftel demarche regarding the planned August 5-7 "peace rally" organized by a South Korean NGO. DCM noted USG concern for the safety of U.S.citizens and expressed U.S. support for the GOA in [...]
2006-08-02 16:51:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CASC AF
06KABUL3479KOREAN RALLY UPDATE, THURSDAY 08-03-2006
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Karzai has ordered the "protection" of the estimated 1,200 ethnic Koreans in Afghanistan as part of the Institution of Asian Culture and Development,s (IACD) and Millennium Pacific Icon (MPIG) groups' planned August 5-7 peace rallies (reftels). According to Gen. Akhbar [...]
2006-08-03 16:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALCASC PGOV PHUM PREL PTER AF KS
06KABUL3481KOREAN RALLY: MOI/MOD CONTINGENCY PLANS
[...] (C) CSTC-A Commander MG Durbin called a meeting on Aug 4 afternoon to brief Emboffs on MoI planning and MoI-MoD coordination (CSTC has embedded mentors in both Ministries) with regard any demonstration or rally held by the Koreans now in Afghanistan. MG Durbin emphasized that although Ministe [...]
2006-08-04 17:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALCASC PGOV ASEC PREL PHUM AF KS
06KABUL3597GOA VIEWS ON THE PROPOSED DEPT OF VICE AND VIRTUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister for Religious Affairs and the Hajj, in whose ministry the proposed Department for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue would be located, is a strong supporter for the reinstatement of the Department. Minister Shirani met with Ambassador Neumann on August 8 [...]
2006-08-13 06:55:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM AF
06KABUL3850DEMARCHE REQUEST FOR JAPANESE RING ROAD
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Representatives of Embassy Economic Section, CFC-A, USAID/Afghanistan, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District (AED) have held several recent meetings with the Japanese Embassy to discuss the status of suspended work on their 114- kil [...]
2006-08-29 10:16:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ETRN ELTN SNAR ASEC AF
06KABUL3851DEMARCHE REQUEST FOR JAPANESE RING ROAD
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Representatives of Embassy Economic Section, CFC-A, USAID/Afghanistan, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District (AED) have held several recent meetings with the Japanese Embassy to discuss the status of suspended work on their 114- kil [...]
2006-08-29 10:17:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ETRN ELTN SNAR ASEC AF
06KABUL3852DEMARCHE REQUEST FOR JAPANESE RING ROAD
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Representatives of Embassy Economic Section, CFC-A, USAID/Afghanistan, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District (AED) have held several recent meetings with the Japanese Embassy to discuss the status of suspended work on their 114-kilo [...]
2006-08-29 10:17:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ETRN ELTN SNAR ASEC AF
06KABUL3853DEMARCHE REQUEST FOR JAPANESE RING ROAD
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Representatives of Embassy Economic Section, CFC-A, USAID/Afghanistan, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District (AED) have held several recent meetings with the Japanese Embassy to discuss the status of suspended work on their 114-kilo [...]
2006-08-29 10:18:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ETRN ELTN SNAR ASEC AF
06KABUL3975PRT/TARIN KOWT:AMBASSADOR EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Neumann promised Governor Munib and leaders of Uruzgan, that the U.S. would remain committed to assisting with security and reconstruction, and work closely with our Dutch and Australian partners, during his August 27 visit to PRT Tarin Kowt. He explained that with Mun [...]
2006-09-05 13:29:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL4062PRESIDENT MUSHARAF'S VISIT TO KABUL: LAYING THE
[...] (C) Keenly aware of domestic skepticism over Pakistan's claims that it is committed to controlling cross-border elements of the ongoing insurgency, President Karzai nevertheless made the decision to host a very public visit by President Musharaf to Kabul on September 6-7. The theme of the vis [...]
2006-09-11 03:19:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PK AF
06KABUL417DEBATE BUT NO ACTION IN PARLIAMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The National Assembly's first week in session after a holiday recess was marked by heated debate over procedures for approval of the Cabinet and travel by Members of Parliament overseas. After initially agreeing to approve the Cabinet Minister by Minister, the Wolesi Jirga (lowe [...]
2006-01-30 14:10:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL4232AFGHAN POLICE REFORM: CIVIL ORDER MAINTENANCE -
[...] (C/REL CAN) Summary: Ongoing Afghan National Police (ANP) reform efforts are focused on removing corrupt/incompetent leadership, increasing the quality of training and equipment, and "rebalancing"/augmenting the force in favor of provinces with the greatest security needs. As important as the [...]
2006-09-18 11:40:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV AF
06KABUL426FREED EDITOR ASKS FOR US FUNDING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/DCM and EMBOFFS met with freed editor Ali Mohaqeq Nasab. He expressed thanks for the Embassy's efforts to influence his release and asked for substantial funding to supplement his women's rights publication and other endeavors. While funding for the scale of projects Nasab w [...]
2006-01-31 11:37:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL4317EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable -
[...] (SBU) UNODC held a workshop with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) Afghan Border Police (ABP) to discuss ways of improving cross-border crime detection and interception with Afghanistan's neighboring countries Iran and Pakistan. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Finance (MoF) Afghan Customs Depar [...]
2006-09-21 11:58:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM PREL ETRD KSTC KNNP AF
06KABUL443CABINET DOWNSIZING: WILL THE AFHAN MINISTRY OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a January 25 meeting with A/DCM and POLOFFs, Minister of Women's Affairs Massouda Jalal expressed concern that the Ministry of Women's Affairs might not survive a possible upcoming cabinet reorganization. Karzai has indeed said that he would like to streamline his Cabinet [...]
2006-02-01 12:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KWMN AF
06KABUL4779TRIBAL AFFAIRS MINISTER ON SECURITY AND BORDER
[...] (C) During an October 1 courtesy call, Minister of Frontier and Tribal Affairs Abdul Karim Brahowie blamed Pakistan for Afghanistan's security woes. While no concrete results have been seen from the North Waziristan agreement, the Minister sees a role for tribal leaders in reducing border ten [...]
2006-10-04 02:51:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL4783PAG REPORT OCT 2: MOVING ON GOVERNANCE AND AUX POLICE
[...] (C) The October 2 Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting agreed on an general action plan for Afghan Development Zones (ADZs). Two GOA teams will be going to Helmand and Kandahar provinces to assess the state of governance there, with the aim of identifying and removing incompetent or corrupt offi [...]
2006-10-04 05:32:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALAF NOTAG
06KABUL490QANOONI DENIES INTEREST IN PRIME MINISTRY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 4 meeting with DCM and POLOFFs, Wolesi Jirga Speaker Yunus Qanooni denied interest in creating the post of Prime Minister. He reiterated his interest in a close relationship with President Karzai and the United States and stated that the Parliament had higher prio [...]
2006-02-05 11:32:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL495GOVERNOR DISCUSSES DISARMAMENT IN THE PANJSHIR
[...] (U) Disarmament is still a problem in Panjshir, according to Governor Haji Bahlul, who met with the DCM on February 4. Bahlul praised the PRT's work and said that the relatively permissive security posture (the Panjshir PRT is the first to be led by a civilian) has helped improve community-PRT [...]
2006-02-05 13:04:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC PREL PINR AF
06KABUL4965SECOND TRANSFER OF AFGHAN DETAINEES INTO THE
[...] (S) Polmiloff delivered reftel message on October 8 to Jamil Bahramy, an official of the Afghan National Security Council. Bahramy was aware of the impending transfer, thanked polmiloff for the confirmation, and acknowledged GOA responsibilities under the August 2005 exchange of diplomatic no [...]
2006-10-11 03:24:00Embassy KabulSECRETPTER KAWC PINR PREL AF
06KABUL4990GOA'S PLANS AND EXPECTATIONS FOR THE CROSS-BORDER
[...] (C) NSA Dr. Zalmay Rasool met with Charge on October 11 to review the GOA's expectations regarding the grand jirgas agreed to during the September 27 trilateral dinner with President Bush. Rasool said the focus should be on security issues in the border region and the goal would be to mobiliz [...]
2006-10-11 14:57:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL5025PRT KANDAHAR/HELMAND: SECURITY CONCERNS TAKE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Taliban elements have re-infiltrated into parts of the districts of Panjwayi and Zharay. Security incidents in the area have increased, resulting in the deaths of six Canadian soldiers since late September. Canadian forces first shifted into a defensive position to get rein [...]
2006-10-16 04:56:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5082NOTIFICATION OF SIX AFGHAN DETAINEES CLEARED BY
[...] (S) On October 6, Afghan PTS point-of-contact Khadigal Hamdard, Chief of Inquiry, Intelligence Directorate, Ministry of Interior, informed CSTC-A Director of Detainee Affairs Colonel William Hart that the GOA approves the transfer of the individuals listed in paragraph 2 to Afghanistan and the [...]
2006-10-19 06:52:00Embassy KabulSECRETPINS PTER KAWC AF PHUM
06KABUL5106PRT JALALABAD: NANGARHAR GOVERNOR,S SECURITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Nangahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai called a special meeting with 200 elders and mullahs from the three southern districts on October 2 to discuss the escalating violence in the province, especially in the south. Representatives from each of the districts spoke, with members of t [...]
2006-10-22 02:32:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5196DEPUTY INTERIOR MIN KHALID: REFORM NEEDED ON
[...] (S) SUMMARY: A/DCM and Polmiloff met with Afghan Deputy Minister of the Interior (MoI) Khalid, Afghan National Police (ANP),General Salihi A. Baiani and Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) Senior Police Advisor Colonel Pitchlynn October 15. In a candid, confidential, and [...]
2006-10-25 09:51:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL5216PRT JALALABAD: PTS RECONCILIATION PROGRAM NANGAHAR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jalalabad PRT Officer met with Khuja Mohammed Naim Sadiq, the Director of the Jalalabad PTS Office, on October 19. Mr. Khuja reported that 115 former Taliban have been processed through his office, although only 25 are on record as having been reconciled through the PTS head [...]
2006-10-26 08:35:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5421PRT TARIN KOWT - GOVERNOR MONIB'S MILITIA
[...] (C) Summary: Uruzgan's Governor Monib formed a militia to make up for a severe shortage of Afghan security forces and open challenges to his authority. He created a militia force of approximately 1300 by reaching out to tribal leaders, many of whom were marginalized by his predecessor. He h [...]
2006-11-10 11:21:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMCAP MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL544VIOLENT PROTESTS CONTINUE INTO SECOND DAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Violent anti-Danish and anti-Western demonstrations continued throughout Afghanistan on Tuesday, February 7. Norwegian-led PRT Maimana in northwestern Afghanistan came under small arms fire and grenade attack from a small group of protesters who breached the PRT perimeter. Dutch [...]
2006-02-07 14:18:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ASEC AF DA NO
06KABUL5444RASSOUL REVIEWS AFGHAN SECURITY SITUATION WITH
[...] (C) National Security Advisor Rassoul used his November 8 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Affairs Richard Boucher to review Afghanistan's evolving security situation, which he characterized as generally improving due to NATO operations in the South, but still affected b [...]
2006-11-13 12:08:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF
06KABUL5499STABILITY AT STAKE IN ZABUL: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Embassy officers visited the Romanian Forward Operating Base (FOB) and the U.S. run Qalat Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Zabul province November 6, where they attended security briefings on Taliban activity and redeployment of artillery assets as well [...]
2006-11-15 09:19:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER MASS AF
06KABUL5584MUSA QALA AGREEMENT: OPPOSING INTERESTS AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two delegations of Helmand Province elders and residents affected by the Musa Qala Agreement, each reflecting opposing forces fighting for control of the district, offered PolCounselor and Lashkar Gah PRTOFF very different assessments of the impact of the Agreement. The first [...]
2006-11-27 01:34:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL PTER PHUM MARR EAID AF
06KABUL5632POLICY ACTION GROUP NOVEMBER 22: ADZ'S AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The November 22 Policy Action Group decided to: - Consider expanding the Afghan Development Zone (ADZ) concept to Regional Command - East (RC-East) while maintaining the focus on RC South; - Limit, for now, the Afghan National Auxiliary Police (ANAP) recruitment, trainin [...]
2006-11-30 03:07:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR SNAR PTER AF
06KABUL5651PRT MEHTARLAM - ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN LAGHMAN
[...] (U) In the aftermath of the (second) attempted assassination of Laghman Governor Gulab Mangal, on October 14, 2006, various theories have emerged to explain the attack. These include: a Taliban attempt to destabilize the government; a local power broker's attempt to maintain political influe [...]
2006-12-03 03:23:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL5653PAKISTAN AMBASSADOR QUESTIONS JIRGAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During November 28-29 meetings with the Ambassador, Pakistan Ambassador to Afganistan Sardar Tariq Azizuddin, noting that he was speaking personally without instructions, raised fundamental questions on the meaning and purpose of the cross-border jirgas. Searching for possible al [...]
2006-12-03 06:38:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALAF ASEC MARR MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06KABUL5675EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable - October
[...] (SBU) During this reporting period the EXBS Advisor solicited the assistance of the Afghan Engineering District (AED) to prepare a Statement of Work (SOW) for upgrading the perimeter security at the Kabul International Airport (KIA). The EXBS Advisor has also coordinated the efforts of DynCo [...]
2006-12-04 11:32:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AF
06KABUL5678PAG NOVEMBER 30: TESTING MUSA QALA
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The November 30 PAG focused on the Musa Qala agreement and the need to reach a PAG common line. The PAG reviewed an ISAF paper but put off any decision on it for the following week. We think the paper does not reflect recent intelligence showing that the Taliban are seeking to [...]
2006-12-04 11:51:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF MOPS
06KABUL5695PRT TARIN KOWT - SHURA HELD IN CAHAR SINEH, URUZGAN PROVINCE
[...] (C) Summary - Uruzgan Governor Monib convened a shura of Cahar Cineh District residents in late September to exhort those supporting the Taliban to work with him to resolve issues peacefully, stop growing poppies, and support efforts to establish security in the province. The governor also [...]
2006-12-05 12:39:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMCAP MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL5696PRT TARIN KOWT - SHURA HELD IN CAHAR SINEH, URUZGAN PROVINCE
[...] (C) Summary - Uruzgan Governor Monib convened a shura of Cahar Cineh District residents in late September to exhort those supporting the Taliban to work with him to resolve issues peacefully, stop growing poppies, and support efforts to establish security in the province. The governor also [...]
2006-12-05 12:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMCAP MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL5865PRT KANDAHAR: ANAP IMPLEMENTATION SNAPSHOT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Afghanistan National Auxiliary Police program (ANAP) is underway in Kandahar. Chief of Police General Esmatullah Alizai, accompanied by Kandahar PRT(KPRT),has convened three recruiting shuras. A large training class of nearly 300 recruits just graduated from the RTC, and [...]
2006-12-16 11:27:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL5879PRT JALALABAD - POSSIBLE CHANGE IN NANGARHAR
[...] (C) Provincial Council Chief Fazlhadi Muslimyar informed PRT officials November 26 of a possible change in the Deputy Governor position, currently held by Mohammad Allam Isaqzai, who Muslimyar said is a candidate for Deputy in the Ministry of Interior in Kabul. 2. (C) Muslimyar reporte [...]
2006-12-17 07:57:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMCAP MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL5930FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE AFGHAN PARLIAMENT
[...] (U) On December 20, the Afghan Parliament marked its first anniversary with a briefing to the international community and the press in the Wolesi Jirga on the year's progress. The ceremony was attended by almost 100 members of the diplomatic corps, Coalition Force, UNAMA representatives, membe [...]
2006-12-23 08:46:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PINR PREL AF
06KABUL611ISAF TRANSITION COULD DECREASE DEVELOPMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A FACTOR COMPLICATING THE HAND-OVER OF U.S. PRTS TO ISAF IN THE PHASE III TRANSITION IS THE DIFFERING VIEWS AMONG THE NATO MEMBERS ABOUT THE ROLE TO BE PLAYED BY CIVILIANS AND BY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN THE PRT CONTEXT. CURRENTLY, AT EACH COALITION-LED PRT, THE U.S. SPENDS AN [...]
2006-02-12 06:33:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ASEC ECON AF
06KABUL686POLITICAL GROUPS IN PARLIAMENT FAIL TO TAKE HOLD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan National Assembly) has decided to defer formation of political groups and move directly to committee membership selection. The Meshrano Jirga (upper house),which announced its formal political groups last week, is considering disba [...]
2006-02-15 05:08:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL725ISAF RESPONSE TO ANTI-CARTOON RIOTS: "RESTRAINT,"
[...] Summary: Last week,s cartoon-related demonstrations, several of them violent and with loss of life, provide an opportunity to assess ISAF,s capability and willingness to respond to violent confrontations in its current areas of responsibility (RACs North and West, and Kabul). In Maimana, the [...]
2006-02-17 11:49:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS AF
06KABUL749DOHA II PLANNING - DONATION REQUESTS TO FOCUS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senior German Police Advisor Ambassador Frick told USG representatives that Doha II is conceived as a donors, conference with emphasis on the Afghan Border Police and shortfalls in the Law and Order Trust Fund Afghanistan (LOTFA),but not customs issues. He said it will be a [...]
2006-02-21 10:18:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR EFIN MARR AF
06KABUL778MEDIA CLIMATE CAUTIOUS AS "UN-ISLAMIC" TV STATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Afghan officials continue to fine or warn Afghan media outlets against broadcasting programming which is counter to Afghan culture or law. This month, the government fined Afghan TV $1000 for broadcasting "un-Islamic" material; Governor Joma Khan Hamdard of Jowzjan warned two loca [...]
2006-02-23 04:06:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALECPS PGOV PINR SCUL AF
06KABUL813CORRECTED COPY: POLITICAL GROUPS IN PARLIAMENT
[...] (SBU/REL ISAF) SUMMARY. The Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan National Assembly) has decided to defer formation of political groups and move directly to committee membership selection. The Meshrano Jirga (upper house),which announced its formal political groups last week, is consideri [...]
2006-02-25 05:14:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL839PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...]
2006-02-27 06:30:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL851PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...]
2006-02-27 09:08:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL852PRT/GHAZNI - GOVERNOR CONSIDERS SUPPORTING NEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ghazni Governor Sher Alam, frustrated by his inability to maintain security in several of Ghazni's Pashtun provinces and perhaps also desiring to re- institute a security network that is loyal to him, has in recent weeks created or talked of creating informal armed forces outsi [...]
2006-02-27 10:01:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR PTER PINR AF
06KABUL942PRT HERAT - HERAT'S ASHURA RIOTS: THE HEAVY HAND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the surface, the February 9-10 Sunni-Shia riots in Herat were a seamless transition from a "spontaneous" February 7 protest against the Prophet Mohammed caricatures. We believe, however, the riots were in part the result of political connivance by Energy Minister and former H [...]
2006-03-05 14:01:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
06KATHMANDU102NEPALI CONGRESS PARTY (DEMOCRATIC) CONVENTION
[...] (U) At its general convention January 5 to 9, the Nepali Congress (Democratic) Party (NC(D)) decided to remove the term "constitutional monarchy" from the party's statute. The NC(D) stated its position that elections to a constituent assembly were the only solution to the current political and [...]
2006-01-10 10:43:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1090SEVEN MEMBER CABINET FORMED
[...] (U) Prime Minister GP Koirala announced a seven-member cabinet on the afternoon of May 2, adding he would expand the Cabinet to 21 members in the future. Key members include KP Oli, CPN-UML as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Krishna Sitaula, Nepali Congress (NC),as Home Minister, [...]
2006-05-02 09:20:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1190PM KOIRALA TO U.S.: WE WELCOME SUPPORT AND HELP
[...] (C) PM Koirala thanked A/S Boucher and NSC Senior Director Millard for U.S. support, and said more help would be needed as Nepal tries to become peaceful and prosperous. He agreed that the government needed to find a way to institute a ceasefire that will hold, and to get the Maoists to turn [...]
2006-05-09 07:55:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID NP IN UK
06KATHMANDU1191INDIAN AND UK AMBASSADORS BRIEF BOUCHER AND NSC
[...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with A/S Boucher, NSC Senior Director Elisabeth Millard, the Ambassador and Acting DCM, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee and U.K. Ambassador Keith Bloomfield said they expected the remaining seats in a 21-member cabinet would be filled May 3 or 4. Mukherjee s [...]
2006-05-09 08:00:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PTER NP IN UK
06KATHMANDU1239DEFENSE SECRETARY: GOVERNMENT'S RELATIONSHIP WITH
[...] (C) Bishnu Dutta Uprety, Ministry of Defense Secretary, told A/DCM and Pol/Econ Chief May 12 that the Ministry of Defense would soon become a "player." Uprety said that Prime Minister Koirala had stressed to him that the focal point for military policy issues must be the Ministry of Defense, a [...]
2006-05-12 11:44:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR NP
06KATHMANDU1377NEPAL: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOR MAY
[...] (SBU) At the May 24 meeting of Post's avian influenza working group chaired by the A/DCM, Emboff reported that a World Bank (WB) "pre-appraisal" mission (team) decided in April to use USD 10-15 million of their normal annual assistance to Nepal to fund a three-year project to support the Gover [...]
2006-05-31 08:11:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID KSCA SOCI TBIO PREL WHO NP
06KATHMANDU1429DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR PROFESSOR RUTH WEDGWOOD'S
[...] On June 5, 2006 A/DCM Larry Schwartz met with Acting Foreign Secretary Pradeep Kumar Khatiwada to seek Nepal's support for Professor Ruth Wedgwood's re-election to the U.N. Human Rights Committee. The A/DCM specifically highlighted Ms. Wedgwood's commitment to human rights and trafficking as [...]
2006-06-05 11:44:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC PREL NP US
06KATHMANDU1430DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) On June 5, 2006, drawing from points in reftel, A/DCM Larry Schwartz met with Acting Foreign Secretary Pradeep Kumar Khatiwada to express the USG's strong disappointment with the Non-Aligned Movement's (NAM) decision to issue their statement on Iran. The Acting Foreign Secretary stated tha [...]
2006-06-05 11:45:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL IAEA KNNP USNC AORC IR NP
06KATHMANDU1431TIBETAN REFUGEES - PRIME MINISTER CAUTIOUS ON NEXT
[...] (C) During a June 5 meeting with Prime Minister Koirala, Ambassador Moriarty and A/DCM Schwartz raised the USG proposal to resettle Tibetan refugees in the United States. The Ambassador told the Prime Minister that the U.S. planned to offer 5000 Tibetan refugees asylum in the United States. T [...]
2006-06-05 12:00:00Embassy KathmanduSECRET//NOFORNPREF CH NP
06KATHMANDU1432PRIME MINISTER BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON UPCOMING NEW
[...] (S/NF) Ambassador Moriarty, accompanied by A/DCM Schwartz met June 5 with Prime Minister G.P Koirala and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Chalise on the eve of the Prime Minister,s upcoming visit to New Delhi. Although press accounts have speculated that the trip will focus on economic and trade [...]
2006-06-05 12:02:00Embassy KathmanduSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU1464MAOISTS PRESSING THEIR ADVANTAGE DESPITE CEASE-FIRE
[...] (C) The Maoist spokesperson Mahara again threatened to walk out of peace talks unless the Government of Nepal (GON) dissolved the House of Representatives. The Maoists are still abducting, recruiting, extorting and preventing government officials from doing their jobs in large parts of the co [...]
2006-06-07 11:41:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1504CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF ON HUMAN RIGHTS; MAOISTS
[...] (C) On June 12, the Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by A/DCM and ODC Chief, met with Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa to inform him of the USG decision to return Captain Indiver Rana to Nepal from U.S-based training due to our concerns that he was serving in a unit currently facing s [...]
2006-06-12 11:08:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1510CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF TO RETIRE
[...] (C) Defense Secretary Bishnu Datta Uprety told A/DCM Shelton June 13 that Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa will take official leave starting August 9 and retire from duty as scheduled on September 9. Uprety said that although other rumors were swirling about as to Thapa's successor [...]
2006-06-13 08:43:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV MCAP PINR NP
06KATHMANDU1576MAOISTS-PARTY AGREEMENT ON INTERIM GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Just one day after a Government-Maoist announcement that summit talks between Maoist leader Prachanda and Prime Minister G.P. Koirala would happen soon (reftel),the two leaders met and Maoist and Party negotiators announced an eight-point agreement on June 16. While the eight points are [...]
2006-06-19 13:18:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1731UN PREVIEWS GON REQUEST FOR PEACE PROCESS SUPPORT
[...] (C) UN Resident Representative Matthew Kahane previewed the eagerly anticipated GON request for support to the United Nations in a briefing for selected countries June 30. Kahane insisted that he could not predict when the UN might receive the letter from the GON, ascribing the delay to dynam [...]
2006-06-30 13:46:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1745CHINESE UPSET OVER TIBETAN REFUGEES
[...] (C) The Government of Nepal (GON) on July 5 refuted the July 4 media reports that it had agreed to the resettlement of 5000 Tibetan refugees to the United States. Media had reported that the PRC had expressed concern to K.P. Oli, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, over the [...]
2006-07-05 12:10:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1866PEACE SECRETARIAT STRAINING TO SUPPORT OPERATIONAL
[...] (C) CDA and A/DCM met July 10 with Vidya Dhar Mallik, Secretary of the Peace Secretariat, to discuss the role the SIPDIS Secretariat was playing in the peace process and the SIPDIS Secretariat's plans for the future. The Secretariat is SIPDIS currently supporting four important commit [...]
2006-07-13 11:50:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1983HOME MINISTER SITAULA: NO DECISIONS BEFORE UN
[...] (C) On July 24, Home Minister and GON negotiation team leader Krishna Sitaula told DCM that the GON and the Maoists would agree on an arms management strategy after meeting with the UN assessment team, scheduled to arrive on July 26. Home Minister Sitaula assured DCM that the Maoists would no [...]
2006-07-25 12:17:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1984PRACHANDA STRIKES OUT AGAINST MAOIST-ONLY
[...] (C) Maoist Supremo Prachanda sent a letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan July 24 protesting that the Government of Nepal (GON) had sent its July 2 request for assistance (ref A) to the UN without consulting the Maoists. The Maoist letter denounced the GON letter for refe [...]
2006-07-25 12:19:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1994DEPUTY PM SHERCHAN: ARMS MANAGEMENT A SECONDARY
[...] (C) On July 25, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Amik Sherchan told DCM that the issue of the management of Maoist arms was secondary to resolving the wider political conflict. Deputy PM Sherchan said that the GON and Maoists had reached a bottleneck over the matter of Nepal Army [...]
2006-07-26 11:16:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU200GOVERNMENT ARRESTS POLITICAL PARTY AND CIVIL
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 11. Summary ------- 2. (C) Citing fears that the Maoists would infiltrate the January 20 mass protest program of the seven-party alliance and turn it violent, the government cut phone services and arrested political party and ci [...]
2006-01-19 11:57:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2004GOVERNMENT AND MAOISTS WRANGLE FOR CONTROL OF
[...] (C) On July 25, Suresh Chalise, Prime Minister GP Koirala's foreign relations adviser, told DCM that the Government of Nepal (GON) was uncertain as to what the Maoists wanted out of the peace process. He accused Maoist Chairman Prachanda of objecting to the spirit of the June 16 eight-point [...]
2006-07-26 11:55:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2253UN TEAM EXPECTED IN KATHMANDU BY SEPTEMBER 1
[...] (C) UNDP Resident Representative Mathew Kahane told DCM August 18 that a small UN team will arrive in Kathmandu by September 1 to start work on the 5-point GON/Maoist request to the UN for assistance (ref A). Kahane said that the five-person team would include representatives of UN technical [...]
2006-08-18 11:50:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2255NEPAL SUPPORTS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador explained the U.S. position on UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1701 on Lebanon to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Oli on August 17. A senior Nepali Foreign Ministry (MFA) official told us August 18 that Nepal completely supports the resolution. Acco [...]
2006-08-18 12:26:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE NP
06KATHMANDU2349GON STRUGGLES WITH MAOIST CHALLENGE
[...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala's Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Chalise told DCM August 29 that the GON is acutely aware of stepped-up Maoist presence in Nepal's urban centers and the deteriorating law and order situation throughout the country. He said that the GON was trying to bind the Maoist ins [...]
2006-08-30 11:50:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2364AMBASSADOR URGES HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
[...] (S) The Ambassador made the case for continued UK political engagement in Nepal in an August 29 meeting with the new British Ambassador. The Ambassador explained why he did not believe a Maoist victory was inevitable. UK Ambassador Hall expressed concern that nothing be done to impede the pe [...]
