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04MADRID3734	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SUE ANNE ASSIMON [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Sue Anne Assimon, Biologist, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA, DHHS, to travel to Mallorca, Spain from October 3-8, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend a conference on Threshold Levels associated with allergenic foods [...]	2004-09-28 09:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP

04MADRID3735	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DIEGO F. TORRES [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Diego F. Torres, DOE, National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Programs, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from October 9-November 13, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to visit the High Energy Astrophysics Group at the Univer [...]	2004-09-28 09:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KSCA TRGY OTRA SP
04MADRID3736	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TIMOTHY UYEKI [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Timothy Uyeki, Medical Epidemiologist, DVRD, NCID, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Minorca, Spain from October 13-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) and to present a l [...]	2004-09-28 09:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID3737	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANTONIO BOUZA [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Antonio Bouza, Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies Program, DOE, to travel to San Sebastian, Spain from October 12-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to obtain first hand, technical information in the field of hy [...]	2004-09-28 11:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
04MADRID3741	SPAIN: IRAQ DONOR'S MEETING TOKYO [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-28 13:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN IZ PREL SP
04MADRID3766	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TIMOTHY O'BRIEN AND [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Timothy O'Brien and Thomas Friers, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Madrid, Zaragoza and Moron, Spain, from October 30-November 19, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Spanish government officials, to participate in transo [...]	2004-09-29 12:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
04MADRID3767	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOYCE A. OBER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Joyce A. Ober, Physical Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from October 22-30, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Sulfur 2004 Conference and to visit a sulfur recovery plant and a sulfuric acid plant. [...]	2004-09-29 12:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY KSCA ECON OTRA SP
04MADRID3768	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. JAMES MULSHINE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. James Mulshine, Principal Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Pamplona, Spain from October 5-9, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend and give a presentation, "Integrated Approach to Population Based Early Lun [...]	2004-09-29 12:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID3769	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HENRIETTA HUBBARD [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Henrietta Hubbard, Supervisory Health Scientist Administrator, Center for Outcomes Evidence, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Public Health Service, to travel to Seville, Spain from November 17-20, 2004. The purpose of this visit is [...]	2004-09-29 12:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID3779	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL Q. WANG [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for Michael Q. Wang, Vehicle and Fuel Systems Analyst, Argonne National Laboratory, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from October 3-8, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to give a presentation of Wells-To-Wheels (WTW) Energy and Emission Effects of [...]	2004-09-30 09:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
04MADRID3780	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LAWRENCE SCHONBERGER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Lawrence Schonberger, Assistant Director for Public Health, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, NCID, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 21-24, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to serve as an official advisor to the EU [...]	2004-09-30 09:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID3821	PURCHASE ORDER FOR SPANISH BIOTECHNOLOGY VIDEO [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-01 12:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ABUD AFIN EAGR ECON TBIO KPAO
04MADRID3831	PURCHASE ORDER FOR SPANISH BIOTECHNOLOGY VIDEO [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-04 08:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ABUD AFIN EAGR ECON TBIO KPAO
04MADRID3836	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NORMAN ANTOKOL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Norman Antokol, Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, DOS to travel to Madrid, October 13-17 for orientation, familiarization and Embassy consultations on the political and economic circumstances in Spain. 2. Control Officer a [...]	2004-10-04 13:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PINR PREL SP
04MADRID3843	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. DEREK LEROITH [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Derek LeRoith, Chief, Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 10-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to conduct ongoing collaborative research with D [...]	2004-10-05 08:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID3844	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. SNORRI THORGEIRSSON [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Snorri Thorgeirsson Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Pamplona and Madrid, Spain from October 7-12, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to give a talk entitled, "Molecular Basis of Hepatocarcinogenesis," at t [...]	2004-10-05 08:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID3862	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRIAN KEITH COOPER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Brian Keith Cooper, Aviation Safety Inspector, FAA, to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 19-22, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to perform US Airways outsource and line station inspections. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance i [...]	2004-09-24 01:05:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID3863	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VLADA MATUSOVSKY AND [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Vlada Matusovsky and Yvonne McKnight, Investigators, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, DHHS, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from October 29-November 5, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to inspect a pharmaceutical manufacturer for compliance [...]	2004-10-05 09:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID3887	EMBASSY MADRID STRENGTHENS MUSLIM OUTREACH [...] (U) SUMMARY. Embassy Madrid began its efforts for Muslim outreach in Spain by hosting the visit of Abdulwahab Alkebsi, Program Officer for the Middle East at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Department's first participant in the "Citizen Diplomat" program, September 29 - October [...]	2004-10-05 13:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KPAO KISL SP
04MADRID3901	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEPHANE VRIGNAUD [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Stephane Vrignaud, NOAA Fisheries Representative to the European Union, United States Mission to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium, to travel to Vigo and Madrid, Spain from October 6-8, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in [...]	2004-10-06 10:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BEXP SP EUN
04MADRID3911	DCI SPECIAL ADVISOR'S COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON IRAQ [...] (C) Per reftel instructions, poloff met with MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Moreno Humet to advise him of the 10/6 release of DCI Special Advisor Duelfer's report on Iraq WMD. Moreno requested details regarding the nature and scope of the ISG investigation, after whic [...]	2004-10-06 14:21:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SP KPDD
04MADRID3914	CUBA: MFA ON INVITING DISSIDENTS TO SPANISH [...] (C) Poloff contacted MFA Deputy Director General for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Pedro Gomez de Olea on 10/7 to discuss reports that the Spanish Embassy in Havana was planning to break with EU policy by not inviting dissidents to its national day reception on 10/12. Gomez de Olea, wh [...]	2004-10-07 11:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
04MADRID3926	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. JEAN CELLI [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Jean Celli, Investigator, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to travel to San Feliu de Guixols and Barcelona, Spain from October 16-22, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend a workshop on Frontiers in Cellul [...]	2004-10-07 13:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID3927	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. EUN-CHUNG PARK [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Eun-Chung Park, Program Officer, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 16-20, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend an international symposium entitled, "Molecular Aspect [...]	2004-10-07 13:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KHIV OTRA SP
04MADRID3928	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. CAROL KENDALL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Carol Kendall, Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),to travel to Barcelona, Spain from October 28-November 2, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate as thesis examiner at the Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of Laura V [...]	2004-10-07 13:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY SENV KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID3929	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. JORDI CLARIMON [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Jordi Clarimon, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute on Aging, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from October 16-24, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to give a talk entitled, "Alzheimer and Parkinson: Two Different Entities with Si [...]	2004-10-07 13:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID3932	STRATEGY TARGETING ORGANIZED PIRACY (STOP) [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-07 14:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR KPAO SP WTRO
04MADRID3941	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AARON FLEISCHAUER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Aaron Fleischauer, Epidemiologist, NCID, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Minorca, Spain from October 14-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 9th European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training. 2. Embassy understands that [...]	2004-10-08 08:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID3965	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AARON FLEISCHAUER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Aaron Fleischauer, Epidemiologist, NCID, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Minorca, Spain from October 14-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 9th European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training. 2. Embassy understands that [...]	2004-10-08 15:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID3979	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FRANCISCA LIEM [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for Francisca Liem, Chief, Laboratory Data Integrity Branch, Office of Enforcement, Compliance and Assurance, EPA, to travel to Madrid and Valencia, Spain from October 22-29, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to evaluate Spain's Good Laboratory [...]	2004-10-13 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KSCA TPHY OTRA SP
04MADRID3993	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JONATHAN WEBER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jonathan Weber, Assistant to the Director for Antimicrobial Resistance, NCID, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 10-12, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 3rd EARSS-ESAC Plenary Meeting. 2. Embassy understand [...]	2004-10-14 08:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID3994	EXTRADITION CASE OF GREGG RENE WALTER [...] Country clearance is granted for Deputy U.S. Marshals, Randy M. Johnson and Richard B. Cobb. 2. Two double rooms for single use have been reserved for U.S. Randy M. Johnson and Richard B. Cobb, at Hotel Melia Los Galgos, Claudio Coello 139, 28006 Madrid, tel.: 91 5626600, from October 18 to [...]	2004-10-14 12:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN CPAS KCRM SP
04MADRID4005	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT A. SCHMIDT [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Robert A. Schmidt, NASA, to travel to Madrid and Moron, Spain from November 8-20, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a transoceanic abort landing site emergency services exercise. 2. Embassy understands that no assistanc [...]	2004-10-15 08:53:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
04MADRID4007	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KATHLEEN H. FRIZELL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Kathleen H. Frizell, Research Hydraulic Engineer, Water Resources Research Laboratory, Technical Service Center, Bureau of Reclamation, to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 30-November 7, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to give two pres [...]	2004-10-15 08:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID4039	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAS GLYN DAVIES [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Glyn Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State to travel to Madrid and Barcelona, October 19-22. 2. Control Officer at Embassy Madrid is Political Officer Robert J. Riley. He can be reached at work (34-91-587-2392),on his mobile [...]	2004-10-18 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID4046	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JACKIE BLACK, FAA [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jackie Black, FAA Safety Inspector, AFS-50, FAA, to travel to Bilbao, Spain from October 18-20, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to ensure that recertification inspection and added (aircraft) ratings are commensurate to the FAA authorizations [...]	2004-10-15 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID4060	ALLEGED MISDEEDS OF U.S. FLAGGED RESEARCH VESSEL [...] (C) The R/V Powell has been on U.S. Embassy Madrid's radar screen since September, when it first contacted us for assistance in processing a request to make a port call in a Spanish harbor. Since our first contact with it, this vessel has demonstrated a consistent pattern of ignoring and at [...]	2004-10-19 14:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL MARR KRVC TPHY SP EWWT
04MADRID4063	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER REGRETS UNHELPFUL MOD [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Bernardino Leon told DCM Manzanares Oct. 14 that he agreed that DefMin Bono's comments last week about US-Spain relations and the US role in the Spanish National Day Parade were extremely unhelpful. Leon promised there would be no further comments from President Zapatero [...]	2004-10-19 15:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID4078	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WILLIAM BARRACK, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. William Barrack, Dr. Richard Davey, Ms. Nikki Gettinger, Ms. Janet Herrera, Dr. H. Clifford Lane, Dr. Sandra Lehrman, Dr. Ana Martinez, Ms. Laura McNay, Dr. Karen Oseekey, Dr. Jorge Tavel, Mr. John Tierney, and Ms. Susan Vogel, employees of [...]	2004-10-20 06:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA KHIV SP
04MADRID4079	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DANIEL D. STROTTMAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Daniel P. Strottman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),to travel to Valencia, Spain from March 1-May 31, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct collaborations with scientists from the Univ [...]	2004-10-20 08:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID4090	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. SUSAN MACKEM [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Susan Mackem, Chief, Developmental Biology Section, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 23-27, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Juan March Workshop on Hedgehog-Gli Signaling and give a p [...]	2004-10-21 07:38:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4091	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN SHEEHAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to John Sheehan, Office of Plant and Dairy Foods, FDA, DHHS, to travel to Zaragoza, Spain from October 27-30, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend an international symposium on the future of the sheep and goat dairy sectors. 2. Embass [...]	2004-10-21 07:38:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4112	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS ZARZECKI [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thomas Zarzecki, Department of State to travel to Madrid, October 24-26 to meet with Spanish officials to discuss conventional weapons procurement issues (per reftels B,C and D). 2. (U) Control Officer at Embassy Madrid is Political [...]	2004-10-22 13:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL MARR PARM SP
04MADRID4113	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD P. COMPTON, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Richard P. Compton, Director, Office of Research and Technology, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),to travel to Santiago de Compostela, Spain from November 9-14, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to represent the United [...]	2004-10-22 14:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN OTRA SP
04MADRID4115	CUBA: SPAIN CONFIDENT IT CAN OVERTURN EU MEASURES [...] (C) Summary. Spain is determined to roll back key elements of the June 2003 EU "restrictive measures" on Cuba implemented in the wake of Castro's crackdown on the opposition. MFA officials are confident they have sufficient support within the EU to do so. The GOS counts the UK, France, Swed [...]	2004-10-22 15:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CU SP
04MADRID4128	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEON SAYADIAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Leon Sayadian, US Member of WG-67, ATO-P, FAA Headquarters, Architecture and System Eng., ATO-P, NAS Technical Engineering, ATO-P, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 13-18, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with persons in his [...]	2004-10-19 18:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID4147	AMBASSADOR MEETS MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar on October 21 to discuss law enforcement issues, including counterterrorism cooperation, trafficking in persons, and Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition treaties (MLAT). The Ambassador stressed the USG's [...]	2004-10-27 13:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CASC SP
04MADRID4154	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. PHILIP C. [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Philip C. Stepaniak and Dr. Rainer K. Efenhauser, NASA Johnson Space Center, to travel to Barcelona and Rota, Spain from November 11-19, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to instruct Department of Defense personnel on shuttle operations m [...]	2004-10-28 09:52:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
04MADRID4192	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN FINKBOHNER, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jon Finkbohner and Robert Darius, Investigators, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and Sidney Priesmeyer and Cynthia Jim, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, DHHS, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 11-13, 2004. The purpose of [...]	2004-11-02 13:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4195	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID DEMARINI [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to David DeMarini, EPA Official, Office of Research and Development, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 10-14, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to give a lecture entitled, "Mutagenicity of Disinfection By-Products Associated with Drinking [...]	2004-11-02 13:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KSCA TPHY OTRA SP
04MADRID4196	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. ANTONIO FOJO [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Antonio Fojo, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Bilbao, Spain from November 23-27, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Second Spanish Lung Cancer Group Symposium and to give a talk entitl [...]	2004-11-02 13:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4197	SPAIN: BRIEFING ON IRAN PROCUREMENT ATTEMPTS IN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Dr. Thomas Zarzecki of INR/SPM, accompanied by poloff, provided an intelligence briefing to an interagency GOS audience on October 25 on arms procurement attempts in European countries by state sponsors of terrorism, especially Iran. The well-received briefing sparked discussion [...]	2004-11-02 15:13:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS MOPS PINR IR SP
04MADRID4199	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JEFFERY BROWN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jeffery Brown, Senior Deputy Comptroller, United States Treasury Department, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 4-7, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a conference entitled, "Prudential Regulation and Banking Supervis [...]	2004-10-26 19:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID4203	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. WILLIAM RUNDELL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. William Rundell, Division Director for the Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation (NSF),to travel to Santiago de Compostela, Spain from November 15-23, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to give a talk on the deve [...]	2004-11-03 09:56:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA SP
04MADRID4256	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHRISTIAN C. MAENDER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Christian C. Maender and Keith A. Tucker, NASA Johnson Space Center, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from November 29-December 3, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System (MARES) Critical D [...]	2004-11-04 11:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
04MADRID4258	EXTRADITION CASE OF CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BERARDUCCI [...] Post personally delivered Dip note no. 583 to the Chief of the Unit of Consular Legal Matters at the Foreign Ministry. Spanish official informed post that they would fax copy of Dip Note to the President of the Criminal division of the National Court for any appropriate action 2. Embassy w [...]	2004-11-04 13:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN CPAS SNAR KCRM SP BERARDUCCI CHRISTOPHER
04MADRID4266	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HAROLD E. BROOKS [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Harold E. Brooks, Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),to travel to Madrid and Leon, Spain from November 5-13, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to speak at the European Conference on Severe Storms. [...]	2004-11-05 08:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA SENV TPHY OTRA SP
04MADRID4278	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PATRICIO MALDONADO, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Patricio Maldonado, Director of the Americas' Accountability/Anti-Corruption Project of Casals & Associates, to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 30-November 8, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to represent the Americas Accountability and [...]	2004-11-05 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID4279	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. TERRY PHILLIPS [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Terry Phillips, Chief, Ultramicro Analytical Immunochemistry Resource, Office of Research Services, Office of the Director, NIH, to travel to Toledo, Spain from November 6-10, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to present the keynote lect [...]	2004-11-05 15:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4281	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL YOUNG [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Rep Bill Young, Chairman, House Appropriations Committee (HAC),and delegation members, to travel to Rota from November 9-11, 2004 to review estimates in the field for the Departments of Defense and State. 2. Embassy Point of Contact [...]	2004-11-05 16:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP ASEC AMGT AFIN IT SP
04MADRID4286	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WILLIAM HALSEY [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to William Halsey, Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Department of Energy, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 29-December 3, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate as a technical expert in OECD/NEA's working group [...]	2004-11-08 09:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP KSCA TRGY OTRA SP
04MADRID4297	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANDREA CORCORAN AND [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Andrea Corcoran, Director, Office of International Affairs, and Robert Rosenfeld, Deputy Director, Office of International Affairs, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 14-19, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend an IOSCO Seminar [...]	2004-11-08 16:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
04MADRID4299	SPECIAL 301 MID-TERM REVIEW WITH COPYRIGHT [...] This is an action cable. See para. 6.1. 2. Summary: Spanish copyright industry representatives said at a 10/29/04 DCM-hosted lunch that it was too soon to tell where the Zapatero government was going with respect to IP protection. The majority said they had no view at this time whether Sp [...]	2004-11-08 16:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR SP
04MADRID4313	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPUTY DEPUTY SENIOR [...] COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS REQUESTED FOR DEPUTY SENIOR COMMERCIAL OFFICER NICHOLAS RANDAL KUCHOVA TO TRAVEL TO JOHANNESBURG AND CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA FROM NOVEMBER 13 - JOHANNESBURG; NOVEMBER 14 AND 15 - CAPE TOWN; AND NOVEMBER 16 UNTIL 20, 2004 - JOHANNESBURG. 2. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT [...]	2004-11-10 16:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP SP
04MADRID4315	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPUTY DEPUTY SENIOR [...] COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS REQUESTED FOR DEPUTY SENIOR COMMERCIAL OFFICER NICHOLAS RANDAL KUCHOVA TO TRAVEL TO JOHANNESBURG AND CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA FROM NOVEMBER 13 - JOHANNESBURG; NOVEMBER 14 AND 15 - CAPE TOWN; AND NOVEMBER 16 UNTIL 20, 2004 - JOHANNESBURG. 2. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT [...]	2004-11-10 16:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP SP
04MADRID4316	EXTRADITION CASE OF CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL [...] Christopher Michael Berarducci's surrender is getting strong press coverage in major newspapers in Spain. "El Mundo", one of Spain's leading newspapers states that Spain is going to surrender subject to the US without receiving the requested assurances. The publication quotes Post's dipnotes t [...]	2004-11-10 16:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN CPAS KCRM SP BERARDUCCI CHRISTOPHER
04MADRID4318	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT D. STRAHOTA [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Robert D. Strahota, Assistant Director, United States Securities and Exchange Commissioner, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 13-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Organization of Securities Commissions [...]	2004-11-12 08:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
04MADRID4319	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELIZABETH ZAMORA [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Elizabeth Zamora, Economist, Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 20-30, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to establish contacts within the agency and make specific [...]	2004-11-12 09:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB OTRA SP
04MADRID4335	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PATRICIA MCILROY [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Patricia McIlroy, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, DHHS, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 13-19, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to conduct an inspection of Advanced Medical Optics in Spain. 2. Embassy understands [...]	2004-11-12 16:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4336	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JEFFREY S. KARGEL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jeffrey S. Kargel, Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 14-21, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to present an invited seminar at the Astrobiology Institute (INTA) and to participate in field i [...]	2004-11-12 16:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KSCA TPHY OTRA SP
04MADRID4350	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. ERNEST HAMEL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Ernest Hamel, Biologist, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain from December 11-20, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to speak in a seminar series sponsored by the Centro De Investigaciones Biologicas, to give a talk [...]	2004-11-15 09:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4351	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. PAUL WADE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Paul Wade, Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain from November 27-December 3, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend and speak at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Onc [...]	2004-11-15 09:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4374	(S) SPAIN: SHIELD S59A-03: EMBASSY MEETING ON [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Poloffs delivered non-paper providing additional information on Telstar on November 10 to the Spanish Foreign Ministry's director general for international economic relations, Javier Hergueta. Hergueta said Telstar is willing to cooper [...]	2004-11-15 17:01:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC SP CBW
04MADRID4376	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. JAMES F. REILLY II [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. James F. Reilly II, Astronaut, NASA Johnson Space Center to travel to Barcelona, Spain from November 29-December 3, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System (MARES) Payload Review [...]	2004-11-16 08:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
04MADRID4414	EXTRANCHECK: TRAVEL CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED FOR JOHN MCKENNA AND FRED CARLE FROM THE BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY TO TRAVEL TO MADRID AND BARCELONA FROM DECEMBER 11 - 18 TO CONDUCT END-USE CHECKS ON COMPANIES IN SPAIN. 2. TRAVELER SHOULD BE AWARE THAT SPAIN REQUIRES A VISA FOR OFFICIAL OR DIPLOMAT [...]	2004-11-18 14:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC OTRA AU BEXP SP
04MADRID4427	SPANISH ON ITER, EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE [...] (U) This is an action request for OES/SAT and OES/STC: see paragraphs 5 and 6 (respectively). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior Spanish Science officials continue to believe that France will ultimately cut a deal with Japan that will bring the ITER to the French site along with sufficient guarant [...]	2004-11-19 11:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OSCI TSPA ENRG TSPL TNGD TRGY SP
04MADRID4428	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEPHANIE PAYNE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Stephanie Payne Clarke, Department of Energy, Allison Christine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories, Whitney J. Creer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Steven Mark Dinehart, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stephanie Deanne Ketring, Sand [...]	2004-11-19 11:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PARM OTRA SP
04MADRID4429	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. ALASDAIR STEVEN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Alasdair Steven, Chief, Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from December 1-5, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to serve on [...]	2004-11-19 11:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4437	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JANIK EDWARD [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Janik Edward, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, DHHS, to travel to Rota, Spain from December 10-14, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to perform a regulatory inspection of medical devices at MQSA, US Naval Hospital. 2. Embas [...]	2004-11-19 15:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4465	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT MCCONNELL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Robert McConnell, Senior Project Leader, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, Department of Energy, to travel to Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain from December 10-15, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to lead the Internationa [...]	2004-11-23 08:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
04MADRID4500	MFA CLAIMS SURPRISE AT CUBA'S NORMALIZATION OF TIES [...] (C) Summary. MFA DG for Latin America Sandomingo told Polcouns that the GOS had been surprised by the Cuban Government announcement that it would resume official contacts with the Spanish Embassy in Havana after more than 17 months of having "frozen" such ties. Sandomingo cast the move as a [...]	2004-11-26 16:00:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU SP
04MADRID4502	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN RUSSELL COCHRAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to John Russell Cochran and Ahmed A. Hasan, Sandia National Laboratories, National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Programs, Department of Energy, to travel to Cordoba, Spain from December 8-18, 2004. The purpose of this visit [...]	2004-11-29 07:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID4503	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD HAYES [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Edward Hayes, Epidemiologist, DVBID, NCID, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Barcelona, Spain from December 13-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to teach "Public Health Strategies in the Tropics," at the Masters of International Health and Tropical [...]	2004-11-29 07:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP CDC
04MADRID4515	REQUEST FOR COLLOCATION WAIVER FOR FAS OFFICES - [...] (SBU) In accordance with guidance provided in reference, Mission Spain RSO submits this formal request for a collocation waiver for the critically needed Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) offices. This new lease space is required and has been prompted by RSO concern for the existing buildin [...]	2004-11-29 16:35:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
04MADRID4528	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GEORGE IMEL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to George Imel, Nuclear Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Energy, to travel to Madrid, Spain from December 8-9, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a specialists meeting held by CIEMAT concerning the final muse [...]	2004-11-30 11:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA KNNP OTRA SP
04MADRID4547	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. MARGARET V. [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Margaret V. Federline, Deputy Director, Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, and to Mr. James E. Kennedy, Technical Assistant, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, NMSS, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to travel [...]	2004-12-01 12:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA SP IAEA
04MADRID4548	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. MARGARET V. [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Margaret V. Federline, Deputy Director, Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, and to Mr. James E. Kennedy, Technical Assistant, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, NMSS, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to travel [...]	2004-12-01 12:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA SP IAEA
04MADRID4585	SPAIN/AFGHANISTAN: SPAIN STILL CONSIDERING ISAF [...] (C) Prior to receipt of ref a demarche request, Charge, Polcouns and other embassy officers used previously scheduled meetings and conversatons the week of November 23 and 26 to press the Chief of Defense, Deputy Defense Minister, MOD DG for International Relations and MFA Political Director [...]	2004-12-02 16:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SP NATO
04MADRID4603	VIRTUAL PRESENCE PROGRAM (VPP) IN [...] (SBU) Summary Embassy Madrid has decided to initiate Virtual Presence Programs (VPP) for Andalusia and the Basque country a one year trial basis. Charge initiated the Andalusia VPP concept while visiting Seville November 30-December 1. He hosted a well attended reception for the U.S. Davis [...]	2004-12-03 13:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL SP
04MADRID4637	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LLOYD L. LOOPE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Lloyd L. Loope, Research Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, to travel to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain from December 13-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate at the convention on Biological Diversity. 2. Embassy u [...]	2004-12-09 10:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KSCA TBIO TPHY OTRA SP
04MADRID4638	VIRTUAL PRESENCE PROGRAM (VPP) IN SEVILLE/ANDALUSIA INITIATED [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid has decided to initiate Virtual Presence Programs (VPP) for Andalusia and the Basque country on a one year trial basis. Charge initiated the Andalusia VPP concept while visiting Seville November 30 - December 1. He hosted a well attended reception for the U.S. Da [...]	2004-12-09 10:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL
04MADRID4657	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN [...] Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Attorney General Ashcroft and his team on December 17 for the signing of the bilateral protocol to the multilateral MLAT (REF A) and a meeting with Minister of Justice Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar. We have incorporated the new arri [...]	2004-12-10 07:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP CASC KCRM KJUS PREL SP EUN
04MADRID4677	SPAIN: CHARGE MEETS WITH CHIEF OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Spanish Chief of Defense General Felix Sanz December 9. Sanz said he will do all in his power to strengthen U.S./Spain military ties. He agreed it was not useful talk about whether the military relationship between the two countries is "balanced," rather Spain' [...]	2004-12-10 16:53:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS SP NATO
04MADRID4709	BIOSAFETY DEVELOPMENTS IN SPAIN [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. (U) Summary: The Zapatero government is changing Spain's previously pro-biotech position to one more opposed to the technology. This is clear from Environment Minister Narbona's statements, Spanish votes on EU Commission biotech proposals, a d [...]	2004-12-15 07:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ETRD SENV SP
04MADRID4713	ALLEGED ISLAMIC TERRORIST PLAN TO LAUNCH [...] (U) The American Embassy Spain Emergency Action Committee met on December 14, 2004, in response to REFTEL in order to assess the current situation and exchange perspectives on the possible threat. 2. (S) The EAC noted that parts of the information were relatively specific such as the para [...]	2004-12-15 10:43:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PTER ASEC CASC
04MADRID4734	SUMMER 2005 INTERN PROGRAM [...] In response to REFTEL, Spain wishes to participate in the Summer 2005 Intern Program. 2. Pertinent data is outlined below in the order requested: A. Number of interns requested: Embassy Madrid - eight - one for the Economic Section, one for the Political Section, two for the Managemen [...]	2004-12-16 12:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AMGT ASEC SP
04MADRID4745	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WILLIAM KILMARTIN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to William Kilmartin, Department of Energy , National Nuclear Security Administration, to travel to Madrid, Spain from December 19-23, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to support the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with Spain to coop [...]	2004-12-17 14:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PARM OTRA SP
04MADRID4768	SPANISH CONGRESS RATIFIES S AND T AGREEMENT [...] This is an action request for OES/STC -- see para 3. 2. Embassy has received Spanish Foreign Ministry Note Verbal 385/2.3, dated December 14, 2004, informing us that the Spanish lower house and Senate had ratified the January 20 and February 2, 2004 exchange of notes extending the validi [...]	2004-12-20 14:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCI PREL SP
04MADRID4774	SPAIN: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] Per Ref A instructions, the following is the 2004 terrorism report submission for Spain. 2. Spain is a strong ally in the war on terrorism, authorizing the use of military bases to support Operation Enduring Freedom and sending troops to Afghanistan to provide added security during that cou [...]	2004-12-20 16:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC SP

04MADRID4778	SPAIN: INDECISIVE ON ISAF STAGE TWO ROLE [...] (C) Summary: Charge met December 20 with Spanish National Security Advisor Carles Casajuana to discuss Spain's role in ISAF stage two. Casajuana was very reluctant to commit the Zapatero government to any role in stage two. Casajuana said it was very unlikely the GOS would announce a decisi [...]	2004-12-21 07:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS SP NATO
04MADRID4787	SPAIN ON AUSTRALIA'S SUBMISSION TO CONTINENTAL [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-21 10:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PBTS PHSA PREL KTIA AS AY SP
04MADRID4827	LOCAL NGO PRESSURES SPAIN ON CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. On 12/21, Poloff met with Rafael Rubio, head of the Spanish NGO "Cuba en Transicion" (Cuba in Transition),a human rights organization dedicated to raising public awareness in Spain about human rights abuses in Cuba. Rubio, who generally works with the Popular Party (PP) but has [...]	2004-12-22 14:52:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU SP
04MADRID4831	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHHS/FDA MARIA CHAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Maria Chan, Team Leader, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA, DHHS to travel to Valencia, January 22-26, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend a meeting and be a speaker at the Fundacion Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, 1s [...]	2004-12-22 16:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID4832	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NNTRAV [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to William Edward Kilmartin from the National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, to travel to Madrid, December 19-23 to attend the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Spain to coop [...]	2004-12-22 16:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PARM OTRA SP
04MADRID4840	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID OFFICIALS ADOLFO [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to AID/AA/LAC Adolfo A. Franco, Assistant Administrator and David Mutchler, Cuba Senior Advisor, to travel to Madrid and Barcelona, January 8-12. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3. Please provide an agenda of the me [...]	2004-12-23 13:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP USAID
04MADRID4889	SPAIN CIVAIR: FILING OF U.S. CARRIER SCHEDULES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-29 16:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR SP
04MADRID490	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. MARTA [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance Dr. Marta Leon-Monzon, Health Science Administrator, Office of AIDS Research, Office of the Director, NIH, to travel to Valencia March 9-13 to participate as a keynote speaker and a round table discussant in the Conference "Aids and Drugs" at the [...]	2004-02-12 16:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA KHIV SP
04MADRID492	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR ECONOMIC OFFICER [...] Embassy Madrid requests country clearance for Economic Officer Marta Youth who has Top Secret Clearance, to travel to Brussels February 17-18 to attend USEU Conference on Commerce. 2. No embassy assistance is requested. MANZANARES [...]	2004-02-13 09:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID513	BIOTECH OUTREACH PROPOSAL: HIGHLIGHTING SPAIN'S BT [...] In response to reftel, Embassy's Biotechnology Working Group would like to propose creating a video to record and widely disseminate Spain's positive experience with planting and commercializing Bt corn. While local estimates for executing our project proposal are likely too high to be comple [...]	2004-02-13 12:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON TBIO TSPL ETRD SENV EAGR KPAL SP
04MADRID516	SHORTAGE OF HOTEL ROOMS IN MADRID, MAY 20 - 23, 2004 [...] THE WEDDING OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE OF ASTURIAS FELIPE DE BORBON AND LETIZIA ORTIZ WILL TAKE PLACE IN MADRID ON MAY 22 POST PREDICTS THIS EVENT WILL AFFECT THE AVAILABILITY OF HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE WEEKEND OF MAY 20 TO 23, 2004. 2. WE DISCOURAGE ANY OFFICI [...]	2004-02-13 14:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA CASC AMGT OVIP
04MADRID517	SECURITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (U) As directed in REFTEL, the following responses constitute the SEPQ for Mission Spain. The responses will directly correlate in sequence with the questions asked. All questions and responses have been coordinated with the appropriate Emergency Action Committee (EAC). 2. (SBU) POLITI [...]	2004-02-13 14:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER
04MADRID519	SPANISH DELEGATES TO ATTEND MARCH 23 DEFENSE [...] AS REQUESTED REFTEL, EMBASSY PROVIDED LETTER ON THE PROPOSED MARCH 23 EXPORT DIALOG TO MR. RAMON MURO MARTINEZ AT THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS. MR. MURO INFORMED US THAT HE WILL LEAD A SPANISH DELEGATION OF THREE OFFICIALS. IN ADDITION TO MURO, THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION WILL BE JOSE L [...]	2004-02-13 14:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL ETTC SP
04MADRID520	ENCOURAGING SPAIN TO PURSUE BUSINESS IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. With continued "bad press" over the lack of Iraq reconstruction-related contracts for Spanish firms, we met with Ministry of Economy's Director General for Commercial Policy Carlos Jimenez to share lessons learned reftel. Our overtures were welcome, but we also received a clear [...]	2004-02-13 15:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN IZ SP
04MADRID564	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LAMARRE AND HANSEN, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for Andre Lamarre and Dale Hansen FAA Aviation Safety Inspectors, to travel to Madrid, February 23-27 to conduct maintenance on a U.S. registered aircraft. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3. THREAT ASSESSMENT: In [...]	2004-02-18 15:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID572	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHHS/CDC SUSAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Susan Goldstein, Epidemiologist, DVH, NCID, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Seville, March 10-13 to attend the Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board meeting and present a paper "Hepatitis B Vaccine Booster Doses: Current CDC Recommendations." 2. Embass [...]	2004-02-19 09:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
04MADRID573	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA ATCHER AND [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Robert W. Atcher and Mario Ruben Perez from Los Alamos National Laboratory, to travel to Barcelona and the islands of Mallorca March 6-21 to conduct site visits with organizations involved in energy production, pollution control, meet with U.S [...]	2004-02-19 11:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID574	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/DPTRAV [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thomas Michael Mustaleski, DPE/NNSA/DPTRAV funded traveler, to travel to Madrid, March 7-11 to give a presentation and discussions on international technical standards at the 15th Technical Sessions on Welding Conference. 2. Embassy underst [...]	2004-02-19 11:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID575	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/DPTRAV [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Cornelia M. Verspoor from Los Alamos National Laboratory to travel to Granada, March 27-April 1, to make a scientific preentation. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3. THREAT ASSESSMENT: In general, Spain is s [...]	2004-02-19 11:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID583	GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: SPANISH POLICE SEEK ACCESS [...] (C) The Spanish National Police (SNP) have officially requested via the Embassy that the USG authorize Spanish police access to interview two Guantanamo detainees. SNP seeks to develop information regarding the two detainees' training, recruitment and deployment into Afghanistan. The two detainees [...]	2004-02-20 05:57:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PHUM PINR SP
04MADRID601	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OES/OMC COLIN MCIFF [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to OES/OMC Colin McIff to travel to Madrid February 22-26 to attend a meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Fisheries Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Network. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. [...]	2004-02-20 16:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SENV EFIS SP
04MADRID605	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHHS/CDC MARGARET [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Margaret Villarino, Medical Officer, DTBE, NCHSTP, CDC, DHHS to travel to Barcelona March 7-12 to attend the "Red Espanola de Salud Publica" workshop. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3. THREAT ASSESSMENT: In g [...]	2004-02-20 17:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO SP
04MADRID608	9-11 COMMISSION VISIT: MEETING WITH JUDGE GARZON [...] (SBU) Dieter Snell and Hyon Kim of the 9-11 Commission visited Madrid February 13. At their request, the Embassy arranged a meeting for them with Judge Baltasar Garzon of the National Court. This was the only appointment with Spanish officials that the Commission staff sought. Garzon is [...]	2004-02-23 07:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL SP
04MADRID611	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA/NMFS ROBIN TUTTLE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USDOC/NOAA/NMFS employee Robin Tuttle, Foreign Affairs Specialist to travel to Madrid February 20-29 to attend the Executive Committee of the International Network for the Cooperation and Coordination of Fish Monitoring. 2. Embassy understa [...]	2004-02-23 09:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA EFIS SP
