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07YAOUNDE994	CAMEROON'S UN REP: BIYA WANTS POSITIVE RELATIONS [...] (SBU) President Biya has instructed his diplomats to make Cameroon's positive relations with the U.S. more "visible," according to Cameroon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Martin Belinga Eboutou. Belinga called on Charge d'Affaires on August 6 to ask how Cameroon's UN dele [...]	2007-08-07 13:06:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IO PREL PGOV CM

07YEREVAN1000	EUR DAS BRYZA'S VISIT YIELDS UPDATES ON NK, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Bryza's intense day of meetings in Yerevan July 30 touched important bases with top GOAM and opposition leaders. The visit was aimed at bilateral business, but Nagorno-Karabakh deliberations nonetheless dominated meetings with the President and Foreign Minister. On Turkey, [...]	2007-08-07 10:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR
07YEREVAN1012	CDA CALL ON ENERGY MINISTER RAISES IRAN, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. CDA met August 6 with Energy Minister Armen Movsisian to discuss the Armenian nuclear power plant (ANPP) and Armenia's economic relations with Iran. Movsisian assured that the GOAM aims to close the plant by the target date (2016). He believed that Armenia's only option is to [...]	2007-08-09 05:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON ETTC PREL PARM IR AM
07YEREVAN1015	ARMENIA DISMAYED BY RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian strategists are unanimously chagrined by Russia's plan to withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, believing that a functioning CFE is very much in Armenia's national interests to restrain a regional arms race. FM Oskanian and MFA experts tell us t [...]	2007-08-09 12:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM AM RU
07YEREVAN102	ARMENIA LOOKS FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD RE-OPENING [...] (C) During a January 30 meeting with CDA, DFM Arman Kirakossian indicated that the GOAM would consider a signal from Turkey that opening the border was not contingent on a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as "encouragement" to negotiate seriously normalization of relations between the two countries [...]	2007-01-30 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
07YEREVAN1032	TOUCHING ALL THE BASES: DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bryza's opposition party meetings pointed up the sharp contrast between the two, with Heritage on the upswing, and Orinats Yerkir seeming like a spent force. The parliament speaker, typically, delivered a windy oration of questionable relevance on Armenia's constitution. Bryza [...]	2007-08-16 03:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM TU
07YEREVAN104	"AND THEY'RE OFF!" -- OUR OVERVIEW FOR THE ELECTION SEASON [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Kocharian's January 29 decree announcing the May 12 parliamentary election is the first step in the election process, and comes two days ahead of the 100-day advance notice prescribed by Armenian law. Following is an overview and projected timeline of key dates for the [...]	2007-01-31 05:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1048	SPECIAL ELECTION WILL TEST GOAM'S DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) The August 26 race to fill the District 15 parliamentary seat may be a small harbinger of Armenian authorities' commitment to election integrity, looking ahead to the 2008 presidential election. The race will also either strengthen or deal a setback to Heritage Party leader Raffi Hova [...]	2007-08-24 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1049	SPECIAL ELECTION WILL TEST GOAM'S DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) The August 26 race to fill the District 15 parliamentary seat may be a small harbinger of Armenian authorities' commitment to election integrity, looking ahead to the 2008 presidential election. The race will also either strengthen or deal a setback to Heritage Party leader Raffi Hova [...]	2007-08-24 12:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1050	EX-PRESIDENT TER-PETROSSIAN TESTING THE COME-BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA's courtesy call on Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) found the former president candid, in high spirits, and eagerly exploring his chances to unify Armenia's opposition under his own banner for the 2008 presidential election. LTP evaluated his chances as slender, but worth trying, gi [...]	2007-08-24 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN106	GOAM ACTIVE ON TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN, RAISING [...] (C) Charge d'affaires presented the interim TIP report to Armenian DFM Arman Kirakossian January 30, a week later than first planned, because Kirakossian had had to travel abroad. CDA emphasized the progress Armenia had made, and pointed out that its relatively positive interim assessment was l [...]	2007-01-31 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
07YEREVAN1073	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS [...] This is the inaugural issue of a new, periodic digest of news events which we hope will inform, educate, and perhaps occasionally amuse our readership. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS (U) POLITICAL NEWS: -- Chief Prosecutor Killed in Vanadzor -- Police stop opposition leafleting -- Iranian Vice-P [...]	2007-08-30 10:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EINV KCRM AM IR
07YEREVAN1089	PRESIDENT, FOREIGN MINISTER, AND OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (U) President Robert Kocharian took time out from his Greek vacation to send a congratulatory message to new Turkish President Abdullah Gul. As Kocharian is abroad on a private trip, details of the message were unavailable in Yerevan. Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian sent his own letter of [...]	2007-08-31 08:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AM TU
07YEREVAN1094	SUSPICION OVER THE FUTURE OF THE OSCE YEREVAN OFFICE [...] (SBU) OSCE Office in Yerevan 's outgoing Economic and Environmental Officer and current Acting Deputy Head Jeannette Kloetzer revealed to Poloff that there seems to be some confusion over her successor once she leaves her current position September 27 to become DCM at OSCE's Office in Kazakhsta [...]	2007-08-31 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN1135	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 1-12, 2007 [...] TABLE OF CONTENTS POLITICAL NEWS: -- FM: Armenia ready for an "effective political dialogue" with NATO, will double Kosovo contingent by year's end -- "Inauguration" Day in "NKR" -- Air Tax to take flight? -- Be careful with that!: GOAM reaction to more Turkish "reconstructions" [...]	2007-09-12 07:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EINV AM TU
07YEREVAN114	DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH NGOS, [...] (C) Visiting EUR DAS Bryza received two previews of the upcoming parliamentary elections on January 26. Opposition leaders predicted that the May elections would be the worst yet in Armenia's post-Soviet history, and complained that U.S. and European leaders had done too little to push for de [...]	2007-02-01 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1197	CDA FINDS CATHOLICOS A CONSTRUCTIVE VOICE ON TOUGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Armenian Catholicos Karekin II September 27 to discuss the church leader's five-week visit to the United States, which begins September 30. CDA conveyed that at the moment a meeting with President Bush appeared unlikely. The Catholicos expressed disappointment, rem [...]	2007-09-28 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF OVIP AM
07YEREVAN1235	LETTER FROM NAGORNO-KARABAKH "FOREIGN MINISTER" TO [...] (SBU) The "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" representative office in Yerevan forwarded the below letter, from "NKR Foreign Minister" Georgiy Petrossian to OSCE Special Representative Kasprzyk, with the request that we convey to U.S. Minsk Group negotiator Matthew Bryza. Post has no plans to forwar [...]	2007-10-12 08:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS AM AJ
07YEREVAN1241	SCENESETTER FOR PM SERZH SARGSIAN'S WASHINGTON [...] (C) Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian's visit to Washington October 17-23 is his chance to see and be seen with Washington leaders in the run-up to his February 2008 presidential election bid. With his extensive defense and security background, Sargsian now needs to show himself as a world leade [...]	2007-10-16 02:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP SERZH SARGSIAN KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1244	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN PROMISES ANSWER ON IRAQ TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Initially opposed, Kocharian eventually agreed to consider DOD's request to "enhance" Armenia's contribution to Iraq. His goal, if he agreed, was to keep the change as low-profile as possible. He will get back to us in eight to ten days. He wants to check whether a new legisla [...]	2007-10-16 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL MARR MASS IZ AM
07YEREVAN1247	A DEEPLY SKEPTICAL KOCHARIAN AGREES TO HEAR OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian made clear to CDA his profound disbelief in Turkey's sincerity on rapprochement, but grudgingly agreed to hear out any Turkish proposal. Kocharian complained at length about past bad faith from Turkey, and said he considers talking with Turkey a lost cause for [...]	2007-10-16 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TK AM
07YEREVAN1251	DASD CAGAN RECEIVES QUALIFIED AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: DASD Cagan's Yerevan visit October 11 got positive signals from the Armenian government on doubling its Iraq contingent to 100 and taking on a new fixed-site security mission. Sargsian requested, however, that CDA Perina present the request directly to President Kocharian, who [...]	2007-10-17 06:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ
07YEREVAN1255	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS [...] This is the latest in our periodic series of cables highlighting news of U.S. policy interest. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS: (U) POLITICAL NEWS: -- Ex-President Blasts Government In Quasi-Campaign Speech -- ...And Reaches Out To Old Enemies -- PM Sargsian Talks Iran and Turkey in Moscow -- Pro [...]	2007-10-17 12:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD KCRM AM
07YEREVAN1257	EX-PRESIDENT (AND CANDIDATE) TER-PETROSSIAN MAKES [...] (S) SUMMARY: Former President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) asked CDA to convey points on Nagorno-Karabakh to Minsk Group negotiator Matthew Bryza. LTP said he met recently with new NK "President" Bako Sahakian, and found in him a credible partner to discuss N-K settlement options. Ter-Petross [...]	2007-10-17 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PBTS PREL AJ AM
07YEREVAN1259	SANCTUARY AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP FOR ARMENIA'S [...] (SBU) Numbering 40,000, the Yezidi minority in Armenia has found sanctuary as well as economic hardship since taking refuge in Russian Armenia in the 1830s. Based on fieldwork by Dr. Mark Yoffe, a George Washington University researcher participating in the U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Progr [...]	2007-10-17 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ASEC PTER PREF SMIG SOCI KWMN KIRF KFRD
07YEREVAN126	SURVEY FINDS ARMENIANS LESS TOLERANT OF CORRUPTION [...] Armenians are becoming less tolerant of corruption, according to a Transparency International Armenia (TIA) survey released January 31. The most striking symbol of their mounting dissatisfaction was respondents' answers to a question regarding the most visible and common manifestation of Arme [...]	2007-02-06 06:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KCOR SOCI AM
07YEREVAN1274	IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT LOW-KEY, BUSINESS-LIKE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on FM Oskanian for an immediate readout of President Ahmadinejad's visit. Oskanian said that the Iranian delegation's early departure (a fact which dominated local media coverage) was at the Iranian side's request, and that only vague explanations were offered of urge [...]	2007-10-23 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD EINV ENRG KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN1278	DISMISSED ARMENIAN JUDGE CRIES FOUL [...] (C) Fired judge Pargev Ohanian told us his October 16 dismissal by President Kocharian was politically motivated, and a clear indication that judicial independence is nonexistent in Armenia. Ohanian had garnered public fame for dismissing prosecution charges against Armenian businessmen, who [...]	2007-10-24 11:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN1279	APPARENT CRACKDOWN ON TER-PETROSSIAN SUPPORTERS [...] (SBU) Armenian police on October 23 detained 12 opposition activists as they publicly called for an opposition rally in support of the candidacy of Armenia's first president, Levon Ter-petrossian in the approaching presidential election. Police scuffled with, and then detained the activists, af [...]	2007-10-24 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1300	ONE AND THE SAME? THE COMPLEX ETHNIC PICTURE OF YEZIDIS [...] (SBU) Self-identification as either Yezidi or Kurd largely depends on individual self-perceptions. While closely related, many Yezidis and Kurds in Armenia insist on being either/or. Almost all Yezidis and Kurds here observe the pagan, sun-worshipping Yezidi faith, and speak the same Kurdish [...]	2007-10-30 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SOCI AM
07YEREVAN1302	MEDIA REACTION: COVERAGE OF FORMER PRESIDENT'S RALLY [...] (SBU) Almost all Armenian broadcast media and much of the printed press failed to report fully and accurately the most significant event so far in the presidential campaign. On October 26, 2007, several opposition parties organized a rally in Liberty Square at which former president Levon Ter- [...]	2007-10-30 14:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KPAO KMDR KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1303	POLICE FILE CHARGES AGAINST TER-PETROSSIAN SUPPORTERS [...] (U) On October 30, Armenian police filed criminal charges against five supporters of former president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) who were detained October 23 (reftel). The charges include "hooliganism committed by a group," and "violence against a representative of the authorities." If proven [...]	2007-10-31 04:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1307	TER-PETROSSIAN DECLARES CANDIDACY AT LARGE RALLY, [...] (SBU) Former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) announced his candidacy for president at an October 26 outdoor rally of some 20,000 supporters who gathered despite light rain in Yerevan's Freedom Square. Blasting the authorities for over 90 minutes, LTP called the ruling regime a [...]	2007-10-31 10:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1313	DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM EFIN KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN133	NATO REVIEW PLEASED WITH ARMENIA IPAP PROGRESS, [...] (C) NATO international staffers gave Armenia high marks on implementation of their Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) during a February 2 briefing to Chiefs of NATO Missions in Yerevan. Frank Boland, NATO's Staff Director of Force Planning, said that the review was "very positive" and [...]	2007-02-07 08:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO AM
07YEREVAN1346	ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ANNOUNCED FOR FEBRUARY 19, [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-09 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1347	DELIVERING MCC SCORECARD TO PM, WITH A SIDE ORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Prime Minister Sargsian to present the MCC FY08 scorecard, and discuss its implications. He acknowledged the message that Sargsian had heard in Washington from MCC CEO Danilovich, that Armenia should not be "punished" for having graduated to a higher national income [...]	2007-11-12 14:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1359	PM STAFF GIVE AND TAKE ON TURKEY, ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/DCM had a long and fruitful conversation with two of PM Sargsian's close advisers. The two men affirmed the PM's desire to start a process to reconcile with Turkey, even before he become president. They agreed that a string of recent events against pro-opposition figures damag [...]	2007-11-19 04:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TU IR AM
07YEREVAN1361	KOCHARIAN GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO ARMENIAN TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armen Gevorkian, Chief of Staff to President Kocharian, informed CDA on November 16 that Kocharian has agreed to authorize an Armenian troop enhancement in Iraq. The additional troops, however, will not be deployed before Armenia's February 19 presidential election. Gevorkian adde [...]	2007-11-19 10:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ
07YEREVAN1362	AUTHORITIES DOG ARMENIAN TV STATION FOR COVERAGE [...] (C) On November 7, Emboffs visited GALA TV in Gyumri to learn more about its ongoing run-in with authorities, widely attributed to GALA's October 14 airing of a critical speech by former president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP). According to GALA's owner, the authorities' threats before airing the [...]	2007-11-19 10:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1363	UN 3RD COMMITTEE: ARMENIA WITH US ON N.KOREA, [...] (C) Polchief spoke with MFA International Organizations director Dziunik Agahjanian, conveying demarche points (reftels). Aghajanian affirmed that Armenia remains committed to voting just as it did on these issues last year. Specifically, Armenia will vote for a "no action" resolution on Ir [...]	2007-11-19 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNGA UN AM
07YEREVAN1364	TER-PETROSYAN READY TO RESIGN IN THREE YEARS IF ELECTED [...] (SBU) Former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan (LTP),who is emerging as PM Serzh Sargsyan's primary rival for the February 2008 presidential polls, drew thousands of supporters to downtown Yerevan November 16 for a second rally. LTP apologized to the people for past mistakes of his former adminis [...]	2007-11-19 14:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN1376	RENEWING THE MESSAGE ON IRAN CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA conveyed Ref A points to the Foreign Minister, Energy Minister, and presidential chief of staff, while A/DCM conveyed to senior staff of the prime minister (Ref B). All interlocutors insisted Armenia had no intention to build infrastructure capable of exporting Iranian gas [...]	2007-11-26 14:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC EFIN ENRG KNNP IR TU AM
07YEREVAN1384	MIXED, LARGELY SANGUINE REACTIONS TO ARMENIA'S ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) With the presidential election set for February, parliament swiftly enacted electoral code changes that took effect November 20. Over the course of two day-long readings, the parliament amended almost one third of the articles of Armenia's electoral code. IFES and other election monitor [...]	2007-11-28 04:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
07YEREVAN1394	ANOTHER BROADSIDE FROM THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE ON [...] (C) Presidential Chief of Staff Armen Gevorkian called in CDA November 27 to renew Kocharian's visceral objections to Radio Liberty (RL) programming which, according to Gevorgian, has been "turned into a mouthpiece for (former President) Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) by the director of the RL Arme [...]	2007-11-30 09:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1404	ARMENIA: UNLIKELY TO CHANGE VOTES IN FAVOR OF UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Armenian MFA Director for International Organizations Dziunik Aghajanian on November 29 to communicate reftel demarche regarding upcoming UNGA votes to renew Anti-Israeli biased resolutions. Given Armenia's 2006 votes on the three resolutions (Yes on 61/22 and 61/116, an [...]	2007-12-05 05:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA IS AM
07YEREVAN1405	ARMENIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE DECEMBER 4-6 [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 05:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL XX AM
07YEREVAN1413	ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SLATE NOW SET [...] (SBU) December 6 was the nomination deadline for Armenian presidential candidates. Nine persons have been nominated to participate in the February 19, 2008 election. In addition to Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian and ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian, the widely acknowledged front-runners, the [...]	2007-12-11 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1420	NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH INITIATIVE: INITIAL [...] Varduhi Asaturian, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2. Liudmila Shahinyan, Export Control Commission 3. Vahe Demirchyan, Ministry of Justice 4. Sona Avanesyan, Ministry of Justice 5. Aida Avetisyan, Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority 6. Alexander Stepanyan, Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Autho [...]	2007-12-13 02:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1423	BOMB ROCKS OUTSPOKEN OPPOSITION PAPER IN YEREVAN [...] (C) An outspoken opposition newspaper was bombed in the early hours on December 13. Nobody was in the offices of the stridently pro-Ter-Petrossian &Chorrord Ishkhanutyun8 (Fourth Estate) newspaper when the bomb went off, and no injuries were reported. The editor-in-chief suggested the author [...]	2007-12-14 11:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1431	TER-PETROSSIAN APPEALS TO OLIGARCHS FOR SUPPORT WHILE [...] (SBU) Addressing approximately 15,000-20,000 citizens gathered at his third public rally in Yerevan on December 8, ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) urged oligarchs and businessmen to throw off "the yoke" of the Kocharian regime and support his candidacy. LTP also responded to Kocharian' [...]	2007-12-17 11:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1437	ARMENIA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] On December 6, Armenia's government approved the new 2007-2008 National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Armen Baiburtyan, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented the NPA on behalf of the government, and said the new NPA will focus more on the implement [...]	2007-12-18 03:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
07YEREVAN1438	CEC CHAIRMAN BRUSHES OFF KEY PARTS OF U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA, accompanied by AIDoff and Polchief, called on Central Election Commission Chairman Garegin Azaryan in a bid to persuade Azaryan not to refuse key elements of USAID implementer IFES' election assistance program. Azaryan was stubborn, smug, and unmoved. He suggested, speciou [...]	2007-12-18 03:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1439	BRIEFING THE PRESIDENCY ON EXIT POLLS, IFES/CEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: USAID briefed presidential aide Vigen Sargsian, at government request, about plans for a USAID/IRI-sponsored exit poll for the upcoming presidential election. Sargsian pressed for more details about the methods and partners involved, and expressed great skepticism both personall [...]	2007-12-18 03:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM
07YEREVAN1445	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 11:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS CASC PGOV PHUM PREL IR AM
07YEREVAN1446	ARMENIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND-UP (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER) [...] (U) Headlines in this round-up: -- MONITORING OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE -- CIVIL PROTEST OVER INFORMATION POLICY OF PUBLIC TV -- CONTINUING REPORTS OF MEDIA CLAMPDOWN -- THE ONGOING TRAVAILS OF GALA TV -- TER-PETROSSIAN'S PRE-ELECTION MONITORING REPORTS -- HOUSING CERTIFICATES FOR 1 [...]	2007-12-18 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC SOCI ELAB KDEM KJUS KWMN HSTC
07YEREVAN1460	ARMENIA: DEMARCHE CONCERNING DECEMBER 18 UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-20 07:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA AM
07YEREVAN1467	ARMENIA: PRESIDENCY STILL UNDECIDED ABOUT IRI [...] (C) Although less hostile to the idea of an exit poll during the upcoming presidential election than he was a week ago, Presidential aide Vigen Sargsian still expressed significant concerns about the poll's format and possible fall-out. After being briefed by IRI staff on the poll's technical [...]	2007-12-21 13:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM
07YEREVAN1482	OPPOSITION LEADER DECRIES BIASED OPINION POLL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential candidate Artur Bagdasaryan invited the Charge to lunch to voice his deepening concerns about the upcoming presidential election. He complained that overwhelmingly biased media coverage, the combination of expensive air time and campaign spending limits, and "black [...]	2007-12-28 13:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
07YEREVAN149	ARMENIAN REPLY TO TURKEY ON COMMISSIONS STILL IN [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief met February 8 with DFM Kirakossian to ask whether/when Armenia would respond to the GOT's latest proposal on bilateral dialogue (i.e. the "commissions" proposal). Kirakossian noted that the recent Erdogan-Saakashvili-Aliyev meeting to celebrate their deal to build [...]	2007-02-09 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM
07YEREVAN150	NOMINEE FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPEN ON MODERN [...] 1. Post would like to nominate Armen Yedigarian, Director of the Arms Control and National Security Department at the MFA (roughly U.S. Assistant Secretary equivalent),for the Marshall Center European conference on insurgency March 26-27. Yedigarian is a knowledgeable, effective, and influen [...]	2007-02-12 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER NATEU MARR MOPS KISL
07YEREVAN151	PALESTINIAN UNITY GOVERNMENT POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-12 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KISL KPAL KWBG IS AM
07YEREVAN162	MAJOR TRAFFICKING RECRUITER SENT TO PRISON [...] (SBU) Four TIP defendants were convicted January 31, after a four-month hearing. The defendants had been accused in connection with a case involving the three witnesses (reftels) who complained of misconduct by an investigator in the prosecutor general's office the previous summer. This case [...]	2007-02-15 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN HSTC AM
07YEREVAN164	GOAM DISPATCHES INVITATION TO ODIHR ELECTION [...] (C) DFM Armen Baibourtian phoned CDA on February 15 to confirm that the invitation for OSCE's ODIHR to monitor elections had been signed and was being sent over immediately to the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Baibourtian said that the letter was signed on February 14 by FM Oskanian and would be se [...]	2007-02-15 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
07YEREVAN165	ANALYSTS WORRIED, GOVERNMENT UNCONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) GOAM officials' mild public statements about the finalizing of the Kars-Akhalkalki-Baku railway agreement (ref A) belie the significant resentment and frustration they feel about it. Newspapers have been abuzz with analysts' gloomy predictions of further Armenian isolation, and harsh crit [...]	2007-02-15 13:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG TU AM
07YEREVAN182	ARMENIA: COMMENTS FOR 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Armenia remain off the Special 301 Watch List for 2007. Music and video piracy does exist and there are look-alike products and store fronts, but industry losses in the Armenian market are probably small. The IPR Enforcement Unit within the Organized Crime [...]	2007-02-21 14:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV PREL KIPR USTR AM
07YEREVAN186	DASD MACDOUGALL'S MEETING WITH DEFMIN SARGSIAN, [...] (C) During a February 16 meeting with Armenian Defense Minister Sargsian, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim MacDougall praised Armenia's progress in defense reform, thanked Armenia for its contribution to coalition operations in Iraq, and encouraged Sargsian to consider sending a conti [...]	2007-02-22 10:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
07YEREVAN194	STAFFDEL TILLEMANN FOCUSES ON DEMOCRATIZATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SFRC Majority Staffmember Tomicah Tillemann visited Yerevan February 18-20, with an eye on Armenia's May elections and MCC eligibility under the "Ruling Justly" category. In a range of meetings with GOAM officials, he made clear that, despite Armenia's many friends on the Hill, [...]	2007-02-23 14:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OTRA AM
07YEREVAN202	CUSTOMS GIANT FALLS AMID RUMORS OF SMUGGLING AND [...] (SBU) On February 19, Head of Customs for Cargo at Zvartnots Airport Karen Janoyan was fired along with four colleagues reportedly for smuggling mobile phones into Armenia. The dismissal has sparked some speculation that it may herald a new era of customs reform in Armenia, but most observers [...]	2007-02-26 13:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAIR PREL PINR AM
07YEREVAN21	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN'S NEW YEAR'S EVE REMARKS [...] SUMMARY: President Kocharian's New Year's Eve remarks reiterated his call for free and fair parliamentary elections in 2007, and for deepening Armenia's political and economic reforms, especially for competitive markets, judicial reform, and anti-corruption. He said that government-paid salari [...]	2007-01-08 11:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN211	ARMENIA SHARES USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Armenian Central Bank (CBA) Financial Monitoring Center Methodologist Armen Malkhasyan and Analyst Aram Zakaryan on February 22. Malkhasyan said that Armenia was very concerned about bulk cash transfers and was working to improve its compliance with rela [...]	2007-02-27 13:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN AM
07YEREVAN250	EMBASSY YEREVAN'S 2007 TIP REPORT INPUT [...] (U) This cable represents Embassy Yerevan's submission for the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Please see paragraph 5 for responses keyed to reftel request. 2. (SBU) The government of Armenia has made progress in its efforts to combat trafficking since the release of the 2006 TIP Repo [...]	2007-03-05 06:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF ASEC ELAB KFRD KCRM KWMN
07YEREVAN265	ARMENIA CONCERNED ABOUT IRAN, BUT RELUCTANT TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 13:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	IAEA TRGY ENRG MNUC PARM PREL KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN266	KOCHARIAN'S CHIEF OF STAFF SEEKS TO EJECT NDI FROM [...] (C) Armen Gevorgian, President Kocharian's Chief of Staff, told NDI Country co-Directors on March 6 that NDI should shut down their operations until after the May 12 elections. Gevorgian, assuming that NDI Armenia had arranged for a senior oppositionist to visit Washington in February, said [...]	2007-03-07 14:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID AM
07YEREVAN273	IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCES [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-09 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OIC UN IZ AM
07YEREVAN274	KURDS' PRO-OCALAN PROTEST LUKEWARM [...] (C) About a dozen dilapidated buses bearing posters of Kurdish militant Abdullah Ocalan pulled into the capital March 9 to protest Ocalan's imprisonment. The passengers were Yezidis from villages not far from Yerevan. The National Security Service (NSS) was aware of the protest, but was unab [...]	2007-03-09 14:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER AM
07YEREVAN307	MCC VP HEWKO DRIVES HOME COST OF BAD ELECTIONS [...] (C) During his March 8-9 visit to Yerevan, MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko praised Armenia's implementation of the MCC Compact while sending a clear message that in order to remain eligible for funding, elections in May must be a "significant improvement towards full compliance wi [...]	2007-03-15 09:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMCA AM
07YEREVAN320	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-16 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ACABQ AORC APER PREL UNGA AM
07YEREVAN323	IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE--FM OSKANIAN FINDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA delivered reftel points March 15 to a surprised and non-plussed FM Oskanian. Oskanian hoped Washington would understand Armenia's difficult neighborhood, and thus its imperative to obtain Iranian gas as an alternative to the unreliable supply line of Russian gas. Oskanian pr [...]	2007-03-16 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN328	IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE: GOAM REPLIES TO OUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA called in CDA March 19 to present Armenia's reply to Ref A demarche (see para 5 for full text of MFA non-paper),three hours before Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad formally opened the pipeline. The most significant point in their reply is that "there is no more imp [...]	2007-03-19 12:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN331	ARMENIAN GAS COMPANY COMMENTS ON IRAN-ARMENIA [...] (C) On March 16, we met with ArmRusGasProm (ARGP) General Director Karen Karapetyan to discuss the Iran-Armenia pipeline, Russian ownership of ARGP and future developments in the Armenian energy sector. Karapetyan reported that the "second phase" of the Iran-Armenia pipeline would be complete [...]	2007-03-19 13:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PREL EPET ETTC EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN332	ARMENIA CELEBRATES NATO WEEK (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM ITS [...] (SBU) Embassy Yerevan provided key support to ensure that Armenia's first "NATO Week," held March 12-16, was a success. The Week was launched with the NATO - Armenia Youth Educational Rally, featuring the departure of a NATO bus that traveled from one end of Armenia to the other giving present [...]	2007-03-19 14:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO NATO AM
07YEREVAN339	LOW-KEY MEDIA COVERAGE OF IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE CEREMONY [...] The March 20 Iran-Armenia pipeline inauguration ceremony, led by Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad, offered surprisingly little fodder for Armenian media. The ceremony was short. The two presidents did not deliver their prepared remarks, apparently because of bad weather at the outdoor si [...]	2007-03-20 13:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN343	FM OSKANIAN BRIEFS US ON IRANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian called in CDA to provide a readout of the Iran-Armenia pipeline opening, and the presidents' bilateral meeting on the margins. Oskanian said that the GOAM had kept the event "as low-key as possible" and that Ahmadinejad had also been restrained in his remarks. Presid [...]	2007-03-22 08:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EINV EPET MNUC IAEA IR AM
07YEREVAN344	FM OSKANIAN SKEPTICAL OF TURKISH INTENTIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian told us March 21 that a deputy culture minister would lead the GOAM's delegation to the Aktamar church opening March 29. He said the Catholicos would also send representatives of the Armenian church from Echmiadzin, as perhaps would the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul [...]	2007-03-22 08:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM TU AM