2006-08-31 12:05:00Embassy KathmanduSECRETPGOV PREL PTER UK NP
06KATHMANDU2434PRIME MINISTER PLANS TO APPOINT NEW HOME MINISTER
[...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert told the Ambassador September 7 that Prime Minister Koirala is probably going to appoint a new Home Minister. Siebert expects incumbent Home Minister Sitaula to keep his position on the Government of Nepal's (GON) negotiating team with Koi [...]
2006-09-08 11:58:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2458NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-11 12:38:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC IR NP
06KATHMANDU247MUNICIPAL ELECTION PRIMER
[...] (U) Fourteen percent of the total number of voters in Nepal live in the 58 municipalities. Voters must be at least 18 and candidates must be at least 21. In the 58 municipalities where February 8 elections are scheduled for over 4,000 seats, depending on population, there are between nine a [...]
2006-01-25 10:56:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS NP
06KATHMANDU2478MAOIST MILITIA AND NEPAL POLICE CLASH OVER
[...] (C) OHCHR told us on September 12 that the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists had decided to pursue the idea of a joint deployment of Nepal Police and Maoist Militia forces to provide security at the Bhutanese refugee camps in Jhapa District (southeastern Nepal). OHCHR said this was d [...]
2006-09-12 13:03:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREF NP
06KATHMANDU2479NEPAL: OHCHR AND NHRC PRESS MAOISTS ON HUMAN
[...] (SBU) On September 11, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal sent a document to the Maoists demanding that they stop human rights abuses and fulfill their commitments in the peace process. The document focused on Maoist killings, abductions, tortur [...]
2006-09-12 13:09:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2488TERRORISM FINANCE: CANDIDATES FOR TRANCHE II OF
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-13 10:30:00Embassy KathmanduSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC NP
06KATHMANDU2489NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-13 10:57:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU NP
06KATHMANDU2491MAOISTS FLEX THEIR MUSCLES
[...] (C) On September 13, the Maoists called a nationwide traffic strike to protest an alleged shipment of weapons from India to the Nepal Army in violation of the government-Maoist cease-fire Code of Conduct. The Government of Nepal (GON) denied these allegations. It said that no weapons had ent [...]
2006-09-13 12:22:00Embassy KathmanduSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2495UN REP MARTIN WAITING FOR COALITION TO AGREE ON
[...] (C) Ian Martin, UN Secretary General Annan's personal representative for the peace process, told the DCM September 11 that in spite of their rhetoric, the Maoists were prepared to move ahead. He remarked that they had recently hammered out a unified position and had taken steps to ensure their [...]
2006-09-14 04:53:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM UN NP
06KATHMANDU2524NEPAL: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) On September 13, the DCM chaired a meeting of Post's avian influenza working group. There have still been no confirmed human or bird cases of avian influenza (AI) in Nepal. The Embassy website is updated with the latest AI fact sheet and the country team has distributed pandemic influe [...]
2006-09-15 10:48:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSCA SOCI PREL WHO NP
06KATHMANDU2551WORLD BANK REP TRIES TO ENGAGE MAOISTS
[...] (C) On September 15, World Bank (WB) Country Representative Ken Ohashi told Emboff that he had requested a meeting with the Maoists' 20-member economic advisory committee, but was rebutted. Frustrated with the Government of Nepal (GON),Ohashi suggested the Maoists should be allowed to run a [...]
2006-09-19 10:26:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2573PM TELLS AMBASSADOR: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
[...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala and Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Chalise told the Ambassador September 21 that the Government of Nepal had to give the Maoists every chance to make peace. Maoist Supremo Prachanda had accepted the PM's demand in a meeting September 17 that Maoist arms management would h [...]
2006-09-21 11:46:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2625BUCKING UP THE PARTIES ON MAOIST ARMS MANAGEMENT
[...] (C) According to various sources, Home Minister and chief Government of Nepal (GON) negotiator Krishna Sitaula is pushing his Seven Party Alliance (SPA) colleagues, including Prime Minister Koirala, to accept a deal that brings the Maoists into an interim government quickly without dealing wi [...]
2006-09-27 11:34:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2776INDIAN CHARGE ADAMANT ON MAOIST ARMS MANAGEMENT,
[...] (C) CDA called on Indian Charge Dr. Kheya Bhattacharya October 18 to discuss UN Nepal peace team leader Ian Martin's trip to New Delhi the day before and the overall status of the peace process. She applauded Prime Minister Koirala's firm stance on the need for the Maoists to disarm before [...]
2006-10-18 12:50:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2790GUATEMALA-VENEZUELA: NEPAL WILL SUPPORT GUATEMALA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-19 12:25:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALUNSC GT VE NP
06KATHMANDU2903PEACE AGREEMENT MOVING CLOSER?
[...] (C) Dr. Shehkar Koirala, Prime Minister G.P. Koirala's nephew and a key member of the Government of Nepal (GON)'s informal talks team, told the DCM October 27 that the two sides were converging on a peace deal. He claimed the GON and the Maoists had managed to reach agreement on nearly all of [...]
2006-10-31 11:27:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MARR NP
06KATHMANDU2917POINTS DELIVERED ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON DPRK
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-02 03:56:00Embassy KathmanduSECRETPARM XX KN NP
06KATHMANDU2960DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OPPOSING CUBA EMBARGO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-03 10:59:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA UN CU NP
06KATHMANDU2962PRIME MINISTER ANGRY INDIA AND EU COSYING UP TO
[...] (C) The Ambassador stressed to Prime Minister Koirala in a meeting November 3 that any arms management agreement with the Maoists had to begin to drain the fear and would thus require substantial domestic and international monitoring. The Ambassador's third point was that the Government of Nep [...]
2006-11-03 12:35:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MARR EU IN NP
06KATHMANDU2994DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-07 10:04:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KTIA UN
06KATHMANDU3000U.S.-NEPAL POLICY AT THE CROSSROADS: SUPPORTING A
[...] (C) With the governing Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists in their second straight day of marathon peace talks, there is increasing expectation in Kathmandu that a peace deal might be on the way. While the text of an actual agreement or agreements could be delayed, the outlines of how Maois [...]
2006-11-07 11:41:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MARR EAID UN EU NP
06KATHMANDU3011SUPPLEMENTAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COUNTRY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-08 10:22:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNHRC NP
06KATHMANDU3012DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE CUBA EMBARGO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-08 10:23:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA CU NP
06KATHMANDU3022NEPAL ARMY: IMPROVING NEPAL'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
[...] (C) In a meeting on November 6 with Ramesh Jung Thapa, Defense Advisor to the Prime Minister, and Bishnu Uprety, Defense Secretary, the DCM delivered ref A talking points, strongly urging the Government of Nepal (GON) to take action on human rights abuses in the Nepal Army (NA). The DCM made [...]
2006-11-09 11:59:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3049UN POLITICAL ADVISOR ON ARMS MANAGEMENT AND UNSC
[...] (C) During a November 13 meeting with DCM, John Norris, political advisor to Ian Martin, the UN Secretary General's Personal Representative to Nepal, provided an update on progress toward a detailed arms management agreement among the governing Seven-Party Alliance (SPA),the Maoists, and th [...]
2006-11-16 08:21:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NP UN
06KATHMANDU3061NOW IS THE TIME FOR UN MONITORS IN NEPAL
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 4. State of Play On Expanded UN Role --------------------------------- 2. (C) On November 17, Acting Foreign Secretary Bhagirath Basnet confirmed to the DCM that Ambassador Acharya, Nepal's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, had del [...]
2006-11-17 11:14:00Embassy KathmanduSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3091NEPAL PEACE DEAL: TEETH, BUT NOT MUCH BITE
[...] (C) The Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists signed a comprehensive peace accord on November 21, after finally coming to a consensus on the remaining sticking points (ref A). Although the accord calls for an end to violence and states that anyone found carrying weapons will be subject to [...]
2006-11-22 10:05:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3103UN PEACE TEAM CHIEF: UN MONITORS URGENTLY REQUIRED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-24 10:30:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3104IMPLEMENTING NEPAL'S PEACE
[...] (C) Three days after the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists signed the "Comprehensive Peace Agreement," the Government and the Maoists are moving to implement its provisions, but considerable challenges lie ahead. Maoist extortion and violence as well as illegal recruitment are continu [...]
2006-11-24 11:05:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MARR EAID UN NP
06KATHMANDU3116NEGOTIATORS FOCUSED ON HOW MANY COMBATANTS WILL
[...] (C) The political adviser to the UN peace team told DCM November 27 that the Government of Nepal and the Maoists were arguing over how many combatants would get jobs in the security forces. John Norris said the issue preventing an arms management agreement was not who was a combatant. The po [...]
2006-11-27 12:14:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3124ARMS MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT: VAGUE WORDING, BUT
[...] (C) On November 28, the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists signed an arms management agreement, in the presence of the UN, creating a concrete mechanism for the separation of Maoist combatants from their weapons. The agreement provides that all Maoist People's Liberation Army (PLA) mem [...]
2006-11-29 12:05:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3224NEPAL: TIBETAN SETTLEMENT LEADERS DESCRIBE
[...] (C) In a December 12 meeting with RefCoord, Tibetan settlement leaders described the lack of employment opportunities for Tibetan youths and the difficulties in obtaining and renewing identification and travel documents from the Government of Nepal (GON). Out of roughly 4,000 Tibetan resident [...]
2006-12-15 06:54:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PREF CH NP
06KATHMANDU3225CENSUS OF FIRST BHUTANESE REFUGEE CAMP CONCLUDED
[...] (C) Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Durable Solutions Officer Kim Roberson reported on December 13 that nearly all Beldangi I camp residents had appeared for the census, which was completed December 8. UNHCR has identified 120 vulnerable cases, of which only 20 had expr [...]
2006-12-15 07:17:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PREF BH NP
06KATHMANDU426BHUTANESE CHIEF JUDGE: REFUGEES ARE NOT CITIZENS
[...] (U) The February 12 English-language daily The Himalayan Times reported that the Bhutanese government-owned "kunselonline" quoted Bhutan's Chief Justice as saying that the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal were not Bhutanese citizens as per Bhutan's 1985 Citizenship Act. Checking kunselonline, the [...]
2006-02-13 12:40:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL NP
06KATHMANDU553REFOULEMENT OF TWO TIBETAN REFUGEES
[...] (C) On February 24, UNHCR Protection officer told Emboff about a case of two sisters, age eight and thirteen, now at the Tibetan Reception Center (TRC),whom the Nepali authorities had turned over to the Chinese authorities in October/November 2005. The UNHCR officer has used two interpreters [...]
2006-02-24 10:35:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF CH NP
06KATHMANDU677 PDAS CAMP REITERATES BUSH MESSAGE ON NEPAL
[...] (U) At a press conference in Kathmandu March 9, visiting PDAS Donald Camp built on President Bush's March 2 statement on Nepal and Ambassador Moriarty's February 15 policy speech to reiterate that the United States wanted to see the King reach out to the political parties and the Maoists give [...]
2006-03-13 12:10:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC SCUL PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO NP
06KATHMANDU689PDAS CAMP VISIT: INDIAN, UK ENVOYS ON STATE OF
[...] (S) Visiting SCA PDAS Camp and the Ambassador alerted the Indian and British ambassadors in a March 9 meeting that the Chief of Army Staff had acknowledged that the Royal Nepalese Army's stocks of ammunition were so low as to have reached a "crisis" point. Indian Ambassador Mukherjee maintain [...]
2006-03-15 11:26:00Embassy KathmanduSECRETPREL PGOV MARR NP
06KATHMANDU77FOREIGN MINISTER PANDEY ON RELATIONS WITH U.S.
[...] (C) In a January 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Pandey repeatedly stressed that good relations with the U.S. was key for Nepal as it tried to balance relations with its two powerful neighbors. Strained relations with the U.S. and India in the wake of the King's February, 2005 [...]
2006-01-09 07:51:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CH IN NP
06KATHMANDU838UPBEAT CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF SEES POSSIBILITY FOR
[...] (C) In a March 28 meeting, Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa told the Ambassador that he thought Nepal could successfully address the Maoist insurgency if enough military, diplomatic, political and economic pressure could be brought to bear on the Maoists. He cited a number of recen [...]
2006-03-29 11:24:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM MASS MOPS MARR NP
06KATHMANDU869NEPAL-INDIA TRANSIT TREATY EXTENDED FOR SEVEN YEARS
[...] (C) India and Nepal extended on March 30 their bilateral transit treaty for seven years, until January 5, 2013. In early January 2006, Indian and Nepali delegations had failed to agree on treaty extension criteria and the treaty was extended only three months until April 6 (reftel). Thus, ti [...]
2006-03-31 12:36:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV BEXP ELTN IN NP
06KATHMANDU908GOVERNMENT PREEMPTIVELY ARRESTS PARTY LEADERS
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 11. Summary ------- 2. (C) Citing fears that the Maoists would infiltrate the April 6-9 peaceful protest program of the seven-party alliance and turn it violent through targeted assassination, the government arrested over 100 po [...]
2006-04-05 12:11:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU962POKHARA: STUNNED NEPALI TOURIST TOWN COPES WITH
[...] (C) Summary: During an April 8-10 visit to the tourist city of Pokhara, A/DCM witnessed an almost total lockdown of the city in the wake of occasionally violent demonstrations, the fatal shooting of one protestor, vandalism of government property and widespread road blockages during a genera [...]
2006-04-13 11:11:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PINS PREL NP
06KATHMANDU964HMGN REPORTS SUPPORT FOR U.S. OBSERVER STATUS IN
[...] (C) During an April 11 conversation on other subjects with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee mentioned that GOI reports from the ongoing South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) sub-ministerial meeting in Dhaka indicated that the Nepal delegation was actively o [...]
2006-04-13 12:01:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL XD NP
06KATHMANDU969WAITING FOR KING'S NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE
[...] (U) On the eighth day of the seven-party alliance nationwide general strike and demonstrations, Nepalis across the country continued to take to the street to participate in pro-democracy protests. Though there was no day-time curfew in Kathmandu on April 13, the government arrested over 200 p [...]
2006-04-13 13:44:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC NP
06KHARTOUM1291SITREP 13: DARFUR SITUATION UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: The following cable outlines current activities and events relating to the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). - Minawi, AbdelWahid, Kiir meeting set for June 2 - June 1 fighting in North Darfur - NRC to return to South Darfur - Musa Hila [...]
2006-06-01 13:04:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MOPS KPKO ABLD ASEC UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1304 Sudan/Darfur - Ibok and Kingibe Describe
[...] Summary: AU's Ibok and Kingibe discussed with Embassy further steps related to DPA implementation, including support for the "peace secretariats." There will be a "signing ceremony" Wednesday in Addis for 40-60 individuals for whom Declarations of Accession to the DPA have been especially [...]
2006-06-05 10:55:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PGOV AU SU
06KHARTOUM1439SUDAN/DARFUR: FUR TRIBAL LEADERS READY FOR PEACE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: SLA/W Leader Abdel Wahid Nur may yet sign the Darfur Peace Agreement, Fur tribal leaders told CDA Hume on June 14. Hume emphasized the USG,s encouragement and support for the peace process, pointing out President Bush,s personal letter to Nur. The leaders -- including some who [...]
2006-06-19 07:16:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPKO MOPS SU AU UN
06KHARTOUM1474PRESIDENT BASHIR TELLS UN AND AU THAT NO TO UN PKO
[...] (C) Immediately after UN Guehenno's and AU Djinnit's carefully worded, but not entirely forthcoming, briefing to 30 or so diplomats afternoon of June 22 on the AU/UN assessment mission, DCM pulled SRSG Pronk aside and asked him what had actually transpired at the meeting among the AU, UN, and [...]
2006-06-22 15:44:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC KPKO MOPS AU SU
06KHARTOUM1475SUDAN/DARFUR: SUDAN REJECTS UN PKO; UN DEVISES
[...] (C) Summary: In separate readouts, joint AU-UN Technical Assessment Mission officials stated that Sudan had decided not to permit a transition from the African Union Mission to Sudan to a UN peacekeeping operation, and a UN military planner provided details about its plans for a transition to [...]
2006-06-22 18:30:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO MARR AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1659DPA IMPLEMENTATION: AU ADMITS DRAMATIC LACK OF
[...] (C) Summary and recommendations: In a frank three- hour discussion among the donors, UNMIS deputy, and AU DPA implementer Sam Ibok, it became clear that the AU was dramatically understaffed and underfunded to lead DPA implementation. Ibok admitted that he will be totally reliant on the UN an [...]
2006-07-13 16:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV US AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM2219KHARTOUM - EAC MEETING: DAMASCUS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
[...] Summary: On September 13, 2006, the Embassy Khartoum Emergency Action Committee met to discuss recent and expected demonstrations within metropolitan Khartoum and the attack on AmEmbassy Damascus and its ramifications for Embassy Khartoum. End Summary. 2. On September 12 a small demon [...]
2006-09-14 09:16:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC SOCI SU PGOV
06KHARTOUM2277IN SUDAN, EGYPT PREFERS THE DEVIL IT KNOWS
[...] (C) In a September 16 meeting with Poloff, Egyptian DCM Osama Shaltout expressed his government's concern for Sudan's political stability in light of recent public unrest, the looming collision between the Sudanese government and the international community on Darfur, and the beheading of jour [...]
2006-09-18 13:58:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SU EG US
06KHARTOUM2347PRESIDENT DECLARES U.S. DIPLOMATS RESTRICTED TO 25
[...] (SBU) U.S. diplomats in Sudan will be restricted to a 25 km radius of the Presidential Palace, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir declared during a September 24 press conference in Khartoum. According to the state-owned Sudan News Agency (SUNA),Bashir said any American official visiting Sudan w [...]
2006-09-25 15:52:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL CVIS US SU
06KHARTOUM2348 Inauguration of El Fasher DPA Implementation Office
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The El Fasher DPA Implementation Office opened officially on September 17. Fully staffing the Peace Secretariat, guiding its operation, and maximizing its potential role in facilitating implementation activities are challenges that must be confronted in the weeks ahead. END SUMM [...]
2006-09-26 06:05:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU
06KHARTOUM2423UNSR PRONK BRIEFS HEADS OF MISSION MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 28, UN Special Representative (UNSR) to Sudan Pronk provided the international community an overview of his recent UN discussions with key partners in Sudan and his briefings to the Security Council and senior UN officials in New York. He laid out his vision of how [...]
2006-10-02 15:20:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PHUM EAID PGOV AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM2427DARFUR: MEETING WITH EU'S HAAVISTO
[...] (C) Summary: In an October 2 discussion with CDA Hume, EU Special Representative to Sudan Pekka Haavisto described his recent meetings in Asmara with rebel leaders and Eritrean officials; the Sudanese government's internal divisions and its refusal to negotiate with the international community [...]
2006-10-03 08:27:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU UN EU
06KHARTOUM2430SUDAN: ENSURING A LEGITIMATE PEACE FOR THE EAST
[...] (C) On October 2, Pol/Econ Chief discussed East issues with SPLM Deputy Secretary General for the North and National Assembly Minority Chair Yassir Arman per Ref A. Yassir said that the SPLM had done much to smooth relations between the National Congress Party (NCP) and Eritrea, and had served [...]
2006-10-03 10:34:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL SU
06KHARTOUM2433NCP INTERVIEW SPARKS POLITICAL ROW
[...] (C) On September 27, Arabic language daily newspaper Al-Intibaha published an account of a recent interview of National Congress Party (NCP) Vice President for Information and Public Affairs Ibrahim Ahmed Omer by London-based Al-Zaman newspaper. In the account, Ibrahim stated that the NCP wou [...]
2006-10-03 12:02:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU
06KHARTOUM2442DARFUR: EGYPTIAN ENGAGEMENT IN HIGH GEAR
[...] (C) Summary: Egyptian engagement with the Sudanese government on the Darfur crisis has moved into high gear. The GoE Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a 90-day Action Plan for Darfur to its embassies, which resembles USG proposals for advancing peace in the region, and the Egyptian ambassador [...]
2006-10-03 16:16:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO PINR SU EG UN
06KHARTOUM2451DARFUR: CHAD AND SUDAN STILL PLAYING IN ONE
[...] (C) Summary: Notwithstanding the August resumption of full diplomatic relations between Sudan and Chad, and promises to expel rebel groups from their respective territories, both countries appear to be continuing support for opposition movements as a means of maintaining political and militar [...]
2006-10-04 13:31:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PHUM KPKO SU CH AU
06KHARTOUM2454DESPERATE ABDULWAHID THREATENS WAR IN KHARTOUM
[...] (U) In a September 28 article in the pan-Arab daily "Asharq Al Awsat," Abdulwahid Al Nur vowed to continue the struggle in Darfur until the Sudanese government grants political rights to the people of the region and recognizes it as a single entity, disarms government-backed militias, allows t [...]
2006-10-05 10:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU ER
06KHARTOUM2489DARFUR: NEW AU FORCE COMMANDER: GENERAL APREZI
[...] (U) Summary: New African Union Force Commander in El Fasher, General Luke (or LKF) Aprezi, laid out his views on major challenges to the AMIS mission in an October 9 meeting with DCM Roberto Powers and Acting Defense Liaison officer Richard Shirley. Aprezi is originally from the Niger River De [...]
2006-10-11 15:25:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SU
06KHARTOUM2761CDA HUME, MFA OFFICIAL KARTI DISCUSS PKO IN DARFUR
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 28 meeting, CDA Hume and State Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Karti discussed the way forward on peacekeeping operations in Darfur following the November 16 Addis Ababa agreement. Addressing issues such as troop levels and financing, CDA Hume encouraged the Sudanes [...]
2006-11-29 14:39:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO AU CLOK CVIS SU US UN
06KHARTOUM2802KHARTOUM - EAC MEETING ON POSSIBLE ATTACK ON EL
[...] On December 5, 2006 an EAC meeting was held at Embassy Khartoum. Present were DCM, POL, MGT, RSO, PAO, CON, USAID, JLE and RAO. The subject was the threat of imminent attack on the capital city of North Darfur State, El Fasher by combined forces of SLA/M and NRF as a follow-up to recent ski [...]
2006-12-06 10:19:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PREL OPDP CASC SU
06KHARTOUM2876DARFUR: NGOS RELOCATE STAFF FROM GEREIDA IDP CAMP
[...] (SBU) At approximately 2130 hours on December 18, armed men believed to be Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/Minawi) elements stole 14 vehicles from three compounds in Gereida, South Darfur. As a result, all humanitarian organizations except the International Committee of the Red Cross [...]
2006-12-19 16:56:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP PGOV
06KHARTOUM2877SUDAN: HAC INTERROGATES USAID PARTNER
[...] (C) The Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) is in the process of collecting information on all humanitarian organizations working in Sudan. The effort appears to be part of an annual exercise aimed at identifying humanitarian staff and assets. The process inc [...]
2006-12-19 16:56:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP
06KHARTOUM417SUDAN: TOTAL AND WHITE NILE PETROLEUM MANEUVER TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The confrontation between Total and the UK-based White Nile Limited (WNL) continues, with both sides claiming the right to develop Block Ba in Southern Sudan. Total, in a consortium that includes Marathon Oil, was granted the concession over 25 years ago by the government in Khar [...]
2006-02-17 12:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALEPET ECON EINV PREL EAID PINR SU
06KHARTOUM456LETTER FROM SUDAN'S PRESIDENT BASHIR TO PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Sudan's President Bashir passed to Charge Hume the following letter to President Bush on Feburary 22 in Khartoum. Original will be pouched to AF/SPG. Septel will report on the meeting. Begin Text: Honorable Mr. President, I have the pleasure to write to you in line with the imp [...]
2006-02-22 12:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL OPDC SU
06KHARTOUM490GOSS DECISION ON SUPER BLOCK B STILL UP IN THE AIR
[...] (SBU) Summary: A February 21 meeting of the GoSS Council of Ministers examined the White Nile Ltd. (WNL) vs. Total dossier on the allocation of Super Block B in Southern Sudan (reftel). After debate, in which a number of ministers expressed displeasure about the genesis of the WNL contract, [...]
2006-02-26 14:41:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV EPET PREL ECON SU
06KHARTOUM513SUDAN: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEW SPLM LEADERSHIP
[...] (U) SUMMARY and COMMENT: In preparation for an upcoming national convention, SPLM Chairman and Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) President Salva Kiir announced the reformation of the SPLM leadership council, dissolved by John Garang just before his death in July 2005. The leadership council [...]
2006-02-28 10:43:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SU
06KHARTOUM545UNMIS HEAD OF OFFICE ON SPLA, JONGLEI CONFLICT,
[...] (SBU) Summary. UNMIS Head of Office in South Sudan James Ellory and CG met on February 24 to discuss security issues in South Sudan, including developments in the SPLA, how to keep a lid on the situation in Jonglei State, and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Ellory expressed frustration wit [...]
2006-03-02 13:07:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MOPS PGOV SU CG UG UN
06KHARTOUM711IMAT UPDATE
[...] (U) This is an action request ) see para 11. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Troika Plus representatives met in Khartoum on March 19 to discuss the current status of the International Military Advisory Team (IMAT). The UK Ministry of Defense is considering bilateral military advising to [...]
2006-03-20 13:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR MOPS SU
06KIEV1082EXBS: Ukraine Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable
[...] On October 1, 2004, ExBS Advisor requested that the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) de-obligate fiscal year 2004 ExBS operational funds for use in fiscal year 2005. Despite numerous written and oral requests since then, the funds remain unavaila [...]
2006-03-21 08:06:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL
06KIEV1110UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a March 20 meeting, Minister of Interior (MVS) Yuri Lutsenko told DCM and former Ambassador to Ukraine Miller that the March 26 elections would go smoothly and election day would likely be calm, despite technical problems with election administration. His Ministry would not [...]
2006-03-23 04:42:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM
06KIEV1127UKRAINE: GOU REQUEST FOR SUPPORT/UNDERSTANDING ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) During a March 13 meeting between EUR DAS Kramer and Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and in a follow-up discussion between DATT and Deputy Defense Minister Leonid Polyakov March 17, the MoD officials requested U.S. assistance [...]
2006-03-23 15:38:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM MOPS
06KIEV1154UKRAINE: MARCH 26 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS -- CAN
[...] (C) Summary: The March 26 parliamentary elections are lining up to be judged free and fair, despite flaws. The campaign was marred by none (or very, very few) of the Kuchma government behavior that seriously eroded confidence in how the fall 2004 presidential elections would be conducted. Ad [...]
2006-03-24 14:24:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD
06KIEV1158UKRAINE: TARASYUK AND TYMOSHENKO REP REPORT NO
[...] (C) Tymoshenko adviser Hryhoriy Nemyrya denied to Ambassador and DCM March 24 that any agreement had been reached among Our Ukraine, Tymoshenko,s eponymous bloc BYuT, and Socialists, although he acknowledged that talks were taking place between Tymoshenko,s Deputy Oleksandr Turchynov and Our U [...]
2006-03-24 15:32:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM
06KIEV1160UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIAN AID CONVOY,
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. Maintaining the new customs regime ----------------------------------- 2. (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points on Ukraine's Transnistria-related customs proposal to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk March 24. Tarasyuk asked whether we wan [...]
2006-03-24 15:47:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PBTS OSCE
06KIEV1162UKRAINE/BELARUS: GOU STATEMENTS ON BELARUSAN
[...] (SBU) On March 24 DCM relayed concerns (ref A) regarding a March 21 MFA statement calling the international isolation of Belarus ineffective (ref B) to MFA Second Territorial Department Deputy Director Ihor Prokopchuk. DCM characterized the March 21 statement by GOU spokesman Filipchuk as unh [...]
2006-03-24 16:34:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM
06KIEV1241UKRAINE: SOCIALIST MOROZ ON COALITION
[...] (C) Summary: Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) leader Oleksandr Moroz told Ambassador and DCM March 29 that a reunited "Maidan" coalition of Our Ukraine, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT),and the Socialists was the only feasible option, and that he had told this to President Yushchenko during the [...]
2006-03-29 14:30:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM
06KIEV1314UKRAINE: LOOKING TOWARD A RENEWED ORANGE COALITION
[...] (C) Summary: Amid increasing signs that Ukraine might see a renewed Orange "Maidan" coalition in the wake of March 26 elections, there have been calls by some for a recount of the election results. Most of the pressure comes from a handful of parties that failed to reach the three-percent thr [...]
2006-04-03 17:00:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM
06KIEV1531UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ORDERED TO ARREST
[...] (C) Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko told Ambassador on April 14 that he had been ordered by the Prosecutor General (PG) to arrest senior Tymoshenko Bloc politicians Oleksandr Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemyakin for illegally destroying Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) files on the January gas deal w [...]