04MADRID618	SPAIN: EU TO BACK OAS POSITION ON VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-24 06:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE SP
04MADRID650	REQUEST FOR SECURITY SECTOR ASSISTANCE IN LIBERIA: [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-25 16:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAID EFIN PGOV PREL LI SP
04MADRID652	SPAIN CIVAIR: FILING OF FINAL U.S. CARRIER SUMMER [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-25 17:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR SP
04MADRID660	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. JOANNE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Joanne Fertig, Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Treatment and Recovery Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, to travel to Cordoba March 23-31 to present a paper, "Treatment of Alcohol and Tobacco Depe [...]	2004-02-26 15:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID661	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. ELIZABETH [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Elizabeth Fee, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, NIH, to travel to Barcelona March 14-17 to attend a meeting of the Coordination Working Group of the Joint Learning Initiative. 2. Embassy understands tha [...]	2004-02-26 15:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID662	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. ALFREDO [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Alfredo Martinez, Research Fellow, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Madrid March 21-25 to give a presentation on Adrenomedullin and Factor H Knockout Mice at the Cajal Institute of Neurobiology. 2. Embassy understands that n [...]	2004-02-26 15:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID663	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. MARK [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Mark Hallett, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, to travel to Barcelona March 25-28 to give a lecture, "Brain Plasticity and Recovery from Stroke: General Principles," at the Motor Learning B [...]	2004-02-26 15:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID670	SPAIN: REQUEST TO SUPPORT JAPAN AS CHAIR OF TRUST [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-26 17:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN IZ SP
04MADRID671	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. SERGI FERRE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Sergi Ferre, Staff Scientist, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, to travel to Barcelona March 29-April 8 to conduct collaborative research at the University of Barcelona. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3 [...]	2004-02-27 09:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID672	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GRC BOND, MILLER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thomas H. Bond, Dean R. Miller and Mark G. Potapczuk from the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) to travel to Madrid April 1-2 to meet with Alejandro Feo for discussions on Icing Research by Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aerospacial (INTA). 2 [...]	2004-02-27 09:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID696	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NSF DR. FINBARR SLOANE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Finbarr Sloane, Program Officer for the Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication from the National Science Foundation (NSF),to travel to El Escorial February 29-March 4 to participate in a NSF funded Organization for Economic Co [...]	2004-03-01 14:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA SP NSF
04MADRID702	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA KYLE L. OLSEN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Kyle L. Olsen, Manager, Continued Operational Program, ANM-104, FAA, Renton, Washington to travel to Barcelona March 13-20 to attend Flight Safety Foundation, Aviation Safety Seminar and JAA Joint Safety Team (JSSI) meetings. 2. Embassy und [...]	2004-03-01 16:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID703	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA DAVID J. BRILES [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to David J. Briles, Safety Information Engineering and Analysis Division, ASY-100, FAA to travel to Barcelona March 16-21 to participate in meetings of the Global Aviation Information Network (GAIN) Government Support Team (GST) and the Joint Safe [...]	2004-03-01 16:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID711	IRAQI ASSETS:RASHEED BANK ACCOUNTS IN SPAIN [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-01 16:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PREL IZ SP UNSC
04MADRID718	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. CLIFTON [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Clifton Bogardus, Chief, Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, to travel to Granada March 2-10 to present a talk, "The Natural Histories of Diabetes and how [...]	2004-03-02 15:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID719	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA AMY RISPIN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Amy Rispin, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),to travel to Madrid, March 22-28 to attend a meeting on the OECD Classification of Chronic Aquatic Hazards. 2. Embassy understands tha [...]	2004-03-02 15:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV OTRA KSCA TPHY SP
04MADRID720	SPAIN - ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - 2004 [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-02 16:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SP
04MADRID723	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DRS. COHEN AND [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NIH/FIC Dr. Leonardo Cohen, Senior Investigator, Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; and Dr. Okihide Hikosaka, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Instit [...]	2004-03-03 08:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID748	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USNRC SYED, PHILIP, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ali Syed, Senior Technical Advisor; Jacob Philip, Geotechnical Engineer; Michael F. Hessheimer and Dan Naus, Engineers of Sandia National Laboratories to travel to Madrid March 13-20 to participate in the CSNI/R [...]	2004-03-04 15:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ENRG TRGY SP TECH
04MADRID749	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHHS/CDC CINDY DOHERTY [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Cindy Doherty, Pharmacist, DTBE, NCHSTP, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Barcelona March 7-13 to attend the "Red Espanola de Salud Publica," an infectious disease and immigration workshop. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. [...]	2004-03-04 17:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID750	DASD BRZEZINSKI DISCUSSES NATO NON-FUNDING OF [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for European and NATO policy Ian Brzezinski met February 26 with Ministry of Defense officials in Madrid to discuss the NATO Security Investment Program,s (NSIP) funding of Spanish air defense systems and Spain's blockage of NATO infrastructure [...]	2004-03-04 17:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID755	LIBYA/IAEA: CONSULTING WITH BOG MEMBERS ON LIBYA [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-04 18:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM LY SP IAEA
04MADRID770	DRAFT REVISION OF CONSULAR INFORMATION SHEET FOR [...] UPDATE OF CONSULAR INFORMATION SHEET FOR SPAIN AND ANDORRA: 2. COUNTRY DESCRIPTIONS: Spain and Andorra are both highly developed and stable democracies with modern economies. Spain is a member of the European Union. Additional information on Spain may be obtained from the Tourist Office [...]	2004-03-05 16:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC CMGT ASEC SP
04MADRID772	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF LABOR [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to David S. Johnson, Research Economist, Office of Prices and Living Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for travel to Madrid March 25-28 to present a paper at a conference. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3. TH [...]	2004-03-05 17:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB OTRA SP
04MADRID774	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USSEC RANDALL ROY [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to United States Securities and Exchange Commission (USSEC) official Randall Roy, Special Counsel, to travel to Madrid March 4-8 to attend a meeting being hosted by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO): IOSCO Standing [...]	2004-03-08 08:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
04MADRID776	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USDOE LINDA GUNTER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Department of Energy official Linda Gunter, Acting Associate Director, Nuclear Cycle Technology, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology to travel to Madrid March 30-April 2 to attend the Nuclear Energy Institute's World Nuclear Fu [...]	2004-03-08 11:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA TRGY KSCA KNNP SP
04MADRID782	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHHS/FDA FRANCIS GUIDRY [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Francis Guidry, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, DHHS/FDA to travel to Reus and Toledo March 26-April 2 to conduct an inspection of Taiber in Reus and of Madespa in Toledo. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. [...]	2004-03-08 14:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID812	PSOE ECONOMIC ADVISOR: IF YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM, [...] (SBU) Summary. Spain's main opposition party, the Socialist Workers' Party of Spain or PSOE, faces the unenviable task of running against what is inarguably an impressive record of economic growth and job creation under the ruling Popular Party (PP). According to Miguel Sebastian, the archit [...]	2004-03-10 11:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV SP PSOE
04MADRID817	SPANISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS: VIEWS BEYOND MADRID [...] (C) Summary: Spanish regional leaders in Valencia, Asturias, Andalucia and Extremadura from both the Socialist and Popular Parties believe the Popular Party will gain the most seats in the March 14 national elections. But most of them - except for two Socialist party members in regional Soci [...]	2004-03-10 12:19:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID818	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. JOHN COUSE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. John Couse, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH to travel to Mallorca March 29-April 2 to attend a talk at the International Cluster of Research into Endocrine Disruption in Europe Workshop. 2. [...]	2004-03-10 13:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID819	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/DPTRAV LUIS [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Luis M. Rocha from Los Alamos National Laboratory to travel to Granada March 26-31 to attend the Biocreative Workshop and present a work titled "Fuzzy Consensus for Inter-Agent Negotiation." 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is nece [...]	2004-03-10 13:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID820	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. BERNARD [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Bernard Moss, Chief, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH to travel to Madrid April 22-25 to present a seminar, "Reverse Genetic Approaches to Understanding Poxviruses," at the Second Centr [...]	2004-03-10 13:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID826	OFM AND EMBASSY MADRID DISCUSS [...] Summary: DS/OFM DAS lead a negotiating team consisting of Embassy Management Counselor, HRO Senior FSN, and an OFM Program Officer in discussions with Spanish representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance. This meeting focused on two issues: (1) the continued practice of [...]	2004-03-10 16:46:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT KREC SP
04MADRID828	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/DPTRAV ANDREW [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Andrew W. Erickson from Los Alamos National Laboratory to travel to Barcelona March 11-20 to complete the EMBA Program through UNM in accordance with LANL AM409.08 Policy. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3. THRE [...]	2004-03-11 13:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID830	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA BRIAN MONTAGUE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA official Brian Montague, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) to travel to Madrid March 23-27 to attend the OECD Classification of Chronic Aquatic Hazards Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is ne [...]	2004-03-11 13:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV OTRA KSCA TPHY SP
04MADRID831	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL GERARD [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Gerard Holzmann, employee from the California Institute of Technology working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),to travel to Barcelona March 30-April 4 to give a presentation at the 11th International Spin Workshop on Model Checking of [...]	2004-03-11 13:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
04MADRID838	EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING (EAC) - EMBASSY [...] (U) In response to the multiple train bombings in Madrid on the morning of March 11, the Ambassador chaired a full EAC meeting to discuss the impact and implications, if any, on the Embassy personnel and facilities as a result of the bombings. Highlights of some general and operational conti [...]	2004-03-11 16:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
04MADRID850	SPAIN'S UNITED LEFT (IU) PARTY: A DECLINING FORCE [...] (SBU) Note: This message was planned prior to the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid as a feature of Embassy's advance reporting on Spain's March 14 elections. It provides a snapshot of the United Left Party, one of Spain's smaller, but still significant political parties. End note. 2. [...]	2004-03-12 15:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SP
04MADRID854	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NTSB ROBERT M. [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Robert M. Macintosh, Jr., Chief Advisor, International Safety Affairs, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),to travel to Barcelona March 14-18 to participate in the Flight Safety Foundation European Aviation Safety Seminar (EASS). 2 [...]	2004-03-12 16:34:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EAIR SP
04MADRID860	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS HAROLD R. NEWMAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Harold R. Newman, Physical Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),to travel to Madrid March 26-April 10 to attend the 17th Industrial Minerals International Congress. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. 3. THREAT [...]	2004-03-12 17:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY KSCA ECON EMIN SENV SP
04MADRID861	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA ROBERT A. NESTER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Robert A. Nester, Aircrew Program Manager, American Trans Air (ATA),Indianapolis Flight Standards District Office, to travel to various places in Spain March 23-26 to perform surveillance activities related to assigned work program consisting [...]	2004-03-12 17:37:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID862	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USDINT/FWS LOUIS [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to LOuis Ballard, Fish and Wildlife Service Official, Department of Interior to travel to Cordoba April 17-23 to present a paper on Fire Planning and Development Effort to an international conference designed for Fire Planners. 2. Embassy unde [...]	2004-03-12 17:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID864	SPANISH ELECTIONS: SCENARIOS FOR COALITION [...] (C) Before the March 11 terrorist attacks, the conservative Popular Party and its candidate Mariano Rajoy were slated to win the Spanish elections, but few confidently assessed the PP would win an absolute majority in Parliament. As part of Embassy Madrid,s election reporting plan, we have b [...]	2004-03-12 19:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID865	SPAIN: POSSIBLE IMPACT OF TERRORIST ATTACK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: BEFORE THE MARCH 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN MADRID, THE DRAMA OF THE MARCH 14 SPANISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN CENTERED ON WHETHER PRESIDENT AZNAR'S POPULAR PARTY AND ITS CANDIDATE MARIANO RAJOY, WOULD WIN ENOUGH SEATS IN PARLIAMENT TO GOVERN WITH AN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY (REFTEL). O [...]	2004-03-12 19:47:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID868	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USNRC COMMISSIONER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USNRC Commissioner Jeffrey S. Merrified; Mr. John Thoma, the Commissioner's Technical Assistant for Materials; Mr. William Borchardt, Deputy Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation; Mr. John Greeves, Director of the Division of Was [...]	2004-03-15 08:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP ENRG TRGY OVIP SP
04MADRID891	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. PETER [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NIH/FIC Dr. Peter Silverman, Health Scientist Administrator, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),NIH, to travel to Cordoba March 20-28 to present a paper: "Treatment of Alcohol and Tobacco Dependence in the United States [...]	2004-03-15 16:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID894	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. JOE HARFORD [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NIH/FIC Dr. Jose Harford, Director, Office of International Affairs, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Madrid March 24-26 to meet with the Ministry of Health to discuss U.S.-Spanish interactions regarding health. 2. Embassy under [...]	2004-03-16 08:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY TBIO OTRA SP
04MADRID901	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FINCEN BAITY AND SHOWELL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Deputy Director William Baity and Country Desk Officer Jennifer Showell, Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN),to travel to Madrid March 21-24 to attend meetings hosted by Spain's Financial Intelligence Unit, SEP [...]	2004-03-16 15:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PREL SNAR SP PTER
04MADRID952	FALL 2004 INTERN PROGRAM [...] In response to REFTEL, Spain wishes to participate in the Fall 2004 Intern Program. 2. Pertinent data is outlined below in the order requested: A. Number of interns requested: Embassy Madrid - six - one for the Political Section, one for the Management Section, two for Public Affairs [...]	2004-03-18 14:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AMGT ASEC SP
04MADRID960	DEALING WITH ZAPATERO: AN INEXPERIENCED BUT [...] (C) Summary: This message provides initial embassy thinking on how to deal with President-Elect Zapatero in the lead up to his government's formation and the early stages of his administration. Zapatero has no experience in administration or foreign affairs. He is likely to be a difficult but [...]	2004-03-18 18:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID981	INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-23 09:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TSPL SENV TSPA EFIS SP
04MADRID986	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA TIMOTHY W. STANTON [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Timothy W. Stanton to travel to Madrid March 27-31 to conduct a focused inspection at Transmeridian Airlines D091 substantial maintenance provider, Iberia Lineas Aereas. 2. As requested reftel reservations have been made at the Hotel Me [...]	2004-03-23 10:56:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
04MADRID987	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USDOE MARK DELWICHE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mark Delwiche, Senior Scientist, and Frederick Colwell, Consulting Scientist with Bechtel B&W Idaho, a contractor to Idaho Operations Office, U.S. Department of Energy, to travel to Barcelona April 15-24 to speak at the Ocean Drilling Program L [...]	2004-03-23 11:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID990	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL BASSETT [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Brant Bassett, Professional Staff Member House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI),to travel to Spain for the period March 24-26 on matters of concern to the Committee. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is ORA Managem [...]	2004-03-23 14:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN UK GM SP
04MANAGUA1791	CODEL SHELBY VISIT TO NICARAGUA, JULY 1-3 [...] Embassy Managua warmly welcomes the visit of Senator Richard Shelby, Dr. Annette Shelby, and accompanying congressional delegation members to travel to Nicaragua July 1 - 3, 2004. 2. CODEL Control Officer will be acting Economic Counselor Eric Luftman (office phone 011-505-266-6010 x 454 [...]	2004-06-18 12:47:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NU
04MANAMA1020	BAHRAINI HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GRATEFUL FOR [...] Twenty Bahraini high school students and their families gathered at the American Cultural and Education Center (ACEC) on June 23 to receive Certificates of Award for the Micro Scholarship for English language study funded by R and administered by the post. Charg d'Affaires Molly Williamson p [...]	2004-06-29 12:07:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO BA
04MANAMA1037	BAHRAIN SENDING AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD [...] Bahrain Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Yusif Mahmoud phoned CDA June 30 to inform her that the GOB will announce today that it is upgrading its representation to Iraq to the ambassadorial level. No one has been named to the position yet, but Mahmoud hopes to be able to provide the [...]	2004-06-30 14:13:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IZ BA OFPD
04MANAMA1060	THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR LINE ON TERRORISM [...] (S/NF) CDA Molly Williamson, PMIL and RSO met for 90 minutes with Interior Minister, General Shaikh Rashid and Brigadier General Zayani Saturday July 3, 2004 at 1100 to discuss cooperation on counter-terrorism and security issues. COMMENT: King Hamad and his advisors have done the calculus on [...]	2004-07-06 05:20:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ALOW ASEC BA PREL PTER
04MANAMA1115	BAHRAIN WOMEN'S SOCIETY - SUPPORTING WOMEN AND [...] SUMMARY. The Bahrain Women's Society (BWS) has emerged as a leader among Bahrain's NGOs. Through its highly successful outreach programs BWS enables women to assume leading roles in society, and increase social awareness of issues relating to children, education and the environment. This gr [...]	2004-07-14 08:09:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM KMPI OEXC BA
04MANAMA1118	EMBASSY CONGRATULATES GOB FOR FATF DECISION TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-14 13:05:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON BA
04MANAMA1120	GOB RE-ARRESTS THE BAHRAINI SIX [...] The GoB re-arrested the "Bahraini Six" yesterday afternoon on suspicion of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. The six were taken to the Public Prosecutor's Office and were transferred to Galali prison at approximately 2:00 a.m. this morning. Amal Ahmed Abdulla Abdul, Under Secretary of the P [...]	2004-07-15 12:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BA
04MANAMA1133	ELBOWS EXTENDED, PARLIAMENT CATCHES EYES DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY. June 9 marked the end of Parliament's second session with well-earned successes in both houses. Hampered by constitutional limitations, the elected Council of Representatives (COR) gravitated away from drafting legislation and exercised its oversight authority to its fullest ext [...]	2004-07-18 12:53:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM BA
04MANAMA1175	BAHRAIN - JULY 2004 APPENDIX TO 2003 INVESTMENT [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-25 10:25:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB KTDB PGOV BA OPIC
04MANAMA1200	MUSLIM WORLD OUTREACH IN BAHRAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bahrain is an Islamic state with a population that is 98 percent Muslim. Bahraini contacts have discussed the potential of a possible shift towards conservatism in Bahrain. However, some groups, such as Beit Al Qura,an, the Bahrain Women,s Society, and the Bahrain Youth Forum Soc [...]	2004-07-28 13:37:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA EAID KDEM KPAO OEXC OIIP OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL
04MANAMA1214	PRIME MINISTER COMMITTED TO NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and select members of his Cabinet stressed to Charge that security is Bahrain's utmost priority and that consequently Bahrain will remain at a heightened state of vigilance. PM stressed that full cooperation and sharing of informati [...]	2004-08-03 05:30:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ETRD BA KSEC
04MANAMA1216	(C/NF) BAHRAIN AND TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-03 05:30:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR ECON ETRD BA
04MANAMA1225	(C/NF) MINISTER OF INDUSTRY TALKS SECURITY AND FTA [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-04 10:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ETRD KTEX ELAB BA KSEC KINR
04MANAMA1227	MINISTER OF INTERIOR: HELP US PUT THESE GUYS AWAY [...] (S/NF) CDA, RSO and POL met with Interior Minister General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa and Under-Secretary for Operations Brigadier General Abdel-Latif Zayani August 3 to discuss the status of the investigation regarding the six Bahraini extremists in custody, security issues and U.S. [...]	2004-08-04 10:34:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER PREL PGOV BA
04MANAMA1228	BAHRAIN'S FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES DOD SCHOOL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa stressed to Charge during an August 4 meeting the need to find a way to work together to keep the most important cultural tie, the Department of Defense Bahrain School, operational. Shaikh Mohammed conveyed GOB's offe [...]	2004-08-04 17:22:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAIR ETRD BA IZ
04MANAMA1275	8,000 BAHRAINIS PEACEFULLY PROTEST US OPERATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Bahrain's Shi'a leadership organized a march in which 8,000 Bahrainis peacefully protested US military actions in Najaf and other holy cities of Iraq. Representing Parliament, Sunni Council of Representatives (COR) Chairman Ahmed Khalifa Al Dahrani issued a public statement exp [...]	2004-08-15 13:40:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC ALOW PGOV KDEM KWMN IZ BA
04MANAMA128	DCM RETURNS FROM NAJAF AND ENGAGES BAHRAINI [...] To further post's goal of convincing Bahraini audiences about U.S. goals in Iraq, PAS Manama arranged tailored media events for DCM Ford, who recently returned to Bahrain from a three month rotation as the CPA Governorate Coordinator in Najaf. Bahrain is a small island and many Embassy contac [...]	2004-01-27 13:50:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KMDR KPAO BA
04MANAMA1302	MINSTATE ABDUL GHAFFAR DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) The Charge met with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar to discuss the status of Bahrain's counter-terrorism law, recent press articles on legal cases concerning detainee [...]	2004-08-20 13:11:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ASEC PGOV BA
04MANAMA1319	HOT TIME, SUMMER IN THE CITY: BAHRAIN COPES WITH [...] (C) Bahrain experienced a nationwide blackout that lasted up to 15 hours in some neighborhoods. Minister of Electricity and Water (MEW) Shaikh Abdullah bin Salman Khalid Al Khalifa attributed the blackout to an unexpected massive power surge from the nation's aluminum manufacturer ALBA. Prim [...]	2004-08-24 15:03:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV ASEC BA
04MANAMA1337	CODEL MILLER DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM, IRAQ, [...] (C) Codel Miller met with Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa August 22 and discussed the domestic security situation, status of counter-terrorism laws in Bahrain, Iraq, the military confrontation in Najaf, U.S. public outreach efforts in the Middle East, Arab-Israeli relations, A [...]	2004-08-28 15:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR ECON ETRD BA IZ
04MANAMA1353	INITIATIVE TO FACILITATE BUSINESS TRAVEL [...] Post's Consular Section accepts walk-in applications and issues same day visas. Applicants generally wait less than two hours from the time they walk in to apply for the visa to the time they walk out with their visas in hand. 2. Although Post does not have an appointment system, the Con [...]	2004-08-30 12:45:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS BEXP ETRD
04MANAMA1355	BAHRAINI CABINET APPROVES DRAFT FTA [...] (U) On August 29 the Bahraini Cabinet approved the current draft of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Press reports on the Council,s decision followed a familiar refrain, highlighting the FTA's economic benefits, particularly the potential for job creation, as well as dut [...]	2004-08-30 14:44:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV BA

04MANAMA1357	MINSTATE ABDUL GHAFFAR DISCUSSES SECURITY, [...] (C) The Ambassador paid an introductory call on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar August 30 to discuss priority issues in the bilateral relationship. Regarding the security situation in Bahrain, the Ambassador, stating that he had learned that the judge had granted a [...]	2004-08-31 11:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC ECON ETRD BA
04MANAMA1360	RECEIPT OF DIPLOMATIC NOTE REQUESTING VISIT TO [...] (SBU) As mentioned during the Ambassador's August 30 meeting with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar (septel),the Embassy received the following diplomatic note August 30. 2. (SBU) Begin Text of Diplomatic Note MOS-140 Dated August 30, 2004: The Ministry o [...]	2004-08-31 14:26:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR ASEC PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA1365	CABINET AFFAIRS MINISTER MUTAWWA DELIVERS DRAFT [...] (S) The Ambassador paid an introductory call September 1 on Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Mutawwa and discussed Bahrain's draft counter-terrorism law, bilateral counter-terrorism cooperation and the six terrorism suspects, U.S. influence in the Arab world, Saudi Arabia, [...]	2004-09-01 16:04:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ETRD ECON BA
04MANAMA138	PARLIAMENT FLEXES MUSCLE - INVESTIGATION INTO [...] (C) Summary. Bahrain's first major parliamentary crisis has strengthened the Parliament but impressed only part of the electorate. After a recess the battle may resume. We have pushed for and received assurances that the Parliament will continue. End summary. 2. (U) Parliament's inves [...]	2004-01-28 14:52:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BA
04MANAMA1383	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (C) DEMONSTRATIONS A. Yes B. Yes C. Yes D. 500-4,000 E. Yes, anti-American demonstrations are usually triggered by US Military Action or US Foreign Policy. F. In the last 12 months, some demonstrations have at times become violent. Numerous incidents of rock throwing and physical [...]	2004-09-08 11:42:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER
04MANAMA1386	MINISTER SAIF READY TO LAUNCH FTA ROAD SHOW [...] (U) The Ambassador met with Minister of Finance and National Economy Abdullah Hassan Saif September 7 to discuss the upcoming signing of the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the October 1 meeting of finance ministers on the G8 Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) initiative [...]	2004-09-08 14:26:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA1391	BAHRAIN SUPPORTS BMENA INSTITUTE [...] (U) The Ambassador met with Bahraini Minister of Finance and National Economy Abdullah Saif September 7 to discuss the October 1 meeting of finance ministers on the G8 Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) initiative (Ref A),the IFC's Private Enterprise Partnership for the Middle East a [...]	2004-09-10 12:28:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA1425	GOB ENGAGED IN ANTI-TRAFFICKING MEASURES; WELCOMES [...] (C) G/TIP Senior Reports Officer Feleke Assefa visited Bahrain August 20-24 to meet with GOB officials and demarche them on G/TIP's Bahrain-specific Action Plan (Ref A). In response to the demarche, GOB officials outlined what measures they have implemented to combat trafficking and their pl [...]	2004-09-15 12:30:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB BA
04MANAMA1463	NON-FCS COMMERCIAL PLATFORM: MANAMA INPUT [...] Embassy Manama appreciates this opportunity to comment on the Department's efforts to better support non-FCS posts. We believe that non-FCS posts would benefit both from increased access to Commerce information and accounting systems and additional training opportunities. 2. Embassy Manam [...]	2004-09-22 13:08:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EINV ECON AMGT AODE BA
04MANAMA1465	COMMERCE MINISTER CALLS FTA A TURNING POINT [...] The Ambassador met with Minister of Commerce Ali Bin Saleh Al Saleh on September 15 to discuss the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the potential for increased cooperation between U.S. and Bahraini businesses. Al Saleh noted that this year had been a "turning point" in the U.S.-Ba [...]	2004-09-22 15:08:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON PGOV ETRD BA
04MANAMA1466	PUBLIC WORKS AND HOUSING MINISTER: PLATE IS FULL [...] Ambassador met with Minister of Housing and Public Works Fahmi Bin Ali Al Jowder on September 8 to discuss new and ongoing projects, the Ministry,s experience with U.S. business partners and potential opportunities for U.S. business as a result of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). While officia [...]	2004-09-22 15:09:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BEXP MARR BA
04MANAMA1467	SCENESETTER FOR COMBATANT COMMANDER CENTRAL [...] (S) General Abizaid, we look forward to seeing you in Bahrain. We have asked for calls on the King, Crown Prince, and the Defense Minister apart from your attendance at the Disaster Preparedness Conference. Since your last visit here, the travel warning has been lifted and the DOD Bahrain S [...]	2004-09-22 15:19:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL MARR PGOV BA
04MANAMA1469	BAHRAIN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH TRANSPORTATION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with Minister of Transportation Sheikh Ali Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa on September 8 to discuss efforts to expand and manage Bahrain,s transportation infrastructure. Al Khalifa,s portfolio also includes civil aviation as well as telecommunications, postal services and pub [...]	2004-09-25 12:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA BEXP EAIR ECON PREL
04MANAMA1494	BAHRAIN: TRACKING CHANGES IN TEXTILES AND APPAREL [...] Expiration of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) will likely have a small negative impact on the Bahraini economy because the textile and apparel sector is a relatively minor contributor to the gross domestic product. However, the potential for layoffs in the textile sector is a [...]	2004-09-29 12:33:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KTEX ECON ETRD ELAB BA
04MANAMA1495	EMBASSY MANAMA - TFCO RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-29 13:06:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BA ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN
04MANAMA1501	MIXED REACTIONS TO ARREST OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The arrest of prominent human rights activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja continues to dominate the public's attention in Bahrain. Some oppositionists and NGO representatives who support Al Khawaja have been cautious in their public statements for fear that outspokenness could work ag [...]	2004-09-29 14:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV KJUS ASEC BA
04MANAMA1542	BAHRAIN AND NEXT STEPS ON NATO'S ISTANBUL [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief met with MFA Under Secretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Khalifa October 4 to discuss NATO Deputy Secretary General Alessandro Rizzo's one-day visit to Bahrain SIPDIS and NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). While noting that the GOB had not yet developed a detailed po [...]	2004-10-06 12:51:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL BA MEPP NATO
04MANAMA1546	BAHRAIN: BLUE LANTERN PROGRAM ANNUAL UPDATE [...] Blue Lantern designated point of contact is Economic/Commercial Officer Aimee Cutrona. She can be reached through the Embassy switchboard at: (973) 1724-2700, at the office: (973) 1724-2986; via fax: (973) 1727-3011; or email: CutronaA@state.gov. 2. To date Embassy Manama has not received [...]	2004-10-10 06:21:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC KSEP BA
04MANAMA1564	MINISTER OF INTERIOR: FOUR EXTREMISTS TO BE TRIED [...] (S/NF) Minister of the Interior Shaikh Rashid assured the Ambassador October 11, 2004 that the four extremists currently in detention would appear in court shortly, and that he had anticiapted they would be brought to trial. (On October 13, BNSA advised the Embassy that the four will continue [...]	2004-10-13 13:44:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC BA PINR PREL PTER
04MANAMA1603	BMENA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER GETTING OFF THE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified (Deliberative Process); not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On October 12 the Ambassador met with Minister of Finance and National Economy Abdulla Bin Hassan Saif to discuss implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Bahrain's decision to host a [...]	2004-10-20 08:39:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA1608	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST PLEADS NOT GUILTY, [...] (C) Human rights activist Abdul Hadi Al Khawaja October 16 pleaded not guilty to charges of inciting hatred against the regime and circulating false information about top officials. During the opening session of his trial October 20, Al Khawaja repeated his plea and asserted that at the Sept [...]	2004-10-20 15:01:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ASEC BA
04MANAMA1613	BAHRAIN: LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MILITARY GRANT [...] (U) Post passed reftel information concerning U.S. legal requirements related to the excess defense articles program to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow-Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa under cover of diplomatic note number 373 dated October 12, 2004. Shaik [...]	2004-10-23 14:46:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PGOV KTIA BA
04MANAMA1618	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CROWN PRINCE [...] (S/NOFORN) Summary. The Crown Prince told the Ambassador October 23 that he would make calls to key Congressional leaders to urge early ratification of the FTA. He defended his recent labor reform proposals, which were recently criticized by elements in the business community. He denied that [...]	2004-10-25 10:24:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA1643	BAHRAIN'S DRAFT COUNTER-TERRORISM LAW [...] (S) Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Mutawwa gave Ambassador a copy (in Arabic) of the draft counter-terrorism (CT) law and a clarifying memorandum explaining the draft (reftel). Mutawwa stated that the Cabinet had approved the draft and would soon forward the law to parli [...]	2004-10-27 14:14:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PTER ASEC PGOV BA
04MANAMA1658	ACTIVISTS SEEK TO LOWER TEMPERATURE FOLLOWING [...] (C) The Committee to support Shia activist Abdul Hadi Al Khawaja has decided to stop its protest activities following a weekend of demonstrations, violence and arrests. A "car parade" in support of Al Khawaja tied up traffic in Manama for hours October 28 during peak evening hours for visitin [...]	2004-11-01 14:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ASEC PHUM BA
04MANAMA1664	BAHRAIN: NOTICE OF GUANTANAMO ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (S) Pol/Econ chief October 31 passed reftel information concerning upcoming Administrative Review Board (ARB) proceedings for detainees Adil Kamil Al Wadi and Salah Al Balushi to MFA First Secretary Shaikh Turki Al Khalifa. (Note: Shaikh Turki is responsible for the detainees issue in the ab [...]	2004-11-02 15:16:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL KAWC BA PETER
04MANAMA1689	KING HAMAD VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) In a November 8 discussion following Deputy Secretary Armitage's meeting with King Hamad the night before SIPDIS (septel),Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammad Abdul Ghaffar told the Deputy Secretary the King wanted to meet with President Bush in Washington in the coming [...]	2004-11-09 10:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL BA
04MANAMA1695	EMBASSY MANAMA'S RAMADAN ACTIVITIES SHOWCASE [...] Embassy Manama's 2004 Ramadan activities follow: -- The Ambassador hosted a lively youth-oriented U.S. Elections Night "majlis" in his Residence on November 2. More than one hundred University of Bahrain students, NGO representatives, journalists, and government officials attended. Eleven [...]	2004-11-10 07:29:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OIIP OEXC SCUL KPAO BA
04MANAMA1745	SCENESETTER: KING HAMAD'S NOVEMBER 29 VISIT TO [...] (S) King Hamad requested to visit Washington to congratulate the President on his reelection, reaffirm Bahrain's strong support for U.S. Iraq policy and the war on terrorism, and consult with the President on Bahrain's hosting of the December 20 GCC Summit and outcomes the USG would like from [...]	2004-11-22 14:26:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER ASEC PHUM ECON ETRD BA
04MANAMA1781	BAHRAIN: BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE DEMARCHE AND [...] (U) On November 28 Embassy Manama delivered the letter from Secretary Powell regarding the Forum for the Future meeting on December 11 (reftel A) to Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa via diplomatic note. 2. (U) As requested in reftel C, EconOff reviewed the status of t [...]	2004-11-29 13:43:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD KDEM PREL KMPI BA
04MANAMA1782	BAHRAIN: POST SUPPORT FOR MEPI PROGRAM IMPLEMENTERS [...] (U) Post appreciates this opportunity to provide feedback on our experiences working with MEPI implementers. For the most part our experience has been positive, however, we would like to see better coordination on implementer travel including advance notice and contact information for those a [...]	2004-11-29 13:45:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT EAID ECON KDEM KPAO PREL KMPI BA
04MANAMA1792	GCC COMPLAINS US-BAHRAIN FTA BREAKS THE RULES [...] (C) Summary: A November 23 Reuters article generated a flurry of responses in the Bahraini press including front-page coverage of comments by the Prime Minister. The article quoted an unnamed Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) official who said GCC member states believed the U.S.-Bahrain Free Tra [...]	2004-12-01 08:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL BA
04MANAMA1821	BAHRAIN: RESPONSE TO LETTER FROM SECRETARY POWELL [...] (U) Embassy Manama received the following response from Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Bin Mubarak Al-Khalifato Secretary Powell's letter on the Broader Middle East and SIPDIS North Africa (BMENA) meeting in Rabat via diplomatic note on December 6. 2. (U) Begin Text November 30 [...]	2004-12-07 12:20:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON KMPI KDEM KPAO OPDC BA
04MANAMA1824	CROWN PRINCE TO PROPOSE CONTROVERSIAL DRAFT LABOR [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador and Embassy Baghdad Political-Military Counselor and former Ambassador to Bahrain Ronald Neumann, Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa said he would submit a draft labor law to the Cabinet by late January or early February. He hoped the parliament would a [...]	2004-12-07 14:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ELAB BA
04MANAMA1829	GCC CRISIS? MINISTERIAL FOUNDERS ON BAHRAIN FTA [...] (C) The December 7 meeting of GCC Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance, aimed at preparing for the 25th GCC Summit in Manama December 20-21, ended in failure over Saudi insistence that all discussions of FTAs with the United States stop, Deputy Foreign Minister and Minister for Foreign Aff [...]	2004-12-08 13:00:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON BA GCC
04MANAMA1835	MENA FATF ESTABLISHED TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The inaugural meeting of the MENA FATF held on November 29 and 30 in Manama, Bahrain was attended by Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors from fourteen countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The ministers selected a President, Vice President and Executive Secre [...]	2004-12-08 14:47:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN BA
04MANAMA1840	US TREASURY DELEGATION DISCUSSES SYRIAN 311 [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-09 14:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN BA
04MANAMA1891	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill December 5 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Hill said that Australia is staying in the Iraq coalition and is looking at how its forces can be more useful. DNSA [...]	2004-12-15 12:42:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS AU IZ BA
04MANAMA1912	GCC MANAMA SUMMIT CONCLUDES UNDER SHADOW OF [...] (C) Saudi Arabia's concern about bilateral free trade agreements with the United States overshadowed the 25th GCC Summit, which took place in Bahrain December 20-21. The last minute downgrading of Saudi's representation from Crown Prince Abdulla to Prince Sultan set the tone at the beginning [...]	2004-12-21 14:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD BA GCC
04MANAMA196	LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT CHILDREN'S ISSUES CASES [...] (SBU) Last week, Emb Manama (with assistance from the Department and CONGEN Dhahran) helped resolve two difficult children's issues (CI) cases involving disputes between Saudi fathers and Amcit mothers, with their dual-national children in between. Both concluded successfully, but one was far [...]	2004-02-11 11:56:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CMGT BA
04MANAMA197	LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT CHILDREN'S ISSUES CASES [...] (SBU) Last week, Emb Manama (with assistance from the Department and CONGEN Dhahran) helped resolve two difficult children's issues (CI) cases involving disputes between Saudi fathers and Amcit mothers, with their dual-national children in between. Both concluded successfully, but one was far [...]	2004-02-11 12:16:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CMGT BA
04MANAMA203	ROUSING RECEPTION OF FTA ROUND ONE IN BAHRAIN [...] SUMMARY: The United States and Bahrain held round one of Free Trade Agreement negotiations in Manama, January 26-30. Government of Bahrain (GOB) officials across the board are thrilled with the progress the negotiating teams made during the first round, and this enthusiasm was echoed in the pre [...]	2004-02-11 15:21:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON KPAO KMPI
04MANAMA224	MESSAGE FROM BAHRAIN'S PRIME MINISTER TO SECRETARY [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-17 11:01:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AMGT
04MANAMA235	CTAG COUNTRY AMBASSADORS SEE NO IMMEDIATE NEEDS IN [...] (U) CTAG Ambassadors in Bahrain agreed U.S. Embassy-led efforts are meeting key Bahraini needs, but they wondered if the April 2004 Formula One race event's security would be adequate. Over lunch at DCR February 17 with the Ambassadors from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the Japanese [...]	2004-02-18 14:22:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ETTC EFIN ASEC PREL BEXP BA
04MANAMA251	EMBASSY SEEKS MORE BAHRAINI ACTION ON TIP [...] (U) On February 22, POL/ECON Chief asked MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow-up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa if he could provide an update on anti-TIP activities since ref A. Shaikh Abdul Aziz is the overall coordinator of TIP-related work with the USG. P/E [...]	2004-02-23 08:12:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM ELAB BA
04MANAMA252	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (S/NF) Manama reports no significant changes from the previous SEPQ of September 10, 2003. The threat environment for Bahrain and the region remains a significant concern for the EAC. The movement of terrorists and equipment from Saudi Arabia into Bahrain across the causeway poses the greatest [...]	2004-02-23 08:38:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER
04MANAMA265	SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY GROSSMAN'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Mr. Grossman, the American Embassy in Bahrain looks forward to your visit next week, and we know the Bahrainis will be anxious to talk to you about the Greater Middle East Initiative. Bahrain, a Major Non-NATO Ally, and the United States are long-time friends, and King Hamad is a parti [...]	2004-02-24 17:05:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD BA
04MANAMA272	GEARING UP FOR FTA ROUND TWO: STICKY ISSUES [...] FTA round one produced remarkable progress. Round two promises to be more difficult because negotiators will have to tackle sticky issues. Eliminating physical presence requirements and disclosure of judicial decisions will likely require extensive revision of local laws. Textiles, technol [...]	2004-02-26 11:16:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON BA
04MANAMA278	MANAMA'S REQUEST FOR FY04 BFIF FUNDING [...] SUMMARY: Manama requests USD 7000 in funding from the FY04 Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) to establish and equip a resource center for a new chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bahrain. END SUMMARY. 2. BACKGROUND: In FY03, BFIF supported AmCham Bahrain formation by f [...]	2004-02-28 14:05:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BTIO EINV ETRD ABUD BA
04MANAMA28	SCENESETTER FOR USDOC ASSISTANT SECRETARY LASH [...] Our team at Embassy Manama welcomes the upcoming visit of Assistant Secretary Lash to Bahrain. I regret that I will not be here to meet you, but we are arranging an excellent program in my absence. Your visit will further strengthen ties between the Commerce Department and Bahrain, building [...]	2004-01-07 14:23:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECON PREL BA IZ
04MANAMA280	MESSAGE FROM HIS MAJESTY KING HAMAD BIN ISSA AL [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-29 06:42:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AMGT
04MANAMA283	DEMOCRACY IS HARD WORK ... EVEN IN BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-01 11:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM BA
04MANAMA292	MICRO-SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDY [...] Post welcomes the micro-scholarships for English language study initiative outlined in reftel A. This program will assist post in raising the English language abilities of an important target audience. 2. Post's outline of plans to start up this program in Bahrain follow: -- Progra [...]	2004-03-06 05:02:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL OEXC KPAO KIRC BA
04MANAMA311	BMA REVIEWING OPENING OF LOCAL INSURANCE MARKET TO [...] Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA) insurance regulators are looking carefully at the possibility of opening the local insurance market to U.S. competitors 24-30 months after an FTA entes into force, BMA Governor Shaikh Ahmed bin Muhammad Al-Khalifa told Charge on March 8. Small local brokers, he c [...]	2004-03-08 13:52:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD BA
04MANAMA335	BAHRAIN'S FTA TA REQUESTS: POST INPUT [...] Drafting of legal texts: Begin across-the-board assistance to review existing legislation and draft legal texts to comply with the requirements of the agreement (as noted on Page 1, item 1). This is necessary to expedite Bahrain's readiness to bring the FTA into force and to implement the agr [...]	2004-03-10 15:01:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI ETRD EAID BA