07YEREVAN351	NEW STAFF OF THE ANTI-TIP UNIT A WELCOME CHANGE [...] (SBU) Four months into the staff changes that took effect in the Anti-Trafficking Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office in December, 2006 (reftel),Armenia's premier anti-TIP NGO, Hope and Help, reports a great new spirit of mutual cooperation with the unit's new staff. The unit's new lead i [...]	2007-03-23 13:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
07YEREVAN361	ARMENIA-TURKEY: PM FUNERAL AND AKTAMAR CHURCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: DFM Kirakossian told us March 27 that Deputy Culture Minister's delegation to Aktamar Church opening departed by bus early March 27 in order to reach the March 29 ceremony in time. GOT offers to allow a direct air link did not arrive in time for this to be a viable option. Sep [...]	2007-03-27 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM
07YEREVAN362	UNSCR 1747 DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO DFM KIRAKOSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EFIN MNUC TRGY AORC KNNP UNSC IAEA
07YEREVAN373	CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY AGREEMENT - CORRECTED TEXT [...] (SBU) On December 7, 2006, the GOAM submitted a Diplomatic Note to the Embassy with proposed changes to the draft Civil Aviation Security Agreement initiated by the USG in August 2006 (ref A). Unfortunately, post incorrectly transcribed the text of the Diplomatic Note and the text reported in [...]	2007-03-29 12:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIT PREL KTIA AM
07YEREVAN385	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES IRAN, TURKEY, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian President Kocharian met for over an hour with EUR DAS Bryza following the funeral of PM Margarian on March 28. On Iran, Kocharian explained that Armenia, in its precarious geopolitical situation, must carefully think through the consequences of every step it takes with it [...]	2007-03-30 13:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR AJ AM
07YEREVAN386	ARMENIAN MEDIA, PUBLIC CRITICAL OF CEREMONY MARKING THE [...] (SBU) Armenian media outlets varied from semi-critical to extremely critical in their coverage of the March 29 Holy Cross (Aktamar Island) Church re-opening ceremony. Most claimed that the opening was a propaganda move and berated Turkey for placing Turkish flags and a portrait of Ataturk on th [...]	2007-03-30 13:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
07YEREVAN405	ARMENIA JOINS THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] Post met with Head of Global Security at the MFA Arshak Manukyan to discuss the Global Initiative to Combat Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (GICANT) and conference scheduled for June 11-15, 2007 (refs). Manukyan confirmed that Armenia fully supports GICANT and the Statement of Principles. According [...]	2007-04-04 12:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KNNP MCAP PARM PREL AM
07YEREVAN406	ARMENIA REQUESTS UZBEK HELP TO LOCATE ESCAPED [...] (C) The Armenian Police has renewed its request for assistance from Uzbek law enforcement in locating a convicted trafficker who escaped from an Armenian prison in early 2006. The trafficker, Anush Zakharyants, is an ethnic Armenian citizen of Uzbekistan, who is believed to be hiding in Samar [...]	2007-04-04 13:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
07YEREVAN409	HOLY CROSS OPENING - ARMENIA MORE POSITIVE AS THINGS COOL [...] (SBU) Following local media criticism of Turkey's decision to reopen the ancient Armenian Holy Cross Church as a museum (refs),the GOAM delegation that took part in the ceremony tried to focus on the positive aspects of the renovation. During a press conference, Deputy Culture Minister Gagik [...]	2007-04-05 11:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OPRC KMDR KPAO AM
07YEREVAN412	NO SURPRISES HERE - DEFMIN SARGSIAN NAMED PRIME [...] (U) In a widely anticipated move, President Kocharian announced April 5 that Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian would replace Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, who died suddenly on March 25 (ref A). Sargsian stepped down from his position as defense minister, where he has served for approximatel [...]	2007-04-05 12:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN419	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RIBBON CUTTING AT THE NATANZ [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 12:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC AORC KNNP IAEA UNSC IR AM
07YEREVAN45	ARMENIA BACKS OUR IRAQ POLICY, AND WILLING TO DO A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia's Foreign and Defense Ministers each expressed solid support for our Iraq policy, and for the President's announced changes in Iraq strategy. Both agreed that our Iraq strategy cannot be allowed to fail, and reaffirmed Armenia's commitment to sustain its troop deployment [...]	2007-01-12 13:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS KPAO AM IR IZ AF GR YI
07YEREVAN451	IVANOV'S ARMENIA VISIT: STUMPING FOR SARGSIAN? [...] (U) Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov's visit to Yerevan April 10-11 generated many of the routine media reports about economic cooperation and and Armenia's views on NATO that typically follow Russian visits to Armenia. Ivanov's meetings with new Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian [...]	2007-04-13 11:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN457	NIGHT OF 1000 DINNERS RECEPTION RAISES FUNDS FOR NGO'S [...] (U) Summary: At a fundraising reception held as part of the Night of 1000 Dinners (reftel),Post helped raise over 4,000 USD for the Armenian Red Cross Society, a local NGO working to reduce landmine casualties through a Mine Risk Education program. The event drew more than 70 guests, includi [...]	2007-04-16 12:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	DMIN PHUM KMDR KPAO EAID KHDP MASS PARM PREL AM

07YEREVAN459	HARD TIMES FOR AGRC LEAVES OTHER INVESTORS WORRIED [...] (C) The Armenian Gold Recovery Company (AGRC),plagued by allegations of tax evasion and failure to report profits, appears to be the latest casualty of rising gold prices and a possible Russian push to increase economic ties with Armenia. After a difficult confrontation with the Ministry of [...]	2007-04-16 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PREL AM
07YEREVAN47	FONMIN OSKANIAN CONFIRMS MAY 12 ELECTION DATE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 12 meeting to update the Foreign Minister on Iraq strategy (septel),CDA and Pol/Econ Chief were able to cover a range of issues, including election planning, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ambassador-designate Hoagland's nomination, Armenia-Turkish relations, and Iran. As of [...]	2007-01-12 14:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS AM AJ IR
07YEREVAN471	A REAL LIVE CAMPAIGN SEASON, AS BOMBINGS SEEM QUICKLY [...] (SBU) Armenia's campaign environment has ratcheted into high gear, with a vibrant rainbow of political ads posted everywhere you look. The April 12 bombings of two Prosperous Armenia (PA) offices (ref A) seem quickly to have disappeared from political relevance, after virtually all parties con [...]	2007-04-19 04:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN490	NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES OPPOSITION CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 21, Golos Armenii a government-leaning Russian language newspaper, published a transcript of a clandestinely-recorded conversation between an opposition leader and a British diplomat. The piece claimed that the opposition politician -- former parliament speaker and Ori [...]	2007-04-23 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN502	ARMENIA: POINTS OF CONTACT FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] Post delivered reftel points to MFA Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division chief Arshak Manoukian on April 20. 2. Armenian Government points of contact for Global Initiative issues are: Primary: Arshak Manoukian, Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division Chief, [...]	2007-04-25 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PARM ETTC PREL KGIC AM
07YEREVAN504	INTERIM CABINET COMPLETED 19 DAYS BEFORE ELECTIONS [...] (U) President Kocharian appointed Chief of the General Staff Colonel-General Mikayel Harutyunyan to serve as Armenia's interim defense minister on April 24, two weeks after he had appointed the rest of the cabinet. Harutyunyan succeeds former Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian, who became Prime M [...]	2007-04-25 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR AM
07YEREVAN520	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-26 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC PARM PREL AM ENRG KNNP
07YEREVAN522	ELECTION HOMESTRETCH -- WITH SIXTEEN DAYS LEFT, WE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We called on President Kocharian to deliver some messages for the final stage of the pre-election campaign. We urged him to galvanize prosecutors against electon-related fraud. We also protested sharply the apparent clandestine taping, and subsequent publishing, of a British d [...]	2007-04-26 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN526	NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-27 09:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER AM
07YEREVAN532	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO HRR AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) On April 27, 28 almost all TV stations and five newspapers referred to the amendments made in the Human Rights Report (HRR) regarding Nagorno-Karabakh. Commentary from Armenian media outlets varied from critical to extremely critical, claiming that the last change made in the HRR called [...]	2007-04-30 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC PREL PGOV KMDR KPAO AM
07YEREVAN555	ODIHR MISSION HEAD DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION [...] (C) CDA met May 2 with Ambassador Boris Frlec, the head of OSCE/ODIHR,s Election Observation Mission (EOM) for a discussion on the pre-election period in Armenia. Frlec evaluated the pre-election period as broadly competitive, despite flaws. He saw a relatively even playing field, albeit wh [...]	2007-05-03 10:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN556	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-03 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AM
07YEREVAN571	VAYOTS DZOR REPUBLICANS STRONG FOR ELECTION DAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Embassy pre-election trip to the sparsely-populated Vayots Dzor province on 27 April found an electoral calm much attributed to the popularity of the Republican marzpet (governor) headquartered in Yeghanadzor and the relatively favorable image he exudes of the Republican Par [...]	2007-05-07 11:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN572	CDA CALLS ON NEW DEFMIN [...] (C) Charge d'affaires and DATT paid a courtesy visit to new Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunian on May 4, the first such visit since the former chief of staff had assumed the post (reftel). The DefMin expressed his dissatisfaction with the new Human Rights Report language on Nagorno-Karabakh [...]	2007-05-07 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AM
07YEREVAN587	INCREASING TENSIONS EXPECTED IN LORI, MORE [...] (C) Embassy officers on May 4 visited Vanadzor (Lori Region),the largely-impoverished third-largest city of Armenia to examine pre-election conditions. Typically, pro-government officials claimed there were no problems in the run-up to 12 May while opposition and NGO figures noted otherwise [...]	2007-05-09 11:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC AM
07YEREVAN588	FM OSKANIAN DEFENDS VISA REFUSAL OF TURKISH OSCE [...] (C) CDA and the German Ambassador each protested (during a scheduled meeting with CDA and EU chiefs of mission late May 8),Armenia's refusal to grant visas to Turkey's contigent of seconded OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission short-term observers (STOs). Each associated themselves with [...]	2007-05-09 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE TU AM
07YEREVAN591	CHARGE'S ASSESSMENT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Based on conversations with foreign ministry officials and Armenia's previous voting record on Belarus, we expect that Armenia will support Belarus' candidacy even once Bosnia enters the race. Dzunik Aghadjanian, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department, told us May 10: "It [...]	2007-05-10 12:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC AM
07YEREVAN592	PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPERS EXPRESS RULING ELITE'S [...] (C) In the weeks leading up to the May 12 parliamentary election, two pro-government newspapers regularly published articles highly critical of the United States and other Western missions and NGOs. Hayots Ashkhar and Golos Armenii newspapers have denounced the United States for interfering i [...]	2007-05-10 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO AM
07YEREVAN604	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO AM
07YEREVAN607	ARMENIAN ELECTION SCENESETTER [...] (C) The stage is set for this election to go far better than other recent polls in Armenia, but we have not, by a long shot, seen a fundamental change in political culture here, and things could still go very wrong on Election Day. We are cautiously optimistic that Armenia's parliamentary ele [...]	2007-05-11 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KDEM AM
07YEREVAN609	OBSERVERS GIVE ARMENIA'S ELECTION A PASSING GRADE, [...] (C) Armenia's Parliamentary elections took place on May 12. Preliminary results show a strong victory by PM Sargsian's Republican Party. These same early results show that the new oligarch-led "Prosperous Armenia" party ran a distant second and three other parties -- including two oppositi [...]	2007-05-13 14:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM AM
07YEREVAN639	HCOC INREACH: ARMENIA WILL MAKE ITS DECLARATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 10:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTCRE AM
07YEREVAN646	ARMENIA: ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT ON THE [...] According to Armenian Diplomatic Note 16/05822 dated May 14, 2007 and received at the Embassy on May 17, 2007, Armenia has completed the formalities required for entry into force of the agreement on the exchange of technical information and cooperation in nuclear safety matters. 2. The sub [...]	2007-05-17 11:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ENRG ECON AM
07YEREVAN653	ARMENIA WILL PARTICIPATE IN OSCE PPP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-18 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN RS SP AM
07YEREVAN661	TRAFFICKING VICTIMS HELD IN GEORGIA RETURNED TO [...] (C) Two alleged Armenian trafficking victims who had been held in a Georgian jail for six months returned to Armenia May 17, and are in the care of an active anti-trafficking NGO. Anti-trafficking activists hailed the return of Anna Harutyunyan and Lianna Krasnova as a textbook case of good c [...]	2007-05-22 11:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM HSTC GG AM
07YEREVAN662	"WE ARE NOT BORN YESTERDAY": OSCE/ODIHR OBSERVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission (EOM) chief of mission, Ambassador Frlec, and deputy COM, Ian Gorvin, were markedly more sour on Armenia's May 12 election in a dinner at CDA's residence, and less-markedly so in the semi-public forum of their last OSCE member state chiefs [...]	2007-05-23 05:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN677	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE "CHARTER" [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 07:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV AM
07YEREVAN688	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NEW GLOBAL INITATIVE PARTNERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 04:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KGIT PARM PREL PTER IC NO SZ AM
07YEREVAN689	ARMENIA WILL SUBMIT UNSCR 1747 IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 04:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR AM
07YEREVAN691	CDA'S LUNCH WITH DEPUTY PG AND ANTI-TIP WORKERS [...] (C) We gathered together post's most reliable anti-TIP interlocutors in the Armenian government for a May 29 lunch at the CDA's residence. The guest list included Deputy Prosecutor General Gevorg Danielyan and two other members of the PG's staff, as well as the heads of the MFA's Internationa [...]	2007-05-30 07:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
07YEREVAN692	ARSON AGAINST OPPOSITION PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) On May 28, Larisa Paremuzyan, regional chairwoman of Stepan Demirchian's People's Party of Armenia (PPA),survived a late night arson attack on her apartment in the northern town of Alaverdi (Shirak Region). Paremuzyan blamed the attack on Karen Saribekian from the governing Republican P [...]	2007-05-30 08:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCRM AM
07YEREVAN699	MARKING FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF PSI WITH AN OP-ED [...] Post concluded the best way to accomplish reftel goals was to place an op-ed from the CDA in the governmental newspaper Hayastan Hanrepetutyun, which we also conveyed as a courtesy to the MFA's International Security Department. The op-ed ran on May 30. Complete text follows. 2. TEXT OF [...]	2007-05-30 12:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP XG AM
07YEREVAN709	ELECTION FRAUD COMPLAINTS PROCEED ON SEVERAL TRACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Four opposition parties have filed election complaints with the Constitutional Court, calling for the May 12 elections to be voided. Their contention is that sufficient irregularities occurred to invalidate the election. The Constitutional Court hearing is scheduled to begin Jun [...]	2007-05-31 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM AM
07YEREVAN723	ARMENIA'S YEZIDI KURDISH MINORITY: A SMALL BUT [...] (S) The mayors of two Yezidi Kurdish villages, spoke openly to us during a May 31 visit about the fact of PKK (KGK) presence in Armenia, telling us that wounded PKK fighters from neighboring countries receive medical treatment in Armenia. We also discussed the complicated issue of Yezidi Kurd [...]	2007-06-01 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL ASEC PTER PHUM AM
07YEREVAN735	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] (U) We delivered reftel information to Arshak Manukyan, head of the MFA's Division of Non-Conventional Arms and Global Security, who thanked us for the update. GODFREY [...]	2007-06-05 10:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KGIC PARM PREL FI PL PO SW AM
07YEREVAN755	CDA RAISES ENERGY SECURITY,NUCLEAR POWER, AND IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Energy Minister Movsissian June 1 to explore Armenia's current plans and thinking with regard to replacing the Soviet-era Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP). Press reports had suggested Armenia had made deals with Russia for the construction of a new nuclear plant, [...]	2007-06-08 11:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ENRG ETTC PARM ETRD AM IR
07YEREVAN77	OPENING THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN BORDER: BUSINESSES AND [...] On January 13 and 14 the Armenian International Policy Research Group (AIPRG),with funding from USAID, the British Embassy, and the Eurasia Foundation, held a conference on "The Economic and Social Consequences of Opening the Armenia-Turkish Border." While the caliber of the papers was mixed, [...]	2007-01-23 06:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV ELNT PGOV PREL TU GG AM
07YEREVAN777	KOCHARIAN PLEDGES CONTINUED REFORM TO MCC'S [...] (C) In a June 12 meeting with President Kocharian, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Ambassador John Danilovich said that the good progress toward international standards shown during Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections was good news for MCC and would certainly be welcomed by MC [...]	2007-06-14 13:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN782	FM OSKANIAN ON PUTIN'S GABALA STATION MISSILE [...] (U) Several Armenian media outlets quoted Foreign Minister Oskanian's comments on the Gabala idea during his interview on Kentron television. Oskanian commented that he saw no physical danger to Armenia from the proposed project, noting that the facility would only be a radar station, not an [...]	2007-06-15 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KMDR AM AJ RU
07YEREVAN783	CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM RESTRUCTURES INVESTIGATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian law enforcement is grappling with a major restructuring that strips the powerful Prosecutor General's or "Procuracy" organization of all its investigative functions and staff, transferring the investigators themselves into police agencies. The reform is an excellent one [...]	2007-06-15 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KJUS KCRM KDEM KTIP HSTC
07YEREVAN788	KOCHARIAN DEAD SET AGAINST ATTENDING BSEC SUMMIT [...] (C) On June 16, Charge raised the issue of Armenia's attendance at the upcoming BSEC Summit with President Kocharian. Kocharian said that there was "absolutely no way" he would consider attending. In fact, he would have preferred that FM Oskanian also skip the event, but relented under Oska [...]	2007-06-18 09:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OSCE TU AM
07YEREVAN794	ARMENIAN COURTS RULE ON ELECTION VIOLATION CASES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian courts continue to deliver verdicts for election fraud, with a total of six cases, affecting 15 individual defendants, now adjudicated. Verdicts have now been announced in five more cases. Three persons were sentenced to imprisonment for one or two years; one person wa [...]	2007-06-18 13:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
07YEREVAN81	ARMENIANS REMEMBER HRANT DINK WITH VIGILS, MARCHES [...] Bearing signs that read "We are all Hrants," in acknowledgment of similar slogans borne by protesters in Istanbul, several thousand Armenians attended a January 23 memorial gathering for slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink at Yerevan's Freedom Square. Event organizers, a small ad hoc [...]	2007-01-24 10:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV TU AM
07YEREVAN815	IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE; MEDIA REPORT U.S. [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief delivered Ref A demarche points to FM Oskanian June 13. CDA also emphasized the continuing diplomatic and public relations disaster that Armenia's Iran engagement represents, given the context of UNSCRs and international consensus on the need to isolate Iran. He po [...]	2007-06-22 13:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETTC PREL KMDR IR AM
07YEREVAN870	RADIO LIBERTY REPRIEVE: PARLIAMENT VOTE FAILS FOR [...] (SBU) Controversial draft amendments to the Radio and TV Law and State Duty Law (reftels),apparently aimed at RFE/RL, died in the National Assembly when the chamber failed to maintain a quorum. Sixty-six votes were necessary for the drafts to pass, the chamber was one voting-member shy, as a [...]	2007-07-06 12:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN884	NEW CHALLENGE TO RADIO LIBERTY BROADCASTS [...] SUMMARY: Radio Liberty's Armenian Service is again in jeopardy, as the state radio service gave 30 days notice of its intent to pull Radio Liberty off the air. The notice implies that the reason is Radio Liberty's unpaid bills to the public radio service, which now amount to either $76,000 ( [...]	2007-07-10 12:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO AM
07YEREVAN888	NEW CDA CALLS ON DFM KIRAKOSSIAN: RADIO LIBERTY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires met Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian for initial GOAM courtesy call, (with FM Oskanian abroad),which then delved into substance. Kirakossian said he and his minister fully agreed with us on Radio Liberty, but urged CDA to raise it at higher levels. Kirakoss [...]	2007-07-12 05:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HSTC KTIP AM TU
07YEREVAN896	PRIME MINISTER ENCOURAGING ON RADIO LIBERTY; NOT [...] (C) CDA paid an introductory courtesy call on Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian July 12, accompanied by DCM and pol/econ chief. Sargsian joked that he had expected to get a permanent U.S. Ambassador, but failing that, he was very pleased to see CDA in Yerevan again. CDA affirmed that Washingto [...]	2007-07-13 10:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MASS EAID KDEM AM IR
07YEREVAN901	CDA DISCUSSES PARLIAMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN [...] (C) CDA's introductory courtesy call on National Assembly Chairman Tigran Torossian focused, after initial pleasantries, on the embassy's plans for a new phase of assistance to the newly-elected parliament. Torossian allowed that he had not been completely satisfied with the previous iteratio [...]	2007-07-16 07:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID AM
07YEREVAN902	MFA ENGAGED ON POSSIBLE RESETTLEMENT OF [...] (C) Emboffs informally sounded out MFA International Organizations Director, Dziunik Aghajanian, July 11 about Armenia's attitude toward the possibility of resettling Iraqi-Armenians in Armenia, as mentioned ref A. We noted our understanding that the UNHCR was in preliminary discussions about [...]	2007-07-16 11:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL SMIG EAID AM IZ XF
07YEREVAN906	ARMENIA GETS FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR, YET GOAM REMAINS HIGHLY [...] (SBU) On July 11 the GOAM appointed Armenia's first ever female governor to run the region of Shirak; despite this unexpected move, Armenian executive and legislative bodies remain starkly underrepresented by women. END SUMMARY. ------------------ A FEMALE GOVERNOR! ------------------ [...]	2007-07-17 03:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KWMN PINR AM
07YEREVAN914	FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES RADIO LIBERTY, NDI, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his initial call July 16, CDA renewed our concerns about forced stoppage of Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts, but mentioned that the Prime Minister's reply had been somewhat encouraging on this. He highlighted ongoing Washington concerns about Armenia's relationship with Iran, [...]	2007-07-17 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR
07YEREVAN926	PRIME MINISTER UNDERSCORES COMMITMENT TO U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Sargsian hosted CDA and DCM to a private dinner July 18, for a long evening of vodka toasts and frank conversation, by way of welcome to CDA and farewell to DCM. The overarching message of the event was the Prime Minister's clear intent to sustain a close working r [...]	2007-07-20 10:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN935	KOCHARIAN ON RADIO LIBERY, NDI, HR CASES, IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an almost 90 minute introductory call by the CDA, President Kocharian defended his positions on Radio Liberty, NDI, and human rights cases in a friendly but unbending manner. He was determined to move Radio Liberty broadcasts from state radio to a private network, but emphat [...]	2007-07-23 14:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM IR
07YEREVAN939	IRANIAN FM VISIT PROMPTS WEAK DEFENSE FROM FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian FM Mottaki was received by Armenia's president, prime minister, and foreign minister, and energy minister during his July 20 visit to Yerevan to take part in the 7th annual Armenian-Iranian inter-governmental economic commission. Armenian leaders were unhelpfully positive [...]	2007-07-24 14:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMDR IR AM
07YEREVAN97	TERRORIST FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF DOCKRATS - [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-30 09:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PTER EFIN KTFN PREL AM
07ZAGREB1006	OSCE: CAN WE CLOSE THE CROATIA MISSION? [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 09:15:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL HR
07ZAGREB1011	NATO ROAD SHOW VISIT TO CROATIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: USNATO PermRep Victoria Nuland led an inter-agency "NATO Road Show" visit to Zagreb on November 9. President Mesic, Prime Minister Sanader, Foreign Minister Kitarovic and Defense Minister Roncevic all expressed confidence to the U.S. delegation that Croatia was well-prepared for [...]	2007-11-15 09:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS NATO HR
07ZAGREB1015	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----18 October, met with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) General Police Directorate, Deputy Head of Border Police to present the Coast Guard Toughbook computer donation and finalize coordination of the Coast Guard Port Asset Protection and Security Tra [...]	2007-11-16 14:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB1018	LITTLE IMPACT ON CROATIA-MONTENEGRO RELATIONS FROM [...] (SBU) Discussing the 4 November arrest of Montenegrin Navy Captain Ilija Brcic, Montenegrin First Counselor Vesna Nikcevic told PolOff that she expects Brcic will eventually be extradited to Croatia where he will face a new trial following his 1993 conviction in absentia. Nikcevic claimed the [...]	2007-11-19 14:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR HR MW IT WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB1019	(U) DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-20 08:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB1021	ELECTIONS 2007: PROFILE OF THE MAIN CHALLENGER -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable, part of our series (ref A) leading up Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections, looks at the prospects for the opposition Social Democratic Party, the only serious challenger to the ruling HDZ. Having entered the election season confident it would oust the HDZ, t [...]	2007-11-20 08:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB1024	ELECTIONS 2007 - THE DIASPORA VOTE [...] (U) This cable, the fifth in our series of pre-election reports (reftels),focuses on Croatia's unique institution of diaspora-elected parliamentary seats. With polls predicting a very close race between the ruling Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) and the opposition Social-Democratic Party [...]	2007-11-20 15:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB1025	PRELIMINARY REPORT OF ODIHR LIMITED ELECTION [...] SUMMARY: The OSCE/ODIHR's Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to Croatia released its interim report on November 20. All indicators point toward free and fair elections conducted in line with the established legal framework, but the report does draw particular attention to the new La [...]	2007-11-21 11:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR OSCE POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS
07ZAGREB1026	LUNCHEON WITH PRESIDENT MESIC TO DISCUSS BALKAN [...] (C) President Mesic, accompanied by his foreign policy advisors Budimir Loncar and Tomislav Jakic, hosted Ambassador Bradtke and POL chief for lunch on November 20. The discussion focused on Loncar's meeting with Serbian President Tadic in Belgrade on November 14. Tadic had floated a proposa [...]	2007-11-21 11:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR SR BK
07ZAGREB1027	CROATIA: RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) Embassy Zagreb provides the following responses to reftel request for information regarding Croatia's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. Responses are keyed to questions in reftel. The information provided [...]	2007-11-21 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC DHLS HR
07ZAGREB1028	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - NOVEMBER 21, 2007 [...] (U) In order to ensure broader distribution to potential readers, Embassy Zagreb is changing the format of its previous email Activity Reports to a weekly cable wrap-up of events at Post in Croatia. Today's cable is the first edition. 2. (U) President Mesic Urges Belgrade to Stop Fomentin [...]	2007-11-21 16:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1029	ELECTIONS 2007: WHEN DOES A WIN BECOME A VICTORY? [...] (SBU) This cable is the final one in Post's series of pre-election reports leading up to Croatia's November 25 parliamentary (Sabor) elections. Polls indicate Croatia's November 25 elections are too close to call. One certainty is that neither of the two largest parties -- the ruling Croatia [...]	2007-11-23 14:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB103	OSCE ZAGREB PLANS CLOSURE BY END OF 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: OSCE Zagreb Deputy Head of Mission (and retired FSO) Todd Becker briefed DCM January 22 on plans to bring the substantive work of the Mission to a close by December 31, 2007. HOM Jorge Fuentes was convinced that with a concerted push by both the OSCE and the Croati [...]	2007-01-30 12:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OSCE HR
07ZAGREB1030	OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL - DEMARCHE DELIVERY [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 20. Simunovic was particularly appreciative of language calling for OSCE to close or minimize its mission in Croatia. This is clearly Zagreb's top priority in Madrid, but Simunovic stressed tha [...]	2007-11-23 14:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PGOV PHUM
07ZAGREB1032	CROATIAN RESPONSE ON BILATERAL SOFA LANGUAGE [...] (U) Croatian FM Grabar-Kitarovic on November 22 sent a letter to the Ambassador stating her "belief" that the language regarding "other appropriate US control" of US personnel (proposed in reftel) and the subsequent explanations (provided in ref emails),is "appropriate...thus contributing to [...]	2007-11-23 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NATO HR
07ZAGREB1034	GLOBAL INITIATIVE - DETECTION ARCHITECTURE [...] Post delivered reftel document to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 20 and he repeated GoC support for the Global Initiative. Just ahead of November 25 Parliamentary elections, he was unable to name a definitive POC or commit to attendance at the proposed January w [...]	2007-11-23 15:19:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PTER EAIR ETRD EWWT PREL PINR PINS HR
07ZAGREB1035	(S) SHOCK CHAMBER FOR IRAN'S MISSILE PROGRAM - [...] (S) Post delivered name of German firm attempting to provide a thermal shock chamber to Iran's missile program to MFA's head of international security Sanja Bujas-Juraga in early October and followed up with her again on November 20. She reported that she has passed the name to all relevant ag [...]	2007-11-23 15:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA GM IR HR
07ZAGREB1036	INITIAL RESULTS OF CROATIA'S ELECTIONS: RULING [...] (U) With 95 percent of precincts reporting, the unofficial results from Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections show the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won 61 seats within Croatia, while the rival Social Democratic Party (SDP) won 56. The HDZ has also likely won 5 seats for repr [...]	2007-11-26 12:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1041	PAKISTAN NUCLEAR FACILITY: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from EconOff November 28 regarding renewal of a services export license for Croatian nuclear scientists to offer technical training in "Sym [...]	2007-11-28 13:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL PK HR EXPORT CONTROL
07ZAGREB1042	NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE ON ELECTION FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 15:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA
07ZAGREB1045	GOC WILL NOT ATTEND NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-29 09:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL HR