2006-04-14 14:24:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV1711UKRAINE: SOMBER TYMOSHENKO DOWN ON ORANGE
[...] (C) Summary: A subdued PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko told Ambassador April 28 that the scant progress in Orange coalition talks in recent days was much less significant than Our Ukraine efforts with Party of Regions to form local coalitions across the country. News during the meeting that Our [...]
2006-04-28 15:31:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV2039UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER GETS AHEAD OF FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said a meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus might be possible if Belarus were to make favorable decisions on issues of importance to Ukraine. Tarasyuk added that the Ukrainian government was preparing t [...]
2006-05-26 08:45:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM EAID NATO MARR PINR BO UP
06KIEV2065UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: FM TARASYUK'S FRUSTRATION
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Russia was reinforcing Transnistrian leader Smirnov's resistance to procedures required under the Ukraine-Moldova customs agreement. Furthermore, the Russians were refusing to agree to join a five-plus-two me [...]
2006-05-26 16:05:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM OSCE PINR RS MD UP
06KIEV2281UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO SAYS COALITION TALKS ARE
[...] (C) Yuliya Tymoshenko told DCM on June 12 that talks on forming an Orange coalition were deadlocked over Socialist Party leader Oleksander Moroz' insistence on being made Rada Speaker. Tymoshenko had tried to reason with Moroz, but he was dug in, knowing that this would be his "political swan [...]
2006-06-12 20:33:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREL RS UP
06KIEV2293UKRAINE: FINANCE MINISTER ON TAXES, BUDGET, AND
[...] (U) This message contains a guidance request, see paragraph 9. 2. (C) Summary. In a June 6 meeting with DCM, Minister of Finance Viktor Pynzenyk discussed his concerns about budget performance and energy supplies. He denied the Ministry of Finance had asked the State Tax Administration to [...]
2006-06-13 14:55:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALEFIN EPET UP
06KIEV2296UKRAINE: WHAT MAY HAPPEN AT WEDNESDAY'S (JUNE 14)
[...] (C) With no Orange coalition formed as of 1800 local time, two aides to senior Orange politicians have told us that the Party of Regions may essentially take charge of the coalition formation process at the June 14 Rada session. According to our interlocutors, Communist MP Martynyuk, who is sl [...]
2006-06-13 16:04:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV2297UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's June 13 presentation of a copy of his credentials, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc could not accept Socialist Party of Ukraine leader Moroz as parliamentary speaker, despite Moroz' insistence that this was his condition f [...]
2006-06-13 16:09:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AMGT PGOV PINR UP
06KIEV2329UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, PARTY OF REGIONS UPBEAT
[...] (C) The action at the June 15 Rada session was not at the rostrum, but on the floor and in the hallways, where Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych shook hands, slapped backs and assured reporters that Regions would sign a coalition agreement on June 20 -- when the Rada reconvenes. Our U [...]
2006-06-15 15:25:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP
06KIEV2331UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER ZVARYCH ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Ukraine (OU) negotiator Roman Zvarych updated DCM June 14 regarding ongoing OU-Party of Regions talks on forming a Rada (parliament) majority coalition, trying to put a positive spin on OU's possible about-face. An Orange-Blue coalition could be in place by June 20, since dif [...]
2006-06-15 15:55:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI MARR ETRD UP
06KIEV2359UKRAINE: ORANGE-BLUE COALITION TALKS ALLEGEDLY
[...] (C) A coalition agreement between the Party of Regions and Our Ukraine (OU) could be reached tonight (June 16),according to Regions MP and de facto shadow foreign minister Leonid Kozhara. In a conversation with DCM, Kozhara dismissed OU's public distinction between "consultations" and "negot [...]
2006-06-16 16:54:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP
06KIEV2526UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION AGREEMENT,
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 23 meeting with the American Jewish Committee (AJC),Acting Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Ukraine would not join moves against Israel in the new UN Council for Human Rights and undertook to examine the possibility of withdrawing Ukrainian membership in the UN Committ [...]
2006-06-29 13:37:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AORC KCRM PINR IZ UP
06KIEV2651UKRAINE: MOROZ AS SPEAKER;
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a maneuver which stunned Our Ukraine (OU) and Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) only hours after they had reached agreement with Party of Regions on a division of responsibilities between the majority and opposition forces in the Rada (parliament) to end Regions' 10-day blockade of the [...]
2006-07-07 15:24:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV3129UKRAINE: FIRST DEPUTY PM AZAROV COMMITTED TO WTO
[...] (C) Summary: First Deputy PM and Finance Minister Azarov told the Ambassador that by the end of 2006, Ukraine would join the WTO. He pledged that the government would have a careful and well-balanced policy in place to deal with Ukraine's large negative trade balance. On the energy situati [...]
2006-08-11 13:45:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ECON EFIN MCC UP
06KIEV3185UKRAINE: POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIFIL FACE
[...] (C) Summary. The Government of Ukraine (GOU) is actively considering what contribution Ukraine might offer to the expanded UNIFIL mission and has conducted consultations in New York with UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Annabi but faces an August 17 deadline from UN [...]
2006-08-16 14:23:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL LE UP
06KIEV365UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: MFA DEFENDS DELAY IN CUSTOMS
[...] (C) Summary: Briefing EU/G7 representatives January 27, Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky claimed the Ukrainian government had delayed implementation of the May 15, 2003, customs protocol with Moldova because the GOM's implementation of simplified registration procedures for Transnistrian bu [...]
2006-01-27 15:19:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PARM PINR MD UP OSCE
06KIEV3710UKRAINE: OFFICIALS DENY THAT KOLCHUGAS SOLD TO IRAN
[...] (U) The Jane's Defense Weekly, dated September 27, 2006, carried a story, strangely datelined Bangkok, reporting that Ukraine had recently delivered or was imminently preparing to deliver an unknown number of Kolchuga systems to Iran for an estimated price of USD25 million per system. As accur [...]
2006-09-26 14:32:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC PINR IR UP
06KIEV483UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: TKACH ON CUSTOMS
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 3 briefing, Ukrainian Special Envoy Tkach said the February 1 Ukraine-Moldova meeting had failed to make progress, but a second round would occur at the level of Ministers of Economy in the hope of resolving Ukraine's objections to Moldovan government registration p [...]
2006-02-03 17:10:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCI OSCE
06KIEV553UKRAINE: YOU TAKE THE LOW ROAD AND I'LL TAKE THE
[...] (C) Summary: Circus-like farce impinged on serious statecraft at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) the morning of February 9. President Yushchenko delivered an hour-long "State of the Nation" address to the Rada, reviewing the accomplishments of the past year since his inauguration an [...]
2006-02-09 16:41:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV
06KIEV743UKRAINE: MFA DEFENDS DEPORTATION OF UZBEKS, LABELS
[...] (S) In a written response to our February 17 non-paper about Ukraine's refoulement of a group of Uzbek asylum seekers (refs A and B),MFA asserted that the Uzbeks had been deported in accordance with domestic and international law, dismissed the Uzbeks' asylum claims as "manifestly unfounded," [...]
2006-02-23 17:05:00Embassy KyivSECRETPHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF PREL PTER UP UZ
06KIEV936UKRAINE: REGIONS' CONSULTANTS WARN DEFICIENCIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Party of Regions' U.S. campaign consultants Paul Manafort, Phil Griffin, and Catherine Barnes called on DCM and poloff March 10 to share Regions' concerns about election organizational problems that they feared could call the legitimacy of the March 26 election into question. M [...]
2006-03-10 17:56:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM
06KIGALI1143MEETING WITH GOR ON MCC THRESHOLD PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador and AID Director met on November 21 with Ambassador Sezibera and other GOR staff on the just-announced Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold program. Sezibera pronounced the GOR committed to a successful program, and anxious to get to work with mission and MCC [...]
2006-11-28 16:04:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL RW
06KIGALI340GOR RESPONSE TO ARREST OF FDLR PRESIDENT IN GERMANY
[...] (SBU) On 11 April poloff met with German DCM to discuss the recent arrest of the president of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR),Ignace Murwanashyaka, by German authorities in Mannheim, Germany. According to Hans Von Schroeder, Murwanashyaka will be detained for approxi [...]
2006-04-12 16:24:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREF PREL MONUC RW CG BY UG GE BE
06KIGALI410GOR DEMARCHED ON UN HRC AND AU MISSION IN SUDAN
[...] (U) On 28 April, DCM delivered the talking points from refs to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Secretary General Amandin Rugira. 2. (SBU) Rugira said he was aware of the reported lack of response by African Union forces in close proximity to attacks on civilians in Darfur. He s [...]
2006-05-02 10:34:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR NATO PARM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SOCI EUN
06KINGSTON1589DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE LEBANON
[...] (U) Political Officer delivered demarche regarding UN Security Council resolution on Lebanon to Minister of Foreign Affairs Anthony Hylton, Minister of State Delano Franklyn, and Deputy Director of International Organisations Angella Brown. 2. (U) On August 14, DCM Heg telephoned Minister o [...]
2006-08-14 20:49:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER MOPS UNAUS UNSC IS LE JM
06KINGSTON1592VENEZUELA/JAMAICA: USD 563 MILLION ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) On August 14, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, accompanied by Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and Energy and Petroleum Minister Raphael Ramirez, made a one-day stop in Jamaica during which he signed agreements with the GOJ totaling USD 563.3 million. Of that figure, USD 290 million pur [...]
2006-08-15 19:47:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EPET PGOV PREL JM VE
06KINGSTON1842JAMAICA: PARTICIPATION IN 2006 CARIBBEAN ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-15 20:50:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV OTRA JM
06KINGSTON2150JAMAICA: OPPOSITION PARTY'S ORIENTATION ON KEY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-31 20:29:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR PTER SOCI CPAS
06KINGSTON230"A TWO-HORSE RACE": PHILLIPS AIDE HANDICAPS
[...] (C) On January 30, a close confidant of National Security Minister Peter Phillips discussed the campaigns of Phillips, Local Government, Community and Sport Minister Portia Simpson Miller, Finance Minister Omar Davies, and former Water and Housing Minister Karl Blythe to succeed P.J. Patterson [...]
2006-02-03 19:04:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM PINR JM
06KINGSTON2314(C) AIR JAMAICA: REPORTS OF MY DEMISE ARE NOT
[...] (C) The GOJ simply does not grasp the dire predicament faced by Air Jamaica. The carrier literally could cease operations at any time, much like the situation with Swissair in October 2001. A cocktail of enormous and growing debt, a lack of political will to make painful and expensive choices [...]
2006-11-29 19:37:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PGOV JM XL
06KINGSTON2409JAMAICA: PROPOSED CHANGES TO APIS UNFEASIBLE
[...] (C) Summary: On December 18, econoff delivered ref. A talking points to O'Neil Hamilton, Special Advisor to Minister of National Security (MNS) Peter Phillips. On December 19, DCM reiterated the points to MNS Permanent Secretary Gilbert Scott, and econoff followed up with SIPDIS Hamilton o [...]
2006-12-20 15:37:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAIR KJUS XL
06KINGSTON318MURDER OF SPANISH TOWN CRIMINAL LEADER AGAIN CALLS
[...] (C) The February 8 murder of Andrew "Bun Man" Hope, the leader of Spanish Town's One Order gang, while Hope sat in a vehicle registered to Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Olivia "Babsy" Grange, again drew attention to the deceased man's ties to Grange. Witnesses alleged that it [...]
2006-02-15 19:37:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM SNAR JM
06KINGSTON542AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 15 MEETING WITH PRIME
[...] (C) On March 15, the Ambassador called on a visibly weary Portia Simpson Miller (PSM),at Jamaica House. Minister of Commerce, Science, Technology, and Energy Phillip Paulwell and former Foreign Trade Minister Tony Hylton were also present. In their first formal meeting since the latter's tr [...]
2006-03-17 20:22:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR PINR JM
06KINGSTON682CODEL ISSA'S MARCH 30 MEETING WITH NEWLY INSTALLED
[...] Codel Issa met with newly installed Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on March 30, shortly after the PM was sworn in at King's House. The cordial meeting lasted nearly one-and-a-quarter hours. Simpson-Miller expressed determination to move quickly to address Jamaica's joblessness and high [...]
2006-04-06 16:20:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR KCRM SOCI JM
06KINGSTON890DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRAN'S CANDIDACY FOR UN
[...] (C) On May 8, DCM faxed Ref C points to Ambassador Velma McNish, Director, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and asked McNish to urge Ambassador Raymond Wolfe, Jamaica's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations, to oppose the candi [...]
2006-05-08 19:19:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALKUNR PHUM UNHCR PREL
06KINGSTON930VISIT OF WHA/DAS PATRICK DUDDY TO KINGSTON,
[...] (U) Summary: On April 27 and 28, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Patrick Duddy SIPDIS visited Kingston, Jamaica. On April 27, Duddy met with GOJ officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the details of which are reported in ref. A. On April [...]
2006-05-12 20:05:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDABLD AMGT ECON EAID PREL KMCA JM
06KINSHASA1149INAPPROPRIATE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE CAUSE OF BUKI
[...] (C) Given the many rumors circulating concerning the sudden death of General Sylvain Buki, second-in-command of the FARDC, the GDRC took the relatively unusual step of ordering an autopsy. Autopsy results were shared with Minister of Defense Adolphe Onusumba (from the RCD, Buki's party) and Ai [...]
2006-07-18 14:06:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR CG
06KINSHASA1162DRC ELECTIONS: LOOKING AHEAD
[...] (C) Summary: With two weeks left in the DRC's election campaign, it is increasingly clear that incumbent president Joseph Kabila is the likely victor. Whether he will win on the first round (i.e., July 30) as his supporters continue to predict is far less certain, although current polling puts [...]
2006-07-20 09:58:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM CG
06KINSHASA1210DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 2
[...] (U) Polls in the Democratic Republic of Congo opened largely on time for the historic July 30 presidential and legislative elections. Turnout is reportedly high in the east and moderate in Kinshasa, and numbers could rise after morning church services. Observers report surprisingly well-or [...]
2006-07-30 08:32:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1212DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 4: VOTING ENDS, COUNTING
[...] According to reports from international elections observers countrywide, voting officially ended in all polling stations on time and with few reported problems. While the voting process itself has benefited from a variety of "lessons learned" from the constitutional referendum in December 20 [...]
2006-07-30 19:14:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1310DRC ELECTIONS: GIZENGA AN EMERGING FORCE
[...] (C) Summary: Antoine Gizenga, secretary general of the Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU),met with the Ambassador August 17. The long-time opposition figure, who almost certainly will likely place third in the first round of presidential voting and is the potential kingmaker in a second round, sa [...]
2006-08-18 15:28:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1316DRC SITREP 1: KINSHASA FIGHTING
[...] (C) Active fighting broke out in the Gombe neighborhood of Kinshasa around 4pm local time apparently between elements of the Presidential Republican Guard (GSSP),Congolese police, and security forces of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's MLC party. The fighting is apparently a continuation of [...]
2006-08-21 16:37:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1319SITREP 4: KINSHASA FIGHTING
[...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM at 1840 local time from Bemba's residence to report that MONUC Force Commander General Babacar Gaye had arrived at the compound around 1820 to discuss arrangements to extricate CIAT ambassadors. Gaye said he had arrived with four APCs, but it was unclear if those [...]
2006-08-21 18:50:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1320SITREP 5: KINSHASA FIGHTING
[...] (C) FARDC Chief of Staff General Kisempia announced on national television that all soldiers are prohibited from carrying arms in the city of Kinshasa, and that they have been ordered to return to their barracks and remain there. Kisempia said General Nabiola, commander of the Unite de Defense [...]
2006-08-21 19:23:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1322SITREP 7: KINSHASA FIGHTING
[...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM at 2115 to report that the CIAT ambassadors had all safely arrived at MONUC headquarters from Bemba's residence. The Minister of Budget (and MLC member) Francois Mwamba, plus some members of Bemba's family, were in the MONUC convoy as well. CIAT ambassadors are cu [...]
2006-08-21 20:18:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1323SITREP 8: KINSHASA FIGHTING
[...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM around 2220 local time to report that he had safely returned to his residence after leaving MONUC headquarters via a convoy organized by MONUC security. The Ambassador reported that the convoy drove down Boulevard 30 Juin through the center of Gombe, where much of [...]
2006-08-21 22:29:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1324SITREP 9: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 0800 LOCAL TIME)
[...] (C) As dawn broke in Kinshasa August 22, isolated gunfire and small explosions were heard in the downtown Gombe area of the city. The Ambassador called DCM from his residence at 0635 to report gunfire, some apparently from heavy arms, from the direction of the Palais de la Nation (the president [...]
2006-08-22 07:06:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1326SITREP 11: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 1030 LOCAL TIME)
[...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM at 0900 local time to report that the CIAT ambassadors will meet with President Kabila at his riverside residence at 1130 August 21. 2. (C) PolCouns called around 0900 to report that presidential diplomatic adviser Augustin Katumba is proposing a meeting of the [...]
2006-08-22 09:34:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1333SITREP 18: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 1730 LOCAL TIME)
[...] (C) The Canadian Embassy's security chief told RSO that at about 1315, he drove from the Canadian Embassy down Boulevard 30 Juin toward the center of town. He said that he saw heavy "GSSP" presence near DRC government buildings along the Boulevard, but that the troops were in the process of pu [...]
2006-08-22 16:44:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1334SITREP 19: CIAT MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KABILA
[...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM from his residence at 1350 local time to report that the noon CIAT meeting with President Kabila had ended. All members of CIAT were present except for the representatives of the African Union, Angola, South Africa, and Zambia. Among the Congolese participants, as [...]
2006-08-22 18:00:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA142Nomination for FY06 Edward R. Murrow Program for
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-27 11:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL CG XA KPAO
06KINSHASA1672DRC ELECTION DAY: SITREP 2, 10/29 1230
[...] Despite isolated problems, observers continue to report generally smooth, orderly voting throughout the country in the October 29 DRC elections. Without exception, voters seem to be familiar with the process, which has helped reduce the amount of time people are spending waiting to vote. [...]
2006-10-29 11:45:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1715PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: Presidential security adviser (and newly-elected parliamentarian) Guillaume Samba Kaputo believes that President Kabila comfortably won the second round of presidential elections on October 29 with as much as 60% of the vote. Though not discounting the possibility of violence onc [...]
2006-11-06 16:56:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPKO ECON CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA292IMF MISSION LOOKS AT DRC 2005 PERFORMANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary. An IMF team was in Kinshasa January 24 to February 3 to review the DRC's performance in the third and fourth quarters of 2005. The IMF was generally satisfied with macroeconomic stability during the last half of 2005. Their principal concern was GDRC overspending in some budget [...]
2006-02-22 16:38:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV CG CIAT EAC ELECTIONS IMF
06KINSHASA698ANGRY CITIZENS WANT ACTION AGAINST FDLR
[...] (C) The airport in Bukavu was temporarily closed May 3 when about 500 residents of the town staged a demonstration on the road leading to the airport to protest perceived lack of action by either the Congolese military (FARDC) or the U.N. peacekeeping force (MONUC) against the FDLR, whose cont [...]
2006-05-04 13:02:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR CG
06KINSHASA699PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: SENATOR ANATOLE
[...] (C) PolCouns met May 2 with presidential aspirant, and current Senator, Anatole Matusila. Matusila is one of about a dozen serious candidates (among the 33 on the list) for the presidential post. A well-liked man, Matusila usually is characterized as "moral" and "honest," and bills himself as [...]
2006-05-04 15:27:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM CG
06KINSHASA701FINAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SESSION OF THE TRANSITION
[...] (C) Following weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations and deal making, the final plenary session of the National Assembly opened May 3, with Thomas Luhaka presiding as the new President of the Assembly. (Note: Luhaka was named in November 2005 by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to replace Oli [...]
2006-05-04 16:00:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM CG
06KINSHASA702CONFRONTATION BETWEEN BEMBA MILITIA AND
[...] (C) There were some tense moments in Kinshasa April 29-May 1 as what began as a minor confrontation between elements of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's MLC militia and President Kabila's "Presidential Guard," the GSSP, threatened to escalate. 2. (C) For the last several months Bemba has [...]
2006-05-05 09:27:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR CG
06KINSHASA703PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: EUGENE DIOMI
[...] (C) Although there are 33 presidential candidates registered for the DRC's upcoming elections, there are only about a dozen who can actually be considered serious candidates. One of these is Eugene Diomi, head of the Christian Democrats, a party which has its roots in Bas Congo province (Diomi [...]
2006-05-05 09:27:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM CG
06KINSHASA704PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: EUGENE DIOMI
[...] (C) Although there are 33 presidential candidates registered for the DRC's upcoming elections, there are only about a dozen who can actually be considered serious candidates. One of these is Eugene Diomi, head of the Christian Democrats, a party which has its roots in Bas Congo province (Diomi [...]
2006-05-05 09:27:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM CG
06KINSHASA705PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: EUGENE DIOMI
[...] (C) Although there are 33 presidential candidates registered for the DRC's upcoming elections, there are only about a dozen who can actually be considered serious candidates. One of these is Eugene Diomi, head of the Christian Democrats, a party which has its roots in Bas Congo province (Diomi [...]
2006-05-05 09:27:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM CG
06KINSHASA711SSR - BLOCKAGES REMAIN
[...] (C) Summary: Little progress was made at the May 3 meeting of the Joint Commission on Security on key issues of improving military discipline and establishing a viable rhythm for integration and demobilization. SRSG Swing strongly cautioned the GDRC officials present that the already falteri [...]
2006-05-08 15:39:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO CG
06KINSHASA722SUPREME DEFENSE COUNCIL MAKES KEY DECISIONS ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of marathon meetings beginning May 6 and running through late evening May 8, the Supreme Defense Council, chaired by President Kabila and attended by senior GDRC officials, addressed serious shortcomings plaguing the FARDC, including human rights violations, and failur [...]
2006-05-09 11:36:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MARR KPKO CG
06KINSHASA932CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE: JUNE EDITION,
[...] (U) SUMMARY: ROC President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is expected to return to Brazzaville on June 13 following widely-publicized visits to New York for his June 2 address to the United Nations on HIV/AIDs, June 5 meeting in Washington with President Bush and Secretary Rice, and a brief visit with [...]
2006-06-13 14:54:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL AU PINR UNSC ASEC CF
06KINSHASA968IMF REVIEWS PROGRESS, SETS UP DRC STAFF-MONITORED
[...] (SBU) Summary: An IMF team was in Kinshasa for five days May 27 to June 1 to look at the DRC's performance since February 2006 and to finish setting up a Staff-Monitored Program (SMP). The SMP will provide a bridge between the PRGF program that lapsed on March 31 and the new PRGF the GDRC hop [...]
2006-06-20 10:52:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV CG
06KINSHASA972PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OSCAR KASHALA
[...] (C) Summary. Presidential candidate (and AmCit oncologist) Oscar Kashala believes he is well positioned for July 30 elections, having forged an alliance with minor political parties that could lead to direct cooperation with Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba and/or UDPS leader Etienne Tshiseke [...]
2006-06-21 11:03:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KUALALUMPUR1259SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Malaysian-American relations are good and improving; we are currently conducting negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with Malaysia. This moderate, Muslim-majority state is our tenth-largest trading partner worldwide. Our robust and growing military-military cooperation is r [...]
2006-07-07 08:49:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPREL PGOV MARR ECON PTER MY
06KUALALUMPUR1288MALAYSIAN RESPONSE TO TANCHON BANK ALLEGATIONS
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) Economic Counselor provided Koid Swee Lian, Director of Bank Negara Malaysia's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) July 12 with Tanchon Bank's listing in Reed's Banker's Almanac, which alleges that Tanchon has a correspondent relation [...]
2006-07-12 07:42:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALEFIN SNAR KJUS KTFN KNNP MY
06KUALALUMPUR1812MALAYSIA SEES "DEADLOCK" IN GRP/MILF PEACE PROCESS
[...] (S) Malaysia's Othman Abdul Razak, facilitator for the Philippines Government (GRP)/Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace process, told Polcouns September 26 that the talks had "deadlocked." The previous round in early September had gone nowhere because GRP negotiators had failed to dem [...]
2006-09-27 09:45:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPREL PINS PTER MOPS EAID RP MY
06KUALALUMPUR1977MALAYSIA RELEASES 11 DETAINEES WITH PAST TERRORIST
[...] (S/NF) Malaysia unexpectedly released 11 people, originally held for terrorist links, from ISA (Internal Security Act) detention on October 18. The eleven represent Malaysian citizens previously tied to the Malaysia Militant Group (KMM) or the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group. Local med [...]
2006-10-19 10:27:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PINR ASEC MY
06KUALALUMPUR2019MALAYSIA UPDATE ON DPRK VESSEL BONG HOA SAN
[...] (S) Summary: After Post conducted follow up demarches with Malaysia's Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's Department, the GOM informed us it had issued an instruction October 30 to board and inspect the Bong Hoa San if the vessel called at Malaysia's Port Klang, as indicated by informa [...]
2006-10-30 09:31:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL MNUC EWWT XC KN MY
06KUALALUMPUR2196DCM RAISES VENEZUELA, AMCITS' DETENTION WITH NEW
[...] (C) The DCM and polchief paid an introductory call on the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's new Under Secretary for the Americas, Ambassador Ramlan Ibrahim, on November 30. Ramlan said he saw opportunities to further strengthen ties with the U.S. based on the strong personal relationship between [...]
2006-11-30 08:24:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CASC ASEC VE MY
06KUALALUMPUR2198NSD CHIEF DETAILS SECURITY DUTIES, THAI VISIT,
[...] (C) The head of Malaysia's National Security Division (NSD),Ahmad Fuad, discussed NSD's broad duties, including its disaster management role, and inquired about U.S. technical assistance during a November 29 meeting with the DCM. Fuad said that Thai General Sonthi had used his visit to Kual [...]
2006-11-30 09:10:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MOPS EAID SENV RP TH MY
06KUALALUMPUR2235DAS JOHN FINDS MALAYSIAN BROKER OPTIMISTIC ON MILF
[...] (S) Visiting EAP DAS Eric John on December 6 found Malaysian facilitator Othman Abdul Razak "more optimistic" following the latest informal talks between the Philippines Government (GRP)/Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). In meetings held in Kuala Lumpur the week of November 27, GRP clari [...]
2006-12-08 10:40:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPREL PINS PTER MOPS EAID KISL RP MY
06KUALALUMPUR2287DAS JOHN EXPLORES STRONGER TIES WITH MALAYSIA,
[...] (C) DAS John encouraged stronger ties with Malaysia during his December 6 meetings with Foreign Ministry officials Ambassador Ghazzali Khalid and the new Americas division chief Ramlan Ibrahim, with both sides concluding that good relations between President Bush and Prime Minister Abdullah p [...]
2006-12-15 00:19:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPREL PGOV PINS ECON KISL ASEAN MY
06KUALALUMPUR422MALAYSIA WILL NOT ATTEND JEDDAH OIC MEETING ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-13 04:00:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD KISL IS MY
06KUALALUMPUR705SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE DR. RONALD SEGA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Malaysian-American relations are good and improving; on March 8 we notified Congress of our intention to conclude a Free Trade Agreement with Malaysia. This moderate Muslim-majority state is our tenth-largest trading partner worldwide, and we have robust military-military cooper [...]
2006-04-18 08:45:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR PTER ECON MY
06KUALALUMPUR794U.S.-MALAYSIA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
[...] The U.S. and Malaysia held a long-anticipated IPR Roundtable on April 20 in Kuala Lumpur. Approximately seventy participants from the Malaysian and U.S. governments, as well as industry and civil society, gathered to discuss IPR enforcement efforts, industry views on combating piracy, IPR pr [...]
2006-05-02 04:15:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR MY
06KUALALUMPUR955MALAYSIA ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (C) In the May 24 Malaysia-U.S. Senior Officials Dialogue, EAP A/S Hill conveyed points to the Malaysian delegation, led by MFA Secretary General Rastam Isa, that closely tracked those of ref A. Septel will cover the Senior Officials Dialogue in full. Hill warned that the Iranian foreign min [...]
2006-05-25 06:04:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR MY
06KUWAIT1023USTR TALKS TIFA, IPR, TAXES, AT&T WITH KUWAITIS,
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, USTR Director of European and Middle Eastern Trade Affairs Paul Burkhead, accompanied by DCM and Econoff, met in separate meetings with senior representatives of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI),the Ministries of Commerce, Communications, Financ [...]