04MANAMA339	ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT: [...] (SBU) Post submits this report having received GOB,s final report on anti-TIP activities for March 2003-2004. The following is Post,s response to reftel questions. 2. (U) Embassy Manama's input for the March 2004 Trafficking in Persons report follows. Responses are keyed to reftel questio [...]	2004-03-11 11:17:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BA
04MANAMA376	LABOR MINISTRY ISSUES FINANCIAL REGULATIONS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In early March, Bahrain's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs issued more stringent regulations for charities' financial activities. The rules require charities to maintain accounts and share them with ministry inspectors on a quarterly basis. Charities' accounts must be audite [...]	2004-03-17 14:10:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EFIN SOCI KISL BA
04MANAMA386	LESSONS LEARNED - MANAMA CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE [...] Post benefited from the Crisis Management Exercise (CME) by applying the skills and experience of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) and participants (LES and non-EAC members) with the Emergency Action Plan and Emergency Planning Handbook to manage the scenario. Ruth Abramson and Lawrence Pe [...]	2004-03-22 05:36:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR AFSI ASEC BA CASC KESS OTRA
04MANAMA39	BAHRAIN MOI'S PLANNING, PREPARATION, AND C2 AVERT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: RSO has obtained details from senior GOB Interior Ministry (MOI) officials on how the Ministry planned, prepared for, and executed a major police deployment in Bahrain to prevent a repeat of last year's New Year's eve riots. The MOI's preparations were impressive and demonst [...]	2004-01-11 08:24:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC
04MANAMA409	VIGILANTES ATTACK RESTAURANT IN NAME OF MORALITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. For the second time in two weeks, mobs of Shi'a youths ransacked on March 17 a place of "unethical practices," destroying an upscale restaurant known to serve alcohol. Similar to last week's unruly mob that broke into private residences identified as vice dens in two Shi'a nei [...]	2004-03-25 09:35:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS ASEC PGOV KISL BA
04MANAMA414	DEMONSTRATION AT U.S. EMBASSY BAHRAIN [...] SUMMARY: On 26 March 2004, approximately 400 to 500 individuals staged a demonstration outside of the US Embassy Manama, Bahrain, purportedly to protest the killing of Sheikh Yassin by the Israeli Government. The demonstrators held a short peaceful demonstration in the immediate vicinity of [...]	2004-03-27 12:23:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ALOW ASEC BA CASC PTER
04MANAMA432	KING ON MARCH 27 ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT TO TAKE [...] (S) Summary: Worried about potential protests on the eve of the April 4 Formula One race event, the King Hamed announced on March 27 that the Government would not tolerate lawbreaking or acts of violence. Many observers and leading businessmen, recalling a recent bank robbery and attacks on [...]	2004-03-29 15:35:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC BA PINS
04MANAMA444	MEPI FY 2004 FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (U) Post's MEPI working group met on March 23 to review ref A. The following is the Mission's response. CROSS PILLAR 2. (U) Post's MEPI working group is considering four MEPI small grants. Post will advise MEPI of details via email per reftel. ECONOMIC PILLAR 3. (U) In conjunctio [...]	2004-03-31 10:39:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI EAID ECON PREL KPAO BA
04MANAMA496	BAHRAIN SET TO BEGIN UTILITIES PRIVATIZATION [...] SUMMARY: The Government is looking to partial privatization of its power and water sector to meet rising demand when the GoB cannot support the construction of new power plants. Beginning with a new power plant currently under tender, the GoB intends to privatize subsequent power and water pro [...]	2004-04-07 14:29:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD BEXP BA
04MANAMA518	GOB TONE ON IZ CAREFUL IN PUBLIC AMIDST STREET [...] (C) On April 9 a GOB official statement expressed concern about the violence in Iraq and urged all parties to exercise self-restraint. The statement also said that Bahrain hopes to see the reconstruction of Iraq and the restoration of stability. Privately, top GOB officials have told the C [...]	2004-04-12 15:32:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ KPAO BA
04MANAMA527	GOB TONE ON IRAQ CAREFUL IN PUBLIC AMIDST STREET [...] (C) On April 9 a GOB official statement expressed concern about the violence in Iraq and urged all parties to exercise self-restraint. The statement also said that Bahrain hopes to see the reconstruction of Iraq and the restoration of stability. Privately, top GOB officials have told the C [...]	2004-04-14 11:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ KPAO BA
04MANAMA529	SCENE SETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE'S VISIT [...] (C) Mr. Armitage: We are delighted you are coming to Bahrain, and the Bahraini Government is as well. King Hamad has met Generals Abizaid and Myers during the past two weeks, but as political issues move to the fore in Iraq the King had hoped a senior State Department official would come he [...]	2004-04-14 13:19:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHUM BA
04MANAMA537	SUDAN RESOLUTION AT UNCHR DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Embassy A/DCM and PolOff delivered the Department's Sudan UNCHR resolution demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director of Bilateral Relations, Dr. Dhafer Al-Umran, on April 14. Dr. Dhafer reported that the GOB will very likely support a United Nations Human Rights Commission res [...]	2004-04-15 12:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BA
04MANAMA557	NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR LEADING [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-20 10:31:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL
04MANAMA566	MEPI'S "MY ARABIC LIBRARY" GETS A GREEN LIGHT [...] (U) During a third meeting about MEPI's "My Arabic Library" with senior Ministry of Education officials in Bahrain (February 22, March 16, and April 17),the Ministry of Education approved Bahrain's participation in this project. The approval comes after post's efforts to overcome Ministry c [...]	2004-04-21 10:08:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KMPI KPAO KDEM BA
04MANAMA572	FEISTY FOREIGN MINISTER FLAGS NECESSITY OF [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-21 12:53:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA
04MANAMA60	HUMAN RIGHTS REVEIW OF D0D-FUNDED TRAINING [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-14 12:23:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BA MOPS PHUM
04MANAMA629	BAHRAINI REACTION TO TREATMENT OF IRAQI POWS AT [...] (C) Embassy contacts expressed their anger and disgust about the media reports on the treatment of Iraqi POWs at Abu Ghraib Prison. After seeing these images on Al-Jazeira television, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab told PolOff on May 3 that the USG expects Arabs [...]	2004-05-03 14:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BA
04MANAMA688	STANDING UP EMBASSY BAGHDAD: BAHRAIN NOT [...] We reviewed ref on May 8 with Bahraini MFA Assistant Undersecretary (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) for Bilateral Affairs and on May 11 with the Bahraini MFA Minister of State. The Bahraini officials reiterated broad Bahraini support for American efforts to stabilize Iraq. Bahrain does not [...]	2004-05-11 15:44:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BA IZ PREL
04MANAMA714	BAHRAINI FOREIGN MINISTER'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) The Government of Bahrain's (GOB) Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa informed us on 05/15/04 that the ideas in reftel about NATO cooperation with Arab countries offer some real opportunities for Bahrain. He would welcome the opportunity to discuss security cooperation [...]	2004-05-16 05:02:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL BA MEPP NAVO
04MANAMA720	TORTURE ALLEGATIONS OF BAHRAINI GTMO DETAINEE - [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. The Abu Gharieb prison scandal has spurred stories of Bahraini GTMO detainees being tortured. An open letter to President Bush that specified a Bahraini citizen by name has gained credibility with some government and NGO leaders. Sunni Islamist parliamentarian [...]	2004-05-17 13:34:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA722	JAMES ZOGBY ENGAGES BAHRAINIS AND ADDRESSES ABU [...] James Zogby, founder and President of the Arab American Institute and media commentator, visited Bahrain May 10-12, 2004. His speaking tour was co-sponsored by the American Studies Center at the University of Bahrain and the Bahrain Center for Studies and Research, with partial funding from [...]	2004-05-17 14:21:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC KPAO KDEM BA
04MANAMA732	SPOT REPORT: BAHRAINI WOMEN ON ABU GHRAIB POWS [...] Bahraini women from all walks of life, including Sunni and Shia followers, have been sharing their thoughts and feelings about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse with Emboffs and our Bahraini Foreign Service Nationals. Although the region's reaction has already been heavily reported in the press, [...]	2004-05-18 13:36:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMPI KDEM KWMN PHUM BA
04MANAMA756	BAHRAINI SHI'A DEMONSTRATION TURNS VIOLENT -- YET [...] By Wednesday, 05/19/04, Post had anticipated a large demonstration in Bahrain for Friday, 05/21/04. Our projection was based on calls by Hassan Nasrallah and Ayatollah Ali Sistani for Shi'a to rise up and demand the withdraw of U.S. forces from Karbala and Najaf. Multiple Embassy contacts c [...]	2004-05-22 10:12:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER
04MANAMA809	REQUEST FOR PRESS GUIDANCE ON ALLEGED ABUSE OF FEMALE IRAQI POWS [...] Embassy Manama requests guidance to respond to press accounts about abuse of female POWs in prisons in Iraq. Several stories ran on the front pages of Bahrain's Arabic and English language dailies on 5/29 (see para three for headlines),quoting sources in Baghdad about the rape of female pris [...]	2004-05-30 14:22:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO BA
04MANAMA831	ARTICLE 98 RATIFICATION IN BAHRAIN: WE CAN GET IT [...] (C) King Hamad has promised that he will bring into force the Article 98 exclusion agreement. The foreign minister is struggling to find a way to carry this out without causing a political explosion in Bahrain. I believe the GOB will honor its commitment to us, but I question whether we ar [...]	2004-06-02 08:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA KIIC
04MANAMA838	AMBASSADOR QUESTIONS GOB THREATS TO SHUT DOWN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-02 14:22:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA ELAB KCRM KMPI PHUM
04MANAMA859	REQUEST FOR INL FUNDING OF OPDAT PROGRAM FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-07 10:24:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER KJUS ASEC KMPI OEXC BA
04MANAMA864	PART II: PARTING THOUGHTS ON BAHRAIN'S POLITICAL [...] (S) Bahraini politics remain a complicated balancing act in a small polity. By no means is it a full democracy, but it is going in the right direction with parliament making real trouble and forcing real changes. If not always wise in their actions, the deputies can scarcely be discounted as [...]	2004-06-07 15:27:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR KPAO KMPI BA
04MANAMA99	AIG FACING DIFFICULTIES WITH THE BAHRAINI [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-21 13:56:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV BEXP BA
04MAPUTO1040	AMERICAN MISSIONARIES GET TANGLED IN POLITICAL, [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 26, 14 Americans were expelled from Montepuez in Cabo Delgado province, where they were setting up an evangelical mission, on the pretenses that they were acting as spies for Renamo, the opposition party. On July 14-16, Conoff visited Cabo Delgado to meet with local offi [...]	2004-08-02 15:18:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PREL KIRF KISL KDEM MZ RENAMO
04MAPUTO1081	MOZ GOVT BOTH SUPPORTS AND OPPOSES NEC SITE [...] (SBU) Summary. Tourism Minister Sumbana stated publicly that he opposed any effort by the USG to acquire the Four Seasons site for use as an NEC. He confirmed his opposition in private, but conceded that he could be overruled for reasons of bilateral cooperation. At a subsequent meeting with P [...]	2004-08-10 12:49:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABLD AMGT MZ NEC
04MAPUTO1114	STATE OF AFFAIRS OF MOZAMBICAN POLICE AND [...] SUMMARY. Over a period of three days, Ambassador and acting RSO met with the commissioner of the Mozambican national police (PRM),Miguel dos Santos, and the spokesperson of the PRM and head of the Community Policing Program, Nataniel Macama. Notable issues discussed included the state of crim [...]	2004-08-18 11:14:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PHUM SNAR KHIV MZ KCRM
04MAPUTO112	IMMIGRATION & VISA FRAUD IN AND OUT OF MOZAMBIQUE [...] (U) Summary: Visa fraud in Mozambique continues to be less prevalent than the otherwise high level of corruption throughout the country would suggest. New anti-fraud investigation and validation studies at post indicate, however, that attempted non-immigrant visa fraud among third country nati [...]	2004-01-23 08:56:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS KFRD MZ KCOR KCRM
04MAPUTO1152	GRM RESPONSE: ACOTA END-USE, SECURITY AND [...] Post received on August 25 a diplomatic note containing ACOTA end-use, security and retransfer assurances from GRM. Following is the complete texts of diplomatic notes exchanged between Post and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Mozambique. 2. Begin text of U.S. [...]	2004-08-26 13:04:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA MASS MARR PREL MZ ACOTA
04MAPUTO1183	SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF AFONSO DHLAKAMA TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition party RENAMO's presidential candidate Afonso Dhlakama will visit Washington following his attendance at the Republican National Convention. RENAMO party officials consider Dhlakama's visit to Washington key for both the party's and the candidate's credibility. As in p [...]	2004-09-02 08:21:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PGOV ETRD MZ RENAMO
04MAPUTO1211	AUGUST ECONOMIC WRAP-UP: MOZAMBIQUE [...] (U) The Mozambique monthly economic cable is jointly produced by the Embassy and USAID. ------------------ FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------ 2. (U) The Ministry of Public Works announced the creation of a Zambezi Bridge Project Office, located in the National Road Administration (ANE) [...]	2004-09-10 08:54:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ
04MAPUTO1213	MOZAMBIQUE REMAINS ELIGIBLE FOR AGOA BENEFITS [...] Mozambique meets the requirements for benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) continues to make progress in establishing a market-based economy, eliminating barriers to US trade and investment, reducing poverty, promoting [...]	2004-09-10 10:50:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PHUM PREL MZ AGOA
04MAPUTO1228	59TH UNGA: REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE HIGH-LEVEL [...] Post has received detail regarding GRM's high-level attendance at the 59th UNGA. Information requested in reftel follows: A. Head of State will attend. Name and Title: His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano, President of The Republic of Mozambique Arrival and Departure Dates: Not yet availa [...]	2004-09-14 15:57:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP MZ UNGA
04MAPUTO13	USAID/DCHA/OFDA ASSESSMENT VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-06 05:18:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR
04MAPUTO1339	2004 EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE - MAPUTO [...] (S/NF) Summary: On September 30, 2004, the emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened. The meeting was held to discuss the recent increase of attacks on vehicles traveling the EN4 toll road from Maputo, Mozambique to Nelspruit, South Africa. Attendees included the Ambassador, DCM (Chair),RSO, [...]	2004-10-06 07:39:00	Embassy Maputo	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC MZ
04MAPUTO1364	CORRECTED COPY: EMBASSY MAPUTO TERRORIST FINANCE [...] (SBU) THE FOLLOWING RESPONSES ARE KEYED TO QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE REFERENCED CABLE. A) EMBASSY MAPUTO'S TERRORIST FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) IS DCM JAMES DUDLEY. CONTACT DETAILS: Phone: 258-1-492-797 Fax: 258-1-490-071 Cell: 258-82-306-645 E-mail:dudleyjl@state.gov TFCO Deputy and [...]	2004-10-13 14:13:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL MZ
04MAPUTO1398	SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER ECONOMIC WRAP-UP: MOZAMBIQUE [...] (U) The Mozambique monthly economic cable is jointly produced by the Embassy and USAID. -------------- MACROECONOMICS -------------- 2. (U) The GRM reports that the Mozambican economy is in line with the 8% growth rate target for 2004. Economic activity grew by 8.4% in the first six month [...]	2004-10-21 15:24:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ
04MAPUTO1416	MAPUTO EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION [...] As requested reftel, following is updated key officer emergency contact information for Maputo. Note that main office phone line (258)(1) 492 797 is only answered during business hours. Post One direct line answered at all times is (258)(1) 49 07 23. Main IVG access number is 887- 0000. Name [...]	2004-10-27 04:34:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ASEC
04MAPUTO1421	AMBASSADOR'S SPECIAL SELF-HELP PROGRAM: FINAL [...] SUMMARY: This cable represents the final report for FY02 and the interim report for FY03 Ambassador's Special Self-Help Program (SSH) in Mozambique. Section one contains the final financial status of all projects from FY02, and section two contains information on the financial status of all pr [...]	2004-10-27 11:09:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID MZ SSH

04MAPUTO1432	MOZAMBIQUE: FY 2004 BFIF COMMERCIAL OUTREACH REPORT [...] SUMMARY. In September-October, econ/poloffs and econ/commercial and political assistants traveled to five Mozambican provinces visiting various U.S. businesses, commercial associations, and local entrepreneurs to support U.S. commercial and investment activities and evaluate the business climat [...]	2004-10-29 10:21:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ BFIF
04MAPUTO1446	OPIC-SUPPORTED US INVESTOR IN MOZAMBIQUE BACKS INTO [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 28, American investor David Herbert and his Danish partner Jorgen Nielsen settled a dispute with the Zimbabwean firm Cabo do Mar over rights to the land on which their Nyati Beach Lodge is located. They agreed to pay usd 650,000 to permanently block execution of an Oc [...]	2004-11-02 12:02:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV MZ OPIC MCC
04MAPUTO1525	FIRST EVER IFTAR WITH MOZAMBICAN ISLAMIC [...] SUMMARY: Maputo PAS organized an Iftar at the Ambassador's residence that took place the final Friday of Ramadan, November 12. Nine prominent local Muslim leaders, representative of several different communities of Mozambique's sizeable Muslim minority, were invited and attended, including cle [...]	2004-11-23 12:12:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC OIIP PINR KISL
04MAPUTO1538	MOZAMBIQUE 2004 GENERAL ELECTIONS: ELECTION EVE [...] (C) Campaigning for Mozambique's December 1 - 2 general elections has ended, and there is no consensus as to what outcome is likely. The negotiations between the National Elections Commission and the European Union appear to have ended with the release of a new electoral process directive that [...]	2004-11-29 11:26:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MZ
04MAPUTO1566	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: VOTE COUNTING [...] (U) Vote counting began at polling stations last night and continued in the morning hours today. Initial results as reported by state-owned Radio Mozambique early this morning indicate FRELIMO candidate Armando Guebuza holds a healthy lead with RENAMO's Afonso Dhlakama running second and PDD's [...]	2004-12-03 10:34:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ FRELIMO RENAMO
04MAPUTO1587	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: RENAMO ALLEGES [...] (C) Senior RENAMO advisor Artur Vilankulu, accompanied by two other RENAMO officials, called on the Ambassador on December 8 to express concern over alleged irregularities in the December 1 - 2 general elections. The three were in the midst of making the rounds of various foreign embassies with [...]	2004-12-09 05:18:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ RENAMO
04MAPUTO1607	CONSULAR NARRATIVE FOR MOZAMBIQUE [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-13 14:47:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT CVIS CASC KFRD ASIG AFSI MZ MPP
04MAPUTO1609	NOVEMBER ECONOMIC WRAP-UP: MOZAMBIQUE [...] (U) The Mozambique monthly economic cable is jointly produced by the Embassy and USAID. ------------------- FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------- 2. (U) On November 12, the Brazilian mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) was awarded the Moatize mines exploration concession (Ref [...]	2004-12-14 04:56:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ
04MAPUTO1616	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: RENAMO LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: RENAMO's Dhlakama continues to reject provincial tabulation figures, which show a clear Guebuza victory in the presidential election and a strong FRELIMO win in parliamentary races. Despite the release of an independent parallel vote count largely corroborating the p [...]	2004-12-15 13:34:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ DHLAKAMA
04MAPUTO1623	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: DRAFT USG STATEMENT [...] (U) Embassy provides below for the Department's approval a draft USG statement for use once the results of Mozambique's December 1-2 presidential and legislative elections are announced by the National Elections Commission (CNE). We expect the results to be announced on or soon after the Decem [...]	2004-12-16 14:16:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OPRC MZ
04MAPUTO1625	MOZAMBIQUE RATIFIES THE U.S.-MOZAMBIQUE BILATERAL [...] On December 14, Luis Sitoi, advisor to the Minister of Industry and Commerce, informed the Embassy that the Mozambican Council of Ministers ratified the U.S.-Mozambique Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) during the week of Dec 6. The text of the BIT has been sent for publication in Mozambique's [...]	2004-12-17 03:56:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ETRD EINV ECON MZ BIT
04MAPUTO1658	NEW MOZAMBICAN AIRLINE RAISES SAFETY AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In August 2004, Air Corridor became Mozambique's first private commercial airline to operate nationwide, breaking the monopoly that the government-owned Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM) had maintained since independence. Air Corridor has injected much-needed competition in Moza [...]	2004-12-29 15:06:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR SNAR KCRM MZ SA
04MAPUTO168	Mozambique: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy [...] Mozambique's constitutional government, headed by President Joaquim Chissano, held its second general multiparty elections in 1999. President Chissano was elected in generally free and fair elections. Chissano and the leadership of FRELIMO, which have ruled the country since independence in 19 [...]	2004-02-05 11:02:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP MZ DHRF
04MAPUTO180	JANUARY MONTHLY ECONOMIC WRAP-UP: MOZAMBIQUE [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-10 07:45:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ
04MAPUTO198	FY-2004 SPECIAL SELF-HELP FUNDING REQUEST [...] This cable contains a funding request for FY2004 for Embassy Maputo Ambassador's Special Self-Help Fund. The Self-Help Coordinator is Economic/Political Officer Loren Dent. The Assistant Coordinator is Economic/Commercial Assistant Elizabeth Filipe. 2. Mozambique has achieved rapid economic [...]	2004-02-13 08:45:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID MZ SSH
04MAPUTO204	CTAG MEETING IN MAPUTO [...] Summary: On February 5, DCM hosted our first CTAG meeting (per reftel request) with counterparts from Spain, Portugal, Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland, UK, Germany, European Commission, and Ireland (representing EU troika). Participants concurred that improved maritime security for Mozambiq [...]	2004-02-17 06:53:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KCRM SENV PREL MZ
04MAPUTO235	RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT IN CABO DELGADO [...] 787/04/T002 2. 02/19/04 3. LDENT 4. 787 MOZAMBIQUE 5. - 6A. REPLY TO: 6B. Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM) Direccao de Electrificacao e Projectos Av. Filipe Saumel Magaia, 368 Maputo, Mozambique Tel: 258 1 322-071/2 or PB Power 12 Burnside Island 410 Jan Smuts Avenue Craighall [...]	2004-02-20 07:18:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP MZ
04MAPUTO269	MOZAMBIQUE: INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA [...] AGOA Trade and Investment: Mozambique has had limited success in expanding trade and investment under AGOA, though there remains strong potential to increase exports in several key sectors. Two apparel companies, Mauritian-owned BELITA and Pakistani-owned OMAR, exported apparel products to the [...]	2004-02-25 15:03:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD MZ AGOA
04MAPUTO389	ARTICLE 98 WITH MOZAMBIQUE BROUGHT INTO FORCE [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-22 13:57:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL MZ
04MAPUTO463	NACALA CORRIDOR PROJECT IN JEOPARDY -- YET AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. The Nacala Port and Rail Corridor project is yet again in trouble. Two principal outstanding issues remain: 1) the lack of the government of Malawi (GOM)'s signature on a Direct Agreement and 2) on-going disagreements between the project's US-led consortium and the principal Mozam [...]	2004-04-02 09:27:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD PGOV PREL MZ OPIC
04MAPUTO513	SOLICITATION FOR ANTI-TIP BILATERAL PROPOSAL FOR [...] Overview of request: Post is requesting bilateral G/TIP funding in the amount of $250,900 for a technical assistance program to develop critically needed national anti-trafficking legislation in Mozambique. This project will be implemented through the International Organization for Migration ( [...]	2004-04-13 13:50:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN ASEC SMIG PHUM ELAB MZ DHRF
04MAPUTO565	COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA IN [...] (S-N/F) Summary: Reftel provided Post opportunity to finalize previous discussions with the Russian Embassy to develop a cooperative relationship between ORCA and Russian counterparts in the counterterrorism area. We envision participation by multiple Mission elements including ORCA, Econ/Pol, [...]	2004-04-27 06:14:00	Embassy Maputo	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PREL MZ RU
04MAPUTO597	MOZAMBIQUE - INL FY 06/07 WORKPLAN [...] Embassy Maputo requests continued INL funding for FY 06/07 to build on ongoing projects to further develop the Attorney General's Anti-Corruption Unit and the Mozambican Police Sciences Academy, and further requests additional funds for assistance to Mozambican Immigration and Customs to impro [...]	2004-04-30 10:17:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM ABUD SNAR KCOR KPAO EFIN EAID ASEC MZ
04MAPUTO689	REQUEST TO SEND TURTLE EXCLUDER DEVICES (TEDs) [...] This is an Action Request for the OES Bureau - See paragraph 6. 2. SUMMARY. The GRM requests that the USG send a TEDs Training Team to Mozambique August 2-6 to train local fishermen and government officials to build, use, and monitor TEDs. This request is generated from recent legislation [...]	2004-05-25 05:51:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS SENV ETRD MZ
04MAPUTO83	CORRUPTION IN MOZAMBIQUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Any discussion of Mozambique's political and economic development needs to take into account corruption. The steady decade-long progress since the end of the civil war could be slowed or even reversed if corruption is not checked. Senior Mozambicans in fact cite corruption as th [...]	2004-01-20 10:39:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KCRM EAID MZ
04MAPUTO834	THINGS LOOK DIFFERENT FROM UP NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent visits to Nampula and Cabo Delgado Provinces impressed upon embassy officers major challenges facing northern Mozambique and the need for continued USG attention to the region. Corruption, smuggling, porous borders and weak infrastructure compound high unemployment and a [...]	2004-06-24 08:37:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREF PTER ASEC MZ KISL RENAMO FRELIMO
04MAPUTO84	FY O4 BFIF PROPOSAL [...] Post requests funding in the amount of $30,322 under the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) for FY 04. 2. In order of priority, we propose the following projects for FY04: A. Commercial Outreach, Market Development, and Export Promotion. Proposed Funding Level: $15,322 Twice the [...]	2004-01-20 10:40:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BTIO EINV ETRD ABUD MZ BFIF
04MAPUTO894	JUNE MONTHLY ECONOMIC WRAP-UP: MOZAMBIQUE [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-06 14:32:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ
04MAPUTO945	HELPING MOZAMBIQUE BECOME AN EFFECTIVE [...] (U) This is an action request -- see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Mozambique continues to seek a more active role in peacekeeping, especially in Africa. Despite very limited resources, the Mozambican Armed Forces have worked effectively at reinforced company strength in the Africa Union's P [...]	2004-07-15 05:23:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MARR PREL KPKO BY MZ ACOTA
04MAPUTO983	MOZAMBIQUE INTEREST IN REGIONAL LABOR RIGHTS TRAINING [...] Post recommends two participants for the September 29th-30th ILAB-DRL/IL worker rights training seminar in Johannesburg, E/P labor reporting officer Loren Dent and Political Assistant Naimo Vasco Antonio. Please find below the candidate information. 2. NAME: Loren Dent LOCATION: Embassy Map [...]	2004-07-22 15:07:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB MZ
04MASERU312	U.S.-SACU TRADE PROMOTION ROUNDTABLE: SUGGESTED INVITEES [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-24 16:09:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD LT USTR
04MASERU321	MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION INITIAL VISIT TO LESOTHO [...] SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge Corporation team of Clay Lowery, Tom Briggs and Wesley Wilson paid a very successful initial visit to Lesotho May 26-28. Over the course of two and a half days, they met with the Prime Minister, nearly the entire Cabinet, almost all of the Principal Secretarie [...]	2004-06-01 16:08:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ETRD PREL LT MCC
04MASERU598	MCC CHIEF EXEC VISITS LESOTHO [...] SUMMARY: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Paul Applegarth and other MCC officials visited Lesotho October 25-26 on a familiarization trip. In an extremely busy 36 hours, Mr. Applegarth and his team met with a wide variety of government, private sector, NGO, [...]	2004-11-01 14:27:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EINV ECON PREL LT MCC
04MONTREAL550	Montreal Jewish School Firebombed on Passover [...] A private Jewish school in Montreal's St. Laurent neighborhood was firebombed in the early morning hours of April 5, the first day of the Passover holiday. The firebombing took place between 2.a.m. and 3 a.m. in the library of the United Talmud Torah St. Laurent School on de l'Eglise Street. [...]	2004-04-06 20:47:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KISL CA
04MUSCAT1943	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 11/03/2004 [...] (S) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on November 3 to reassess the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend, to discuss any security implications following the death of United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan al-N [...]	2004-10-29 12:58:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT1954	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 11/06/2004 [...] (U) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on November 6 to reassess the Embassy's security posture following the local weekend, to discuss any potential security implications in the event that Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Y [...]	2004-11-07 12:16:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM AMED TBIO ABLD KSAF MU EAC
04MUSCAT1978	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 11/09/2004 [...] (C) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on November 9 to reassess the Embassy's security posture prior to the holiday weekend and to discuss any security implications of anticipated offensive operations in Fallujah Iraq (reftel A). ---------------- [...]	2004-11-10 11:25:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT1983	OMAN ONLINE: THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS [...] Summary: The Omani Internet chat room "Sablat al-Arab" -- or simply "Al-Sablah" -- is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totall [...]	2004-11-13 07:12:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SOCI MU
04MUSCAT1991	OMAN'S NEW MINISTER: "THE RIGHT WOMAN AT THE RIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Sharifa bint Khalfan bin Nasser al-Yahyai, Oman's new Minister of Social Development, is still getting used to her new job. Working late into the Ramadan nights to get up to speed on the workings of her ministry, she reflected on her sudden transition from academia to a sen [...]	2004-11-13 12:46:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KMPI KWMN PREL SOCI MU
04MUSCAT1995	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 11/13/2004 [...] (U) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on November 13 to reassess the Embassy's security posture prior to Eid al Fitr, to evaluate the local implications per the Department's recent Public Announcement for the Middle East and North Africa (reftel A),[...]	2004-11-13 13:38:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2009	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 11/17/2004 [...] (U) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on November 17 to reassess the Embassy's security posture prior to the local holiday weekend and to discuss any security implications of recent military events in Fallujah, Iraq. ----------------------------- [...]	2004-11-17 12:19:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2010	REQUEST FOR SPEAKER ON WITCHES BROOM DISEASE [...] Embassy Muscat requests that IIP and EB fund one or more agricultural biotechnology speakers to participate in Sultan Qaboos University's first international conference on the "Prevention and Treatment of Witches Broom Disease of Lime Trees" which will be held March 13-16, 2005. This request i [...]	2004-11-17 13:09:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON TBIO KPAO OIIP MU
04MUSCAT2011	OMAN: POST SUPPORT FOR MEPI PROGRAM IMPLEMENTERS [...] To date there are no MEPI program implementers with offices in Oman, although we understand there may be some considering establishing a full-time presence in Muscat. Amideast is one such organization, and is currently consulting with a local law firm on the legalities and formalities of estab [...]	2004-11-17 13:09:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT EAID ECON KDEM KPAO PREL KMPI MU MEPI
04MUSCAT2012	CODEL THOMAS DISCUSSES POTENTIAL FTA WITH TOP OMANI [...] SUMMARY: In lengthy meetings with Sultan Qaboos and Oman's Foreign Minister, as well as a brief but productive final meeting with the Omani Commerce Minister, CODEL Thomas took advantage of the opportunity to explore Oman's readiness to jump into full- blown free trade agreement (FTA) negotiat [...]	2004-11-19 10:36:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BEXP ECON ELAB EINV MU
04MUSCAT2017	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 11/22/2004 [...] (U) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on November 22 to reassess the Embassy's security posture following the local holiday weekend and to discuss any possible security concerns relative to a series of upcoming Embassy and community events. ---- [...]	2004-11-22 13:58:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2022	OMANI MENAFATF DELEGATION [...] (SBU) The Embassy November 22 confirmed that Minister of National Economy (and de facto Finance Minister) Ahmed bin Abdulnabi Macki will lead Oman's delegation to the upcoming inaugural meeting of the MENAFATF in Bahrain, accompanied by Central Bank of Oman (CBO) Executive President Hamoud Sang [...]	2004-11-23 07:48:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN MU
04MUSCAT2030	NEW SPORTS MINISTER ON THE BALL, BUT OFF ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Oman's energetic new Minister of Sports, Ali al-Sunaidi, shared with the Ambassador his active agenda for developing athletics in Oman. He is eager to build linkages to the U.S. and other countries, both to develop sports programs and training facilities, as well as to market Oman as an [...]	2004-11-23 12:39:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PINR SCUL OEXC SNAR TBIO ETRD MU
04MUSCAT2037	OMAN ATTENDANCE, REACTIONS TO RABAT FORUM FOR THE [...] (SBU) In a November 24 telcon, the MFA Under Secretary's Political Affairs Director, Humaid al-Maani, informed Pol/E Chief that, for the time being, neither Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi nor Minister of National Economy (and de facto Finance Minister) Ahmed bin Abduln [...]	2004-11-24 10:12:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KMPI KPAO ECON PREL
04MUSCAT2047	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 11/27/2004 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee November 27 to review both the Embassy's security posture following the local weekend and preparations for the U.S. Marine Corps Birthday Ball. Members of the EAC noted no new threat reporting specific to [...]	2004-11-28 07:33:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC KMSG AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2050	OMAN: US-EU DIALOGUE ON MIDDLE EAST REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-28 08:18:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI EAID ECON PREL PGOV MU
04MUSCAT2053	OMAN LOBBIES FOR UNESCO GENERAL CONFERENCE [...] (U) This is an action request for IO/T and NEA/APRI - please see para 4. 2. (U) As reported ref A, Oman is lobbying for its Permanent Representative at UNESCO, Dr. Musa bin Jaffar bin Hassan, to be elected to the presidency of the 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference in 2005. To t [...]	2004-11-28 12:34:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MU
04MUSCAT2079	EFFORT TO LAUNCH OMAN'S FIRST HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER [...] (SBU) An aspiring activist intent on establishing Oman's first human rights center has been invited to discuss his proposal with the Ministry of Social Development. In an effort to obtain government registration, Abdullah bin Salem al-Barami solicited the Embassy for support, saying that the [...]	2004-11-30 13:45:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV EAID SOCI MU
04MUSCAT2081	EMBASSY MUSCAT WRITE-IN [...] (SBU) On 11/30/2004, Embassy Muscat's mailroom received, via air mail, a letter postmarked from Marysville, California 9591, 11/12/2004. Affixed to the standard white letter-sized envelope is a pre-printed return address label with the name and address of "Ms. Edna Roberts ("WRITE-IN"),P.O. B [...]	2004-11-30 13:50:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER MU EAC
04MUSCAT2093	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/01/2004 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Deputy Chief of Mission chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee December 1 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members noted no new threat reporting specific to Oman, and concluded that there have been no substantive chang [...]	2004-12-01 11:49:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2110	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/04/2004 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee December 4 to review the Embassy's security posture following the local weekend. Members of the EAC noted no new threat reporting specific to Oman, and concluded that there have been no substantive changes [...]	2004-12-05 03:10:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER CASC KHLS KMSG OVIP AMGT KVPR MU EAC
04MUSCAT2111	OMAN: US-EU DIALOGUE ON MIDDLE EAST REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch Ambassador (EU Representative) reports having received no instructions from Brussels on quarterly BMENA coordination meetings with the U.S. (ref A). Furthermore, there will be no EU funds earmarked for Oman before 2007 at the earliest. Only seven EU states have missio [...]	2004-12-05 03:17:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KMPI PGOV PREL MU
04MUSCAT2125	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/06/2004 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee December 6 to review the Embassy's security posture following reports that Consulate General Jeddah had been attacked. After reviewing the known facts about the attack, members of the EAC noted there was no new [...]	2004-12-06 13:55:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2126	AMERICAN ENERGY FIRM ENJOYS STRONG IPO [...] (U) AES Barka, a subsidiary of U.S.-based AES Corporation, recently floated 11.2 million shares of its capital for public underwriting by Omanis and Omani companies. The shares correspond to 35 percent of its paid- up capital, and the preliminary response to this IPO has been extremely positiv [...]	2004-12-07 08:18:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ENRG EFIN BEXP MU
04MUSCAT2130	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/07/2004 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador convened the Emergency Action Committee December 7 to review updated reporting on yesterday's terrorist attack against Consulate General Jeddah. After a careful review of the facts surrounding the attack, the EAC discussed existing countermeasures and avenues f [...]	2004-12-07 13:01:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2142	OMAN ONLINE: VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY, VISAS, INCREASED GAS [...] Summary: The Omani Internet chat room "Sablat al-Arab" -- or simply "Al-Sablah" -- is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totall [...]	2004-12-08 13:35:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SOCI MU EAC
04MUSCAT2143	ECA CULTURAL ENVOYS HAVE A BALL IN OMAN [...] ECA Cultural Envoys Omari Faulkner and Courtland Freeman engaged a wide range of Omani basketball players, coaches, and students during their highly successful four-day visit to the Sultanate. Welcomed by dignitaries including the newly appointed Minister of Sports Affairs, the duo established [...]	2004-12-08 13:37:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL SOCI MU
04MUSCAT2144	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/08/2004 [...] (U) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on December 8 to reassess the Embassy's security posture immediately prior to the USMC Birthday Ball and to discuss any additional concerns related to the attack on Congen Jeddah earlier in the week. -------- [...]	2004-12-08 13:59:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2145	RESPONSE TO SECRETARY'S RABAT INVITATION [...] In response to reftel letter from Secretary Powell to G-8 and Broader Middle East and North Africa foreign ministers, the Embassy received December 8 a reply letter from Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah to the Secretary under cover of a diplomatic note. The [...]	2004-12-08 14:03:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI KDEM KPAO PREL ECON OPDC
04MUSCAT2153	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/11/2004 [...] (U) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee ("EAC") on December 11 to reassess the Embassy's security posture following the local weekend and to discuss any additional concerns relative to the upcoming series of Embassy-sponsored holiday events. -------------- [...]	2004-12-11 12:27:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2180	BANNED WRITERS SPARK COMMENTARY [...] (SBU) Journalist Mohammed al-Harthi (protect) and writer Abdullah al-Riyami (protect) have been barred from publishing in all media and press in Oman for having criticized the pace of democratic reform in the country. The ban includes the withdrawal of al-Harthi's weekly column "Platforms" fr [...]	2004-12-15 06:40:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV MU
04MUSCAT2183	AMERICAN CORNERS: FIVE IS NOT ENOUGH [...] This is an action message. Please see paragraph 8 for action requested. 2. In view of the success and popularity of Oman's five existing American Corners, Embassy Muscat requests funding for two additional ones. Suitable locations have already been identified: the Muscat Higher College o [...]	2004-12-15 08:14:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KIRC OIIP SCUL MU
04MUSCAT2190	COMMERCE MINISTER ON FTA, SAUDI CRITICISM [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool bin Ali bin Sultan reassured visiting NEA DAS Philo Dibble that Oman remains firmly committed to signing a bilateral FTA with the U.S. Bluster from the Saudis notwithstanding, Maqbool reiterated that the Omani cabinet has already ap [...]	2004-12-16 18:18:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL BEXP MU
04MUSCAT2195	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/15/2004 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador chaired December 15 a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members of the EAC noted no new threat reporting specific to Oman, and concluded that there have been no substantive changes [...]	2004-12-18 06:57:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2196	OMAN: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) In accordance with reftel B, paragraph 2, Embassy Muscat provides the following update to Oman's coverage in the 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism ("Patterns") report: BEGIN TEXT Oman continued to provide public statements of support for the global war on terrorism, and has been resp [...]	2004-12-18 10:38:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC MU
04MUSCAT2200	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/18/2004 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee December 18 to review the Embassy's security posture following the local weekend. Members of the EAC noted no new threat reporting specific to Oman, and concluded that there have been no substantive changes in the [...]	2004-12-18 13:50:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2222	OMAN: IFES ELECTIONS ASSESSMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Under the sponsorship of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI),the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) recently concluded an assessment visit to the Sultanate. The team identified several key areas for potential electoral assistance, including a need f [...]	2004-12-21 05:04:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KMPI KDEM SOCI MU
04MUSCAT2231	MINISTRY CONSIDERS HUMAN RIGHTS NGO [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Social Development is considering the proposed establishment of a human rights center in Oman. In response to a letter from activist Abdullah al-Barami (reftel) (protect),the Ministry met with him December 6 to discuss the idea. The Director of Charitable Associations [...]	2004-12-21 12:24:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID SOCI MU
04MUSCAT2245	U.S.-EU DIALOGUE ON MIDDLE EAST REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-22 11:49:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV KMPI PREL MU
04MUSCAT2246	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/22/2004 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee December 22 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local holiday weekend. Members of the EAC noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, the E [...]	2004-12-22 12:08:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KSAC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2258	CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE (CME) FOR MUSCAT [...] (SBU) The following responses are keyed to reftel, paragraph 6: A. Embassy Muscat is pleased to confirm participation in the Crisis Management Exercise (CME) scheduled for February 13-14, 2005. B. Highlighted portions of reftel paragraph 8 on the Crisis Management Training ( [...]	2004-12-26 11:35:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR ASEC MU EAC
04MUSCAT2259	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/26/2004 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee December 26 to review the Embassy's security posture following to the local holiday weekend. Members of the EAC noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, t [...]	2004-12-27 02:25:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04MUSCAT2269	COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP DEMARCHE [...] (C) In a December 27 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi (YBA),the Ambassador urged on behalf of the G-8 and EU missions Oman's ratification of the final two of twelve international counterterrorism conventions (reftel). The Ambassador noted that the Foreig [...]	2004-12-28 02:53:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC MU
04MUSCAT2278	OMAN: NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-29 05:36:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR MU
04MUSCAT2285	INDIA WINS OMANI SUPPORT FOR UNSC SEAT, DEEPENS [...] (U) On December 25-26, Indian Minister of External Affairs Natwar Singh met with Sultan Qaboos and various government ministers to boost bilateral relations. Oman formally announced its backing of India's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, and the two parties pledged to cont [...]	2004-12-29 07:37:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EPET KCRM MARR IN MU
04MUSCAT2291	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 12/29/2004 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee December 29 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local holiday weekend. Members of the EAC noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, the E [...]	2004-12-29 13:19:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
04NASSAU1382	TOURISM VS. RELIGION: ANTI-GAY RALLY TARGETS U.S. [...] (C) A number of prominent Bahamian religious figures led a "Save the Bahamas" rally in downtown Nassau on July 11 to protest the pending arrival of the cruise ship "Norwegian Dawn" which is scheduled to dock in Nassau with a group of "gay family" travellers on board the morning of July 16. S [...]	2004-07-15 19:12:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PREL BF
04NASSAU1397	SOME BAHAMIANS DON'T ACCEPT ALL COLORS OF THE [...] (SBU) An estimated 150 protesters gathered early July 16 in downtown Nassau to denounce the government's willingness to allow the "Norwegian Dawn" cruise ship, which on this particular cruise had a large contingent of U.S. citizen-gay families on a trip organized in part by U.S. celebrity Rosi [...]	2004-07-19 15:28:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PREL PGOV BF
04NASSAU1400	BAHAMAS PLANS TO UPGRADE DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN [...] (C) On Friday, July 16, 2004, Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell and Under Secretary for Consular Affairs Carlton Wright returned from a Caricom meeting in Cuba, and held a conference during which Foreign Minister Mitchell reiterated his hope that The Bahamas will be able to open a consulate/emba [...]	2004-07-19 19:12:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	OFDP PREL CU BF
04NASSAU1515	PRIME MINISTER CHRISTIEâ€™S CHINA TRIP, THE LATEST IN A STRING OF VISITS [...] (SBU) Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie will lead an official government delegation to China on August 14-21, continuing a two-year upswing in diplomatic exchanges between The Bahamas and China. In addition to numerous cultural programs, the two nations have exchanged high-level delegations to [...]	2004-08-11 13:21:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP BTIO ECON SCUL CH BF ASEC
04NASSAU153	TURKS AND CAICOS: HAITIAN INFLUX THREATENS PARADISE [...] (C) Charge, NAS, CONS, USCG, and DEA officers visited Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) January 20-23, 2004 and met with the Governor, Chief Minister, other cabinet members and senior civil servants and law enforcement personnel. TCI officials were unanimous in fearing further degradation of [...]	2004-01-27 20:46:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	BF CA PGOV PREL SMIG SNAR UK