07ZAGREB1047	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - NOVEMBER 28, 2007 [...] (SBU) COALITION NEGOTIATIONS GET UNDERWAY IN EARNEST: After the tight result in Croatia's Nov. 25 elections (REF A),the two major parties -- the ruling HDZ and the opposition SDP -- have begun a series of contacts with the handful of available smaller parties in an effort to attract the eleve [...]	2007-11-29 13:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1048	HDZ LOOKING MORE LIKELY TO FORM GOVERNING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: SDP Vice-President Antunovic told the Ambassador on November 28 that her party still believes they "have a chance" to form the government, and have not given up. But other contacts, including SDP advisor Grdesic, increasingly indicate that it is more likely the HDZ w [...]	2007-11-29 14:27:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1050	CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 29 November 2007. The GOC plans to vote with the EU on all of the referenced UNGA resolutions. BRADTKE [...]	2007-11-30 13:34:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA IS
07ZAGREB1052	War Crimes Indictee Re-Elected, But Unlikely to Regain [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Right-wing parties suffered defeat at the polls last weekend with the loss of almost two-thirds of their seats in Parliament; however a side issue remains following the re-election of war crimes indictee and regional party leader Branimir Glavas to Parliament. The strong-man of [...]	2007-11-30 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1053	Police Make Major Seizures of Heroin, Cocaine [...] Last week Croatian Police announced the seizure of seven kilograms of heroin in two border searches into Croatia. In one action on 22 November, border police apprehended two Macedonians who were crossing the Serbian-Croatian border at Bajakovo with 2 kilograms of heroin, Heptanon and other nar [...]	2007-11-30 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM SNAR PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1054	MILANOVIC REPLACES JURCIC AS SDP'S CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-30 14:46:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1060	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (SBU) COALITION NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE BETWEEN HDZ AND HSS/HSLS GROUP: On December 3, the ruling HDZ began formal talks on a possible coalition agreement with the Croatian Peasants/Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSS/HSLS) group that holds eight parliamentarians. Initial meetings on December 3 [...]	2007-12-05 15:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AMGT HR
07ZAGREB1061	CROATIA'S RIGHT-WING - STILL CONSERVATIVE, BUT LESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a stunning blow to right-wing politics across Croatia, the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) lost 7 parliamentary seats in the November 25 parliamentary elections. Despite attempts to repackage itself as a mainstream alternative to the dominant Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ),t [...]	2007-12-06 08:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB1062	FM KITAROVIC ON OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL [...] (U) Ambassador and PolChief had lunch on December 5 with FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and State Secretary Hido Biscevic, subsequent to their return from the OSCE Ministerial in Madrid, and to follow up on FM Kitarovic's bilateral meeting there with U/S Burns. 2. (C) Kitarovic and Biscevic sa [...]	2007-12-06 08:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE SR SW BE HR
07ZAGREB1065	CROATIA'S FISHING ZONE - A TRAIN WRECK IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) and its 6 seats in parliament are nearly certain to be a member of any governing coalition formed after Croatia's November 25 elections. The HSS has said a primary condition for its joining any coalition is application of Croatia's Protected Ec [...]	2007-12-06 15:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIS SENV PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1068	PEASANT PARTY PERSPECTIVE ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) PolChief met with Stanko Grcic, Secretary General of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS),to discuss on-going coalition negotiations between the HSS, its electoral partner the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The HSS, with six seats in th [...]	2007-12-10 14:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1072	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT--DECEMBER 12, 2007 [...] (SBU) COALITION NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE, FINAL ELECTION RESULTS DUE DEC. 13: Due to minor irregularities in the first round on November 25, a handful of polling stations around Croatia had to re-run their vote on December 9. The number of voters was too small to have any impact on final results [...]	2007-12-12 15:12:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1073	CROATIAN RESPONSE ON KOSOVO POINTS [...] (SBU) POL Chief on December 11 delivered reftel points to Neven Pelicaric, Assistant Foreign Minister with responsibility for Southeast Europe and relations with the EU. 2. (C) Pelicaric confirmed what we have heard repeatedly from Croatian officals; Croatia would "not be the very first to d [...]	2007-12-13 10:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR SR KO
07ZAGREB1074	Ademi-Norac Trial Transferred from ICTY Continues, [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. The trial of Croatian Army Generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, the only so-called 11 bis case transferred from the ICTY to Croatia, continued throughout November in Zagreb. The two are the highest-ranking Croatian military officers to be tried for war crimes in do [...]	2007-12-13 13:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1082	PRIME MINISTER SANADER RECEIVES MANDATE TO TRY AND [...] As forecast in REF A, on December 15 President Stipe Mesic gave the mandate to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to try and form a new government led by Sanader's HDZ party, based on the results of Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections. The official final results of the Nov. 25 elections have [...]	2007-12-17 15:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1087	NO CHANGE IN PLENARY VOTE ON FUNDING OF DURBAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 14:15:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA
07ZAGREB1089	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - DECEMBER 19, 2007 [...] (U) RETURN TO SENDER - CROATIA PROTESTS ITALIAN STAMP: On 12 December 2007 the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration sent a letter of protest to the Italian Republic over the issuance of a postage stamp. The stamp, issued by the Italian Post Office, depicts the Croatia [...]	2007-12-19 13:34:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1094	CROATIAN ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN SPENDING FIGURES AND [...] Following the November 25 parliamentary elections in Croatia, Transparency International Croatia (TIH) and GONG, an election monitoring organization, have published their report on campaign spending. During the official campaign season 3 - 23 November, Croatian political parties spent more t [...]	2007-12-21 13:35:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1095	INAUGURAL MEETING OF CROATIA VISA WAIVER WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In November, the Croatian MFA hosted the first meeting of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) Working Group. Embassy participants, including the DCM, Political Counselor, Consul, Econ Officer, and the RSO, presented the requirements for a country to be considered for inclusion in the V [...]	2007-12-21 14:47:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CMGT PREL KFRD HR
07ZAGREB12	CROATIA WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON DRONABINOL AND ORIPAVIN [...] Reftel points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on December 8, 2006. Government of Croatia responded to points on January 4, 2007. As Croatia is in the process of negotiation with the EU regarding beco [...]	2007-01-04 12:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SNAR UNCND UNCRIME HR EU
07ZAGREB122	CROATIA AND SLOVENIA AT ODDS OVER MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: The long-standing dispute between Croatia and Slovenia over their maritime boundary flared up this week when the GOC renewed a 2001 concession to its national oil and gas company INA for exploration in the Northern Adriatic. With rhetoric that was more heated than usual in this [...]	2007-02-02 15:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EWWT ENRG ECON HR SI REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB131	SHIPBOARDING AGREEMENT RATIFIED, PSI EXERCISE IN [...] Parliament on February 2 ratified the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Shipboarding Agreement that the GoC had signed with the USG in June 2005. The reciprocal agreement, which facilitates PSI cooperation by establishing contacts and procedures to expedite requests to board and search [...]	2007-02-06 07:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB137	CROATIAN MINISTERS SUPPORT A-3 PROCESS IN TALLINN, OFFER TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At the February 5-6 ministerial meeting in Tallinn of the U.S.-Adriatic Charter members and observers with the three new Baltic NATO members, Croatian Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and Defense Minister Berislav Roncevic expressed the GOC's strong determi [...]	2007-02-08 06:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NATO HR REGIONAL ISSUES

07ZAGREB145	TRADITIONAL SLAVONIAN REGION GEARS UP FOR NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With momentum building toward national elections expected in November, center-left parties in Slavonia, the traditional rural heartland of continental Croatia, seem less active and enthusiastic than those on the right. This could be the result of savvy public relati [...]	2007-02-08 15:12:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB149	CROATIANS FULLY SUPPORTIV ON AHTISAARI PLAN FOR [...] (C) Drawing on reftel points, DCM February 2 briefed MFA Assistant Minister for Europe Neven Pelicaric about US views on the Ahtisaari proposal on Kosovo's final status. 2. (C) Pelicaric said the GOC would fully support the Contact Group position on the issue. He felt this was an excellent [...]	2007-02-09 14:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB159	CROATIAN PROSECUTOR LEADS THE REGION IN "PALIC [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic told Ambassador Bradtke and Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson on February 7 that he has transferred evidence in five war crimes cases to Belgrade War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic under an October 2006 [...]	2007-02-13 09:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB167	PRESIDENTIAL SPARRING IN THE PRESS OVER ANNUAL [...] (SBU) In a sharply worded statement February 12, Croatian President Mesic expressed "unpleasant surprise" at Italian President Napolitano's remarks at the annual February 10 Italian commemoration of ugly WWII-era massacres of Italians by Yugoslav anti-fascist Partisans. The Croatian press in [...]	2007-02-14 14:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB168	CROATIAN PRESIDENT SUPPORTS AHTISAARI PLAN FOR [...] (U) Ambassador met July 13 with President Stjepan Mesic to discuss the Ahtisaari plan for Kosovo final status. Other issues covered septel. 2. (C) The Ambassador began by noting that he had been in touch with US Kosovo envoy Frank Wisner, who had expressed appreciation for presidential f [...]	2007-02-14 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR YI REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB173	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NATO, PROPERTY RESTITUTION, [...] (SBU) Ambassador met July 13 with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic to discuss Afghanistan, NATO, property restitution, and commercial issues. Their discussion of Kosovo and the Italy-Croatia dispute on Italian victims of Partisan atrocities during WWII are covered septel. NATO Preparations [...]	2007-02-15 14:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD CASC HR AF NATO KIDE
07ZAGREB178	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----04 January, met with Minister of Interior (MoI),Deputy Head, Border Police (BP) Directorate, to discuss the FBI Terrorism and WMD Proliferation and Coast Guard Port Security trainings scheduled for January and February respectively, along with pl [...]	2007-02-16 15:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB182	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PROPERTY RESTITUTION, EXTRADITION, AND [...] (SBU) Ambassador met February 15 with Croatian Justice Minister Ana Lovrin to discuss property restitution, negotiations on a new extradition treaty between the U.S. and Croatia, and witness support. Property Restitution 2. (SBU) The Ambassador reminded Lovrin of their July 2006 discussi [...]	2007-02-20 13:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIDE KTIA CJAN CASC HR
07ZAGREB184	STABILITY PACT TRANSITION ENGAGES THE SEECP [...] (U) Summary: The February 14-15 meeting of the Stability Pact transition Institutions Working Group (IWG) in Zagreb successfully resolved most fundamental issues related to the creation of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) as the successor regional structure to replace the Stability Pact [...]	2007-02-21 06:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI TU
07ZAGREB193	MFA HIGHLIGHTS NATO PUBLIC EDUCATION PLAN AT JOINT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 14:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM PGOV PREL
07ZAGREB197	CROATIA'S FURTHER EXTENSION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-23 14:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCRM HR IZ
07ZAGREB202	MARCH 2 ZAGREB MINISTERIAL TO ENDORSE NEW COOPERATIVE [...] Croatian MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic previewed for the diplomatic corps February 26 the upcoming March 2 South East Europe Cooperative Process (SEECP) Foreign Ministerial. His presentation was brief but emphasized that regional relations have matured sufficiently to permit regional [...]	2007-02-27 06:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON HR
07ZAGREB218	CROATIAN PM NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT USG HOPES FOR [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met March 2 with PM Ivo Sanader to discuss the way ahead on Bosnian constitutional reform, promoting the existing package of US-brokered reform measures as laid out in ref A. 2. (C) Sanader said the USG-supported revisions would not succeed and would be a divisive ele [...]	2007-03-05 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PINR BK EUN HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB219	CROATIAN ICJ STRATEGY AFTER BIH VERDICT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: While the Croatian media reacted with outrage to the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling finding Serbia not responsible for genocide in BiH, official GoC reaction has been decidedly measured. While still waiting for the ICJ to accept its own genocide [...]	2007-03-05 15:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB220	SEECP FOREIGN MINISTERS MOVE POSITIVELY ON STABILITY PACT [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The March 2 SEECP Foreign Ministers meeting in Zagreb saw positive movement on the Stability Pact transition process to a new SEECP-led regional cooperation framework. The Ministers approved a methodology for selecting both the new Secretary General and the location [...]	2007-03-06 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB224	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----02 February, accompanied the Minister of Interior (MoI),Deputy Head, Border Police (BP) Directorate, to Slovonia to meet with Osijek and Vinkovci District Chiefs to discuss border issues and monitor the opening session of the MoI Sensor Deploymen [...]	2007-03-06 12:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB225	CROATIAN PM TELLS AMBASSADOR CROATIA SUPPORTS [...] (C) During a meeting on other subjects (septel) March 2, Croatian PM Ivo Sanader told the Ambassador that Croatia completely supported the Ahtisaari plan on Kosovo's final status. Belgrade was upset with the GOC over their public support for Ahtisaari, which Sanader said he regretted, but San [...]	2007-03-06 12:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN HR YI REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB227	ICTY SEES LOCAL NGOS AS CREDIBLE TRIAL MONITORS [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatian NGOs Documenta and the Center for Peace, Nonviolence, and Human Rights discussed their recently released annual war crimes trial monitoring report with judicial officials at a March 3 roundtable in Zagreb. Panelists, including a judge, a prosecutor, a law pro [...]	2007-03-06 14:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB25	INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737 DELIVERED TO GOC [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-09 12:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MNUC HR IR
07ZAGREB253	DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM DELIVERED [...] Poloff delivered ref points on March 14 to Andrej Dogan, UN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. There was no immediate substantive response. Bradtke [...]	2007-03-15 12:38:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER PREL ACABQ UNGA HR
07ZAGREB258	CROATIA NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH MONTENEGRO [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since Montenegro's independence in 2006, Croatian leaders have moved quickly to normalize relations with Podgorica. This positive dialogue intensified in 2007 with official visits to Montenegro by PM Ivo Sanader and Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks, and was capped [...]	2007-03-16 10:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KAWC MW HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB259	LIBYA: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON CONVENTIONAL ARMS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Agency Alan, the MoD's arms marketing agency, has unofficially approached Post seeking guidance on conventional arms sales to Libya. Alan General Manager Ivan Nekic told PolOff February 28 that he believes the L [...]	2007-03-16 14:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL LY HR ARMS CONTROL
07ZAGREB262	AUSTRALIA GROUP: CROATIAN GRATEFUL FOR U.S. SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-19 12:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CBW ETTC HR
07ZAGREB264	ANTI-TIP TRAINING FOR CROATIAN JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Embassy Zagreb and the Government of Croatia (GOC) are working together to train Croatian prosecutors and judges in preventing and prosecuting trafficking in persons (TIP) crimes. Two specialized seminars for trial and investigative judges, as well as for prosecutors, were [...]	2007-03-19 13:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN HR TRAFFICKING
07ZAGREB265	NATO ROUNDTABLE REFLECTS ENTIRE NGO SPECTRUM [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nearly 20 local NGOs and a dozen leading academics debated the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO candidacy at a March 13 roundtable organized by DEFIMI, a scientific research NGO focused on defense and security issues which receives some government funding. Participating NGO [...]	2007-03-19 14:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB275	CROATIA PROMOTES REGIONAL COOPERATION FOR TRANSPORT OF [...] (U) The Croatian State Institute for Radiation Protection, and the Office for Nuclear Safety, organized a March 20-21 meeting of representatives from Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia to discuss cooperation in the control of transport of heavy metal waste a [...]	2007-03-22 14:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETTC HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB28	CROATIAN ANTI-TIP EFFORTS PAY OFF IN 2006; 1 TIP and 2 [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As part of the Government of Croatia's coherent and well-structured approach to fighting trafficking in persons (TIP),GOC successfully prosecuted several trafficking cases, increasing the numbers of TIP and TIP-related convictions to five in 2006. Embassy Zagreb commends G [...]	2007-01-09 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL HR TRAFFICKING
07ZAGREB284	CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-23 14:30:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM ZI HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB292	RIGHT-WING COALITION WINS PLURALITY IN EARLY LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: A coalition of three parties ranging from the far-right Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) to the center-right Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the moderate Croatian Social-Liberal Party (HSLS) won 10 of 25 seats in local elections held March 18 in Slavonski Brod. The gr [...]	2007-03-27 11:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB317	CROATIAN PM'S "SUCCESSFUL" VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (SBU) Summary: Croatian PM Ivo Sanader and the Croatian press are portraying his March 29-30 official visit to Sarajevo as a success, pointing to a "good atmosphere", agreements on dual citizenship and border control, and potential rapprochement between dueling Bosnian Croat political parties. [...]	2007-04-03 15:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR BH
07ZAGREB329	CENTCOM INVITATION TO CONFERENCE ON IRAQ DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 15:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS OTRA PREL IZ HR
07ZAGREB349	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----01 March, attended a meeting called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador at Large, which also included Customs Directorate and Ministry of Economy representatives to discuss the topics for inclusion in the Chemical Weapons Conventio [...]	2007-04-11 14:47:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB35	CROATIA SUPPORTIVE ON IRAQ [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Croatia's Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bilateral Cooperation Ivica Tomic, who said Croatia supports President Bush's effort to ensure a positive future for Iraq. He added that Croatia will continue to contribute to Iraq's progress accordin [...]	2007-01-11 15:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ HR
07ZAGREB353	OPPOSITION LEADER RESIGNS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Former Prime Minister Ivica Racan resigned April 11 as president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP),Croatia's largest opposition party, due to health reasons. After weeks of increasingly bleak cancer diagnoses, his departure is not unexpected, but coming just seven mon [...]	2007-04-12 13:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB358	SALE OF CROATIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT [...] PolOff delivered ref A points March 29 to Ivan Nekic, general manager of Agencija Alan, MOD's arms marketing branch, and MFA head of Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga. Both were pleased by USG position. Nekic reported that he did not know if an actual tender was open bu [...]	2007-04-13 14:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MARR LY HR
07ZAGREB360	DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE INDUSTRIES ORGANIZATION UNDER [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-13 14:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP IR HR
07ZAGREB364	DAS BRYZA'S ZAGREB MEETINGS WITH GREEK AND [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with Greek Minister of Development Dimitris Sioufas and Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Rumen Ovcharov on the margins of an April 3 energy conference in Zagreb. Both Sioufas and Ovcharov expressed concern over what they perceive as mixed signals co [...]	2007-04-16 09:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PREL GR BU AJ RS TU TX
07ZAGREB365	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----01 March, attended a meeting called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador at Large, which also included Customs Directorate and Ministry of Economy representatives, to discuss the topics for inclusion in the Chemical Weapons Conventi [...]	2007-04-16 11:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB372	INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR 1991 MURDERS OF SERB CIVILIANS [...] (U) The Osijek County Office of the State Prosecutor issued a preliminary indictment April 16 against seven persons charged with war crimes (the murder of civilians on the banks of the Drava River in 1991, the so-called "Sellotape case"). The indictment charges Branimir Glavas, a far-right lo [...]	2007-04-17 06:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KAWC HR
07ZAGREB380	JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTERS TO CONTINUE REGIONAL [...] (U) In its capacity as Chair-in-office of the SouthEast Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP),Croatia hosted an April 13 conference of SEECP justice and interior ministers in Zagreb to discuss regional co-operation in judicial reform and combating cross-border crime and illegal migration. Prime [...]	2007-04-18 06:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB389	ICRC CLOSES IN CROATIA, BUT SEARCH FOR THE MISSING [...] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formally closed its door in Croatia on April 13, after being present in the country for more than 15 years. Although its regional office in Budapest will continue to follow developments in tracing missing persons in Croatia, the ICRC databas [...]	2007-04-19 14:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB395	NATO OUTREACH IN HIGH GEAR, CROATIAN PUBLIC [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: After a slow start, the GoC's NATO public education campaign is moving into high gear. Head of MFA's NATO Office Neven Mikec highlighted the GoC's now crowded public outreach calendar with Embassy PolOff, PAO, and DATT at April 12 joint communications working group sessio [...]	2007-04-20 16:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO KPAO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB399	OSCE MISSION HEAD OPTIMISTIC ON CLOSURE, FLEXIBLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 15:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OSCE HR REGIONAL AFFAIRS
07ZAGREB404	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CONFIRMS PUTIN CROATIA VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Tomislav Jakic, Foreign Policy Advisor to Croatian President Mesic, confirmed in an April 23 meeting with DCM that Russian President Putin will visit Croatia June 23-24. The centerpiece of the visit will be a regional energy summit that the GOC has organized, inviting heads of st [...]	2007-04-24 14:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG HR RS
07ZAGREB407	CROATIA'S INA: OTHER SOURCES EXIST FOR LNG [...] (C) Summary: Following up on reports of Austrian OMV's LNG deal with Iran, Econ Off spoke to Stevo Kolundzic, Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Croatia's national oil and gas company INA about the reports. Kolundzic said that there are many other potential sources of LNG for the Croatian proj [...]	2007-04-25 12:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL ECON HR IR
07ZAGREB408	(C) CROATIAN PM CONSIDERS INVITING KARZAI [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (C) Prime Minister Ivo Sanader told Ambassador April 25 that he was considering inviting Afghan President Karzai to the July 6-7 "Croatia Summit" - the second annual such conference with a Euro-Atlantic integration theme. PM Sanader and Croatian President [...]	2007-04-25 14:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO HR AF
07ZAGREB422	NEW FORWARD ON IRAQ: CROATIA'S CONTRIBUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: While politically unable to make direct troop contributions to operations in Iraq, the GoC has offered weapons and training courses to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) (ref C),provides police trainers to the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC) [...]	2007-04-30 11:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB427	STABILITY PACT TRANSITION: SEECP AGREES ON RCC SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: Stability Pact-SEECP meetings April 24-25 in Zagreb yielded consensus on the final institutional documents related to the creation of the proposed Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) as the successor to the Stability Pact in early 2008. Consensus with respect to the nomination [...]	2007-05-02 13:09:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI
07ZAGREB428	SUMMARY OF MARCH 2007 AUCKLAND OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 15:31:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MHUC PARM PREL HR KNNP
07ZAGREB431	END OF AN ERA: DEATH OF OPPOSITION LEADER AND FORMER PRIME [...] (U) Ivica Racan - the first and so far only President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) -- died April 29 of cancer at the age of 63. Three weeks earlier, Racan resigned as SDP president, after his health took a turn for the worse. While his funeral will be a private event, hund [...]	2007-05-03 06:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB438	CROATIA ON ZIMBABWE'S BID FOR CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE UNCSD [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-04 14:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV AORC PREL UNSCD ZI HR
07ZAGREB449	IRAQI MP EYES CROATIA AS POST-CONFLICT MODEL [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: An Iraqi Member of Parliament and close relative of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Ms. Ala Talabani, visited Croatia April 20-27 in search of a successful post-conflict model to further promote human rights, strengthen the role of NGOs, and develop women's rights in Iraq. [...]	2007-05-09 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN HR IZ
07ZAGREB45	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES JANUARY 26 INFORMAL NATO [...] (C) Drawing on Ref A, the Ambassador discussed Afghanistan with Croatian Foreign Minister Grabar-Kitarovic on January 17. The Ambassador stressed the challenges that NATO would face with the spring thaw in Afghanistan and the importance of allies and partners delivering on promises made on A [...]	2007-01-17 15:19:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF PK HR
07ZAGREB450	CROATIA TO BACK SLOVENIA, WILL SNUB BELARUS AT MAY [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 15:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB455	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UNHRC) ELECTION - CROATIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC HR
07ZAGREB459	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----14-15 April, attended the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Customs Authorities Workshop in Cavtat. As requested, a presentation was made on the topic of "The Role of Customs in Achieving Effective Enforcement Export Controls". This theme was r [...]	2007-05-10 15:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB460	ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAN FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried met April 5 with Croatian PM Sanader, President Mesic, and FM Grabar-Kitarovic to exchange views on Croatia's NATO aspirations, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regional issues. 2.(U) A/S Fried and Ambassador met April 5 with PM Ivo San [...]	2007-05-10 16:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN NATO HR YI BK OSCE
07ZAGREB465	CROATIA SENDS DELEGATION TO WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY [...] Econoff delivered reftel demarche to the Office of International Cooperation of Croatia's Ministry of Health and Welfare. Dr. Inga Deolo, director of international cooperation, said she and State Secretary of Health Dr. Ante-Zvonimir Golem plan to attend the SIPDIS convention in Geneva May 1 [...]	2007-05-11 15:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO HR
07ZAGREB472	REFUGEE RETURN: KEY TO OSCE MISSION CLOSURE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Facing intensifying pressure from the international community to make additional tangible progress on refugee issues, the GOC has established and clarified program benchmarks for this year. With OSCE mission closure high on the GOC's priority list, the GOC has put [...]	2007-05-15 10:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF OSCE HR
07ZAGREB475	NUCLEAR MEASURING EQUIPMENT TO INDIA: GOC SEEKS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 5. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from PolOff May 10 regarding a pending export license application from Croatian company "Sistemprojekt" to export a CryoBIND T magnetic ac [...]	2007-05-15 15:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL IN HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB481	CROATIA UNDECIDED ON PARTICIPATION IN MAY 31-JUNE 1 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-17 13:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN RS HR
07ZAGREB490	CROATIA JOINS GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] The GOC has responded in the affirmative to reftel request. On May 15, 2007, Embassy received diplomatic note No. 2276/07 relaying Croatia's support for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. 2. Text of the note follows: (complimentary opening) The Republic of Croatia consid [...]	2007-05-21 06:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL HR
07ZAGREB501	PM SANADER ACCEPTS INVITATION TO A3 LUNCH WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 14:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP POTUS PREL HR AL MK
07ZAGREB507	PRESIDENT'S A-3 LUNCH SCENESETTER - SANADER [...] (C) Still enjoying the afterglow of his highly successful White House visit last October, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is very much looking forward to seeing President Bush again at the A-3 leaders lunch in Tirana June 10. The PM views his relationship with the President as key to Croatia's int [...]	2007-05-23 15:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO HR
07ZAGREB51	ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT MESIC TO VISIT KOSOVO AND [...] (C) President Mesic's Special Advisor for International Relations Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador January 17 that he will travel to Kosovo next week to have discussions with Albanian and Serb leaders. This trip, according to Loncar, resulted from a visit to Zagreb by a group of Serb mayors [...]	2007-01-18 13:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC HR
07ZAGREB512	SOCIAL DEMOCRATS LINE UP TO LEAD PARTY INTO NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatia's Social Democratic Party (SDP) will choose a new leader at the June 2 party conference, to replace Ivica Racan, the former PM who died last month. The candidates are Zelka Antunovic, former deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister; Milan Bandic, current ma [...]	2007-05-25 10:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB514	CROATIA RATIFIES CEFTA [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 13:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL HR
07ZAGREB521	PARTICIPATION IN THE OSCE HEADS OF MISSION VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 15:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM OSCE BO HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB524	CROATIA ENTHUSIASTICALLY INAUGURATES NEW REGIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As Chair of the South East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP),the GOC hosted a May 11 Zagreb Summit to strengthen regional cooperation by establishing a Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) under SEECP auspices to replace the Stability Pact in early 2008. Coinciding w [...]	2007-05-30 15:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB530	CROATIA AND THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] Pol Counselor delivered reftel information to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Director of MFA PSI Non-proliferation Department on May 30, 2007. Explanatory notes, calendar and the plan of work (received by e-mail from ISN/WMDT on May 23) were delivered to the same office on May 24. Ms. Bujas-Juraga note [...]	2007-05-31 14:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KGIC PARM PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB540	AMBASSADOR BRIEFS PM ON BOSNIA MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Drawing on points provided by EUR/SCE, Ambassador and DCM briefed PM Ivo Sanader and MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic June 1 about the meetings held in Washington the week of May 21 between State Department officials and Bosnia-Herzegovina politicians Milorad Dodik and Haris Silajdzic [...]	2007-06-04 13:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK HR