2006-03-22 13:22:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD KIPR EFIN ECON BEXP KU
06KUWAIT1060KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MUQTADA AL-SADR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-27 11:54:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER IZ KU TERRORISM
06KUWAIT1061KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KHARTOUM ARAB SUMMIT,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-27 11:55:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL KU
06KUWAIT1062KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FOREIGN FIGHTERS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-27 11:59:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL KU
06KUWAIT1345KUWAIT PASSES ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW
[...] (U) Kuwait's National Assembly passed, and Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah signed, a law giving the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime the full force of law in Kuwait. Kuwait signed the Convention on December 12, 2000 but this action now gives it th [...]
2006-04-18 12:15:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPHUM ELAB ZP TIP
06KUWAIT1346KUWAITI STRATEGIC EXPERT: SMILES FOR RAFSANJANI,
[...] (C) Dr. Sami Al-Faraj, Director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies (KCSS),a private research institute, told Poloff April 18 that Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Hashemi Rafsanjani, who concludes a three-day visit to Kuwait April 18, conveyed a veiled threat to the Kuwaiti leade [...]
2006-04-18 12:51:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
06KUWAIT1421KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: MORE
[...] (S/NF) The Ambassador chaired on April 22 the regular meeting of Post's Counterterrorism Working Group (CWG). In addition to the Ambassador and DCM, the CWG includes section chiefs or representatives from CONS, ECON, DATT, RSO, OMC-K, PAS, POL, and SIMO. 2. (S/REL UK AUS) The meeting [...]
2006-04-25 09:39:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PGOV KU
06KUWAIT1425FY06Q3 PROGRAM EVALUATION: NEW ORLEANS ALL-STARS CAME
[...] The New Orleans All-Star Brass Band made a glorious return visit to Kuwait April 17, 18, and 19, conducting performances and workshops reaching more than 5,600 Kuwaitis. Each of the group's five concerts stressed the unique cultural heritage and resilient spirit of the American people and the [...]
2006-04-25 13:54:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OEXC OIIP SCUL XF KU
06KUWAIT1567KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BMENA DEMOCRACY
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche by diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on May 3, 2006. Drawing from the language provided, the note encouraged senior-level GOK participation. Post will report septel on GOK attendance. 2. PolChief discussed the May 22-23 Democracy Assi [...]
2006-05-03 13:50:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM KMPI KU
06KUWAIT1614PSI ENDORSEMENT AND EXERCISES: POLISH EMBASSY AND
[...] (C) Polish Ambassador to Kuwait Kazimierz Romanski called on the Ambassador on May 7 to seek U.S. support for a joint demarche to the Government of Kuwait encouraging endorsement of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and participation in a June 23 High Level Meeting in Warsaw. Roman [...]
2006-05-07 13:30:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPARM PTER PREL PGOV KU
06KUWAIT1622ARAB IRANIAN COMMUNITY IN KUWAIT CONCERNED ABOUT
[...] (C) On May 6, Poloff met with five activists from the Arab Iranian (Ahwazi) expatriate community in Kuwait at their request: Adulkhaligh Delavi, Sabah Haidary, Atiya Savari, Naji Sawaeidy, and Hosain Ahwazy, who currently lives in London. (Comment: Poloff was in a listening mode and did not [...]
2006-05-08 14:09:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
06KUWAIT1639IRAN'S UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY: KUWAIT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-09 12:47:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KUNR KU
06KUWAIT1673FREEDOM AGENDA: CABINET APPROVES TEN
[...] (C) Summary and comment: On May 9, the Cabinet approved a draft law to reduce the number of electoral constituencies from 25 to ten. Information Minister Dr. Anas Al-Rashaid, a liberal who supports five constituencies, resigned in protest of the draft law and a related proposal (not approved) [...]
2006-05-10 15:38:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KU FREEDOM AGENDA
06KUWAIT2026FREEDOM AGENDA - KUWAIT ELECTION UPDATE: 24 WOMEN
[...] (C) Summary: A total of 244 candidates, including 24 women, have registered so far for the June 29 parliamentary elections. Kuwaiti women, participating in national elections for the first time in Kuwait's history, have responded with enthusiasm. Women account for 194,910 of Kuwait's 340,24 [...]
2006-05-31 18:04:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
06KUWAIT208PROPOSED JANUARY 24 VOTE ON AMIR-DESIGNATE'S
[...] (C) Summary: The leadership situation in Kuwait is in continual flux with one National Assembly session scheduled for January 24 at 10am to vote on declaring Amir-designate Shaykh Saad Al-Salem medically unfit for office, and another session scheduled for 6:30pm the same day to allow Shaykh S [...]
2006-01-23 14:46:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KU SUCCESSION
06KUWAIT209SABAH FAMILY MEMBER SAYS MEETINGS TONIGHT "PIVOTAL"
[...] (C) Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. Shaykh Salem Abdullah Al-Sabah called the Ambassador the evening of January 23 on a visa matter, but engaged in discussion of the topic of the hour--ongoing Sabah family infighting over succession. (Shaykh Salem is currently in Kuwait and presumably is atten [...]
2006-01-23 15:27:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KU SUCCESSION
06KUWAIT2147KUWAIT'S AMBASSADOR TO INDONESIA CRITICIZES GOK ON
[...] (C) Kuwait's Ambassador to Indonesia, Mohammad Fadel Khalaf, met with the DCM on May 23 to discuss his concerns over the treatment of Indonesian domestic workers in Kuwait. He criticized Indonesia and especially his own government for not doing enough to protect Indonesian workers, and sugges [...]
2006-06-07 17:15:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PREL KIRF JO ID KU TIP RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
06KUWAIT235KUWAITI DETAINEES IN GITMO AND IRAQ: ARB DEMARCHE
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraphs 4, 5, and 6. 2. (C) Summary: PolChief delivered January 24 to MFA Ambassador Khalid Al-Maqamis ref A demarche on the Administrative Review Board (ARB) procedures for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Rajab Amin. Al-Maqamis welcomed the infor [...]
2006-01-24 15:02:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KU
06KUWAIT348KUWAIT EAC ON AVIAN INFLUENZA (01/31/2006)
[...] (SBU) Summary: On 31 January 2006, the DCM convened a full Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to discuss Embassy Kuwait's contingency planning for Avian Influenza (AI) due to reports by the World Health Organization (WHO) of animal to human transmission of the H5N1 virus in Iraq. This transmissi [...]
2006-01-31 14:27:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMED AMGT ASEC CA KU TBIO KFLU
06KUWAIT3618ON IRAN, KUWAIT PREPARING CONTINGENCY PLANS AND
[...] (S/NF) Summary: During a September 5 meeting, National Security Bureau (NSB) Iran analyst Ghanim Al-Otaibi told PolOff that the Kuwaiti government's (GOK) strategy for dealing with Iran covered three main areas: political, military, and internal security. According to Al-Otaibi, all governme [...]
2006-09-09 12:14:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
06KUWAIT3692AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE PLANS TRIP TO IRAQ
[...] (C) Summary. Kuwait's Ambassador-designate to Iraq Ali Al-Mumin cited reciprocity issues as the most important stumbling block to upgraded diplomatic representation in Baghdad. He noted that issues involving security, site location and transportation between Iraq and Kuwait needed to be reso [...]
2006-09-14 11:00:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KISL OFDP PINR SOCI IZ KU
06KUWAIT3693DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. VIEWS OF UNSC RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-14 11:02:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT KPAO PTER KN KS
06KUWAIT3830FORMER GCC SECRETARY GENERAL: "NO COMMON GCC
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Former Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Ambassador Abdullah Bishara told PolOff September 19 the GCC had "no common strategy on Iran," a problem he attributed largely to friction between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He believed an effective GCC strategy should sup [...]
2006-09-24 13:56:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
06KUWAIT3992MOI READ-OUT OF JEDDAH MEETING OF INTERIOR
[...] (C/NF) During a September 30 meeting, Major General Dr. Khaled Al-Osaimi, the Assistant Undersecretary for Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Interior, gave PolChief a brief read out of the September 18-19 meeting of the Interior Ministers of Iraq's neighboring countries in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia [...]
2006-10-04 13:47:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL IZ IR KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
06KUWAIT3993GOK CONFIRMS THAT STANDARDIZED DOMESTIC LABOR
[...] (C/NF) PolCounselor and PolOff visited Abdullah Al-Ruwaih, the Director of Immigration at the Ministry of Interior (MOI),on October 3 to inquire about the Ministry's plans to begin enforcing the standardized, three-party domestic labor contract on October 1. Al-Ruwaih confirmed that as of [...]
2006-10-04 13:52:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP
06KUWAIT3995TERROR FINANCE: INCREASING PRESSURE TO EASE GOK
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On October 3, Econoff met with Nasser Al-Ammar, Director of the Charities and Philanthropic Organizations Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) to discuss a perceived shift in his statements on MOSAL's charity oversight responsibilities. Al-Ammar, who [...]
2006-10-04 16:08:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL KTFN PTER KU
06KUWAIT4023IRAQ COMPACT: GOK UNDECIDED ABOUT HOSTING LATE
[...] (C) As instructed reftel, Econcouns discussed reftel demarche and upcoming Iraq Compact (ICI) events with UK DCM Jamie Bowden on October 7. Bowden said UK Ambassador had raised the Iraq Compact with MFA U/S Jarallah that morning, and had been told the GOK was still undecided about hosting th [...]
2006-10-09 07:05:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID ECON EFIN ETRD IZ KU PGOV PREL
06KUWAIT4026DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC ELECTION OCTOBER 16
[...] (C) PolCouns discussed ref b points with MFA Director for International Organizations Affairs Ambassador Mansour al-Awadi on October 8. Al-Awadi said Kuwait's Foreign Minister Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah personally assured the Guatemalan FM of Kuwait's vote when the two met recently in New York. [...]
2006-10-09 08:47:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KU DEMARCHE
06KUWAIT4027DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TEST
[...] (C) PolCouns delivered on October 8 points from reftels regarding a possible North Korean nuclear test to MFA Director for Asian and African Affairs Ambassador Mohammed Saud Al-Badr and Director for International Organizations Affairs Ambassador Mansour Al-Awadi. Both assured PolCouns that t [...]
2006-10-09 08:49:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KN KNNP KU DEMARCHE
06KUWAIT4047DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-10 14:28:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KN KNNP KU DEMARCHE
06KUWAIT4152AMAR AL-HAKIM ON IRAQ-GCC AND IRAQ-KUWAIT RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Amar Al-Hakim, son of SCIRI leader Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim, said the annual Ramadan visit of the Al-Hakim family is a social tradition and an opportunity to reach out to Kuwait's government and the Sunni community here. During his visit, Al-Hakim met with a wide range of senior off [...]
2006-10-17 13:26:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KU IZ IR
06KUWAIT4178ISLAMIC AFFAIRS MINISTRY CAMPAIGNS TO SPREAD
[...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Kuwait's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs launched an initiative in 2005 to spread moderation among Muslims and present Islam as a moderate religion to non-Muslims. The Ministry has recently opened its World Moderation Center, a special agency to implement [...]
2006-10-18 13:41:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KIRF KU
06KUWAIT4291KUWAIT FINANCE MINISTER URGES DISCRETION ON IRAQI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 31, Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt met with Kuwaiti Finance Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi to discuss the Iraq Compact, Iraqi debt relief, Lebanon's debt situation, oversight of Kuwaiti charities, and Kuwaiti investments in the United States. Kimmitt provided an update [...]
2006-10-31 21:48:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EINV LE IZ KU
06KUWAIT4314KUWAITI CANDIDATE FOR WHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL
[...] (SBU) On November 1 DCM attended a meeting called by Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Dr. Muhammad Al-Sabah. Purpose of the meeting was to present to heads of diplomatic missions Kuwait's case for selection of Dr. Kazem Behbehani as the next WHO Director. The Foreign Minister made a presentation dra [...]
2006-11-02 10:41:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC UN WHO KU
06KUWAIT4416KUWAITI PSYCHOLOGIST USES AMERICAN-STYLE
[...] (C/NF) Summary. PolOff met with Dr. Bashir Al-Rashidi, a U.S.-trained psychologist who is involved in the training of imams to embrace a moderate version of Islam, as part of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs' (MAIA) larger "moderation" initiative. One way Al-Rashidi has contributed [...]
2006-11-08 12:55:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF KISL KU
06KUWAIT4418PARLIAMENT APPROVES ZAKAT LAW DESPITE SHI'A
[...] (C/NF) Summary: On November 7, Parliament passed a zakat (religious tax) law opposed by Kuwaiti Shi'a. Liberal parliamentarian (MP) Mishari Al-Anjari downplayed the Islamist nature of the zakat law, saying it was "just a way to collect one percent from companies" to supplement the government [...]
2006-11-08 13:03:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON KISL KU ISLAMISTS
06KUWAIT4562CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE: NEXT STEPS ON USG
[...] (S/NF) On 29 November, Econoff met with Ali Al-Obaid, Deputy Chairman of Kuwait's Oil Sector Services Company (OSSCo) to discuss opportunities to expand USG-GOK cooperation to enhance the security of Kuwait's critical energy infrastructure. OSSCo is a new subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corpo [...]
2006-12-04 08:33:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNENRG PTER EPET KU OIL SECTOR
06KUWAIT4579(C) C-NE6-01698: KUWAITI ISLAMISTS' INITIATIVES ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: The women's issues legislation recently drafted by Islamist parliamentarians aims to increase state benefits provided to Kuwaiti women, not change their social and political status. It is likely the result of women's suffrage and recent electoral reforms resulting [...]
2006-12-06 14:03:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PINR KISL KWMN KU ISLAMISTS
06KUWAIT4580KUWAITI "AHWAZ ACTIVIST" MEETS WITH EUROPEAN
[...] (S/NF) Over the past several months, a Kuwaiti in his mid-fifties named Faisal Al-Khazal has met with several European embassies in Kuwait to enlist their support for his alleged Ahwazi opposition group. (Note: Ahwaz is the Arabized name of the capital of Khuzestan, a predominantly Arab prov [...]
2006-12-06 14:06:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
06KUWAIT4583MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER WARNS OF IMPACT OF IRAQ
[...] (C/NF) Summary: The Secretary General of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM),Dr. Bader Al-Nashi, told Poloff December 6 that sectarian violence in Iraq was contributing to rising Shi'a-Sunni tensions in Kuwait. While he did not believe violence between the two communities was likely, [...]
2006-12-06 14:38:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KISL IR IZ KU ISLAMISTS SHI
06KUWAIT4610ISLAMIC AFFAIRS UNDERSECRETARY: MODERATION
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Undersecretary Dr. Adel Al-Falah told the DCM on December 5 that the Ministry's recent conference in Washington had been a great success, though he provided few details about the proceedings. He said the Ministry is looking forward to h [...]
2006-12-10 10:37:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KISL CVIS KU ISLAMISTS
06KUWAIT4637TERROR FINANCE: KUWAITI REACTION TO U.S.
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Response in Kuwait to the USG domestic designation on December 7 of three Kuwaitis -- Hamed Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalahmah, and Mubarak Al-Bathali -- as terrorist facilitators and inciters (Ref A) has been muted. There has been little commentary on the development in the Kuwaiti [...]
2006-12-12 13:43:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER KTFN PREL
06KUWAIT4638EVOLVING IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER CROSSING PROCEDURES
[...] (C/NF) Summary. On December 5, Kuwait Ministry of Interior (MOI) and United States Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) officials accompanied by Emboff met and discussed Kuwait-Iraq border crossing issues arising from recently altered MOI procedures. The MOI began using new procedu [...]
2006-12-12 14:51:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR PBTS KU IZ
06KUWAIT4649FILIPINO LABOR ATTACHE SAYS MINIMUM WAGE FOR
[...] (C/NF) PolOff met with Filipino Labor Attache Leopoldo De Jesus on December 12 to discuss recent reports that the Philippines intends to increase the monthly minimum wage for Filipino domestic workers from USD 200 to USD 400. De Jesus verified that all domestic workers leaving the Philippine [...]
2006-12-13 12:43:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KHUM ELAB RP KU TIP
06KUWAIT465JANUARY 17 VICE PRESIDENT MEETING WITH KUWAITI
[...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- The Vice President Ambassador Richard LeBaron NEA/PDAS Elizabeth Cheney OVP Chief of Staff David Addington National Security Advisor to the VP John Hannah Deputy Assistant to the VP for NSA Samantha Ravich Gamal Helal (interpreter) DCM Tueller (notetaker) [...]
2006-02-08 14:58:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP KU
06KUWAIT4650LEBANON: DEMARCHE ON ECONOMIC AND SECURITY
[...] (C) In response to reftel encouraging additional economic and security assistance to Lebanon, Econcouns spoke with MFA Director of Arab Affairs Jassem Al-Mubaraki and Director of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development December 13 to encourage additional assistance beyond the substan [...]
2006-12-13 13:35:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KU PREL
06KUWAIT4683AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW IRAQI CHARGE
[...] (C) Ambassador met 12/13 with new Iraqi Mission Charge d'Affaires Fadel Hamad Khudair Al-Azawi. Al-Azawi, a career diplomat, arrived in Kuwait in early November, replacing outgoing Charge Hamad Al-Sharifi. Al-Azawi requested the meeting as a courtesy call, noting his interest in maintainin [...]
2006-12-20 09:21:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ KU
06KUWAIT482DEMARCHE DELIVERED--INVIGORATING THE CASH COURIER
[...] (SBU) On February 8, Econoff delivered ref A points to Talal Al-Sayegh, Head of Anti-Money Laundering at the Central Bank of Kuwait. Points were also passed to U.S. Customs Advisor for officials at the Kuwait General Administration of Customs (KGAC). According to Al-Sayegh, the GOK, althoug [...]
2006-02-11 14:09:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL XF KU KTFN
06KUWAIT524KUWAIT'S OPEC GOV ASKS FOR CLARIFICATION ON
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: During a February 13 meeting with Econ Officer, Kuwait's OPEC Governor Ms. Seham Razzouqi said that Kuwait "did not appreciate" the comments in the recent SOTU address about U.S. "addiction to oil" and a need to reduce dependency on oil imports from the Middle East. Sh [...]
2006-02-14 08:37:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU OIL SECTOR
06KUWAIT534KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: GOK
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador convened on February 8 Post's Counterterrorism Working Group to assess Kuwaiti progress in combating terrorism and curbing extremism. ECON, RSO, and OMC-K all reported positive Kuwaiti participation in training courses and conferences ranging from VIP protecti [...]
2006-02-14 13:37:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PGOV KU
06KUWAIT539KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: GOK
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador convened on February 8 Post's Counterterrorism Working Group to assess Kuwaiti progress in combating terrorism and curbing extremism. ECON, RSO, and OMC-K all reported positive Kuwaiti participation in training courses and conferences ranging from VIP protecti [...]
2006-02-14 14:25:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PGOV KU
06KUWAIT630SENIOR KUWAITI SHI'A CLERIC SAYS IRANIAN
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Senior Kuwaiti Shi'a cleric Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Mohri told Poloff in a February 21 meeting that Iranian "reformers" had been politically marginalized by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and exercised little restraint on the President's conservative policies. He disco [...]
2006-02-22 14:48:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
06KUWAIT661KUWAITI SHI'A AND SUNNIS CONDEMN IRAQ SHRINE
[...] (C) Summary and comment: During a February 24 rally at the Shi'a Imam Hussein mosque, Kuwaitis from across the religious and political spectrum condemned the bombing of the Al-Askariya shrine in Iraq. While most speakers blamed the attack on Sunni extremists and stressed the need for Muslim [...]
2006-02-27 14:28:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS SHI
06KUWAIT698 KUWAIT: SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) Embassy Kuwait's submission for the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) follows. Responses are keyed to paragraphs 21-24 of reftel. 2. (SBU) 21A: Kuwait is a destination country for internationally trafficked men and women. There is no trafficking in areas outside of GOK con [...]
2006-03-01 13:25:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF KU
06KUWAIT804FREEDOM AGENDA: OPPOSING REACTIONS TO THE NEW
[...] (U) Summary and Comment: Reactions to the newly-passed Press and Publications law (reftel) have varied widely and at times tended to hyperbole. One knowledgeable post contact sees it as a great step forward while another fears it will lead to the end of quality journalism in Kuwait. Liberal [...]
2006-03-08 14:01:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV KHUM IR KU FREEDOM AGENDA
06KUWAIT892FREEDOM AGENDA - ELECTORAL REFORM PART II OF III:
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: This is the second in a series of three cables on electoral reform in Kuwait. A majority of Kuwaitis support reducing the number of electoral districts from the current 25 to 10, or fewer; however, there is still an influential minority opposing the reform. The mos [...]
2006-03-15 14:09:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
06KUWAIT893FREEDOM AGENDA - ELECTORAL REFORM PART III OF III:
[...] (C) Despite many Government officials' public and private support for reducing the number of electoral constituencies (refs A and C),some question the Government's seriousness in supporting this key political reform. During a March 12 meeting, Issam Al-Dabbous, a Government-leaning MP who se [...]
2006-03-15 14:15:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV EIND KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
06KUWAIT913REGIONAL CT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ AND ITS NEIGHBORS:
[...] (S REL AUS UK) Summary: U.S. Chiefs of Mission and Embassy representatives from Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey met in Kuwait, March 7-8, as a first step to develop a regional counterterrorism strategy. Ambassador for Counterterrorism Henry Crumpton and U.S. interagency repres [...]
2006-03-18 04:36:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER PREL IZ KU SY JO TU SA
06KUWAIT995FREEDOM AGENDA: ISLAMISTS SHARE VIEWS ON ELECTORAL
[...] (C) Summary: The DCM hosted on March 18 an "American diwaniya," inviting influential Islamists, both Shi'a and Sunni, to discuss their political views and objectives, the prospects for political reform in Kuwait, and the impact of sectarian violence in Iraq on Shi'a-Sunni relations in Kuwait. [...]
2006-03-21 12:12:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KU ISLAMISTS FREEDOM AGENDA
06KUWAIT998NATO'S ICI VISIT BRINGS MISUNDERSTANDINGS TO A HEAD
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) delegation to Kuwait briefed over a dozen NATO member country mission chiefs on its March 19 meetings with GOK officials. According to the head of the six-person delegation, Rear Admiral Dr. Deniz Kutluk of Turkey, the Kuw [...]
2006-03-21 13:06:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PREL PTER IR IZ KU
06KUWAIT999DESIGNATION OF AL-MANAR TELEVISION, THE LEBANESE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-21 13:18:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER ASEC ETTC KU
06KYIV4021UKRAINE: WHO WERE THE FATHERLAND'S DEFENDERS? THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Orthodox feast day of Pokrova (October 14),marked for centuries to honor defenders of the fatherland, occasioned three dueling marches in downtown Kyiv between elderly veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and nationalist supporters on the one hand and Communists [...]
2006-10-18 10:23:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM ASEC UP
06KYIV441511/30 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Parliament continued its progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, adopting five additional laws, four of which related to the agricultural sector. Parliament has now adopted 17 out of the 21 required laws. On the eve of PM Yanukovych's [...]
2006-11-30 16:29:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4478UKRAINE: STAND BY YOUR MEN: YUSHCHENKO RAISES THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko raised the stakes in the accelerating power struggle between his circle and that of PM Yanukovych December 5 by issuing a decree reinforcing Tarasyuk's status as Foreign Minister, notwithstanding the December 1 vote by the Rada to dismiss Tarasyuk. For its [...]
2006-12-06 15:42:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4537UKRAINE/LITHUANIA: ADAMKUS LOBBIES FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus' three-day state visit to Ukraine -- his fourth trip here this year -- was intended to demonstrate a willingness to work with the new Yanukovych government, promote bilateral trade and investment ties, and facilitate cooperation in the energy s [...]
2006-12-11 16:05:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV NATO UP LH
06KYIV4558UKRAINE: LAND, POWER, AND CRIMINALITY IN CRIMEA
[...] (C) Summary. Land issues dominate the Autonomous Republic of Crimea's local agenda, according to a wide range of Crimean officials, journalists, and community leaders we talked to November 20-22 in the Crimean capitol of Simferopol, the separately administered city of Sevastopol, and Bakhchis [...]
2006-12-14 09:31:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL PHUM UP
06LAPAZ195MORALES-SHANNON MEETING: PRESIDENT RECOUNTS
[...] (C) Summary: Summary: In their January 21 meeting, WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon told President-elect Evo Morales the U.S. agenda in Bolivia reflected our larger agenda in the region: consolidating democracy, promoting economic growth through free markets and integration, and protec [...]
2006-01-26 15:23:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL
06LAPAZ2017STATE CRITICIZES CHURCH
[...] (C) Summary: A growing confrontation between church and state, which began as a debate about religious education, has broadened into a larger discussion of religion in general. Religion and religious education will be discussed in Congress in relation to a pending education bill as well as in [...]
2006-07-26 18:47:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALASCH APER AMGT PGOV PREL SOCI BL
06LAPAZ2079GOB URGES "CREATIVE" APPROACH TO BILATERAL TRADE
[...] (SBU) Summary: GOB trade officials expressed satisfaction August 1 with Vice President Garcia Linera's trip to Washington (reftel),which provided an opportunity to lobby for an extension of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). They noted the GOB's interest in negotia [...]
2006-08-02 20:15:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2269HYDROCARBONS MINISTER BASHES BRAZIL
[...] (C) Summary: Hydrocarbons Minister Soliz Rada told the DCM on August 21 that Brazil's strong presence in Bolivia is the root of many of the nation's problems, particularly in the hydrocarbons sector. Soliz said that Bolivia needs to develop alternate markets to Brazil, including Argentina and [...]
2006-08-22 15:52:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2393CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AT A CROSSROADS
[...] (C) Summary: The Constituent Assembly is at a crossroads after political disagreements over its rules of order escalated into violence September 1, resulting in MAS delegates approving their own proposal for a majority vote on constitutional changes after opposition parties abandoned the sess [...]
2006-09-05 21:19:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2418MAS STEAMROLLING CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY?
[...] (C) Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) Constituent Assembly delegates approved the general outline of their own draft rules of order September 6 by simple majority (141 of 255 votes) without permitting debate. Opposition parties had attempted to postpone a vote on the rules of order by requestin [...]
2006-09-07 20:32:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2506VENEZUELAN AND CUBAN INFLUENCE GROWING
[...] (C) Two social sector leaders, Rufo Calle and Hugo Vega (protect),independently told poloff September 14 that Venezuela and Cuba are increasingly involved in Bolivian social organizations. Rufo Calle, president of a national indigenous/labor organization (CSUTCB),said the MAS is intensifyin [...]
2006-09-15 19:17:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL BL CU VE
06LAPAZ2627BOLIVIA - PARAGUAY RELATIONS HIT A BUMP, BOUNCE
[...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Interior Vice Minister Rafael Puente's September 27 statement calling Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte a "cynical liar" caused a diplomatic roil between Bolivia and Paraguay which ended with an official apology by the GOB and Puente's dismissal. End summary. 2. [...]
2006-09-28 20:37:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2636MAS MACHINATIONS AT CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY POLARIZE
[...] (C) Summary: On September 28 in Sucre, on almost purely party lines, the Constituent Assembly (CA) voted in favor of Evo Morales' MAS party's proposal that it declare itself an "originary" organ, and thus theoretically superior to all other branches of government, including the legislature th [...]
2006-09-29 18:43:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2657MORALES: WALKING A FINE LINE ON DRUGS
[...] (C) Summary: Following the September 29 death of two civilians who ambushed a GOB eradication operation in Carrasco National Park in Cochabamba, the Embassy's NAS section will begin supporting GOB eradication efforts in the park at the GOB's request. President Morales started spinning the conf [...]
2006-10-02 20:18:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2661GAS CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS STUMBLE FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary: Based on the May 1 hydrocarbons nationalization decree's mandate that private firms must sign new contracts by October 31 (ref A),the GOB recently provided hydrocarbons companies with draft contracts and began the first round of negotiations with companies on September 27. U.S.- [...]
2006-10-03 12:03:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2900HYDROCARBONS CONTRACT DEADLINE DRAWS NEAR
[...] (C) Summary: The press published a copy of the model contract supposedly provided by the GOB to the hydrocarbons companies who must sign new contracts by October 28, according to the May 1 nationalization decree. The contract appears highly favorable to Bolivia's state oil company, YPFB. Pe [...]
2006-10-25 21:33:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2906VENEZUELAN MILITARY ACCORD STALLED IN SENATE
[...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan - Bolivian military cooperation agreement, already approved by the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) dominated lower house, appears to be stalled in the Senate Defense Commission. Four hours of closed door hearings on October 25 with the Commander of the Armed Forc [...]
2006-10-26 18:16:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2967GAS CONTRACTS HAVE VARIABLE RETURN RATES
[...] (C) Summary: The new contracts signed by hydrocarbons production and exploration companies on October 27 and 28 (ref A) contain tables of variables, including investment and production figures, which will be used to calculate company returns and the state oil company YPFB's take. The amount of [...]