04NASSAU1534	TOURISM UPDATE 2004 [...] SUMMARY: The Bahamian tourism industry continues to rebound from the effects of 9/11. Visitor arrivals are up and economic indicators reflect increased growth in visitor arrivals and tourism development throughout 2004. The national flag-carrier, Bahamasair, acquired two new jets and resol [...]	2004-08-13 13:04:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD BEXP BF
04NASSAU1535	THE BAHAMIAN SENATE: INFLUENCE WITHOUT POWER [...] (C) Charge, Acting DCM, and Political Officer hosted groups of senators from the governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and the opposition Free National Movement (FNM) on July 27 and August 4, 2004, respectively. The senators, who were unusually frank in their assessments, discussed Baham [...]	2004-08-13 13:42:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CU BF
04NASSAU1904	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER EXTOLS OPBAT, U.S. [...] (C) In his courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia Pratt, Ambassador stressed the importance of Bahamian officials acknowledging OPBAT's importance to Bahamian national security. The Deputy Prime Minister extolled the bilateral relationship and acknowledged that OPBAT was critical to B [...]	2004-10-14 10:38:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BF OPBAT
04NASSAU1936	UNCONFIRMED TUBERCULOSIS AND ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 18, 2004, Amnesty International released a report alleging the abuse of two Cuban asylum-seekers and several Haitian detainees at the Carmichael Road Detention Center in Nassau. Severe conditions including deprivation of food and water, an outbreak of tuberculosis, an [...]	2004-10-20 11:10:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PGOV PHUM CU BF
04NASSAU2336	RIOT AND FIRE AT MIGRANT DETENTION CENTER [...] (C) Detained Cuban migrants set fire to a dormitory at the Carmichael Road Detention Center the morning of December 9, 2004, with three detainees temporarily escaping. Violence broke out between some of the migrants and the Bahamian personnel attempting to regain control of the situation. 11 [...]	2004-12-13 11:52:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PREL PGOV PHSA CU BF
04NASSAU2369	MIXED MIGRATION FLOWS: IOM/UNHCR CONFERENCE IN [...] The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) co-hosted the second annual regional seminar in Nassau, The Bahamas on November 8-12, 2004. Entitled "Contingency Planning for Mixed Migratory Flows in the Caribbean: Effective Pr [...]	2004-12-16 15:40:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	PHSA SMIG PHUM CU HA BF
04NASSAU2407	AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RENEWS CALL FOR DETENTION [...] (C) 37 Cuban nationals remain in detention in The Bahamas after a December 9 fire at a Nassau immigration facility following a disturbance initiated by detainees. Amnesty International continues to call for an independent inquiry into the fire and accompanying melee, in which 11 Royal Bahami [...]	2004-12-22 16:24:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PREL PGOV CU BF
04NASSAU364	ANXIOUS PRIME MINISTER REQUESTS MEETING ON HAITI [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-23 21:20:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SMIG BF HA
04NEWDELHI7013	NSSP PHASE ONE: REVIEWING ACHIEVEMENTS AND PENDING [...] (C) Summary: This is the first of two cables reporting on the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group. USG and GOI counterparts met in two positive and productive sessions of the NSSP Implementation Group on October 20-21 to review accomplishments under Phase One and [...]	2004-11-03 11:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7026	INDO-US CYBERSECURITY FORUM PREPARATORY [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14-18, 2004, Department Senior Coordinator for International Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy Michele Markoff and DOD Director of International Information Assurance Programs Tim Bloechl participated in preparatory meetings with the GOI for the November 9-10 [...]	2004-11-04 04:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCIP TINT PREL ECPS KCRM IN US
04NEWDELHI7033	KING OF BHUTAN CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT BUSH ON [...] Just hours after a few of the major networks projected President Bush to win reelection, the Bhutanese Ambassador to New Delhi passed to the Embassy the following message from from King Wangchuck of Bhutan to the President. 2. Begin text. Dear Ambassador Mulford, I have the pleasure in [...]	2004-11-04 10:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BT IN
04NEWDELHI7053	LOOKING AHEAD TO ASEAN: INDIA ENGAGES EAST ASIA [...] (C) Summary: The GOI has engaged actively with East Asian capitals prior to the November 30 ASEAN Plus One Summit in Laos. India's two-track approach to these states--multilaterally through organizations like ASEAN, and bilaterally--exemplifies New Delhi's strategy of expanding economic and [...]	2004-11-05 05:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TH VM BM LA KS JA IN ASEAN
04NEWDELHI7061	NSSP PHASE TWO: CHARTING THE COURSE [...] (C) Summary: After reviewing achievements made under Phase One (Ref A),the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group discussed the way forward on Phase Two, including legislation, enforcement, outreach, and training to strengthen export controls; adherence to MCTR and [...]	2004-11-05 09:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7078	TOWARDS AN INDIA-EU STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Following two relatively rocky summits, and the postponement of this year's meeting, New Delhi hopes the November 8 India-EU Summit will yield tangible progress, MEA Director (Europe - I) Dammu Ravi told Poloff on November 2. The GOI priority is to kickoff a new ""strategic partnershi [...]	2004-11-05 11:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IN FR GM UK NP BT
04NEWDELHI7082	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BHUTAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-05 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BT UNGA

04NEWDELHI7083	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BHUTAN ON REPASCH [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-05 12:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KSEP BT
04NEWDELHI7084	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BHUTAN ON JUDGE MERON'S ICTY [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-05 12:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS KAWC PHUM BT UNGA
04NEWDELHI7248	INDIA UNDERSTANDS US EXPORT PROHIBITIONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: As instructed in Ref A, in a separate meeting at the conclusion of the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group on October 21 (Refs B and C),Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary Borman, and State Acting Office Director for Regional Affairs, Bureau of Non-P [...]	2004-11-16 12:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7249	INDIAN COMPANIES REQUIRE ADDITIONAL COMMITMENTS IN [...] (U) Summary. Some Indian companies that buy high tech goods are asking potential U.S. exporters to agree to additional requirements regarding U.S. export controls, in some cases limiting the exporters' ability to sell in the Indian market. The buyers require clauses in sales contracts that s [...]	2004-11-16 12:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ECON ETRD PREL KSTC MASS IN
04NEWDELHI7291	TERRORIST FINANCING: INDIA'S CABINET OKAYS [...] (U) India's Cabinet on November 11 gave its approval to establish a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),the last formal hurdle for setting up this long-delayed office. Several years have elapsed as the GOI sorted out the intramural wrangling over the unit's composition and responsibilities. L [...]	2004-11-17 12:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP KTFN SNAR PREL IN KWPR GOI
04NEWDELHI7333	VISA DENIALS THREATEN CREDIBILITY OF NSSP, OPEN [...] (SBU) Summary: A visit to India's premier atomic energy establishments by Alain Bugat, Chairman of the French Atomic Energy Commission, suggests that France is willing to engage in discussions with India on nuclear matters to a degree that is inconceivable within the current NSSP framework. [...]	2004-11-18 10:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC TSPL CVIS FR IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7966	INDO-ISRAEL RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's December 5-10 visit to India was "extremely positive" and provided an opportunity to expand the bilateral relationship beyond defense, Israel Embassy DCM Yoed Magen told A/PolCouns and Poloff on December 16. The visit, the first high-leve [...]	2004-12-17 10:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TSPA PTER ECON IN IS
04NEWDELHI8264	BHUTAN HAPPY TO JOIN CT CONVENTIONS, BUT [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-30 11:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL ASEC BT
04OTTAWA2931	IIR 6 815 0002 05/DUTCH AND UK SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-02 15:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	DOD NATO
04OTTAWA2940	BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON COMPANY REGISTERED AS BROKER [...] (U) Embassy Econoff contacted the Diamondback Chemical Company, Inc., on November 1 and conducted a telephone interview with Mr. John "Al" MacGregor, Vice President of Diamondback. MacGregor was forthcoming and said that Diamondback is eager to disclose any information required by the ITAR 1 [...]	2004-11-02 20:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC CA
04OTTAWA2963	U.S. AND CANADIAN POLICY PLANNERS SEEK SYNERGY ON [...] (C) Summary: In policy planning talks October 28-29 in Toronto, U.S. and Canadian colleagues exchanged views and sought ways to synergize efforts on a range of global and regional issues. The Canadian team briefed on Canada,s attempt through its International Policy Review to enhance public s [...]	2004-11-04 18:11:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA IR IZ PGOV PREL AF PINS KMPI SCUL
04OTTAWA2989	GETTING TO KNOW YOU: MEXICAN PRESIDENT FOX VISITS [...] (U) Introduction and Summary: Mexican President Vincente Fox marked the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of NAFTA with a working visit to Canada October 24-26. Accompanied by eight cabinet-level officials, three senators, and about 40 business leaders, the [...]	2004-11-08 19:55:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL ECON EINV CA MX
04OTTAWA2990	GOC LAYS OUT THEIR PREFERENCES FOR PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary - Canada would welcome a January visit by President Bush to set a tone of partnership for the next four years, according to Alex Himelfarb and Tim Murphy, the Prime Minister,s top aides. They would like to use the visit to emphasize Canada,s commitment to North American security in [...]	2004-11-08 20:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ETRD PREL CA
04OTTAWA2991	CANADIAN PRIVACY LAW AND POLICY: BACKGROUND [...] On October 29, the Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Canadian Province of British Columbia released a report titled "Privacy and the US Patriot Act." The report (reftel) finds a "general consensus" that, under the Patriot Act, U.S. authorities could order a U.S.-based corporation t [...]	2004-11-08 20:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV CA
04OTTAWA3027	CANADA: CONSERVATIVES DIVIDED ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Despite broad speculation in media and academic circles that the government was poised to take a (positive) decision on Canada's participation in missile defense, PCO Clerk Alex Himelfarb indicated to the Ambassador that the government would seek to avoid a debate and vote on [...]	2004-11-10 14:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PGOV PREL CA
04OTTAWA3036	CANADA: LUKEWARM TO EXPORT CREDIT AGENCY [...] We conveyed the points in reftel to officials at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),the Canadian International Development Agency, Export Development Canada (the ECA) and the Department of Finance. Although there is no opposition in principle to signing a framework agreement with the Trade Bank o [...]	2004-11-10 21:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV CA IZ
04OTTAWA3115	SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT BUSH,S VISIT TO CANADA, [...] (C/NF) The Canadian Government and the Embassy strongly welcome your visit and the opportunities it will afford to advance our broad bilateral relationship. The two key themes I would stress for your visit are partnership and reassurance. The Canadians need to be reassured that at the end of the [...]	2004-11-18 19:32:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET//NOFORN	CA PGOV PREL
04OTTAWA3133	RESOLVING OUR DIFFERENCES ON DEVILS LAKE [...] At the top of our environmental agenda's list of unfinished business and disasterous consequences of inaction is Devils Lake. With the U.S. elections now behind us and the President planning to visit Ottawa later this month, it is time for us to revisit this issue and our long-overdue respons [...]	2004-11-19 20:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV CA
04OTTAWA3144	CANADIAN MINISTER OF TRANSPORT SUGGESTS THAT THE [...] (SBU) Canadian Transport Minister Jean Lapierre has signaled his interest in reviewing Canada's civil aviation policy. He has proposed a broad examination of barriers to a more innovative and efficient civair system in Canada, including questioning foreign investment limits and cabotage proh [...]	2004-11-22 16:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECIN EINV CA
04OTTAWA3259	ANONYMOUS THREAT LETTER RECEIVED BY THE ROYAL [...] (SBU) ON DECEMBER 3, 2004, THE ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED RSO, LEGAT AND POLITICAL LIAISON REQUESTING AN IMMEDIATE MEETING TO DISCUSS A CURRENT INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY BY RCMP NATIONAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION AT OTTAWA AND MONTREAL. INCLUDED IN THE MEETING IN ADDI [...]	2004-12-04 01:27:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET	ASEC PTER RCMP
04OTTAWA3305	MEETING OF U.S./CANADA AIR QUALITY COMMITTEE [...] Summary: The U.S./Canada Air Quality Committee met December 2 in Ottawa to review air quality issues affecting the two countries. The meeting included discussions of acid rain, ozone, scientific cooperation and research, consultations and notifications, particulate matter, marine vessel emis [...]	2004-12-09 15:26:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG EWWT CA
04OTTAWA3336	RAYTHEON BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In a December 8 office call, Raytheon representatives (U.S. and Canadian) briefed the Ambassador and mission officers on recent meetings with Canadian Ambassador Kergin in Washington and senators on Parliament Hill. Raytheon assesses that the Canadian government "may be interested" [...]	2004-12-10 21:43:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PREL CA
04OTTAWA3347	OPPOSING A THIRD TERM FOR IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (C) In response to ref demarche, Foreign Affairs Canada Deputy Director for nuclear non-proliferation Terry Wood re-affirmed to polmiloff that Canada shares USG's view on limiting the term of the IAEA Director General to two years. At the same time, Wood said, the next DG must be someone who e [...]	2004-12-13 20:29:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PARM CA IAEA
04OTTAWA3410	CANADA: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] Unclassified entire text. 2. The Government of Canada remained steadfast in its condemnation of international and domestic terrorism and has been a helpful and strong supporter of the United States in the fight against international terror. Overall antiterrorism cooperation with Canada r [...]	2004-12-20 16:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC CA
04OTTAWA3459	CANADIAN DIP NOTE EXPRESSES CONCERNS ABOUT [...] Summary: The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) delivered a diplomatic note (no. NUE-0139) to Acting Econ M/C and Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Attache on December 22, expressing concern about congestion at the Toronto preclearance facility and requesting that DHS take steps to re [...]	2004-12-23 18:59:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON PREL CA FAC
04OTTAWA3473	SCENE-SETTER FOR ASD/HD VISIT TO OTTAWA, CANADA, [...] (U) THIS MESSAGE IS A READAHEAD FOR THE 11-13 JANUARY 2005 VISIT TO OTTAWA OF ASST SECDEF (HOMELAND DEFENSE) PAUL MCHALE; DASD SCOTT ROWELL; AND NORTHCOM CHIEF OF STAFF MG FRED REES. RECOMMENDED TALKING POINTS AT PARA 8. 2. (C) CANADA-U.S. POL-MIL RELATIONS. PRIME MINISTER PAUL MARTIN LEA [...]	2004-12-29 21:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM
04OTTAWA3483	TFXO01: DECEMBER 30 UPDATE FROM OTTAWA [...] (SBU) The FAC emergency task force manager confirms that the number of Canadian deaths has risen to four. The task force has opened welfare and whereabouts files on 2,500-3000 cases, half of which remain unresolved. They are beginning the process of calling back to see if some of the missin [...]	2004-12-30 19:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID AEMR CASC CA
04PANAMA1000	ANOTHER PANAMANIAN MADAM IN JAIL; IMMIGRATION [...] (C) According to GOP police reports, an alleged child prostitution ringleader, Elizabeth Archibold Diaz, surrendered herself to the Policia Tecnica Judicial (PTJ) on April 14, 2004. She was accompanied by her attorney and, to date, remains in custody. Archibold is alleged to be the masterm [...]	2004-04-30 12:34:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SMIG CO PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA1014	PANAMA RESULTS: MARTIN TORRIJOS IS PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-03 02:10:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1015	PANAMA: WHO IS PRESIDENT-ELECT MARTIN TORRIJOS AND [...] (SBU) At 7:35 p.m. local time (8:35 p.m. Washington time),Panama's Electoral Tribunal declared Martin Erasto Torrijos Espino the winner of Panama's May 2, 2004 General Elections. It appeared that voter participation would exceed 75%. Torrijos' five-year term as President will commence Septembe [...]	2004-05-03 02:48:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1046	EMBOFFS DISCUSS COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION, [...] (C) On April 22, PolOffs met with Russian Embassy Counselor (DCM) Oleg Ostrovskiy and First Secretary Evgeny Lebedev for our first tete-a-tete. Both GOR diplomats are Americas specialists and have already served in Panama for a year or more. Noting the good relationship between our countries [...]	2004-05-03 22:36:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EWWT PINR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1047	PANAMA MAY 2 ELECTION RESULTS: POWERFUL PRD AND [...] (C) President-elect Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) won a commanding popular mandate in Panama's May 2, 2004 elections, sweeping all provinces but one. The results were a stinging rebuke of President Mireya Moscoso, whose five-year term will end on September 1, 20 [...]	2004-05-03 22:47:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL CHIEF POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA111	ENDARA TO RUN AS PANAMA'S "HONEST GOVERNMENT" [...] (C) Former president Guillermo Endara has mapped a come-from-behind election strategy, positioned himself as the campaign's most serious anti-corruption reformer, derides front-runner Martin Torrijos's lack of experience and ability, and plans tough talks with U.S. negotiators on agriculture [...]	2004-01-20 15:53:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1116	PANAMA: IMPLICATIONS OF THE TORRIJOS VICTORY FOR [...] (C) Martin Torrijos, a 40-year-old politician with little national policy experience, scored a crushing electoral victory on May 2, while his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is positioned to control Panama's unicameral legislature. After it takes office on September 1, the new governmen [...]	2004-05-07 20:27:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ETRD EFIN EWWT PM CM CO TW POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1224	PANAMA LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: NEW BALLGAME ON [...] (SBU) Panamanians (current legislators included) are so focused on what will happen after September 1 that they appear to have forgotten entirely that the current Assembly session will continue until the end of May. The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD),Panama's largest and best organize [...]	2004-05-17 20:49:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA148	PANAMA NGO CONCERNED ABOUT CHINESE DEBT BONDAGE [...] (SBU) In a January 8 meeting to discuss trafficking in persons (TIP) and related issues with PolOff and political assistant, acting director of Casa Esperanza, Ramon Aleman Arias said Chinese migrant debt bondage and unregulated child labor are problems in Panama. (NOTE: Casa Esperanza is a l [...]	2004-01-23 18:10:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PREL PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA153	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (PANAMA): NEW VICE MINISTER [...] Romel Adames (42) was appointed Vice Minister for Trade at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MICI) by President Moscoso on January 1, 2004. Adames, Harvard-educated and until recently Panama's Ambassador to the WTO, will be the lead negotiator for the GOP during the upcoming FTA negotia [...]	2004-01-23 21:16:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PINR PM ECON
04PANAMA1700	WHERE IS PANAMA'S NEW GOVERNMENT HEADING? [...] (C) Martin Torrijos and his inner circle, due to take power on September 1, are pushing an energetic and ambitious transition agenda featuring clear-cut goals in foreign policy (priority to the U.S. and Colombia),security (cooperation with U.S. objectives, new attention to the Caribbean coast [...]	2004-07-01 12:22:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1704	PANAMA'S FM ARIAS NONCOMMITTAL ON REQUEST TO [...] (C) DCM, accompanied by Polcouns, delivered reftel talking points to Panamanian Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias Cerjack on June 30, 2004. With two months left for this government, Arias was (not surprisingly) noncommittal on whether the GOP would be willing to accept protected Cuban and Hait [...]	2004-07-01 19:43:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG PM CU HA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1740	PANAMA BALKS AT ACCEPTING PROTECTED CUBAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-08 16:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL SMIG PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1764	PANAMA: PRESIDENT-ELECT TORRIJOS PUSHES [...] (SBU) In a surprise move, President Moscoso ordered "extraordinary sessions" of the Legislative Assembly to discuss constitutional reform. The move drew cheers from some civil society groups and criticism from those like former president and second-place 2004 candidate Guillermo Endara who f [...]	2004-07-09 21:01:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA1949	PANAMA: SCENE SETTER FOR GEN. HILL'S AUG. 12 VISIT [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome your August 12 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to expanding training programs shared between our two countries, and to press for continuing focus on civilian controlled security forces, transparency and anti-corruption within P [...]	2004-08-02 14:15:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL MASS PGOV PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1992	PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR USG DELEGATION TO THE [...] (SBU) US Embassy Panama welcomes the USG delegation to the National Security Planning Workshop, Aug. 11-13, which is designed to assist the incoming PRD government headed by President-elect Torrijos who assumes office September 1. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to [...]	2004-08-06 12:18:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL MASS PGOV PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA200	PANAMA'S NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE PEREIRA [...] (C) Elected by his colleagues for a two-year term as President (Chief Justice) of Panama's nine-member Supreme Court on October 23, 2003, Cesar Antonio Pereira Burgos (DOB: 29 SEP 1929) has not yet shown strong interest in continuing the drive to reform Panama's judiciary that his predecessor, [...]	2004-01-30 19:47:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA204	PANAMA PRESIDENT MOSCOSO DISCUSSES BILATERAL [...] (C) On January 21 Special Envoy for Hemispheric Initiatives Otto Reich, accompanied by Ambassador Watt, met with Panama President Mireya Moscoso. Flanked by Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias and Commerce and Industries Minister Joaquin Jacome, Moscoso pushed an April 2004 start date for the bi [...]	2004-01-30 21:26:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2087	NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING WORKSHOP LAUNCHES U.S.- [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior members of Panama's newly elected leadership met with counterparts from the Embassy and other USG interlocutors in an August 11 - 13 workshop to discuss the incoming PRD administration's national security strategy. With the assistance of facilitators from the Center for [...]	2004-08-17 18:53:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS SNAR PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2105	SCENESETTER: THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO PANAMA'S [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Panama, I want to express our warmest welcome on your upcoming September 1, 2004 visit to Panama's Presidential Inauguration. Following your November 3, 2003 visit to Panama's Centennial celebrations (reftel),your presence here as the government of Martin Torrijos [...]	2004-08-18 22:37:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD OVIP PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA213	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR NIKOLAY VLADIMIR DEPARTS [...] (SBU) This biographical report details Ambassador and Emboffs' impressions of Nikolay Vladimir during his tenure as Russian Ambassador to Panama as well as the highlights of his Curriculum Vitae. Ambassador Vladimir departed Panama in December 2003, informing Ambassador Watt that he had been [...]	2004-02-02 22:22:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PM RS POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2176	PANAMA PARDONS ANTIâ€CASTRO CUBANS [...] (SBU) Late on August 25, outgoing President Mireya Moscoso signed an executive decree pardoning four anti"Castro Cuban prisoners "" Luis Posada Carriles and AmCits Gasper Jimenez, Guillermo Novo, and Pedro Remon (see Reftels) and 163 others, as one of her final acts as president. The GOP imme [...]	2004-08-26 22:42:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PM CU HO LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2231	EMBASSY EFFORTS TO PROMOTE SECURITY AND [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. While Panama's remote and economically-underdeveloped Darien Region remains vulnerable to incursions by paramilitary groups and drug traffickers from Colombia, the region's security under Panam [...]	2004-09-02 20:38:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON MASS MOPS SNAR EAID EAGR PREF PREL PINS PTER PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA2274	PANAMA: TAIWANâ€PRC RECOGNITION ISSUE SIMMERS AS [...] (C) With a new, more PRC"friendly Panama government in office on September 1, the question of whether newly inaugurated President Martin Torrijos might drop Panama's long"standing diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in favor of the People's Republic of China (PRC) continues [...]	2004-09-08 19:49:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PM CM TW POL CHIEF
04PANAMA23	PANAMA ON BOARD FOR A PRODUCTIVE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF [...] (C) Ambassador Watt delivered reftel B demarche to Panama's Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias Madrid and Vice Foreign Minister and Summit of the Americas Coordinator Nivia Rossana Castrellon on December 30. Ambassador Watt stressed with FM Arias the four key areas in Reftel A talking points. On [...]	2004-01-06 21:39:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2362	PANAMA FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS AMBASSADOR WATT [...] (C) In a September 7 meeting with Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro, Ambassador Watt discussed the Secretary's recent visit to Panama and President Torrijos' travel plans to the UN General Assembly in New York. The Ambassador also discussed ways Panama could contribute to the corruption [...]	2004-09-16 22:03:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2452	PANAMA PLANS ASSERTIVE, COHERENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) The Torrijos administration plans to run a much more ambitious foreign policy than its predecessor, aiming to sell the Panama "brand" to the world. First Vice President and Foreign Minister Samuel LEWIS Navarro has repeatedly indicated to the Ambassador and EmbOffs that the Torrijos team [...]	2004-09-29 21:51:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2524	UNDERSTANDING PANAMA'S COLON FREE ZONE [...] (C) Summary: An important pillar of Panama's service-based economy, the Colon Free Zone (CFZ) is the largest duty free zone in the hemisphere and the second largest in the world. Offering much more than just duty-free wholesale shopping, however, the CFZ draws upon the strengths of Panama's wo [...]	2004-10-12 18:14:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN PTER SNAR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA2530	PANAMA'S NEW GOVERNMENT IN PRODUCTIVE TALKS WITH [...] (C) WHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Dan Fisk's October 5-7 meetings with President Torrijos and key cabinet officials brought friendly and productive exchanges on security and law enforcement cooperation; foreign policy; economic and trade policy; and good governance/anti-corruption. DAS Fisk [...]	2004-10-13 18:09:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG SNAR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2553	PANAMA'S NEW ADMINISTRATION SCORES RECORD COCAINE [...] (C) Panamanian Public Forces and Embassy Officers contributed to record detainee transfers and cocaine captures in recent weeks, as part of on-going counter-drug Operation Panama Express task force operations. On September 21, Panama National Maritime Service (SMN) marines, Panamanian Publi [...]	2004-10-15 20:27:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM KTIA PGOV PREL PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2583	DAS FISK TOURS PANAMA'S REMOTE DARIEN BORDER REGION [...] (SBU) WHA DAS Dan Fisk and Ambassador Watt, with POL Counselor and NAS Director, visited three locales in Panama's rugged and remote Darien province October 6, including the provincial capital, La Palma. They spent the day viewing Panamanian National Police (PNP) border installations, greeti [...]	2004-10-19 18:58:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2641	PANAMA'S ARNULFISTA PARTY: ELECTORAL SHELLACKING [...] (C) Up-and-coming Arnulfista Party (PA) leaders will not wait for Party President Mireya Moscoso to complete her term in January 2006 before trying to rebuild the party, ideally minus her. After the PA's meager third-place finish (16.4% of popular vote) in Panama's May 2004 presidential elect [...]	2004-10-27 14:26:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2691	SCENESETTER: DEFENSE SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S NOVEMBER [...] (C) On behalf of Embassy Panama I would like to extend our warmest welcome on your upcoming November 13-14, 2004 visit to Panama. Your presence here as the government of Martin Torrijos enters its third month signals the great interest of the United States in strengthening our excellent rela [...]	2004-11-02 13:13:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV SNAR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2698	PANAMA RESPONDS TO CNIES DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) This message contains action requests. Embassy requests Department's guidance on questions in paragraphs 2 and 3. Embassy understands that Department wants to elicit a formal positive response by diplomatic note no later than December 1. In order to meet that deadline, Embassy would [...]	2004-11-02 20:38:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SNAR MOPS PM EARI POL CHIEF
04PANAMA274	EMBASSY PANAMA CONVENES MINI-CTAG [...] (U) Per ref B, on February 2, Embassy's Pol Counselor, AID Director, Econ Counselor and NAS Director met with diplomatic representatives from G-8 countries and Spain to discuss Panama's counterterrorism (CT) requirements and vulnerabilities, each country's CT-related assistance to Panama, and [...]	2004-02-06 18:53:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PREL PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2777	PANAMA PROBABLY WILL NOT MOVE TO OPPOSE [...] (C) This Embassy and other observers hoped that Panama's UNGA voting patterns soon might become more congenial to U.S. interests, given the recent election of Martin Torrijos, a young, modernizing president; his avowed intent to make Panama's UN General Assembly voting "more predictable"; and [...]	2004-11-16 21:44:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PM UNGA POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2829	PANAMA GOVERNMENT WEATHERS FIERCE CRITICISM AS IT [...] (C) With apparent support from President Martin Torrijos, Minister of Government and Justice Hector Aleman is moving to centralize control of the Panamanian Public Forces (PPF). MOGJ sources contend that under the government of former president Mireya Moscoso, MOGJ exercised weak oversight of [...]	2004-11-23 18:49:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR MARR PINS PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2841	PANAMA: TORRIJOS AGENDA CONTINUES AFTER [...] (SBU) President Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) are trying to make the most of their honeymoon period. Less than 100 days into its five-year term, the new administration has accomplished one of its top domestic priorities by pushing through a constitutional reform [...]	2004-11-24 14:57:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2921	SECDEF RUMSFELD'S TWO-DAY PANAMA TOUR A SUCCESS [...] (C) In a two-day visit to Panama November 13-14, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met with Panamanian President Torrijos and top cabinet officials, visited and overflew the Panama Canal, laid a wreath at the American Battle Monument Commission's Corozal Cemetary, and held a news conferenc [...]	2004-12-03 19:21:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM CM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2923	PANAMA SEEKS SOLUTIONS TO ARMS-FOR-DRUGS TRADE [...] (C) Since the seizure of the "Otterloo" in 2001, a ship carrying about 3,000 weapons from Nicaragua through Panama to the AUC in Colombia, the Colombian armed groups (FARC and AUC) appear to be relying increasingly on smaller arms-for-drugs purchases, instead of purchasing large amounts of w [...]	2004-12-03 21:08:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS SNAR PGOV PREL PARM PM NI CO CR LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2937	PANAMA, THE G4 AND "PLAN PUEBLA" [...] (C) Mexican President Vicente Fox publicly endorsed Panama's inclusion in the G3 (Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico) during his November 2-3 visit to Panama. According to MFA Advisor Nils Castro and International Organizations Director Javier Bonagas, the GOP's primary interest in joining the G [...]	2004-12-06 21:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ENRG PM CO VZ LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2943	PANAMA AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING [...] (SBU) Embassy Panama offers the following information and analysis in response to Reftel A tasking. CUBA AND PANAMANIAN POLITICS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Six days before leaving office, late on the evening of August 25, 2004, Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned fou [...]	2004-12-07 19:52:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC PGOV EFIN ETRD PM CU POL CHIEF
04PANAMA298	PANAMA ELECTION COUNTDOWN #1: 12 WEEKS TO GO [...] (U) Monday, February 2, marked the deadline for political parties to register candidacies for presidential, mayoral, legislative and local representative seats. All parties complied with the deadline and despite rumors over the weekend that one would withdraw from the race; all four president [...]	2004-02-09 17:51:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA30	PANAMA UNDECIDED ON 8 OF 9 CERD SPOTS [...] (U) On January 6, MFA International Organizations Deputy Director General Nubia Lezcano advised Poloff that the GOP has committed to one CERD candidate due to "previous agreements," but has not decided who to support for the other eight positions. Lezcano further explained that it was unlikel [...]	2004-01-07 18:50:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA3025	PANAMA: ECONOMIC TRENDS AND LOOMING CHALLENGES [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Introduction: Hoping to capitalize early on its campaign promises (anti-corruption, transparency, fiscal responsibility and economic growth),current popularity (70 percent),and control of the legislatu [...]	2004-12-21 16:53:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA3038	OVERVIEW OF PANAMANIAN EFFORTS TO ADDRESS ILLICIT [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of reports from Embassy Panama's newly formed Illicit Finance Task Force (IFTF). The interagency IFTF was initiated in September 2004 to monitor terrorist financing and the laundering of narcotics and other criminal proceeds. The task force includes member [...]	2004-12-22 19:30:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER SNAR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA324	SCENESETTER: CODEL WELLER'S VISIT TO PANAMA [...] (U) Embassy Panama welcomes Codel Weller on their February 19-22 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate US appreciation for the ongoing security and drug enforcement cooperation between our two countries. Your visit highlights our governments' mutual focus on the strate [...]	2004-02-11 20:20:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC PREL ECON PM
04PANAMA325	PANAMA'S PROGRESS ON MARITIME SECURITY -- GOOD [...] (SBU) The September 11 attacks called significant attention to the potential for terrorist exploitation of Panama,s leading maritime position. Panama has the world,s largest flag state registry with approximately 6300 vessels over 500 gross metric tons and approximately 300,000 seafarers. Ad [...]	2004-02-11 20:21:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT KNNP PTER ETTC PREL PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA345	PANAMA READY TO FOLLOW-UP ON IAEA CODE OF CONDUCT [...] (SBU) On February 9, 2004, Embassy delivered diplomatic note No. 162 containing reftel letter from Secretary Powell to Panama's Minister of Foreign Affairs Harmodio Arias. MFA Director General for International Organizations and Conferences Rodolfo Aleman Zubieta advised Poloff that same day [...]	2004-02-13 19:52:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA399	FOCUSING PANAMA'S EFFORT TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) The January 18-21 G/TIP visit to Panama helped refine Embassy and GOP anti-TIP efforts approach to strategies (Ref A). The Embassy will push the GOP to focus its anti-TIP improvements on public awareness campaigns, victims assistance, and increased training. In the short term, legisla [...]	2004-02-19 12:54:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SMIG PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA40	PANAMA'S MAY 2004 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Panamanians nationwide will go to the polls on May 2, 2004 to choose a president, 78 legislators, 75 mayors, 619 local representatives, and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament. The presidential campaign currently is a two-man race (in a field of four candidates) with t [...]	2004-01-08 19:28:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA419	PANAMANIAN MADAM HEADED TO PRISON [...] (U) After two trials, two guilty verdicts, years of appeals, and not one day behind bars, the former head of a child prostitution ring, Thonya Xiomara Hubbard (aka Madam Thonya),will be spending the next 76 months in prison. On February 16, the Supreme Appeal Court rejected Hubbard's appea [...]	2004-02-20 23:34:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA441	PANAMA'S SCORECARD ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS [...] Summary and Comment: Overall, Panama's intellectual property rights regime is headed in the right direction and has improved during the past year. Panama has relatively well-developed intellectual property laws and institutions, and the GoP has increased specialized IPR training and technic [...]	2004-02-25 18:33:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA452	CODEL WELLER UNDERSCORES GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (U) Summary: Codel Weller,s February 19-22 visit to Panama underscored our strong friendship and high level of bilateral cooperation with GoP interlocutors, who included President Moscoso, FM Arias, National Security Advisor Jarvis, and VM for Foreign Trade Adames. Congressman Weller expres [...]	2004-02-26 20:31:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EWWT SNAR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA484	THREE PURCHASES BY DEPORTES EL CAZADOR OK: [...] (U) This message contains proprietary business information. Please protect. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On February 27, EmbOffs met with Deportes El Cazador's owner and president Rolando GONZALEZ Salerno at the company's offices, which are co-located with Gonzalez' residence [...]	2004-03-02 14:34:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOMC ETTC PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA540	LA PRENSA FOUNDER ROBERTO EISENMANN SLAMS PANAMA'S [...] (C) Roberto Eisenmann, Jr., founder of Panama's anti-dictatorship daily newspaper La Prensa, since 1990 turned political maverick and op-ed gadfly, recently shared with POL Counselor some caustic commentary on what he called the "outrageous" attitude of Panama's political class and its corrup [...]	2004-03-04 19:40:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA548	PANAMA'S INPUT FOR FOURTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) While Embassy Panama believes that trafficking in persons (TIP) is a problem in Panama, it is still relatively small and manageable. Embassy has worked closely with the Government of Panama (GOP) to discover more about the extent of the problem in Panama and to encourage the GOP to wor [...]	2004-03-05 16:08:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CO PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA564	NEW PANAMA POLLS SHOW TORRIJOS WITH LARGE LEAD. [...] (SBU) New polls from two different not necessarily reliable sources are ranking presidential candidates in the usual order. In the Assembly, legislators seeking to rejuvenate their rotten image have proposed forward-leaning reductions in their own privileges, but may lack the political will t [...]	2004-03-08 22:32:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA576	PANAMA ADOPTS "ENERGETIC MEASURES" AGAINST [...] (SBU) In the past ten days (March 1-9) the Panamanian government (GOP) organized an inter-agency anti-TIP working group, set into motion a 45-day action plan, launched a public awareness campaign, prepared tougher anti-TIP legislation, readied a victims hotline, and announced that it had iden [...]	2004-03-09 20:55:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA586	PANAMA OFFERS BETTER HIGH-VALUE TRANSIT GUARANTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Panama's unilateral alternative to the USG's bilateral MOU proposal may be a better force protection guarantee for US military high-value transits (HVTs). After Embassy receives actual GOP language, probably in one to two months, we will analyze it and report our conclusions and [...]	2004-03-10 21:36:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PINS EWWT MOPS PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA613	OBSERVERS, OPACITY, AND A PLEDGE. PANAMA ELECTION [...] (SBU) With less than two months to go, electoral issues are finally gaining prominence in Panama's media. Panamanian and foreign observers organize for the May 2 elections. Embassy plans to coordinate with OAS and Ombudsman's Office observers to ensure broad coverage of key polling areas on [...]	2004-03-16 13:24:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA615	TORRIJOS TEAM BEGINNING TO LOOK AHEAD TO NEW [...] (C) Still leading in the polls, Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) presidential candidate Martin Torrijos is starting to consider what his administration might look like, well aware of our interest in key PRD appointments. Meeting with PolOff, senior advisor and "friend of Martin" Ubaldino [...]	2004-03-16 21:00:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ETRD MASS PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA632	STATUS OF FORMER USG PROPERTIES IN THE PANAMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Panama,s Interoceanic Region Authority (ARI) is responsible for converting former USG property in the Panama Canal area to private and commercial use. It has had a number of significant successes, and current and future investment in these "reverted" areas could total $2.5 bil [...]	2004-03-18 15:58:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA633	SCENESETTER: AMBASSADOR ARCOS' VISIT TO PANAMA [...] (U) I warmly welcome your March 23-25 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG appreciation for the ongoing maritime security cooperation between our two countries, and to press for continuing focus on this as well as aviation security (and increasingly cruise ship securi [...]	2004-03-18 16:01:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT KNNP PTER ETTC PREL PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA651	MORE SECRETS, A DEBATE, AND ANOTHER POLL SHOWS [...] (SBU) Local press meticulously covered former President Ernesto Perez Balladares' unexpected disclosure of discretionary expenditures during his presidency (1994-99),tied to the ongoing battle between Electoral Prosecutor Gerardo Solis and President Moscoso. (Reftels A & B). A March 16 presi [...]	2004-03-19 19:39:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA652	MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: US-PANAMA EXCHANGE OF [...] The following US diplomatic note no. 325, dated March 17, 2004, was presented by Embassy to the GOP (text per ref B with changes per ref A). Begin text: No. 325 The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Republic o [...]	2004-03-19 20:33:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA663	PANAMA TO OUTLINE INITIATIVES AND GOALS TO STEM [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-22 14:22:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP PARM PREL PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA669	PANAMA'S INPUT: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRAINING, [...] Summary. Post has provided primarily financial support and equipment to Panama in support of promoting effective protection and enforcement of IP rights. Panama has relatively well-developed intellectual property laws and institutions, and the GOP has also increased specialized IPR training [...]	2004-03-22 20:30:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD ECON SNAR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA672	FATE OF ANTI-CASTRO CUBAN AMERICANS IN THE HANDS [...] NAME: NOVO, GUILLERMO; REMON, PEDRO; JIMENEZ, GASPAR 2. SEX: MALE 3. DOPB: JUNE 08, 1939, CUBA; SEPTEMBER 13, 1944, CUBA; OCTOBER 06, 1935, CUBA 23. (SBU) REMARKS: After nearly three and one-half years of incarceration, prosecutors and defense attorneys completed the argume [...]	2004-03-22 20:38:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CJAN SNAR PHUM CU PM NOVO GUILLERMO REMON PEDRO JIMENEZ GASPAR CONSULAR AFFAIRS
04PANAMA730	ARTICLE 98 SUPPORTER IN CLOSE RACE WITH U.S. [...] (U) This cable is SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. Please protect accordingly. ----------------- A Fighting Chance ----------------- 2. (SBU) On March 14, PolOffs accompanied Arnulfista Party legislative challenger Jose "Pepe" Gomez on a tour of Veraguas province's 9-3 electoral circuit [...]	2004-03-30 14:17:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA748	DHS AMBASSADOR ARCOS PRESSES MARITIME SECURITY [...] Summary: During a March 23-24 visit to Panama, Ambassador Cresencio Arcos, Director for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pressed the USG agenda on maritime security. At a meeting with Panama's Minister of Government and Justice (MOGJ),Arnulfo Escalona, the [...]	2004-04-01 15:28:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT PTER ETRD PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA791	Rumors, Observers, and Negative Advertising. [...] (SBU) With the May 2 elections just one month away, the campaigns and the candidates are entering the home stretch. The Electoral Tribunal and the Ombudsman's office are focused on Election Day logistics and observers. Panama's media and civil society are investigating candidates' backgrounds [...]	2004-04-02 21:42:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA798	PANAMA: KEY AGRICULTURAL ISSUES FOR THE UPCOMING [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. Summary: This cable provides an overview of Panama's agricultural sector and Post's assessment of key issues in preparation for the upcoming bilateral negotiations (Round One will be held April 26-30, 2004 in Panama [...]	2004-04-05 16:46:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

04PANAMA802	PANAMA'S DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (PRD) AND [...] (C) The prospect of a PRD government assuming power on September 1 is high, barring an unforeseen development. Martin Torrijos enjoys a big lead in the polls barely four weeks before Panama's May 2 presidential election. According to many observers, Martin has consolidated his control over t [...]	2004-04-06 13:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA813	PANAMA REFUGEE NEWS--UNHCR PERMANENT OFFICE, [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-06 21:56:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV CO PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA823	PANAMANIAN SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT CHARGES [...] (C) Citing "lack of jurisdiction," by an 8-1 vote, Panama's Supreme Court has terminated Public Ministry investigations of all charges against Israeli national Shimon Yalin Yelinek, currently residing in Panama, for his alleged role in smuggling Nicaraguan military weapons to the paramilitary [...]	2004-04-07 19:29:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET	PARM PREL KCOR PTER KJUS PM NI CO GA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA828	PANAMA PUBLIC OPINION POLLS NOT DEPENDABLE [...] (SBU) Panama's nationally-published public opinion polls are probably biased, do not offer a dependable measure of Panamanians' voting preferences, and probably will not accurately predict outcomes for the May 2 elections. While we still think Martin Torrijos will win the May 2, 2004 presiden [...]	2004-04-08 15:13:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA85	SCENESETTER: AMBASSADOR OTTO REICH'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Embassy Panama welcomes Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives Ambassador Otto Reich on his January 17 - 24 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate the Ambassador's good governance message to GOP officials, including Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, priva [...]	2004-01-15 20:19:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EWWT SNAR OVIP PM NAS