07ZAGREB546	MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY ELECTS YOUTHFUL NEW LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Zoran Milanovic is the new President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). A youthful 41 years old, this former diplomat defeated acting party president and former defense minister Zeljka Antunovic in the second round of voting by 828 to 675 votes of dele [...]	2007-06-04 15:31:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB551	CROATIAN PM SEEKS CLOSURE OF ZAGREB OSCE MISSION, [...] (C) MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic gave Ambassador May 31 a "confidential" non-paper (text para 8) advocating closure of the Croatia OSCE mission and proposing a mechanism to ensure that war crimes trials are monitored. 2. (C) The non-paper commits the GOC to fulfill remaining obliga [...]	2007-06-05 15:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE KAWC HR
07ZAGREB56	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----04 December, Participated in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) presentation of the findings of the Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Survey of Croatia. The findings revealed the presence of approximately 968,000 weapons in civilian [...]	2007-01-19 14:21:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB561	U/S NICHOLAS BURNS' MAY 10-11 MEETINGS WITH [...] (U) Undersecretary Burns met with Macedonian President Crvenkovski, Turkish Economy Minister Babacan, Bulgarian PM Stanishev and Moldovan President Voronin May 10 and 11 on the margins of the Zagreb SEECP Summit. Macedonia --------- 2. (C) Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski sought U/S [...]	2007-06-08 10:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE NATO HR MK TU BU MD
07ZAGREB565	U/S NICHOLAS BURNS' MAY 10-11 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns visited Zagreb May 10-11 to consult with Croatian leaders and attend the Summit of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (septel). He met with PM Sanader, President Mesic, and FM Grabar-Kitarovic, and had several bilatera [...]	2007-06-08 13:09:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAIR OSCE NATO HR YI BK SR
07ZAGREB582	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----4 May, attended the EU Regional Code of Conduct Workshop coordinated by SIPRI and BAFA. The workshop provided a forum for networking and coordination among regional states and EU member states to aid effective development of their respective Muni [...]	2007-06-14 06:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB596	CROATIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON PUTIN VISIT, [...] (C) DCM met with Tomislav Jakic, foreign policy advisor to Croatian President Mesic, on June 15 to discuss Russian President Putin's upcoming visit to Zagreb. Putin will visit Zagreb on June 24 to participate in a "Regional Energy Summit" organized by President Mesic's office. DCM inquired ab [...]	2007-06-19 10:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL HR RS
07ZAGREB602	PROSECUTOR BACKS UP WAR CRIMES ARRESTS IN VUKOVAR [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Vukovar police arrested six ethnic Serbs June 5 on suspicion of involvement in the torture of soldiers and civilians in the village of Luzac in 1991. Local Serb politicians claimed the arrests were politically motivated and called on Post and others in the internati [...]	2007-06-21 15:53:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB603	SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION [...] Post and resident EUCOM representative fully support the proposal in reftel to allot $325,000 of FY 07 1206 funding for Croatian Joint Deployment Interoperability and Readiness Training and English Language Training for Deployment. 2. The proposed Joint Deployment Interoperability and Readin [...]	2007-06-21 16:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS PREL HR
07ZAGREB608	PRESIDENT OF MONTENEGRO VIEWS ON KEY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a relaxed June 22 lunch in Podgorica with Charge Barnes and visiting Ambassador Bradtke, Montenegro President Vujanovic discussed bilateral, regional, and domestic issues. Vujanovic, who had just returned from the Southeastern Europe Energy Summit in Zagreb, described Rus [...]	2007-06-26 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR MW
07ZAGREB612	EMPLOYMENT ISSUE BIGGER THAN MINORITY ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Minority Council elections held June 17 in 20 counties, 57 cities and 68 municipalities brought out only eight percent of eligible voters and did little to change the public impression that ethnic minority councils are largely symbolic. These bodies, created to advance [...]	2007-06-27 13:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM HR
07ZAGREB618	CROATIA COMMITTED TO NATO REFORM RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Ambassador, DCM, and PolOff delivered ref A points during week of June 18 to FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Asst DefMin Igor Pokaz, and MFA NATO Office Director Neven Mikec respectively. GoC representatives were grateful for USG support and guidance and emphasized com [...]	2007-06-28 13:32:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB620	ZAGREB ENERGY SUMMIT: ALL TALK, NO SUBSTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Zagreb Energy Summit, held on June 24 and attended by Russian President Putin and South East European leaders garnered substantial media attention here, but brought little new to the discussion of regional energy supply. The Summit, organized by Croatian Preside [...]	2007-06-29 09:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG PREL HR
07ZAGREB623	FANS' BEHAVIOR AT CONCERT ANGERS CROATIA'S JEWISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nationalist domestic pop star Marko Perkovic (aka - Thompson) was again in the spotlight following a June 17th concert in Zagreb's Maksimir stadium. With an estimated attendance of 50,000 people, the controversial performer refrained from making his earlier pro-Ust [...]	2007-06-29 12:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB625	CROATIA ADOPTS UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-29 14:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR HR
07ZAGREB626	ENGAGING CROATIA OVER AMCIT ISSUES IN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-29 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN HR
07ZAGREB63	INFLUENTIAL CROATIAN WOMEN [...] Post has identified the following five women as among the most influential in Croatia, by field: POLITICS: -- Jadranka Kosor, Deputy PM and Vice president of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)+ADs- Contact info PHONE +384-1-4569-204 FAX +384-1-4569-326 -- Vesna Pusic, Deputy Spe [...]	2007-01-22 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB637	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----13 June, Held attended a meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Department Head for International Security who requested EXBS Advisor support and assistance to their Diplomatic Academy Training Program by creating and delivering a pre [...]	2007-07-02 12:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB642	OSCE MISSION TO CROATIA: WINDING DOWN ITS MANDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY and COMMENT. This is a joint Embassy Zagreb and USOSCE cable and represents our strategy in moving forward toward OSCE Croatia mission closure. While we believe full closure could be achieved by the end of 2007, there is no consensus on this issue among European missions in Zag [...]	2007-07-03 15:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OSCE PREF KWCI HR WAR CRIMES REFUGEES
07ZAGREB664	CROATIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BEAN [...] You are coming to Croatia at an exciting time, as this young nation prepares to take its place among democratic, free-market members of the Euro-Atlantic community with a level of freedom, security, and prosperity that were unimaginable fifteen years ago. Croatia will very likely receive an inv [...]	2007-07-11 10:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB669	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER SANADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 7 meeting with Prime Minister Sanader on the margins the of the "Croatia Summit," EUR Assistant Secretary Fried welcomed the Summit as evidence of Croatian leadership in Southeastern Europe. Sanader reviewed his efforts to gain support for the closure of the OSCE Missi [...]	2007-07-11 15:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG OSCE HR
07ZAGREB670	SDP NOMINATES JURCIC AS CANDIDATE FOR PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) has nominated economics professor and Former Minister of Economy Ljubo Jurcic as its candidate for Prime Minister. Although not altogether new in Croatia, the idea of separating the role of PM from that of Party President wa [...]	2007-07-12 09:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB679	IOM DEMARCHE ON SWING CANDIDACY DELIVERED [...] REF Points were delivered July 11 to Andrej Dogan in MFA UN Department. Dogan indicated GOC willingness to consider supporting Ambassador William Lacy Swing, however could not give an official position at this time. BRADTKE [...]	2007-07-16 08:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG
07ZAGREB68	CROATIAN POLITICIANS PUT POSITIVE SPIN ON SERBIAN [...] (U) Croatia's political leaders have unanimously portrayed results in Serbia's January 21 elections (reftel) as positive for the region. Reacting quickly to allay any domestic concerns over the Serb Radical Party's plurality, PM Ivo Sanader stressed that the results offered the chance for for [...]	2007-01-23 14:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SR HR
07ZAGREB682	CROATIAN SHIPBOARDING AGREEMENT POCS [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-16 13:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KTIA EWWT KNNP PREL HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB688	CROATIANS ACCEPT U.S. SOFA PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary Biscevic informed Ambassador July 19 that the Croatian Government accepted the U.S. compromise proposal on custody (ref e-mail),resolving the last outstanding issue in the U.S.-Croatian negotiations on a bilateral status of forces agreement. [...]	2007-07-19 13:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB690	ICTY PROSECUTOR AND PM AGREE ON TRIAL MONITORING [...] (U) In the 16 July letter below, Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte informs OSCE Chairman-in-Office of her recent discussions with PM Ivo Sanader regarding the future of the OSCE mission in Croatia and the monitoring of war crimes trials. Del Ponte notes what she calls the essent [...]	2007-07-19 13:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV OSCE ICTY HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB694	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CROATIAN DEPUTY PRIME [...] Mr. Secretary, During my meeting on July 18 with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Family, Veterans and Intergenerational Solidarity Jadranka Kosor, I informed the Minister of your decision to resign. The Minister expressed her regret at hearing this news and reiterated her appr [...]	2007-07-19 14:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI HR
07ZAGREB713	CROATIA PARTY TO NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION, [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 14:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL HR

07ZAGREB715	62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: CROATIAN ATTENDANCE, A-3 [...] PolOff delivered reftel to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic on July 24. Following is initial GOC response: A. Attendance of the Head of State: Yes -- Name and title: Stjepan Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia -- Arrival and departu [...]	2007-07-27 14:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP PREL OVIP UNGA HR
07ZAGREB716	SECTION 1206 - END-USE, RETRANSFER AND SECURITY [...] PolOff delivered REFTEL diplomatic note to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic on July 24 with request for urgent reply. Simunovic reported that these assurances will require the concurrence of the MOD and the GOC's legislative office and a government [...]	2007-07-27 14:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA MASS PREL MARR HR
07ZAGREB717	CODEL BEAN Visits Croatia [...] Summary: CODEL Bean visited Zagreb on 22-23 July and met with Croatian business, government, and parliamentary leaders. Discussion at most meetings focused on Croatia's leadership and stabilizing role in the region, Kosovo, future membership in NATO and the EU, its international contributions t [...]	2007-07-27 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB721	PROPOSED 2008 PSI EXERCISE UPDATE [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 5. 2. Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga advised PolOff July 16 that the GOC's National Commission for Non-Proliferation of WMD has accepted the GOC's proposal to host a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) e [...]	2007-07-30 15:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MNUC PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP HR
07ZAGREB73	CROATIA CONCERNED ABOUT CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C) Drawing from reftel, DCM discussed cluster munitions with MFA Assistant Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic January 22. 2. (C) Simunovic said he would be representing the GOC at the Oslo conference February 22-23. Simunovic said that given Croatia's exp [...]	2007-01-23 15:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PARM HR
07ZAGREB730	THOMPSON TONES DOWN ACT, POLICE MANAGE CROWD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At the July 27 concert of nationalist pop star Marko Perkovic (aka - "Thompson") in Split's Stari Plac Stadium, police and Perkovic himself succeeded in preventing the displays of Ustashe symbols and salutes that marred his performance in Zagreb 10 days earlier (refte [...]	2007-08-01 15:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB732	CROATIAN FIRST LADY'S ATTENDANCE UNCONFIRMED [...] PolOff delivered reftel to MFA on July 31. The President's office has advised that his wife is unlikely to travel with him, but that they will confirm in coming days. PolOff will report definitive response to invitation as soon as possible. BRADTKE [...]	2007-08-02 12:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA
07ZAGREB733	CROATIA HAS NO COMMENT ON STANDING COMMITTEE CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-02 12:53:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC HR
07ZAGREB734	HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-02 12:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNESCO HR
07ZAGREB736	PM ASSURES SOFA APPROVAL AT END OF AUGUST [...] (C) Following the failure of the Croatian cabinet to provide final approval of the text of the Status of Forces Agremeent at its last session before a two week summer break, the Ambassador spoke August 3 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary Biscevic to express his disappointment an [...]	2007-08-06 11:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB74	CROATIA SUPPORTS US OBJECTIVES FOR JANUARY 26 [...] (SBU) Following up on the Ambassador's conversation with Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (ref B) on the January 26 NATO meeting on Afghanistan, DCM raised USG ministerial goals (ref A) with Pjer Simunovic, Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations and Security, who [...]	2007-01-23 16:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO HR
07ZAGREB745	SECTION 1206: CROATIA AGREES TO END-USE, SECURITY AND [...] MFA has delivered a Diplomatic Note dated August 2 confirming the GoC's decision to accept proposed assurances related to the end-use, security and retransfer of USG-supplied defense articles, training and services pursuant to Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Post will p [...]	2007-08-07 12:52:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL KTIA MARR HR
07ZAGREB747	CROATIA DISASTER DECLARATION [...] I am declaring a disaster in Croatia for the loss of property, loss of livelihoods, and actual and potential loss of life caused by heat wave-related wildfires currently raging throughout southern Croatia. I am requesting USD 50,000 for immediate disaster relief from USAID/OFDA. The Governmen [...]	2007-08-07 14:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV AFIN AMGT HR
07ZAGREB750	CROATIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COSTELLO [...] You are coming to Croatia at an exciting time, as this young nation prepares to take its place among democratic, free-market members of the Euro-Atlantic community with a level of freedom, security, and prosperity that were unimaginable fifteen years ago. Croatia will very likely receive an in [...]	2007-08-08 13:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB751	CROATIA CONSIDERING GAER CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 10:25:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA HR
07ZAGREB752	KOSOVO NEXT STEPS -- CROATIAN REACTION [...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic in August 8 introductory call. Simunovic stressed GoC support for the strategy, pointing out that the GoC's overriding interests related to Kosovo's future are stability and the fu [...]	2007-08-09 12:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KV PREL YI UN EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB759	CROATIA PITCHES UNSC CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During an August 7 introductory call, MFA Assistant Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic briefed the DCM on Croatia's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Simunovic said Croatia's unique political and cultural exper [...]	2007-08-14 11:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UN HR
07ZAGREB760	CROATIAN FIRST LADY WILL NOT ATTEND UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-14 11:51:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA HR
07ZAGREB762	CROATIA TO INVESTIGATE ATTEMPT TO BROKER TEST [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See para 4. 2. (S) PolOff delivered ref A points to head of MFA Section for Arms Control and Disarmament Mirko Capjak on August 10 and to Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic on August 13. Capjak, who serves as MFA's rep on the GoC's inter-ministerial export c [...]	2007-08-14 15:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA GM IR HR
07ZAGREB763	CARDINAL MCCARRICK'S VISIT TO CROATIA [...] (SBU) Cardinal McCarrick,s very successful visit to Zagreb sent a strong message of continued United States engagement on Bosnia and reassured Croatian leaders that the U.S. is working with the Bosnian Croats as we seek move ahead on constitutional and police reform. 2. (SBU) In spite of th [...]	2007-08-16 11:21:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM HR BK
07ZAGREB766	US CARDINAL REACHES OUT TO CROATS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The August 12-14 visit of Theodore McCarrick, Emeritus Cardinal of Washington, to Croatia reassured Croatian leaders that the U.S. is engaged in Bosnia and Herzegovina and interested in the situation of Croats there. McCarrick heard from Croatian leaders that Bosnia [...]	2007-08-17 15:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	HR CROATIA PGOV PHUM PREL
07ZAGREB768	WAR CRIMES PROSECUTORS TO EXPAND REGIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Prosecutors from Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) agreed on new forms of cooperation in war crimes cases at a private regional meeting on Brijuni Island July 11-13. Chief State Prosecutor Mlad [...]	2007-08-20 10:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB789	FIXED-WING FIGHTERS: TIME TO ENGAGE CROATIANS ON [...] (C) Since my arrival just over a year ago, I have repeatedly stressed to GoC officials that, as a future NATO member, Croatia did not need to procure fixed-wing fighter aircraft. I, along with my DAO and ODC staff, have argued consistently that the GoC could rely on NATO partners for air poli [...]	2007-08-27 08:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB791	MEETING WITH OSCE CIO PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR [...] (C) Former Croatian FM Miomir Zuzul told the Ambassador on August 25 that his recent visit to Georgia and Moscow had convinced him that it was a Russian missile that was involved in the August 6 incident he had been asked to investigate by the OSCE Chairman in Office. Particularly after visiti [...]	2007-08-27 14:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS OSCE GG RU HR
07ZAGREB792	APPARENT DOMESTIC CONSENSUS ON PLAN FOR CROATIA-SLOVENIA [...] SUMMARY: In what was portrayed as a breakthrough in its long-standing border dispute with its northern neighbor, Croatian PM Ivo Sanader joined Slovenian PM Janez Jansa after a meeting at Lake Bled on August 26 to announce bilateral agreement to refer the dispute to the International Court of J [...]	2007-08-27 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SI HR
07ZAGREB800	CROATIA SUPPORTS U.S. FOR ICAO COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-31 12:38:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAIR AORC ICAO HR
07ZAGREB801	HOST WOMEN LEADERS' WORKING GROUP IN NEW YORK: [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-31 13:49:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA HR
07ZAGREB816	SDP CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER CRITICIZED FOR OPPOSING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ljubo Jurcic, Prime-Ministerial candidate of Croatia's leading opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP),in late August commented that Serbian investment would not be welcomed in Croatia. All of Croatia's other centrist parties, including the governing HDZ, seeing nat [...]	2007-09-06 06:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB820	GOC TO APPROVE SOFA IN SEPTEMBER, BUT ASKS TO SIGN [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke on September 6 with Hido Biscevic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a close advisor to PM Sanader. Biscevic said that Sanader had told him on September 5 that the Government would give final approval to the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SO [...]	2007-09-06 14:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR HR NATO
07ZAGREB827	CROATIAN RESPONSE ON IAEA POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As both FM and Ambassador were traveling on September 7, P/E Chief presented reftel A and B points to Assistant Foreign Minister Pjer Simunovic and Croatia's IAEA Governor Mario Horvatic. Croatia supports the US position on the IAEA Action Plan, but does not plan to speak at the B [...]	2007-09-10 14:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR IAEA AORC HR PREL
07ZAGREB832	CROATIA SEEKS ADDITIONAL GAS IMPORTS [...] (C) Summary: Although Croatia has ample supplies of natural gas to meet current demand, increasing consumption, combined with dwindling domestic production and static imports, means the country could face shortfalls in the coming years without new sources of supply. Demand is forecast to ex [...]	2007-09-11 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL HR RS
07ZAGREB833	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE 2007 UNGA - INPUT FROM [...] USG programs in Croatia for the past several years have supported activities to bolster Human Rights in the areas of refugee return and reintegration, minority rights, and continued assistance to civil society organizations. We have, together with our European partners, the OSCE and UNHCR, wor [...]	2007-09-11 15:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB834	END OF IRAQI TRAINING MISSION AT JIPTC - POINTS DELIVERED [...] (U) Reftel points were delivered to Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs Filip Dragovic, who had no response, and to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic. 2. (SBU) Simunovic expressed his thanks for the information and said he w [...]	2007-09-12 07:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR HR IZ JO
07ZAGREB850	CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC ACCEPTS INVITATION TO [...] (C) This is an action request - see para 4. Presidential Counselor Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador and DCM September 12 that President Mesic had received an invitation to meet with Iranian President Ahmedinejad during their mutual visits to the UNGA in New York, and that Mesic had accepted [...]	2007-09-14 14:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP HR IR
07ZAGREB851	MINISTERS ASSURE U.S., OSCE AND UNHCR REFUGEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two key Ministers with responsibility for refugee return issues reconfirmed that the Croatian Government will fulfill its commitments to the international community on refugee housing. In a September 13th meeting attended by Ambassador Bradtke and the heads of missio [...]	2007-09-14 15:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HR CROATIA OSCE PGOV PREF PREL REFUGEES
07ZAGREB855	CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC SPEAKING OUT ON THREATS [...] (C) In separate conversations on September 12 and 13, Presidential Counselor Budimir Loncar and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Tomislav Jakic discussed with us Croatian President Mesic's recent discussions with key Bosnian figures. Both said that Mesic had met with B-H Presidency Member [...]	2007-09-17 10:47:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR BK
07ZAGREB875	DEMARCHE ON THE UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE [...] REF A demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. The GOC had no substantive comment. WALKER [...]	2007-09-21 11:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PREL HR
07ZAGREB876	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - MESIC-AHMADINEJAD MEETING [...] (C) Prior to departing for EUR Energy Conference in Istanbul on September 20, Ambassador telephoned President Mesic,s Foreign Policy Advisor Loncar to carry out demarche (ref A) on the planned meeting between Mesic and Iranian President Ahmadinejad Drawing on points in para two of reftel, Am [...]	2007-09-21 12:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR HR
07ZAGREB878	PRIORITIES AND REPRESENTATION AT UNGA [...] During a meeting on September 19, 2007, Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations told PolOff that attaining a seat on the UNSC will be Croatia's top priority at the upcoming UNGA. Dogan provided no additional priorities, notin [...]	2007-09-21 12:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PREL HR
07ZAGREB879	DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY OF [...] Ref demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. The GOC had no substantive comment. WALKER [...]	2007-09-21 12:43:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA HR PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM
07ZAGREB883	DEMARCHE ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] REF A demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. Dogan told PolOff that, if Croatia decides to contribute, it would most likely be symbolic in nature. WALKER [...]	2007-09-21 14:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AA LE UNSC HR
07ZAGREB908	CROATIA SHOCKED BY ICTY VERDICT ON "VUKOVAR 3" [...] (U) SUMMARY: The ICTY ruling on 27 September against the so-called "Vukovar Three," former Yugoslav army officers accused of war crimes in Vukovar, caused widespread shock, disbelief, and anger in Croatia. One officer received 20 years imprisonment, but another, who personifies the crime for [...]	2007-09-28 12:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC PREL HR ICTY
07ZAGREB914	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----12 September, Met with the Director and staff of State Office for Nuclear Safety (SONS) to tour their new office spaces, discuss issues related to operation of portal monitors and deliver two (2) Ludlum 192 survey meters. ----13 September, met [...]	2007-10-02 11:12:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB916	NEW POLL SHOWS CONTINUED GROWTH IN NATO SUPPORT [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A poll contracted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) shows a continued rise in public support for NATO membership. In a Post-organized briefing to NATO-member embassies on October 2, IRI representatives highlighted a 10 percent increase in support for Croatia [...]	2007-10-04 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL NATO PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB920	READ-OUT OF MESIC - AHMADINEJAD UNGA MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-05 13:46:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR HR
07ZAGREB932	CROATIAN PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR [...] (C) In a discussion with visiting EUR/SCE Director Chris Hoh on October 4, President Mesic's foreign policy advisor Tomislav Jakic stressed that Croatia's interest was that Serbia be convinced not to react too harshly against states that recognize an independent Kosovo. Croatia, Jakic said, w [...]	2007-10-11 14:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR SR AA
07ZAGREB933	GOC PLEDGES CONTINUED COOPERATION WITH ICTY; PM TO [...] (C) Parties from across the political spectrum in Croatia have denounced the ICTY's verdicts on the "Vukovar Three" (reftel) as "shameful", but only fringe groups have called into question Croatia's continued cooperation with the ICTY. Nonetheless, public frustrations continue to simmer, and p [...]	2007-10-11 14:46:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB941	DAS DICARLO'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MESIC [...] (C) EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo met with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on October 12. DAS DiCarlo praised Croatia's efforts to prepare for NATO membership, and noted that public opinion in favor of NATO was rising in Croatia, and that Mesic's personal support for NATO membership had played an [...]	2007-10-16 07:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR BH SR
07ZAGREB950	SCENESETTER FOR CROATIA'S NOVEMBER 25 PARLIAMENTARY [...] This is the first in a series of reports on Croatia's upcoming elections, providing a general overview of the issues central to the election. Further installments will discuss specific parties and issues in greater detail. 2. SUMMARY: As Croatia gears up for parliamentary elections tentati [...]	2007-10-17 12:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB953	CROATIA ADOPTS LEGISLATION ON DIRECT ELECTION OF MAYORS AND [...] On October 5, just one week before adjourning for the upcoming legislative elections, the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) passed a package of legislation providing for direct election of mayors, county prefects, and their deputies. Until now, these officials have been chosen by the members of the [...]	2007-10-18 11:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB954	REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...]	2007-10-19 07:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB955	REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...]	2007-10-19 07:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB956	REGIONAL PROSECUTORS MEET ON WAR CRIMES COOPERATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Between 2-4 October, on the island of Hvar in Croatia, S/WCI and DoJ OPDAT hosted a regional conference on war crimes cooperation that gathered Chief State Prosecutors and their deputies from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, together with representatives of ICTY, [...]	2007-10-19 13:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB970	CROATIAN JOURNALIST DETAINED, RELEASED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Zagreb police arrested freelance journalist, Zeljko Peratovic, on October 18, and released him the following the day, charging him with posting classified documents to his website. Human rights and media groups and the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) quickly protested t [...]	2007-10-25 14:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HR
07ZAGREB985	CROATIA WILL SUPPORT REQUEST FOR RED NOTICE [...] (C) Post delivered reftel to Chief of National Criminal Police at the Ministry of Interior, Darko Dundovic, who is Head of Delegation to the INTERPOL General Assembly. Dundovic was familiar with the case and told Post that the GOC would support the GOA request and EC position. He indicat [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IR PREL PTER
07ZAGREB986	CROATIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA ETRD PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB987	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAAC CANDIDACY OF DAVID [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. Dogan provided no substantive comments on Mr. Walker's candidacy. Post is attempting to follow-up with the GOC and will report any furt [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC UN UNGA
07ZAGREB988	CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU ON THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. The GOC expects to follow the EU's position on resolutions appearing before the UN's Third Committee over the coming months. 2. Dog [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UN UNGA
07ZAGREB989	CROATIA: FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 07:38:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MNUC ECON HR
07ZAGREB990	ENGAGING THE CROATIANS ON THEIR UNSC MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: While some key decisions affecting Croatia's UNSC membership, particularly on personnel, will have to await the outcome of Croatia's parliamentary elections on November 25, the basic lines of Croatia's approach are already becoming evident. We can expect President Mesic, who will [...]	2007-11-05 07:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC HR
07ZAGREB992	VISAS VIPER: OCTOBER 2007 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 12:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC PREL KVPR HR
07ZAGREB994	NATO ROADSHOW '07 -- CROATIA SCENESETTER [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The GoC feels confident approaching NATO's Bucharest Summit after repeated strong statements of support from President Bush and State Department officials (U/S Burns, A/S Fried) as well as positive feedback from Allies during presentation of their Annual National Progr [...]	2007-11-05 14:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB996	CROATIA INCSR 2006/2007 - PART ONE [...] (U) Below please find, per reftel request, part one of post's submission for the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Part two on money laundering will be submitted septel. Croatia I. Summary Croatia is not a producer of narcotics. However, narcotics smuggling through th [...]	2007-11-06 09:28:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL KJUS KCRM HR
07ZAGREB999	UNANNOUCED VISIT TO ZAGREB BY B-H PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador on November 5 that B-H Presidency member Zeljko Komsic had made an unannounced visit to Zagreb on the previous day to meet with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic. Komsic came with only one aide and without even bodyguards, in hopes tha [...]	2007-11-06 15:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK HR