2006-10-31 21:17:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ3258THE MEDIA LUNA DECEMBER 1 CIVIC STRIKE
[...] (U) On December 1 the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, and Tarija began a one day civic strike in response to frustration with recent GOB moves on a variety of fronts. The strike is also being partially observed in Pando, Cochabamba, and parts of Chuquisaca. The strike is due to end at 6 p.m. [...]
2006-12-01 20:26:00Embassy La PazSECRETECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3325UPDATE ON SOFA NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) DCM met with Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca and Vice Minister Mauricio Dorfler November 27 to seek GOB input on the draft Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) we provided various GOB officials in late October. The Foreign Minister thanked the DCM for U.S. military assistance and appeare [...]
2006-12-08 15:10:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALKTIA MARR MOPS PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3449REACTIONS TO BOLIVIA'S NEW COCA STRATEGY
[...] (C) On December 20, the DCM met with European Union chief of mission Ambassador Andrew Standley and United Nations representative Jose Manuel Martinez Morales to discuss reactions to the GOB's new coca strategy which was announced at a December 18 ceremony in the Chapare. Poloff also attended [...]
2006-12-21 19:28:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL SNAR BL
06LAPAZ417MINISTER OF PRESIDENCY ON COCA, ERADICATION, AND
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramos de la Quintana told the Ambassador February 15 that the GOB wanted USG agencies to continue their programs in the Chapare, though implementation methods may need to be modified. He acknowledged that the GOB's counternarcotics policies were sti [...]
2006-02-16 23:10:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON SNAR PINR PHUM EAID BL
06LAPAZ428BIZARRE CUBAN AID ENCOUNTER
[...] (C) Santa Cruz Business Chamber (CAINCO) President Gabriel Dabdoub related to the Ambassador on February 15 a strange encounter he witnessed between President Evo Morales, Santa Cruz Prefect Ruben Costas and Cuban Ambassador to Bolivia Luiz Felipe Vazquez. According to Dabdoub, the Cuban Amb [...]
2006-02-17 20:10:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ451FIRST MEETING WITH EVO AS PRESIDENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a nearly two hour conversation with the Ambassador at the Presidential Palace on February 18, Evo Morales would not be pinned down on details of eradication but showed interest in at least limited cooperation on broader counternarcotics and anti-corruption issues. The Am [...]
2006-02-21 21:35:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SNAR ECON PINR EAID BL
06LAPAZ6INITIAL MEETING WITH EVO MORALES: BRASS TACKS
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 2 "breaking the ice" meeting with the Ambassador, President-elect Evo Morales claimed he had not publicly maligned President Bush (at least not in the post-election period) and expressed deep resentment about being branded a "narco-terrorist" by U.S. officials. Moral [...]
2006-01-03 16:25:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL SIPDIS
06LAPAZ734MORALES SEARCHING FOR WAY FORWARD ON TRADE
[...] (C) Summary: Over lunch March 16 President Morales and Vice President Garcia Linera told the Ambassador that the GOB was distressed about the loss of the Colombian soy market for Bolivian producers and they wished to press this concern in Washington. The Ambassador explained that the Colombi [...]
2006-03-17 19:49:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD PINR SNAR BL
06LAPAZ84IDB PREOCCUPIED BY UNCERTAINTY OF U.S. AND GOB
[...] (SBU) Summary: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Resident Representative, Joel Branski, told the DCM and Econoffs on January 11 that IDB staff has not met with the MAS' transition team, but that an IDB delegation plans to visit Bolivia at the end of January after the Presidential inaugura [...]
2006-01-13 20:06:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN BL
06LAPAZ938BOLIVIA: A CONCILIATORY MORALES RETRACTS
[...] (C) During a private dinner President Evo Morales and Vice President Garcia Linera hosted for the Ambassador, DCM and the Embassy's declared intelligence chief late April 1, Morales backtracked on accusations of U.S. involvement in recent hotel bombings in La Paz, denied targeting the judici [...]
2006-04-03 21:17:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SNAR BL
06LIBREVILLE191GOG EXPLAINS RAIDS THAT LED OPPOSITION LEADER TO
[...] (C) Summary: On March 24 the GoG explained to the diplomatic corps the circumstances of its March 21 raid on the headquarters of an opposition political party, which resulted in party leader Mamboundou's flight to the South African Embassy (reftels). The GoG told diplomats it had intelligence [...]
2006-03-24 13:36:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM GB
06LIBREVILLE222GOG EXPERT ON EG-GABON BOUNDARY NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Legal Advisor Michel Biang reports the GoG and GREG will renew ministerial level maritime boundary negotiations May 2 in New York. The GoG is no longer optimistic about an expeditious resolution. Biang fears that declining Gabonese oil production will [...]
2006-04-06 14:29:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET GB EK
06LIBREVILLE257EU FORCE FOR CONGO ELECTIONS TO STANDBY IN GABON
[...] (SBU) The standby component of the EU force to bolster security during the DRC's June elections will be based in Franceville, Gabon, according to German Ambassador Ilsa Lindemann. Less than 250 miles from Kinshasa, Franceville features a former French military base now used by the Gabonese ai [...]
2006-04-21 11:23:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV GB CG
06LIBREVILLE489EUROPEAN FORCE FOR DRC ELECTIONS DEPLOYING, BUT
[...] (C) Colonel (retired) Ernst Elbers, military advisor at the German Embassy in Libreville, provided a July 19 briefing on EUFOR deployment to EUCOM Deputy Commander General Ward. He explained that the force's political direction will be set by the EU Political and Security Committee in Brussels, [...]
2006-07-25 15:40:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR GB CG
06LIBREVILLE513GULF OF GUINEA COMMISSION TO MEET AUGUST 25
[...] (U) Foreign Ministers from Gulf of Guinea Commission states met in Libreville August 3 as a first step toward head of state summit in Libreville August 25 that will establish the commission. The summit will follow expert meetings on August 22 and 23 and a further Foreign Ministers meeting on [...]
2006-08-07 10:49:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT GB
06LIBREVILLE515COMMENTS ON GABON-EG BORDER DISPUTE MEDIATION
[...] (C) On August 2, MFA Legal Advisor Michel Biang gave DCM his perspective on the status of efforts to resolve the Gabon-Equatorial Guinea border dispute before UNSG Annan's mandate concludes. He said that the Geneva meeting of heads of state in June was to convene under joint French and Spanis [...]
2006-08-07 14:26:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET GB EK
06LIBREVILLE619POLITICAL INSIDER WINS JUDGMENT AGAINST CITIBANK
[...] (C) Summary: One of President Bongo's closest advisors won an appeals court judgment of $5.4 million against Citibank. Citibank reports that the manner in which the decision was made shows that political influence can trump the rule of law in the Gabonese court system. Coming hard on the heels [...]
2006-10-03 12:25:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALEFIN KCOR PGOV EINV GB
06LIBREVILLE637GABON: UNSCR 1718 DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-19 07:28:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM KNAR GB
06LIBREVILLE688GABONESE PUBLIC BORED, POLITICIANS FASCINATED, BY
[...] (C) Summary: Most of the 877 candidates competing for 120 seats during Gabon's December 17 legislative elections have no chance of success, regardless of whether the elections are free and fair. The large majority of the winners will likely come from President Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party [...]
2006-11-28 15:41:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM GB
06LIBREVILLE691PRESIDENT BONGO TWISTS ARMS, ENDS STRIKE
[...] (C) Summary: The imminence of legislative elections has contributed to a rash of strikes, since workers expect the government to act to resolve strikes quickly at election time. Following a three-day strike by oil workers, President Bongo instructed Mobil Oil Gabon to grant a wage increase and [...]
2006-11-29 14:34:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALEPET EINV ELAB PGOV GB
06LILONGWE2032006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - MALAWI
[...] SUMMARY. The Government of Malawi (GOM) continued to make commendable progress in tackling trafficking in persons (TIP) in 2005. TIP remained a relatively new concept for Malawians. The GOM and the NGO community made significant efforts to raise awareness among civil society, legislators a [...]
2006-03-01 15:40:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
06LIMA1099PERU LABOR LEADERS ON LOURDES/HUMALA, FTA, LABOR,S
[...] Peruvian labor leaders reject both candidates Lourdes Flores Nano and Ollanta Humala as too extreme, a situation that could create an opportunity for APRA candidate Alan Garcia were he to take up the cause of the proposed General Labor Law (Ref C). A labor rep from Arequipa described her reg [...]
2006-03-21 18:16:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EINV PGOV PHUM PINS PE
06LIMA1365ELECTION RESULTS (64 PERCENT REPORTING): HUMALA
[...] (U) With 64 of voting tables reporting, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) reports the following results in the presidential race: Union por el Peru's (UPP) Ollanta Humala 24.9 percent, Unidad Nacional's (UN) Lourdes Flores 23.4 percent, APRA's Alan Garcia 22.3 percent. Humal [...]
2006-04-10 17:50:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PE
06LIMA1373ELECTION RESULTS (64 PERCENT REPORTING): HUMALA
[...] (U) With 64 of voting tables reporting, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) reports the following results in the presidential race: Union por el Peru's (UPP) Ollanta Humala 24.9 percent, Unidad Nacional's (UN) Lourdes Flores 23.4 percent, APRA's Alan Garcia 22.3 percent. Humal [...]
2006-04-10 20:44:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PE
06LIMA1482PERU AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING
[...] (U) The following is Post,s response to reftel A. No Political Support for Cuba ----------------------------- 2. (U) The Peruvian Government maintains formal relations with the Cuban Government, but the two countries have modest diplomatic contacts and bilateral trade. The last visit [...]
2006-04-18 17:04:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALETTC ECON PREL PE
06LIMA1781BOLIVIA AND VENEZUELA PERPLEX, VEX GOP
[...] (C) According to Foreign Ministry South American Affairs Director Milagros Castagnon: -- the Government of Bolivia has asked the GOP for 40 experts to provide technical assistance with Bolivia's hydrocarbons nationalization; -- Venezuela refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of Peru's w [...]
2006-05-09 16:44:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM PE
06LIMA2445LULA-GARCIA MEETING A "LOVE-FEST" ACCORDING TO TOP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Peruvian Foreign Ministry's Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Pablo Portugal, described the 6/13 meeting in Brasilia between President-elect Alan Garcia and Brazilian President Lula da Silva as a "love-fest," during a 6/14 coffee with the Ambassador. According to Portu [...]
2006-06-19 19:30:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETRD EINV PE BR
06LIMA2503MEETING WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT GARCIA,S FOREIGN
[...] (C) Ambassador and DCM held a 90 minute meeting on 6/19 with Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde, who President-elect Alan Garcia intends to name as Foreign Minister. Garcia Belaunde said Alan Garcia will rarely travel abroad. The only plans now on the books are to visit Chile and Colombia before th [...]
2006-06-22 17:48:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PE
06LIMA2853AMBASSADOR MEETS PRESIDENT-ELECT GARCIA
[...] (C) Ambassador Struble called upon President-elect Alan Garcia on July 14. The Ambassador was accompanied by DCM Phyllis Powers; Garcia was joined by his Foreign Minister-designate, Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde. While the Ambassador and Garcia had maintained contact through intermediaries, [...]
2006-07-24 03:37:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PE PREL PINR
06LIMA3259NEW PERU DEFENSE MINISTER ON ARTICLE 98, SOFA,
[...] (C) Ambassador discussed Peruvian border and internal control issues, Article 98, a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),the U.S.-donated C-26 counternarcotics (CN) aircraft, the U.S. Customs P-3 CN flights from Piura, the Cooperating Nations Information Exchange System (CNIES),and a possible [...]
2006-08-17 22:22:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KICC PHUM PREL KTIA MARR MOPS PINR PE
06LIMA64FOREIGN MINISTER ON PERU'S "ISOLATION," BOLIVIA,
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua, in a breakfast hosted by the Ambassador on 1/4, said that Peru, as a pro-U.S. and pro-free trade advocate, sees itself as increasingly isolated in a South America moving leftwards, with only Colombia for company. Maurtua pushed for signals of USG support: [...]
2006-01-09 13:25:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PE BL
06LIMA811PERU VIEWS COLOMBIA FTA AS VIRTUALLY THE SAME
[...] (C) Summary. The Peruvian Government has gone on record supporting the U.S.-Colombia free trade pact, emphasizing that neither Peru nor Colombia obtained a better deal. Initial information about the U.S.-Colombia trade agreement has allayed GOP fears that concluding negotiations first with t [...]
2006-03-01 21:50:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALETRD EAGR EINV ECON PE
06LISBON1014PORTUGUESE VIEWS ON EAST TIMOR AND DEPLOYMENT PLANS
[...] (C) Portuguese interlocutors from the Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry, and Republican National Guard (GNR) have confirmed Portugal's plans to help East Timor stabilize, although not under the auspices of the Australia-led Joint Task Force. Both the Portuguese Defense Minister's Advisor and [...]
2006-06-02 19:09:00Embassy LisbonSECRETPREL MOPS TT PO
06LISBON1937PORTUGUESE DISCUSS COCAINE TRENDS WITH STAFFDEL
[...] (U) Summary: Staffdel Brennan, a delegation made up of House International Relations Committee (HIRC) and House Judiciary Committee staffers, visited Portugal from August 30 - September 2 to meet with local law enforcement and politicians to discuss narcotrafficking trends from Latin America t [...]
2006-09-11 14:03:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP SNAR ASEC PO
06LISBON2244PORTUGUESE SUPPORT TO PRESSURE MOZAMBIQUE ON UNSC
[...] (C) Portugal's Deputy Foreign Minister, Professor Joao Gomes Cravinho, told us it is an inopportune time for Portugal to pressure Mozambique regarding the latter's vote in the upcoming United Nations Security Council (UNSC) election between Venezuela and Guatemala. Portugal and Mozambique, Go [...]
2006-10-10 14:25:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL MZ VE PO
06LISBON2266US-PORTUGAL BILATERAL COMMISSION HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (U) Summary: Portugal hosted the semi-annual meeting of the U.S.-Portugal Bilateral Commission on October 3 to discuss ongoing bilateral cooperation items as well as coordination on international military engagements. The U.S. delegation noted Portugal's military contributions worldwide, incl [...]
2006-10-12 14:21:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR ETRD PO
06LISBON2361VENUE FOR 2008 NATO SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) DCM Adrienne O'Neal contacted the Foreign Minister's Chief of Cabinet Francisco Ribeiro de Menezes per reftel to inform him that, although the U.S. appreciates Portugal's interest in hosting the NATO summit and that Lisbon is an attractive option for a NATO summit overall, that the U.S. [...]
2006-10-20 11:17:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPO PREL MARR
06LJUBLJANA129SLOVENIA: ROUNDTABLE ON ISLAM AND THE WEST FOSTERS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On February 21, the Embassy and the University of Primorska co-organized a roundtable on "Islam and the West" at the newly open American Corner in Koper. With excellent organization provided by the University and exceptional attendance by Slovenian citizens, students, and the med [...]
2006-02-24 07:30:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KPAO SI
06LJUBLJANA214SLOVENIA: ENERGY SECURITY AND HYDROELECTRIC POWER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Companies within the state-owned Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) group produce over half of Slovenia's electricity. With the GOS looking for self- sufficiency in electricity, HSE's further construction of hydroelectric plants will play a key role. HSE is currently evaluatin [...]
2006-04-07 05:23:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON EINV ETRD SI
06LJUBLJANA329SUCCESSFUL U.S.-SLOVENIA POL-MIL TALKS HELD MAY
[...] (S) The first joint State-DOD pol-mil talks with Slovenia took place at the Slovenian MFA May 12. Highlights included: -- SLOVENE CONTRIBUTIONS TO GWOT (paras 3-5): The Slovenes said they are increasingly willing to share the collective burden and that they intend to maintain their particip [...]
2006-05-25 06:18:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRETMARR NATO PGOV PREL SI
06LJUBLJANA530SLOVENIA: FINDING PRACTICAL WAYS TO MATCH
[...] (U) A/DCM and PolMilOff delivered Reftel demarche to Mirko Cigler, Director of the Department for North America, and Damijan Bergant, Deputy Director of the Department for International Organizations and Human Security, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 16. 2. (C) Cigler echoed t [...]
2006-08-16 14:06:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL SI
06LJUBLJANA57SHIELD S59-05: SLOVENIA DEMARCHED ON IRANIAN
[...] (S) On January 26, PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Security Policy staffer Bostjan Jerman. Jerman noted that Slovenia had not had any dual-use transactions with the UAE in recent years but promised to update his database with the information provided. 2. (S) Jerman also raised a [...]
2006-01-26 06:33:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRETPARM PREL ETTC SI
06LJUBLJANA675AMBASSADOR GREG SCHULTE TALKS NONPROLIFERATION IN
[...] (C) Summary. During a public diplomacy visit to Slovenia October 16 US Ambassador to UNVIE Greg Schulte met with leaders and policymakers from government, media, and academia to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, US policy towards Iran and North Korea, and Slovenia's role as the Chairman of [...]
2006-10-23 05:23:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPARM SI
06LJUBLJANA709SLOVENIA IN LINE WITH EU ON AMENDMENT TO CUBA
[...] (C) COM delivered reftel demarche to MFA State Secretary Bozo Cerar on October 26. Cerar was well aware of the issues, noted his sympathy for the US position, but said that the GoS had problems with combining language critical of the Cuban human rights situation with the embargo resolution. H [...]
2006-11-03 05:16:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA SI
06LJUBLJANA795ROMA SITUATION CALMS DESPITE THE RETURN OF SOME
[...] (SBU) Summary. Week six of the Roma family Strojan story saw Minister of Environment Janez Podobnik named as the new government lead on Roma issues, the Environmental Inspectorate condemn the Strojans, home and recommend its demolition, and the Slovenian people giving their government mixed r [...]
2006-12-08 13:35:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SI
06LOME452LUNCH WITH TOGO'S OPPOSITION THE DAY BEFORE THE
[...] (U) Summary. On April 20, the day before the opening of the long-awaited re-launch of the national dialogue, the Ambassador held a luncheon meeting with four high-level members of the three principal opposition parties. The guests were wary but hopeful that the dialogue, based on an eight poin [...]
2006-04-24 17:38:00Embassy LomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TO
06LONDON4338UK OPEN TO FINANCIAL MEASURES AGAINST IRAN
[...] (S) Undersecretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey met with UK officials on June 7 to discuss possible financial measures that could be used to increase pressure on Iran. In meetings at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Bank of En [...]
2006-06-16 10:23:00Embassy LondonSECRETETTC EFIN PTER PREL UK IR
06LONDON5861(C) UK FOREIGN SECRETARY PESSIMISTIC ON LEBANON
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett is pessimistic enough about the future of the draft Lebanon Security Council resolution that she planned to travel early this morning (August 10) to New York to do what she could to help the negotiations, Middle East/North Africa Director (NEA [...]
2006-08-10 11:58:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS UN IS LE UK
06LONDON6591UK AGREES TO LIMITED LOBBYING FOR GUATEMALA'S UNSC
[...] (C) The FCO agreed to our request to lobby Ghana, Kenya, Namibia and Singapore in support of Guatemala's bid for the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) seat on the UN Security Council. FCO Director for International Security Stephen Pattison told DCM September 9 that the UK supported [...]
2006-09-12 13:30:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC GT VE UK
06LONDON8106(C) A/S FRAZER DISCUSSES SUDAN AND SOMALIA WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with FCO Minister for Africa Lord Triesman November 21 and Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn the next day, AF A/S Frazer stressed the need to adopt a UNSCR on Somalia flexible enough that frontline states could play a positive role. She al [...]
2006-11-27 15:29:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR UNSC SU SO ER ET KE UK
06LONDON8249POLONIUM SITREP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post provided reftel A information on polonium-210 to HMG to assist in its investigation and public response. UK health authorities continue to contact those individuals who may have stayed in rooms at the Millennium Hotel that tested positive for radiation; CA/OCS continues to [...]
2006-12-07 17:17:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL CASC PTER RU UK
06LUSAKA1350MWANAWASA LEADS IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE, BUT SLOW AND
[...] (C) Summary: Based on results reported from 80 percent of the constituencies around the country, President Mwanawasa of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) enjoys a healthy lead over Patriotic Front (PF) and United Democratic Alliance (UDA) opponents. The Electoral Commission o [...]
2006-10-02 07:29:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ASEC ZA
06LUXEMBOURG343NATO RESPONSE FORCE: NO FURTHER LUXEMBOURG
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-22 13:21:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO LU
06LUXEMBOURG461NO LUXEMBOURG DECISION ON HOW TO SUPPORT UNIFIL
[...] (C) A/DCM discussed the issue of contributions to UNIFIL with MFA Deputy Defense Director Serge Alzin on August 22. An uncharacteristically tight-lipped Alzin mentioned that the Defense Directorate was working on the issue; he expects a GOL decision on the composition of a contribution within o [...]
2006-08-22 13:36:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MOPS PREL UN LE LU
06LUXEMBOURG481LUXEMBOURG: NEXT DAYS CRITICAL ON IRAN STRATEGY
[...] (C) A/DCM delivered reftel points to Jean-Louis Thill, MFA officer in charge of Middle Eastern Affairs, on August 31. He welcomed our points, and plans to share them with FM Asselborn in advance of the Gymnich meeting. Thill stated that Luxembourg will support strategies that expedite a prompt [...]
2006-08-31 14:25:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PGOV PREL EU IR UN LU
06LUXEMBOURG598LUXEMBOURG TO CONSIDER AUSTRALIAN CUBA EMBARGO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-08 16:22:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL LU
06LUXEMBOURG599LUXEMBOURG POSITIONS ON COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS AT UN
[...] (C) A/DCM delivered talking points contained reftel to Anne Goedert of the MFA Political Directorate. Goedert confirmed that Luxembourg will vote in favor of all five US-supported resolutions concerning Belarus, Uzbekistan, the DPRK, and Iran. She had been previously unaware of the two resol [...]
2006-11-08 16:33:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL LU
06LUXEMBOURG606LUXEMBOURG SUGGESTS SUPPORT FOR US CANDIDATE FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-15 09:50:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYILC UNGA PREL LU
06LUXEMBOURG613JUNCKER TELLS TURKEY TO ADMIT GREEK CYPRIOT SHIPPING
[...] (C/NF) During their November 14 private meeting Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker told Turkish Economy Minister Ali Babacan that Turkey should remove a major obstacle to its EU accession woes by admitting Greek Cypriot ships and aircraft to a designated port of entry under a plan pr [...]
2006-11-21 14:04:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL EUN LU TU
06LUXEMBOURG637AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES EU'S AVIATION EMISSIONS
[...] (C) During a meeting on 11 December, Ambassador raised the topic of the European Commission's proposed plan to include aviation in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) with Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker. Drawing on points contained reftel, the Ambassador highlighted US concerns [...]
2006-12-11 16:06:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALEAIR ETRD EU LU
06LUXEMBOURG638PRIME MINISTER JUNCKER DISCUSSES THE EU
[...] (C/NF) During a private meeting with the Ambassador on December 11, Prime Minister Juncker expressed a pessimism concerning the future of the EU Constitution which contrasted with his generally more optimistic public comments. Noting the lack of effective governments in several EU countries, [...]
2006-12-13 15:44:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL TU LU EUN
06LUXEMBOURG639PRIME MINISTER JUNCKER DISCUSSES THE IRAQ STUDY
[...] (C/NF) During a private meeting with Ambassador Wagner on December 11, Prime Minister Juncker expressed hope that the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report would prove productive in helping the USG to resolve problems in Iraq. He said he was surprised that the study (and especially its findings) had [...]
2006-12-13 15:55:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL SY LU EUN
06LUXEMBOURG641LUXEMBOURG'S PM ON THE NATO SUMMIT
[...] (C) During an 11 December meeting the Ambassador and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker discussed the NATO Summit, the NATO Response Force (NRF),and the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The Ambassador expressed her appreciation to the PM for Luxem [...]
2006-12-14 13:08:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO PM LU
06MADRID1035SPAIN/CUBA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT
[...] (C) Spain is believed to be the largest foreign investor in Cuba, though Spanish companies avoid publishing precise data out of concern that such information will be used to further U.S. enforcement actions under the Libertad Act. Cuba is the third-largest market for Spain in Latin America, after M [...]
2006-04-25 12:56:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU SP
06MADRID1476SPAIN: FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL MEETS
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell took advantage of a private visit to Spain on May 23 to meet with Spain's Foreign Minister Moratinos. Moratinos told Powell that Spain is working to rebuild US-Spain relations - which Moratinos said went sour after Spain's pullout from Ir [...]
2006-06-08 16:28:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV SP
06MADRID1490AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega on June 8 to review bilateral relations and to discuss regional issues of joint interest, including developments in Peru, Bolivia, Iran, Syria, and North Africa. Regarding the CIA flights issue, Vice President de [...]
2006-06-09 16:46:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SP
06MADRID1564SPAIN ON IRAN, SYRIA, HAMAS, NATO, WESTERN SAHARA,
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: During meetings at MFA, MOD, and the presidency on June 1, top GOS policymakers told EUR PDAS Kurt Volker and NEA DAS Scott Carpenter that Spain strongly supports the recent US announcement on Iran and will continue its significant commitment to Afghanistan. They said that th [...]
2006-06-16 13:57:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO SP AF VZ IR IZ WI IS MO GG RS
06MADRID1743SPAIN TO SEND HIGH-LEVEL DELEGATION TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] After consulting with Canadian DCM, Emboffs delivered PRT conference invitations on June 26 to the Foreign Ministry Director General (DG) for Asia and Pacific, the Spanish aid agency AECI DG for Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, and Defense Ministry DG for Policy. Separately, Emboffs reached [...]
2006-07-07 14:01:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC NATO SP AF
06MADRID1774SPAIN ON VENEZUELA: UNSC ELECTION AND VISIT TO
[...] (C/NF) A/DCM delivered ref A and B demarches regarding Venezuela to MFA DG for Latin America Javier Sandomingo on July 11. She said that Spain's influence with countries in Latin America and Africa could help prevent Venezuela from becoming a troublesome member of the UN Security Council. A/D [...]
2006-07-11 17:13:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC VZ SP
06MADRID1788SPAIN: STATEMENT ON ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER STRIFE
[...] (C) The MFA issued a statement July 12 condemning the Hizballah cross-border raid and kidnapping of two Israel soldiers and calling upon Israel to act with restraint. MFA contacts told us that the Spanish statement would likely have been more critical of Israel had it been released today, aft [...]
2006-07-13 11:34:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
06MADRID1806SPAIN: PARTICIPATION IN IRAQ COMPACT MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-17 08:49:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EINV IZ SP
06MADRID1897SPAIN CONCERNED ABOUT GIBRALTAR SHIP VISIT
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On July 26, a top Foreign Ministry official called the Ambassador on orders from his minister to register Spain's concern with the upcoming visit of a US nuclear-powered submarine to Gibraltar. The GOS did not specifically request cancellation of the visit, but suggested that [...]
2006-07-27 11:46:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR SP GI
06MADRID1914COURT FREES "SPANISH TALIBAN"
[...] (C) Summary. The Spanish Supreme Court announced July 24 that it had annulled the six-year prison sentence handed down in September by Spain's National Court against accused terrorist Hamed Abderrahaman Ahmed, known in the media as the "Spanish Taliban." Abderrahaman, a Spanish national capture [...]
2006-07-28 11:05:00Embassy MadridSECRETPTER PGOV PREL SP
06MADRID1960SPAIN ON CASTRO SUCCESSION
[...] (C) Summary. Responding to REF A points on the situation in Cuba, MFA Director General Javier Sandomingo told the Ambassador that Spain believes Fidel Castro is suffering from a serious illness and may not resume full control over the Cuban state. Sandomingo cautioned, however, that significa [...]
2006-08-03 07:06:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CU SP
06MADRID1966PLAN AFRICA: SPAIN INTRODUCES SELF TO NEIGHBORS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 26, Vice President Fernandez de la Vega officially rolled out Plan Africa, an ambitious project developed by the Zapatero government to address what it perceives to be a glaring hole in Spanish foreign policy. Prompted both by fears of international terrorism and by more [...]
2006-08-03 15:30:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SMIG SOCI SP XY
06MADRID2066SPAIN REAFFIRMS CONTRIBUTION TO UNIFIL
[...] (C/NF) As described in ref A, Spain intends to deploy approximately a battalion of troops to UNIFIL. Acting DG for Defense Policy Brigadier General Jose Munoz Castresana told Poloff on August 17 that Spain shares the US's sense of urgency and generally agrees with ref B's points. He said tha [...]