04PANAMA863	FRAUD PREVENTION, OBSTRUCTIONISM, AND BICKERING. [...] (SBU) Panama's May 2 election - only three weeks away - is starting to concentrate minds. The Electoral Tribunal is implementing fraud prevention procedures, informing voters, and fending off critics. Electoral Prosecutor Gerardo Solis depoliticized his investigation of the Presidency's lega [...]	2004-04-13 21:43:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA875	PANAMA'S FORMER PRESIDENT GUILLERMO ENDARA DRIVES [...] (SBU) His campaign may lack money and glitz and his poll numbers are stubbornly stuck in second place behind Martin Torrijos but former president Guillermo Endara (1989-1994) is confident his single-message campaign -- that he is Panama's only hope for honest government -- will catapult him to [...]	2004-04-14 22:12:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EAGR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA886	PANAMA's MAY 2 ELECTORAL PROCESS: NUTS AND BOLTS [...] (U) Panama will hold general elections on Sunday, May 2 to elect a total of 1,756 new officials for five-year terms. Voters will elect a President, two Vice Presidents, 78 legislators (and 156 alternates),75 mayors (and 150 alternates),619 local representatives, 7 councilmen, 20 representa [...]	2004-04-16 14:51:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA892	Education, Absenteeism, and Closing Rallies. [...] (SBU) Candidates, voters, and electoral officials are in the home stretch for Panama's May 2 general elections. The Electoral Tribunal (ET) briefed the diplomatic corps on elections in an April 13 luncheon presentation with media present. On April 14, the ET warned the Supreme Court not to a [...]	2004-04-19 12:53:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA896	PANAMA: TORRIJOS TEAM STIFLES ELECTION EVE [...] (C) Arnulfista and Solidarity Party opponents of presidential candidate Martin Torrijos have given documents to reporters that they hope will link him to a 1985 drug-related kidnapping. Apparently rattled by a potentially damaging story that could break just before the May 2 election, the To [...]	2004-04-19 21:46:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA906	USG SUCCESS STORY: PANAMA REGAINS CATEGORY 1 FOR [...] Summary: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded Panama in 2001 for not complying with international air safety standards. Over the past 18 months, the Embassy has worked to focus the GoP's highest levels on making needed changes to its aviation authority to regain the status. [...]	2004-04-20 19:33:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON ETRD BEXP CASC PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA924	PANAMA: THE CAMPAIGN OF ARNULFISTA PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Arnulfista Presidential Candidate Jose Miguel Aleman, a distant third in most public opinion polls, seeks to emerge from President Moscoso's shadow to place first in Panama's May 2 elections. Neutralizing Aleman's greatest logistical asset, the three-party coalition that backs him and its [...]	2004-04-22 12:31:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA925	PANAMA COURT SENTENCES ANTI-CASTRO CONSPIRATORS, GOP DISCUSSES POSSIBLE FUTURE ACTIONS [...] (SBU) On April 20, Panama's Fifth Penal Court convicted six anti-Castro conspirators, including three AmCits, for endangering public safety and sentenced them to seven and eight-year jail terms for a November 2000 plot to kill Fidel Castro. (See Refs A and B.) Luis Posada Carriles, currently [...]	2004-04-22 13:30:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CJAN CASC SNAR CU PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA929	SCENESETTER: AUSTR VARGO'S TRIP TO PANAMA FOR THE [...] (U) I warmly welcome your April 25-30 visit to Panama. The USDEL's visit marks the culmination of a long campaign by the GoP to move forward on an FTA with the U.S. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to expanding trade and investment between our two countries, and to pre [...]	2004-04-22 20:43:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA936	Observers, a non-debate, more polls, and some [...] (SBU) As campaigning hits a feverish pace, candidates Torrijos and Endara decided to skip the final, April 20 debate. Two final public opinion polls with conflicting results have generated controversy, as has another group of Endara supporters who made their support publicly known. The Electo [...]	2004-04-23 19:58:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA954	PSI: ANSWERS TO KEY QUESTIONS ON CARGO HANDLING [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-26 15:19:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KNNP EWWT EAIR PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA975	PANAMA ELECTION EVE OUTLOOK: LIKELY WINNER [...] (C) Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD),well ahead by most indicators, are poised to win the presidency and a plurality of legislative seats in Panama's Sunday, May 2, 2004 general elections. The American-educated Torrijos has marginalized the PRD's "old guard" and ha [...]	2004-04-27 22:52:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA995	Rallies, a ceremony, and transition planning. [...] (SBU) Presidential candidates staged campaign closing rallies throughout the final week before Panama's Sunday, May 2 General Elections. EmbOffs met OAS observers to discuss Election Day plans on April 27. Electoral authorities announced final logistical arrangements and accepted control of [...]	2004-04-29 20:59:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PARAMARIBO1	SURINAME INTRODUCES SURINAME DOLLAR TO BOLSTER [...] Summary: On January 1, 2004, Suriname will launch its new currency, the Surinamese dollar. The new currency will be set at an exchange rate of SR$ 2.80 to one USD, versus Sf 2,800 to one USD. According to Central Bank President Andre Telting, the introduction of the new currency is meant to [...]	2004-01-02 18:09:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ETRD ECON EFIN NS
04PARAMARIBO104	US HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY FOR SURINAME [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-05 19:39:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP
04PARAMARIBO116	DEMARCHE ON MAKING A POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-11 10:14:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM OPDC PREL NS IAEA
04PARAMARIBO117	MILITARY OFFICER VOICES PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR AN [...] (C) Summary. During a February 7 press "Information Day" hosted by Suriname's National Army, a military officer, Major Goerdeyal, called on the Surinamese Government to sign an Article 98 agreement with the United States or face losing US military assistance. Goerdeyal declared that the day [...]	2004-02-11 13:58:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NS
04PARAMARIBO121	SURINAME: WHITE WATER TO BLUE WATER PARTNERSHIP [...] PER REF B, EMBASSY PARAMARIBO IS PLEASED TO CONFIRM THAT SURINAME WILL ATTEND THE MARCH 21-26 WHITE WATER TO BLUE WATER PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE (WW2BW) IN MIAMI (REF A). MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE PERMANENT SECRETARY JASWANT SAHTOE HAS CONFIRMED THE FIVE-PERSON SURINAMESE DELEGATION WILL BE COMPR [...]	2004-02-12 10:36:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO128	SURINAME BANS IMPORT OF US CHICKEN [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-12 18:47:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR NS
04PARAMARIBO157	DEMARCHE ON WHO GLOBAL STRATEGY ON DIET, [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-20 15:58:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV AORC PREL NS WHO
04PARAMARIBO175	ICAO'S MEETING IN CAIRO: SURINAME REGRETS [...] PER REFTEL REQUEST, ON FEBRUARY 20 THE EMBASSY DISCUSSED THE ICAO FACILITATION DIVISION (FAL/12) MEETING TO BE HELD IN CAIRO FROM MARCH 22 TO APRIL 2, 2004, WITH SURINAME'S CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY DIRECTOR VIVIAN HANENBERG. HANENBERG RESPONDED THAT THE GOS WAS UNABLE TO SEND A DELEGATION [...]	2004-02-26 18:42:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EC EG NS
04PARAMARIBO183	SURINAMESE MINISTER OF DEFENSE DISAVOWS PRESS [...] (U) SURINAMESE DEFENSE/ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER RONALD ASSEN DISAVOWED TO THE EMBASSY A HEADLINE STORY IN THE FEBRUARY 25 EDITION OF THE LOCAL DAILY DE WARE TIJD, IN WHICH HE REPORTEDLY DECLARED SURINAME'S WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT HAITIAN REFUGEES IF THE SITUATION IN HAITI DETERIORATES. CONTRAR [...]	2004-02-27 19:21:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NS
04PARAMARIBO184	BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT SURINAME: TRADE, [...] ACCORDING TO THE FEBRUARY 24 EDITION OF THE LOCAL DAILY "DE WARE TIJD," SURINAMESE MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY MICHAEL JONG TJIEN FA ANNOUNCED DURING LOCAL CARNIVAL CELEBRATIONS ON FEBRUARY 20 A VISIT BY BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUS INCIO LULA DA SILVA TO SURINAME AT THE END OF MARCH/EARLY APRI [...]	2004-02-27 19:24:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON EAGR ETRD NS
04PARAMARIBO187	CIVAIR: SAFE SKIES FOR AFRICA, ADOPTING A REGIONAL [...] IN RESPONSE TO THE FEBRUARY 26 REQUEST BY FAA DESK OFFICER FOR NIGERIA AND AFRICAN MULTILATERAL ISSUES FOREST RAWLS, THE EMBASSY PURCHASED ECONOMY-CLASS TICKETS FOR VIVIAN HANENBERG, DIRECTOR OF THE CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY, TO ATTEND A MISSION IN SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, FROM MARCH 8-12, [...]	2004-03-02 19:08:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EAID PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO200	SIXTH WESTERN HEMISPHER ENERGY MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-05 18:49:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET NS
04PARAMARIBO203	SURINAME POLITICAL PARTY SNAPSHOT: PALU: THE [...] Established in 1977, the Progressive Workers and Farmers Union (PALU) is yet another marginal party trying to escape extinction in Suriname's crowded political scene. Under the leadership of party leader Iwan Krolis, the mostly Creole party of 1,000 members uses its single National Assembly [...]	2004-03-08 18:55:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON NS
04PARAMARIBO225	SURINAME: NO LIKELY HUMANITARIAN AID FOR HAITI [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-11 18:42:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF PREL EAID NS
04PARAMARIBO31	SURINAME RECEIVED US TRADE REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT B. [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-16 10:36:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD NS WTO
04PARAMARIBO33	SURINAME TO SUPPORT US CANDIDATE TO THE COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-16 10:37:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM NS UN
04PARAMARIBO35	SURINAME: WHITE WATER TO BLUE WATER PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-16 10:38:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO39	IIP U.S. RICE POLICY SPEAKER DR. GAIL CRAMER WINS [...] Dr. Gail Cramer, the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Louisiana State University, educated Surinamers about U.S. Rice Policy during an October 12-16 visit to Suriname. He met with a variety of government officials, politicians, rice farmers and exporters b [...]	2004-01-16 11:22:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO EAGR PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO44	SURINAME'S SERVICE-STATION OWNERS DEMAND HIGHER [...] (U) On January 6, Suriname's service-station owners threatened to resume a December 2003 strike to protest the government's refusal to negotiate an increase in profit margins, which had remained stagnant since a 1999 agreement. Since that agreement, service-station owners have suffered a stea [...]	2004-01-16 18:36:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET PBTS FR NS
04PARAMARIBO476	PRESIDENT VENETIAAN PRESENTS SYMPATHY LETTER [...] THE EMBASSY RECEIVED ON JUNE 22 A DIPLOMATIC NOTE WITH A SYMPATHY LETTER ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT BUSH BY PRESIDENT VENETIAAN MARKING THE DEATH OF FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN. THE SIGNED ORIGINAL WILL BE FORWARDED VIA POUCH TO WHA/CAR FOR APPROPRIATE HANDLING. PRESIDENT VENETIAAN ALSO PERS [...]	2004-06-29 10:59:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO483	SURINAMESE BANANA LABOR UNION SEEKS REREFENDUM TO [...] IN A JUNE 15 ARTICLE IN LOCAL DAILY "DAGBLAD SURINAME," JARIKABA BANANA WORKERS UNION (JWB) SECRETARY STUART CODRINGTON ANNOUNCED THAT THE UNION HAD FILED A REQUEST WITH THE GOVERNMENT MEDIATION COUNCIL (BR) TO HOLD A REFERENDUM AMONG WORKERS IN SURINAME'S REVIVED BANANA SECTOR. HE DECLA [...]	2004-07-02 18:41:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM PGOV NS
04PARAMARIBO502	UNEMPLOYED MAROONS PROTESTING LACK OF JOB [...] After two days of unrest, protesters who had been disrupting operations of the Canadian gold mining company Cambior, in Suriname's Brokopondo district, decided to seek a peaceful resolution to address their key demand. Displeased with Cambior's alleged employment practices, protesters called [...]	2004-07-12 17:48:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM PGOV NS
04PARAMARIBO504	SURINAME: MULLING OVER RESETTLEMENT OF PROTECTED CUBAN AND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points on Cuban and Haitian migrants at Guantanamo Naval Base to Surinamese Foreign Minister Marie Levens on July 9, and asked for Suriname's assistance in providing a resettlement opportunity for [...]	2004-07-13 13:29:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL SMIG MARR HA XL NS
04PARAMARIBO515	FORMER MILITARY STRONGMAN DESI BOUTERSE'S PARTY [...] (U) Suriname's National Democratic Party (NDP),led by former military strongman Desi Bouterse, voted to dissolve the Millennium Combination, the country's largest opposition coalition, on July 12. The move came after NDP's two coalition partners, Democratic Alternative (DA) and KTPI, publi [...]	2004-07-14 19:17:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NS DESI BOUTERSE
04PARAMARIBO523	SURINAME CLINCHES CARICOM'S SUPPORT FOR ITS [...] During their July 5-8 meeting in Grenada, CARICOM heads of state endorsed the nomination of Surinamese diplomat Albert Ramdin for the position of Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of the American States. Ramdin is currently the Caribbean Affairs Advisor to OAS Secretary General [...]	2004-07-19 16:33:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AORC NS OAS
04PARAMARIBO527	JAZZ AMBASSADORS THRILL CROWDS IN SURINAME, HELP [...] On July 8-11, the Embassy hosted Jazz Ambassadors Deborah Davis and a Few Good Men in the first ever visit of a Jazz Ambassadors group to Suriname. The dynamic quartet thrilled school children in a workshop entitled "What is Jazz?," invitees to a private concert at the Ambassador's residence [...]	2004-07-19 19:07:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SOCI NS
04PARAMARIBO529	SURINAME TO CONDUCT NEW CENSUS IN AUGUST [...] According to Surinamese media reports, the National Assembly unanimously approved legislation on July 8 to permit the conduct of a new census in August. The census will be undertaken by the General Statistics Bureau (ABS) August 2-15 and will be financed by the government and the Inter Ameri [...]	2004-07-20 18:03:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON SOCI NS
04PARAMARIBO545	CHINESE DELEGATION VISIT TO SURINAME: JUST REGULAR [...] In a July 22 conversation with the Embassy, Political Officer Yumin Zhao of the Chinese Embassy downplayed a recent visit by a delegation from the Peoples National Congress to Suriname. Zhao stressed that the July 6-9 visit was part of a regular orientation of Chinese government officials to [...]	2004-07-27 13:10:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID SOCI CH NS
04PARAMARIBO58	SURINAME PROPOSES NEW ROUND OF BORDER TALKS WITH [...] SURINAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER MARIE LEVENS ANNOUNCED ON JANUARY 11 PLANS TO CONTINUE TALKS WITH GUYANA OVER THE ONGOING BORDER DISPUTE NEXT MONTH. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CAME ON THE HEELS OF PUBLIC STATEMENTS BY GUYANESE FOREIGN MINISTER RUDY INSANALLY, WHO, DURING A RECENT TRIP TO EASTERN GUYANA, [...]	2004-01-23 12:57:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR NS GY
04PARAMARIBO76	DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR THE ELECTION OF REFORM- [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-29 10:41:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL NS CDG UNGA
04PARAMARIBO8	SURINAME FAVORS A MEANINGFUL DECLARATION AT THE [...] (C) Surinamese Foreign Minister Levens told the Ambassador January 5 that Suriname supports the US vision for a meaningful declaration at the Monterey Special Summit of the Americas, which Surinamese President Venetiaan will attend. In addition to firm commitments with firm time frames, Leve [...]	2004-01-06 11:35:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM MARR AMGT NS OAS
04PARAMARIBO80	PRESIDENT VENETIAAN'S VISIT TO THE SPECIAL SUMMIT [...] (U) THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT RONALD VENETIAAN AND OTHER SURINAMESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, INCLUDING MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY MICHAEL JONG TJIEN FA, TO THE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS IN MONTEREY, MEXICO, RECEIVED MUCH PRESS ATTENTION IN SURINAME. ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS, UPON HIS RE [...]	2004-01-30 10:44:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAGR ECON KHIV NS
04PARAMARIBO9	SURINAME IMPOSES TEMPORARY BAN ON IMPORT OF US BEEF [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-06 12:14:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR NS
04PARAMARIBO97	THE 17TH FTAA TRADE NEGOTIATION COMMITTEE MEETING, [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-04 17:07:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KTIA NS
04PARAMARIBO98	CST GENTIAN COMPLETES OUTSTANDING TRAINING AND [...] FOLLOWING ITS SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO GUYANA (REFTEL),CST GENTIAN SAILED INTO PARAMARIBO JANUARY 21 AND COMPLETED A HIGHLY PRAISED PROGRAM OF TRAINING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS. THE AMBASSADOR MET THE GENTIAN AT SEA ON A SURINAMESE PILOT VESSEL AND SAILED INTO PORT WITH THE GENTIAN'S CREW TO BEGIN T [...]	2004-02-05 13:31:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MASS MARR KPAO NS
04PARIS4951	TITLE III LIBERTAD ACT WAIVER: FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel, we met June 24 with the MFA Cuba Desk Officer, who noted that France had been sharply critical of Cuba's human rights record bilaterally and as an EU member. Even before Havana unilaterally refused EU and French assistance, France had reevaluated its posit [...]	2004-06-29 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR CU PREL
04PARIS5419	GOF/NGOS AND CUBAN OUTREACH [...] (C) Summary: The GOF shares USG goals of facilitating a transition towards democracy, supporting Cuban Civil society, and preparing for a post-dictatorship Cuba. The GOF, French public, and NGOs, however, are critical of the US embargo of Cuba. France's Cuba policy remains anchored in the EU [...]	2004-07-19 16:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU FR
04PARIS5906	"J,ACCUSE:" SHARON COMMENTS SPARK QUESTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's July 18 call for Jews to emigrate from France to Israel "as early as possible" in order to escape the "wildest anti-Semitism" touched off a barrage of criticism from both the GoF and French Jewish community. Although Sharon had qualified h [...]	2004-08-10 08:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR IS KIRF PHUM PREL
04PARIS6076	FRENCH CEMETERY DESECRATIONS AND LINK TO EXTREME [...] (SBU) Summary: France has seen a rash of hate crimes resulting in the desecration of nearly 400 Jewish and Muslim tombs since the beginning of the year. Most recently, 56 Jewish graves were painted with neo-Nazi symbols and xenophobic slogans in Lyon on August 8, although recent developments [...]	2004-08-17 08:46:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PHUM FR KISL
04PARIS8983	FRANCE: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Post encloses the 2004 annual terrorism report for France. Per reftel, Word versions will be e-mailed to John Kincannon and Kiersten McCutchan at S/CT. Post POC is Political Officer Peter Kujawinski, x.2575. France ) 2004 OVERVIEW In 2004, France made progress in a number of areas [...]	2004-12-16 08:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC FR
04PARIS9130	FRANCE AND SOUTHERN AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the first of several messages reviewing France's relations with Africa. The southern African region currently attracts less French attention than any other region of Africa. With no francophone countries, and only one country currently engaged in conflict (Angola, at muc [...]	2004-12-27 14:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AO BC LT MI MZ WA SF WZ ZA ZI ZU XA FR
04PARIS9133	FRANCE AND EAST AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. France's principal long-term concern in East Africa is the management of its relations with Djibouti where it maintains a large permanent military presence. The crisis in Darfur has prompted a more active French policy with regard to Sudan, but it remains largely a "Chad problem" [...]	2004-12-27 14:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM DJ ER ET KE SO SU TZ UG XW XA FR
04PARIS9137	FRANCE: UPDATE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Following considerable Embassy effort to bring about GOF coordination, the French Government finally has issued a directive requiring air carrier compliance with the No Fly and Selectee Emergency Amendments (EAs). The directive effectively gives Air France (AF [...]	2004-12-27 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PTER FR
04PARIS9154	U.S. EMBASSY DEMARCHE TO THE FRENCH CONCERNING POSSIBLE PROLIFERATION-RELATED ACTIVITIES BETWEEN INDIA'S DEFENSE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (DRDO) AND THE FRENCH FIRM SAGEM [...] (S) On 12 December 2004, EST officer Alexander Tounger delivered a demarche and provided a non-paper to French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Non-proliferation, concerning the planned visit in m [...]	2004-12-28 15:05:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCRE
04PARIS9160	UKRAINE: FRENCH ON YUSHCHENKO VICTORY [...] (U) MFA desk officer for Ukraine Benoit Fremont described French satisfaction that the re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election had been conducted freely and fairly. Fremont agreed that while there had been some problems with the balloting, the level of fraud had not [...]	2004-12-28 16:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU UP FR PL
04PARIS9167	FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA (NORTH) [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chad, where France maintains a permanent miltary presence, and the Central African Republic (CAR),where France is supporting military and economic reform are key countries for France's Africa policy. The crisis in Darfur has caused concern in France about additional threats to [...]	2004-12-29 11:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CM CT CH ZF XA FR
04PARIS9171	CIVAIR: DGAC RESPONSE TO U.S. CARRIER OPERATIONS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While remaining firm in their request to eight U.S. carriers, operating under FAR 135 (commuter and on-demand operations) in French Caribbean territories to supply documentation supporting their requests for "revalidation of any non-scheduled flight authorizations," French avi [...]	2004-12-29 14:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON FR
04PORTAUPRINCE520	PRIME MINISTER FORMS CABINET [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Latortue finalized his cabinet choices on the afternoon of March 16, following consultations with President Alexandre. The cabinet was installed at 14:00 on March 17. Latortue chose to consolidate several existing ministries as a cost-cutting measure, naming only 13 m [...]	2004-03-17 22:29:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HA
04PRAGUE1857	CRISIS IN RULING CZECH CSSD: PARTY STUCK BETWEEN [...] (C) Summary. The initial period of relative calm and promise of consolidation in the main ruling Social Democratic Party (CSSD) after Stanislav Gross took over as acting party chairman this summer effectively ended with its poor showing in the November regional and Senate elections. The elec [...]	2004-12-21 16:38:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EZ
04PRAGUE1859	ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT'S DECEMBER 14 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Attorney General Ashcroft met separately with the Czech Ministers of the Interior and Justice in Prague, December 14, 2004. The Attorney General thanked the Czechs for their contributions in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as for their cooperation with U.S. law enforcement agenci [...]	2004-12-22 10:03:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS PREL CVIS EZ
04PRAGUE1869	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR COURTNEY WHITWORTH [...] Embassy Prague welcomes and grants country clearance for Courtney Whitworth and Brian Weyand to travel to Prague February 17-22, 2005. 2. Embassy point of contact will be Tricia Cypher, tel. (420) 257 530 663, ext. 2313, e-mail CypherTB@state.gov. 3. Hotel reservation have been made, [...]	2004-12-23 11:58:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	AINR EZ OTRA
04PRAGUE1871	RFE/RL GETS "NEW LEASE" ON LIFE IN PRAGUE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The Czech cabinet announced on December 22 the approval of a new lease for Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),which will extend their tenure in their current headquarters building until December 3 [...]	2004-12-23 14:25:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EZ
04PRETORIA2956	SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. OFFICIAL VISIT PAVES THE WAY [...] (C) Alex Burkart, Deputy Director in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the Department of State, and Ron Cherry, Director, Office of International Safeguards at the Department of Energy (DOE),visited South Africa May 17 to 21 to discuss advancing bilateral relations in the field of nuclear energy [...]	2004-07-01 08:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP TRGY SF
04PRETORIA3283	SOUTH AFRICA: REVIEW OF DR. ROBERT FINKELMAN'S [...] (U) Summary: On June 28, Dr. Finkelman, a coal scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, completed a highly successful three-month tour-of-duty as Embassy Science Fellow. Dr. Finkelman met with more than 500 South Africans in over forty formal meetings, presentations, and seminars to officia [...]	2004-07-20 14:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA EMIN SENV EIND BC MZ WA SF
04PRETORIA3555	APPARENTLY UNFOUNDED MEDIA REPORTED THREATS TO [...] (U) Over the past few days the local media has been inundated with reports detailing a massive terror plot aimed at key landmarks in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town. The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria was also listed as a specific target for attack. The "massive al-Qaeda terror blitz" as descr [...]	2004-08-05 11:00:00	Embassy Pretoria	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER
04PRETORIA3646	SOUTH AFRICA - NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE VISIT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has begun to evaluate potential partner countries for an initiative to develop science academies in Africa. The Gates Foundation-funded initiative seeks to build science academies' capacity to provide independent scientific analysis and ad [...]	2004-08-12 08:13:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV TBIO KSCA OSCI SF
04PRETORIA3889	TRANSLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND POSTING ON [...] Embassy posted the South Africa section of the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2003, the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003, the report on Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-2004, and the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report - June 2004 [...]	2004-08-27 09:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO PHUM PREL
04PRETORIA3898	SACU-EFTA FTA TALKS [...] (SBU) Swiss Embassy contact informed us that the next round of FTA talks between EFTA (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) will take place in Geneva from September 13-17, 2004. Reftel reported EFTA cancelled the June round. FRAZER [...]	2004-08-27 13:50:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD SF USTR
04PRETORIA4424	ADVANCING IPR ENFORCEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA THROUGH [...] Summary. The Intellectual Property Action Group (IPACT),which includes representatives of U.S. companies, organized two useful workshops on the enforcement of intellectual property rights in South Africa in August and September. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office funded the first worksho [...]	2004-10-01 13:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD SF AGOA USTR
04PRETORIA4748	TRADE LINKAGES DRIVING SOUTH AFRICA'S BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with several Angola watchers from government, business, and academia yielded the common theme that South Africa's relationship with Angola will over the coming years be defined by burgeoning trade linkages between the two. South African firms are investing heavily [...]	2004-10-28 08:05:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	AO ETRD PREL SF EINV
04PRETORIA4768	SOUTH AFRICA: AMBASSADOR MEETS MINISTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Jendayi Frazer called on Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) on October 19, 2004. Ambassador Frazer stressed the need to move ahead on scheduling our first Joint Standing Committee on Nuclear Energy Cooperation and to bring cl [...]	2004-10-28 16:12:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN EPET ENRG KNNP TRGY PINR SF
04PRETORIA5040	REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - A [...] Summary: The reality in southern Africa is that except for SACU, regional integration has predominantly not progressed much further than attempts to create free trade areas amongst some states and talks about possible customs unions. Within Southern Africa there are a number of regional integ [...]	2004-11-18 14:59:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KTEX ETRD ECON SF USTR
04PRETORIA5090	SOUTH AFRICA: COMMENTS ON OUR PROPOSED RESEARCH [...] (U) See Action Request in Paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Embassy/Pretoria received the following diplomatic note (see text below) from the U.S.A. Directorate at the Department of Foreign Affairs on November 23 along with a typed version of our proposed R&D Cooperation Agreement on Nuclear Material S [...]	2004-11-23 14:44:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP TRGY SF
04PRETORIA5286	SOUTH AFRICAN RESPONSE ON PROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (SBU) Embassy conveyed reftel points to officials at Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). According to DEAT's Director for International Relations, Zaheer Fakir, his Department was invited but never participated in discussions regardi [...]	2004-12-07 14:17:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG EAID ECON SF
04PRETORIA5293	PROGRESS ON EFTA-SACU FTA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) EFTA and SACU FTA negotiators met in Pretoria December 1 -7. Reliable contact in Swiss Embassy (please protect) told econoff that the round made "considerable progress" but that it required compromises on services and IPR. There will be a chapter on services but not much substance. It [...]	2004-12-08 11:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD SF
04PRETORIA5313	SACU TO NEGOTIATE FREE TRADE DEAL WITH INDIA [...] Summary: The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) and India will start free trade negotiations in the middle of 2005. The free trade talks would evolve in two stages, starting with the establishment of a preferential trade agreement covering trade in goods, to be later upgraded into a free [...]	2004-12-09 08:17:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KTEX ECON SF USTR
04PRETORIA5319	SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE [...] (U) Introduction: In January 2004, the Economic Section of Embassy/Pretoria produced the first issue of a new monthly newsletter called "The Assay". The purpose of this monthly newsletter is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as [...]	2004-12-09 11:51:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ECON SF
04PRETORIA5323	SOUTH AFRICA: EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Pretoria was pleased and privileged to host Dr. Subhash Gupta as Embassy Science Fellow from September 29 to December 8, 2004. During his ten-week stay, Dr. Gupta met with research groups at five universities and two government research councils, private sector represe [...]	2004-12-09 14:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD SENV TBIO SF
04PRETORIA5345	SOUTH AFRICA: BIOSAFETY UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In October 2004, the National Department of Agriculture (NDA) published amendments to the current Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Act, to bring it in line with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; public comments were requested by November 19, but it is unclear how quickly [...]	2004-12-10 13:27:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD SENV TBIO SF
04QUEBEC190	QUEBEC CITY 400TH ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) Summary: CG and Embassy Minister Counselor for Public Affairs met Oct 14-15 with federal, provincial and municipal representatives involved with planning Quebec's 400th Anniversary in 2008. Quebec Mayor L'Allier pushed for a visible U.S. legacy in the form of a genealogy center, while [...]	2004-11-03 17:36:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PGOV PREL CA
04QUITO2198	ECUADOR MOVING FORWARD ON COMBATING TIP [...] Summary. A State Department Trafficking in Persons (TIP) delegation visited Ecuador from July 30 to August 4. Their agenda included a series of meetings with high-level GOE officials (the Ministers of Government and Labor),a congresswoman, different units of the police, the MFA, and severa [...]	2004-08-06 12:27:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV EC
04QUITO2208	GOE CONCERNED, YET UNWILLING TO ACT ON VENEZUELAN [...] (C) At an August 5 dinner hosted by Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez in honor of visiting President Jimmy Carter, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns (reftel) over the August 15 Venezuelan referendum. Gutierrez asserted that Ecuador wanted "real" democracy in Venezuela. The birthplace of [...]	2004-08-09 17:49:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL EC VE
04QUITO2251	PARTY POSTURING PROMPTS BUCARAM RETURN RUMORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez's recent comments favoring the return of exiled former President Abdala Bucaram have ignited a political firestorm in Ecuador, with leading opposition parties promising that impeachment proceedings would shortly follow. Bucaram, whom Congress removed in [...]	2004-08-13 16:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2301	BREAKFAST WITH GUTIERREZ: ECONOMIC ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a breakfast meeting on August 18, President Gutierrez told the Ambassador that Ecuador will resolve its business disputes with the U.S. He expressed appreciation to the U.S. for its economic assistance, stated that he had instructed Minister of Trade Ivonne Baki to work mo [...]	2004-08-20 16:41:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID SENV EC
04QUITO2327	THE PROCURADOR STRIKES BACK AT OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM [...] (U) See paragraph 11 for an action request. 2. (C) Summary. Ecuador's Procurador (Solicitor General) may be seeking to terminate Occidental Petroleum's (Oxy) Block 15 participation contract for alleged violations of the hydrocarbon law. If the allegations are upheld, Oxy's Block 15 contr [...]	2004-08-24 21:01:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EPET ECON EC
04QUITO2380	PROGRESS ON OCCIDENTAL CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and Embassy efforts to tone down the rhetoric and reach an amicable resolution with the GOE are starting to pay dividends. Oxy had a productive meeting with the Procurador (Solicitor General). President Gutierrez has selected a commission, comprised [...]	2004-08-27 17:43:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD ECON EC
04QUITO2382	ECUADORIAN ARMS, MUNITIONS OFFERED FOR DESTRUCTION [...] In response to the Embassy's offer to include Ecuador in the State Department's Small Arms/Light Weapons (SALW) destruction program, Ecuador's service chiefs recently provided lists of weapons and ammunition they wish to destroy. Ecuador's joint command later blessed the inventory. Post bel [...]	2004-08-27 19:59:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MASS MOPS MARR PREL EC
04QUITO2399	FAWNING THRONGS GREET LULA IN QUITO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cheering crowds met Brazilian President Lula da Silva at every stop during his August 24-25 visit to Quito. Pre-arrival press was universally positive, portraying the ex-labor leader as a third-world savior and counterweight to the United States. Concurrently, editorials ravag [...]	2004-08-30 18:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EFIN EC BR UN
04QUITO2418	OXY BRINGS IN THE BIG GUNS - EMBASSY KEEPS FIRING [...] (U) Summary. Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) brought a team of lawyers and executives to Ecuador to discuss the GOE's claims that Oxy failed to comply with the hydrocarbon law in the transfer of 40% share of its Block 15 interest to Canadian oil company EnCana. Oxy is confident that it is on sol [...]	2004-09-02 22:01:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD ECON EC
04QUITO2447	ECUADOR CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD ON TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Summary. Ecuador continues to push ahead in its fight against trafficking in persons (TIP). The Embassy TIP working group met on September 1 to review GOE and USG efforts to combat TIP since the August 18th Presidential decree (Reftel). Raids on brothels continued, and the GOE is giving [...]	2004-09-08 16:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2449	PREPARING FOR ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuador's upcoming local elections are an indirect test of the Gutierrez Administration's strength (it is widely expected to fail that test) and, more importantly, an opportunity for Ecuadorian voters to renew their faith in the democratic process. President Gutierrez' Patriot [...]	2004-09-08 17:27:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2462	OXY: GOE TAKES A SERIOUS WRONG TURN [...] (U) See action request in paragraph 12. 2. (C) Summary. The GOE is proceeding with the contract nullification process (caducidad) against Occidental Petroleum (Oxy),potentially triggering the nationalization of Oxy's assets in Ecuador. Presidential Legal Advisor Carlos Larrea acknowledge [...]	2004-09-10 18:42:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD ECON EC

04QUITO2464	GALAPAGOS PARK LEADERSHIP POTENTIALLY DESTABILIZED [...] (U)Summary: The status of the leadership of the Galapagos National Park (GNP) is uncertain, with Park Director Edwin Naula facing possible dismissal. There are political motives behind the change and we will continue to press for stability. The US Mission has expressed concern at the highes [...]	2004-09-10 19:50:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2480	LABOR DELEGATION CONSULTATIONS IN ECUADOR [...] (U) Summary. During a September 1-3 visit to Ecuador, an interagency labor delegation met with GoE officials, labor and business representatives and Ecuadorian civil society representatives, fulfilling the Trade Promotion Authority mandate to consult on labor law and practice and begin the f [...]	2004-09-13 20:23:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO2497	ECUADOR: POLITICAL STABILITY AND USG SUPPORT [...] (S) Summary: With President Gutierrez increasingly isolated and weakened, his Cabinet divided and Congress hopelessly fragmented, rumors continue to swirl about a constitutional or extra-constitutional change in the Presidency. In this context we have reviewed how political instability here [...]	2004-09-14 22:44:00	Embassy Quito	SECRET	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2499	ECUADOR EVASIVE OVER NEW YORK BOLTON MEETING [...] (U) In response to Reftel, the Embassy August 20 contacted the Ecuadorian MFA's Article 98 coordinator, attorney Renan Mosquera, to seek a New York meeting between Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda and Under Secretary John Bolton. Customary in the overly formal MFA, Mosquera requested the [...]	2004-09-15 15:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EC KICC UNGA
04QUITO2500	FIGHTING ELECTORAL FRAUD, MISCOUNTS WITH TECHNOLOGY [...] SUMMARY: Ecuador's byzantine electoral process demands newspaper-sized ballots, seven-hour counts, and spawns unacceptable numbers of nullified votes. Worse, its complexity raises the possibility of electoral fraud. Ecuador's supreme electoral authority sees a partial solution in increased [...]	2004-09-15 16:02:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM EC
04QUITO2519	ECUADOR CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD ON TIP [...] Summary. Ecuador continues its strong fight against trafficking in persons (TIP),commercial sexual exploitation of minors (CSEM),and child pornography and has made additional progress since the last update. Congress is reviewing penal code reforms to change the definition of a minor to a ch [...]	2004-09-16 20:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2571	ECUADOR COMMITED TO USG TIP RECOMMENDATIONS [...] PolOff delivered reftel talking points including elements of a USG-supported action plan to combat TIP, to Carlos Jativa, the Minister of Government Raul Baca's assistant, on September 16. In a follow-up meeting with PolOff on September 20, Baca and Jativa concurred with the Tier 2 Watch List [...]	2004-09-22 16:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2578	ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: With less than a month remaining before Ecuador's October 17 elections, there remain several items of concern which, left unresolved, could prejudice a clean and orderly vote. The Embassy will continue to work with electoral authorities to encourage resolution of these issues. [...]	2004-09-23 17:38:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2594	ECUADOR ELECTIONS: QUITO/PICHINCHA RACES [...] (SBU) Summary: With 19% of the national vote, the electoral battle for Pichincha province, which includes the capital of Quito (itself 15% of the national vote),is a key test of the Democratic Left's (ID) strength. The Quito mayor race overshadows the Pichincha provincial prefect race in n [...]	2004-09-24 18:28:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2595	TIP IN ECUADOR: TRAINING, RAIDS, AND THE ABA'S [...] (U) Summary. The International Labor Organization (ILO) and Ecuadorian police began their joint training series on September 23 to teach the police about commercial sexual exploitation of minors (CSEM). The police conducted 25 raids from September 3 to 8 and rescued 30 minors. The American [...]	2004-09-24 19:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2599	NEW GALAPAGOS PARK DIRECTOR LITERALLY FIGHTS HIS [...] Summary. On September 22, a group of local fishermen, who have long been at odds with the park leadership over environmental regulations, stormed the office of the GNP headquarters in Santa Cruz and helped Fausto Cepeda, the newly appointed director, install himself as park director. The vio [...]	2004-09-24 19:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2602	ECUADOR SENDING ENGINEERS, TROOPS TO HAITI [...] The Government of Ecuador has directed that EC Army engineers and soldiers travel to Haiti to participate in UN-directed peacekeeping (PKO) operations and natural disaster (hurricane) relief. Embassy officials learned September 23 that the first Ecuadorian deployment will include 66 combat e [...]	2004-09-24 20:16:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS MARR PREL SMIG EC HA UN
04QUITO2608	ELECTORAL TRAINING EFFORT NOT WITHOUT HICCUPS [...] SUMMARY: A successful October 17 vote depends partly on the 275,000 Ecuadorians manning the polls election day. Training this army is a Herculean task falling to Ecuador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE); $400,000 in USG assistance, channeled through international electoral NGO CAPEL, bolste [...]	2004-09-28 19:18:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV EC
04QUITO2613	TIDE TURNING IN OXY'S FAVOR BUT A LONG WAY TO GO [...] (C) Summary. The efforts of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and the Mission are gathering momentum in blunting misperceptions raised by the Procurador's (solicitor general equivalent) allegations against Oxy. Business chambers, financial analysts and GOE officials are coming to understand what Ec [...]	2004-09-28 23:05:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD ECON PREL EC
04QUITO2614	MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT ANNOUNCES INITIATIVE [...] Summary. The Minister of the Environment (MOE),Fabian Valdivieso, announced to the press on September 27 that Fausto Cepeda had been replaced as Galapagos National Park (GNP) Director by GNP employee Victor Carrion. The MOE will form a commission to oversee any future selections of the GNP [...]	2004-09-28 23:35:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2680	ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS UPDATE #2 [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides an update of developments related to the upcoming October 17 provincial and local elections. Most procedural issues are moving toward resolution, the OAS has confirmed an electoral observation mission which Embassy volunteers will participate in, and the S [...]	2004-10-05 15:55:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2690	PRESIDENT SIGNS SUBCONTRACTING DECREE [...] Minister of Labor Raul Izurieta informed LabOff on October 5 that the President had signed the long-promised subcontracting decree (Executive Decree #2166) late on October 4. The decree will be published in the official register next week, he said. After the decree is published, the GoE wil [...]	2004-10-05 21:43:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO2704	ECUADOR TRYING TO STABILIZE GALAPAGOS PARK [...] Summary. The Minister of the Environment, Fabian Valdivieso, is attempting to change the process for selecting directors of the Galapagos National Park (GNP),hoping that an independent procedure will purge politics from this position and stabilize park management. The Minister proposes hiri [...]	2004-10-07 13:34:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2724	EMBASSY ANALYSIS OF SUBCONTRACTING DECREE [...] Summary: President Gutierrez signed Executive Decree 2166 regulating subcontracting (Reftel) on October 5, which will be published in the Official Register on October 12. While several articles in the decree differ from the version Minister of Labor Raul Izurieta originally gave us, we belie [...]	2004-10-08 21:20:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO2740	HOW FREE IS THE PRESS IN ECUADOR? [...] Summary. Continuing a longstanding battle with the press (Reftel),President Gutirrez recently called for a judicial investigation of a prominent radio director for possible seditious remarks in suggesting the president had received campaign contributions from Colombia's FARC in the 2000 pre [...]	2004-10-13 17:46:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV ECON EC
04QUITO2759	FINAL ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: This cable provides information about the upcoming October 17 provincial/local elections, their significance, a summary of Embassy involvement in the OAS electoral observation mission, information on how to reach us on election day, suggested press guidance, and a synopsis of re [...]	2004-10-14 20:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2761	MFA OFFERS VOTE SWAP ON U.S. ICTY NOMINEE [...] In response to Reftel, the Embassy October 12 delivered to the Ecuadorian foreign ministry a non-paper and CV in support of Judge Theodor Meron, the USG's candidate for re-election to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In a follow-up meeting October 14, Luis Arella [...]	2004-10-15 12:41:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS PHUM EC
04QUITO2762	ECUADOR TO SUPPORT CUBAN UNGA RESOLUTION [...] (U) In response to Reftel, the Embassy October 7 delivered pro-embargo, anti-resolution talking points to the Ecuadorian foreign ministry. In a follow-up meeting October 14 with MFA Director General for Multilateral Policy Miguel Mendes, Poloff emphasized three points: the U.S. embargo was [...]	2004-10-15 14:42:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD EC
04QUITO2769	EMBASSY VIEWS ON GOE LABOR DECREE [...] (SBU) Summary: The publication on October 14 of the presidential decree on subcontracting is an important if not ideal step forward that comes at some political cost to President Gutierrez and Labor Minister Raul Izurieta. Ecuadorian and U.S. private sector interests are already attacking th [...]	2004-10-18 15:10:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO2771	PRELIMINARY ECUADORIAN ELECTION RESULTS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuadorian voters went to the polls to elect provincial and municipal officials on October 17 in elections the OAS characterized publicly as "free and transparent." Some irregularities were reported but in most polling places voting proceeded relatively smoothly. Preliminary [...]	2004-10-18 19:34:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2773	ECUADOR TIP UPDATE [...] Summary. Ecuadorian police conducted nearly 50 raids September 16 - 30 and found 55 minors suspected as victims of trafficking in persons (TIP). USAID signed a $300,000 agreement with Geneva Global to begin a small grants program aimed at prevention, prosecution and protection of TIP. Press [...]	2004-10-18 21:10:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2886	EMBASSY PUSHING STABILITY MESSAGE HARD [...] SUMMARY: Reftels outline the current political quicksand enveloping GoE President Lucio Gutierrez. Believing further instability runs counter to Ecuadorian and U.S. interests, the Embassy is immersed in an outreach campaign to bolster rank-and-file support for constitutional democracy and th [...]	2004-10-29 21:32:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM EC
04QUITO2922	MOL CONSIDERS LABOR REFORM; UNIONS URGE RESIGNATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting in Guayaquil with USTR and Department of State officials, two key Ecuadorian labor leaders stated they will challenge the recently published executive decree on subcontracting as unconstitutional, and also repeated a call for Minister of Labor Raul Izurieta's removal f [...]	2004-11-05 17:39:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO2927	CONGRATULATORY LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ TO [...] Embassy received a congratulatory letter from President Gutierrez to President Bush dated November 2 on November 4 under a cover letter from acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Edwin Johnson. 2. Text of Letter from President Gutierrez: Your excellency: On behalf of the Ecuadorian peop [...]	2004-11-05 19:43:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OPDC EC
04QUITO2941	MINISTER OF FINANCE CONFIDENT OF STABILITY [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Yepez believes the Gutierrez regime can make it through the current crisis, but remains handicapped by bad advisors at the top. The GOE is maintaining its responsible fiscal policy and continues to work on plans to eliminate the gas subsidy. End Summary. [...]	2004-11-08 22:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV EC
04QUITO2955	OPPOSITION FALLS SHORT ON FIRST IMPEACHMENT VOTE; [...] (C) Summary: The pro-impeachment opposition on November 9 tried and twice failed to create a special Congressional committee to consider impeachment grounds against President Lucio Gutierrez, effectively stymieing impeachment efforts at an early stage. The opposition came up short of taking [...]	2004-11-10 22:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO3027	GOVERNMENT MINISTER POLITICAL LIGHTING ROD, [...] (C) Summary: Government Minister Jaime Damerval has courted controversy since taking office on November 8, recently suggesting that the GoE convoke a referendum on whether to dissolve Congress to promote constitutional reforms. In a private meeting with the DCM on November 15, Damerval back [...]	2004-11-17 21:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PINR EC
04QUITO3028	RENEWING THE ARTICLE 98 PUSH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Article 98 negotiations in Ecuador have stagnated of late. Two factors are to blame: continued push-back from the Embassy's prime interlocutors, the Foreign Ministry and Congress, and the Gutierrez government's focus on self-preservation in the face of impeachment proceedings. [...]	2004-11-17 21:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL EC KICC
04QUITO3053	PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES SEEK USG HELP ON GOE [...] See action request paragraph 7. 2. Summary. Econ and FCS met November 19 with representatives from Bristol Meyers and Pfizer. The pharmaceutical representatives complained that the GOE is trying to exert further control over drug prices and company profits. This latest initiative by the [...]	2004-11-22 18:04:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR EFIN EC
04QUITO3099	NOVEMBER TIP UPDATE [...] Summary: This cable reports significant anti-TIP developments since our interim TIP report (Ref A). USAID and Geneva Global will mount six new projects to combat TIP (Trafficking in Persons) by the end of the year. We recently met with two organizations who provide services to children and [...]	2004-11-26 14:32:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3103	ARTICLE 98 BACK IN HEADLINES, POST PRESSES CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent public comments from high-level USG visitors and the Ambassador have put Article 98 back in play in Ecuador. Major newspapers and radio/TV outlets have highlighted our efforts, as well as GoE Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda's November 23 claim that the MFA continues [...]	2004-11-26 20:24:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL PGOV EC KICC