08ABIDJAN130	PETROLEUM SECTOR IN COTE D'IVOIRE - AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Kassoum Fadika, Director General of state-owned PETROCI for a tour d'horizon of the energy production business in Cote d'Ivoire. Fadika discussed production problems that he says have limited oil production to 50,000 b/d and described the cost structure of [...]	2008-02-26 12:06:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN133	CHINESE VIEWS ON COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (C) Summary. Chinese Embassy Political Counselor Fulin Ma told Pol/Econ section chief February 25 that he thinks elections will take place in 2008, most likely between August and October. Ma believes there is a real chance for President Gbagbo to win transparent elections due to the average [...]	2008-02-28 16:34:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IV CH
08ABIDJAN149	COTE D'IVOIRE NAMES MEMBERS OF EXTRACTIVE [...] (SBU) On January 29, the Ministry of Mines and Energy named the 26 members of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative National Committee. The group is government-heavy, and includes representatives from the Prime Minister's Office; the Ministries of Economy and Finance, Mines and [...]	2008-03-06 11:48:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EITC ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IBRD IV
08ABIDJAN166	COTE D'IVOIRE PAYS WORLD BANK ARREARS; IMF SEES [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank announced in late February that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire has paid its portion of its arrears clearance package, paving the way for renewed assistance. The IMF announced that with the arrears clearance package in hand, it will proceed aggressively with a P [...]	2008-03-12 14:20:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL IMF IBRD IV
08ABIDJAN171	AMBASSADOR MEETS AFDB PRESIDENT KABERUKA, [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka on February 28th during the latter's swing through Abidjan to sign a $25 million post conflict grant and ahead of an AfDB delegation trip to Abidjan by Members of the Bank's Board of Directors. Kaberu [...]	2008-03-12 16:32:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID PREL IBRD IMF AFDB IV
08ABIDJAN274	RESIDENT IMF, WORLD BANK HEADS DISCUSS EARLY HIPC [...] (C) Summary. In an April 18 meeting, IMF ResRep Phillipe Eugume defended the notion of an early HIPC Decision Point, noting Cote d'Ivoire's heavy indebtedness and already negative cash position with the IFIs, but acknowledged substantial shareholder reluctance to proceed with such a course [...]	2008-05-02 08:10:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID IMF IBRD PGOV PREL IV
08ABIDJAN279	IMPACT OF RISING FOOD PRICES IN COTE D'IVOIRE. [...] (SBU) Summary. The global price rise in basic foodstuff commodities is having a serious impact on Cote d'Ivoire, particularly the rise in rice prices. Imported rice has become substantially more expensive compared to its local competition in the past 18 months. The government has attempted [...]	2008-05-02 14:02:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL
08ABIDJAN286	MINISTER OF PLANNING DISCUSSES HIPC, RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Cote d,Ivoire,s Minister of Plan has established a timetable to ensure that his country is ready to be considered for a HIPC decision point by the end of 2008. The Minister fears that Cote d,Ivoire may lose the opportunity to benefit from debt relief under the HIPC initiative if [...]	2008-05-06 15:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IMF IBRD EAID PGOV PREL IV
08ABIDJAN290	ELECTORAL COMMISSION LAYS OUT TIMELINE FROM NOW TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Independent Electoral Commission President Mambe briefed Ambassador May 2 on the Commission,s timeline for meeting the November 30 election date. Voter registration will take place for a 45 day period in July-August; the time before and after will be devoted to ensuring that th [...]	2008-05-06 17:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN296	NEW CUSTOMS DIRECTOR DISCUSSES RETURN OF CUSTOMS [...] (SBU) Summary. Cote d,Ivoire,s new Customs Director, Col. Alphone Mangly, expects the redeployment of customs officials to the north of the country to begin the week of May 12. In an April 30 meeting, Mangly told Ambassador candidly that he was not certain how the customs officials would wor [...]	2008-05-08 12:50:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN300	WIPO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION - COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (U) Emboff presented reftel demarche points and preferred candidate lists to MFA Assistant Director for the Office of Economic and Social Issues within the UN Department, Etienne Kinda. Kinda asked if the French candidate were a preferred U.S. candidate. Emboff reiterated that the five can [...]	2008-05-09 12:48:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR AORC ETRD PREL IV
08ABIDJAN301	DEMARCHE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY [...] (SBU) Emboffs verbally delivered demarche points to Pierre Nemlin, Americas, Deputy Desk Officer, on April 30 and delivered a French text non-paper with key talking points (reftel) on May 6. Nemlin indicated that Cote d'Ivoire would not be sending a delegation to Geneva for PrepComIII, and [...]	2008-05-09 12:48:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG MNUC PARM PREL IV
08ABIDJAN336	PRESIDENT KICKS OFF 2000 SESSION OF NATIONAL [...] (SBU) President Gbagbo presided over the April 30 opening ceremony of the first session of the 2008 National Assembly, held in the political capital of Yamoussoukro. Two hundred parliamentarians attended the ceremony. National Assembly president and ruling Ivoirian Popular Front party (Front [...]	2008-05-28 08:54:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL UN IV
08ABIDJAN337	OBSERVANCE OF NOVEMBER 30 ELECTION DATE FEASIBLE [...] (SBU) Summary. AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty held meetings in Abidjan May 15-16 with representatives from across Cote d'Ivoire's political spectrum. His conversations indicate that the political will exists to observe the scheduled November 30 election date and that it is technically feasib [...]	2008-05-28 14:14:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL EAID IV
08ABIDJAN346	AF/W DIRECTOR DOUGHERTY DISCUSSES FINANCING THE [...] (C) Summary: State AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty discussed the pivotal question of financing for the end of crisis package ("sortie de crise" in French) with a number of key interlocutors during his May 14-18 visit to Abidjan. Interlocutors discussed Cote d'Ivoire's Highly Indebted Poor Coun [...]	2008-05-29 16:34:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AFDB EAID ECON IMF IBRD IV PREL
08ABIDJAN396	THE NEW BLE GOUDE [...] (C) Summary. Charles Ble Goude, leader of COJEP (PanAfrican Congress of Young Patriots),is one of three Ivorians under United Nations (UN) Security Council sanctions. However, an offensive seems to be underway, bolstered by the presidential camp, to re-shape Ble Goude's public image and portr [...]	2008-06-18 16:29:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI UN IV
08ABIDJAN397	DISGRUNTLED EX-COMBATANTS PARALYZE BOUAKE OVER [...] (U) The demobilization and disarmament of the Forces Nouvellles (FAFN) continue to be problematic for the government. One June 16, more than 1000 troops paralyzed Bouake, demanding payment of promised monies. According to pres reports, the action was organized by soldiers who were to be integ [...]	2008-06-18 17:33:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC PREL EAID IV
08ABIDJAN398	(C) KOUCHNER VISIT SIGNALS WARMING RELATIONSHIP, [...] (C) Summary. The June 14-15 visit of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to Cote d'Ivoire is a signal of warmer bilateral relations, but full normalization will not occur until Ivorian presidential elections are held. Kouchner told President Gbagbo that France will work with whichever ca [...]	2008-06-18 17:51:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IV FR
08ABIDJAN462	POLITICAL PARTY YOUTH LEADERS OFFER LITTLE BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a country where over half of the population is under 25 and job opportunities for young people are scarce, political parties have had little trouble in the recent past mobilizing youth for violent ends during times of political crisis. In light of the looming November 30th [...]	2008-07-15 16:51:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON IV
08ABIDJAN492	PARTIES IN FN-HELD TERRITORIES ORIENTED AROUND [...] Summary. DCM, Econ Chief and Political Specialist traveled July 15-18 to Seguela and Bouake in Forces Nouvelles-held territory. During the course of the trip, Emboffs met with representatives of the country's three major political parties (FPI, RDR, PDCI). Discussions with party representat [...]	2008-07-25 15:31:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN500	BACKGROUND ON FN MUTINY IN SEGUELA [...] (C) Summary. DCM, ECON Chief and Political Specialist met with senior Forces Nouvelles military leaders during a recent visit to Bouake and Seguela, flashpoint of recent FN violence. Emboffs had unusually frank meetings with FAFN Chief of Staff Bakayoko and Deputy Chief of Staff Wattao, und [...]	2008-07-29 15:41:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI IV
08ABIDJAN520	FORCES NOUVELLES VIEWS ON IDENTIFICATION, [...] (C) Summary. During a recent Embassy visit to Bouake and Seguela, senior interlocutors from the Forces Nouvelles (FN) and regional leaders of the RDR political party raised concerns about how the process of identification would proceed. FN political leaders went to great lengths to reject [...]	2008-08-04 10:37:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IV
08ABIDJAN521	LACK OF FUNDING HAMPERS DDR PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: Senior military officers from the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) confirmed to Emboffs during a recent trip to Bouake and Seguela that substantial progress is being made in regrouping FAFN troops but funding to ensure the smooth reintegration of former combatants is lacking. FAFN leader [...]	2008-08-04 12:30:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR EAID PREL PHUM IV
08ABIDJAN522	THE FORCES NOUVELLES AND THE DIAMOND TRADE IN [...] (C) Summary. During a recent visit to Bouake and Seguela, Emboffs probed the issue of whether control of the region's diamonds was a factor in the recent clash between factions of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN). Emboffs met with Deputy FAFN Chief Wattao, who said that the Forces Nouvelles wer [...]	2008-08-04 13:18:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN PGOV MARR KCOR PREL ECON IV
08ABIDJAN56	CODEL ENGEL'S VISIT ON CHILD LABOR IN COCOA DRAWS [...] (SBU) Summary. Representative Engel, Senator Harkin and Senator Sanders met with President Gbagbo, Prime Minister Soro and key government ministers to discuss the implementation of the Harkin Engel Protocol, a key element of which is the July 1, 2008 deadline, which aims to put in place a c [...]	2008-01-24 18:09:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EAID ELAB OREP IV
08ABIDJAN614	2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES [...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche in reftel on September 8 to Cote d'Ivoire's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Alcide Djedje, who was in Abidjan. 2. (C) Poloff delivered demarche in reftel on September 9 to Etienne Kindia, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dep [...]	2008-09-09 17:30:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN IV
08ABIDJAN63	UNOCI CONCERNED ABOUT DDR PROCESS [...] (C) Jean Marc Tafani, the new chief of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Office of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) described the government's DDR plan as ambitious and fragile and noted it could increase instability. Tafani expressed concern about lack [...]	2008-01-28 17:02:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN77	AMBASSADOR MEETS FORMER PRESIDENT BEDIE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met on January 31 with Henri Konan Bedie, former President of Cote d'Ivoire and current leader and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire (Parti Democratique de la Cote d'Ivoire - PDCI). Bedie expressed doubt about whether President Gbagbo is tru [...]	2008-02-01 18:18:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN810	OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT [...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Henri Konan Bedie, former President of Cote d'Ivoire (1993-1999) and currently leader of one of the country's three major political parties, the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire, known by its French acronym, PDCI [...]	2008-11-14 14:42:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP IV
08ABIDJAN811	OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT [...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Charles Konan Banny, former Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire (2005-2007). Embassy will transmit a hard copy of the message to the Department by diplomatic pouch. 2. Embassy translation of the French language m [...]	2008-11-14 14:43:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP IV
08ABIDJAN813	AMBASSADOR TELLS FINANCE MINISTER DEBT RELIEF [...] (C) Summary. In a November 6 meeting, Ambassador told Economy and Finance Minister Charles Diby that Cote d'Ivoire must show stronger fiscal performance to reach the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) decision point. Diby explained extra-budgetary spending on public works projects in Yamous [...]	2008-11-14 17:57:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN816	OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT [...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Lucien Tape Mambo, President of the Forum of Civil Society of the 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (ACP). The ACP is composed of African, Caribbean and Pacific nations that are signatories to the George [...]	2008-11-17 16:10:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP IV
08ABIDJAN820	G/TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to reftel, Poloff met with NGOs and government officials working on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues, but could not obtain meetings with key ministries, specifically the Ministries of Justice and Interior, despite repeated phone calls and follow-up letters from th [...]	2008-11-19 08:26:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI SMIG KTIP KWMN KCRM IV
08ABIDJAN822	PRESIDENT GBAGBO DISCUSSES ELECTION DELAY, DDR ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with Ambassador, President Gbagbo said he was disappointed that elections have been postponed again but does not see what he can do to speed up the process; the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) needs to work more quickly and effectively. He was calm a [...]	2008-11-19 15:40:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM EAID IV PGOV
08ABIDJAN90	G/TIP AMBASSADOR LAGON VISIT TO COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (U) Summary: G/TIP Ambassador Mark Lagon met with government officials, NGO leaders, and UN officials during his January 23-24 visit to Abidjan. Ambassador Lagon told his interlocutors that the USG comes in partnership to address trafficking in persons and stands ready to consult on legal and [...]	2008-02-06 18:24:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG UN IV
08ABUDHABI1000	UAEG WANTS TO DISCUSS PATRIOTS [...] (C) Summary: On September 1, Post delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. decision to offer Patriot deployment to the UAE. A basic presentation to the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's office soon brought the issue to the attention of the Air Force leadership, with whom we discussed the deployment in g [...]	2008-09-04 11:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MCAP PINS AE

08ABUDHABI1003	UAE MFA ON CHINA'S WEAK NONPROLIFERATION COOPERATION [...] (S) During a September 4 meeting at which A/DCM and EconOff sought Emirati assistance with sensitive nonproliferation cases (interdictions),MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani expressed UAEG frustration with efforts to improve nonproliferation cooperation with China. [...]	2008-09-05 15:22:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PTER PREL PGOV KNNP IR CH AE
08ABUDHABI1004	UAE NOT ENTHUSIASTIC TO PRESS HUMAN RIGHTS AT UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-05 16:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AE
08ABUDHABI103	PROPOSED CTF DATES AND EXPORT CONTROL LAW UPDATE [...] (SBU) The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally notified post via diplomatic note that it welcomed holding a proposed Counterproliferation Task Force meeting in February and requested a proposed agenda for the meeting. The UAE, however, declined the proposed seaport interdiction training p [...]	2008-01-24 13:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC ENRG PARM PREL AE
08ABUDHABI1115	UAE INCREASING INVOLVEMENT WITH BELARUS [...] (SBU) Belarus has had an Embassy in Abu Dhabi since 1999, yet the UAE is just now sending its first ever envoy to Minsk. Ambassador-designate Mohamed Abdullah al-Raisi will open the new mission (a first-time ambassador is also being sent to Argentina). Signs of increased interaction between th [...]	2008-10-05 04:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KTIP EAIR BO AE
08ABUDHABI1118	UAE INCREASING INVOLVEMENT WITH BELARUS [...] (SBU) Belarus has had an Embassy in Abu Dhabi since 1999, yet the UAE is just now sending its first ever envoy to Minsk. Ambassador-designate Mohamed Abdullah al-Raisi will open the new mission (a first-time ambassador is also being sent to Argentina). Signs of increased interaction between th [...]	2008-10-05 10:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KTIP EAIR BO AE
08ABUDHABI1125	DRAFT PRESS LAW FALLS SHORT OF UAE JOURNALISTS' ASSOCIATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Participants at the annual Ramadan majlis of the UAE Journalist Association (UAEJA) focused on revisions to the press law currently under discussion within the Federal National Council (FNC) and expressed dismay that the revisions do not adequately reflect UAEJA recommendations an [...]	2008-10-06 14:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO AE
08ABUDHABI1149	ABU DHABI: TARGETING NO-VOTES ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-13 04:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UN UNGA KV AE
08ABUDHABI1162	SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO THE UNITED [...] (U) We warmly welcome your visit, both for the Forum for the Future and for bilateral meetings with the UAE's leadership. 2. (SBU) In the past five years, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as one of the economic powerhouses of the region (our largest export market in the Middle East) an [...]	2008-10-15 14:43:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL KNNP IR IZ AE
08ABUDHABI1163	MFA MINSTATE GARGASH ON KEY ISSUES IB US-UAE BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: During a 28 September meeting at which Ambassador presented copies of his credentials, MinState for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash outlined two key areas for the Ambassador to focus on in the bilateral relationship: visas and MLAT negotiations. Both agreed that the overall [...]	2008-10-16 11:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PGOV KCRM CVIS AE
08ABUDHABI1187	Assistant Secretary Kramer, Minister of Justice Review NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: A/S Kramer met on the margins of the BMENA Forum for the Future in Abu Dhabi with Jordanian Minister of Justice Ayman Odeh and Jordanian Ambassador to UAE. The Minister solicited and responded to DRL's concerns about the new Jordanian NGO law, and suggested possible ways to allev [...]	2008-10-20 12:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KMPI JO
08ABUDHABI1189	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH YEMENI FM ABU BAKR AL-QIRBI [...] (S) Summary: Meeting on the margins of the October 19 Forum for the Future ministerial in Abu Dhabi, Deputy Secretary Negroponte heard from Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi that Yemen was committed to parliamentary elections in spite of the "headache" of democracy. He blamed the emer [...]	2008-10-20 15:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL KDEM PTER YM
08ABUDHABI119	NATO SECGEN WELL RECEIVED IN ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: In a brief visit to Abu Dhabi January 24, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer gave a lecture on the goals of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI),met senior UAEG officials to discuss potential areas or cooperation, and gave an upbeat briefing to NATO Ambassadors [...]	2008-01-29 14:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS MARR AE
08ABUDHABI1192	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH YEMENI FM ABU BAKR AL-QIRBI [...] (S) Summary: Meeting on the margins of the October 19 Forum for the Future ministerial in Abu Dhabi, Deputy Secretary Negroponte heard from Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi that Yemen was committed to parliamentary elections in spite of the "headache" of democracy. He blamed the emer [...]	2008-10-20 16:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL KDEM PTER YM
08ABUDHABI120	UAE PROPOSING EXPERT LEVEL CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (SBU) On January 29, Econchief discussed the UAE's proposed expert-level visit to the US to discuss peaceful nuclear cooperation with Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority Director of Economic Affairs David Scott (refs b and c). Scott proposed sending a UAE delegation to the U.S. in the Febru [...]	2008-01-29 14:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE
08ABUDHABI1203	UAE PRENOTIFIED ON INKSNA DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-21 10:25:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM MNUC PREL AE
08ABUDHABI121	UAE PROPOSING EXPERT LEVEL CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (SBU) On January 29, Econchief discussed the UAE's proposed expert-level visit to the US to discuss peaceful nuclear cooperation with Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority Director of Economic Affairs David Scott (refs b and c). Scott proposed sending a UAE delegation to the U.S. in the Febru [...]	2008-01-29 14:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE
08ABUDHABI1217	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH MOROCCAN FM FASSI-FIHRI; [...] (C) Meeting on the margins of the October 18-19 Forum for the Future ministerial in Abu Dhabi, Deputy Secretary Negroponte and NEA A/S Welch held a cordial exchange with Moroccan Foreign Minister Fassi-Fihri on three core issues: the Forum for the Future, the Western Sahara negotiation process [...]	2008-10-22 12:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KMPI XI MO MR WI
08ABUDHABI1218	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH UAE FOREIGN MINISTER: [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the Forum for the Future ministerial in Abu Dhabi October 19, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) recited to Deputy Secretary Negroponte UAE concerns about U.S. visas for medical cases, an irritant in the context of very favorable relations overall. O [...]	2008-10-22 12:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CVIS PK IR IZ AE
08ABUDHABI122	NATO SECGEN WELL RECEIVED IN ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: In a brief visit to Abu Dhabi January 24, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer gave a lecture on the goals of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI),met senior UAEG officials to discuss potential areas or cooperation, and gave an upbeat briefing to NATO Ambassadors [...]	2008-01-29 14:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS MARR AE
08ABUDHABI1222	CIVIL SOCIETY AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS MEET AT FORUM FOR THE FUTURE SOM IN ABU DHABI [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-22 14:41:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KMPI XF AE
08ABUDHABI1229	CSAF GEN SCHWARTZ MEETS MBZ IN ABU DHABI [...] (S) Summary: Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) shared his views on Iraq, Iran, and the financial crisis with Air Force Chief of Staff General Schwartz on October 21. He highlighted Iran's influence in Iraq and noted that while his own view of PM al-Maliki had improved, we need to be planning for a suc [...]	2008-10-26 11:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL EFIN MOPS MARR MCAP IR IZ AE
08ABUDHABI1237	DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN NEGROPONTE MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-28 11:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV KMPI XF AE
08ABUDHABI1244	WELCOMING SECRETARY SPELLINGS TO ABU DHABI [...] (U) Madame Secretary, the U.S. Mission to the United Arab Emirates warmly welcomes your return visit, which presents an opportunity to follow up on your prior interaction with UAE Minister of Education Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali Al Qasimi ("Dr. Hanif") and assess progress on the UAE's ambitious plan [...]	2008-10-30 12:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON SCUL AE
08ABUDHABI1247	FORUM FOR THE FUTURE FIFTH MINISTERIAL MEETING IN ABU DHABI OCTOBER 19, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-02 12:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KMPI XF AE
08ABUDHABI1297	NEW PAKISTANI AMBASSADOR TO THE UAE A LONG-TIME BHUTTO ALLY [...] (C) In a November 9 courtesy call, incoming Pakistani Ambassador Khursheed Ahmed Junejo described his long-term affiliation with the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, describing himself as the mayor of her town, and a party confidant during a "20 year" association. He claimed so many trips b [...]	2008-11-10 12:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PK AE
08ABUDHABI1302	LEVERAGING FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 04:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EFIN KNNP AE
08ABUDHABI1306	UAE STILL NOT ENTHUSIASTIC TO PRESS HUMAN RIGHTS AT UNGA [...] (C) POL Chief pressed ref A points with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani on November 13, emphasizing the need for a principled stand against "no action" motions that prevent a vital review of human rights violations and the need to address the severe human rights ab [...]	2008-11-13 13:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IR MB KN AE
08ABUDHABI1312	PLANNING A SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO THE UAE [...] As the UAE hosts to an increasing number of USG travelers, the Mission offers the following perspective on how to plan for a successful visit, with a caution about overextended demands on the UAE leadership and a chronic lack of hotel capacity in Abu Dhabi, with periodic problems related to ho [...]	2008-11-16 13:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT PREL OVIP OTRA AE
08ABUDHABI1318	SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT [...] (C) General: we look forward to your first visit to the UAE in your capacity as CENTCOM Commander. ------------------------------ Punching above its Weight ------------------------------ 2. (C) Over the past five years, the UAE has emerged as a regional powerhouse, using its financial c [...]	2008-11-18 04:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR IZ PK AE
08ABUDHABI1331	UAE LABOR MINISTER NOTES MEASURED PROGRESS ON TREATMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: UAE Labor Minister Saqr Ghobash told the Ambassador that electronic payment of wages and enhanced living conditions are key labor concerns. He is trying to persuade banks to assist in creating accounts for workers to facilitate an enforceable electronic payment regime. Living co [...]	2008-11-20 12:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELAB PHUM AE
08ABUDHABI1338	Revocation of Iran's U-turn general license [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-23 11:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL EFIN KNNP AE
08ABUDHABI1346	UAE CAUTIONED ABOUT BIASED UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 13:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA IS PA AE
08ABUDHABI1347	UAE REACTION TO FIRST COMMITTEE RESOLUTION ON COMPLIANCE [...] (SBU) PolChief raised reftel concerns about UAE abstentions in UN First Committee voting on the Resolution on Compliance with MFA's Director of International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani on November 24. Al-Hosani said the UAEG agreed generally with the resolution but had one reservation abo [...]	2008-11-24 13:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MNUC UNGA AE
08ABUDHABI135	ABU DHABI TO OPEN SHELTER FOR TIP VICTIMS [...] (U) The UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, in collaboration with the UAE Red Crescent Society, announced plans January 13 to open a shelter in Abu Dhabi to aid victims of human trafficking and exploitation. The projected opening of an Abu Dhabi shelter follows the 2007 opening [...]	2008-01-31 14:03:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PREL PGOV KMPI AE
08ABUDHABI136	U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH MIDDLE EAST STATES ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Post appreciates the opportunity to provide input on planned U.S. engagement with select countries in the Middle East that have expressed a serious interest in developing a peaceful nuclear power program. We agree that an early positive engagement is key to both demonstrating that countri [...]	2008-01-31 15:22:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE
08ABUDHABI1360	THE UAE FINANCIAL SITUATION AND THE KUBLER ROSS MODEL [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Abu Dhabi - Consulate General Dubai cable. 2. (C) Summary. The UAE, Dubai in particular, appears to be moving rapidly through the five stages of grieving identified in the Kubler-Ross model. While most Emirati contacts initially claimed that global financial cr [...]	2008-11-26 07:30:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV ENRG PREL PGOV AE
08ABUDHABI1370	UAEG AVOIDS AID RELATED TO AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) In addition to conversations noted Ref A regarding UAEG aid to Afghanistan, Post reiterated Ref B request for assistance to ensure smooth 2009 Afghan elections as a diplomatic note. The MFA's formal reply (text in para two) reiterates the UAEG's preference for humanitarian aid without p [...]	2008-12-01 08:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM MASS AF AE
08ABUDHABI1381	U/S LEVEY PRESSES UAE ON IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (S) Summary. On 18 November 2008, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey and DCM Doug Greene (in Abu Dhabi) and Paul Sutphin, the Consul General (in Dubai) discussed with UAE counterparts recent U.S., international and UAE steps to increase financial pressure on Iran. In particular, Levey detai [...]	2008-12-03 14:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	AE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER
08ABUDHABI1382	EXPORT CONTROL UPDATE [...] (S/NF) Summary: MFA recently confirmed that its proposed amendment to the Export Control Law -- to set up an independent authority to oversee the law -- had been altered by the Presidency, which assigned oversight to an existing committee in the Ministry of Interior. Staffing a new authority [...]	2008-12-04 08:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM KNNP MNUC PREL AE
08ABUDHABI1397	UNSCR ON ANNAPOLIS PROCESS DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UAE [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-14 12:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KWBG UNSC AE
08ABUDHABI1404	DEMARCHE ON PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE RECEIVED WITHOUT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-14 15:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK AE
08ABUDHABI1418	CROWN PRINCE'S MEETING WITH SENATOR BAUCUS [...] (C) Summary. During his December 13-15 visit to the UAE (reported septel),Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) discussed the UAE's strategic vision with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ). Baucus noted his amazement with the UAE's progress. MbZ presented an overview of the [...]	2008-12-18 07:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OREP PREL PARM KPAL CVIS IR AE
08ABUDHABI1430	SENATOR BAUCUS'S VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Abu Dhabi - Consulate General Dubai cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) During his December 13-15 visit to the United Arab Emirates, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and accompanying delegation from the Senate Finance Committee staff met with senior government and financi [...]	2008-12-21 09:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV ETRD ENRG OREP PREL SENV PARM KNNP AE
08ABUDHABI1434	UAE NOTIFIED OF FIFTH GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEETING IN JUNE [...] Following coordination with Dutch DCM, PolOff discussed reftel with MFA Director of International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani on December 21, 2008. Al-Hosani was appreciative of the timely notice and pleased with so much time to coordinate a "high level" delegation. He did ask for further i [...]	2008-12-22 06:57:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC AE
08ABUDHABI1443	UAE FOREIGN MINISTER SPENDING CHRISTMAS EVE IN BETHLEHEM [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 14:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OTRA OVIP AE
08ABUDHABI1463	UAE RESPONSE TO ILLICIT DIAMOND ACTIVITY IN ZIMBABWE [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Abu Dhabi - Consulate General Dubai cable. 2. (SBU) On December 1, post delivered reftel talking points via diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post also passed the points to Ali Fayel, the Ministry of Economy's point-of-contact on the Kimberley P [...]	2008-12-30 09:30:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD ECON EFIN ASEC ZI AE
08ABUDHABI147	DELIVERED COMMENTS ON UAE NUCLEAR POWER WHITE PAPER [...] (SBU) On February 3, Econchief and TDY PolEconoff met with David Scott, Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority Director of Economic Affairs; Hamad Al-Kaabi, Executive Affairs Authority (and MFA); Ali Al-Frayhat, General Counsel for the Executive Affairs Authority; Mohammed Al-Hamadi, GM of the [...]	2008-02-04 12:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PARM ECON AE
08ABUDHABI148	U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH MIDDLE EAST STATES ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Post appreciates the opportunity to provide input on planned U.S. engagement with select countries in the Middle East that have expressed a serious interest in developing a peaceful nuclear power program. We agree that an early positive engagement is key to both demonstrating that countri [...]	2008-02-04 12:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE
08ABUDHABI158	UAE FORMALLY CONCURS WITH GSD MARCH 11 [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-05 12:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS AE
08ABUDHABI159	ADMIRAL FALLON'S UPCOMING VISIT TO ABU DHABI [...] (S) Admiral Fallon, Embassy Abu Dhabi again welcomes you for a visit to the UAE, where we look forward to your engagement with U.S. personnel on the ground and your discussions with the nation's top strategic defense planner, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Arme [...]	2008-02-05 14:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR KPAL IR IZ AF LE
08ABUDHABI160	AIR FORCE SECRETARY WYNNE AND MBZ DISCUSS SHARED [...] (S) Summary: When Secretary of the Air Force Wynne met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince (and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces) Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) February 3, MbZ focused on Shared Early Warning and communication links as critical to defend against Iran. He pressed for advanc [...]	2008-02-05 14:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER MCAP MOPS MASS IR AE
08ABUDHABI169	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT IN THE [...] (SBU) Econchief met with MinEcon U/S Abdulla Al-Saleh and legal advisor Issa Baddour on February 6 to discuss Arab League Boycott related issues. Econchief commended Al-Saleh for working with Commerce/BIS officials to remove boycott related language from commercial documents and stressed that [...]	2008-02-07 13:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD KBCT AE