2006-08-17 15:16:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MOPS PREL SP LE
06MADRID2139SPAIN GENERALLY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Sub-Director General for Central Europe and the Balkans Raul Fuentes Milani on August 25. Fuentes Milani said that Spain mostly supports the U.S. approach to Kosovo. He made the following comments during the discussion of the reftel points: -- It [...]
2006-08-28 15:55:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UN PGOV EU SP
06MADRID2152SPAIN WANTS TO LEAD BRIGADE IN LEBANON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-29 13:59:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR SP LE
06MADRID2174SPAIN: SOME POPULAR PARTY VOICES URGE +NO, ON
[...] (U) Following Spanish government announcements that Spain intended to seek Parliamentary approval to deploy some 1000 troops and to lead a multinational brigade in Lebanon (reftel),several prominent conservatives close to the Popular Party and to former President Aznar have called on the PP [...]
2006-08-31 14:15:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SP
06MADRID2261SPANISH MILITARY ON CURRENT DEPLOYMENTS, NATO/RIGA
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Dan Fata discussed the NATO Riga Summit, Defense Minister Alonso's upcoming meeting with Secretary Rumsfeld, current Spanish deployments, and the NCIS/OSI issue with top Spanish military and defense leaders on Sept 5-6. Fata praised Spain' [...]
2006-09-11 13:33:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR SP
06MADRID2322SPAIN: PRESS ON WESTERN SAHARA BUT KEEP MINURSO FOR
[...] (S) Spanish MFA DG for Middle East/Africa Alvaro Iranzo welcomed enthusiastically new US engagement on Western Sahara and efforts to break the stalemate by pressing Morocco for a credible autonomy plan and talks with the Polisario, along with urging Algerian support and flexibility (reftel). [...]
2006-09-15 15:00:00Embassy MadridSECRETPREL PGOV MO WI AG FR SP
06MADRID2334SPAIN SEES ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA AS NECESSARY
[...] (C) In a Sept. 13 meeting with MFA Director General for Middle East Alvaro Iranzo, PolCouns discussed reftel points on Syria, stressed that the United States strongly discourages high-level contacts with the SARG and made clear that the USG is not asking third parties to deliver any messages [...]
2006-09-15 16:29:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER USUN LE SY EU SP
06MADRID2380DISRUPTING EXTERNAL FINANCING TO THE TALIBAN -
[...] (S/NF) Although an info addressee, per reftel invitation Embassy offers the following comments. The initiative on disrupting external financing to the Taliban could help induce the GOS to reenergize the fight against Taliban financing, among other reasons because Spain has some 600 soldiers deploye [...]
2006-09-22 12:12:00Embassy MadridSECRETPTER KTFN EFIN KPAO ASEC SP
06MADRID2421SPANISH MOD ON US ARMS TRANSFER POLICY TO VENEZUELA
[...] (C) DCM discussed reftel demarche with MOD Policy Director Admiral Francisco Torrente and Director General for Defense Policy General Benito Raggio on September 25. DCM emphasized that while the USG and the GOS have discussed arms sales to Venezuela many times over the past year, US policy on t [...]
2006-09-26 13:03:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS SP
06MADRID2435SPAIN: SIX MONTHS ON, ETA'S "PERMANENT CEASEFIRE"
[...] (C) Summary: Six months after the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent ceasefire, many inside Spain are now doubting its permanence. Street violence and vandalism continue in the Basque region and alleged ETA supporters released a statement over the weekend claiming that the gr [...]
2006-09-27 10:18:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER SP
06MADRID2495SPAIN: VISIT OF CUBA TRANSITION COORDINATOR CALEB
[...] (C) Summary. Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry visited Madrid September 26-27 for meetings with Spanish MFA officials, political figures (including former Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar),and opinion leaders, as well as radio and print interviews on Spanish media. In his meeting [...]
2006-10-02 16:18:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CU SP
06MADRID2543SPAIN: SCENESETTER FOR INL PDAS SCHWEICH'S OCTOBER
[...] (SBU) Your visit will dovetail nicely with the visit in mid September of DEA Administrator Tandy and will provide an important opportunity to educate the Spaniards on the Department's key role in the counter-narcotics effort. In her meetings with members of the Spanish Ministry of Interior, C [...]
2006-10-06 16:29:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR SP
06MADRID2544SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Spain is an opportunity to press the GOS and, possibly, private sector entities to move in ways that are key to achieving U.S. foreign policy goals in Iraq and Iran. You should ask Spain to put its money where its mouth is on the Iraq Compact in two ways. First, as [...]
2006-10-06 16:55:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID PREL SP
06MADRID2556SPAIN CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST
[...] DCM passed reftel points October 10 to MFA Rafael Dezcallar, Director General for Policy. ESTHOFF doubletracked same points with MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez. Given that the GOS had publicly condemned the North Korean nuclear test on October 9 (see below),[...]
2006-10-11 13:59:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM KNNP KN SP
06MADRID2564SPAIN ON GUATEMALA/VENEZUELA UNSC ELECTION
[...] (C) In a brief meeting on the margins of a representational event on October 11, the Ambassador and MFA Secretary of State for Ibero America Trinidad Jimenez SIPDIS discussed the status of the Venezuelan and Guatemalan candidacies for a non-permanent UN Security Council seat. Jimenez reiter [...]
2006-10-13 11:02:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA VZ SP
06MADRID2583SPAIN: VISIT OF VENEZUELA COORDINATOR DEBORAH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Coordinator for Venezuela Deborah McCarthy met with representatives of the Spanish Foreign Ministry and National Security Council on October 4 to discuss U.S. policy on Venezuela and Latin America. McCarthy also conducted interviews with two Spanish media outlets and on [...]
2006-10-13 14:24:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SNAR UNSC SP VE
06MADRID2584SPAIN: VISIT OF VENEZUELA COORDINATOR DEBORAH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Coordinator for Venezuela Deborah McCarthy met with representatives of the Spanish Foreign Ministry and National Security Council on October 4 to discuss U.S. policy on Venezuela and Latin America. McCarthy also conducted interviews with two Spanish media outlets and on [...]
2006-10-13 15:21:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SNAR UNSC SP VE
06MADRID2596SPAIN/CUBA: SPAIN DOES NOT WANT LEAD ON JOINT
[...] (C) MFA Secretary of State for Ibero America Trinidad Jimenez told the Ambassador October 11 that she wanted to preserve her channels of communication with Cuban authorities and therefore did not want Spain to take the lead at this time in developing a US-EU joint statement on Cuba. The Ambas [...]
2006-10-13 16:41:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CU SP
06MADRID2624SPAIN: IN ADVANCE OF OCT. 16 GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with MFA European Correspondent Carlos Fernandez-Arias on October 13 to discuss Spain's position in advance of the October 16 GAERC meeting. Fernandez-Arias indicated that Spain was in complete agreement on most topics with the United States, but he singled out Kosovo [...]
2006-10-17 07:22:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV UN EU YI SR BO MK SU CG IS LE IR IZ UP
06MADRID2657SPAIN: UPDATE ON KEY TERRORISM-RELATED CASES
[...] (C) Summary: In advance of the October 24 visit to Madrid of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Post presents a brief update on several of the most important pending or recently completed terrorism or criminal cases in the Spanish judicial system. Spain has made great strides in disrupting terro [...]
2006-10-20 12:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PTER SP
06MADRID2708SPAIN: ENRIQUE IGLESIAS ON IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. The Ambassador discussed the upcoming Iberoamerican Summit in Montevideo with Iberoamerican Secretary General Enrique Iglesias (protect) on October 17. SIPDIS Iglesias also spoke about the friction between Uruguay and Argentina, what it would mean if Raul Castro represents Cuba at [...]
2006-10-24 16:50:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL SP
06MADRID2758SPANISH ATTENDANCE AT IRAQ COMPACT PG MEETING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-27 16:13:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PREL EINV SP
06MADRID2765SPAIN/CUBA: SPAIN WARY OF EU STATEMENT ON CUBAN
[...] (C) MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar confirmed to DCM on October 24 Ref A statements by MFA Secretary of State for Ibero America Trinidad Jimenez that Spain did not believe the time was right for a joint statement on Cuba. Dezcallar went beyond Jimenez in asserting tha [...]
2006-10-30 13:28:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL CU SP
06MADRID2770SPAIN: VISIT OF INL PDAS SCHWEICH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his October 16-17 visit to Madrid, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Thomas Schweich met with representatives from the Spanish Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Civil [...]
2006-10-30 14:27:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR SP
06MADRID2776SPAIN PUSHING FOR MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: MFA officials confirmed reports in the Spanish media that Spain is promoting the idea of a new Middle East peace conference, with the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as its center-piece. Press reports hinted that this Spanish project enjoyed the support of the USG a [...]
2006-10-31 08:01:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
06MADRID2792SPAIN/CUBA: MIXED SIGNALS FROM MFA
[...] (C) Deputy FM Bernardino Leon told the Ambassador on October 31 that he is working with FM Miguel Angel Moratinos to develop an EU statement on Cuba for the next GAERC meeting in Brussels. The Ambassador had contacted Leon to voice the USG's frustration with Spain's apparent decision to back a [...]
2006-10-31 17:41:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CU SP
06MADRID2809SPANISH SEEK INCLUSION IN WESTERN SAHARA STRATEGY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: One month after the UNGA meeting between Assistant Secretary Welch and MFA DG for Middle East/Africa Alvaro Iranzo, Iranzo paid a call on the Ambassador October 26, saying he had sought the meeting at FM Moratinos' request, to reiterate that Spain wishes to play a role in U.S. strategi [...]
2006-11-02 16:23:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
06MADRID2813SPAIN ON UNSCR 1718 CONVENTIONAL ARMS OBLIGATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-03 09:57:00Embassy MadridSECRETPARM SP
06MADRID2831SPAIN: CHINESE AMBASSADOR ON NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Chinese Ambassador to Spain Qiu Xiaoqi called on the Ambassador on October 31 for what Ambassador Xiaoqi described as a courtesy call. The main purpose of his visit was to call for increased cooperation and dialogue between the USG and the Chinese Government on issues of mutual interest, [...]
2006-11-03 17:14:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
06MADRID2834SPAIN: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-06 12:17:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA IS SP
06MADRID2869SPAIN ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY-SPECIFIC
[...] (C) Emboff delivered reftel A and B demarches to the MFA Subdirector General for Human Rights Fernando Fernandez-Arias on November 8. Fernandez-Arias said, "You have nothing to worry about from Spain" with respect to these resolutions. He said he thought it was a good strategy to have an up [...]
2006-11-13 14:17:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KTIA UNHRC UN SP
06MADRID2870SPAIN SUPPORTS CONTINUED EU, NATO ENGAGEMENT WITH
[...] (C) Emboff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish Subdirector General for the EU Carlos Fernandez-Arias on November 2 and to Russia and Eastern Europe Desk Officer Iago Gil Aguado on November 8. Fernandez-Arias told Emboff that Ukraine is the most important non-EU European nation as far as Sp [...]
2006-11-13 14:19:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS SP UP
06MADRID2871SPANISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER GAERC
[...] (C) Poloff met with Spanish Subdirector General for the EU Carlos Fernandez-Arias on November 8 to discuss Spain's position in advance of the November 13-14 GAERC meeting. Fernandez-Arias indicated that Spain was in complete agreement with the United States on most topics, but he singled out [...]
2006-11-13 14:22:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
06MADRID2872DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SPAIN ON CHISINAU-MOSCOW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-13 14:24:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL ELTN RS MD UP SP
06MADRID2893SPAIN: DEPUTY FM LEON ON MIDEAST CONFERENCE,
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide ranging November 14 meeting with MFA Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Bernardino Leon, DCM reviewed the state of bilateral relations, relayed USG concerns regarding Spain's call for a new major Middle East conference, and discussed U.S. interest in stronger U.S.-Sp [...]
2006-11-15 17:20:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL IS LE SY CU SP
06MADRID2895SPAIN/HSPD-6: THEY SIGNED!
[...] Summary. In a November 15 meeting with A/S for Consular Affairs Maura Harty, Spanish Secretary of State for Security Antonio Camacho agreed to deepen information exchanges with the USG by exchanging terrorist lookout information as contemplated in Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSP [...]
2006-11-16 16:01:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PGOV PREL SP
06MADRID2909SPANISH FM MORATINOS ON SPAIN,S NEW MIDDLE EAST
[...] (C/NF) Summary: During a brief but wide-ranging meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos November 17, Ambassador Aguirre discussed he Middle East initiative proposed by Presidents Zapatero and Chirac at their Nov. 16 meeting in Girona Spain. Ambassdor also took a call from Spanish Nati [...]
2006-11-17 17:52:00Embassy MadridSECRET//NOFORNPREL SP
06MADRID2910SPAIN ON NATO/AFGHANISTAN ISSUES FOR RIGA
[...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points on the need for increased commitment to the NATO ISAF mission in Afghanistan to MOD Policy Director ADM Francisco Torrente on November 17. DCM emphasized that while the US appreciates Spain's solid contribution in the west, NATO faces a strong challenge in the [...]
2006-11-17 18:34:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NATO SP
06MADRID2942SPAIN ON MEPP: WE SUPPORT QUARTET, NEED TO PUSH
[...] (C) Summary. DCM called Javier Sancho Velazquez, Chief of Staff to Foreign Minister Moratinos, on November 22 to discuss reftel points and Spain's proposed Middle East initiative in advance of the November 24 Quintet meeting in Rome. DCM went over the demarche with Velazquez point by point [...]
2006-11-22 18:34:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP IS SY
06MADRID2955SPAIN DOES NOT AGREE WITH KOSOVO TIMEFRAME
[...] (C) DCM met with Alberto Navarro, Spanish Secretary of State for the European Union, on November 24 to discuss Spain's position on the timing of the Kosovo status process. DCM reviewed reftel demarche with Navarro point by point and stressed the U.S. position of moving quickly in Kosovo to a [...]
2006-11-27 16:41:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV YI SP
06MADRID2956SPAIN: ACTIVE SUPPORT ON TURKEY/EU; WILL SEEK
[...] (C) DCM met with Alberto Navarro, Spanish Secretary of State for the European Union, on November 24 to discuss the future of Turkish accession into the EU. DCM asked Navarro if Spain would be an active supporter of Turkey at the December European Council and also asked what role France and [...]
2006-11-27 16:49:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEUN PREL NATO SP
06MADRID2996WESTERN SAHARA: SPAIN WARY OF UNILATERAL MOROCCAN
[...] (C) Poloff discussed Western Sahara with Spanish Subdirector General for North Africa Manuel Gomez-Acebo and Assistant Subdirector General Javier Garcia-Larrache on December 1. Poloff thanked Spain for their white paper on Western Sahara and emphasized that the U.S. wished to put the onus o [...]
2006-12-05 08:12:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC WI SP
06MADRID3005SPAIN ON IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS
[...] (C) The DCM discussed Iran's upcoming elections with MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on December 5. Reviewing reftel talking points, the DCM emphasized the U.S. objective of highlighting the profound flaws in the Iranian electoral process. 2. (C) Dezcallar said [...]
2006-12-07 09:24:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IR
06MADRID3006SPAIN: PRESERVING THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED
[...] (S) The DCM met with Spanish MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar to discuss the ongoing effort of Syria and Hizballah to destabilize the legitimately elected Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. The DCM reviewed reftel demarche with Dezcallar and emphasiz [...]
2006-12-07 09:28:00Embassy MadridSECRETPREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE SP
06MADRID3007DEMARCHE TO SPAIN ON CHINA ARMS EMBARGO
[...] (C) The DCM discussed the EU's reconsideration of the China Arms Embargo with MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on December 5. Dezcallar assured the DCM that Spain is not seeking to lift the embargo, nor would it support such an effort. He noted that he had recently [...]
2006-12-07 09:35:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PREL PGOV PHUM EUN SP CH
06MADRID3008SPAIN/CUBA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT
[...] (C) Spain is believed to be the largest foreign investor in Cuba, though Spanish companies avoid publishing precise data out of concern that such information will be used to further U.S. enforcement actions under the Libertad Act. Cuba is the third-largest market for Spain in Latin America, af [...]
2006-12-07 10:00:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL CU SP
06MADRID3014SPAIN/VENEZUELA: ETA ISSUES SPARK SPANISH ANGER
[...] (U) Only hours after Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero and Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos had called to congratulate Hugo Chavez on winning his second presidential term on December 4, all major Spanish media outlets seized on a report from Basque news agency Vasco Press [...]
2006-12-07 17:44:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV SP
06MADRID3036SPANISH CONTACTS ON TFTP AND SWIFT
[...] (C) On December 7, EconCouns delivered reftel points to contacts at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Finance (Director of the Treasury),and at the Bank of Spain. 2. (C) On December 12 DCM followed up with a call to Navarro. Navarro said he had received the points and was awar [...]
2006-12-13 15:29:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER ECON SP
06MADRID3059SPANISH MOD POLICY DIRECTOR ON NATO RIGA SUMMIT
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. MOD Policy Director Torrente told DCM on December 12 that President Bush's remarks had helped make the NATO Riga Summit more successful than he'd expected. He said that the Summit had achieved important political ends related to future expansion and the Alliance's commitment to [...]
2006-12-19 11:30:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR NATO SP
06MADRID3078SPAIN/HSPD-6: MOVING AHEAD ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (SBU) The DCM and Embassy officers met with Eugenio Pereiro, Director of Spain's "National Center for Antiterrorist Coordination" (CNCA) on December 19 to discuss a broad range of security cooperation issues. Much of the discussion focused on the establishment of a mechanism to share terroris [...]
2006-12-20 14:34:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER CVIS PGOV PREL SP
06MADRID3081SPAIN/CUBA: DOMESTIC POLITICS SCUTTLE UNITY ON
[...] (C) Summary: The opposition Popular Party (PP) presented a Parliamentary motion December 19 calling for unity among Spanish political parties in supporting a democratic transition in Cuba. Foreign Minister Moratinos had signaled to PP Parliamentarians that a common position on Cuba could be n [...]
2006-12-21 11:53:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CU SP
06MADRID3082USOSCE AMB FINLEY CONSULTS SPAIN ON ITS OSCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: USOSCE Ambassador Finley discussed Spain's plans for its upcoming OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office with Spanish OSCE Task Force Director Lopez Jorrin and his team on December 15. Finley and Lopez Jorrin discussed the importance of focusing the next OSCE ministerial on a few key issues [...]
2006-12-21 14:38:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE SP
06MADRID3086SPAIN: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Spanish Deputy Health Minister Fernando Puig told the DCM December 7 that he believed that the threat of Avian Influenza had been exaggerated and that the health systems in place in the developed world, including in Spain, should be able to contain and limit the impact of any future out [...]
2006-12-22 10:23:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED AMGT KFLU PREL SP
06MADRID3095SPAIN/CUBA: SPANISH DOCTOR CONSULTS ON CASTRO
[...] (U) Spanish media reported that Doctor Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, Chief Surgeon of the Community of Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital, had examined Fidel Castro for 90 minutes on December 21. Garcia Sabrido asserted on December 26 that "as far as I know, Castro does not have cancer." Garcia S [...]
2006-12-27 15:53:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL CU SP
06MADRID3104SPAIN/CIA FLIGHTS: PLAINTIFFS DEMAND 13 USG
[...] (U) The Mallorcan "Free Association of Attorneys" and a group of Mallorcan professionals filed a motion calling upon National Court Judge Ismael Moreno to name 13 presumed USG officials as suspects in connection with the transit of a CIA flight that stopped in Palma de Mallorca in January 2004. The [...]
2006-12-28 14:01:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SP
06MADRID3111SPAIN: CAR BOMB DETONATES AT MADRID AIRPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary. A car bomb detonated at 9 a.m. Madrid local time on December 30 in a public parking garage outside of Terminal 4 at Madrid's Barajas International Airport. Minister of Interior Rubalcaba said that one person is missing and several were lightly injured. Rubalcaba expressed his c [...]
2006-12-30 14:15:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC CASC PGOV SP
06MADRID35SPAIN: DEPUTY FM ON "MODERATE" EVO MORALES VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Foreign Minister Bernardino Leon called Charge on January 5 to pass on his impressions of Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales' meeting with Foreign Minister Moratinos. Leon assessed that the meeting was a good introduction but not very substantive. He noted that Morales [...]
2006-01-09 15:35:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SP BO
06MADRID568FM MORATINOS ON SYRIA, VENEZUELA, MAGHREB
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on March 2 for discussion of Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat, developments in Iran and Syria, Spain's reported plans to sell arms to Libya, and Spain's desire for deeper USG engagement in North Africa. Moratinos indi [...]
2006-03-07 17:28:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
06MADRID76SPAIN/VENEZUELA: REACTION TO DENIAL OF LICENSE FOR
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on January 12 to advise him of the USG decision to deny the Spanish technology transfer license request related to the sale of Spanish aircraft to the Venezuelan government. Moratinos expressed frustration, saying it would [...]
2006-01-12 17:06:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
06MADRID766ETA CEASEFIRE: MAJOR POLITICAL VICTORY FOR ZAPATERO
[...] (U) Summary. The recent announcement of a permanent ceasefire by the Basque separatist terror group ETA was met with cautious optimism by a public that recalls ETA's abandonment of previous truces. However, there is a sense that ETA's declining military fortunes and Zapatero's readiness to e [...]
2006-03-30 14:17:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL SP
06MADRID857SPAIN: ZAPATERO ANNOUNCES SURPRISE CHANGES TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a surprise announcement April 7, President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero named new Defense, Interior and Education Ministers. Jose Bono is out as Defense Minister, to be replaced by Jose Antonio Alonso who moves over from his post as Interior Minister. Current Socialist spokesman i [...]
2006-04-07 15:48:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SP
06MANAGUA1098CODEL BURTON -- SHORT BUT SUCCESSFUL VISIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 9, Codel Burton (Representatives Burton, Meeks, Akin, Bordallo, Marchant, and Watson) made a brief stopover in Nicaragua on their way back to the United States from Costa Rica. During their time in Nicaragua, the Codel met with Embassy staff for a briefing on elections [...]
2006-05-18 21:48:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA1180REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC: RIZO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fear and ambition got the better of Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) presidential candidate Jose Rizo, who set aside his earlier commitment to withdraw his candidacy and join Eduardo Montealegre if PLC caudillo Arnoldo Aleman and the party's leadership did not remove undesirabl [...]
2006-06-02 17:08:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM KCOR NU ECON
06MANAGUA1183NICARAGUA SUPPORTS HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND THE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-02 18:30:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL NU
06MANAGUA1185NICARAGUA SUPPORTIVE ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-02 20:19:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR
06MANAGUA1209UPBEAT PRESIDENT BOLANOS HOPES SUCCESSOR BUILDS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bolanos recently confided to Ambassador his desire for his successor, ideally Liberal dissident Eduardo Montealegre, to build on his legacy. He justified his firing of a number of government employees for corruption, downplaying the fact that they had recently abandone [...]
2006-06-05 22:54:00Embassy ManaguaSECRETPGOV PREL PINR KDEM MARR MOPS NU
06MANAGUA1220MARTINEZ CUENCA: ORTEGA MUST GO -- QUESTION IS HOW
[...] (C) Alejandro Martinez Cuenca shared with Ambassador, DCM, and polcouns on June 6 his decision to continue his efforts to reform the Sandinista party (FSLN) and to challenge the FSLN "messianic" caudillo Daniel Ortega from within the party. According to Martinez Cuenca, Ortega has deluded hi [...]
2006-06-06 22:32:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA1383SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF STATE DEPARTMENT
[...] (S) Summary/Introduction: Your visit to Nicaragua allows you to reiterate U.S. opposition to the Sandinista (FSLN)-Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) pact and assure the Nicaraguan people that we share their desire for free, fair, credible, and inclusive elections. Your presence will also co [...]
2006-06-23 17:16:00Embassy ManaguaSECRETPGOV PREL PINR PHUM MARR MOPS KDEM ECON EFIN
06MANAGUA1411MONTEALEGRE WARNS A/S SHANNON, "LEWITES IS
[...] (C) Summary: ALN presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre warned A/S Shannon, Ambassador and others at a June 27 breakfast that MRS candidate Herty Lewites is corrupt, surrounded by unreformed Sandinistas, and likely to siphon votes from Montealegre. Montealegre and his advisors further dis [...]
2006-06-29 11:11:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU ES
06MANAGUA1423EU LIKELY TO SEND OBSERVATION MISSION FOR
[...] (SBU) The European Union Commission official heading the EU election observation exploratory mission to Nicaragua, Andrew Bruce, gave a presentation to the Elections Donor Group on the parameters of a possible EU electoral observation mission (EOM). Although the mission will not conclude unti [...]
2006-06-29 18:55:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM OAS EU NU
06MANAGUA1429AMBASSADORS SHARE ELECTION CONCERNS WITH A/S
[...] (C) Summary: A group of ambassadors resident in Nicaragua, most of whom are contributing funds to election efforts, shared their conviction with A/S Shannon on June 26 that a thorough international observation effort is necessary to prevent fraud during the November 5 national elections. The [...]
2006-06-30 16:35:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM NU
06MANAGUA1505ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON,S MEETING WITH MFA
[...] (C) Summary: On June 26, A/S Shannon discussed with Foreign Minister Norman Caldera election concerns and the OAS' role, the Hugo Chavez factor, and how best to "stop the clock" on constitutional changes due to go into effect in January 2007. Caldera believed the OAS and other observers sho [...]
2006-07-10 16:29:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA1513MARTINEZ CUENCA: SECOND THOUGHTS ON REFUSING
[...] (C) Alejandro Martinez Cuenca shared with Ambassador, DCM, and polcouns on July 7 his regret for not having accepted Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS) Herty Lewites' invitation to run as his VP for the November 5 presidential race (Reftels). He recounted how a clairvoyant Lewites had feared [...]
2006-07-10 21:39:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA1523A/S SHANNON -- LEWITES: LAST MEETING WITH U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 27, Assistant Secretary Shannon met with Herty Lewites, Sandinista dissident and presidential candidate for the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS). Lewites voiced concern about the election process, the lack of MRS poll watchers and continuing problems with national/voter [...]
2006-07-11 15:10:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA1524FOREIGN MINISTER CALDERA TO A/S SHANNON: IT IS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a June 27 lunch he hosted for A/S Shannon, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera predicted that Central America would sign a free trade agreement with the European Union within the next three years. Caldera touched on the recent free trade agreement between Nicaragua and Taiw [...]
2006-07-11 15:30:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA1534ARCHBISHOP BRENES SHARES VIEWS ON ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 26, Assistant Secretary Shannon discussed with Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes Solorzano the Archbishop's perspectives on democracy and governance in Nicaragua and the upcoming November 5 elections. Brenes hoped the elections would be fair, peaceful, and inclusive, and voice [...]
2006-07-12 17:38:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL NU KCRM KDEM KWMN PGOV
06MANAGUA1630CEDULA CRISIS FORCES EDG TO RECONSIDER PUBLIC
[...] (C) Summary: The Nicaraguan Elections Donor Group (EDG) decided to reconsider releasing a public statement regarding the electoral process after leaders of the NGO Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN) gave a presentation on their recent investigation revealing that large segments of the population a [...]
2006-07-26 13:48:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM GM CA DA SP FI JA NO NL SW
06MANAGUA1695NICARAGUA: PROVISIONAL RESPONSE TO DRAFT LIMITED
[...] Embassy received the following diplomatic note in response to reftel. As stated in the note, the GON has not yet completed internal consultations, but Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacts do not predict any major difficulties. Post has faxed a copy of the note to WHA/CEN will report final GON [...]
2006-08-04 15:29:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM MARR NU
06MANAGUA1731NICARAGUA ELECTIONS: FSLN CONFIDENT OF FIRST ROUND
[...] (C) Summary: With FSLN internal polls supposedly demonstrating an 8-10 point lead over the nearest challenger, FSLN Foreign Affairs officer Samuel Santos is confident that perennial FSLN presidential candidate Daniel Ortega can win in the first round of elections. The FSLN's confidence was fu [...]
2006-08-09 22:39:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SOCI NU
06MANAGUA179ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT GOMEZ: EQUILIBRIUM AND
[...] (C) Summary: Newly elected National Assembly President Eduardo Gomez Lopez (APRE) promises to instill equilibrium on the Assembly Junta and focus on the business of lawmaking. His legislative priorities coincide with those of President Bolanos and USG interests: passage of economic legislation [...]