04QUITO3108	PRO-GOVT CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY FLEXES MUSCLES [...] Summary: In a marathon session November 25, the new, pro-government legislative majority bypassed President of Congress Guillermo Landazuri's programmed agenda and elected Jorge Montero second vice president. It then replaced the members of the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) and the Supreme E [...]	2004-11-26 22:11:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3115	DONORS LOSING PATIENCE WITH MANAGEMENT OF GALAPAGOS [...] Summary. Ecuador continues to take two steps backward for each step forward in the Galapagos. President Gutierrez signed a decree in October banning the export of shark fins from Ecuador (Reftel A),to promote conservation. The Minister of the Environment, Fabian Valdivieso, however, repla [...]	2004-11-30 13:35:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO3151	CAREER DIP TO HEAD ECUADOR'S WASHINGTON EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez told the Ambassador on December 2 that he would nominate MFA Bilateral U/S Roberto Betancourt to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington. The career diplomat will replace political appointee Ambassador Raul Gangotena, who submitted his resignation Novembe [...]	2004-12-03 20:53:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3202	ECUADOR PREPARING TO MOVE FORWARD ON CIVIL [...] Summary. Ecuador's Congress is preparing for the second debate on proposed civil aviation legislation sometime in January. A legal advisor to the committee in which the draft legislation is pending says a vote on the floor of the Congress is likely sometime in February. The passage of this [...]	2004-12-10 17:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PGOV EC
04QUITO3256	ARTICLE 98: GOE AWARE OF NETHERCUTT-BACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Word of the Nethercutt Amendment, which mandates reductions in Economic Support Funds (ESF) available to non-Article 98 signers, has reached GoE leaders, and they are worried. In a pull-aside at a diplomatic reception recently, the foreign minister requested clarification and i [...]	2004-12-17 22:25:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR PGOV EC KICC
04QUITO3262	MOL UNDERSTANDS NEED FOR LABOR CODE REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: While Minister of Labor Izurieta understands the need for labor code reform, he is not focused on freedom of association issues. The Embassy has made it clear to Izurieta that the U.S. Congress is less likely to pass a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) including Ecuador unless the l [...]	2004-12-20 22:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV ETRD EC
04QUITO3289	ECUADOR 2005 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Below is Embassy Quito's submission for the 2005 National Trade Estimate Report. A copy of the report has been provided to USTR Bennett Harman via email. The report was a collaborative effort between State, the Commercial Service and the Foreign Agricultural Service. TRADE SUMMARY ---- [...]	2004-12-23 19:53:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN EC
04QUITO3302	EX-FINMIN MAY REPLACE CAREER DIP AS AMB-DESIGNATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: GoE President Lucio Gutierrez is reconsidering his earlier designation of career diplomat Roberto Betancourt to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington (Reftel). According to separate Embassy Quito sources, former Minister of Finance Mauricio Pozo now appears the preferred candida [...]	2004-12-28 15:46:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
04QUITO3304	INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATION ELECTS NEW HEAD [...] Summary: The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on December 23 elected Luis Macas president of the organization, a post he previously held twice. Macas, a former Minister of Agriculture and an ethnic Saraguro indian from the south of the country, will lead the org [...]	2004-12-28 19:22:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04RANGOON1014	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER KHIN NYUNT: CHINA FREQUENT [...] (C) Summary: Both the PRC Embassy and the Burmese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) described Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt's 11-18 July visit to China, his eighth overall though the first as PM, as a huge success. The visit, during which Khin Nyunt met senior Chinese leaders and repor [...]	2004-08-06 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON PGOV PHUM BM CH
04RANGOON1035	THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY: MONSOON SEASON [...] (C) Summary: The NLD CEC has established regular communications with ASSK and U Tin Oo. An ongoing NLD petition drive to free the two leaders has proven minimally appealing to party members and supporters, and has also encountered some regime resistance in Mandalay and Sagaing divisions. Wi [...]	2004-08-11 09:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON1049	BURMA: NLD APPEALS TO HIGH COURT TO FREE ASSK, [...] (C) Summary: The National League for Democracy (NLD) on August 16 initiated a legal maneuver requesting that Burma's High Court order the GOB to release ASSK and U Tin Oo and to allow the party to reopen its offices. NLD leaders are under no illusion that the effort will force the regime to r [...]	2004-08-16 09:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD ASSK
04RANGOON1100	ALLEGED NORTH KOREAN INVOLVEMENT IN MISSILE [...] (S) SUMMARY: North Korean workers are reportedly assembling "SAM missiles" and constructing an underground facility at a Burmese military site in Magway Division, about 315 miles NNW of Rangoon, according to XXXXXXXXXXXX . This unsolicited account should not be taken as authoritative, but it tracks [...]	2004-08-27 08:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PARM PINR PREL KNNP BM KN
04RANGOON1136	BURMA: "HELL'S ANGELS" IN THE EAST, SLAVE LABORERS [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR's latest assessment mission along Burma's eastern border revealed KNU strength to be significantly diminished and, by contrast, an alarming and widespread presence of DKBA soldiers "who resemble the Hell's Angels" in appearance, swagger, and influence. Meanwhile, on the we [...]	2004-09-02 07:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PINS ELAB BM
04RANGOON1151	GOB INDIFFERENT TO HISTORIC FLOODING [...] (C) Summary: Record rainfall in July and August led to historic flooding throughout Burma, rendering thousands homeless and causing severe damage to rice crops. The Burmese regime denied that any flooding occurred and arrested individuals for distributing video footage of flooded towns. GOB [...]	2004-09-03 11:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAGR ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON1176	AMERICAN CENTER ANNEX IN MANDALAY: FREQUENTLY ASKED [...] (SBU) Given the summer-cycle turnover in personnel working on Burma issues, we thought it would be helpful to provide a quick synopsis of the plan to establish an annex of Rangoon's American Center in Mandalay. This informal format provides Embassy Rangoon's perspective on many questions fre [...]	2004-09-09 09:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ABLD ASEC PREL KPAO KDEM BM
04RANGOON1225	THE BURMESE REGIME'S "SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT" WITH [...] (C) Summary: A recent exchange of top military visits between Burma and Thailand indicates improving relations between the SPDC and the Royal Thai Armed Forces and is a sign that many wounds have healed since the two armies squared off during a series of deadly border skirmishes in mid-2002. [...]	2004-09-16 10:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR BM TH
04RANGOON1269	ALL SMILES: PM KHIN NYUNT'S TRIP TO SINGAPORE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt made a recent trip to Singapore--part official, part medevac--in what the regime views as another successful effort to garner ASEAN support for the SPDC's road map to democracy. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On September 20 the COM and P/E chief call [...]	2004-09-24 10:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BM SN
04RANGOON131	AN ODD TRIP WITH FIVE BURMESE MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Two Emboffs joined five senior Burmese cabinet ministers and others in a four-day, 1,400 mile "Study Visit" of border areas and central Burma January 23 - 26. Traveling at close quarters with these ministers revealed them to be greedy, pampered, highly organized, and perpetually [...]	2004-01-30 09:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS EAID BM
04RANGOON1322	BURMA'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER: "EXPECT NO CHANGE IN [...] (C) Summary: New Foreign Minister U Nyan Win met with the COM on October 5, only his third encounter as FM with a diplomat in Rangoon. By all appearances, Nyan Win is a caretaker foreign minister under instructions from SPDC Chairman Than Shwe to hold the regime line. He declared that the G [...]	2004-10-05 10:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR BM
04RANGOON1343	AUNG SAN SUU KYI THANKS AMERICA FOR ITS SUPPORT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Aung San Suu Kyi sent a verbal message via a trusted Burmese confidante to us October 8 to: A) thank the U.S. for its continued strong support of democracy in Burma, B) warn that "some in the UN system are seeking to undermine America,s efforts in Burma," and C) seek USG support [...]	2004-10-12 08:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON1357	BURMA TO HOST MAJOR REGIONAL TIPS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Burmese Government, with support from the United Nations, is preparing to host a three-day regional conference on trafficking in persons, October 27-29. This is a safe issue for the generals. It provides an easy platform on which to interact with their neighbors and to impr [...]	2004-10-19 00:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PGOV BM
04RANGOON1359	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER OUSTED? CRESCENDO OF [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-19 11:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PINR BM
04RANGOON1374	BURMESE JUNTA CHIEF TO SEEK INDIAN ENLIGHTENMENT? [...] (C) Summary: Despite a week of significant political change in Burma, we have seen no signs that SPDC Chairman Senior General Than Shwe plans to cancel a trip planned to India on October 24. If Than Shwe travels as planned, it would be an additional sign that the SPDC has effected a seamless, [...]	2004-10-21 10:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON BM IN
04RANGOON1386	PUSHING A BIG ROCK UP A STEEP HILL: UNFPA TRIES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The UNFPA's three-day tour through upper Burma in mid-October for members of the diplomatic community and INGOs presented a microcosm of life today in this country: a graceful, capable people burdened by a Government that takes decisions based on its own interests. End Summary [...]	2004-10-22 12:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV EAID SOCI BM NGO
04RANGOON1402	BUSINESS AS USUAL: THE SPDC SHOWS LITTLE CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Labor U Tin Winn told COM on October 25 that his government would "reassess the utility of the ILO" if the ILO's Governing Body decided to implement the measures outlined in Article 33 of the International Labor Conference's resolution of 2000. In response to our sta [...]	2004-10-26 11:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM BM ASSK
04RANGOON1421	ECHO COMING TO BURMA [...] (U) Summary: The EU plans to open a Rangoon branch of the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) by the end of this year to monitor and supplement the considerable humanitarian assistance it currently provides for Burma programs from Bangkok and Brussels. According to one Bangkok-bas [...]	2004-11-04 04:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID PREL PGOV BM NGO
04RANGOON1422	MAINLAND SE ASIA AND CHINA PLEDGE TIP COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: The Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) moved forward in Rangoon, October 27-29. All of the participating governments seemed to find a comfortable confluence of political, strategic, and operational elements in the MOU they signed and the sup [...]	2004-11-04 05:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PGOV EAID BM
04RANGOON1425	INDIAN AMBASSADOR RATES THAN SHWE VISIT AN [...] (C) Summary: India's Ambassador to Burma concludes that the SPDC Chairman's October 24-29 visit to India was "a very important success" that addressed Burma's domestic situation, secured GOB support for an Indian UNSC seat, and yielded progress on bilateral security and trade issues. The Amb [...]	2004-11-04 08:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM IN
04RANGOON1435	BURMA: CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM THAN [...] (U) On November 4, 2004 Embassy Rangoon received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitting a congratulatory letter (unsigned) from Senior General Than Shwe to President Bush on the occasion of the latter's re-election. Post will forward the original to EAP/BCLTV. Th [...]	2004-11-08 09:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OPDC BM
04RANGOON1443	A VISIT TO PROJECT OLD SOLDIER 101 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: INL-funded Project Old Soldier 101, a crop-substitution program founded by WWII veterans of OSS Detachment 101, appears to be doing an excellent job providing farmers profitable alternatives to raising opium poppies in the rugged hills of northeastern Burma. Approximately 4,000 [...]	2004-11-09 08:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR EAID EAGR PREL MOPS BM NGO
04RANGOON1456	CAPACITY-BUILDING PROGRAM FOR RISING ETHNIC PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Rangoon's Public Affairs Section (PAS) recently initiated a leadership capacity building program (called the "Global English" Program) for 23 representatives from nine ethnic democratic political parties. The program's nine-month curriculum, targeted at rising or curr [...]	2004-11-12 02:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KPAO EAID PREL BM
04RANGOON1485	SMALL EXPLOSION NEAR RANGOON DISTRICT COURT: NO [...] (C) Summary: A small explosion occurred early November 18 near the Rangoon district court. No one was hurt, making this incident reminiscent of the June 26 explosion at the Rangoon railway station (reftel). It appears the government is trying to justify tightened security measures as more [...]	2004-11-18 10:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL BM
04RANGOON1488	BURMESE REGIME BEGINS RELEASE OF 4,000 PRISONERS [...] (C) Summary: Citing "irregularities" of deposed Prime Minister Khin Nyunt's recently disbanded National Intelligence Bureau (NIB),the Burmese regime commenced on November 18-19 to release nearly 4,000 prisoners, including an unknown number of political detainees. Although some observers sp [...]	2004-11-19 11:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM
04RANGOON1499	FIFTEEN YEARS IN THE BURMESE GULAG [...] (C) Summary: One of Burma's best-known dissidents, Min Ko Naing (aka Paw Oo Tun),freed on November 19 after 15 years spent in Burmese prisons, met with Emboffs and discussed his long, isolated, and arduous stint in the military regime's gulag. The 42 year-old former Rangoon University zoology [...]	2004-11-23 11:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM BM
04RANGOON1507	STATUS OF NLD DEPUTY CHAIRMAN U TIN OO [...] (S) SUMMARY: NLD deputy chairman U Tin Oo, 77, remains under house arrest, although has been allowed to visit a private clinic for medical diagnosis. He is undergoing medical treatment and may need surgery. His wife, Dr. Tin Moe Wai, met with DCM November 26 to delivered a personal note fr [...]	2004-11-29 09:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON1519	EMBASSY RANGOON CONDUCTS HIV/AIDS TRAINING FOR ALL [...] Summary. Embassy Rangoon has completed HIV/AIDS awareness training for all current mission staff in accordance with the Department of State's HIV/AIDS workplace policy and a Plan of Action established at the July 2003 HIV/AIDS Chiefs of Mission Conference in Bangkok, at which COMs committed [...]	2004-11-30 09:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI KHIV APER BM
04RANGOON1522	BURMA: KHIN NYUNT'S GONE, BUT BIG BROTHER'S STILL [...] (C) Summary: At the behest of the GOB, several Burmese-language newspapers have published articles detailing encounters between members of the diplomatic community, including U.S. Embassy personnel, and democracy activists, in the process reiterating that Big Brother's still on the job despite [...]	2004-12-01 07:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PREL PHUM ASEC BM
04RANGOON1524	BURMESE REGIME RECALLS FOREIGN ENVOYS FOR [...] (C) Summary: The GOB has instructed its 37-odd foreign envoys to return to Burma in three separate batches for "reorientation" and "familiarization" with new members of the government and senior military officers. One senior official insists that rumors all of the ambassadors will be ousted a [...]	2004-12-01 09:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON1544	FOREIGN-OWNED NEWSPAPER FEELS THE POST-KHIN NYUNT [...] (C) Summary: The Australian co-owner and editor of Burma's only non-GOB English-language newspaper, under serious pressure from the regime, has appealed to Rangoon-based ambassadors for statements of support should his publication "be closed down for any reason." Like many others who enjoyed [...]	2004-12-07 07:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL BM
04RANGOON1572	BURMESE PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS REQUEST FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Congress has appropriated and earmarked millions of dollars to support Burma's pro-democracy movement and those Burmese seeking refuge from the junta's tyranny. While a portion of this funding appropriately supports thousands of Burmese who have fled their country, direct support for th [...]	2004-12-14 04:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET//NOFORN	EAID KDEM PINR BM
04RANGOON158	FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF UNICEF BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thirty-five percent of Burma's children are malnourished, while one out of ten dies by age five, according to UNICEF. Emboff traveled with a UNICEF team to Karen and Mon States recently to observe UNICEF's field operations. Embassy Rangoon is highly supportive of UNICEF's act [...]	2004-02-04 09:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PREL BM UNICEF NGO
04RANGOON16	ANTIDOTE TO THE REGIME: THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT'S [...] (C) Summary: On January 4, the 56th anniversary of Burma's independence, pro-democracy political parties and supporters held quiet, but well-attended, commemorative events in Rangoon. In contrast to the regime's official ceremonies, heavily militarized functions that trumpeted the SPDC's self [...]	2004-01-05 10:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM BM NLD
04RANGOON161	SPDC TRIES TO ENHANCE "UNDERSTANDING" OF BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: A two day seminar on "Understanding Myanmar" on January 27-28 was certainly the first time we have seen the government willing to discuss its policies in even a reasonably open forum. However, few attendees took the opportunity to publicly push important issues with the often sen [...]	2004-02-05 06:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON BM
04RANGOON1627	BURMA: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] Embassy Rangoon's submission for the annual terrorism report follows. Post will update the final section of this short statement when GOB provides requested information. Burma Burma maintained its solid position against international terrorism in 2004. The regime previously enacted an anti- [...]	2004-12-23 09:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC BM
04RANGOON1629	INDONESIA QUAKE HITS BURMA [...] Rangoon awoke on Sunday the 26th to a 5.3 earthquake, the largest since 1958 in the capital, testimony to the vast power of the quake off Indonesia. Though there were no reports of casualties or major damage in Rangoon, there were scattered reports throughout the area of slightly damaged buil [...]	2004-12-27 09:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR CASC PREL PINR PGOV AMGT BM
04RANGOON1643	TFXO01: (12/29) BURMESE GOVERNMENT UPS TSUNAMI [...] (SBU) Summary: As of December 29th, the GOB's official earthquake/tsunami death toll in Burma is 51 dead and 70 missing, though the real numbers may be higher. There have been no reports of Amcit casualties or verified cases of missing Americans. The GOB has declined offers of assistance fro [...]	2004-12-29 10:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR CASC PREL PINR PGOV AMGT BM
04RANGOON1647	BURMA: GOB AFFIRMS THAT ASSK WILL REMAIN ISOLATED [...] (C) Summary: The new Minister of Home Affairs, offering the first official GOB word on the current status of Aung San Suu Kyi's detention, says that ASSK and NLD Vice Chairman U Tin Oo are no longer considered held "in protective custody," but rather are detained under a specific provision of [...]	2004-12-30 05:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR BM ASSK
04RANGOON1649	TFXO01: (12/30) BURMA SITUATION SEEMS STABLE...FOR [...] Summary: All USG personnel in Burma are accounted for and safe. There have still been no reports of Amcit casualties or verified cases of missing Americans. There was no new information on casualties in Burma on December 30th, though a UN team found little evidence to dispute GOB claims of D [...]	2004-12-30 10:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR CASC KFLO PREL PINR PGOV AMGT BM
04RANGOON199	SPDC STILL ARRESTING NLD MEMBERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite talk of a "new year of transition," the SPDC has perpetuated old habits by continuing to arrest NLD members for conducting peaceful political activities. These latest arrests, over a dozen total, stand in contrast to reports of an on-going dialogue between ASSK and the [...]	2004-02-13 11:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON206	UNION DAY WRAP UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB celebrated Burma's 57th Union Day with an official ceremony in Rangoon's People's Square, attended by high-level SPDC officials and their faithful minions. Diplomats were invited to a low-key MOFA event co-hosted by the Myanmar Asean Women's Friendship Association. The [...]	2004-02-17 10:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON237	UPDATE ON A MON STATE OF MIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Emboff and FSN met Feb 14 with a high-level New Mon State Party (NMSP) delegation visiting Rangoon to meet with the PM and to attend the 57th Union Day activities -- including the State Banquet hosted by Than Shwe. The NMSP, one of the major cease-fire groups, discussed a wide a [...]	2004-02-23 09:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ELAB PHUM BM
04RANGOON238	AMERICAN CENTER SPEAKER PROMOTES DIALOGUE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Rangoon's Public Affairs Section hosted Fulbright Scholar Jeffrey Kamakahi for programs on diversity, inequality, and social change with Burma's many ethnic, racial, and religious groups. Though the target audiences greatly appreciated his visit, they also expressed th [...]	2004-02-23 10:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KISL KPAO BM
04RANGOON239	BURMA: ANOTHER TENTATIVE STEP ON MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (C) Summary: As is its custom, the GOB released with no warning news of three important steps toward the implementation of its anti-money laundering law. It announced the setting of threshold amounts for banking and real estate transactions, and the naming of members to its nascent Financial [...]	2004-02-23 10:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN SNAR ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON240	BURMA: WFP PLANS EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: The World Food Programme (WFP) plans to initiate on March 1 a one-year program to assist former poppy farmers suffering from food insecurity. The program will cost about $4 million and target about 180,000 beneficiaries in the ethnic Kokang and Wa border areas through food-for-wo [...]	2004-02-23 10:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EAGR PGOV SNAR PREF BM NGO
04RANGOON243	REGIME HAMMERS ACTIVISTS WITH LENGTHY PRISON TERMS [...] (C) Summary: The SPDC has handed down prison sentences ranging from 7 to 17 years to six university activists who distributed a handful of leaflets criticizing the regime's "road map for democracy." This harsh treatment is business as usual for a regime that tolerates no dissent. Meanwhile, [...]	2004-02-25 00:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BM
04RANGOON310	BURMA: FOURTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following report responds to the checklist provided in reftel requesting information on trafficking in persons activities in Burma from March 2003 to March 2004. The report will also be forwarded by e-mail to EAP/BCLTV in MS Word format. END SUMMARY. BEGIN REPORT Ove [...]	2004-03-08 10:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BM
04RANGOON365	CAMPUS COMMOTION: RANGOON AND MYITKYINA STUDENT [...] (C) Summary: According to Embassy sources, recent student-led protests over administrative issues at two university campuses, one located in a Rangoon suburb and the other in Kachin State in northern Burma, resulted in military intervention to restore "order." These reports indicate the regim [...]	2004-03-18 10:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MOPS BM
04RANGOON369	BURMA WELCOMES PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY AIDS PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burma is interested in new program possibilities under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (ref A) and has requested further consultations with the Embassy and USAID Bangkok to examine details of what the emergency plan actually means for Burma. Probably for reasons o [...]	2004-03-19 08:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID SOCI KHIV PHUM PGOV BM NGO
04RANGOON370	MOFA ON DPRK MISSILES, ROAD MAP [...] (C) SUMMARY: MOFA Political Director General U Thaung Tun, covering a range of political issues, reiterated to COM on March 18 the GOB's position that Burma has refused North Korea offers to buy missiles and has no intention of resuming diplomatic relations with DPRK. He that although the GO [...]	2004-03-19 08:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM
04RANGOON404	SPDC CELEBRATES ARMED FORCES DAY, NLD HAILS [...] (C) Summary: On March 27, the SPDC celebrated the 59th Anniversary of Armed Forces Day with a traditional military parade, sundry speeches lauding the accomplishments of the modern Burmese Army, and an official state dinner complete with a now-standard depiction of Senior General Than Shwe as [...]	2004-03-29 12:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON470	BURMESE MUSLIMS BRACE FOR FALLOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rangoon-based Muslim leaders are advising Muslims to expect a severe GOB reaction following the April 7 attack on the Burmese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur (ref A). The Foreign Ministry publicly condemned the attack, though avoiding mention of the attackers' ethnicity and religion, a [...]	2004-04-09 10:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PTER PGOV PINS KISL MY BM
04RANGOON471	RANGOON MISSIONS ON PREPARATIONS FOR BANGKOK II [...] (C) Summary: Our recent calls on six Rangoon-based EU and ASEAN diplomatic missions to discuss the second meeting of the "Bangkok Process" on Burma revealed a range of assessments on the road that lies ahead. Most of the missions believe that the SPDC will release ASSK within days or weeks a [...]	2004-04-09 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON488	THE BURMA-THAI BORDER TRADE CHRONICLES: PART I, [...] (C) Summary: A recent joint visit by Bangkok and Rangoon Econoffs to Ranong and Kawthaung, along the southern Burmese-Thai border, shows business as usual in the informal movement of goods and people. However, the formal economy on both sides is sluggish due to the continued ban on Thai fishi [...]	2004-04-21 03:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV EFIS BM TH

04RANGOON497	THE BURMA-THAI BORDER TRADE CHRONICLES: PART II, [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit by Bangkok and Rangoon Econoffs to Mae Sot and Myawaddy, the largest trading point on the Burmese-Thai border, shows trade volumes that are flourishing despite U.S. sanctions and increasingly ludicrous Burmese trade policy. Even more than it does the sleepy Kawthau [...]	2004-04-22 02:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV PHUM BM TH
04RANGOON502	BURMESE NARCOTICS: CHINESE AMBASSADOR ADVOCATES [...] (C) Summary: The Chinese ambassador to Burma advocates shifting international focus from counter-drug activities toward alternative and long-term development as a means to keep farmers from cultivating poppy and producing opium. He said current PRC counternarcotics activities in Burma are mo [...]	2004-04-22 05:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR BM CH
04RANGOON513	THE BURMA-THAI BORDER TRADE CHRONICLES, PART III: [...] (C) Summary: Despite predictions that new U.S. sanctions would cause major changes in border trade and migration, a recent visit by Bangkok and Rangoon Econoffs to two of the three major Thai-Burma border crossings (refs A and B) shows business as usual in the movement of goods and people. Tho [...]	2004-04-23 04:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PHUM PREL ECON PGOV BM TH NGO
04RANGOON514	GOB PULLS THE PLUG ON BANGKOK II [...] (C) Summary: According to an MFA contact, Burma has opted out of the second meeting of the "Bangkok Process" and requested a postponement of at least one month, likely part of an effort to focus exclusively on reconvening the National Convention on May 17. We suspect the GOB realizes that the [...]	2004-04-23 08:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
04RANGOON594	NLD SAYS SPDC WON'T BUDGE ON ASSK RELEASE AND [...] (S) NLD spokesman U Lwin requested a meeting with P/E chief on May 13 and reported that he had met the previous evening with ASSK. He conveyed to ASSK the Embassy's oft-repeated offer to assist her and the NLD in any way possible. ASSK, who was "delighted and very encouraged" by the USG's co [...]	2004-05-13 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON631	MONEY LAUNDERING: FATF COMES TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Anti-money laundering legislation and supervision were the topics of three days of discussions between FATF and the Burmese government. Though the GOB has made much progress on paper, concerns remain over some troubling details and prospects for proper enforcement. As FATF consi [...]	2004-05-19 10:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV SNAR BM
04RANGOON637	NATIONAL CONVENTION: CENTER OF THE REGIME'S [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime's National Convention has thus far revealed little more than instructions and warnings to its hand-picked delegates who will have no opportunity to reconsider pre-drafted components of a new constitution. It is clear that the SPDC has reconvened the Convention [...]	2004-05-20 10:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM
04RANGOON644	BURMA'S FORESTRY MINISTER TAKES A MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: In the COM's first meeting with Burma's Forestry Minister we were able to finally get the GOB's official line on wildlife trafficking and illegal timbering, and clarify an outstanding rumor regarding the punishment of a Ministry official for illegal contact with the Embassy. Tho [...]	2004-05-21 07:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PGOV EAGR PHUM BM
04RANGOON647	BURMESE REGIME'S STRATEGIC VIEWS OF U.S. AND CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United States wants to dominate Burma in order to penetrate China's soft underbelly, according to Burmese Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt. The PM, speaking with a visiting ethnic leader, laid out his strategic views of the United States and China. Burma must resist U.S. [...]	2004-05-21 08:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PINR BM CH
04RANGOON675	BURMA AND CHINA: TRUE FRIENDSHIP OR MARRIAGE OF [...] (C) Summary: Burma's ruling SPDC views China as its key bilateral partner and seeks to use the relationship as evidence of its legitimacy and to offset pressure by the international community, particularly the United States, for concrete movement toward national reconciliation and democracy. [...]	2004-05-27 00:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV MARR BM CM
04RANGOON680	BURMA: COUNTERNARCOTICS CERTIFICATION REPORT CARD [...] (SBU) This message responds to ref A request for a report card on the Government of Burma's cooperation on counternarcotics efforts in preparation for the annual certification process. In the text below Embassy Rangoon has assessed progress on existing benchmarks, in the prescribed report car [...]	2004-05-27 08:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR BM
04RANGOON695	ACTIVISTS ARRESTED ON ANNIVERSARY OF DEPAYIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REGIME-ORCHESTRATED ATTACK ON THE NLD AT DEPAYIN ON MAY 30, 2003, THE REGIME ARRESTED AT LEAST NINE VERIFIED AND POSSIBLY DOZENS MORE YOUTHS INVOLVED IN DISTRIBUTING COPIES OF THE UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS. THE NLD HELD RELIGIOUS SERVICES [...]	2004-06-01 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON728	BURMA: DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES RARE EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SURPRISE, BUT WELCOME, MEETING BETWEEN THE CHIEF OF MISSION AND THE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER WAS MORE SIGNIFICANT FOR ITS OCCURRENCE THAN ITS CONTENT. NONETHELESS, DURING THE CORDIAL 30-MINUTE EXCHANGE THE COM PRESSURED FOR A ROLE FOR THE NLD IN THE "ROAD MAP FOR DEMOCRACY," AND [...]	2004-06-09 10:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER BM
04RANGOON768	BURMESE USING THAIS TO VIOLATE U.S. IMPORT BAN [...] SUMMARY: BURMESE GARMENT FACTORY OWNERS ADMITTED TO AN EMBASSY OFFICER THAT THEIR COMPANY IS CIRCUMVENTING THE U.S. IMPORT BAN ON BURMESE PRODUCTS BY EXPORTING THEIR "U2" AND "ADIDAS" BRAND GARMENTS OVERLAND TO BANGKOK, AND THEN RE-EXPORTING THROUGH A THAI COMPANY DIRECTLY TO THE UNITED STATE [...]	2004-06-18 08:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON CVIS KTEX TH BM
04RANGOON779	ASSK'S BIRTHDAY PASSES QUIETLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: AROUND 300 NLD PARTY FAITHFUL ATTENDED A CEREMONY AT NLD HEADQUARTERS IN RANGOON TO MARK THE NLD-CREATED BURMESE NATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AND ASSK'S COINCIDENT 59TH BIRTHDAY, WHILE THE USUAL HEAVY SECURITY PRESENCE LOITERED NEARBY. THE DAY PASSED PEACEFULLY, AND NO ARRESTS WERE MADE [...]	2004-06-22 08:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON88	BURMA: RUMORS OF CONSTRUCTION OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (S/NF) An expatriate businessmanXXXXXXXXXXXX recently volunteered to an Embassy Officer that he had heard rumors that a nuclear reactor was being built near Minbu, in central Magway Division on the Irawaddy River. The businessman added that he personally had seen a "massive" barge containing large- [...]	2004-01-20 09:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PARM PREL BM RS KS KNPP
04RANGOON881	KYAUKSE: THAN SHWE'S TIKRIT [...] (C) Summary: A visit to Senior General Than Shwe's hometown of Kyaukse revealed a town of above average development, but with lingering religious tensions. After Buddhist-Muslim religious riots here in October 2003, there seems to have been little attempt by anyone to systematically eliminat [...]	2004-07-13 09:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL BM
04RANGOON882	SENIOR GOB OFFICIAL DISCUSSES TIP AND DRUG ISSUES, [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Home Affairs Colonel Tin Hlaing says that while the SPDC gives "regular" consideration to releasing ASSK, the GOB will not repeat a 1995 "mistake" of freeing the NLD leader that led to the collapse of the National Convention. The Minister, while cordial, criticized o [...]	2004-07-13 09:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR BM NLD
04RANGOON886	Western China Woos Burma Trade [...] (SBU) Summary: The largest-ever business delegation to travel to Burma from Southwest China's Sichuan province visited Rangoon in late June for a Chinese-export trade fair. Ironically, many Chinese goods exhibited at the fair are on Burma's list of items restricted or banned for import. Bur [...]	2004-07-14 02:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL ECON BM CH
04RANGOON894	BURMA NGOS LAY OUT CONSERVATION PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: A team of locally based environmental NGOs, backed by local experts, has produced a comprehensive analysis of Burma's most pressing priorities for biodiversity conservation. The report is the first of its kind that we've seen and is realistic in its objectives and its assessment [...]	2004-07-15 06:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV BM NGO
04RANGOON91	GOB RELEASES 26 NLD MEMBERS [...] (C) Summary: On January 16, the GOB released 26 NLD members detained in connection with the ill-fated May 30 NLD convoy, including seven Members-elect of Parliament. With the exception of ASSK and three senior party officials, all previously detained participants in the convoy have now been [...]	2004-01-21 00:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON912	BURMA'S GARMENT SECTOR TAKES A TURN FOR THE BETTER [...] (C) Summary: New garment orders from Europe and Canada have put about 25,000 back to work around Rangoon. These orders are offering a much smaller profit margin than normal, though, thus the GOB is gaining little extra income from the new business. Despite the good news, garment factory owner [...]	2004-07-20 07:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON KTEX BM
04RANGOON924	NLD LEADERS UNDERTAKE PETITION DRIVE [...] (C) Summary: According to NLD CEC members, the party quietly launched a petition drive on July 19 to secure signatures on a letter to the SPDC demanding that the regime release ASSK and U Tin Oo from house arrest, allow all party offices to reopen, and free all political prisoners. To date, [...]	2004-07-21 12:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RIYADH6449	SAUDI ARABIA: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Per reftel, post submits the following language for use in the 2004 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report. Embassy POC for this report is Julie Eadeh (eadehja@state.gov). 2. (U) During the year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continued to support the global war on terror. Al Qai'da, in the [...]	2004-12-19 10:30:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL SA
04ROME1050	MEETING BETWEEN U/S DOBRIANSKY AND ITALIAN FOREIGN [...] (S) SUMMARY. U/S PAULA DOBRIANSKY HELD A BILATERAL MEETING WITH FM FRATTINI ON MARCH 4 AT THE ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY. THE UNDER SECRETARY RAISED FOUR ISSUES, INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES, THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, ECOSOC MEMBERSHIP AND MONTREAL PROTOCOL LIMITS ON [...]	2004-03-17 12:05:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	IT KDEM PHUM PREL SENV EG HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME1229	GETTING TO YES ON AN ITALIAN-LED AFGHAN FSB [...] (C) The Government of Italy, at very high levels, has indicated a willingness to contribute more to Afghanistan and to support ISAF expansion beyond Kabul. The Italians concur that rapid action to stabilize Afghanistan is of the highest political priority; they also share our conviction that [...]	2004-03-26 18:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PREL AF IT AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1274	INFLUENCE ANALYSIS: ITALY [...] Italy has the kind of wide-open media environment characteristic of most modern democracies. As in other countries, most Italians get their news and information from television news programs. There are seven main broadcast evening news programs, with two prime-time newscasts - one public (RA [...]	2004-03-31 14:56:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OIIP IT
04ROME1277	IRAQ: ITALY TO GIVE USD TEN MILLION TO THE UN IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-31 15:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PREF IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1296	2003 driftnet enforcement data - no violations in [...] Summary: On January 22, Department and Embassy Rome officers met with Paolo Scarpa Bonazza Buora, the Italian Under Secretary of Agriculture responsible for fisheries. The U/S was very familiar with the driftnet problem and urged his Fisheries people to pass the 2003 enforcement data to the [...]	2004-04-01 14:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS SENV PHSA ETRD IT
04ROME1342	EU ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA: ITALY WEARING POKER FACE [...] (U) PLEASE SEE ACTION REQUESTS IN PARAS 7 AND 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY. ITALY WILL FACTOR ITS DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. INTO FORMULATING A POSITION ON WHETHER TO AGREE TO LIFT THE EU EMBARGO. PM BERLUSCONI IS LIKELY TO BE LOBBIED HARD BY CHINESE PREMIER WEN JIABAO WHEN HE VIS [...]	2004-04-05 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CH IT EUN HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME1343	ITALY ON ANTI-COALITION VIOLENCE IN IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: (C) Italian officials agree on the need to respond firmly to al-Sadr's challenge to the Coalition's authority. MFA noted the importance of not allowing Jaysh al-Mahdi to establish a "territorial presence." The Italians also believe that Iran should share our interest in containing a [...]	2004-04-05 17:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT IZ MARR MOPS PREL IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1362	CD INITIATIVE IN EAST TIMOR: ITALY SEEKS MORE [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. POST DISCUSSED REFTEL REQUEST FOR ITALIAN EXPERTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES (CD) INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN EAST TIMOR WITH THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO MFA UNDER SECRETARY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS MARGHERITA BONIVE [...]	2004-04-06 16:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL IT
04ROME1415	USAID/ROME HUMANITARIAN ATTACHE VISITS WFP PROGRAMS [...] US MISSION/ROME HUMANITARIAN ATTACHE TIM LAVELLE VISITED PERU MARCH 27-31, AND TRAVELED TO THE PERUVIAN ANDEAN REGION OF HUANCAVALICA TO REVIEW WFP OPERATIONS. WFP'S PROGRAM IS RIGHTLY FOCUSED IN THE PERUVIAN HIGHLANDS, WHERE POVERTY RATES ARE NEARLY DOUBLE THAT OF COASTAL REGIONS. WFP'S PROGR [...]	2004-04-09 11:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF SENV FAO WHO WFP UNESCO
04ROME1425	ITALY: NO WAY TO UNSC "REFORM" [...] (U) This cable contains an action request for IO: please see summary and paragraph 9. 2. (C) Summary. Italy is very concerned that a new UN reform push in New York will end with Italy frozen out of an expanded UNSC that includes both Germany and Japan. Italians fear that SYG Annan and th [...]	2004-04-09 16:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PREL GM JA FR RS IT UNSC
04ROME1459	CWC: COORDINATING WITH ITALY ON RABTA CONVERSION [...] (C) Summary. Italy is concerned that using a technical change to the CWC to help Libya with its conversion request (as described ref A) could result in an overly lengthy process. Italian officials, after consulting with the OPCW Technical Secretariat, are recommending that an attempt be made [...]	2004-04-14 10:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM IT CWC
04ROME1509	ITALY: VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR CALLED IN ON CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary. Italy responded quickly to the recent crackdown in Vietnam by summoning the Vietnamese Ambassador and stressing that all rights be respected and that international access be granted to the Central Highlands region. Ambassador Thu Le Vinh confirmed to MFA Deputy Director General fo [...]	2004-04-16 12:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL VM IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME1526	ITALIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SEEKS DEPUTY COMMANDER [...] (C) Italy expects to be a top candidate for a deputy commander position in the post-June 30 Iraq mission, Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino told Ambassador Sembler on April 19. During the meeting, which Martino requested, Martino reaffirmed Italy's commitment to the mission in Iraq and [...]	2004-04-19 17:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL AF IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1590	EU ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA: MORE ITALIAN VIEWS [...] (C) EMBASSY OFFICERS ON APRIL 7 AND APRIL 22 FURTHER ENGAGED ITALIAN OFFICIALS (REF A COVERS OUR INITIAL CONTACTS) TO PRESS U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT EU CONSIDERATION OF LIFTING ITS ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA. DIEGO UNGARO, DIRECTOR OF THE MFA'S OFFICE OF DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY TRANSF [...]	2004-04-23 07:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MASS IT EUN
04ROME1591	TAIWAN/DPRK CHEMICAL SEIZURE - ITALY SEEKING [...] (S) ECONOFF RAISED REFTEL POINTS WITH MFA NON-PROLIFERATION COORDINATOR CARLO TRIPEPI ON MARCH 8. (WE ALSO LEFT THE POINTS AT MFA WITH DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS CLAUDIO BISOGNIERO, DISARMAMENT OFFICE DIRECTOR GIOVANNI IANNUZZI, AND EAST ASIA OFFICE DIRECTOR CRISTINA RAVAGLIA.) THE [...]	2004-04-23 10:48:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL TW KN IT AS TH CBW
04ROME1594	BRIEFING ITALY ON MILITARY/DUAL-USE PROCUREMENT [...] (S) INR Analyst Dr. Thomas Zarzecki, EUR/PRA officer Mark Cassayre, and Emboffs met with Italian officials March 30 to provide an intelligence briefing on military/dual-use procurement efforts in Europe by Iran and other state sponsors of terrorism. The briefing included information about the [...]	2004-04-23 11:17:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC EIND PARM PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME1636	ITALY NOT PRESSING FOR ALBANIAN TROOPS TO JOIN [...] (C) CONTACTS AT THE MFA, MOD AND PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE CONFIRMED THAT PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI AND PRIME MINISTER NANO DISCUSSED THE POSSIBILITY OF ALBANIAN TROOPS JOINING WITH ITALIAN FORCES IN SOME THEATRE TO GIVE THE ALBANIANS MORE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES. NONE OF OUR CONTACTS REFERRED [...]	2004-04-26 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL AL IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1649	C-RE4-00182: G8 SUMMIT AGENDA ISSUES - ITALIAN [...] (U) The Political, Economic, Consular and Science sections have provided the following responses to ref a request for Italian views on G8 Summit Agenda proposals. GREATER MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVE (GME) ------------------------------------ 2. (C) The Italians have been very supportive of the [...]	2004-04-27 10:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD PINR PREL IT KPRP
04ROME166	UPDATE ON SALE OF FAST BOATS AND BOAT ENGINES TO [...] (S) Summary. Italian Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) officials outlined to us on January 14 a three-pronged strategy for dealing with the export of fast boats and related items to Iran. In the short term the MPA will inquire with Italian customs authorities about the status of the immi [...]	2004-01-15 17:26:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC EIND PARM PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME1710	NAMES TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR LEADING GOVT [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) INFORMATION BELOW IS SLUGGED TO QUESTIONS REFTEL. 3. (SBU) A. POST: EMBASSY ROME DATE OF SUBMISSION: MAY 3, 2004 B. NAME OF HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: SILVIO BERLUSCONI. TITLE: PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (PRI [...]	2004-05-03 09:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IT
04ROME1756	ITALIAN PRT-FSB DECISION RESTS WITH PM BERLUSCONI [...] (C) Summary. Italy's ability to contribute a Forward Support Base (FSB) or Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in western Afghanistan depends on whether the Prime Minister's office can free up scarce resources to fund the effort, according to Embassy contacts at the MFA, MOD and the PM's Off [...]	2004-05-05 15:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME191	ITALIAN PM BERLUSCONI HEADING BACK TO THE DOCK [...] (C) Summary. A suspended corruption trial against PM Berlusconi will resume this Spring. A new three-judge panel that will decide his case may be more favorable to him than the team it replaced. Berlusconi's defense lawyer told the Embassy he thinks the trial will wrap up quickly and that t [...]	2004-01-16 19:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME1964	INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION: [...] Summary: Post would like to bring to Department's attention the International Development Law Organization (IDLO),a Rome-based intergovernmental organization founded twenty years ago by former USAID employees. Through training and technical assistance to the judicial sector of developing nati [...]	2004-05-20 12:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID KJUS KISL UN
04ROME2029	ITALIAN PEACEKEEPING TRAINING ASSISTANCE TO 3RD [...] IN RESPONSE TO REF A, EMBASSY QUERIED CARABINIERI, ARMY, AND MINISTRY OF INTERIOR OFFICIALS ON ITALIAN CAPABILITIES TO TRAIN THIRD COUNTRY PEACEKEEPERS. THE CARABINIERI, WE WERE INFORMED, HOLD A TWO WEEK DOCTRINAL TRAINING COURSE FOR GENDARME-LIKE OFFICERS BIANNUALLY AT THEIR OFFICERS TRAININ [...]	2004-05-25 11:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS PINS PREL IT UN
04ROME2123	WHAT THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT MEANS FOR BERLUSCONI [...] (S) The President's visit to Rome takes place one week before Italians vote for their 78 representatives to the European parliament and some local officials on June 12-13. The results of the vote will be interpreted as an early test of how Berlusconi is likely to fare in national elections t [...]	2004-06-01 17:28:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	IT IZ PREL ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
04ROME2171	Commerce DAS Eric Stewart Visit to Rome [...] (U) Summary and Introduction. On May 25, 2004, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) of Commerce for Europe, Russia, and the Independent States Eric Stewart held discussions with Government of Italy (GOI) counterparts and met with local business representatives on trade and market access and compl [...]	2004-06-08 09:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD IT ECIP
04ROME2248	STATUS OF US MILITARY PROJECTS UNDERWAY AT ITALIAN [...] (C) Summary. Whatever final decisions are made with regard to the US military's Global Posture Review (GPR),changes emanating from the GPR will build upon numerous milcon and other projects already underway within Italy. Careful coordination will be required to ensure that these current proj [...]	2004-06-14 05:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL IT GLOBAL DEFENSE FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME227	ITALY: UPDATE ON TRANSFER OF IRAQI ASSETS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH FOUR. 2. (SBU) FINANCE MINISTRY OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THAT APPROXIMATELY ONE MILLION DOLLARS WERE UNFROZEN AND TRANSFERRED TO THE DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR IRAQ (DFI) ON DECEMBER 18. ACCORDING TO ROBERTO CICIANI, DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MONEY-LAUNDE [...]	2004-01-22 12:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2272	DARFUR: ITALY COMMITMENT EURO 4.4 MILLION [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy is contributing a total of Euro 4.4 million (approx $5.4 million) to relief efforts related to the crisis in Darfur. Officials at the MFA's Directorate of Development Cooperation told USAID Deputy Administrator Frederick Schieck that Italy does not rule out further contri [...]	2004-06-14 11:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREF PREL SU IT AF WFP UN
04ROME2274	FOOD SECURITY IN GUATEMALA: VISIT OF ALTERNATE [...] Summary: Travel of U.S. Mission Rome's Alternate Permanent Representative to Guatemala provided an opportunity for review of selected projects of the World Food Program (WFP),the UN Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in rural are [...]	2004-06-14 13:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR EFIN AORC SENV GT XK WFP FAO IFAD
04ROME2277	FOOD SECURITY IN NICARAGUA: VISIT OF ALTERNATE [...] Summary: U.S. Mission Rome Alternate Permanent Representative traveled to Nicaragua May 2-5 to review efforts by the UN agencies to work with the host government and other donors to address food insecurity in this low- income, food-deficit country that has been hit by recurring natural disa [...]	2004-06-14 13:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR EFIN AORC SENV NU XK WFP FAO IFAD
04ROME2319	PUBLIC LAW 480 FOOD FOR PEACE PANEL AT ANNUAL [...] USUN-Rome organized (on the margin of the Annual Session of the WFP Executive Board) a panel to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act that was signed into law in 1954 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ambassador Tony Hall h [...]	2004-06-16 12:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UN