08ABUDHABI171	UAE VIEWS ON KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-07 14:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNMIK UN YI EU AE
08ABUDHABI173	HEAD OF UAE TIP COMMITTEE SHARES PROGRESS REPORT [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires, ADCM, and POLOFF met February 5 with UAE Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs and head of the UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, Dr. Anwar Gargash, to discuss the upcoming 2008 TIP report, TIP-specific training, the Dubai and Abu Dhabi s [...]	2008-02-07 14:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PREL PGOV PREF SMIG KMPI KCRM KWMN AE
08ABUDHABI174	WELCOMING GENERAL MOSELEY BACK TO ABU DHABI [...] (S) General Moseley, your return visit to Abu Dhabi February 11-13 is most welcome, and we look forward to your conversation with Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) in particular. Your visit continues a series of senior level consultations with the UAE leadership, beginning with President Bush January [...]	2008-02-07 14:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER MCAP MOPS MASS IR AE
08ABUDHABI187	UAE MFA ON SUPPORT FOR LEBANON TRIBUNAL [...] (C) On February 10, Charge queried UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali about the apparent UAE commitment of $5 million to the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (ref A). Al-Sha'ali said he thought the commitment was firm, but wanted to know the precise mechanism [...]	2008-02-11 13:38:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE AE
08ABUDHABI188	LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) On February 10, the Charge met with UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali to discuss, among other issues (septel),the need for as many nations as possible to recognize an independent Kosovo soon after independence is announced. Al-Sha'ali acknowledged our a [...]	2008-02-11 13:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU AE
08ABUDHABI189	UNIFIL LOBBYING FOR ARAB SUPPORT [...] (C) The Charge pressed UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali February 10 on the need for a continued Arab presence in UNIFIL, a prospect complicated by the impending withdrawal of Qatari forces. Asked to consider a UAE contribution, al-Sha'ali said frankly, "may [...]	2008-02-11 13:56:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL QA LE AE
08ABUDHABI190	MFA MINSTATE VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) The Charge took the opportunity of a February 10 meeting with UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali to emphasize the importance of keeping pressure on Iran through UNSC deliberations on potential sanctions, also noting the USG stance not to comment extensivel [...]	2008-02-11 14:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC IAEA IR AE
08ABUDHABI222	UAE PRIME MINISTER'S QUICK VISIT TO TEHRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: UAE Prime Minister, Vice President, and Ruler of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid embarked on a sudden visit to Tehran and Damascus February 18, taking the Foreign Minister (an Abu Dhabi royal) in his entourage. Public explanations of the visit are benign and innocent, and we heard fr [...]	2008-02-19 14:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP IR SY AE
08ABUDHABI236	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] In the absence of MFA director for International Cooperation Yacoub Al-Hosani and other senior MFA officials, Econchief followed up on reftel message with senior America's Desk Officer Rowda Al-Otaiba and urged that the UAE consider signing on to the Global Initiative Statement of Principles. [...]	2008-02-21 14:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER KGIC AE
08ABUDHABI257	UAEG REPORT ON ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) MinEcon U/S Abdullah Al-Saleh passed the following e-mail update on UAE actions to eliminate secondary and tertiary applications of the Arab League boycott to Econ Chief on February 25. Al-Saleh had committed to providing thi [...]	2008-02-27 11:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KBCT PREL IS AE
08ABUDHABI260	UAE JANUARY 31 NOTICE ON BANK SEPAH - DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On February 14, Econchief contacted Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the International Division for the UAE Central Bank's Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit (AMLSCU) to ask the UAE to delay or withdraw its notification and to provide more information on the origin of money used to [...]	2008-02-28 09:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PREL PARM IR AE
08ABUDHABI289	DAS KENT PATTON DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN UAE [...] (C) Summary: On a February 24-25 visit to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, DAS Kent Patton spoke with government leaders and civil society figures about expanding political space in the UAE. With MFA he focused on fall 2008 plans for Forum for the Future meetings in Abu Dhabi, stressing the importance [...]	2008-03-05 06:09:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KMPI KPAO ELAB AE
08ABUDHABI296	MARCH 11 GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE AND MARCH 12 JOINT [...] (S) Summary: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to the March 11 Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) and March 12 Joint Military Commission (JMC) as opportunities to renew our mutual commitment to shared strategic goals with the UAE, to remind the UAE military of U.S. appreciation for its support and i [...]	2008-03-06 12:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR IZ LE AE
08ABUDHABI304	MLAT STAGNANT WITHOUT CREATIVE APPROACH [...] (C) Post received a diplomatic note dated February 12 stating yet again that the UAE looked forward to negotiation of a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) in tandem with negotiation of an Extradition Treaty and a Treaty on Legal and Judicial Assistance in Civil and Commercial Matters. The [...]	2008-03-09 17:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KCRM AE
08ABUDHABI323	First UAE Export Control Prosecution [...] (U) On March 13, UAE Arabic and English papers reported that the Dubai Public Prosecutors Office had referred a case to court regarding an attempt to import -- with the intent to re-export -- 250 KG of the corrosion-resistant metal Zirconium in violation of the UAE's 2007 export control law. [...]	2008-03-13 15:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI325	US - UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE MEETING [...] (S/NF) Summary: During the February 25 Counterproliferation Task Force meeting, the UAEG asserted that it was enforcing the 2007 export control law, but was in the process of amending it to make it easier to implement and enforce. The UAE pushed for better coordination and follow-up from the [...]	2008-03-16 11:09:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI326	ACTING A/S MCNERNEY MEETS WITH UAEG OFFICIALS [...] (S) Summary: On February 25 and 26, UAEG officials asserted that the UAE's export control law was in force, but that it was being amended to make it easier to implement. The UAE would create an autonomous organization to implement the export control law. The UAE interlocutors raised concerns [...]	2008-03-16 11:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI334	UAE FISCAL TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) UAE fiscal data is often incomplete. This is partially due to the federal nature of the country, in which each emirate has its own budget and federal-emirate level coordination on fiscal matters has historically been limited. The Federal Budget is published annually in newspapers and pr [...]	2008-03-17 09:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PREL AE
08ABUDHABI377	EMBASSY CONVERSATION WITH UAEG ON SHARLA'S CITY OF HOPE [...] (C) In March 25, 2008 conversation with MinState for Foreign Affairs (and Chairman of National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking) Anwar Gargash, Charge emphasized the very positive experiences both the Embassy and ConGen have had with Sharla Musabih's City of Hope, with the shelter having [...]	2008-03-25 13:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN ASEC ELAB AE
08ABUDHABI379	TIP REPORT FOR UAE MARCH 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-25 15:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN ASEC ELAB SMIG AE
08ABUDHABI380	TIP REPORT FOR UAE MARCH 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-25 15:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN ASEC ELAB SMIG AE
08ABUDHABI382	TIP REPORT FOR UAE MARCH 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Arab Emirates is home to a broad array of communities, including those vulnerable to exploitive human traffickers. The population is comprised of over 80 percent foreigners, many of whom provide unskilled or minimally skilled labor to a fast-growing economy. In thi [...]	2008-03-26 11:30:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN ASEC ELAB SMIG AE
08ABUDHABI383	THAI CONTACT INFORMATION PASSED TO MFA [...] (S) On March 25, Econchief contacted MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani with regard to the shipment of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF) shipped from Thailand to Iran via Dubai. Econchief thanked Al-Hosani for the continued detention of the shipment and told Al-Hosani tha [...]	2008-03-26 12:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETRD ETTC TH AE
08ABUDHABI391	UAE REPORT ON MAYROW [...] (C) Action request. Please translate UAEG submitted paper on the results of the Mayrow investigation (ref a). 2. (C) On March 27, MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani passed Econchief two Mayrow related papers. The first responded to specific information passed during ( [...]	2008-03-27 14:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI392	THE UAE'S YOUNG NEW AMBASSADOR -- MBZ'S RIGHT HAND MAN GETS [...] (S) Summary: The UAE on 24 March nominated a new Ambassador to the U.S. in the coming months. The choice of 34-year-old Yousef Mana al-Otaiba -- the sharp, loyal, aide and right-hand man to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed (MbZ) -- reflects a desire to heighten the UAE's visibility [...]	2008-03-27 14:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL OVIP AE
08ABUDHABI393	UAEG ASKED TO ASSIST IRAQI REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues Ambassador James Foley met in Abu Dhabi March 26 with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan and Secretary General of the UAE Red Crescent Society Dr. Saleh al-Taee to press the case for more robust support [...]	2008-03-28 03:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM EAID IZ AE
08ABUDHABI402	BARRELS OF GENEROSITY [...] (SBU) With oil prices soaring and petrol-rich Abu Dhabi enjoying a booming economy, new building projects are rampant, standards of living for UAE citizens are well above comfortable, and an envious expatriate community enjoys what perks it can glean from local largesse. Making ends meet at a [...]	2008-04-01 14:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON AE
08ABUDHABI407	UAE QUIET ABOUT TROOP PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Although the BBC, likely with UAEG approval, broadcast the presence of UAE forces in Afghanistan on a March 28 report, no signs of the story have appeared in local media. Internet comment, often quite scathing, is being generated by the BBC report and reflects some angst that t [...]	2008-04-02 04:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS PHUM EAID AF AE
08ABUDHABI424	IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MESA SEAT - UAE CONSIDERING [...] (S) Econchief took the opportunity of a April 3 meeting with MFA Director of International Organizations Yacub Al-Hosani to quietly urge the UAE to run for the open MESA seat on the IAEA Board of Governors. He applauded the UAE's desire to serve as a regional role model for the responsible de [...]	2008-04-03 14:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	KNNP ENRG PREL IAEA AORC SY AE
08ABUDHABI441	UAE INVESTIGATION OF SUPPLY OF MATERIALS TO IRAQI INSURGENTS [...] (S) Econchief met with MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani on March 26 to request an update on the status of the investigation of Modern Plastics Industry (MPI) and the A&N group for possible involvement in the shipment of components to manufacture improvised explosive devi [...]	2008-04-06 13:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL IZ AE
08ABUDHABI445	UAEG Committed to Implementing UNSCR 1803 [...] (S) Econchief met with MFA International Organizations Director (and MFA representative on the UAE's Counterproliferation Task Force) on March 27 and again on April 4 (for the third non-proliferation related meeting with Al-Hosani in three weeks) to reinforce the importance of swift and effecti [...]	2008-04-06 13:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI447	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM - UAE STILL [...] (SBU) Embassy passed ref a non-paper on the global initiative to MFA Director for International Cooperation Yacub Al-Hosani on April 1 and to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi's Executive Affairs Authority (EAA) on April 2. Econchief reiterated our desire to have the UAEG endorse the G-I Statement of P [...]	2008-04-07 12:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER KNNP KGIC DTRA AE
08ABUDHABI448	UAE-BASED FIRM'S EFFORTS TO SUPPLY MTCR-CONTROLLED [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-07 13:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL MTCRE IR AE
08ABUDHABI460	CNO VISIT TO UAE [...] (C) Admiral Roughead: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to your April 16-18 visit to the UAE, arguably the most important facilitator of naval operations among the Gulf countries. We are seeking meetings with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Moh [...]	2008-04-10 14:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS IR IZ AF AE
08ABUDHABI472	MFA on Interdictions and Export Control Prosecution [...] (S/NF) Summary: On April 3, MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani denied requests for USG access to the remaining containers (interdicted at USG request yet still sitting in Dubai awaiting further processing),explaining that there was increasing UAEG concern that the USG le [...]	2008-04-14 14:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI497	MBZ DISCUSSES EXTREMISM WITH CNO [...] (S) Summary: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) on April 16, in his first meeting with the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO),sounded out ADM Gary Roughead on missile defense and commented extensively on his concerns over extremism. The Crown Prince affirmed the UAE's commit [...]	2008-04-21 10:46:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MASS IR AE
08ABUDHABI510	BOUCHER DISCUSSES PARIS CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN WITH UAE [...] (C) Ambassador Boucher discussed Afghan development needs and the June 12 Paris conference with United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi April 15, citing funding needs of $12 to $15 billion. Abdullah said joint Gulf Cooperation Council contribution [...]	2008-04-24 05:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID AF AE
08ABUDHABI527	NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) PREPARATORY [...] Econchief discussed reftel papers with MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani and passed him copies on April 24. Al-Hosani said that the papers had arrived just in time, as the delegation was departing the UAE the next day. Al-Hosani told econchief that the UAE would review [...]	2008-04-28 14:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG MNUC PARM PREL KNNP AE
08ABUDHABI528	A/S WELCH WITH UAE FOREIGNMINISTER ABDULLAH [...] (C) Summary: Ina private lunch conversation on April 20 in Abu Dabi, Assistant Secretary for NEA David Welch covered a broad range of issues with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ). Notes follow on Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, nuclear power, IAEA, Iran, Palestine, Pakistan, Algeria [...]	2008-04-28 14:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL MASS EAID KNNP LE IZ IR AG YM AE
08ABUDHABI535	A/S WELCH AND KHALDOON AL-MUBARAK DISCUSS INVESTMENTS, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On April 20, Mubadala CEO Khaldoon Al-Mubarak told A/S Welch that he was seeing a slightly improved political risk for investment in the U.S. than he had in the summer and that ADIA's work with the U.S. Treasury and Singapore to develop best practices for Sovereign Wealth Funds wa [...]	2008-04-30 04:09:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PREL EPET ENRG IR AE
08ABUDHABI543	APRIL 2008 MENAFATF PLENARY SUMMARY [...] (SBU) The Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF) held a plenary session (MENAFATF VII),and working group meetings from April 6-9, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Fi [...]	2008-05-01 07:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER AE QA YM
08ABUDHABI549	DUBAI'S ARAB MEDIA FORUM: HIGH TECHNOLOGY AND LOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dubai Press Club organized the Arab Media Forum April 23 and 24, 2008, focusing on the theme "Bridging Arab Media Through Technology". Well-attended workshops covered the spectrum of technological change in regional media. UAE government officials declared the Forum a succ [...]	2008-05-05 05:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM KMDR SCUL PGOV KPAO AE
08ABUDHABI574	MFA on Status of Export Control Law Amendment [...] (C) On May 8, MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani told Econchief that the UAE Cabinet's Legislative Committee should meet in the next week to review the amended export control law. Al-Hosani did not have many details to share, explaining that the law was with UAE Foreign M [...]	2008-05-08 09:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI581	S/I SATTERFIELD BRIEF TO BAHRAIN ON IRAQI [...] (S) Special Advisor David Satterfield and four accompanying experts on Iraq and Iran briefed a Bahraini delegation in Abu Dhabi on May 7. Satterfield emphasized that the time is ripe for a substantive Arab diplomatic presence in Baghdad; Secretary General of the Bahraini National Defense Cou [...]	2008-05-11 13:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS IR IZ AE
08ABUDHABI593	S/I SATTERFIELD BRIEFS UAE FOREIGN MINISTER AND STATE SECURITY [...] (S) Special Advisor on Iraq David Satterfield held very productive meetings with UAE officials in Abu Dhabi May 7, an afternoon session with Director of Research and Analysis at State Security Directorate (SSD) Brigadier General Hamad al-Shamsi and an evening discussion with Foreign Minister A [...]	2008-05-14 07:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS IR IZ AE
08ABUDHABI613	LEBANON: UAE WILLING TO BE OPTIMISTIC ON DOHA TALKS [...] (C) In a May 19 discussion of reftel points on Lebanon, the Charge stressed to MFA Under Secretary Saif Sultan al-Aryani that the USG supports ongoing Arab League mediation and condemns Hizballah attempts to force negotiations at gunpoint. Al-Aryani agreed that Hizballah's weapons were a prob [...]	2008-05-19 10:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE AE
08ABUDHABI619	ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE STRESSES EDUCATION IN [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince told Secretary of Education Spellings May 18 that education is vital to overcoming the influence of Islamic extremism in the Middle East. Youth immunized early in life with a balanced perspective are better able to adapt and contribute to a diverse yet [...]	2008-05-20 08:30:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SCUL AE
08ABUDHABI631	IRAQI CHARGE NOTES UPCOMING VISIT BY TARIQ [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-22 15:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ AE

08ABUDHABI647	UAE REVIEW OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (SBU) Cuba and the UAE maintain diplomatic relations, but neither country has an embassy present in the other country. The Cuban ambassador is resident in Cairo, Egypt. 2. (C) Embassy responses to ref a questions follow. -- Has the host country worked to promote the advancement of democra [...]	2008-05-28 13:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU AE
08ABUDHABI65	FRENCH SIGN MULTIPLE AGREEMENTS WITH ABU DHABI -- [...] (C) Summary: During a brief visit to Abu Dhabi January 15, French President Sarkozy concluded a number of agreements on security, nuclear, and cultural cooperation. Chief among them was an anticipated agreement to assist Abu Dhabi's plans for a civilian nuclear program (ref A),and an unexpe [...]	2008-01-16 14:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS ENRG KNNP FR IR AE
08ABUDHABI668	SYRIAN PRESIDENT VISITS UAE [...] (C) On his fourth official visit to Abu Dhabi as Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad met UAE President Khalifa June 1 for yet another "brotherly" discussion reportedly focused on closing Arab ranks on regional issues and seeking expanded investments in Syria. The visit follows within days of UAE [...]	2008-06-03 03:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY AE
08ABUDHABI681	MFA APPRECIATES NAHR AL-BARID REBUILDING EFFORT [...] (SBU) Noting the UAE had only "sketchy" information on the June 23 pledging conference to address reconstruction needs of Lebanon's Narh al-Barid refugee camp (reftel),Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan told the Charge June 5 that UAE policy would continue to focu [...]	2008-06-05 08:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID UNRWA LE AE
08ABUDHABI682	UAE REACTS MATTER-OF-FACTLY TO TIP REPORT [...] The UAEG welcomed the Department of State's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released June 4, citing it as constructive feedback for UAE efforts to combat the scourge of trafficking. Acknowledging that TIP remains a significant problem, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and head of the [...]	2008-06-05 10:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AE
08ABUDHABI684	TREASURY U/S LEVEY MEETING WITH UAE CENTRAL BANK [...] (S) Summary: On June 2, Treasury U/S Stuart Levey discussed Iran and the UAE's FATF mutual evaluation with UAECentral Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi. A-Suwaidi explained that he had not seen much groth in the portfolios of Iranian banks in the UAE In response to U/S Levey's question [...]	2008-06-08 10:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PTER KTFN PREL IR AE
08ABUDHABI699	INVITATION DELIVERED AND REITERATED FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) On June 11, A/DCM and TDY ECONOFF met with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani to follow up on the invitation to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Meeting in Madrid, Spain, June 16-18. The formal invitation was provided by Spain, but Post had str [...]	2008-06-12 13:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL TER KGIC KNNP AE
08ABUDHABI71	LEBANON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FUNDING [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A non-paper on funding for a special tribunal for Lebanon to UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) on January 17. AbZ reviewed the paper carefully and took note of the sums required for the tribunal. Without responding directly whether the UAE might contr [...]	2008-01-17 13:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE AE
08ABUDHABI711	UAE-IRAQ RELATIONS ON THE EVE OF FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE [...] (S) As the U.S. and Iraq prepare to co-host, on UAE soil, the Friends of Iraq Conference June 17-19, we offer a few thoughts on the UAE's policy vis-a-vis Iraq and potential opportunities to deepen mutual engagement between the two nations. The Conference follows closely after UAE Foreign Min [...]	2008-06-15 15:30:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER IR IZ AE
08ABUDHABI718	PRODUCTIVE JUDICIAL CONFERENCE IN ABU DHABI [...] (U) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted the "International Conference of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of the World" March 23-24, 2008, in Abu Dhabi. Jurists from 32 countries attended the Conference, which focused on relations between federal and local judicial systems; twenty-first [...]	2008-06-17 04:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS AE
08ABUDHABI72	UAE RELAYS IYAD ALLAWI'S REQUEST FOR PERSONAL [...] (C) During a January 17 farewell call by the Ambassador, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) passed a note and long list of names which he said followed up on a discussion Ambassador Crocker had while in Abu Dhabi last November (reftel). The document stresses Dr. Iyad Allawi's requ [...]	2008-01-17 14:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS OVIP IZ AE
08ABUDHABI743	US-UAE JOINT COUNTERPROLIFERATION SEMINARS HIGHLIGHT [...] As part of the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program, the US and the UAE held a two-day counter-proliferation workshop for prosecutors and judges in Dubai. The workshop was held under the sponsorship of the UAE Minister of Justice, His Excellency Hadif J. Al Dhahiri, and h [...]	2008-06-24 07:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL KCEM KOMC ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI745	UAE FOREIGN MINISTER ON IRAQ ISSUES [...] (S) Summary: On the margins of the Friends of Iraq Conference held in Abu Dhabi, Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus discussed potential UAE contributions to Iraq with Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) June 19, and used a subsequent lunch conversation with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince M [...]	2008-06-25 04:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER IR IZ AE
08ABUDHABI757	UAE APPROACH TO FOREIGN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) The following answers to ref A (para four) questions are based on Post understanding of UAE foreign aid trends and are developed without specific inquiries to the UAEG. Conclusions are therefore Post's considered judgment rather than stated UAEG goals. (Comment: Post is uncomfortable wit [...]	2008-06-26 15:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ECIN PHUM ECON EFIN PGOV AE
08ABUDHABI769	UAE MFA ON NON-PROLIFERATION ISSUES [...] (S) On June 30, ECONCHIEF and TDY ECONOFF met with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani to follow up on several non-proliferation related issues and to deliver ISN nonpapers, including reftel A relating to implementing robustly paragraph 11 of UNSCR 1803, and to discuss [...]	2008-07-02 07:57:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP AE
08ABUDHABI814	DELIVERY OF LETTER ON ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT TO UAE OFFICIAL [...] On July 15, TDY ECONOFF met with UAE Ministry of Economy Assistant Under Secretary for Companies and Control Affairs Mr. Humaid Ali Bin Butti Al Muhairi to deliver the letter in reftel regarding the Arab League Boycott. ECONOFF explained the purpose of the letter and handed it to Mr. Muhairi [...]	2008-07-16 05:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON ETRD KBCT AE IS
08ABUDHABI856	UAE Kazakhstan Candidacy for IAEA Board [...] (S) On July 21, CDA presented reftel demarche encouraging support for Kazakh candidacy for an IAEA Board of Governors seat (for which Syria is currently the only declared candidate) to MFA Asst U/S for International Cooperation Ambassador Mohammed Abdulrahim Abduljalil, who said he would consul [...]	2008-07-28 12:57:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	IAEA KNNP PREL KZ SY AE AORC
08ABUDHABI865	WARNING UAE OF VISIT BY KOMID REPRESENTATIVE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 10:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL MTCRE IR AE
08ABUDHABI866	MAYROW NON-PAPER DELIVERED TO UAE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 10:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC IR AE
08ABUDHABI867	NONPAPER DELIVERED ON UAE FIRM'S INTEREST IN CONTROLLED [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 10:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL MTCRE KGIC KNNP IR AE
08ABUDHABI892	SPECIAL ENVOY RICKMAN HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR TOLERANCE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Gregg Rickman took the opportunity of a July 21-24 visit to the UAE to stress the need for tolerance, interfaith engagement, and a balanced portrayal of Jews in the press and media. Citing examples of anti-Semitism and the dama [...]	2008-08-07 13:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IS AE
08ABUDHABI948	Designation of additional Iranian entities [...] Embassy Abu Dhabi's OFAC Officer transmitted reftel non-paper via diplomatic note number 739 on August 19, 2008. To date post has not had a response to the note. 2. Note: Post's OFAC Officer is in Washington for consultations and will return to Abu Dhabi on/about September 7, 2008. Qui [...]	2008-08-21 06:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC KNNP IR GM PREL PARM EFIN AE
08ABUDHABI974	ABU DHABI NUCLEAR POWER AUTHORITY CONCERNED THAT USG VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation officials told Emboffs August 27 that they were concerned that comments attributed to USG officials could disadvantage US private sector participation in the UAE's nuclear energy program. Officials stressed that they hope to see strong US parti [...]	2008-08-28 08:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ENRG PGOV PREL KNNP AE
08ABUDHABI977	UAE COMMENTS ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND [...] (C) The Charge presented reftel points condemning Russia's recognition of the two breakaway republics to Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan August 27. Al-Haidan, the most senior MFA official on duty this week, agreed that Russia was erroneously comparing the situat [...]	2008-08-28 10:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AU
08ABUDHABI978	UAE MFA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) On August 27, the Charge engaged Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan on the question of Kosovo, stressing ref A points that Kosovo's independence was not a legal issue that the ICJ might usefully resolve. Stating (as Under Secretary al-Aryani had on August 5, r [...]	2008-08-28 10:57:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNGA KV AE
08ABUDHABI983	UAE MFA VIEW ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points on Mauritania via diplomatic note, reinforced in an August 27 conversation with Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan. The senior diplomat on duty, al-Haidan told the Charge and A/DCM that MFA had been visited by the Mauritanian Ambas [...]	2008-08-28 13:22:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM MR AE
08ABUJA1019	NIGERIA: LIBERTAD ACT AND CUBA REVIEW [...] (U) In response to reftel action request, please find the following Mission Nigeria answers regarding Nigeria and Cuba's relationship. 2. (C) The Nigerian government (GON) does not appear to have made public statements or undertaken other governmental actions, such as resolutions in the nat [...]	2008-06-03 08:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL NI
08ABUJA1038	NIGERIA: IOM CANDIDATE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to the office of Mr. Charles Onianwa, Director of the Northern and Central American Division at Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after having difficulty contacting anyone in the International Organizations Division. Poloff previously spoke to Mr. O [...]	2008-06-05 13:01:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL SMIG AORC NI
08ABUJA1040	NIGERIA: NAPTIP PLEASED WITH TIP REPORT AND [...] (C) Poloff delivered a copy of the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). Director of Investigations and Monitoring, and second in command at the agency, Mr. Muhammad Babandede, was pleased that Nigeria r [...]	2008-06-05 16:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN KPAO SMIG ELAB NI
08ABUJA1063	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT'S CHIEF OF STAFF RESIGNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Within days of the one year anniversary of President Yar'Adua's inauguration, the resignations of two of his key staff members, Chief of Staff General Abdullahi Mohammed and Principal Secretary to the President Steve Oransanye, were announced. Both men also served under former P [...]	2008-06-09 11:29:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA1107	NIGERIA DISAPPOINTED ABOUT USG WITHDRAWAL FROM UN [...] (C) On June 11, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador M.K. Ibrahim, Director of the Second United Nations Division in the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ibrahim has been one of Nigeria's representatives to the United Nations Hu [...]	2008-06-13 12:22:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM NI
08ABUJA111	NIGERIA: IOM CANDIDATE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Charles Onianwa, Director of the Northern and Central American Division at Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Onianwa was unaware of any confusion over the two candidates for Director General (DG) of the International Organization for Migration [...]	2008-01-17 13:06:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL SMIG NI
08ABUJA112	NIGERIAN & ECOWAS EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post provides the following information concerning Nigerian and ECOWAS efforts to combat drug trafficking. This cable has been cleared by DEA/Lagos and Legatt/Lagos. ------- NIGERIA ------- 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Nigeria remains a hub of narcotics trafficking a [...]	2008-01-17 13:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR EAID SOCI NI
08ABUJA1150	IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran and the U.S. response to Maria Laose, Deputy Director of the First United Nations Division at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on June 2. Ms. Laose oversees IAEA and nuc [...]	2008-06-16 14:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA PREL NI
08ABUJA1180	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON JUNE 19 ROUNDTABLE [...] (C) On June 18, 2008, Post delivered reftel demarche to Charles A. Ononye, Director of the First United Nations Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ononye assured Poloffs that he would contact Nigeria's United Nations representative and ask him to attend the Roundtable. Ononye also [...]	2008-06-18 14:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AU SADC MO ZI NI
08ABUJA1184	NIGERIA: AMCIT ABDUCTED FROM TIDEWATER SHIP, BONGA [...] (C) Summary: Over night June 18 ) June 19, two attacks happened in the southern area of Nigeria, at the Bonga Oil platform off the shore of Lagos and in the Niger Delta area near Escravos, where one Amcit is confirmed to have been taken hostage. Both Embassy Abuja and Consulate Lagos are eng [...]	2008-06-19 14:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EPET ASEC PREL NI
08ABUJA1227	NIGERIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BERMAN (JUNE 2008) [...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes Congressman Howard Berman and his Congressional delegation to Abuja. Your visit comes just after President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has completed his first year in office. Though the President came to power through deeply flawed elections in April 2007, h [...]	2008-06-24 15:06:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAID EPET NI
08ABUJA1248	NIGERIA: UN ENVOY GAMBARI'S CONCERNS ON NIGER [...] (C) Summary: In a June 24 late evening meeting with United Nations Special Envoy, Professor Ibrahim Gambari (strictly protect),he told Ambassador that things are "really falling apart" on the Niger Delta Summit, and that it would be impossible to hold meetings in July 2008, or even by year's [...]	2008-06-27 06:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA1250	NIGERIA: GON CALLS FOR DELAY OF ZIMBABWE POLL [...] After resolutions by both the Senate and the House of Representatives urging the Nigerian government to intervene in the Zimbabwe crisis, the GON publicly called for the postponement of Zimbabwe's presidential run-off. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement late on June 26 which s [...]	2008-06-27 12:03:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL NI ZI