2006-01-25 16:00:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR
06MANAGUA1894OAS EOM CHIEF FERNANDEZ AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-28 18:44:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA1938NICARAGUA: USTDA SIGNS GRANTS WITH NATIONAL PORTS
[...] (U) Summary: USTDA Director for Policy and Programs Geoff Jackson signed two grants for feasibility studies with Nicaraguan entities in Managua on August 29. The first was with the National Ports Company to fund a $430,000 feasibility study on expanding cargo handling facilities and improving [...]
2006-09-01 22:20:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAIR ECON EFTA EIND ETRD EWWT NU
06MANAGUA1972WHILE PLC MODERATES SEEK LIBERAL UNITY, HARDLINERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While some Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) Assembly moderates continue to seek a PLC alliance with Eduardo Montealegre's Liberal Nicaraguan Alliance (ALN),PLC hardliners have ratcheted up their party's smear campaign against Montealegre to the point that an alliance is likely [...]
2006-09-07 19:15:00Embassy ManaguaSECRETPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA1977MONTEALEGRE: BEST SCENARIO IS RIZO/ALVARADO
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In his recent meeting with presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre, the Ambassador touched on the crucial elements required to consolidate the campaign: convey a clear, concise, and consistent message; ensure financial and moral support to his campaigners throughout the countr [...]
2006-09-08 17:37:00Embassy ManaguaSECRETPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2059DANNY,S DOUBLE WHAMMY: ALN NUMBER THREE ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE AND RIZO,S SISTER JUMP SHIP FOR THE FSLN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of Sandinista Front (FSLN) candidate Daniel Ortega's concerted efforts to discredit the political prowess of his competitors, Ortega successfully recruited Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) National Assembly candidate Salvador Talavera and Maria Elena Rizo, the sister of L [...]
2006-09-19 19:19:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2074OAS EOM CHIEF SEES NO NEED FOR OCTOBER INTERIM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and WHA/CEN director recently met with the OAS election mission to assess developments in the preparations for Nicaragua's November 5 elections. While Mission head Gustavo Fernandez sees no need for a second OAS interim report on Nicaragua's electoral process, Ambassad [...]
2006-09-20 23:26:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2158MONTEALEGRE TELLS CODEL HE'S NICARAGUA'S BEST
[...] (C) Summary: Congressman Burton, the Ambassador, and DCM met with Eduardo Montealegre, Adolfo Arguello, and Mario Rapacciolli on 23 September to discuss the progress of Montealegre's presidential campaign, the strength of his Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) party, and the corrosive effects [...]
2006-09-29 21:53:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR
06MANAGUA2160"EDUARDO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT, UNLESS FSLN
[...] (C) Over lunch at the Presidency on 28 September, Eduardo Montealegre's campaign adviser Mario Elgarresta asserted to President Bolanos' chief of staff Nayo Somarriba, DCM, and polcouns that Ncaaguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) candidate Montealegre will be Nicaragua's next president -- unless San [...]
2006-09-29 22:44:00Embassy ManaguaSECRETPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2192PRIVATE SECTOR WORRIED ABOUT ORTEGA WIN, BUT STILL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nicaraguan private sector is in general agreement that an Ortega presidency would have a negative impact on the economy, but its attitude toward the election and supporting the various candidates varies. Individual businesspersons appear unwilling to risk investing significan [...]
2006-10-04 15:33:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA220OAS SENIOR POLITICAL ENVOY READS THE RIOT ACT TO
[...] (C) Summary: OAS senior political envoy John Biehl has placed stringent conditions on the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) to enable the OAS to participate in Nicaragua's March and November elections. In his recent visit to Managua, Biehl clarified that CSE's invitation for OAS observation of [...]
2006-01-30 22:27:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR
06MANAGUA223NICARAGUA'S OAS AMBASSADOR CONCERNED ABOUT FRAUD
[...] (SBU) The OAS election observation team and efforts to combat election fraud may fail unless certain steps are taken, according to Nicaraguan Ambassador to the OAS Jose Luis Velasquez. Velasquez, and senior MFA advisor Ariel Granera, during a 26 January meeting with the Ambassador, DCM and P [...]
2006-01-30 22:51:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI NU
06MANAGUA2338UCA PRESIDENTIAL POLL -- A PACT PLAY ON THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The University of Central America (UCA) released a poll October 18 showing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) presidential candidate Daniel Ortega with a clear lead followed at a distant second by Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) candidate Jose Rizo as part of its "El [...]
2006-10-20 21:29:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA2389NICARAGUA DOES NOT BACK OAS RESOLUTION, WILL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-26 23:16:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2390NICARAGUA WILL NOT BACK NAM'S UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-26 23:19:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM UNGA LE IS PHUM PTER NU
06MANAGUA2466SIT REP 2 - NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Summary: With the results of 60 percent of the voting tables (JRVs) in, Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN) presidential candidate Daniel Ortega enjoys an eight-point lead over his closest competitor, Eduardo Montealegre of the Liberal Nicaraguan Alliance (ALN),and will likely win the ele [...]
2006-11-07 23:45:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2505NICARAGUA: BOLANOS GOVERNMENT COMMITS TO BEING
[...] (SBU) DCM Peter Brennan delivered reftel demarches on November 8 to Nicaraguan FM Nelson Caldera regarding the annual Cuban Embargo Resolution and the proposed Australian Human Rights Amendment. Amenable to receiving talking points on these issues, Caldera gave assurances that the Nicaraguan r [...]
2006-11-13 20:58:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALNU PHUM PREL KTIA UN
06MANAGUA251HERTY SEEKS CORDIAL, CONSTRUCTIVE, COOPERATIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Sandinista (FSLN) dissident Herty Lewites seeks cordial, constructive, and cooperative relations with the United States and will request a prestigious U.S. delegation attend his inauguration if he wins Nicaragua's November presidential election. In his recent meeting with Ambassa [...]
2006-02-02 18:59:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR
06MANAGUA2517SIT REP 5 - NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ALN Deputy Yamileth Bonilla is confident the ALN will win at least 27 seats in the National Assembly which the ALN will use to influence the composition of the Assembly's executive board. The president of Bolanos' APRE party did not win an Assembly seat, but promises to help Mont [...]
2006-11-14 19:06:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2531SIT REP 6 - NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) has released final results for the presidential and provisional results for the congressional elections amidst complaints from the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN),Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) and some observer groups that these talli [...]
2006-11-17 00:08:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2606RIZO TO A/S SHANNON: WE WILL REFORM THE PLC FROM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 28, Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon met with Jose Rizo and Jose Antonio Alvarado, former presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC). Voicing their discontent with the election process, Rizo and Alvarado insisted that t [...]
2006-11-30 20:07:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA2608A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH NICARAGUAN
[...] (C) Summary: In his cordial yet measured meeting with WHA Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) stated his desire for "productive relations" with the USG. Ortega discussed his plans to fight pov [...]
2006-11-30 22:58:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ECON EAID KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2614ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON'S MEETING WITH MFA
[...] (C) Summary: On November 28, Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon discussed with Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Norman Caldera the outcome of Nicaragua's November national elections, predictions for the Ortega government and its regional implications, and Caldera's future plans. While Caldera be [...]
2006-12-01 18:03:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2615MONTEALEGRE TO A/S SHANNON: I WILL GIVE ORTEGA THE
[...] (C) Summary: On November 28, Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon discussed with former Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre the election outcome, the future of bilateral relations, and Montealegre's future role in ensuring Nicaragua remains on a democratic [...]
2006-12-01 18:14:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2617BOLANOS TO A/S SHANNON: "WE HAVE TO CORRAL ORTEGA"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 28 lunch hosted for Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon, President Bolanos and his advisors shared their insights and concerns about an Ortega presidency and outlined the key points of a liberal opposition strategy. President Bolanos opined that Ortega has littl [...]
2006-12-01 22:24:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON KDEM NU PGOV
06MANAGUA2624 AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS WITH FSLN
[...] (C) Summary: Following up on Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon's recent meeting with President-elect Daniel Ortega (Ref. B),Ambassador, DCM and polcouns met with Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) Foreign Affairs Secretary Samuel Santos to discuss next steps in our bilateral relat [...]
2006-12-04 14:32:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2630NICARAGUA'S HEALTH MINISTER SAYS ABORTION LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs recently met with Nicaraguan Minister of Health Margarita Gurdian to solicit her position on Nicaragua's new legislation criminalizing all forms of abortion and how this decision could affect women's health. According to the minister, the law will create fear and confusio [...]
2006-12-04 21:17:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KWMN
06MANAGUA2673FSLN FACES DIFFICULTIES DELIVERING ON CAMPAIGN
[...] (C) Summary: Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) Foreign Affairs Secretary Samuel Santos recently admitted that the party is having difficulty reconciling its many campaign promises. Santos specifically referred to the FSLN's desperate search for a solution to Nicaragua's ongoing ener [...]
2006-12-11 22:56:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ENRG KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2691FSLN TRANSITION TEAM SEEKS SOCIAL INVESTMENT,
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador and country team members recently presented an overview of USG programs and their parameters to President-elect Daniel Ortega's transition team. The Ambassador reiterated our commitment to working with a democratic Nicaraguan government that supports open markets and [...]
2006-12-13 20:18:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
06MANAGUA2741DISCUSSIONS ON NEXT STEPS WITH FSLN INTERMEDIARY
[...] (C) Summary: During Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) Foreign Affairs Secretary Samuel Santos' recent meeting with DCM and polcouns, he confirmed his appointment as Foreign Minister and requested to meet with State Department officials in Washington before President-elect Daniel Or [...]
2006-12-21 16:12:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KDEM ECON ENGR MARR PTER NU
06MANAGUA301ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT GOMEZ ADVANCES CONSTRUCTIVE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the spirit of his commitment to maintain a close working relationship with Embassy on legislation, National Assembly President Eduardo Gomez (Ref.) recently met with emboffs to discuss legislative priorities and how best to expedite them. The Embassy's priorities -- MANPADS [...]
2006-02-09 00:13:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR ETRD ECON EFIN
06MANAGUA302ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT GOMEZ ADVANCES CONSTRUCTIVE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the spirit of his commitment to maintain a close working relationship with Embassy on legislation, National Assembly President Eduardo Gomez (Ref.) recently met with emboffs to discuss legislative priorities and how best to expedite them. The Embassy's priorities -- MANPADS [...]
2006-02-09 00:13:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR ETRD ECON EFIN
06MANAGUA303ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT GOMEZ ADVANCES CONSTRUCTIVE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the spirit of his commitment to maintain a close working relationship with Embassy on legislation, National Assembly President Eduardo Gomez (Ref.) recently met with emboffs to discuss legislative priorities and how best to expedite them. The Embassy's priorities -- MANPADS [...]
2006-02-09 00:13:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR ETRD ECON EFIN
06MANAGUA304LIBERAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION MAGISTRATE: WE ARE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) magistrate Rene Herrera of the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) asserts that the PLC has boycotted CSE sessions to prevent the Sandinista (FSLN) majority from passing regulations that will enable the Sandinistas to steal the Atlantic Coast elec [...]
2006-02-09 00:13:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR
06MANAGUA348NICARAGUA SYMPATHETIC TO USG MESSAGE ON
[...] (C) On February 13, poloff delivered the talking points in reftel to Miriam Fonseca, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Middle East, Africa and Asia section. Fonseca was sympathetic to the USG concerns, and said that the GON, like everyone else, is waiting to see what sort of Palestinian Auth [...]
2006-02-13 21:10:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPREL IS KPAL NU
06MANAGUA394OIL PROFITS TAX: GON HAVING IT BOTH WAYS
[...] (C) Summary: The February 13 political &deal8 that ended the week-long Managua bus strike over rate increases continues to reverberate in the political sphere and the business community. Representatives of the FSLN, Alternativa Cristiana, and Camino Cristiano signed a document with the FSLN [...]
2006-02-17 23:15:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEPET EINV PREL PGOV NU
06MANAGUA430DANIELISTAS RIG COURT RULING TO FACILITATE
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy is encouraging non-Sandinista (FSLN) parties to protest recent Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) and the Supreme Court's constitutional chamber decisions enabling CSE president Roberto Rivas to replace two of the CSE's PLC magistrates with the substitutes of his choice, th [...]
2006-02-24 21:11:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR
06MANAGUA432SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF STATE DEPARTMENT
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit to Nicaragua allows you to reiterate U.S. opposition to the PLC-FSLN pact and assure the Nicaraguan people we share their desire for free, fair, credible, and inclusive elections. Your engagement will also facilitate progress on CAFTA-DR implementation and MANPADS des [...]
2006-02-24 22:54:00Embassy ManaguaSECRETKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL ECON ETRD MARR
06MANAGUA464A RUSE -- OR DO GENUINE CONCERNS DRIVE PLC'S CALL
[...] (C) Many Nicaraguan political and civil society leaders are calling for the resignation of all Supreme Electoral Commission (CSE) magistrates. Asserting that the CSE's substantial irregularities and clear domination by Daniel Ortega's Sandinista (FSLN) party will cause the March 5 Atlantic C [...]
2006-03-02 17:18:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KCOR
06MANAGUA556NICARAGUA ATLANTIC COAST ELECTIONS: PLC SUPREME IN
[...] (C) Summary: Preliminary results for the allocation of seats on the Councils of the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) and North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) indicate that the PLC will win enough positions to control the RAAS without having to form an alliance with another party. In [...]
2006-03-13 19:14:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SNAR SOCI NU
06MANAGUA8LEADING LIBERAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AGREE ON
[...] (C) Summary: During a cordial breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, leading Liberal presidential candidates Eduardo Montealegre, Jose Antonio Alvarado and Jose Rizo agreed in principle that the Liberals must unite to confront the FSLN in the 2006 elections and wrest the Liberal Constitutional [...]
2006-01-04 21:25:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI NU
06MANAGUA942VICAR SUGGESTS TO DAS MADISON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
[...] (C) In Managua Vicar Carlos Aviles' April 24 meeting with DAS Madison, USAID DAA Mike Magan, and Ambassador, he affirmed that the Catholic Church will not pronounce in favor of a particular candidate. However, the Church does support democracy and favors candidates who make realistic promise [...]
2006-05-02 14:44:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA943FOREIGN MINISTER CALDERA ASSURES DAS MADISON HE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Norman Caldera recently told DAS Madison, USAID's DAA Magan, and Ambassador that he will continue hammering Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and Sandinista (FSLN) leader Daniel Ortega on their false accusations of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua's internal affairs [...]
2006-05-02 14:45:00Embassy ManaguaSECRETEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL MOPS
06MANAGUA944MONTEALEGRE TO DAS MADISON: A VOTE FOR RIZO IS A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Eduardo Montealegre of the National Liberal Alliance (ALN) predicts that at least four presidential candidates will compete in November's presidential race. He told visiting DAS Kirsten Madison, USAID DAA Mike Magan, and Ambassador that ultimately Nicaraguans must vote for or a [...]
2006-05-02 14:45:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA958DAS MADISON UNDERSCORES NEED FOR CONTINUOUS OAS
[...] (SBU) During an April 26 meeting with OAS Country Director Pedro Vuskovich, visiting DAS Kirsten Madison, USAID DAA Mike Magan, and the Ambassador underscored the importance of continuous OAS observation and political leadership on the ground throughout Nicaragua's entire election period. Vus [...]
2006-05-03 13:19:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA968LIBERAL FORUM MEMBERS TELL DAS MADISON THAT
[...] (C) Liberal Forum (Foro Liberal) members, who dined with DAS Madison, USAID DAA Magan and Ambassador on April 24, agree that Liberal dissident Eduardo Montealegre is the brightest and best-suited candidate to lead Nicaragua. However, they diverge over whether he can beat Daniel Ortega in the [...]
2006-05-03 16:37:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAGUA969LEWITES WARNS DAS MADISON THAT AN ORTEGA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In Sandinista (FSLN)-dissident Herty Lewites' April 24 meeting with DAS Madison, USAID DAA Mike Magan, and Ambassador, Lewites warned that if FSLN leader Daniel Ortega wins the November elections, Ortega will impose a dictatorship on the Nicaraguan people and assume total contro [...]
2006-05-03 18:51:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
06MANAMA1001KING HAMAD APPOINTS FIRST WOMAN JUDGE
[...] (U) King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa June 6 appointed prosecutor Mona Jasem Al Kawari to be the first woman judge in Bahrain's history and in the history of the Arab Gulf states. Press reports stated that she would be assigned to the Higher Civil Court. In her public reaction to the appointmen [...]
2006-06-07 15:05:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWMN PREL KJUS KMPI BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA1013BAHRAIN: 2006 TIP REPORT AND TIER 2 WATCH LIST
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarches June 5 to MFA Human Rights Coordinator Ali Al Aradi, including Bahrain's 2006 TIP Report and the Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan. Al Aradi expressed optimism that two key items would be accomplished by year's end: passage of comprehensive anti-TIP legislati [...]
2006-06-10 15:48:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM KWMN KHUM PREL PGOV SMIG BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA1015BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE ON JUNE 10 GCC FOREIGN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-11 09:55:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL BA REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1017BAHRAIN: GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE NONPAPER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-11 12:19:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PTER MOPS BA IR REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1018BAHRAIN ENDORSES PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE
[...] (C) Post received the following diplomatic note June 11 from the Bahraini MFA. Begin text of dip note: 11 June 2006 1/100/231-69649 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain presents its compliments to the United States Embassy, and has the honor to inform the Embass [...]
2006-06-11 12:19:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KNNP MNUC PARM PHSA BA BILAT REGION
06MANAMA1064BAHRAIN: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] (C) A/DCM June 14 delivered reftel demarche concerning the UN Human Rights Council to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho said the Council is "a mess" right now and establishing it will "not be an easy ride." The President of the Council, the High Co [...]
2006-06-14 11:20:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL BA ROW HUMRIT
06MANAMA1065BAHRAIN: BUILDING SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA IN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-14 11:21:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC BA GT VE ROW
06MANAMA1087BAHRAIN: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - ANTICIPATED
[...] (C) A/DCM met with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa June 17, prior to receipt of Ref A. Shaikh Abdul Aziz said he would depart June 18 for Geneva, where he would head the Bahraini delegation to the UN Human Rights Council i [...]
2006-06-18 13:26:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM BA ROW HUMRIT
06MANAMA1092BAHRAIN: PERSUADING OIC MEMBERS TO JOIN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-19 07:17:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF ICRC AORC PHUM BA REGION HUMRIT ROW
06MANAMA1093BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE ON JUNE 19-21 OIC MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) A/DCM June 17 delivered reftel demarche concerning the June 19-21 OIC Ministerial meeting in Baku to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz confirmed that Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa [...]
2006-06-19 07:19:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL BA REGION
06MANAMA1094BAHRAIN: YEMENI GCC ASSISTANCE REQUEST
[...] (C) A/DCM June 17 delivered reftel demarche concerning the Yemeni GCC assistance request to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz SIPDIS bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz listened carefully and said the Bahraini government agreed that it sho [...]
2006-06-19 07:20:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PTER BA REGION ECTRD
06MANAMA1144MOCK GTMO SOCCER MATCH NIXED BY MINISTRY OF SOCIAL
[...] (U) In an attempt to link World Cup fever in the Kingdom with UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture June 26, Bahrain's local chapter of Amnesty International (AI),which is not an officially registered NGO with the Ministry of Social Development, had plans to conduct a mock so [...]
2006-06-25 14:51:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KHUM BA HUMRIT POL
06MANAMA116DISCUSSIONS WITH BAHRAIN REGARDING CONCLUSION OF A
[...] (C) On December 11, 2005, a U.S. delegation led by OSD Director for Nonproliferation Policy Dr. David Cooper met with Bahraini officials to work towards conclusion of a Host Country Agreement. Due to the Bahraini officials' apparent lack of familiarity with CWC challenge inspection procedures [...]
2006-01-25 15:09:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MARR BA BILAT
06MANAMA1161BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM
[...] (C) A/DCM June 28 delivered reftel demarche concerning UN reform to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho said this issue had been discussed during the NAM meeting at the end of May. The NAM took the decision to convey to the G-8 that the G-77 is ready [...]
2006-06-28 10:16:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA BA ROW
06MANAMA1175BAHRAINI LABOR UNION LEGISLATION MOVES THROUGH
[...] (SBU) Several pieces of labor reform legislation dealing with union activity and the formation of unions and union federations are moving through the Bahraini legislative process. One amendment to the 1976 labor law for the private sector protects union members from dismissal for union activ [...]
2006-06-28 15:02:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNELAB PGOV PREL BA HUMRIT POL REFORM
06MANAMA1192FLURRY OF SPRING STRIKES NETS WORKER BENEFITS
[...] (C) There have been several incidents of labor actions, strikes and near-strikes, involving both Bahraini and expatriate workers over the past several months. These actions have ranged from unauthorized strikes by non-union South Asian and Southeast Asian expatriate workers to, from a Wester [...]
2006-07-03 12:55:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PREL BA HUMRIT POL REFORM
06MANAMA1193BAHRAIN: NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief July 2 delivered reftel notification of the second round of Administrative Review Board (ARB) proceedings to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al Umran. Al Umran said that he would pass the request for information about Bahraini detainee Isa Al Murbati to MFA Direc [...]
2006-07-03 12:58:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPTER KAWC PREL BA BILAT CTR
06MANAMA1197BAHRAIN CONDEMNS ISRAELI ACTIONS IN GAZA
[...] (C) The Bahraini Cabinet, Foreign Minister, and parliament all condemned Israel's attacks on Gaza, arrest of officials and parliamentarians, and destruction of infrastructure in separate statements over the past few days. The statements focused on perceived Israeli violations of internationa [...]
2006-07-03 14:50:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL ASEC BA IS REGION
06MANAMA1205FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS PUBLICLY THAT GTMO OBSTACLE
[...] (U) All newspapers July 5 covered statements by Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa at a press conference in which he called for the release of the three remaining Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo and characterized the detention facility as an "obstacle" in bilateral relations [...]
2006-07-05 09:57:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKAWC PTER PREL BA BILAT CTR
06MANAMA1254BAHRAIN: NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES
[...] (C) Poloff July 9 delivered reftel demarche concerning North Korea's launch of ballistic missiles to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dr. Dhafer Al Umran. Al Umran said that Bahrain is not pleased with this recent incident, and that North Korea should instead be working toward peace within [...]
2006-07-10 13:43:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP KN BA ROW
06MANAMA1288TFLE01: ISRAEL-LEBANON: KING'S STATEMENT AND
[...] (C) Developments in Lebanon dominate the news in Bahrain, with focus on Bahrainis in Lebanon, statements by Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, and high-level diplomacy with the visit of Jordan's King Abdullah. King Hamad issued a statement July 14 urging an avoidance of risks and actions that affect [...]
2006-07-15 13:22:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BA REGION
06MANAMA1289BAHRAIN: RESPONSE TO GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE
[...] (S) Further to Assistant Secretary John Hillen's May 14 meeting with MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa and A/DCM's June 10 delivery of reftel Gulf Security Dialogue nonpaper, the MFA July 15 officially responded via diplomatic [...]
2006-07-15 13:54:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PTER MOPS BA IR REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1305TFLE01: LEBANON-ISRAEL-PALESTINE FURTHER REACTION
[...] (U) The Cabinet released a statement July 16 calling for international intervention to halt Israeli military operations and to resolve the conflict through dialogue away from "miscalculated escalation." The King continued diplomatic outreach through a call with Prime Minister Siniora and a v [...]
2006-07-17 12:06:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BA REGION POL
06MANAMA1317TFLE01: PUBLIC PROTESTS, EMOTIONAL STATEMENTS ON
[...] (C) Between five and 15 thousand men, women, and children marched July 18 to express their support for Lebanon and Hizballah. Protesters chanted pro-Hizballah and anti-American statements. Leading Shia political society Secretary General Shaikh Ali Salman spoke at the rally SIPDIS statin [...]
2006-07-19 13:24:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER BA REGION POL
06MANAMA1329TFLE01: BAHRAIN TEMPERATURE RISES ON LEBANON AND
[...] (C) Activity on the streets has increased with several protests over the Bahraini weekend July 19-21, including the first directed at the U.S. Embassy. Approximately 300 individuals attempted to march towards the Embassy July 21, but were stopped by security personnel several blocks away. Wh [...]
2006-07-22 14:47:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC PTER BA POL REGION
06MANAMA137BAHRAIN: REACTION TO HAMAS VICTORY
[...] (U) The press reported January 29 that King Hamad, Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa, and Crown Prince Shaikh Salman each sent telegrams to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khalid Mashaal praising them on the success of the parliamentary elections. They also co [...]
2006-01-30 13:10:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KDEM BA OFFICIALS REGION
06MANAMA1585BAHRAIN: DONOR ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-29 07:42:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID BA LE REGION
06MANAMA1599KING STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF U.S. ROLE IN REGIONAL
[...] (S) Summary. Bahrain's King Hamad, during an August 29 discussion with the Ambassador, repeatedly stressed the value he placed on the U.S. relationship, and the importance of the U.S. role in maintaining peace and security in the region. He expected Bahrain to initiate discussions shortly with [...]
2006-08-31 09:27:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PGOV BA OFFICIALS REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1614BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE FOR ATTENDEES OF NAM SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-05 08:56:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA PTER PHUM BA REGION ROW
06MANAMA1615BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF CAIRO ARAB LEAGUE
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief September 3 delivered reftel demarche concerning the Cairo Arab League Ministerial to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz pledged to pass the information to Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid b [...]
2006-09-05 08:57:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL BA REGION ROW
06MANAMA1635BAHRAIN: REACTION TO PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH ON
[...] (C) DCM September 7 delivered reftel points concerning President Bush's September 6 speech on the transfer of CIA detainees to Guantanamo Bay to MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz said he would pass the info [...]
2006-09-07 12:49:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC BA BILAT CTR
06MANAMA1641BAHRAIN: IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM FOR NAM SUMMIT
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche September 10 to MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa concerning discussion of the Iranian nuclear program at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana. Shaikh Abdul Aziz reaffirmed that Iran' [...]
2006-09-10 11:20:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM IAEA UNSC BA IR REGION
06MANAMA165BAHRAIN: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION HOST COUNTRY
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief February 6 delivered reftel demarche and non-paper concerning finalizing a host country agreement (HCA) on Chemical Weapons Convention challenge inspections to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho recognized that there had been no pro [...]
2006-02-06 10:03:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS KTIA PREL BA BILAT
06MANAMA1657BAHRAIN: NAM SUMMIT ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-14 13:43:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV BA SU
06MANAMA1658BAHRAIN: MAINTAINING THE MOMENTUM ON LEBANON
[...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche September 14 to MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa concerning the efforts of the international community to assist the rebuilding of Lebanon and to support the deployment of LAF and enhanced UN [...]
2006-09-14 13:45:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ECON BA IS LE REGION
06MANAMA1659BAHRAIN: IMSO CANDIDATE STEVEN LETT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-14 14:42:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ECPS EU EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS BA
06MANAMA1660BAHRAIN: COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES MINISTERIAL AT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-14 14:47:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIEDUNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BA ROW HUMRIT REFORM
06MANAMA1669GOVERNMENT DENOUNCES POPE'S COMMENTS ON ISLAM
[...] (U) The Ministry of Islamic Affairs September 15 issued a statement on behalf of the government denouncing the Pope's remarks about Islam, saying such declarations have bad repercussions on human unity. There should be mutual respect among all people, regardless of their faith. Muslims have [...]
2006-09-18 14:04:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL PGOV PHUM ASEC BA REGION
06MANAMA169KING PROMOTES DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION, CONTINUED
[...] (C) King Hamad gave an interview February 3 to the editors-in-chief of all six of Bahrain's Arabic daily newspapers. He covered democratic development and continued political reforms, including the participation of women in elections. He served notice that ministerial reshuffles would conti [...]
2006-02-06 11:38:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPAO KMPI BA REFORM POL REGION
06MANAMA1718BAHRAIN: RESPONSE TO CUBA AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-27 11:14:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL BA ROW HUMRIT
06MANAMA1719BAHRAIN: PARTICIPATION IN PSI EXERCISE LEADING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-27 11:15:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP BA CTR
06MANAMA1806DEFENSE MINISTER AND GENERAL ABIZAID DISCUSS
[...] (C) CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid October 11 met with Defense Minister GEN Shaikh Khalifa and discussed Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, bilateral military cooperation, and counter-terrorism. Shaikh Khalifa said that Iran's behavior in the region is growing worse and Iran's nuclear program must [...]
2006-10-19 10:15:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS MASS BA IR IZ REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1814ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS NO. 3: CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: By the conclusion of the official registration period for parliamentary candidates, a total of 221 have registered, 18 of whom are women. The official campaign period opens October 20. In his Friday sermon on October 13, Shaikh Isa Qassem, chairman of the Islamic Scholars Coun [...]