04ROME2322	U.S.-ITALY EXPORT CONTROL TALKS: EMBASSY THOUGHTS [...] (S) Summary. The June 23 U.S.-Italy export control talks in Rome provide an important opportunity to encourage the GOI to address more flexibly the control of troublesome exports that do not fall clearly under any multilateral regime, such as the export of Italian fast boats to Iran. The GOI lo [...]	2004-06-16 14:05:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC EIND PARM PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME2349	GOI SUPPORT FOR U.S. ICAO CANDIDACY APPEARS LIKELY [...] ACCORDING TO FRANCESCO ERCOLANO, NEW COUNSELOR IN THE ITALIAN MFA'S DIRECTORATE FOR ECONOMIC AND MULTILATERAL COOPERATION, ITALY IS UNOFFICIALLY LIKELY TO SUPPORT THE UNITED STATES BID FOR RE-ELECTION TO PART 1 OF THE ICAO COUNCIL. ERCOLANO POINTED OUT THAT ITALY IS ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF LOB [...]	2004-06-17 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON IT FAA
04ROME2363	IRANIAN DIPLOMAT SOUNDS OUT THE BRITS [...] (S) ON JUNE 17, UK EMBASSY POL COUNS FRANCIS CAMPBELL (STRICTLY PROTECT) BRIEFED POLOFF ON HIS MEETING THE PREVIOUS DAY WITH IRANIAN EMBASSY SECOND SECRETARY ALI GHOLAMPOUR. THE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN CAMPBELL'S OFFICE IN THE UK EMBASSY. 2. (S) ACCORDING TO GHOLAMPOUR, IRAN IS "THANKFUL" THA [...]	2004-06-18 12:08:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR IR IZ UK IT EUN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2452	ALBANIANS MAKING THE ROUNDS ON ISTANBUL SUMMIT [...] (C) ACTING ON INSTRUCTIONS, ALBANIAN EMBASSY DCM SAKO MIROSH CONTINUED HIS GOVERNMENT'S PUSH (REFTEL) FOR A FORWARD LEANING STATEMENT AT THE ISTANBUL SUMMIT, WHICH WOULD EXTEND ALBANIA, CROATIA AND MACEDONIA "THE MEMBERSHIP INVITATION IN THE NEXT ENLARGEMENT SUMMIT." SAKO PRESENTED TO A/POLMIN [...]	2004-06-24 07:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AL HR MK IT NATO
04ROME2464	IRAQ POST-HANDOVER: GOI SUPPORT STRONG AND [...] This message contains an action request in paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Citing the parallel goals of strengthening Iraqi security services and forging an overarching Iraqi national identity from a highly regionalized reality, the GOI has described a comprehensive plan to provide assistance t [...]	2004-06-24 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ECON EAID IT IZ PREL IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2467	ITALIAN ROLE IN RELEASE OF BRITISH MILITARY [...] (C) UK EMBASSY POLCOUNS FRANCIS CAMPBELL TOLD POLOFF ON JUNE 24 THAT ITALY PLAYED A "VERY HELPFUL AND CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE" IN SECURING THE RELEASE OF THE EIGHT UK MILITARY PERSONNEL HELD BY IRAN. TELEPHONE CALLS BETWEEN PM BLAIR'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR NIGEL SCHIENWALD AND PM BERLUSCONI'S NATI [...]	2004-06-25 04:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR IR IZ UK IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2487	USAID DEPUTY ADMINSTRATOR SCHIECK VISITS THE [...] Summary: during his trip to Rome for the World Food Program Executive Board meetings, USAID Deputy Administrator Frederick W. Schieck met with International Development Law Organization (IDLO) Director General William Loris. Loris reviewed the organization's current programs, including those [...]	2004-06-25 15:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC KJUS KISL IDLO
04ROME2489	ITALY - EU ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA [...] (C) We raised reftel points with senior Italian officials at meetings on June 23, 24 and 25. They acknowledged that there may be a gradually emerging EU consensus on lifting the EU China Arms Embargo, but said that there is no deadline and that the EU does not want to signal to Beijing that t [...]	2004-06-25 17:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PHUM ETTC EU CH IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME2493	GOI BUDGET SUPPORT FOR HAITI UNLIKELY WITHOUT [...] SUMMARY: THE GOI IS OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITY OF PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT OF HAITI (IGOH),PROVIDED THIS ASSISTANCE IS ADMINISTERED THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND BY AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT CAN MONITOR ITS EFFECTIVENESS. IT IS UNLIKELY THAT ITALIA [...]	2004-06-28 10:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PREL HA IT
04ROME254	GOI PROVIDES TECHNICAL DETAILS ON FAST BOATS AND [...] (S/NF) AS FOESHADOWED IN REFTEL, THE GOI HAS SHARED WITH US -- ON A STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BASIS -- DETAILED INORMATION FROM BOTH FB DESIGN AND ISOTTA FRASCHINI OTORI REGARDING THEIR EXPORTS TO IRAN. WE WERE OLD THAT NEITHER COMPANY IS AWARE THAT THE INFORATION IS BEING PROVIDED TO THE USG. [...]	2004-01-23 18:35:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC EIND PARM PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME2692	ITALY SPEEDS PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL GENDARME [...] The Italian government is moving quickly with plans for an international gendarme/constabulary training center and is looking for immediate US input on details such as project objectives, standards, and the numerical scope of the future training program. MFA and Carabinieri officials have conf [...]	2004-07-12 07:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME2745	ITALY - HIGH-LEVEL CONCERN RE UNSC REFORM [...] (C) This cable contains action requests. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Government of Italy is becoming increasingly concerned about any UN reform that could result in a permanent UNSC seat for Germany and/or Japan. The Italians fear that an increase in the number of peranent U [...]	2004-07-14 15:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PREL GM JA FR RS IT UNSC
04ROME2774	ITALY - FOLLOW UP ON INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION [...] (U) This cable includes a guidance request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) After consulting on ref A demarche with MFA colleagues and the Dutch EU Presidency, Stefano Dejak, MFA East Africa Office Director, toned down the skepticism expressed in ref B by stating that Italy and the EU are pr [...]	2004-07-16 12:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF PARM MOPS AU SU IT EUN
04ROME2829	U.S.-ITALY DUAL USE EXPORT CONTROL CONSULTATIONS, [...] (S) On June 23, 2004, U.S. and Italian goverment delegations held consultations on a range o export control and technology transfer issues, s a follow-up to discussions held in July 2003. Bth sides appeared satisfied with the quality of he information exchange. Discussion included the EU/China [...]	2004-07-21 14:23:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PREL EIND PARM TSPA IT CH IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME2836	Treasury DG Domenico Siniscalco Appointed New [...] (SBU) After two weeks' debate within the Coalition following former Finance Minister Tremonti's resignation, PM Berlusconi appointed Domenico Siniscalco, Treasury Department Director General since 2001, as new Finance Minister on July 16. Over this two-week period, Coalition parties could no [...]	2004-07-22 04:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2853	RUSSIA/ITALY: LAVROV REASSURES FRATTINI ON UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY: During their July 15 meeting in Rome, FM Frattini and Russian FM Lavrov reviewed preparations for the annual Russia-Italy Summit, which will take place in Moscow "sometime in November." Frattini underlined Russia's need to "adopt western standards" concerning business regulations [...]	2004-07-22 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR IT UNGA RU
04ROME2854	JAPANESE DONATION OF 250,000 METRIC TONS FOR WFP'S [...] (SBU) WFP advised US Mission that Japan will donate 250,000 tons of cereals to WFP's 2004 emergency operation (EMOP) in North Korea, with delivery over the period August- September/October 2004. The value of the donation is up to U.S. $80 million. Final details of the transaction have been sen [...]	2004-07-23 04:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PREF EAGR ECON KN KS UN
04ROME2875	ITALY WARNS AGAINST MARGINALIZATION OF THE EU IN [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA warned that US "acquiescence" in Israel's efforts to exclude the European Union from engagement in the peace process is undermining the EU's credibility in the region, which will impede progress on the Roadmap and serve to further the divide between the Israelis a [...]	2004-07-26 05:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IT EU UNGA
04ROME2912	ITALIAN SUGGESTIONS ON COALITION STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Embassy Rome delivered ref A message and draft statement July 27 to MFA officials Deputy PolDir Bisogniero and Director-General (A/S equivalent) for Middle East Sessa. Because both officials were occupied with the current Italian Chiefs of Mission conference, they conferred and delivered t [...]	2004-07-28 04:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT IZ MARR MOPS OPDC PREL IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2926	FAO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION: INDIA'S PERMREP FLOATS POSSIBLE INDIAN CANDIDATES [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 10 below. 2. (C) Summary: Indian Permrep Himachal Som requested a meeting with Ambassador Hall on July 26 to discuss options for a possible Indian candidacy to succeed Senegal's Jacques Diouf as Director General (DG) of FAO. Som said the GOI support [...]	2004-07-28 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EAGR PREL KUNR IN FAO
04ROME2962	FMCT: ITALY WELCOMES U.S. PROPOSAL BUT STICKLER ON [...] (C) POLMILOFF on July 29 conveyed ref A points to MFA Nonproliferation/Arms Control Office Director Filippo Formica. Formica welcomed the U.S. proposal, noting that it was an important evolution in the USG's approach to nonproliferation. He said that it was essential to move forward with neg [...]	2004-07-30 14:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP AORC PARM PREL TSPA IT CDG
04ROME2964	FAST BOATS TO IRAN: COMPANY PRESSES GOI [...] (S) The Italian Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) continues to be pressed by Italian fast boat manufacturer FB Design to allow it to resume business with Iran, according to Amedeo Teti, Director General for Commercial Agreements - Foreign Trade. Teti himself contacted econoff July 28 to [...]	2004-07-30 14:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC EIND PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME3024	PROJECT ONE BILLION - PATRONAGE FROM THE UN [...] This is an action request, see paragraph 4. 2. Background: Project 1 Billion (P1B) - named for the more than 1 billion persons affected by mass violence embodied in the experience of war, ethnic conflict, torture and terrorism - has been under way since an initial meeting of officials fr [...]	2004-08-05 04:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA IT UN
04ROME3055	ITALIAN LABOR UNIONS HAVE CONDEMNED HUMAN AND [...] (U) Italy has three primary labor union confederations, the General Confederation of Italian Labor (CGIL),the Italian Confederation of Workers' Unions (CISL),and the Italian Union of Labor (UIL). All three are more or less left-leaning, with CISL (with roots in Catholic social doctrine) t [...]	2004-08-06 14:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU IT ILO HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME3060	JUDICIARY HAMPERS B767 ENGINE FIRE INVESTIGATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-09 10:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PGOV IT ICAO AVIATION
04ROME3061	US AND ITALY MOVE AHEAD ON G-8 INTERNATIONAL [...] A State/DOD delegation, led by Acting DAS for Regional Security (PM) Elena Kim-Mitchell, visited Rome and Vicenza on July 19-21 to discuss the U.S.-Italian joint initiative for a G-8 sponsored Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU). The delegation met with the MFA and Carabi [...]	2004-08-09 12:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
04ROME3116	U/S BOLTON'S JULY 10 MEETING WITH LIBYAN OFFICIALS [...] (S) Summary. U/S Bolton July 10 told Libyan officials that Libya had to end military cooperation with Iran as a sine qua non of concluding Phase III cooperation. The Libyans responded that all ongoing activity was linked to closing out existing contracts, which would be terminated on Septemb [...]	2004-08-11 19:16:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC LY IAEA
04ROME3136	ITALIAN VIEWS ON UNSC REFORM, WEOG ROTATION FOR [...] (C) Summary. Italy appreciates the Ref C enunciation of USG views on UN Security Council reform, which it views as a matter of vital national interest, and fully agrees that effectiveness be the standard by which reform is judged. Italy also will support the USG goal (Ref A) of reaching agree [...]	2004-08-13 15:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PHUM PREL IT UNSC
04ROME3153	ITALY RENOMINATES FAUSTO POCAR TO ICTY; REQUESTS [...] On August 13, Embassy received a Note Verbale (see para 2) from the MFA requesting USG support for the reelection of Prof. Fausto Pocar to the International Criminal Tribunal for the ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY). The MFA also transmitted an updated curriculum vitae for Pocar, which post has faxed to [...]	2004-08-16 14:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM IT ICTY
04ROME3190	BLAIR-BERLUSCONI VACATION-VISIT CONTINUES - NO [...] (C) Prime Ministers Berlusconi and Blair and their wives continue to enjoy their vacation at Berlusconi's home in Sardinia. Italian press has reported extensively on their activities. Despite speculation from throughout the Italian media that the PMs discussed a role for Italy as "mediator" [...]	2004-08-18 13:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME3239	ITALY ENGAGED IN TEHRAN IN EFFORTS TO SECURE OUT [...] Post received further information regarding Italy's efforts to secure Iranian cooperation for out of country voting for the upcoming elections in Afghanistan from the MFA's desk officer for Iran, Federica Ferrari Bravo, on August 23. Ferrari Bravo said that Italy is well aware of the problem [...]	2004-08-23 10:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AF IR IT AFGHANISTAN
04ROME3262	Civair: Italian Response to U.S.-Linate [...] On July 23, Embassy delivered ref A talking points on U.S. carrier complaints regarding Alitalia/Air France codeshare operations at Milan's Linate Airport to Aldo Sansone, Director General for Civil Aviation in the Ministry of Transport. In Sansone's response, he denies illegitimate and disc [...]	2004-08-24 15:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION FAA
04ROME3283	Parmalat Tussles With Major Creditors and Former [...] Following GOI approval of a restructuring plan based on a debt-to-equity swap in late July, Parmalat Commissioner Enrico Bondi opened his legal campaign in August against some of the world's largest banks for their alleged role in helping Parmalat Finanziaria (or "Parmalat," Parmalat's holding [...]	2004-08-26 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAGR IT KPRP
04ROME3285	IAEA: ITALY AGREES TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR IRAN [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA continues to prefer a strategy that avoids risking breaking off all dialogue with Iran, but at the same time acknowledges that the situation in the IAEA is getting worse. While Italy did not explicitly say it would vote against a referral to the UNSC, it does not [...]	2004-08-26 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PREL IT IAEA
04ROME3401	ITALIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS GENERALLY ON BOARD WITH [...] (S) Summary. In recent meetings with senior Italian military officials, Charge discussed upcoming changes in the US military footprint in Italy. Overall, the reaction was positive -- the officials agreed that the proposed changes make sense from an operational point of view. However, they [...]	2004-09-07 08:59:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAO IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME3477	ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL FUND FOR AIDS [...] (SBU) Information received by the Office of the Global Fund (GFF) for AIDS has raised questions about whether the Government of Italy will fulfil its 2004 pledge of a E 100 million contribution to the fund. Post has been actively working with contacts throughout the Government to find out th [...]	2004-09-10 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID TBIO IT UN
04ROME3527	PROPOSED SUPPORT TO JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY [...] Embassy Rome strongly supports Johns Hopkins University's request on behalf of the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center for an FY 2005 ASHA grant of $100,000 to procure books and journals and to pay the salaries of three professors (reftel). ConGen Florence and Embassy Rome have long had a [...]	2004-09-14 14:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID IT
04ROME3590	IRAQ: ITALIAN PLANS FOR TOKYO DONORS' MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy may not be able to make its planned Euro 10 million disbursement to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) prior to the Tokyo meeting due to chronic budget difficulties. Our judgment is that this is a matter of timing, and that the 2004 pledge is [...]	2004-09-20 04:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN PREL IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME3591	FOLLOW UP: BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] (SBU) Econoff contacted Agusta Westland September 9 regarding the order of helicopter spare parts for Italy. According to Paolo Colombo Speroni, the head of Agusta's spare parts sales department, there is no employee at Agusta named Mario Beretta; Agusta did not place any such order for spare [...]	2004-09-20 04:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC IT BLUE LANTERN
04ROME3592	REPATRIATING SPENT ELK RIVER FUEL FROM ITALY - [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. ---------------- SUMMARY ---------------- 2. This report is further to ref A report of Secretary Abraham's call on Prime Ministry Under Secretary Letta August 25. In that call, U/S Letta asked Secretary Abraham's personal help to p [...]	2004-09-20 04:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PREL KNNP KSCA IT
04ROME3593	ITALY AVIATION ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS: ENGAGING [...] Summary: EcMin presented MFA officials with Ref. B diplomatic note seeking better cooperation on aviation incident investigations and laid out possible operational solutions. MFA officials noted that the independence of the Italian judiciary made it difficult for the MFA to prescribe a specif [...]	2004-09-20 05:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION FAA
04ROME3647	ICAO - ITALY'S ADDITIONAL RESPONSES TO BUDGET AND [...] Italy's civil aviation authority (Ente Nazionale per L'Aviazione Civile (ENAC)) Deputy Director Salvatore Sciacchitano provided Econoff with the following additional written responses (in English) to Ref A and B points. Embassy has edited the text for readability. 2. Begin text -We agree [...]	2004-09-22 08:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAIR IT ICAO
04ROME3666	SOMALIA: ITALY SEEKS U.S. PARTICIPATION IN JOINT [...] (U) This cable includes a guidance request. Please see paragraph 7. Summary ------- 2. (C) Bruno Cabras, MFA Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa, requested a meeting with A/DCM on September 21 to request U.S. participation in the protocol joint monitoring committee designed to supp [...]	2004-09-22 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO IT UN
04ROME3708	(C) KUDOS AND FOLLOWUP QUESTIONS ON OPPOSITION REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY (CHP) (C-RE9-01066) [...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE THE COMPREHENSIVE REPORTING ON THE JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT PARTY (AKP) AND OPPOSITION BEFORE AND AFTER LOCAL ELECTIONS PROVIDED BY EMBASSY ANKARA AND CONGEN ISTANBUL. ANALYSTS HAVE USED THE REPORTING IN AN ARRAY OF CURRENT PRODUCTION AND BRIEFINGS TO P [...]	2004-09-24 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL ETTC EIND IT GLOBAL DEFENSE

04ROME3774	CONSULTATIONS ON GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE REVIEW: [...] Embassy Rome welcomes and grants country clearance for Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bloomfield, and delegation to visit Rome from October 5-6, 2004. To secure hotel accommodations, please provide fiscal data for charge purposes or credit card information for each individ [...]	2004-09-29 17:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL NATO GLOBAL DEFENSE
04ROME3792	GDPR/ITALY: SCENESETTER FOR A/S BLOOMFIELD AND [...] (C) Summary. Embassy welcomes the visit of A/S Bloomfield and DASD Hoehn for consultations with Italy on the Global Defense Posture Review. While the Italians have no major concerns regarding the changes underway at Naples/Gaeta and Vicenza, they will be eager to hear the latest U.S. thinking [...]	2004-09-30 15:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME3832	ALITALIA: RESTRUCTURING PLAN CLOSE TO APPROVAL [...] (U) Summary: Alitalia, the Italian government, and labor unions are expected to sign a final agreement soon on the restructuring of Italy's flag carrier. The airline will be split into two companies, one to continue the core flight operations, the other to take over Alitalia's ground service [...]	2004-10-04 15:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ELAB EU IT KPRV PGOV FAA AVIATION
04ROME385	ITALY: STATUS OF FROZEN IRAQI ASSETS [...] (SBU) Finance Ministry officials provided Embassy with updated list of Iraqi assets frozen and held in Italy. This list was reviewed and approved by the inter-ministerial Financial Security Committee at its January 29 meeting. 2. (SBU) Information is presented below as follows: bank in Ita [...]	2004-02-04 10:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME3882	ITALY ASKS FOR AFRICAN FOCS AND FURTHER U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-06 10:50:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
04ROME3927	EU GAERC - ITALY CONFIRMS MINISTERS WILL ENDORSE [...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo confirmed to poloff that EU Ministers would endorse the COREPER decision to lift completely the ban on arms exports to Libya at the October 11 GAERC. Mattiolo underlined that this would not mean a rush of sales of lethal weapons to Tripoli. There [...]	2004-10-08 13:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PARM IT EUN
04ROME3955	BLUE LANTERN: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] Summary: The Italian Coast Guard confirms receipt of focal plane arrays. End summary. 2. Per reftel this message provides information regarding post-shipment end-use check on License 05-888338 for authorizing export of twenty indium antimonide focal plane arrays to the Italian Ministry of [...]	2004-10-13 15:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KOMC ETTC IT BLUE LANTERN
04ROME401	IRAQ: ITALY AND THE IFC SMALL BUSINESS FACILITY [...] (U) IN RESPONSE TO REF B, EMBASSY REPORTED THAT THE GOI WAS NOT LIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE ITS MADRID-PLEDGED IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION FUNDS TO THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION'S SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE FACILITY FOR IRAQ (REF E). WE HAVE ALSO DESCRIBED ITALY'S OVERALL RECONSTRUCTION PRIORITIES [...]	2004-02-04 17:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME4026	MINI PRESSURIZED LOGISTICS MODULES (MPLMs) -- [...] Action request: The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has contacted Embassy Science Section seeking the U.S. response to an Italian Note Verbale dated April 18, 2001 (see paragraph 2) that would implement the U.S.-Italy MOU on mini pressurized logistics modules, signed in Rome by the I [...]	2004-10-18 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA IT
04ROME4059	TRIPOLI ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR [...] (C) Summary: The delegation of Italian-Libyan Jews who visited Tripoli October 10-14 described their trip as a success and were jubilant at having seen and been welcomed in their homeland. The trip provided the Libyans with an opportunity to evaluate their visitors; the group did not meet w [...]	2004-10-20 15:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF IT LY
04ROME4141	ITALY/BIOTECH: PROPOSED COEXISTENCE DEGREE COULD [...] (C) Summary. Agriculture Minister Alemanno has once again asked the Italian Council of Ministers to approve a decree-law on the coexistence of GM and non-GM seeds planted in Italy. Like the draft that Alemanno attempted (unsuccessfully) to push through in November 2003, the vague text of the [...]	2004-10-26 15:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD TBIO KSCA IT
04ROME4180	ITALIAN POSITIONS ON NOVEMBER 2 GAERC AGENDA [...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo told poloff that the PSC was busy preparing documentation on Iraq for the GAERC and follow-on Council meeting. He also confirmed that Iraqi PM Allawi will have lunch with the Council at 25 plus 3 on November 5. Member States are firming up an econ [...]	2004-10-28 16:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT EUN
04ROME4268	TOUGH BARGAINING ON ITALIAN GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIOS [...] (C) Negotiations to fill Government positions, including that of Foreign Minister, resulting from Rocco Buttiglione's nomination and subsequent withdrawal as Italy's European Commissioner are caught up in domestic politics, especially an internal coalition struggle over the Government's tax [...]	2004-11-05 17:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME43	ENERGY U/S CARD VISIT HIGHLIGHTS BILATERAL ENERGY [...] SUMMARY: Department of Energy Undersecretary Robert Card stopped in Rome December 10 to meet with key Italian energy sector officials, en route to the COP-9 conference in Milan. Key issues discussed included generation choices, gas supply, greenhouse gas emissions, dependency on energy imports [...]	2004-01-08 10:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG IT
04ROME4443	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-19 17:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EAGR ETRD PREL SENV IT
04ROME4542	ITALY HOSTS INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Summary. Per reftel demarche, Poloff attended the November 25 inauguration ceremony of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. The one-hour event, which drew a wide-range of Ambassadors from various Middle East and North African countri [...]	2004-11-30 16:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON KMPI KDEM IT UNGA
04ROME4599	ITALY'S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY [...] The underground economy has been a consistent part of post-war Italy, and is a result of the country's systemic inefficiencies, in particular its bureaucracy, high taxation, and rigid labor market. Recent estimates place the size of the underground economy at about 15-17 percent of Italian G [...]	2004-12-03 16:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
04ROME4648	ITALIAN REQUEST TO UPDATE NICKEL EXPORT AGREEMENT [...] Action Request -- See Paragraph 5. 2. The GOI recently contacted embassy regarding their interest in updating a 1982 agreement on issuance of certificates of origin for the export of nickel-bearing material to the U.S. The agreement was intended to ensure that such exports did not contain [...]	2004-12-07 05:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN ETTC IT CU EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME4673	USUN-ROME CAPTURES GLOBAL AUDIENCE ON POSITIVE [...] Summary. Facing off in a world media environment dominated by themes like Iraq and terrorism, USUN-Rome mounted a month-long blitz that promoted a positive American story. The Ambassador's tour through Sudan and Libya, coupled with several local successes in Rome, focused world media attenti [...]	2004-12-09 13:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF SU LY XA FAO WFP
04ROME4678	Italy: WTO Government Procurement Agreement Market [...] This message responds to reftel A request for our suggestions on possible areas for expansion of Italy's market access commitments under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). 2. The following are Embassy responses to questions A to D of reftel A para 5. [...]	2004-12-09 16:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD IT WTO
04ROME4719	ITALY: TIP UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. Laborcouns delivered ref a points on TIP benchmarks for 2005 to representatives of the Ministries of Justice, Interior and Equal Opportunity, stressing the importance of Washington's interest in improved statistics and expanded victims' assistance and public awareness campaigns. [...]	2004-12-14 11:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PREF IT
04ROME4797	ITALY/BIOTECH: BAN ON FOUR GM CORN [...] (U) Summary. Italy's August 2000 ban on the commercialization of four biotech corn varieties was annulled on November 29, 2004, by a Lazio regional court. The ruling on the so-called Amato Decree result from a lawsuit filed in November 2000 by three multinational seed companies and an Italian b [...]	2004-12-20 05:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR TBIO KSCA IT WTO
04ROME4809	ITALY/BIOTECH: BAN ON FOUR GM CORN [...] (U) Summary. Italy's August 2000 ban on the commercialization of four biotech corn varieties was annulled on November 29, 2004, by a Lazio regional court. The ruling on the so-called Amato Decree resulted from a lawsuit filed in November 2000 by three multinational seed companies and an Italia [...]	2004-12-20 12:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR TBIO KSCA IT WTO
04ROME4922	AT ELEVENTH HOUR, ITALY APPROVES 2005 BUDGET [...] ON DECEMBER 29, PARLIAMENT PASSED THE 2005 BUDGET AFTER A LONG DEBATE TO RECONCILE THE COMPETING DEMANDS OF GOVERNING COALITION PARTNERS FOR PORK; PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI FOR A TAX CUT; AND FINANCE MINISTER SINISCALCO FOR A 2005 BUDGET DEFICIT BELOW THE STABILITY PACT THREE-PERCENT BUDGET [...]	2004-12-30 09:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
04ROME540	TRILATERALISM: ITALY NOT ANNOYED, BUT, FOR NOW, [...] (C) Summary: The last thing Europe needs is a new troika. That's the consistent line taken by Italian government officials, in both public statements and conversations with Embassy Rome staff. The UK-French-German "trilateral" initiative (as described reftel) is divisive, diverts attention [...]	2004-02-13 10:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR GM UK IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME561	ITALY: COLOMBIA NEEDS TO BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN THE ITALIAN MFA'S VIEW, COLOMBIA'S PRESIDENT URIBE RETURNED TO BOGOTA WITH MIXED RESULTS FROM HIS EUROPEAN VISIT. HIS ADDRESS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WAS NOT WELL RECEIVED DUE TO CONTINUED EUROPEAN INSISTENCE ON BETTER PERFORMANCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW ISSUES. [...]	2004-02-13 16:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CO IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME563	ITALIAN BIOTECH POLICY [...] SUMMARY. Italian biotech policy and policy-making appears to growing less transparent and more confused. The NK603 dossier is only the latest example. The Embassy believes it is unlikely that a Feb 17 GOI interagency meeting of technical experts will develop a consensus view. In our e [...]	2004-02-13 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO ETRD EU IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME59	SALE OF FAST BOATS TO IRAN [...] (S) ON JAN. 7 ECON COUNSELOR CALLED ON GABRIELE CHECCHIA, DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR TO MINISTER OF PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES (INDUSTRY) MARZANO, TO CONTINUE REFTEL A DISCUSSION OF FB DESIGN'S EXPORT TO IRAN OF FOUR FAST BOATS. ECON COUNSELOR SAID WE UNDERSTOOD TWO BOATS WERE ALREADY IN IRAN, AND THAT TH [...]	2004-01-08 18:10:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM ETTC PREL EIND IR IT EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME688	PSI: ITALY STUDYING SUA AMENDMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-24 17:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT PREL PARM MNUC KNNP IT MARITIME
04ROME709	MISSION ITALY INPUT FOR 2004 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] Summary: Mission Italy recommends that Italy remain on the 301 watch list. Overall frequency of copyright piracy has remained essentially stable since 2000, when Italy's copyright law was enacted. Nonetheless, total losses due to piracy are mounting, and Italy's piracy and counterfeiting ra [...]	2004-02-25 16:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ECON ETRD IT
04ROME731	ITALY'S ONGOING CONCERNS REGARDING U.S. [...] Summary. GOI officials continue to raise concerns about the U.S. Bioterrorism Act (BTA),in particular the burden it places on Italian small- and medium-size exporters, whose products make up a significant portion of Italys food exports. Officials from three ministries emphasized to Embassy [...]	2004-02-26 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR ECON IT EUN EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME740	NEW FORM OF BSE DISCOVERED IN ITALY [...] Summary. Researchers from several Italian institutions published, in the National Academy of Science, findings that they have identified a second type of mad cow brain- wasting disease, BASE. The U.S. press has given this story much more attention than the Italian press. Italian media report [...]	2004-02-27 06:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EU IT
04ROME770	ITALIAN HEALTH MINISTER POSITIVE ON PRESIDENT'S [...] IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL DEMARCHE TO SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE ITALIAN MOH, MINISTER OF HEALTH GIROLAMO SIRCHIA WROTE TO EMBASSY SCIENCE COUNSELOR ON FEBRUARY 25, REGARDING THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF. 2. BEGIN TEXT (INFORMAL TRANSLATION): I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THE RECE [...]	2004-02-27 17:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV EAID PREL IT
04ROME776	ITALIAN MINISTRY TRIES TO BLOCK FUTURE FAST BOAT [...] (S) SUMMARY: With FB Design's fast-boat contract with Iran effectively fulfilled, the Italian Ministry of Productive Activities has sent a stern letter to the company, warning it to do no further business with Iran without formal ministerial review. The legal force of the letter is unclear, [...]	2004-03-01 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC EIND PARM PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME8	US MISSION/ROME 2003 SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS - AS [...] (SBU) Kim: Thanks for the opportunity to lay out our past year's accomplishments. In short, it was an extraordinary year where our Mission, like many other IO posts, found ourselves in the middle of some of the most difficult challenges on our country's foreign policy agenda. In 2003 US Missio [...]	2004-01-02 14:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF
04ROME80	EXPANDING ITALY'S ROLE IN IRAQ: LETTER FROM FM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following is a letter and non-paper from FM Frattini to Ambassador Sembler dated December 23, 2003. The letter emphasizes Italy's continued determination to assume a greater role in Iraqi reconstruction and tacitly refers to the GOI's prior request for a senior position in CPA (Re [...]	2004-01-09 18:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO ECON PREL EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME818	GEORGIAN FOOD PIPELINE CONCERNS [...] SUMMARY: WFP HAS PROVIDED A FUNDING PROPOSAL TO THE US MISSION ROME THAT PROPOSES AN EXCEPTIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION TO GEORGIAN HOUSEHOLDS SEVERELY AFFECTED BY RISING WHEAT FLOUR AND BREAD PRICES. WITH THE PRICE OF BREAD KEPT ARTIFICIALLY LOW AND THE SUPPLY OF SMUGGLED FLOUR DWINDLING, A SHORT [...]	2004-03-03 12:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF GG WFP
04ROME868	WFP BOARD APPROVES ARMENIA PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Armenia. The project 10053.1, entitled Relief and Recovery Assistance for Vulnerable Groups, is for two years (July 2004-June 2006),covering 110,000 beneficiaries pe [...]	2004-03-05 08:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME876	WFP BOARD APPROVES SUDAN (ERITREAN REFUGEES) [...] (SBU) The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Sudan (Eritrean refugees). The project 10122.1, entitled Food Assistance for Eritrean Refugees, is for two years (April 2004 - March 2006) with a total cost to [...]	2004-03-05 10:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04SANAA1018	MEETING WITH INFORMATION MINISTER AND NATIONAL TV CHAIRMAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 24, PAO held meetings with the Director of Yemen TV and the Minister of Information to brief them on upcoming media training programs sponsored by the Embassy and to discuss further cooperation in the information sector. Both interlocutors expressed readiness to work w [...]	2004-05-01 12:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OIIP YM
04SANAA1091	ROYG RESPONSE TO U.S. SENATE APPROVAL OF U.S.-IAEA [...] Pursuant to action request in reftel a, Post informed the Chairman of the National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC) Moustafa Bahran of U.S. Senate approval of U.S.-IAEA additional protocol via letter, using background and points from reftel a, on or about April 14, 2003 (ref b). 2. On or ab [...]	2004-05-03 12:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	TRGY KNNP YM IAEA
04SANAA1172	PRESIDENT SALEH ACCEPTS SEA ISLAND INVITATION [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM called upon Foreign Minister Qirbi 5/16 to discuss President Saleh's acceptance of the G-8 Sea Island invitation (ref e-mails). Qirbi asked about the formal invitation, travel arrangements to the U.S. and the proposed agenda. Ambassador briefed Qirbi on the known deta [...]	2004-05-16 10:47:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AL YM
04SANAA1178	DPM SOFAN: YEMEN WILLING TO HOST PROPOSED G-8 [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-16 14:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV YM COM
04SANAA1193	GME: REFORM YEMENI-STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Sanaa continues to engage government, civil society and business leaders on the Greater Middle East draft proposals (ref a). While most interlocutors express opposition to the idea of reform being "imposed from outside the region," the discussion generated by the GMEI appe [...]	2004-05-18 12:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA1261	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (S/NF) Embassy Sanaa warmly welcomes your first visit to Yemen. You will find President Saleh and senior ROYG officials keen to hear from you the Washington perspective on bilateral and regional CT cooperation as well as the broader GWOT. Since 9/11 Saleh has met with President Bush in Washi [...]	2004-05-25 15:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PGOV OVIP YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN
04SANAA1458	DNSA TOWNSEND 05/26/04 MEETING WITH ROYG SECURITY [...] (S) Summary: On 5/26 DNSA Townsend reviewed CT cooperation with MOI al-Alimi, PSO Director al-Gamish and NSB Officer Saleh and highlighted recent inconsistencies in the relationship. Dominating discussion, Alimi affirmed the strength of the CT partnership, and noted that differences of opinio [...]	2004-06-15 07:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PTER ASEC PGOV ETTC PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA146	REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (U) Summary and Comment: The Sanaa Inter-Governmental Regional Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Role of the International Criminal Court was held January 10-12, sponsored by No Peace Without Justice (an EU-affiliated NGO),the ROYG, the European Union and several European govern [...]	2004-01-14 14:52:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM YM KICC HUMAN RIGHTS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA1475	TIP: MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSES ROYG [...] (U) Summary: DCM called on Minister of Human Rights Amat Alim al-Suswa 6/14 to deliver country narrative and talking points in reftel on the release of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The Minister detailed further actions taken by the ROYG to combat TIP, including the formation of an [...]	2004-06-16 11:38:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM ELAB ASEC KFRD PHUM SMIG YM TRAFFICKING PERSONS HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA148	SANAA EAC MEETING - JANUARY 14, 2004 [...] (C) Begin Summary: The Ambassador convened a core Emergency Action Committee on 1/14 to discuss a shooting incident in Aden involving Yemeni security personnel and SOC/Yemen personnel. EAC members agreed, following initial investigation of the incident and apology offered to the Ambassador [...]	2004-01-15 10:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC
04SANAA1490	SANAA EAC MEETING - 19 JUNE 2004 [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ambassador convened an EAC 6/19 to discuss the security situation for official and non-official Amcits in light of the killing of Amcit Paul Johnson in Riyadh (ref a). ORCA reported no specific threat information for Yemen. Post disseminated a Warden Message 6/19 containing [...]	2004-06-20 08:39:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER YM EAC
04SANAA1492	YEMEN: PRIORITIZATION OF CT PROGRAMS [...] (c) Embassy Sana'a welcomes the opportunity to engage with AF Bureau on counter-terrorism issues and on developing a more comprehensive CT strategy for the region. Post is concerned with border and maritime security as well as the movement of people and arms between Yemen and East Africa, par [...]	2004-06-20 11:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PTER EAID EFIN PREL PGOV PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM MARITIME SECURITY TRAFFICKING PERSONS
04SANAA1565	AMERICAN NGO REPRESENTATIVE FORWARDS INCITEMENT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 6/22/04, a U.S. non-governmental organization (NGO) representative forwarded an incitement letter to the RSO, explaining that copies were delivered anonymously to an Islah party leader. The letter calls for supporting Jihad with money and fighting Jews and Christians. Th [...]	2004-06-27 08:54:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA1578	YEMEN'S NATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (NATEC): [...] (u) This is an action request; see paragraphs 4-6. 2. (c) Summary: In a 6/23 meeting with the Ambassador, Yemen's National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC) Director Moustapha Bahran renewed earlier requests for assistance on border security and radiological detection equipment (reftels). [...]	2004-06-29 12:37:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG KSTC PARM PREL YM IAEA
04SANAA1635	DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST [...] (U) Summary: The Al-Quds Girls Public School in Sanaa received a computer lab with brand-new equipment through a Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) grant. After an American Embassy delegation visited the school, reports appeared in local newspapers stating that the female principal for [...]	2004-07-07 12:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA1936	BLOODY CLASHES CONTINUE BETWEEN ROYG AND SHIA [...] (C) Embassy sources contradict press accounts that ROYG forces encircled extremist Shi'ite leader Hussein al-Houthi in the northern region of Marran on August 5. Rather it seems fighting has intensified in the past few days and continues to be particularly bloody for the ROYG. 2. (C) L [...]	2004-08-08 15:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PINR PREL PTER COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA194	AMBASSADOR,S 1/19 MEETING WITH SHEIKH AL-AHMAR: [...] (C) Summary. In a 1/19 meeting with Ambassador, Sheikh al-Ahmar appealed for more high-level contact with the Embassy and stoutly defended the bona fides of Sheikh Zindani and al-Iman University which the Ambassador disputed. The Islah leader,s unusually conciliatory approach appears calcula [...]	2004-01-24 14:29:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN DOMESTIC POLITICS
04SANAA1966	SANAA EAC MEETING 08/11/2004 [...] (C) Begin Summary: The CDA convened an EAC meeting on August 11, 2004, to share security concerns with regard to recent incidents in the Al-Jawf region and to remind the Embassy community to remain vigilant in light of recent threat reporting and to report all security related incidents imm [...]	2004-08-14 05:06:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
04SANAA1977	AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT SALEH [...] (SBU) On his second working day in Sanaa, Ambassador Krajeski presented his credentials to President Ali Abdallah Saleh in a ceremony that included seven other Ambassadors, some of whom had waited three months to be invited to present their papers. The ceremonies, full of all the appropriate p [...]	2004-08-16 10:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YM
04SANAA2055	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF A/S BLOOMFIELD TO YEMEN [...] (C) Embassy Sana'a warmly welcomes the visit of PM Assistant Secretary Bloomfield to Yemen. You will find President Saleh and senior ROYG officials ready to discuss the proposed USG buy-back and destruction assistance for illicit Yemeni MANPADS. The ROYG wants this program, and they want to [...]	2004-08-24 04:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PARM MASS PREL ASEC PTER YM OVIP COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2274	SANAA EAC MEETING 08/28/2004 [...] (S/NF) Begin Summary: The Ambassador convened a core EAC meeting on August 28, 2004, to share security concerns with regard to potential tensions in Yemen. Attention to Emergency Action Plan (EAP) awareness and updating were also addressed. Embassy employees were reminded to remain vigilan [...]	2004-08-29 11:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER YM EAC
04SANAA2328	ROYG TO APPEAL LIGHT SENTENCES IN GROUP TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary and comment: Deputy Attorney General Sharaf al-Mahbashi and Chief Prosecutor Saeed al-Aqel told DCM on 8/29 that the prosecution has already filed for an appeal over the 8/28 Trial One (reftel) sentences for the now convicted al-Qa'ida associates. The prosecutors will seek harsher [...]	2004-08-30 13:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC KVPR YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2344	YEMEN REQUEST - FY05 USDA FOOD ASSISTANCE, PL480 [...] Summary: USDA food assistance in Yemen is enhancing infrastructure, funding agricultural research projects, and teaching horticultural marketing and livestock management skills. Since 2000, USDA assistance constituted the bulk of USG development aid to Yemen. In conjunction with USAID techni [...]	2004-09-01 13:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ASEC YM ECON COM
04SANAA2345	FIRST KIDNAPPING IN THREE YEARS RESOLVED QUICKLY [...] (C) Summary: Five oil workers were kidnapped on 8/31 in Ma'rib governorate for three hours. The Ma'rib Governor sent in troops who, after brief gunfire, freed the three hostages. All men are safely back in Sanaa. While Post has no/no indication that the kidnapping was terrorist related, it m [...]	2004-09-01 14:12:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC ECON YM COM ENERGY
04SANAA2346	PRESIDENT SALEH TO A/S BLOOMFIELD "NO NEW MANPADS" [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. discussed proposed U.S. MANPADS buyback and destruction initiative with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on September 1. Saleh not only agreed to move forward with the modalities of the buyback [...]	2004-09-02 11:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	MASS MOPS OVIP PARM PINR PREL PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2411	YEMEN ASKS TO HOST FORUM FOR THE FUTURE SUMMIT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) Ambassador discussed ROYG plans to participate in follow-on initiatives to the Sea Island G-8 BMENA Plan of Support for Reform with Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa No'man on September 7. No'man confirmed Foreign Minister Qirbi's p [...]	2004-09-12 05:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM COM
04SANAA244	U.S. RECORD 2003-04: SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (u) Paragraph 2 contains Post's input for the 2003-04 edition of "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: the U.S. Record" per reftel b. Because last year's report on Yemen contained programs that were ongoing throughout 2003-04 (ref a),Post's input consists of updated language on ongoing pro [...]	2004-02-02 16:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KDEM YM HUMAN RIGHTS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA2489	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE [...] (S/NF) Demonstrations A. Are there any ethnic or religious communities in country that are capable of carrying out significant anti-American demonstrations? There are not organized, clearly defined communities as such, but ad hoc groupings of Yemeni fundamentalists and/or some members [...]	2004-09-22 08:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER
04SANAA2498	YEMEN: OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER CLOSED, EDITOR [...] (U) Summary: On September 6, a Sanaa court closed opposition newspaper as-Shura for six-months and sentenced its editor Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani to one year in prison for violating the 1990 Press Law. This latest incident, in what some are calling a bad year for freedom of the press in Yemen, [...]	2004-09-22 13:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2501	DFM NOMAN DISCUSSES BMENA, IRAQ, PRESS FREEDOMS [...] (C) Summary. On September 21 Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman discussed with DCM the BMENA Forum for the Future Summit, ROYG support for the IIG, and recent Presidential statements and actions to rein in the Yemeni press. Noman also offered condolences for the murder of American hosta [...]	2004-09-22 14:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ KDEM PTER YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2505	YEMEN: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR SOCCENT [...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process. Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the Yemen Central Security Force Counter Terrorism Unit or other members of this unit as of t [...]	2004-09-24 09:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PHUM YM COUNTER TERRORISM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2509	AMBASSADOR LAUNCHES MEPI ASSISTANCE TO UNDP PROGRAM [...] (U) On September 20 Ambassador, AID Rep and United Nations Development Program Resident Representative Flavia Pansieri signed a 1.59 million USD agreement to support the UNDP Decentralization and Local Development Support Project. Deputy Prime Minister and Minster of Planning and International [...]	2004-09-27 05:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMPI KDEM PGOV DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA2543	YEMEN BLUE LANTERN ANNUAL UPDATE [...] POST BLUE LANTERN POC: Julie Kim Johnson, Economic and Commercial Officer; phone 011-967-303-155, extension 2719 (IVG 469-2719); e-mail: JohnsonJK@state.gov; fax 011-967-303-183; estimated departure date Summer 2006. 2. LOCAL CONDITIONS: The various ROYG military branches and agencies re [...]	2004-10-04 06:53:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC KSEP YM
04SANAA2559	SANAA EAC MEETING - OCTOBER 2, 2004 [...] (S/NF) Begin summary: The Chief of Mission (COM) convened an EAC meeting on October 3, to assess recent threat information and discuss security-related issues followed by a review of the Emergency Action Plan. EAC members concluded the meeting in agreement that no imminent threat was discer [...]	2004-10-06 11:40:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC
04SANAA2602	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) AT [...] (C) Post offers the following response corresponding to the letter of the questions asked in reftel. (a) Contact information for TFCO: Post's Terrorist Financing Coordination Officer is DCM Nabeel Khoury. Post's Terrorist Financing Action Officer is Pol/Econ Deputy Jill Hutchings, who may b [...]	2004-10-13 13:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL TERFIN
04SANAA2699	RAMADAN RELEASES DEMARCHE DELIVERED, ROYG AGREES [...] (S) Summary. On October 16 Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Qirbi and called on the ROYG to live up to its CT commitments (reftel). Ambassador stressed that ROYG failure to provide the USG with prior information on Ramadan releases of terrorism-related security detain [...]	2004-10-17 13:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PTER PREL PINR YM DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2707	SANAA EAC MEETING - OCTOBER 17, 2004 [...] (S/NF) Begin summary: The Chief of Mission (COM) convened an EAC meeting on October 17, to address security concerns as post moves closer to the U.S. election date and enters Ramadan, raising the possibility of major attacks. COM stated there was currently no information that there will be a [...]	2004-10-18 08:32:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC
04SANAA2783	INVESTMENT CLIMATE CHANGES, CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR [...] Summary. Corruption and non-implementation of existing laws and regulations make the investment climate appear nontransparent and arbitrary to most foreign investors. Concerns over security and ROYG non-movement on a critical economic reform package (ref A) create an inhospitable picture for [...]	2004-11-01 13:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV YM KMPF COM
04SANAA2790	YEMEN ASKS US TO STAY OUT OF KHAIWANI CASE [...] (C) Summary. At November 1 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Dhabbi expressed concern that the US plans to join European missions in criticizing the ROYG publicly for the detention of journalist al-Khaiwani. Ambassador responded that no such discussion had taken place and the US would not at [...]	2004-11-02 12:32:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PHUM YM
04SANAA2803	DFM NOMAN DEPRESSED OVER RISING CORRUPTION IN YEMEN [...] (C) Summary: In a candid and wide ranging discussion on November 2, Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman advised Pol/Econ Chief and Deputy that Post should convey to high-level ROYG officials the perils of corruption. Noman advised the Embassy to communicate to journalists and businessmen mo [...]	2004-11-03 11:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KMCA YM ECON COM
04SANAA2832	ACTION COMPLETED: PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE [...] Embassy Sanaa completed reftel action request. September 7, 2004 media notice on the Seed Initiative was sent by PD to normal newspaper distribution throughout Yemen on September 29, 2004. The notice was picked up by at least the Annahar, a weekly independent publication. Annahar has a week [...]	2004-11-08 12:32:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KPAO YM
04SANAA2836	YEMEN 2004 RAMADAN STRATEGY [...] Per reftel, Post reports the following Ramadan programming for 2004. 2. Third Annual PD Iftar. Post,s major event was its annual Iftar dinner on 11/03. Invitees included ROYG officials, NGO heads and representatives, media and cultural contacts, as well as embassy staff. The Ambassador co [...]	2004-11-08 12:52:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF
04SANAA2869	SANAA EAC MEETING - OCTOBER 26, 2004 [...] (S/NF) Begin Summary: On October 26, 2004, the Chief Of Mission chaired a core Emergency Action Committee meeting with COM, DCM, ORCA, DATT, FPD, LEGAT, SOC-Yemen, OMC, CONS, POLECON, PDO and RSO in attendance. The topic of discussion was the possible release of 138 prisoners from Republic of [...]	2004-11-11 10:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2939	FORUM FOR THE FUTURE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ROYG [...] (U) Summary: On November 23, EmbOffs met with separately with Deputy Foreign Minister Noman and Deputy Finance Minister Ghalib to deliver draft agenda (ref A) and discuss ROYG planning for the December 11 Forum for the Future meeting in Rabat (ref B). Both officials assured us that the nece [...]	2004-11-24 10:45:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL KDEM KMPI YM COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA2985	ASSESSMENT OF THE YEMENI CENTRAL SECURITY FORCES [...] (C) This message is in response to reftel request for additional information on USG assistance for the Yemeni Central Security Forces for the purpose of assessing the best funding mechanism. USG training for the CSF-CTU is an integral part of U.S.-ROYG cooperation in the GWOT. ----------- [...]	2004-11-30 14:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2996	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SUPPORT FOR IRAQ ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. DCM delivered ref A and B demarches on keeping weapons out of Sudan (ref A) and encouraging support for full participation in Iraqi elections to Deputy Foreign Minister Noman on December 1. Pointing to President Saleh's on-again, off-again support for Coalition and IIG efforts, [...]	2004-12-01 13:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETTC SU IZ YM DEMARCHE
04SANAA3025	SANAA EAC MEETING - DECEMBER 6, 2004 [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-06 19:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC
04SANAA3094	AL-JAZEERA TV PROGRAM: "THE UNTOLD WAR STORY" - [...] SUMMARY: Al-Jazeera TV broadcast a documentary on Thursday, December 9, 2004, titled "The Untold War Story" addressing the impact and repercussions of U.S.-Yemeni counterterrorism cooperation at the economic, social and political levels. The documentary included impressions from a wide varie [...]	2004-12-15 10:03:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO YM PTER KMDR MARR MOPS PNIR COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA3105	YEMEN: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] Below is Embassy Sanaa's submission to the 2004 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report. 2004 Addendum sent septel. The text and the addendum have also been forwarded to S/CT POC via e-mail. 2. Begin text. Terrorist Attacks and Prosecutions ---------------------------------- There were n [...]	2004-12-18 12:20:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA3130	PROMINENT BUSINESS LEADER ON MINISTERIAL CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary. Pol/Econ Deputy had a wide ranging discussion with Abdul Wahab Thabet, Chairmen of the Thabet brothers, the second largest company in Yemen. Thabet vigorously criticized three of the most powerful ROYG ministers for corruption, and stated that on economics President Saleh, "does [...]	2004-12-20 10:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCOR PGOV PINR YM COM
04SANAA3151	ROYG MAKING TENTATIVE STEPS TO STEM CORRUPTION AND [...] (C) A recent series of local press articles may signal that the ROYG is finally taking initial steps to address corruption, particularly in the area of diesel smuggling, one of the main reasons Parliament was able to successfully stall implementation of an economic reform package. In a meeting [...]	2004-12-26 11:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KMPI KCOR YM KMCC COM
04SANAA3170	SANAA EAC MEETING 12/28/2004 [...] (S/NF) Begin Summary: The Charge convened a core EAC meeting on December 28, 2004, to share information regarding the recent attempt to attack Embassy personnel and to assess recent threat information. Embassy employees were reminded to remain vigilant in light of recent threat reporting an [...]	2004-12-28 17:34:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER YM EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA358	COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP -- 10 FEBRUARY [...] (U) Summary: On 10 February 2004, the Ambassador hosted a meeting of the G-8 Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) local mission representatives at the Residence to discuss and coordinate member-nations' ongoing counterterrorism training and assistance efforts with the Republic of Yemen governm [...]	2004-02-11 16:01:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA368	INVITATION FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS TO [...] (sbu) As a follow-up to the recent CJTF-HOA Political/Military Officers conference hosted at Camp Lemonier, January 20-21, Embassy Sana'a would like to extend an invitation to appropriate information officers at CJTF-HOA in Djibouti to meet with Post public diplomacy officers in Sana'a. 2. [...]	2004-02-16 08:12:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OIIP YM PMIL
04SANAA393	SCENESETTER FOR SANAA VISIT [...] (U) Embassy Sanaa warmly welcomes the visit of GEN Abizaid and his staff. You will find that operational counterterrorism cooperation between the USG and the ROYG has increased since your last visit. 2. (SBU) The grant transfer patrol boats for the Yemen Coast Guard arrived on 15 Februar [...]	2004-02-18 12:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL MARR YM COUNTER TERRORISM MARITIME SECURITY TERFIN
04SANAA396	FM QIRBI ON WASHINGTON VISIT [...] (s) In a February 16 meeting (ref a),CDA reviewed Foreign Minister Abubaker al-Qirbi's successful visit to Washington February 2-6. Noting the positive meetings Qirbi had with the FBI Director and DCI, CDA said that arrangements should proceed soon for teams from the CIA and FBI to visit Yeme [...]	2004-02-18 13:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PGOV MASS PTER ETRD YM COUNTER TERRORISM ECON COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA448	SANAA EAC MEETING - 28 FEBRUARY 2004 [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador convened an EAC meeting on February 28, 2004 to review security conditions for Embassy personnel and the general American community in light of muted public reaction to the terrorist financing designation of Sheikh Zindani (refs A and B) and recent threat repor [...]	2004-02-26 22:38:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER YM EAC TERFIN
04SANAA459	MEPI EDUCATION: DEVELOPING THE "PARTERNSHIP SCHOOLS" [...] On January 27, 2004, Post met with the Vice Minister of Education, Dr. Abdulaziz Bin Habtoor, to discuss the MEPI Partnership Schools Initiative. Dr. Habtoor was responsive to the Partnership Schools concept and will provide further feedback and guidance after consultations within the Ministry [...]	2004-03-01 11:20:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT OTRA YM
04SANAA477	NO NEW SECURITY THREAT IN YEMEN; FRENCH NOT CLOSING [...] (C) SUMMARY. French DCM told DCM 3/2 that media reports of French diplomatic closure in Sanaa due to new local security threats are in error. The recent Zawahiri audiotape prompted Paris to advise French embassies worldwide to review security. In Yemen, this instruction prompted an ongoing [...]	2004-03-02 14:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV FR YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA507	PRESIDENT SALEH'S SON: ALIVE AND WELL IN SANAA [...] (u) Colonel Ahmed Ali Saleh, President Saleh's oldest son and Commander of the Yemen Special Forces, made a public appearance on March 6 at a graduation ceremony for the Republican Guard and Special Forces. DATT, who attended the ceremony, confirms that Saleh appeared to be unharmed. Saleh's [...]	2004-03-07 13:31:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PARM PREL PHUM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA546	UPDATE ON SIT-IN BY ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES AT UNHCR [...] (C) Summary. The sit-in by Ethiopian refugees reported in reftel remains unchanged after nearly one month. A group of refugees continues to camp outside UNHCR's Sana'a offices in the road adjacent to the residence of the DCM. Contacts with Yemeni officials indicate willingness by the ROYG to [...]	2004-03-10 13:45:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF YM HUMAN RIGHTS

04SANAA622	SANAA EAC MEETING - 16 MARCH 2004 [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador convened an EAC meeting on 3/16 to review security conditions for Embassy personnel and the general American community in light of the recent thwarted attack on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. EAC examined Post's already stringent and comprehensive se [...]	2004-03-17 14:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER YM EAC
04SANAA626	FEBRUARY 9, 2004, SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE [...] (S/NF) Demonstrations A. Are there any ethnic or religious communities in country that are capable of carrying out significant anti-American demonstrations? There are not organized, clearly defined communities as such, but ad hoc groupings of Yemeni Muslims are predisposed to oppose U. [...]	2004-03-17 17:49:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA662	03/21/2003 DEMONSTRATION -- GETTING THE FACTS [...] (C) Summary: On the anniversary of the start of the war against Iraq, Yemeni opposition newspapers are recalling the March 21, 2003 demonstration near the U.S. Embassy that resulted in several persons killed and injured after clashes erupted between armed demonstrators and ROYG security forc [...]	2004-03-21 13:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM YM
04SANAA673	SANAA EAC MEETING - 22 MARCH 2004 [...] (S/NF) Begin summary: Ambassador convened an EAC meeting on March 22, 2004, to review security conditions for Embassy personnel and the general American community in light of Israel's assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (reftel). Ambassador commenced the EAC with an [...]	2004-03-23 09:45:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER YM EAC
04SANAA683	HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW OF DOD TRAINING [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-24 13:27:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PHUM YM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA685	SANAA EAC MEETING 03/24/2004 [...] (C) Begin Summary: The Ambassador convened an EAC meeting on March 24th, 2004, to review the security situation in regard to potential tensions in the region as a result of the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. EAC members noted no specific threats but recommended that the American com [...]	2004-03-24 16:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
04SANAA720	ROYG POLICE END SIT-IN BY ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES AT [...] (U) Summary. Following a partial closing by UNHCR of its offices in Sana'a and a threat to close permamently, Yemeni police intervened on March 19 to end the sit-in by Ethiopian refugees which began February 10, thus ending the potential security threat posed to the adjacent residence of the [...]	2004-03-31 12:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF YM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA726	NEA/ARP DEPUTY DIRECTOR WILLIAMS 3/13-15 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: During his 3/13-15 visit to Yemen, Deputy Director of NEA/ARP Tom Williams discussed the Greater Middle East Initiative (GMEI) and Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) with the Deputy Foreign Minister, who critiqued the MCA process and indicators. The DFM also noted his primary con [...]	2004-03-31 13:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID PARM PHUM KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA728	PRESENTATION OF INCOMING LEGATT TO MINISTER OF [...] (U) Summary: On 27 March 2004, The Ambassador met with ROYG Minister of the Interior Rashad al-Alimi to present newly arrived LEGATT and discuss security subjects. Alimi warmly welcomed LEGATT, and listed a number of issues on which MOI sought cooperation with LEGATT. Also present at the m [...]	2004-04-03 04:29:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM MARITIME SECURITY
04SANAA823	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK FADEL AL-HUSSEINI [...] (u) This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (u) Post received original PLC request in reftel on March 8. The purchaser is the Fadel Al-Husseini Trading Group. The enduser is the Republican Guard of Yemen. The enduser site is the training and storage facilities of the Yemeni Repu [...]	2004-04-07 14:18:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ETRD ETTC YE
04SANAA837	LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION: USS COLE DEFENDANTS - [...] (SBU) Ambassador, accompanied by LEGATT and NCIS rep, carried out demarche reftel with Minister of Interior Alimi on Wednesday, April 7. Ambassador noted his intention to reiterate points to prosecutor general early week of April 10. Alimi confirmed that prosecutor general is appropriate in [...]	2004-04-10 13:59:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER CJAN YM DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA855	HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON THE HRR, TIP, AMNESTY [...] (c) Summary: On 4/10, Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief met with Minister of Human Rights Amat al-Alim al-Suswah at her request to discuss the ROYG's response to the 2003 Human Rights Report (HRR),additional ROYG actions to quantify and combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP),the Amnesty Internatio [...]	2004-04-13 09:53:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SMIG ASEC ELAB KWMN KFRD PGOV YM KRIC HUMAN RIGHTS TRAFFICKING PERSONS
04SANAA867	YEMEN TO TRY TERRORISTS/COLE BOMBING SUSPECTS [...] (U) Summary: On 11 April 2004, The Ambassador met with ROYG Attorney General (AttGen) Dr. Abdullah Al-Ulfi to discuss progress on turning over terrorist cases for prosecution, formally request rendition of Cole Bombing suspects Al-Badawi and Al-Quso, and to request/offer USG participation in [...]	2004-04-14 11:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA956	GMEI: SUPPORT COMBINED WITH ADVICE FROM DFM NOMAN [...] (c) Summary: On 4/21, Pol/Econ Chief delivered talking points (ref b) and GMEI paper package (ref c) to DFM Noman. While pledging to support the reforms, Noman's initial reaction included a reminder that the USG's credibility vis a vis reform is being adversely impacted by the Administration's [...]	2004-04-27 05:22:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KMPI PREL EAID XF PK YM
04SANAA96	FINAL REPORT: DEMOCRACY SMALL GRANT FOR THE [...] The Communication Training & Qualifying Institution (CTQI) has concluded its training project titled "Advocacy and Media Campaign." Conducted from 04-15 October 2003 for 20 participants from ten NGOs working with women and human rights issues on how to use media to prepare [...]	2004-01-11 13:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO AFIN KWMN PHUM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA960	MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAMS [...] Per reftel, Embassy Sanaa would like to be included in the Maritime Security Collective. 2. Point of contact for Embassy Sanaa is Pol/Econ Chief, Mary Brett Rogers, who can be contacted at the following phone numbers: Embassy: (967) (1) 303-155 extension 2236, cell phone (967) 7321-8475 [...]	2004-04-27 10:18:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT EWWT ACOA ASEC EAIR ETRD ECON ETTC MARITIME SECURITY
04SANJOSE3369	COSTA RICA INCSR REPORT 2004 - 2005 PART I, DRUGS [...] (U) The text of Costa Rica's 2004-2005 INCSR Part I is below. Costa Rica I. Summary Costa Rica serves as a transshipment point for narcotics from South America to the United States and Europe. The bilateral Maritime Counterdrug Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in late [...]	2004-12-17 19:42:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CS
04SANTODOMINGO1052	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP [...] Summary: Embassy on February 6 hosted a coordination meeting of local embassies of nations involved in the Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG). Poloff and NAS officer briefly sketched U.S. plans as CTAG chair for 2004 and ongoing U.S. law enforcement assistance programs relevant to countert [...]	2004-02-19 19:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC PREL SNAR EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO1094	DOMINICAN REACTION TO HAITI CRISIS [...] (SBU) Dominicans are apprehensive about the unraveling of Haiti, defensive about possible overflow onto their territory, and unwilling to take in any quantity of refugees. Reactions in the Dominican Republic to the unraveling of neighbor Haiti are mixed. The GODR has reinforced the border wi [...]	2004-02-20 23:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF ASEC DR HA
04SANTODOMINGO1174	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON DOMINICAN PRESIDENT MEJIA [...] (C) Summary. Dominican President Hipolito Mejia heard out the Ambassador's request for the country to sponsor the Cuba resolution at the March session of the UNHCR but declined to make any commitment. Mejia said in the course of changes to be announced on national day he will remove several [...]	2004-02-24 22:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM DR
04SANTODOMINGO1299	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #23 - POLITICS AFFECTS THE [...] (SBU) This is cable number 23 in our presidential election series. Politics affects the Supreme Court President Mejia's PRD appears to be positioning itself to pack the Supreme Court with PRD party members, less than three months before the presidential election, If Mejia loses the May 16 electio [...]	2004-02-26 20:14:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO1328	"JOSELITO.COM" KINGPIN CAUGHT IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (SBU) On February 28 Embassy DEA office cooperating with Dominican national drug control authorities (DNCD) located and arrested drug kingpin Jose Arismende ALMONTE PENA, head of a narcotics smuggling ring shut down on November 12 in a joint operation in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Almonte [...]	2004-03-01 22:07:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR
04SANTODOMINGO1343	EMBASSY SANTO DOMINGO 90-DAY GOALS [...] (SBU) Following are Embassy Santo Domingo's goals for the first quarter of CY 2004 and a status report: Rule of Law Obtain removal of at least one official believed to be complicit in trafficking or corruption -- Miguel Vasquez, Atty Gen Cespedes, Ambassador to Argentina, Guido Gomez Status as [...]	2004-03-02 17:18:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT DR
04SANTODOMINGO1361	CANARD; ALLEGED TRAINING OF HAITI INSURGENTS IN [...] Embassy advises that Boston Globe reporter Bryan Bender (e-mail bender@globe.com, tels 202-857-5060, cell 202-369-6856) drafted on February 29 a text based on allegations of unidentified sources (including one "Haitian official") that Haitian insurgents received training and weapons from U.S. [...]	2004-03-02 20:31:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV HA DR
04SANTODOMINGO148	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2003-2004 INTERNATIONAL [...] Text of Dominican Republic draft 2002-2003 INCSR follows. Part One: Drugs and Chemical Control I. Summary The Dominican Republic (DR) is a major transit country for South American drugs, mostly cocaine and heroin, moving to the United States and Europe. The Government of the Dominican [...]	2004-01-08 22:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR DR
04SANTODOMINGO150	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER EVALUATION [...] On December 23 NAS Director and emboffs visited the drop-in center for victims of domestic violence in Bani to gauge its progess since inception in 2001. Center director Bibiana Nunez continues to run the center with limited resources but appears motivated to sustain the center's needed prese [...]	2004-01-09 12:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PHUM DR
04SANTODOMINGO1515	CANARD II: DOMINICAN RIFLES FOR HAITI [...] Secretary of the Armed Forces Soto Jimenez told the press on March 5 that the Dominican Republic has received no rpt no arms from the USG and commented that the figure of 3,500 weapons used in questions to WHA Assistant Secretary Roger Noriega might correspond to annual licensed imports of arm [...]	2004-03-06 17:49:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV HA DR
04SANTODOMINGO1567	DOMINICANS SYMPATHETIC TO U.S. POSITION FOR MARCH [...] Upon receipt of reftel March 9 the Ambassador telephoned Dominican Foreign Minister Guerrero Prats, who expressed interest in U.S. position. At Guerrero Prats' request, Embassy delivered text of non-paper immediately to help MFA formulate the Dominican instructios. 2. Ambassador also rai [...]	2004-03-10 12:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR ETRD PREL SENV DR CU PHUM
04SANTODOMINGO1597	DOMINICAN LABOR MINISTER IS CANDIDATE TO CHAIR ILO ANNUAL MEETING [...] Dominican Labor Minister Milton RAY Guevara called on the Ambassador on March 6 to solicit U.S. support for him within the Americas group to chair the annual ILO session in June. In the normal course of rotation, the Americas are to provide a chair. Ray indicated that the long-serving Labor [...]	2004-03-10 20:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB AORC ILO DR PINR
04SANTODOMINGO1683	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Trafficking in women has been a serious problem in the Dominican Republic for the past 15 to 20 years, due mainly to the feminization of migration starting in the 1980s. The exodus of women primarily to Europe and other Caribbean islands for economic reasons has made them extremely vulnerabl [...]	2004-03-12 21:13:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
04SANTODOMINGO1816	MEETING WITH GODR OFFICIALS ON STATUS OF NEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: GODR is still on track to produce ICAO compliant passport in April. GODR Passport Office has established new Anti-Fraud Unit. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On March 9, 2004 Consul General and FPM met with Director of GODR Passport Office, Mr. Elias Wessin Chavez. Purpose of the meeting [...]	2004-03-19 18:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CMGT CPAS CVIS CASC KFRD DR
04SANTODOMINGO1835	DOMINICAN ELECTION #30: OAS LAUNCHES OBSERVER [...] (SBU) This is No. 30 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: OAS LAUNCHES ELECTION OBERVER MISSION Senior advisor Santiago Murray kicked off the U.S.-funded Organization of American States (OAS) election observation mission during a March 15-19 visit to Santo Domingo. Murray [...]	2004-03-22 18:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL IO DR
04SANTODOMINGO1848	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA EMPLOYEE [...] U.S.Embassy Santo Domingo welcomes and grants country clearance to Federal Aviation Administration Safety Inspector Samuel Perry to travel to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The purpose of the visit is to perform 14 CFR part 121 enroute inspection, cargo and line station inspection for Arro [...]	2004-03-11 14:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT
04SANTODOMINGO1933	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT MEJIA WRITES TO ASK FOR [...] (SBU) On March 25 the Foreign Ministry delivered the original of a letter from President Mejia for President Bush, under cover of a note from the Minister. Following is Embassy's unofficial translation. Embassy is faxing copy to WHA/CAR and to Treasury; original follows to SES-CR by pouch. [...]	2004-03-25 18:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR EFIN OPDC
04SANTODOMINGO194	DOMINICAN PROGRAM WITH IMF: HIGH HURDLES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On January 7 Econoff and USAID Economist called on IMF ResRep Ousmene Mandeng (PLEASE PROTECT) to review current status of IMF proposed program. The GODR has completed legislative action on budget items included as conditionalities and is close to complying with requirements [...]	2004-01-09 23:25:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO1950	DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL PROMISES ARTICLE 98 AND [...] (U) Summary. On March 24 Dominican Attorney General Victor Cespedes Martinez promised the Ambassador that he would act swiftly on the Article 98 agreement, facilitate extradition requests and work to improve the handling of narcotics/narcotrafficking cases in the Dominican Republic. End Summary. [...]	2004-03-26 18:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN DR KCRM KJUS SNAR PREL MARR
04SANTODOMINGO1986	DOMINICAN ELECTION #32: BATTLE OF THE POLLS [...] (SBU) This is no. 32 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: BATTLE OF THE POLLS Two polls published today, March 29, both show a much tighter presidential race, indicating that President Hipolito Mejia has picked up considerable support. Polls were done the same week in Mar [...]	2004-03-29 17:18:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO1989	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #33: BALAGUER'S GHOST [...] (SBU) Following is no. 33 in our series on the Dominican elections: Balaguer's Ghost Avaunt! And quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with. - - Macbeth, Act 3, scene 4 The message tha [...]	2004-03-29 19:25:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2072	DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS [...] Many civilian air traffic controllers returned to work today after the Dominican Civil Aviation Authority and Dominican Air Traffic Controllers Union reached an agreement early today. Representatives from both parties explained to econoff that agreement was reached at 1:30 am after many hours [...]	2004-04-02 19:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EAIR ELAB MARR
04SANTODOMINGO2100	RESPONSE TO JAYSH AL-MAHDI VIOLENCE AGAINST [...] EcoPol counselor is delivering ref demarche to Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Pichardo this afternoon and Defense Attache has already made the same points with Secretary of the Armed Forces MG Soto Jimenez. Embassy will SIPDIS report their responses as appropriate. KUBISKE [...]	2004-04-06 11:01:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS DR
04SANTODOMINGO2183	CTAG DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GODR [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A talking points to GODR Foreign Ministry Head of the International Organizations, Ambassador Rhadys Abreu de Polanco. Ambassador Abreu had no immediate response. Embassy Santo Domingo held a CTAG meeting on February 6, 2004 (reftel B),we do not plan to hold ano [...]	2004-04-07 17:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO2186	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT TRAVELS TO MIAMI AND [...] Embassy has received Diplomatic Note DVP 8445 from the Secretariat of State for Foreign Relations of the Dominican SIPDIS Republic advising of President Hipolito Mejia's travel plans to Miami and New York April 10 through the 12 and requesting proper airspace and landing permissions. Attac [...]	2004-04-07 21:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC OTRA OVIP DR
04SANTODOMINGO2381	FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST NO.200400520 [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-19 19:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AINF DR TBIO
04SANTODOMINGO2459	GODR NO COMMENT ON UNSC DRAFT RESOLUTION ON NON- [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel talking points and non-paper to GODR Ambassador Jesus Maria Hernandez, the Foreign Ministry's Director of International Organizations, on April 21. No immediate response was forthcoming. If a substantive response is delivered, Embassy will report septel. KUBISK [...]	2004-04-21 23:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO2504	REQUEST FOR NAMES, TITLES, AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-23 19:36:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO2513	SECRETARY OF ENERGY ABRAHAM PROPOSES TO "SHED MORE [...] Summary. United States Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham visited the Dominican Republic April 15 on his way to the Sixth Western Hemisphere Energy Minister's Meeting in Trinidad & Tobago, April 19 - 21. The Secretary met with Embassy personnel, private sector representatives, and Presiden [...]	2004-04-23 20:17:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ENRG OVIP PREL
04SANTODOMINGO2575	DIPNOTE 11048 - PRESIDENT MEJIA NOTIFIES [...] On April 27 Embassy received from the Foreign Ministry formal notification of withdrawal from Iraq by the Dominican Quisqueya Batallion, dated April 26. Text follows: (Complementary intro...) and refers to the situation of the Ad Hoc "Quisqueya" Task Force, currently in Iraq. As it is kno [...]	2004-04-28 13:28:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV DR IZ
04SANTODOMINGO2580	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #42: PLD PROMISES TO THE USG [...] (SBU) Following is number 42 in our series on the Dominican elections. PLD Promises to the USG In mid-March PLD campaign manager Danilo Medina led a four-person PLD delegation to Washington, where they met with NSC personnel and asked for an appointment at the Department of State. Sin [...]	2004-04-28 13:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2601	DOMINICAN SECRETARY FOR ARMED FORCES SENDS EMBASSY [...] On April 28, Embassy received official correspondence from Secretary of Armed Forces, Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez, stating the Dominican Republic's intention to remove their troops from Iraq. His letter is dated April 20 but was almost certainly written on April 26 or April 27. 2. An image o [...]	2004-04-29 11:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR MARR MOPS OPDC PREL
04SANTODOMINGO2607	ROCK ASH SHIPMENTS FROM PUERTO RICO TO DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A controversy over rock ash shipments from a Puerto Rico power plant owned by U.S.-based energy company AES has become a topic of local comment. The Dominican Environment Secretariat confirms that the local firm that imported the product for construction in the north obtained [...]	2004-04-29 16:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP SENV DR ETRD EWWT EIND
04SANTODOMINGO2619	ILO: CUBA AND VENEZUELA REPRISALS AGAINST [...] Dominican Minister of Labor Milton Ray Guevara mentioned to EcoPol counselor on April 28 at the dedication of a Dept of Labor sponsored program that the Venezuelan and Cuban missions in Geneva are lobbying against his candidacy to chair the ILO annual meetings, specifically because they perce [...]	2004-04-29 22:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ELAB DR CU
04SANTODOMINGO2718	CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY: DOMINICAN EXPENDITURES FOR [...] Embassy has extrapolated general costs for Dominican Quisqueya battalion August 2003 to May 2004 as follows: Salaries $75,000 monthly x 10 months for $750,000 Incentive pay, total 120,000 Ammunition and training costs 12,000 Miscellaneous travel [...]	2004-05-05 22:49:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OPDC MOPS
04SANTODOMINGO2742	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #44: CANDIDATES ON MACRO AND [...] (SBU) Following is number 44 in our Dominican elections series: Candidates on Macro and Financial Policy In April all three of the principal candidates for the Dominican presidency addressed the American Chamber of Commerce on their visions for economic policy for 2004-2008. The full te [...]	2004-05-06 20:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON DR
04SANTODOMINGO2743	LETTER AND SUMMARY OF DEFICIENCIES AT LAS AMERICAS [...] Embassy officers delivered he TSA letter in English on Friday, May 2 to the Airport Security Agency (CESA),the airport operator AERODOM and to the Civil Aviation Agency. English translations of the letter and the annex were delivered to all the above on Monday, May 5. HERTELL [...]	2004-05-06 23:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER DR
04SANTODOMINGO2753	ESTABLISHING US MISSION BAGHDAD DELIVERED TO GODR [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-07 15:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AMGT MOPS
04SANTODOMINGO2821	DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES # 06: "RAMONCITO" GOES TO [...] (U) This is cable # 6 in a periodic series on the banking sector in the Dominican Republic. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. SIPDIS "RAMONCITO" SENT TO TRIAL IN THE BANINTER CASE --------------------------------------------- --------------- What's new: a summary of the bank [...]	2004-05-10 16:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO2843	DOMINICAN ELECTION # 46: ESTRELLA, WOULD-BE STAR [...] (SBU) This is cable # 46 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: ESTRELLA, WOULD-BE STAR ------------------------ Heading for third place ------------------------ In the last week before the presidential election, Reformista candidate Eduardo Estrella continues to work t [...]	2004-05-11 11:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO2925	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #48: SCENESETTER FOR MAY 16 [...] (SBU) Following is number 48 in our Dominican elections series: Scenesetter for May 16 Presidential Vote Celebrations and Movement Santo Domingo was the scene on successive days this week of tumultuous street rallies for the three major presidential candidates. The atmosphere was that [...]	2004-05-14 16:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2933	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES #49: LEONEL FERNANDEZ -- [...] (SBU) This is cable #49 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections. FERNANDEZ: THE ONCE AND FUTURE PRESIDENT? (SBU) Lawyer turned politician, Leonel Fernandez once reigned over the small island nation of the Dominican Republic. Times were good - tourism and exports were up, the [...]	2004-05-14 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO2937	DOMINICAN ELECTION #50: OBSERVERS - MUCHOS OJOS [...] (U) This is no. 50 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: ELECTION OBSERVERS - MUCHOS OJOS We expect as many as 250 international observers, including 160 associated with the OAS Electoral Observation Mission, to be in the Dominican Republic to monitor the presidential voti [...]	2004-05-14 22:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM DR
04SANTODOMINGO3004	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT-ELECT LOOKS FORWARD TO CLOSE [...] (SBU) Summary. Dominican President-elect Leonel Fernandez assured the Ambassador on May 19 that he anticipated close and collaborative relations with the United States. Economic issues will occupy much of his time. Dominican relations with Cuba are a relatively low priority for him. Fernand [...]	2004-05-20 12:02:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO3056	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES #52: DEMOCRACY WINS [...] (SBU) Following is number 52 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: Democracy Wins - - - - - - - - Voting was calm and orderly across the Dominican Republic during the 12-hour polling period on May 16, in what many consider to have been the best-conducted vote in national [...]	2004-05-24 10:39:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM DR
04SANTODOMINGO3297	IRAQ: SUPPORTING THE IIG - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel points June 4 to MFA international organizations deputy director Rhadys Abreu de Polanco. Poloff emphasized the importance of the Dominican Republic, as a member of the Coalition, expressing firm support for the new Iraqi authorities publicly and in international [...]	2004-06-04 18:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ DR
04SANTODOMINGO3312	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2004 INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] This cable provides the 2004 Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims Report for the Dominican Republic per reftel. 2. The United States Government is presently aware of 13 claims of U.S. persons that may be outstanding against the Government of the Dominican Republic (GODR),down from [...]	2004-06-04 19:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ECON KIDE EINV
04SANTODOMINGO3313	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #1: TAKING REPONSIBILITY FOR [...] (SBU) Following is number 1 in our series on the Dominican presidential transition: Taking the Responsibility for the Mess - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (SBU) Both sides of this transition are apprehensive of taking blame for the pain necessarily associated with th [...]	2004-06-06 03:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO3357	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: BASEL CONVENTION NOTIFICATION [...] Embassy Santo Domingo received on June 7 a diplomatic note transmitting a may 25 letter from the Dominican Ministry of the Environment advising of the transboundary movement of a total of 1924 kg of liquid and solid latex for incineration by the firm Perma Fix Environmental Services of Orlando [...]	2004-06-08 17:02:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV DR
04SANTODOMINGO3422	DEMARCHE, ECLAC CONFERENCE ON WOMEN, DELIVERED TO [...] Embassy delivered reftel talking points as a non-paper to MFA deputy director of international organizations Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, with a request that they be shared with the Dominican delegation to the Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Mexico City Jun [...]	2004-06-09 22:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC SOCI KWMN DR
04SANTODOMINGO3424	DOMINICAN GRUPO M SHUTTING DOWN MANUFACTURING [...] SUMMARY. Dominican apparel company, GRUPO M, is close to shutting down their apparel plant in Ouanaminthe, Haiti due to "Workers' Struggle," a group of activist employees who have made the plant inefficient and ineffective. GRUPO M President, Fernando Capellan, stated that the company plans [...]	2004-06-14 11:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BTIO DR ELAB ETRD EINV HA
04SANTODOMINGO3548	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CERTIFICATION REPORT CARD, 2004 [...] Following is the narcotics certification report card 2004 for the Dominican Republic, requested Ref A (the 2003 report card is in Ref B). 2. The United States Government (USG) worked with the Government of the Dominican Republic (GODR) to continue progress on establishing a regular and pred [...]	2004-06-17 21:01:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO3617	GODR PUBLIC FINANCING STRAINED [...] (SBU) Central Bank Manager Apolinar Veloz told Econoff June 18 that GODR non-financial public sector finances are seriously off track from the IMF agreement for the first trimester of 2004. Veloz's remarks track with what Technical Secretary Carlos Despradel reported to the DCM June 1. SI [...]	2004-06-18 22:49:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON DR
04SANTODOMINGO3626	DOMINICAN TRANSITION # 3: SIDES ENGAGE ON IMF AND [...] (U) This is cable no. 3 in our series on the transition to a new administration in the Dominican Republic. SIDES ENGAGE ON IMF AND TAX REFORM ----------------------------------------- Fiscal reform, necessarily the hot topic ----------------------------------------- As the power outage [...]	2004-06-22 10:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO3627	RECOMMENDATION ON FINANCING OF MARINE PATROL [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-22 10:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON DR
04SANTODOMINGO3667	USG REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS HITS [...] (U) Embassy Santo Domingo delivered the Dominican Republic section of the 2003 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the Foreign Ministry on June 14; the Embassy press release on the subject made all the dailies the next day. The story grew as on June 16, in response to a written question, [...]	2004-06-22 13:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO3694	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ATTENDANCE AT 59TH UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-23 12:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OTRA OVIP DR
04SANTODOMINGO3825	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - CUBA: COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY [...] (U)The Dominican Government this year provided decisive support to the cause of improving prospects for human rights and democracy in Cuba. Secretary Powell sent a letter to President Mejia (Ref B) thanking him for the Dominican Republic's "yes" vote on the Cuba resolution in the 60th Human R [...]	2004-06-29 10:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETTC CU DR
04SANTODOMINGO3841	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: RESETTLEMENT OF PROTECTED [...] (SBU) Embassy understands the importance of the resettlement of protected Cuban and Haitian migrants presently at Guantanamo Naval Base and will offer all appropriate assistance. The Dominican Republic is in the midst of a government transition and inauguration day for the new administration [...]	2004-06-29 15:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL SMIG MARR DR
04SANTODOMINGO3906	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #5: PACT BECOMES FACT [...] (SBU) This no. 5 in our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic. (SBU) Dominican Transition: Pact Becomes Fact The transition teams really are cooperating. The government is likely to deliver a PLD-shaped tax reform to Congress by the targe [...]	2004-07-01 20:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN DR SP
04SANTODOMINGO3925	EXTRADITION CASE OF JOHNNY MARTINEZ [...] (U) Embassy Santo Domingo responds to reftel A questions as follows: a. Embassy Santo Domingo has no record of receiving any request for assurances or any other requests from the GODR regarding Johnny Martinez's extradition to the United States. b. Embassy Santo Domingo has no record o [...]	2004-07-02 14:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KCRM DR
04SANTODOMINGO3978	NOMINATION TO REGIONAL LABOR RIGHTS TRAINING [...] Embassy nominates Jay R. Raman, a political officer with labor reporting responsibilities, to attend the WHA Regional Labor Rights Training Seminar to be held in Panama City on 9-10 September 2004. 2. Jay Raman began a one year rotational assignment in the Political Section of AmEmb Santo D [...]	2004-07-07 19:45:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB OTRA DR
04SANTODOMINGO4001	TRANSPARENCY CLAUSE: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy on July 6 delivered talking points on the transparency clause (para 8 reftel) to MFA deputy director for UN and OAS affairs Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, in the form of a non-paper in Spanish. She undertook to pass the document to the Dominican delegation before their July 7 departure for [...]	2004-07-08 21:31:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KSUM KCOR KCRM KDEM DR
04SANTODOMINGO4014	DOMINICAN SUPREME COURT POSTPONES TRIAL FOR ALIEN [...] (U) On July 7 the Dominican Supreme Court once again postponed trial proceedings for PRD Congressman Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia, accused of alien smuggling in a July, 2000 incident. According to news reports, the chief prosecutor asked for a delay in order to issue a summons to several k [...]	2004-07-09 14:21:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS SMIG DR
04SANTODOMINGO406	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #16: OAS OBSERVER MISSION IN [...] (SBU) Following is number 16 in our Dominican presidential election series: OAS PROPOSES ELECTION OBSERVER MISSION OAS Special Adviser Santiago Murray, from the Secretariat General's Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, on January 15 called on the Central Election Board (JCE) and thi [...]	2004-01-20 17:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR PGOV EAID
04SANTODOMINGO4087	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #7: CONGRESS CONTINUES, [...] (SBU) This no. 7 in our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic: CONGRESS CONTINUES, DESPITE DISARRAY When President-elect Leonel Fernandez (PLD) takes office August 16, the present National Congress will be only halfway through its four-year [...]	2004-07-13 18:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO4200	REACHING OUT TO GOVERNMENTS AND NGOS ON CUBA: [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-19 18:36:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU DR
04SANTODOMINGO4260	TERRORIST FINANCE: CIRA [...] On July 20, Embassy delivered information in reftel to the Vice Secretary in the GODR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the GODR Superintendent of Banks. Embassy will forward any response received. HERTELL [...]	2004-07-21 19:02:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EFIN ETTC PTER TD KTFN
04SANTODOMINGO4323	REGISTRATION FOR JAY R. RAMAN TO HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Embassy registers Jay R. Raman, a political officer with human rights reporting responsibilities for Embassy Santo Domingo, to attend the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor conference on human rights to be held in Washington on 28-29 September 2004. 2. Raman is planning to arrive [...]	2004-07-26 13:35:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PHUM AORC DR
04SANTODOMINGO4350	EMBASSY PRESENTS TIP ACTION PLAN TO DOMINICAN [...] On 23 July 2004 Poloffs met separately with Dominican MFA international organizations deputy Rhadys Abreu de Polanco and consular affairs director Dulce Rosario de la Maza to discuss the TIP issues set forth in reftel and to present the Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan for the Dominican Republic. [...]	2004-07-27 18:17:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM DR
04SANTODOMINGO4392	TRANSITION #8: DOMINCAN CONGRESS AWASH WITH TAX [...] (SBU) This is number 8 in our series covering the transition between the Mejia and the Fernandez governments. DOMINICAN CONGRESS AWASH WITH TAX CHANGE PROPOSALS Fifteen days ago President Mejia sent Congress the PLD-drafted fiscal package. The Fernandez team projected its proposal would [...]	2004-07-29 20:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR EFIN PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO4418	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2004 INVESTMENT CLIMATE MID [...] This cable provides the 2004 Investment Climate Mid Year Update for the Dominican Republic tasked reftel 2. (begin text) CHAPTER 7: Investment Climate Investment Climate The following is the (preliminary) 2005 Investment Climate Report for the Dominican Republic.(as of July 2004) [...]	2004-07-30 20:42:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ECON KIDE EINV EFIN ELAB KTDB PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO4422	U.S. INITIATIVES FOR THE 59TH UNGA DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-01 19:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PHUM KDEM AORC DR
04SANTODOMINGO4425	INVITATION TO GTRI CONFERENCE IN VIENNA DELIVERED [...] Embassy on July 29 delivered reftel talking points inviting the Dominican Republic to participate in the Global Threat Reduction Initiative Partners Conference in Vienna, Austria, September 18-19, and text of proposed joint statement, to MFA international organizations deputy director Rhadys [...]	2004-08-02 13:07:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP TRGY PTER AORC DR
04SANTODOMINGO4501	TRANSITION #10 - THE AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH LEONEL [...] (U) This is cable number 10 in our series covering the transition between the Mejia and Fernandez governments. President-elect Fernandez - Two weeks from power 2. (C) Summary. President-elect Leonel Fernandez told the Ambassador in a private meeting on August 3, 2004, that his govern [...]	2004-08-04 17:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN EINV ENRG MCAP DR
04SANTODOMINGO4502	WHA SPRING 2005 INTERN PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-04 17:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ASEC
04SANTODOMINGO4514	DOMINICAN TRANSITION 11: STUDENTS PROTEST [...] (U) This is no. 11 in our series on the Dominican Republic's transition to a new administration: STUDENTS PROTEST VIOLENTLY AGAINST MEJIA 2. (U) Police estimated that 200 students protested violently at the inauguration by President Mejia of a new central library at the Autonomous Univers [...]	2004-08-05 14:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC DR
04SANTODOMINGO4515	REQUEST FOR ASSESSMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-05 15:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR KSCA TBIO OSCI
04SANTODOMINGO4534	AMENDING AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENT CRS PROVISIONS [...] Embassy delivered reftel talking points as a non-paper to Director General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) Carlos Alvarez Guzman. Embassy will forward any response received. MARSHALL [...]	2004-08-05 21:50:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA EAIR
04SANTODOMINGO4635	DOMINICAN CONGRESS STALLS EFFORT TO UNDERCUT IPR [...] Summary. On August 11 Charge and EcoPol counselor urged Dominican House of Representatives President Alfredo Pacheco to block draft legislation from the Senate intended to reduce penalties for IPR infringements and to institute automatic compulsory licensing of patents. Pacheco said that he [...]	2004-08-11 23:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO4637	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #14: FERNANDEZ TELLS [...] (U) This no. 14 in our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic. Lunch with Leonel (U) On August 6, the Ambassador and visiting Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) attended a lunch hosted by President-elect Leonel Fernandez (PLD) at the office of his G [...]	2004-08-12 10:46:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET MCAP DR VE
04SANTODOMINGO4672	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - CODEL DODD (15-17 AUG) [...] U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo welcomes and grants country clearance to Senator Christopher J. Dodd to travel to Santo Domingo. The purpose of this trip is to attend the presidential inauguration of President-elect Fernandez from 15-17 August, 2004. 2. Embassy assistance is requested. ---- [...]	2004-08-13 16:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OTRA DR
04SANTODOMINGO4702	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. WILLIAM H. SCOTTI [...] US Embassy Santo Domingo welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. William H. Scotti to travel to Santo Domingo from September 21 to September 23, 2004. Purpose of trip is to carry out activities relating to dependent education and assistance to American- sponsored schools. Embassy will me [...]	2004-08-17 13:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER

04SANTODOMINGO4719	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #13: FERNANDEZ TELLS [...] (U) This is the amplified and corrected version of ref a, part of our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic. Ten days before his inauguration, Leonel Fernandez spoke about his approach to the economic crisis and commented on his relations with [...]	2004-08-18 11:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET MCAP DR VE

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