08ABUJA1264	ECOWAS: 34TH SESSION OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 23, 2008, ECOWAS held its Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, Nigeria. Nine heads of state and six minister-level delegates attended the session, which was opened with speeches by Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, [...]	2008-06-30 13:40:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC SNAR ECON NI
08ABUJA1275	NIGERIA: IMPASSE ON TEMPORARY IMPORT LICENSES [...] (C) Summary: Following the removal of the previous Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and sustained advocacy with NCS by the Mission, it appears that U.S. companies operating in Nigeria providing oil services to the major oil production companies have received approvals [...]	2008-07-03 07:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL EAID ETRD NI
08ABUJA1287	NIGERIA: CODEL BERMAN VISITS HOUSE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 28, a CODEL, led by House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) Chairman Howard Berman and the Ambassador visited the Nigerian National Assembly to meet with members of the Nigerian House of Representatives. Discussions included the progress and challenges of electoral reform [...]	2008-07-03 10:38:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM OREP NI
08ABUJA1294	NIGERIA: CODEL BERMAN MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Codel Berman discussed bilateral relations, Zimbabwe, regional peacekeeping, the situation in the Niger Delta, and prospects for economic growth with Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. The Vice President lauded bilateral relations and called for increased investment in Nigeria [...]	2008-07-03 15:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET EINV ENRG EAGR OREP NI
08ABUJA1306	NIGERIA: TRADE POLICY REFORM PROMISES BUT LITTLE ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Nigeria's (GON) trade policy has seen few reforms lately, with banned products, high tariffs and incomplete implementation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Common External Tariff (CET). The use of a combination of tariff and non-tariff [...]	2008-07-09 06:57:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN ECON PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA1313	NIGERIAN AND ECOWAS DELEGATIONS TO AGOA FORUM [...] The Nigerian Ministry of Commerce and Industry has notified Embassy that its delegation to the AGOA Forum in Washington will be led by Minister of State for Commerce and Industry (MCI) - Ahmed Garba Bichi. The total delegation is composed of 28 members from government, the private sector and c [...]	2008-07-09 15:37:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN ECON EAID EINV WTRO PREL NI
08ABUJA1314	AMBASSADOR AND COMMERCE MINISTER DISCUSS TRADE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador and Commerce Minister Ugwuh discussed Nigeria's tariff barriers and bilateral trade and investment issues, the upcoming AGOA Forum, GON efforts to expand value-added manufacturing and increase non-oil exports, The bilateral investment treaty (BIT),prospects for an i [...]	2008-07-09 15:41:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL EINV ECON PGOV KIPR EPET NI
08ABUJA1330	ZIMBABWE: DEMARCHE TO NIGERIA REGARDING UNSC [...] (C) Following receipt of ref e-mail, Polcouns spoke with Ambassador Daniel Hart, Senior Special Advisor to Foreign Minister Maduekwe, and briefed him on the issue and our desire to enlist Nigerian co-sponsorship of the draft UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe. He told Hart that Ambassador Sanders wa [...]	2008-07-11 12:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC NI ZI
08ABUJA1331	NIGERIA: EFCC CHAIR WAZIRI'S FIRST MONTH, SOME [...] (C) SUMMARY. One month after Farida Waziri's June 5 Senate confirmation as new Chairwoman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the jury is still very much out on Waziri's true intentions and any fallout her leadership choices will have on the EFCC as an institution; we belie [...]	2008-07-11 13:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM NI
08ABUJA1332	ZIMBABWE: AMBASSADOR AND NIGERIAN FORNMIN ON UNSC [...] (C) Ambassador met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe on July 11 to discuss and demarche on co-sponsoring a draft UN Security Council Chapter VII sanctions resolution on Zimbabwe introduced in the Council on July 3 (Poloff notetaker). Ambassador expressed appreciation for Nigeria's s [...]	2008-07-11 14:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC NI ZI
08ABUJA1347	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH YAR'ADUA ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 07:53:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV MASS MARR NI
08ABUJA1356	NIGERIA: FONMIN ON NIGER DELTA, EFCC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe on July 11 to demarche on Zimbabwe (Refs A and B). She also took the occasion to execute requested demarche on the Niger Delta, and address U.S. concerns over recent redeployments at the Economic and Financial Crimes Com [...]	2008-07-16 14:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM KCOR NI
08ABUJA1394	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper on July 23 to Maria Laose, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' First United Nations Division, which handles IAEA matters. Laose indicted that Nigeria will likely support the IAEA-India Safeguards Agreement. She told Poloff she was [...]	2008-07-23 16:13:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL ETTC PGOV NI
08ABUJA1398	NIGERIA: KEY POINTS FROM GENERAL WARD'S VISIT - [...] (C) The Ambassador and visiting Africa Commander General Ward had a private meeting on July 23 with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe (FonMin) at his home on the margins of the 2008 AFRICA Endeavor exercise. The FonMin had returned late on the evening of July 22 from a recently convened [...]	2008-07-24 12:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV MASS MARR NI
08ABUJA141	NIGERIAN ATTENDENCE AT AU SUMMITT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-23 15:15:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KSUM NI
08ABUJA1434	DEMARCHE TO NIGERIA RE ZIMBABWE TALKS [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-25 13:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SADC ZI NI
08ABUJA1461	NIGERIA: NEW NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (MOA) has developed a new National Food Security Program to address the inefficiencies in Nigeria's agricultural production system and to ensure greater food security. In June 2008, the National Council on Agriculture reviewe [...]	2008-07-29 15:40:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON EAID PREL NI
08ABUJA1465	NIGERIA: WAZIRI REQUESTS ASSISTANCE, CHANCE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with EFCC Chairwoman Farida Waziri on July 21, noting USG concerns about Waziri personally, her ability to strengthen the EFCC, and recent personnel redeployments. The Ambassador stressed Waziri's need to prove her bonafides to the U.S. through concrete results. [...]	2008-07-29 17:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN KCOR NI
08ABUJA1467	NIGERIA: YAR'ADUA COMMITTED TO BAKASSI WITHDRAWAL [...] (U) With the August 14 transfer of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon under the Greentree Agreement fast approaching, the GON has stepped up public statements expressing its commitment to go ahead with the handover. On July 25, President Yar'Adua stated at the credentialling of the new Cameroo [...]	2008-07-30 14:44:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM EAID MOPS PREF MASS SOCI
08ABUJA1481	NIGERIA: U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 25 meeting, U/S Jeffery and FonMin Maduekwe discussed US technical support for efforts to improve the Nigerian power sector, changing attitudes in Nigeria toward corruption, and the GoN's desire to improve the business climate and encourage investment in Nigeria. The Am [...]	2008-07-31 06:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID ENRG EPET EINV NI
08ABUJA1490	NIGERIAN ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UNGA: INTERIM REPORT [...] Post received confirmation of attendance for the following individuals at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). More information will be provided septel as it becomes available. A. Attendance of Head of State. -- President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will attend. -- Arrival and dep [...]	2008-07-31 15:55:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA NI
08ABUJA1494	BAKASSI: NIGERIAN FEDERAL COURT ISSUES INJUNCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 31, a Federal Court in Abuja issued an injunction to postpone the August 14 scheduled handover to Cameroon of the disputed Bakassi Peninsula, pending resolution of a suit to stop the transfer or compensate residents. Senator Jubril Aminu (strictly protect),Chair of the Se [...]	2008-08-01 14:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHSA PGOV NI CM
08ABUJA1501	NIGERIA: PSI WORKSHOP NONPAPER DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-04 10:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NI
08ABUJA1506	ECOWAS SEEKS $31 MILLION DONOR SUPPORT FOR CAPACITY [...] Summary: On July 7, development partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in Abuja to consider the draft 2008/2009 ECOWAS Commission Capacity Building plan (CBP) and discuss strategies for its implementations with donor support. ECOWAS CBP in 2009 will focus on re [...]	2008-08-04 15:28:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN ETRD EINV EAID PREL NI ECOWAS
08ABUJA1543	NIGERIA: GON BALANCING BAKASSI HANDOVER, COURT [...] (C) On July 31, a Federal High Court in Abuja issued an injunction to postpone the August 14 scheduled handover to Cameroon of the disputed Bakassi Peninsula, pending resolution of a suit to stop the transfer or compensate residents. Poloff spoke on August 4 to Special Advisor to the Presiden [...]	2008-08-05 16:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA NI CM
08ABUJA1549	NIGERIAN MFA SAYS BAKASSI HANDOVER PROCEEDING AS [...] (C) On August 6, A/DCM spoke with Amb. Chike Anigbo, MFA African Affairs Department Director (A/S equivalent) to discuss whether the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon might be delayed by the court case against the handover recently filed by Bakassi residents (see ref A). Anigbo ins [...]	2008-08-06 16:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA ASEC CM NI
08ABUJA1550	NIGERIA: IBORI ASSOCIATE APPOINTED TO PRESIDENT'S [...] (C) Summary. Internet news site Sahara Reporters broke the news on July 31 that former Delta State Governor James Ibori's former Commissioner of Finance David Edevbie was appointed Principal Secretary to President Umaru Yar'Adua. Ibori (as reported reftels) is under investigation in Nigeria a [...]	2008-08-06 17:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KCRIM NI
08ABUJA1551	NIGERIA: FORMER EFCC OFFICIALS DEMOTED, [...] (C) SUMMARY. There have been three separate actions taken this week against former officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Press reported on August 6 that members of the State Security Service (SSS) visited the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIP [...]	2008-08-06 17:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN KCOR KCRM NI
08ABUJA1563	NIGERIA: U/S JEFFERY MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a July 24 meeting with Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Reuben Jeffery, Energy Ministry officials requested urgent technical assistance and sought help from the USG to 1) find financing to close a $3.8 billion funding gap for new energy projects, 2) improve Nigeria's image [...]	2008-08-08 06:34:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON PGOV EAID PREL NI
08ABUJA1564	NIGERIA: U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF FINANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 24 meeting with visiting Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Reuben Jeffery, senior Finance Ministry officials said their priorities were the Niger Delta, increasing power generation and transmission, and improving Nigeria's infrastructure to strengthen transportation [...]	2008-08-08 09:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETRD PREL ECON EINV PGOV NI
08ABUJA1573	NIGERIA: EFCC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ATTORNEY [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings August 7, CDA presented reftel demarche expressing our concerns about developments at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Attorney General (AG) Michael Aondoakaa and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Baba Gana Kingibe. She [...]	2008-08-08 17:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN KCOR SNAR NI
08ABUJA1574	NIGERIA: EFCC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO WAZIRI [...] (C) Summary: Charge delivered reftel demarche to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairwoman Farida Waziri on August 8. Waziri called the USG position "unfortunate" and maintained that much of the issue with USG concerns is perception. She expressed concern for how cases were [...]	2008-08-08 17:22:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN KCOR KCRM NI
08ABUJA1587	NIGERIA: MAURITANIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires briefly delivered reftel demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs Ojo Maduekwe at the conclusion of a previously scheduled meeting on August 8. Charge noted approvingly President Yar'Adua's public denouncement on August 6, which stated "Nigeria would not recognize any cha [...]	2008-08-11 11:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA159	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] Per reftel demarche, both Chief of Defense Staff Owoye Andrew Azazi and Defense Headquarters' Department of Peacekeeping Operations confirm that the Nigerian contribution of a Level II hospital is expected to deploy on or about March 22. SANDERS [...]	2008-01-24 15:08:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS UNSC NI
08ABUJA1593	NIGERIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL JOHNSON (AUGUST [...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes Congressman Henry "Hank" Johnson, Jr. and his delegation to Abuja. Your visit comes three months into President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's second year in office. Though the President came to power through deeply flawed elections, he was initially praised [...]	2008-08-11 14:38:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAID EPET NI
08ABUJA1594	NIGERIA: EMBASSY WELCOMES CODEL JOHNSON, AUGUST [...] U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes the visit of Congressmen Hank Johnson, Phil Gingrey and Jean Schmidt, as well as other accompanying members of their delegation, to Abuja, Nigeria from August 18-20, 2008. Embassy Abuja will work to schedule requested meetings. The Mission looks forward [...]	2008-08-11 14:46:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN PREL NI
08ABUJA1595	NIGERIA: EFCC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel demarche on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Minister of Foreign Affairs Ojo Maduekwe on August 8. The FonMin had already received the information from the demarche through a dispatch from the Nigerian Embassy in Washington [...]	2008-08-11 17:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR EFIN SNAR NI
08ABUJA1600	NIGERIA: DELTA OFFICIALS BRIEF U/S JEFFERY ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Officials from Delta and Rivers states briefed Under Secretary Jeffery July 24 during his visit to Abuja on the current situation in the Niger Delta, specific security concerns, oil bunkering, and what each government is doing in response to increased lawlessness in the area. R [...]	2008-08-12 09:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN NI
08ABUJA1626	BAKASSI HANDOVER [...] (SBU) Embassy Abuja has no problem with the proposed statement in para 8 of reftel. 2. (C) We are, however, concerned that attempting to build a public diplomacy campaign around the Bakassi handover might be seen by the GON as less than helpful, and strengthen the view among some Nigerians [...]	2008-08-13 16:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA KPAO NI CM
08ABUJA1632	NIGERIA-CAMEROON: BAKASSI HANDOVER PROCEEDS [...] (C) Summary: The transfer of authority over the Bakassi Peninsula happened as scheduled on August 14. GON Attorney General (AG) Michael Aondoakaa headed the Nigerian delegation, and GRC Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Ahmadu Ali led that of Cameroon. The ceremony took place in [...]	2008-08-15 06:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA NI CM
08ABUJA1636	NIGERIA: PRESS COVERAGE FOLLOWING AUG 14 BAKASSI [...] (SBU) In the first day following Nigeria's handover of the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, press coverage was considerably less than the days preceding the handover and the rhetoric was noticeably reduced. Articles instead focused predominantly on reporting the details of the handover [...]	2008-08-15 13:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA NI CM
08ABUJA1665	WAZIRI RESPONDS TO DEMARCHE ON GON BACKSLIDING [...] (C) Summary. Embassy received a written response from Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairwoman Farida Waziri to Ref B demarche, which was delivered on August 8 (Ref A). Post found two of Waziri's claims particularly questionable: a professed ignorance of corrupt formern off [...]	2008-08-21 13:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM NI
08ABUJA1716	NIGERIA: DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON REJECTING RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-28 17:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV RS GG RU NI
08ABUJA1794	NIGERIA: RESPONSE 1 OF 2: USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY post provides the first of two responses to reftel A with information for (1) two contact points for the U.S. mission whom USITC staff may contact for follow-up information as well as (2) contact information local firms, organizations, academic researchers, and individuals who may [...]	2008-09-04 15:17:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ELTN ECON PGOV EAID PREL NI
08ABUJA180	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HCOC INREACH [...] (U) Per reftel, Post delivered demarche to Ambassador Charles Ononye, Deputy Director of the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ononye sid he would ensure its delivery to the proper office, and would relay any future substantive response. SAN [...]	2008-01-28 13:41:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA NI
08ABUJA182	FRAUDSTERS IN THE NIGERIAN NASS? YAR,ADUA SUPPORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Nuhu Aliyu, Chair of the Committee on Security & Intelligence and retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, sent shock waves through the National Assembly (NASS) and country during a debate on the direction and tempo of the GON's war on corruption. Senator Aliyu threaten [...]	2008-01-29 15:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM NI
08ABUJA1822	NIGERIAN FONMIN COMMENTS ON YAR'ADUA'S HEALTH [...] (C) During a September 8 meeting with Foreign Minister Maduekwe, DRL A/S Kramer asked if President Yar'Adua was back from Saudi Arabia and was any better. Maduekwe said the President had indeed returned to Nigeria on Saturday morning, though the Minister had not seen him personally. He claime [...]	2008-09-08 16:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA1839	NIGERIA: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the course of a September 8 meeting with Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe, Assistant Secretary David Kramer delivered reftel demarche. The FonMin seemed amenable to coordination with the USG on both country specific and thematic resolutions, and provided responses on the issue [...]	2008-09-10 16:40:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KIRF KNNP AF UN IR ZI NI
08ABUJA184	ALIYU WILL NOT PUBLICLY NAME FRAUDSTERS IN NASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff and INLOff met with Nuhu Aliyu, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Security and Intelligence, to discuss his recent disclosure that he had overseen fraud investigations of current members of the National Assembly while he served as Deputy Inspector General of Police in cha [...]	2008-01-30 08:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KCOR KCRM NI
08ABUJA1844	DRL A/S KRAMER MEETS NIGERIAN FONMIN MADUEKWE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) David Kramer and DAS Jeffrey Krilla met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe to discuss Nigerian involvement in peacekeeping, Sudan, the UN Human Rights Council, the Niger Delta and coordinating positi [...]	2008-09-11 11:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MASS MARR MCAP KNNP KPKO KUNR
08ABUJA1847	NIGERIA: A/S KRAMER VISITS NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor David J. Kramer met with National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Executive Secretary, Mrs. Kehinde Foloshade Ajoni, during a September 8-9 visit to Abuja. Discussions focused on the role of the Commission in polic [...]	2008-09-11 15:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV AF NI
08ABUJA1848	NIGERIA: A/S KRAMER AND DAS KRILLA MEET MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 8-9 visit to Abuja, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, David J. Kramer and DAS Jeffrey Krilla met with Minister of Interior Major-General Godwin Abbe to discuss prison congestion and conditions, access to legal representation and [...]	2008-09-11 15:32:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV CASC NI AF
08ABUJA1868	NIGERIA: ANALYSIS ON NEXT STEPS SCENARIOS IN THE [...] (C/NF) Summary: Below is Post's interim analysis on the current atmospherics and state of play in Nigeria as a result of concerns about President Yar'Adua's health and the degree to which his continued decline could lead to either sudden death or possible incapacitation. This, coupled with a l [...]	2008-09-16 17:10:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA1869	UPDATE: NIGERIAN ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UNGA [...] On September 17, Ambassador M.K. Ibrahim, Director of the Second United Nations Division at the MFA, provided Poloff with confirmation of attendance for the following individuals at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). More information will be provided septel as it becomes availabl [...]	2008-09-17 15:45:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA NI
08ABUJA1870	NIGERIA: BILATERAL RELATIONS POST-EFCC DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 14 and September 15 respectively, Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe and newly appointed Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Mahmud Yayale Ahmed. Both Maduekwe and Ahmed expressed their comments and concerns about our bilateral relation [...]	2008-09-17 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EFIN KCROR KCRM MARR MASS NI
08ABUJA1873	NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ADVISOR, NOW A MAJOR PLAYER, [...] (C/NF) Nigeria's Chief Economic Advisor (CEA),Dr. Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, and CEA Desk Officer for Food and Security and U.S. Affairs, Engr. Waziri Ahmadu, joined Ambassador and Acting DCM for a two-hour working dinner at the CMR on September 15. Yakubu, who is understated compared to many seni [...]	2008-09-17 16:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAGR EFIN EAID NI
08ABUJA1874	NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ADVISOR SAYS NIGERIA WILL [...] (C) Nigeria's Chief Economic Advisor (CEA),Dr. Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, and CEA Desk Officer for Food and Security and U.S. Affairs Engr. Waziri Ahmadu, joined Ambassador and Acting DCM for a two-hour working dinner at the CMR on September 15. In the course of the dinner conversation, Dr. Yakubu [...]	2008-09-17 16:38:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV EAGR EFIN EAID NI
08ABUJA1898	POLITICAL MANEUVERING DELAYS DECISION ON PICK FOR [...] (C) Governor of Bayelsa State, Timpre Silva, told Ambassador September 17 that the position of the Niger Delta (ND) Minister, in the recently created ND Ministry, is causing a lot of political jockeying. The ND Ministry was created recently by ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as part of [...]	2008-09-22 12:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM KDEM NI
08ABUJA1907	NIGERIA: MEND DECLARES CEASEFIRE FOLLOWING WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Following a September 13 raid by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Elem Tombia area (south of Port Harcourt, Rivers State),the armed group MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) mounted a week-long string of attacks against oil interests in the Niger Delta region. Howev [...]	2008-09-22 16:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM EPET KDEM NI
08ABUJA1914	NIGERIA: FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES CLOSURE OF CHANNELS TV [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 19, Ambassador Sanders called Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe to discuss his upcoming visit to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). In a side conversation, the Ambassador raised concerns about the way in which Channels TV was summarily shut down, saying it fell [...]	2008-09-24 08:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON KHUM NI
08ABUJA1920	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 63RD UNGA FIRST [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-26 08:41:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PARM PREL CDG UNGA NI

08ABUJA1924	AMBASSADOR IN KWARA STATE: INFLUENTIAL EMIR SPEAKS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a September 21-22, 2008, trip to Kwara State, Ambassador Sanders paid a courtesy visit on the well-respected and influential Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu Gambari. The Emir, a former appeals court judge and cousin of UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari, stepped o [...]	2008-09-26 14:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KJUS NI
08ABUJA1925	NIGERIA: GOOD NEWS-GON DROPS SOME IMPORT BANS [...] Summary. In a major breakthrough, September 25 the Government of Nigeria (GON) announced the number of banned import categories would decrease from 44 to 26 items, and that there would be tariff reductions on a wide range of products. Bright Okogu, Director General of the Budget Office of th [...]	2008-09-26 14:50:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON ECIN EAGR EINV PREL PGOV NI
08ABUJA1930	NIGERIA ORDERS JOINT VENTURES TO PROVIDE NATURAL GAS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Unmet demand for electricity is pushing the Gas Ministry to price and deliver gas to specific power plants, as outlined in the Strategic Plan for the Sustainability of the Power Sector (Refs A and B),to achieve 6,700 average MW by December 2009. In February 2008, the Federal E [...]	2008-10-01 15:10:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PGOV EAID PREL NI
08ABUJA1942	NIGERIA: USG COLLABORATES WITH WORLD BANK & DFID TO ASSIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Sanders met with the Minister of Energy (Gas) Odusina on September 25 and offered U.S. support to assist with implementing the GON's gas policy, master plan, and pricing formula, funded through the Africa Infrastructure Program (AIP) program funded and managed by USAID [...]	2008-10-03 11:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PGOV EAID PREL NI
08ABUJA1986	NIGERIA: RUMORS AND MURMURS OF CHANGE, BUT STILL [...] (C) Summary. Although the long-awaited and much-discussed Cabinet reshuffle still has not materialized, we are starting to see some changes around the edges of the administration. President Yar'Adua appointed three prominent ANPP members (FYI: the ANPP is one of two opposition parties which h [...]	2008-10-08 17:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI
08ABUJA1989	NIGERIA: U.N. CALLS FOR NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 24, PolCouns, USAID Director, and PolOff (notetaker) attended the "Development Partners' Consultations on the Niger Delta" at the United Nations House in Abuja. Also present were the Dutch and Norwegian Ambassadors, European Commission Charge d'Affaires, and other re [...]	2008-10-09 12:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM EPET KDEM NI
08ABUJA202	NIGERIA: AF DAS MOSS'S MEETING WITH SGF KINGIBE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and AF DAS Moss met with Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Kingibe SIPDIS January 23, and discussed the situation in the Niger Delta, the recent sidelining of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chair Ribadu, and the court case again [...]	2008-02-01 08:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD EINV ECON MARR NI
08ABUJA2048	NIGERIA: UNGA VOTING RECORD DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 15, Charge d'Affaires delivered Ref A demarche to Ambassador M.K. Ibrahim, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Second United Nations Division. Ambassador Ibrahim spoke openly about the GON position and votes on Iran, Cuba, [...]	2008-10-16 15:51:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA NI
08ABUJA2049	DRL DAS KRILLA DISCUSSES VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES WITH GON [...] (SBU) Summary: DRL DAS Krilla met in Abuja with representatives of the offices of the President and Vice President and separately with international oil company (IOC) representatives to discuss the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the potential for their wider implementatio [...]	2008-10-17 06:44:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM EPET PGOV EINV PREL NI
08ABUJA2077	NIGERIA: FLOUR INDUSTRY GROWING [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 15 meeting with Aminu Abdulqadir Imam, Chief Administrative Officer of Bua Flour Mills, Imam reported that the flour milling business is very lucrative in Nigeria because domestic flour demand has grown. Despite profits production hurdles, such as epileptic power, [...]	2008-10-21 11:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA2079	TRIP REPORT: ADAMAWA GOVERNOR TALKS NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: On October 17, the Ambassador (accompanied by StaffAide, notetaker) met with Adamawa Governor Admiral Murtala Nyako during her first trip to Adamawa State in Northeastern Nigeria. The governor spoke candidly about democracy, development, North/South politics, and President Yar'Adu [...]	2008-10-21 17:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NI
08ABUJA2094	NIGERIA: RUMORS AND MURMURS OF CHANGE, BUT STILL [...] (C) Summary. Although the long-awaited and much-discussed Cabinet reshuffle still has not materialized, we are starting to see some changes around the edges of the administration. President Yar'Adua appointed three prominent ANPP members (FYI: the ANPP is one of two opposition parties which h [...]	2008-10-24 09:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI
08ABUJA2100	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON SENATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Senate President David Mark and the Senate leadership on Wednesday October 22. During this initial meeting, the Ambassador and Senators engaged in an informal discussion on issues of mutual concern, including health programs, AFRICOM, corruptio [...]	2008-10-24 15:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA2107	NIGERIA: RUMORS FROM THE NIGER DELTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 16, Poloffs met with Olafemi Aduwo (protect),founder of the Rights Monitoring Group. In a rambling conversation, Aduwo made several claims about former Chief of Defense Staff Owoye Azazi and imprisoned arms dealer Henry Okah which were both interesting and, though unv [...]	2008-10-27 11:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR EPET KCOR NI
08ABUJA2118	NIGERIA'S FORCE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNAMID AND AMISOM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 21 meeting with DATT and Poloff, Defense Headquarters Director of Peacekeeping Operations Major General F.N. Osokogu confirmed that the GON will meet its stated commitments to deploy troops to UNAMID and AMISOM. He shared a number of details about the status of t [...]	2008-10-27 17:03:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU NI
08ABUJA2126	NIGERIA: FAVORABLE RAINY SEASON INCREASES GRAIN YIELDS [...] (U) Summary: Foreign Agriculture Service Attach (FASOff) and EconOff visited Nigerian's grain belt from October 13-17. It was noted that Nigeria's grain production in 2008 is up sharply from the poor harvest of 2007, especially for corn, because farmers planted larger areas and rainfall patter [...]	2008-10-29 07:36:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD EAID EFIN PREL NI
08ABUJA2131	NIGERIA TO EXTEND EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE, NO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to October 10 press reports, President Yar'Adua has ordered the National Boundary Commission (NBC) to "ensure the extension of Nigeria's continental shelf beyond the present 200 nautical mile limit." The GON believes this move will not/not upset relations with Nigeria [...]	2008-10-29 15:08:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PBTS EPET EFIS EMIN PHSA PGOV PREL GH CM TP
08ABUJA2142	NIGERIA'S NOMINEE FOR THE 2009 SECRETARY'S AWARD [...] (U) Mission Nigeria is pleased to nominate Mrs. Josephine Effah-Chukwuma as its nominee for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Her biographical details and nomination justification follow. 2. NOMINEE'S BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: FULL LEGAL NAME: Josephine Effah- [...]	2008-10-29 16:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO NI
08ABUJA2165	(C) NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR AND CBN GOVERNOR DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador had the rare opportunity to have an hour long substantive luncheon with Nigeria's elusive Governor of the Central Bank (GCBN),Professor Charles Soludo, while she was in Lagos November 1, 2008. The key points Soludo made centered on Nigeria's financial stability and P [...]	2008-11-03 13:38:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	EFIN ECON PGOV EINV PREL NI
08ABUJA219	NIGERIA: DAS MOSS'S MEETINGS WITH MOD AND NSA [...] (C) SUMMARY: During January 24 meetings at the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA),Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Moss expressed U.S. concerns and views on Nigerian peacekeeping commitments, the Niger Delta crisis, and U.S./Nigerian counterterroris [...]	2008-02-04 13:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS NI
08ABUJA2190	CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT FROM [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Umaru Musa Yar A'dua, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: "Felicitation. On this epic day in the political history of the United [...]	2008-11-06 09:24:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP NI
08ABUJA2192	CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Prince Vincent Eze Ogbulafor, OFR, National Chairman, and Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, National Secretary, of the Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of [...]	2008-11-06 09:36:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP NI
08ABUJA2198	CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO MRS. MICHELLE OBAMA, [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to Mrs. Michelle Obama, wife of President-Elect Barack Obama, from Turai Umaru Yar'Adua, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: 5th November, 2008 Mrs [...]	2008-11-07 13:04:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP NI