2006-10-19 16:34:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA1828CROWN PRINCE OUTLINES REGIONAL CHALLENGES WITH
[...] (C) CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid October 11 met with Crown Prince Shaikh Salman and discussed Iraq, Iran, the war of ideas in the Middle East, and Bahrain's upcoming elections. On Iraq, the CP said that the United States should adopt a "less forward-leaning position" and allow Iraqi for [...]
2006-10-24 11:33:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS MASS BA IR IZ REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1830BAHRAIN: UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE SITUATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-26 11:55:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA BA ROW
06MANAMA1832IRAN SIGNALS UNEASE WITH BAHRAIN'S PARTICIPATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-26 12:11:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALBA IR KNNP PARM PREL CTR REGION
06MANAMA1834ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS NO. 4: CAMPAIGN VANDALISM,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Acts of vandalism marred the election campaign during a week when Bahrainis were celebrating the Eid Al Fitr holiday. Vandals burned down the campaign tent of second deputy speaker and Al Asala (Salafi) candidate Shaikh Adel Al Ma'awada on October 22. In separate events, hooli [...]
2006-10-26 15:30:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA1846BAHRAIN: ENCOURAGING ATTENDANCE AT THE NOVEMBER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-31 09:59:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL ASEC BA CTR
06MANAMA1865BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN UNDC VICE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-01 14:03:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC UNGA BA IR REGION ROW
06MANAMA1867BAHRAIN: UPCOMING CENTRAL BOYCOTT OFFICE MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-02 09:20:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD BA REGION ECTRD
06MANAMA1868BAHRAIN: DEMARCHES ON UNSCR 1718
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-02 09:21:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPARM KNNP PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR BA ROW CTR
06MANAMA1870ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS NO. 5: SHAIKH ISA QASSEM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading Shi'a cleric Shaikh Isa Qassem continued to actively endorse participation in the elections, including in a district in the Central Governorate known to support a continued Shi'a boycott of the political system. Al Wifaq president Shaikh Ali Salman November 2 assured lib [...]
2006-11-03 07:50:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA1887FIRST ARAB WOMAN PARLIAMENTARIAN IN THE GULF:
[...] (C) With the close of parliamentary candidate registration October 16, Latifa Al Qa'oud became the first woman member of an elected parliamentary body from any of the Arab Gulf states when no other candidates registered to run against her. Al Qa'oud is no newcomer to parliamentary politics, [...]
2006-11-06 14:39:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM KWMN BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA1904BAHRAIN: CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION AND AUSTRALIAN
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief November 8 delivered demarches concerning the UNGA Cuba Embargo Resolution (Ref B) and the Australian amendment to the Embargo Resolution (Ref A) to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. With regard to the Cuba Embargo Resolution, Shaikho sai [...]
2006-11-08 11:59:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA BA UN CU ROW
06MANAMA1912ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS 6: SISTANI GIVES "ADVICE", AL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading Shi'a cleric Hussain Najati relayed "advice" from Sayed Sistani from Najaf to the Bahraini people November 1, encouraging them to participate in upcoming elections. Najati was careful to avoid possible misunderstanding that the "advice" was being issued in the form of a [...]
2006-11-09 12:44:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA1942ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS 7: GENERAL POLLING STATIONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading Shi'a cleric Shaikh Isa Qassem encouraged candidates and the public November 10 to lobby the government to eliminate the ten general polling centers. Members of the three-person High Commission for Elections said that it would be impossible to do away with the general ce [...]
2006-11-16 15:35:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA1943BAHRAIN: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request for an update on progress by the GOB toward (a) enacting comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation; (b) opening a shelter for victims of trafficking; and (c) increasing investigations and prosecutions against suspected traffickers. 2. (SBU) Legis [...]
2006-11-16 15:51:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA1954AS EXPECTED, COURT FINDS ALLEGED TERRORIST CELL
[...] (SBU) In the expected final move of a legal process that began in June 2004, Bahrain's Higher Criminal Court November 20 found four Bahrainis accused of planning to carry out terrorist attacks not guilty of any remaining charges. The four, Mohieddine Khan, Yaser Kamal, Bassam Ali, and Bassam [...]
2006-11-22 14:35:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV ASEC BA BILAT CTR POL
06MANAMA1955ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS 9: AN OFFICIAL "NO" TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the first official public statement on the matter, Minister of Information Dr. Mohamed Abdul Ghaffar stated to Arabic daily Al Wasat November 21 that Bahrain would not allow international organizations to monitor the elections November 25. However, it was reported in the pres [...]
2006-11-22 14:44:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA1979GOB SPECIFIES BAHRAIN STRIKE BAN SECTORS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 12. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa issued an executive order November 20 that bans labor union strikes at facilities deemed to be in vital sectors. Going beyond the text of the 2002 La [...]
2006-11-29 13:43:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB BA BILAT HUMRIT ECTRD
06MANAMA1984ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS 11: ELECTION OBSERVER REPORT,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of suspicions raised in the general polling center vote count in the Munira Fakhro/Salah Ali election race, the Election Monitoring Joint Committee's (EMJC) November 29 preliminary report recommended that for the December 2 runoffs, election officials at all polling sta [...]
2006-11-30 15:52:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA1988SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DISCUSSES MILITARY
[...] (S) Minister of Defense General Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told Secretary of the Navy Winter November 26 that the long standing presence of the US Navy in Bahrain and the warm relationship between Bahrain and the US is a stabilizing force given Bahrain's "unpredictable neighbors." He [...]
2006-12-03 11:59:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL MARR MOPS BA REGION BILAT OFFICIALS
06MANAMA1989FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS NAVY SECRETARY U.S. IS
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid November 26 welcomed Secretary of the Navy Winter to Bahrain and thanked him for SIPDIS all the United States does to promote stability and security in the region, saying the U.S. is Bahrain's "number one ally and friend." Referring to the U.S.-Bahrain fr [...]
2006-12-03 12:00:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS BA REGION BILAT OFFICIALS
06MANAMA1995SUNNI ISLAMISTS NET GAINS IN BAHRAIN'S SECOND
[...] (C) Nearly 70% of Bahrain's registered voters in runoff districts participated in the second round of polls December 2. There were reports of minor skirmishes and journalists being harassed at a few poll stations, but overall voting proceeded peacefully. Early indications from the Election [...]
2006-12-03 15:16:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL
06MANAMA2008BAHRAIN: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION NATIONAL
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief December 5 delivered reftel demarche concerning Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) national implementation obligations to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Referring specifically to the third obligation, drafting and enacting CWC-related p [...]
2006-12-07 12:37:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL BA ROW
06MANAMA2009SHURA COUNCIL APPOINTED; TEN WOMEN, POLITICAL
[...] (C) The King December 5 issued a decree appointing the 40 members of the upper house Shura Council. Twenty-three of the appointees are returning members while 17 are new to the Shura, although two of the newcomers previously served as deputies in the elected lower house Council of Representa [...]
2006-12-07 12:44:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KISL KWMN BA POL
06MANAMA2011BAHRAIN: TERRORIST LIST
[...] (U) Per reftel, Bahrain does not maintain a national list of banned terrorist entities. However, Bahrain does endorse the UN terrorism lists and takes action against individuals and organizations identified in applicable UN Security Council resolutions, based on Bahrain's Terrorism Law and An [...]
2006-12-07 15:05:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER BA CTR ECTRD
06MANAMA2019READOUT ON GERMAN FM VISIT TO SYRIA, DISCUSSION OF
[...] (C) Meeting with NSC Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs Dr. Michael Doran December 8, German Foreign Ministry Political Director for Maghreb/Middle East Affairs Dr. Horst Freitag discussed German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier's December 4 visit to Damascus. Freitag said that [...]
2006-12-10 15:31:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER KPAL KPKO KWBG BA REGION
06MANAMA2021BAHRAIN: CLARIFYING U.S. POLICY ON SUNNI OUTREACH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-11 09:40:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA2022BAHRAIN: IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT
[...] (C) In the course of a December 7 meeting with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa covering several subjects, Pol/Econ Chief raised the release of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report a day earlier and asked for his reaction. Shai [...]
2006-12-11 09:41:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA2030ANTI-TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE CHAIRMAN COMMENTS ON
[...] (C) In a December 7 meeting with Emboffs covering several topics, MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up and Bahrain's Anti-Trafficking Task Force Chairman Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa discussed GOB steps to combat trafficking-in-persons. He said the November [...]
2006-12-12 14:18:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KWMN BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA22INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSSES SECURITY ISSUES WITH
[...] (C) Begin Summary: Minister of Interior Shaikh Rashid praised the strong historic relationship between the governments of Bahrain and the United States during his December 20 meeting with NAVCENT Commander Vice Admiral Walsh. Senior MOI officials provided a comprehensive brief discussing t [...]
2006-01-04 14:19:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALASEC BA MARR PREL BILAT CTR OFFICIALS
06MANAMA264ASHURA PROCEEDS SMOOTHLY; CONTROVERSY ERUPTS IN
[...] (SBU) An estimated 150,000 people participated in Ashura events in downtown Manama on February 8, the climax of the ten-day period during which Shia commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Kerbala in 680 AD. By all accounts, activities went very quietly and smoothly with no reports of v [...]
2006-02-22 12:08:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL PHUM KIRF BA POL
06MANAMA268PRESS, DIP NOTE PROTEST CONTINUED GTMO DETENTION
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 7. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Bahraini newspapers February 22 reported that Bahraini detainee Juma Al Dossary would remain at Guantanamo for at least one more year following an Administrative Review Board (ARB) decision that he contin [...]
2006-02-22 13:54:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKAWC PTER PREL BA APDC BILAT CTR
06MANAMA288BAHRAIN REACTS TO SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN IRAQ
[...] (C) Tens of thousands of Bahrainis, mostly Shias, participated in peaceful and orderly demonstrations over the weekend protesting the attack on the Imam Al Hadi Shrine in Samarra. Officials, politicians, and religious leaders denounced the Samarra bombing and revenge attacks on Sunni targets [...]
2006-02-27 13:45:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAO PTER BA IZ REGION POL
06MANAMA289BAHRAIN: NO MEETINGS PLANNED WITH HAMAS
[...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points during a February 22 meeting with MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow-up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz said that although he was not aware of any visits to Bahrain by members of Hamas, the U.S. points were not [...]
2006-02-27 14:12:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL BA REGION
06MANAMA314COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETINGS WITH PRIME
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa welcomed Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez February 27, voicing SIPDIS appreciation for his visit and the Secretary's support for the U.S.-Bahrain FTA. The PM stressed the importance of stability in the region for development and urged the U [...]
2006-03-01 14:59:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL PGOV BEXP BA REGION OFFICIALS ECTRD BILAT
06MANAMA339POLITICAL ISLAM IN BAHRAIN (PART I): SHARED
[...] (C) Bahrain's three leading Islamic political societies mirror major trends in the country's religious life: Al Minbar, associated with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood; Al Asala, a Sunni Salafi group; and Al Wifaq, representing the country's Shia community. These three societies represent the [...]
2006-03-06 15:28:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM SCUL BA POL
06MANAMA381BAHRAIN: OIC ISRAEL BOYCOTT MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-12 11:24:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC ETRD KISL BA REGION ECTRD
06MANAMA399BAHRAIN: DEMARCHES ON MUQTADA AL SADR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-15 09:36:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KDEM PGOV BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA401BAHRAIN: HAMAS MEETINGS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-15 09:37:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL BA IS REGION
06MANAMA409LUNCHEON WITH KING HAMAD
[...] (C) King Hamad, during a March 13 luncheon, had high praise for the U.S. and its positive role in maintaining stability in the Gulf. "Without you," he stated, "we'd be squashed." He made clear his concern for Iran, both as a regional power and as a meddling force inside Bahrain. Iran can be expecte [...]
2006-03-15 13:42:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM BA IR REGION OFFICIALS POL BILAT
06MANAMA419BAHRAIN: CALLING FOR THE RELEASE OF AKBAR GANJI
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-18 09:05:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI BA IR REGION
06MANAMA434SUGGESTED BAHRAINI EDITS AND REVISIONS TO CWC HOST
[...] (C) MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho told Pol/Econ Chief March 15 that in preparing the final text of the Chemical Weapons Convention Host Country Agreement Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),the Bahraini side had uncovered several areas that it would like t [...]
2006-03-19 10:51:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MARR BA BILAT
06MANAMA456POLITICAL ISLAM IN BAHRAIN (PART II): ISLAMISTS
[...] (C) Although their agenda is controversial and opposed by many, Sunni Islamists generally represent the interests of their constituents, in the view of non-Islamist members of the elected Council of Representatives (COR). Despite their success in passing non-binding resolutions on religious- [...]
2006-03-21 12:26:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM SCUL BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA475BAHRAIN: ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief March 22 delivered reftel demarche concerning the Arab League summit to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz SIPDIS bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz noted that Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa was in t [...]
2006-03-22 14:45:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL BA REGION BILAT
06MANAMA476SMALL-SCALE VIOLENT CLASHES CONTINUE TO ROIL
[...] (C) Following the March 10 violent protest at Dana Mall, small bands of masked youth have clashed with security forces in scattered, sporadic confrontations. The incidents typically begin with young men burning tires or trash dumpsters on the edge of a village, and throwing Molotov cocktails [...]
2006-03-22 14:54:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA5HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP MAKES FIRST EVER PRISON VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: A delegation from Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS),including Deputy Secretary General Dr. Abdulla Al-Derazi, has made a visit to Jaw Prison for men, representing the first time in Bahrain's history that a human rights organization has been allowed access to the prison system [...]
2006-01-02 11:52:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF BA REFORM HUMRIT
06MANAMA541DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON STATUS OF RETURNED GTMO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-02 14:32:00Embassy ManamaSECRETKAWC PTER ASEC BA CTR BILAT
06MANAMA559BAHRAIN: EXPANDING PSI PARTICIPATION IN THE
[...] (S) Pol/Econ Chief April 5 delivered reftel demarche concerning expanding participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in the Middle East to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al Umran. Al Umran's response focused on two main issues - other regional countries' particip [...]
2006-04-05 09:34:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PARM MNUC KNNP BA BILAT CTR OFFICIALS
06MANAMA57GOB MOVES FORWARD WITH LABOR UNION REFORMS
[...] (U) Ministry of Labor Senior Labor Relations Specialist Ahmed Al-Khabaz told Emboff January 3 that the Cabinet has referred to Parliament revisions to the Trade Union Law allowing the formation of more than one union per organization. Labor Minister Dr. Majeed Al-Alawi had referred the issue [...]
2006-01-17 07:29:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALELAB PREL BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA583MEPI/GOB REGIONAL ARAB WOMEN'S CONFERENCE A
[...] (U) Summary: MEPI and the Bahraini MFA joined forces to co-host a MENA regional conference March 27-28 to celebrate the "Successes of Women as Leaders of Change". More than 120 women leaders from 16 Arab countries shared their recent unprecedented achievements of reform in the legal, economic [...]
2006-04-11 12:54:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIEDKMPI KWMN KDEM PGOV PREL BA REGION HUMRIT
06MANAMA675BAHRAIN: HAMAS COMMENTS ON TEL AVIV SUICIDE ATTACK
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-19 12:14:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL BA REGION CTR
06MANAMA678MFA DENIES REPORT OF POSSIBLE MUQTADA AL SADR VISIT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-19 13:44:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA690BAHRAIN: VENEZUELA AND THE UNSC
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-23 08:02:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC BA ROW
06MANAMA692CWC HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT WITH BAHRAIN
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief April 22 delivered Ref A talking points, non-paper, and revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a Chemical Weapons Convention Host Country Agreement (HCA) to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho was pleased that the United Stat [...]
2006-04-23 08:04:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MARR MASS BA BILAT
06MANAMA693BAHRAIN: ASIAN CANDIDATES FOR THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-23 08:04:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KUNR UN BA ROW HUMRIT
06MANAMA694DIPLOMATIC NOTE REQUESTING INFORMATION ON
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. (C) Post received the following diplomatic note from the MFA on April 17. Begin Text: Ref: 19/1/5-65437 Date: April 15, 2006 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain presents it compliments to the Embassy of the [...]
2006-04-23 08:05:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKAWC PREL PTER BA BILAT CTR
06MANAMA729GOB MOVES FORWARD ON SHELTER, ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION
[...] (C) In an April 26 conversation with PolOff, Chief of Social Welfare Section and Ministry of Social Development representative to Bahrain's interministerial anti-TIP Task Force Afaf Ahmed Al Aseeri reported that the Minister of Social Development Dr. Fatima Al Balooshi had decided on one of t [...]
2006-04-26 15:23:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPHUM SMIG KHUM KWMN PGOV PREL BA REGION
06MANAMA75NEA TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR WATCH LIST
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-21 10:57:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SMIG BA GR EG KHUM HUMRIT
06MANAMA80VIOLENT CLASHES ERUPT IN SEVERAL SHIA VILLAGES
[...] (U) Demonstrators and some 100 riot police clashed the evening of January 19 in several Shia villages following an illegal rally in support of 21 youth detained for participating in a riot at the Bahrain International Airport on December 25. According to press reports, the 200-person march i [...]
2006-01-22 11:30:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PHUM BA REFORM POL
06MANAMA802BAHRAIN: IRAN'S CANDIDACY FOR THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-08 05:55:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KUNR PHUM BA REGION ROW HUMRIT
06MANAMA863BAHRAIN: GOB WILL WORK TO OPEN SHELTER, PASS
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche May 15 to MFA Human Rights Coordinator Ali Al Aradi, who said that he would discuss the points with MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Al Aradi confirmed that progress toward opening the s [...]
2006-05-16 08:43:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKHUM PHUM PGOV BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA869AL WIFAQ ENCOURAGED BY REACTION TO PARTICIPATION
[...] (C) Al Wifaq's May 1 decision to participate in this year's parliamentary elections prompted expressions of support from both King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa and leading Shi'a cleric Shaikh Isa Qassim. In a May 3 press conference, Al Wifaq Secretary General Shaikh Ali Salman made the formal an [...]
2006-05-17 14:25:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA884BAHRAIN: HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-21 14:29:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC MTCRE BA ROW BILAT
06MANAMA89DELIVERY OF DIPNOTE ON BAHRAINI DETAINEES AT GTMO
[...] (S) The Ambassador January 21 delivered Ref A diplomatic note concerning the health, treatment, and status of the three remaining Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo to Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa in a meeting covering several issues (septels). Shaikh Khalid asked about [...]
2006-01-23 11:51:00Embassy ManamaSECRETKAWC PREL PTER ASEC OPDC BA OFFICIALS CTR BILAT
06MANAMA973COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES CONTROVERSIAL
[...] (C) Bahrain's Council of Representatives (COR) passed public assembly legislation May 16, following two years of back-and-forth between the COR and government. These amendments to the 1973 law on public gatherings ban demonstrations near hospitals, airports, shopping malls, and other areas s [...]
2006-06-04 08:50:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KHUM BA HUMRIT POL REFORM
06MANAMA982FM SHAIKH KHALID REQUESTS INFORMATION ON IRAN
[...] (C) Summary and action request. Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid has requested further information on the components of the package of incentives for Iran, and especially on the political component which Bahrain understands is aimed at giving Iran recognition as a regional player. He asked that [...]
2006-06-05 13:43:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL IR BA OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA987BAHRAIN: NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) Econoff June 5 delivered Ref. B demarche concerning the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) statement on Iran's nuclear program to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho replied that he had been present at the drafting of the NAM statement and said he wished t [...]
2006-06-05 15:46:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP USNC IR BA REGION ROW
06MANILA1968MARINE CASE UPDATE 5/5/06
[...] (C) Summary. On May 3, the Ambassador raised concerns over the alleged rape case with Philippine Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz, a strong supporter of the Visiting Forces Agreement. Cruz was sympathetic to U.S. concerns over the potential politization of the case, but believed that the case [...]
2006-05-08 08:39:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA2085MARINE CASE UPDATE 5/16/06
[...] (U) Pre-trial hearings continue in the case of four U.S. Marines accused of raping a Filipina. At a pre-trial hearing on May 11, Judge Pozon received a Motion for Clarification of the one-year time-limit for judicial proceedings specified in the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA). ----------- [...]
2006-05-16 09:11:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA2111AMBASSADOR'S MAY 18 MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT
[...] (C) The Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM, paid her first visit on former president Corazon "Cory" Aquino on May 18. Aquino talked warmly and nostalgically about her days in Malacanang before turning to the current political situation. She said that she still believes that President Arroyo [...]
2006-05-18 08:27:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PINR RP
06MANILA2136AMBASSADOR'S MAY 18 MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY
[...] (S) The Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM and Regional Affairs Chief, visited National Security Advisor Norberto "Bert" Gonzales on May 18. Gonzales said he had useful side meetings with his Saudi counterpart during President Arroyo's May 7-10 visit to Saudi Arabia. He asked Saudi National [...]
2006-05-19 08:56:00Embassy ManilaSECRETPGOV PTER PHUM PREL SA RP
06MANILA2228MARINE CASE UPDATE 05/29/06
[...] (U) Summary. Pre-trial hearings have concluded in the case of four U.S. Marines accused of raping a Filipina, and the trial is scheduled to begin on June 2. DCM conveyed to DFA officials the USG's position that the one-year period in the Marine case began on December 27, 2005, when the Marin [...]
2006-05-30 09:23:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA2994UNEASY TRUCE IN MAGUINDANAO
[...] (C) Summary. A week-old truce brokered by GRP officials between the Maguindanao Provincial Governor and local commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) appears to be holding, with thousands of displaced persons now returning to their homes. The Malaysian-led International Monit [...]
2006-07-18 07:42:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PINS KISL RP
06MANILA3066DEFENSE SECRETARY SEES KAPIT BISIG AS "BIG PLUS"
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Defense Secretary Cruz views the Kapit Bisig framework as a "big plus" for US-RP counterterrorism cooperation, is focused on neutralizing High Value Targets, and believes the Kapit Bisig implementing guidelines are flexible enough to accommodate a variety of circumstances. He tak [...]
2006-07-21 10:05:00Embassy ManilaSECRET//NOFORNMOPS MCAP MARR PTER PREL RP
06MANILA3068PHILIPPINE DEFENSE REFORM HELPING TO COUNTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Philippine Defense Reform (PDR) has produced concrete results and is becoming institutionalized within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). PDR is also helping counteract restiveness among some mid- and junior officers, which contributed to the coup attempt of February 24 [...]
2006-07-24 00:32:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP MOPS PREL PINS RP
06MANILA3085CALLING FOR A BALANCED ASEAN STATEMENT ON MIDDLE
[...] (C) The Ambassador discussed the situation in the Middle East (reftel) with Foreign Secretary Romulo on July 23, emphasizing that the United States was working hard to achieve a durable cessation to the current violence in the Middle East and to ease the plight of innocent people. She urged [...]
2006-07-24 07:21:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN LE IS RP
06MANILA3247THE AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW POLICE CHIEF
[...] Summary. New Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Calderon assured the Ambassador on July 28 that the PNP is focusing the necessary resources to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the recent killings of leftist activists. The PNP has embarked on a ten-year tra [...]
2006-08-02 08:57:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ASEC PHUM RP
06MANILA3344MILF SEEKS GREATER US INVOLVEMENT IN PEACE PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary. During DCM and Poloff's low-key, two-day visit to Muslim Mindanao's political center in Cotabato, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Vice-Chairman Jafaar sought greater USG involvement in the GRP-MILF Peace Process. Meeting at the MILF's camp in Sultan Kudurat, Maguindanao on [...]
2006-08-09 06:43:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PINS KISL RP
06MANILA4144 TYPHOON MILENYO UPDATE: EMBASSY CLOSED A SECOND DAY
[...] Summary. The embassy closed on September 28 and 29 due to the strongest typhoon to hit Metro Manila directly in 11 years. The storm toppled trees and billboards, triggered flash floods and landslides, shut offices and the financial markets, and caused a Luzon-wide power outage on Thursday. [...]
2006-09-29 06:59:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EINV CACS EAGR AGMT ABLD SENV RP
06MANILA4221GRP-MILF PEACE TALKS CONFRONT DIFFICULT ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. Peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) remain at an impasse over the issue of ancestral domain, the historically Muslim territory claimed by the MILF. The GRP Peace Panel lacks a mandate to expand the existing boundar [...]
2006-10-04 09:21:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPINS KISL RP
06MANILA4303PRESSING FOR CONTINUED PROGRESS IN MILF PEACE TALKS
[...] (C) Ambassador, DCM, and Country Team are pressing government, military and diplomatic leaders on the importance of continued progress in the MILF peace process, despite the recent impasse over land rights. Presidential Advisor on the Peace Process Secretary "Jess" Dureza told the Ambassador [...]
2006-10-11 07:28:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPINS KISL PREL PGOV RP
06MANILA4312PHILIPPINES SEEKING ASEAN STATEMENT ON NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador and DCM on October 11, Foreign Minister Romulo and National Security Adviser Gonzales reiterated President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's strong condemnation of the North Korean nuclear test (ref a). Secretary Romulo noted that, at the President's instruction, he [...]
2006-10-11 08:42:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP KN RP
06MANILA4323SENIOR PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS ON EXTRAJUDICIAL
[...] (C) In an October 11 meeting with Ambassador and DCM, Foreign Secretary Romulo and National Security Advisor Gonzales expressed concern over the impact of extrajudicial (or "unexplained") killings both on domestic stability and on the Philippines' international image. They reiterated the go [...]
2006-10-12 06:52:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV RP
06MANILA4343GOVERNMENT/MILF PEACE TALKS
[...] (C) Summary. DCM and Pol/C encouraged the head of the Philippine Government negotiating panel with the MILF insurgents to try to rejuvenate the peace talks, currently stalled on the issue of land rights. The thoughtful and experienced negotiator, Silvestre Afable, said he was finalizing pl [...]
2006-10-13 08:33:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS EAID RP
06MANILA4345SOLID PHILIPPINE SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALAN UNSC
[...] (C) Foreign Secretary Romulo reconfirmed to Ambassador and DCM the Philippines' commitment to vote for Guatemala's UNSC candidacy in the first and succeeding votes in the UN General Assembly during a meeting on October 10. Romulo said he had discussed Guatemala's campaign with its Foreign Mi [...]
2006-10-13 08:40:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA GT RP
06MANILA4346FOREIGN SECRETARY DISCUSSES EAST ASIA ARCHITECTURE
[...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador and DCM on October 11, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, speaking as a friend and ally, sought to persuade us of the merits of U.S. participation in the East Asia Summit. He described the EAS as an important emerging forum, inclusive of all East Asia, with A [...]
2006-10-13 08:44:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN XE RP
06MANILA4403BOMBING CHARGES AGAINST MILF LEADERS COMPLICATE
[...] (C) Summary: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chairman Murad and other MILF members are now facing preliminary charges related to the recent bombings in Mindanao that left six dead and over 30 wounded, despite a lack of direct evidence. Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process Dureza [...]
2006-10-18 08:45:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPINS KISL PTER RP
06MANILA4666DCM HIGHLIGHTS US ENGAGEMENT IN PHILIPPINE'S SECOND CITY
[...] SUMMARY. DCM Jones highlighted U.S. business, USAID and Peace Corps involvement in the central Philippine port city of Cebu on October 27. Together with Commercial Counselor and Cebu Consular Agent, DCM met with local business, religious, and political leaders in the Philippines' "second cit [...]
2006-11-13 05:36:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON EAID RP CMGT
06MANILA4717AGENDA FOR DECEMBER EAST ASIA SUMMIT: ENERGY AND
[...] (U) See para 6 for action request. 2. (C) Summary: President Arroyo told us that, as host of the East Asia Summit on December 13, the Philippines intends to focus on energy and trade, especially the WTO. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has agreed to attend the Summit, and Arroyo would l [...]
2006-11-16 06:15:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALECIN ETRD ENRG PREL ASEAN RP
06MANILA4802ADVANCING THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT PEACE PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging 90 minute meeting with nine senior members of the MILF Central Committee at their headquarters, DCM described USG comprehensive support for the Mindanao peace process and commitment to assist former combatants in the event of a peace agreement. Central Commit [...]
2006-11-22 09:26:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MY RP
06MANILA4810MARINE CASE: VERDICT POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 4
[...] (C) The verdict in the Marine case has been postponed one week and is now expected Monday, December 4. The Embassy's Working Group, with input from representatives of the III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) in Okinawa, is finalizing post-verdict plans. Immediately following the judge's ver [...]
2006-11-24 07:29:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
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