08ABUJA2200	NIGERIA: UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW PREPARATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 3, Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe confirmed the GON's commitment to human rights during remarks at the opening ceremony of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) National Consultative Forum. The Forum, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, offered a two day worksho [...]	2008-11-10 07:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV NI
08ABUJA2204	NIGERIA: BURKINA FASO TSCTP DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche concerning the admission of Burkina Faso to the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) to Dr. Olawale Maiyegun, Deputy Director of the Second United Nations Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of International Organizatio [...]	2008-11-10 14:19:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER XA XI NI
08ABUJA2206	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DEA EXPULSION FROM [...] (C) On November 11, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador M.K. Ibrahim, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Organizations Second UN Division. Ibrahim suggested that the situation in Bolivia is linked to existing tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela, and note [...]	2008-11-10 16:24:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR NI
08ABUJA2207	NIGERIA: FAA PROPOSES CANCELING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Director General Dr. Harold Demuren met on November 3 to discuss the possible cancellation of Nigeria's technical assistance (TA) program with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Aviation Administrati [...]	2008-11-12 06:52:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EAID ASEC ERTD PREL NI
08ABUJA2219	NIGERIA: UN VOTING RECORD DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a previously scheduled November 7 meeting, Ambassador delivered reftel A points to Charles Onianwa, Director of the MFA North and Central Americas Division, and Bola A. Akinterinwa, Special Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and stressed the importance of partne [...]	2008-11-12 16:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL NI
08ABUJA2222	NIGERIA: SOURCE COMMENTS ON PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA'S [...] (S) DOD/HIV Officer reported that Lebanese businessman Ramzi Abu Hassan (strictly protect) met with Nigerian President Yar'Adua on November 7 for approximately 20 minutes. Hassan reported to DOD/HIV Officer that Yar'Adua seemed in reasonably good shape and appeared "with it" and "on top of th [...]	2008-11-13 10:30:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR NI
08ABUJA2253	MISSION USES INTEREST IN U.S. ELECTIONS TO PROMOTE ITS [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.S. Mission took advantage of the extremely high interest among Nigerians in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections to promote its policies as outlined in the joint U.S.-Nigeria Framework for Partnership. In several speaking engagements the Ambassador highlighted the Mission [...]	2008-11-17 10:38:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KPAO NI
08ABUJA2269	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT SUBMITS MINISTERIAL NOMINEES [...] (SBU) On the evening of November 17, Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua submitted a list of 13 ministerial nominees to Senate President David Mark for confirmation. Mark presented the list at the opening of the November 18 Senate session. The 13 nominees are expected to fill positions lef [...]	2008-11-18 15:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
08ABUJA2278	TRIP REPORT: NO-NONSENSE GOVERNOR OF TARABA TALKS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 15:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NI
08ABUJA2280	CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Cecilia Ibru, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Oceanic Bank International Plc in Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: "Congratulations. On beha [...]	2008-11-20 10:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC ECON PREL OVIP NI
08ABUJA23	NIGERIA: POL/ECON UPDATES FOR DECEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nigeria's fragile democracy continues to face several challenges. Domestic and international observers assessed the April elections, which brought President Umaru Yar'Adua (of the People's Democratic Party, PDP) to power as marred by gross irregularities, intimidation of voters [...]	2008-01-07 07:05:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM KCOR KJUS NI
08ABUJA2300	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED, UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Maria Laose, Director of the First United Nations Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 21. Laose maintained that the political realities of Nigeria's membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the fact that Preside [...]	2008-11-24 10:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY NI
08ABUJA2306	CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Professor Maurice Fangnon, Secretary-General, Centre for the Defence of Human Rights and Democracy in Africa - CDHRDA (NGO). The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: "Dear Brot [...]	2008-11-24 14:28:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP NI
08ABUJA2313	NIGERIA: USG LED CIVIL AVIATION PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP [...] Summary. The U.S. Mission led a public private partnership (PPP) aviation workshop on November 17-18 with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Boeing Company to catapult Nigeria one step closer to attaining U.S. Federal Aviation Authority Category 1 status. The workshop rallied [...]	2008-11-26 08:10:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EAID ASEC ERTD PREL NI
08ABUJA2322	NIGERIA: EXXONMOBIL DISCUSSES YAR'ADUA'S HEALTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 17, 2008 ExxonMobil (EM) senior officials reported to the Ambassador that President Yar'Adua appeared frail and thinner than usual in their meeting with him that day. EM officials also expressed disappointment in the lack of progress in the current administration and c [...]	2008-11-26 14:51:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL NI
08ABUJA2339	NIGERIA: BUHARI SUPPORTS CONSTITUTION IN EVENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolCouns and PolOff (notetaker) traveled to Kaduna to meet with former Head of State General Muhammudu Buhari on November 26. Buhari conveyed his optimism to PolCouns about his legal case before the Supreme Court, which seeks to annul the 2007 presidential election. He reiterate [...]	2008-12-01 13:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI
08ABUJA2354	NIGERIA: ANPP OFFICIAL ON PRESIDENTIAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff met with Sule Hamma (strictly protect),All Nigerian Peoples' Party (ANPP) Presidential Campaign Council Director General, on November 28 to discuss the pending Supreme Court decision on ANPP candidate General Mohammadu Buhari's election tribunal appeal and reports of diss [...]	2008-12-02 17:14:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
08ABUJA2376	NIGERIAN SLOW-MOVING RESHUFFLE UPDATE: SENATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 3, the Senate confirmed the list of 13 ministerial nominees forwarded to them by Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua (reftel),and acknowledged the receipt of five more names to fill the 22 vacancies created by the October 29 removal of 19 ministers, the resignation of [...]	2008-12-05 15:58:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KGOV PINR NI
08ABUJA2406	NIGERIA: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS 2007 PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a 4-3 vote December 12, the Nigerian Supreme Court (SC) upheld the 2007 Presidential election of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),and rejected the appeal of the main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP). It a [...]	2008-12-12 16:17:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA2481	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE FOR AU PSC DELIVERED [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche urging African Union Peace and Security Council members to ramp up pressure on the Mauritanian junta to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of the African Union Division E.T.P. Josakweker on December 18 both orally and by diplomatic note. Josakweker had no [...]	2008-12-18 17:46:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL USAU MR ML NI
08ABUJA249	NIGERIA: EMBASSY ENGAGES MEDIA ON AFRICOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 30, Ambassador while in Lagos and Poloff in Abuja, engaged with the Nigerian media on Africom in an attempt to reduce the overall negative coverage to date on the issue. Ambassador first met with a group of leading newspapers in Lagos to dispel fears and distrust of Afr [...]	2008-02-06 15:03:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PGOV NI
08ABUJA2494	NIGERIA: JOS RIOTS NOT/NOT CAUSED BY OUTSIDERS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Reftels reported allegations by the Governor and Deputy Governor of Plateau State that armed men from Niger and Chad, either brought in by opposition parties or motivated by their own extremist views, had played a significant part in the November 27-28 Jos riots. At the Ambas [...]	2008-12-19 15:47:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL NI CD NG
08ABUJA2517	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT TO UNDERGO ANOTHER RENAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador had an opportunty to observe President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on December 19 at ECOWAS, having a close-up, five minute one-on-one conversation with him following his acceptance of the ECOWAS Chairmanship (septel) to see if she could note any physical changes in his appear [...]	2008-12-23 15:54:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR NI
08ABUJA2519	NIGERIA: BUHARI EXTREMEMLY WORRIED ABOUT NIGERIA'S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and DepEconCouns (notetaker) traveled to Kaduna to meet with former Head of State General Muhammudu Buhari and his advisor Mamman Daura on December 18. Buhari said he was disappointed with the Supreme Court ruling, which denied his claim that the 2007 presidential elect [...]	2008-12-23 16:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI
08ABUJA2541	NIGERIA: REINFORCING AMISOM [...] (U) Per reftel, DCM spoke with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Bagudu Hirse on December 30 regarding reftel request and offer. Hirse underscored Nigeria's intent to deploy a full battalion to Somalia, and asked for a note verbale laying out our points so that he could take it [...]	2008-12-31 10:42:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPKO SO NI
08ABUJA260	THE OFFER THAT WASN'T: NIGERIAN HELICOPTERS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel, Nigerian military advisor to the United Nations Brigadier General Benjamin T. Obasa indicated that the Government of Nigeria was considering providing all required helicopter assets for UNAMID. Post's subsequent approaches to the GON on the matter elicited blank stare [...]	2008-02-11 06:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV MASS PM PREL NI
08ABUJA296	NIGERIA: KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-13 15:43:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNAUS UNMIK YI EU NI
08ABUJA301	UPDATE ON STATUS OF FORCES DISCUSSION WITH NIGERIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel, Department desires Post to pursue a broad Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Government of Nigeria, citing the limited nature of the protections afforded DOD personnel under the current 2000 bilateral diplomatic note. We believe that given the current engageme [...]	2008-02-15 12:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NI
08ABUJA302	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 29 the Ambassador traveled to Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on a mission to engage civil society NGOs, meet with political leadership, and highlight USG efforts in the Niger Delta region. First meeting with representatives from fifteen NGOs involved in USG-supported gra [...]	2008-02-15 12:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL SCUL NI
08ABUJA312	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) During a wide ranging February 15 discussion on bilateral issues with President Yar'Adua, the Ambassador discussed U.S. support for Kosovo's impending independence, President Bush's plans to recognize Kosovo upon a declaration of independence by its legislature, and stressed USG desire for [...]	2008-02-19 16:52:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PNAT PREL PGOV NI
08ABUJA318	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. CONCERNS ON [...] Per reftel, Post delivered demarche to Maria Laose, Head of First United Nations Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Though Ms. Laose affirmed that Nigeria was firmly committed to the Oslo Process, she had no substantive reply at the time. She said she would forward our conc [...]	2008-02-20 15:57:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PARM PREL PGOV NI
08ABUJA324	2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Intro and Summary: The Government of Nigeria (GON),Nigerian industry and U.S industry recognize the serious Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) problems in Nigeria. There have been some successes in IP enforcement; however, convictions are rare owing to long and tortuous judicial proces [...]	2008-02-21 09:17:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA332	HENRY OKAH: NOT DEAD YET? [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: Speculation over the welfare and whereabouts of Niger Delta militant leader Henry Okah has run rampant after a February 19 fax to a news agency claiming to come from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) alleging that had Okah died in a Kaduna military h [...]	2008-02-21 18:02:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ASEC NI
08ABUJA340	PFIZER CASE: FEDERAL AG, KANO OFFICIALS AGREE [...] (C) Summary: Following up on previous conversations with President Yar'Adua (Refs),Ambassador met separately with Federal Attorney General (AG) and Kano State Governor and Kano AG February 7 and February 12 respectively, to urge that the parties meet to seek an amicable settlement so that th [...]	2008-02-22 12:32:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV PGOV ECON PREL BEXP NI
08ABUJA344	NIGERIA NOT INCLINED TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO AT THIS [...] (C) Ref A suggests that the GON has privately indicated its inclination to recognize Kosovo. In ref B, we reported that President Yar'Adua had indicated to the Ambassador that Nigeria would take time to see what its neighbors were doing, and would evaluate what was in its best interest before [...]	2008-02-22 14:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNAUS UNMIK YI EU KV NI
08ABUJA345	NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS - YAR'ADUA AND HIS GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: This is the first in a series of two analytical cables that will take a close look at President Yar,Adua and his government during their first eight months in office, providing a report card of how we think he and his administration have done. This will be followed by a "Look Ah [...]	2008-02-22 15:58:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KCOR ECON KPKO NI
08ABUJA395	TEAM NIGERIA MEETS GON MINISTERS FOR WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 12, 2008, the Ambassador and an interagency team briefed key GON ministers, officials, and top advisers to President Yar'Adua on the current U.S.- Nigerian bilateral relation as a follow up to Yar'Adua's December 12-14, 2007 Washington trip. The presentation was orga [...]	2008-02-28 12:51:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EINV ETRD EPET ENRG SNAR KJUS
08ABUJA403	AMBASSADOR, AG DISCUSS COUNTERTERRORISM DURING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador and EconCouns met with Attorney General and Minister of Justice Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa and Solicitor General/Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice Prof. I.A. Ayua on February 7 to discuss the Pfizer case (reported ref A) and Nigerian counterterrorism (C [...]	2008-02-29 13:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL PINR NI
08ABUJA419	PDP NATIONAL CHAIR ASPIRANT CONFIDENT REFORMISTS [...] (C) PolOff met with Pius Anyim leading party chairmanship candidate of what might be described as the anti-Obasanjo (and self-styled "reformist") camp of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP),and Daniel Richard, a PDP activist and something of a campaign manager for Anyim. Former Presid [...]	2008-03-03 15:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA422	NIGERIA: IRAN UNSC SANCTIONS DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] On March 4, PolOff delivered demarche and associated nonpapers on UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions against Iran approved March 3 per SECSTATE 21770 to Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for International Organizations Charles A. Ononye. Mr. Ononye expressed support for a [...]	2008-03-04 14:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KNNP IO NI
08ABUJA436	NIGERIA: SPECIAL ENVOY TO OIC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-04 16:01:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OIC NI
08ABUJA437	NIGERIA: SOMALIA AND PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-04 16:02:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO NI
08ABUJA449	NIGERIA NOT PREPARED TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO AT OIC [...] (U) PolOff delivered Ref A demarche to Bernard Shabu, Assistant Director of Intra-Regional and Inter-Regional Affairs and Desk Officer for Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 7. Shabu informed PolOff that President Umaru Yar'Adua, accompan [...]	2008-03-07 13:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KISL UNSC UNMIK KIRF EU KV YI NI
08ABUJA45	IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-09 10:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM NI
08ABUJA450	NIGERIA AND OIC SPECIAL ENVOY'S REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 14:19:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OIC KISL NI
08ABUJA481	NIGERIA: CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORT ON FISCAL [...] (U) Mission provides the following information per reftel request: President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration assumed office in May 2007, and has committed itself verbally to upholding the principles of openness, transparency and full accountability in the management of public funds, and has not [...]	2008-03-12 10:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN ECON PREL NI
08ABUJA492	ECOWAS: AMBASSADOR SANDERS PRESENTS HER CREDENTIALS [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-13 16:12:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PGOV PREL NI ECOWAS
08ABUJA503	ECOWAS STANDBY FORCE: ITS PRESENT STATUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) is frequently mentioned by those in the African security community as the best developed of the African rapid-reaction brigades called for by the African Union (AU) in July 2004. Indeed, ECOWAS has come a long way from the days of the ECOWAS Monito [...]	2008-03-14 13:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL PGOV ECOWAS XY NI
08ABUJA511	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON ACTING EFCC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador made a courtesy call February 11 on Ibrahim Lamorde, acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),in a public show of support for the institution after the assignment of Executive Chairman Nuhu Ribadu to study leave. She underscored U.S [...]	2008-03-17 16:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KIPR EFIN ECON NI
08ABUJA517	NIGERIA POWER SECTOR FUNDING DISCLOSED [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Permanent Secretary of Energy for Power Dr. Abdullahi Aliyu March 6 to discuss media reports claiming that former President Obasanjo squandered $16 billion from 1999-2007 on Nigeria's power sector. The House of Representatives has begun hearings to investigate how the $1 [...]	2008-03-18 12:58:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL PGOV NI
08ABUJA574	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-31 10:01:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PGOV PREL PTER MARR PARM NI
08ABUJA578	CODEL SHELBY MEETS WITH ACTING EFCC CHAIRMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senators Shelby, Gregg and Corker met with Acting Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Executive Chairman Ibrahim Lamorde on March 17 in Abuja. Ambassador, EconCouns and INLOff also attended. The meeting focused on the activities of the EFCC regarding corruption, money [...]	2008-03-31 16:24:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OREP PREL KCOR EFIN ECON NI
08ABUJA579	REWRITING THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA'S 2007 ELECTIONS: [...] (C) A two-page advertising supplement in the March 24 International Herald Tribune trumpets the decision by the Presidential Election Tribunal to uphold President Yar'Adua's election, and includes lengthy excerpts from the official election report of the Independent National Electoral Commissi [...]	2008-03-31 16:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
08ABUJA630	NIGERIA: MINISTER OF STATE SHARES HIS VIEWS ON THE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary. Senators Shelby, Gregg and Corker, along with the Ambassador, met with Minister of State for Finance Aderemi Babalola on March 17. The meeting focused on the financial sector and efforts towards combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Babalola told the Senators that [...]	2008-04-07 14:06:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV OREP KCOR PREL NI
08ABUJA637	NIGERIA: MINISTER OF STATE SHARES HIS VIEWS ON THE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary. Senators Shelby, Gregg and Corker, along with the Ambassador, met with Minister of State for Finance Aderemi Babalola on March 17. The meeting focused on the financial sector and efforts towards combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Babalola told the Senators that [...]	2008-04-08 09:47:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV OREP KCOR PREL NI
08ABUJA64	NIGERIAN MILITARY DELIVERS ITS AMISOM EQUIPMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 8, Embassy Abuja's Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) received the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff's (COAS) list of equipment requirements for the 231 Infantry Battalion, expected to be deployed to Somalia within the next few months. Pending since November 16, in Post's [...]	2008-01-10 17:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MASS PREL PGOV NI
08ABUJA645	GULF OF GUINEA ENERGY SECURITY STRATEGY: MARCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The latest Gulf of Guinea Energy Security Strategy (GGESS) meeting was held March 24-25 in Abuja, hosted by the Government of Nigeria (GON). Presented as a joint GGESS/State Sustainable Development Strategy (SSDS) meeting, SSDS subject matter as presented by the Niger Delta gover [...]	2008-04-10 11:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET NI
08ABUJA701	(C/NF) NIGERIA: AL-AZHAR PREACHERS DEPLOYED TO [...] (C//NF) Egyptian Embassy First Secretary told PolOff April 7 that the Government of Egypt (GOE) has recently begun deploying preachers from Cairo,s renowned Islamic seminary al-Azhar University to serve as instructors in private Islamic secondary schools throughout central and southern Nigeria [...]	2008-04-15 16:10:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SOCI KIRF NI EG
08ABUJA735	SHELL OFFICIALS DISCUSS NIGERIA PETROLEUM [...] (C) Summary: Shell officials told Senator Bob Corker and Ambassador that Nigeria's oil production can reach three million barrels per day in the near to mid-term under present security conditions, but government targets of four million BPD are unrealistic within that time frame given security [...]	2008-04-18 14:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET OREP PGOV ECON EFIN PREL EINV SENV ETRD
08ABUJA755	NIGERIA: INVITATION TO PSI WORKSHOP DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-23 11:14:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PGOV MNUC KNNP XX NI
08ABUJA77	NIGERIAN INSIDERS EXPLAIN RIBADU'S REMOVAL FROM [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-11 14:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR NI
08ABUJA778	NIGERIA: BAKASSI INHABITANTS SUE FEDERAL [...] (U) On Friday, April 25, the Federal High Court in Abuja will rule on a class action suit brought against the GON by eight Bakassi Peninsula inhabitants seeking $3.8 billion (456 billion naira) in compensation for compulsory ceding of their land and infringement of their human rights. Accordi [...]	2008-04-25 13:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CM NI
08ABUJA784	NIGERIA: FY 2008 INL PROPOSAL, Request FOR $1.190 Million [...] Summary: Per reftel instructions, Post proposes 3 key INL projects and 1 alternate project to be funded with FY 2008 funds for a total amount of $1.190 million dollars. This amount includes $600,000 in Program Development and Support(PD$S): $300,000 in Interdiction and $290,000 in the area of [...]	2008-04-29 08:09:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV SNAR ECON NI
08ABUJA796	NIGERIA: NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY PREPCOM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and papers to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ambassador Secudo on April 24. Amb. Secudo informed Poloff on April 30 that he passed the papers to the Nigerian PrepCom participants in Geneva and that Nigeria is prepared [...]	2008-04-30 14:07:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA NI
08ABUJA813	NIGERIA: ALTERNATE NOMINEE FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-05 15:53:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PREL MNUC PARM NPT IAEA PGOV NI
08ABUJA815	FRAMEWORK FOR PARTNERSHIP: TEAM NIGERIA MEETS GON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and an interagency team met, for the second time this year, with senior-level Nigerian officials as part of the "U.S.-Nigeria Framework for Partnership" in April 2008. During the exchange, the Minister of State for Power reported that the Government of Nigeria (GON [...]	2008-05-06 11:08:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EAID ETRD EAIR SNAR NI
08ABUJA816	NIGERIA: DEMOCRACY OUTREACH SUMMARY [...] (U) In response to ref A, Nigeria is generally considered a free nation and developing democracy. In keeping with the President's Freedom Agenda, the Chief of Mission and officers from relevant Mission agencies and sections (including Political, Public Affairs, and USAID) regularly meet with [...]	2008-05-06 13:11:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KPAO NI
08ABUJA817	NIGERIA: RISING FOOD PRICES YET NO SHORTAGES [...] Summary. Rising food and agricultural commodity prices are having a significant impact in Nigeria. Since late 2007, basic food prices have risen sharply. The Ministry of Agriculture calculates that 71% of Nigerians are underfed and the World Bank estimates that 54% of the population earns le [...]	2008-05-06 14:44:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR EAID ETRD PREL NI
08ABUJA837	NIGERIA: PSI ENDORSEMENT DEMARCHE RE-DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-07 16:18:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP NI
08ABUJA862	NIGERIA: NEW PDP CHAIR MEETS DIPLOMATS [...] (SBU) The new leadership and National Working Committee (NWC) of Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) held an "interactive session" with the diplomatic corps in Abuja on May 8. The party's National Chairman Vincent Ogbulafor called for stability, reconciliation, and anti-corruptio [...]	2008-05-12 07:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID CVIS NI
08ABUJA870	NIGERIA: GON SUSPENDS RICE IMPORT DUTY [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 09:24:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR EAID PREL NI
08ABUJA874	NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTEROPERABILITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 15:11:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN NI
08ABUJA893	U.S. RICE EXPORTERS FAIL TO RESPOND TO GON LIFTING RICE [...] (U) This is an Action Request for USDA/FAS/OTP Deputy Administrator Christian Foster and USDA/FAS/OCRA Charles Alexander. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: Nigeria's Federal Executive Council (FEC) on May 7 approved the suspension of customs tariffs for six months to allow for the [...]	2008-05-16 10:17:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR EAID PREL NI
08ABUJA962	NIGERIA: YAR'ADUA GOVERNMENT'S REPORT CARD AT ONE [...] (S) This is the second cable in our series to address U.S. Mission Nigeria's analysis of President Yar'Adua's performance as head of state. Our first report card on him appeared at just over the halfway mark of his first year in office (ref A). This cable looks at what he has or has not done [...]	2008-05-28 18:39:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV PINR KCOR PREL ECON NI
08ACCRA1005	GHANA-- UPDATE ON COUNTER-NARCOTICS ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Summary: The construction of an AFRICOM funded airport interdiction facility moved a step closer on July 29 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Charge Sue K Brown and Ghana Narcotics Board Executive Secretary Ben Botwe. Five convicted cocaine traffickers received long pris [...]	2008-08-05 16:08:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL SNAR GH
08ACCRA1052	ACCRA INPUT FOR FY 09 AFRICA PARTNERSHIP STATION [...] (U) (Summary) EMBOFF's conversations with Ghanaian officials found broad support for participation in the Africa Partnership Station (APS). The Ghanaian officials were unanimous in seeing APS as an opportunity for staff training and development. Ghanaian officials cited their need to develop [...]	2008-08-15 07:52:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN MARR MASS SNAR MOPS PREL GH
08ACCRA107	DEMARCHE ON LACK OF EFFORTS TO ADDRESS CHILD SEX [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-17 16:54:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL GH

08ACCRA1103	GHANA--EC CRITIQUES REGISTRATION, NPP LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Deputy Commissioner of the Electoral Commission expressed concerns about the recently finished voter registration exercise. He acknowledged questions about the integrity of the voter roll following allegations of under-age and multiple registrations. The New Patriotic Part [...]	2008-08-26 10:38:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF KDEM PREL PHUM GH
08ACCRA1122	PRE-ELECTION VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN GHANA [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 18:31:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA1168	GHANA'S RESPONSE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Ghana is unlikely to take a leadership position on Zimbabwe at the UNGA Third Committee, according to Paul Essel, director of International Organizations at Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. POLOFF demarched Essel September 10, specifically raising the matter of a resolution on Zimbab [...]	2008-09-11 10:17:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN GH ZI IR
08ACCRA1169	VOTER REGISTRATION: ELECTORAL COMMISSION ADMITS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman Afari-Gyan began a September 5 meeting of the Inter-party Advisory Committee (IPAC) by admitting that there were problems with the registration exercise, which saw 290% more new registrants than a similar exercise two years ago. He asserted that [...]	2008-09-11 10:26:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GH
08ACCRA1174	GHANA CIVIL SOCIETY, CLERGY AND PARTY LEADERS [...] (U) Summary: Civil religious and political leaders have consistently called for peaceful elections and calm and reemphasized their message following recent incidents of violence in Northern Ghana that saw several killings and the destruction of property (REFTEL). The calls for calm are receiv [...]	2008-09-12 08:07:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM GH
08ACCRA118	GHANA'S PRESIDENCY OF THE UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY: As Ghana assumed the Presidency of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the month of October, we expect its focus to be Africa centered, particularly as it relates to peace and security. According to Ghanaian officials, their agenda will likely include Sudan, Somalia, the Ethiopian [...]	2008-01-22 11:07:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MOPS GH
08ACCRA127	GHANA AUTHORITIES RAID ACCRA BROTHEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Saturday, January 19, Ghana police conducted a raid of several brothels alleged to be involved in child prostitution. Over 200 individuals were picked up in the raid. Three "brothel agents" were arrested and held; the clients were arrested and released on bail; the adult wo [...]	2008-01-23 15:37:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA130	GHANA AUTHORITIES RAID ACCRA BROTHEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Saturday, January 19, Ghana police conducted a raid of several brothels alleged to be involved in child prostitution. Over 200 individuals were picked up in the raid. Three "brothel agents" were arrested and held; the clients were arrested and released on bail; the adult wo [...]	2008-01-23 16:43:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA1311	KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-08 11:45:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNGA KVIR GH
08ACCRA1312	U.S. AFRICA COMMAND UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-08 12:23:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL GH
08ACCRA1317	CLEANSING THE VOTER REGISTER -- STRONGER SOAP [...] (U) SUMMARY. More than 2,000 polling stations throughout Ghana opened on October 5 to give parties and citizens the opportunity to challenge the eligibility of registrants. As the week set aside for this process draws to a close, the response has been totally underwhelming. For all of the [...]	2008-10-10 11:43:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KDEM GH
08ACCRA132	GHANA DELEGATION TO AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT [...] Per reftel, Ghana's delegation to the AU Summit will be led by President John A. Kufuor, Foreign Minister Akwasi Osei-Adjei, Secretary to the President D.K. Osei, and the President's Press SIPDIS Secretary. Ghana's delegation plans to travel to Addis on January SIPDIS 28 and return to A [...]	2008-01-24 17:08:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KSUM GH
08ACCRA1360	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON QOSITIOQANDIDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Prof. John Atta-Mills, presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congess (NDC),the major opposition party in Ghana's December 7 election. Atta-Mills spent much of the meeting vociferously denouncing the campaign tactics of President John Kufuor and [...]	2008-10-17 09:06:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PINR KDEM GH
08ACCRA1383	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON AKUFO-ADDO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador called on Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP),to underline USG's expectation for free and fair elections in Ghana. Akufo-Addo assured Ambassador that the NPP was a party steeped in democratic principles, a [...]	2008-10-23 16:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1386	GHANAIAN ELECTIONS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled for December 7. This cable provides background for the framework and process. END SUMMARY. 2. Ghana is governed by the 1992 constitution that created the Fourth Republic. It is a constitutional democracy with a [...]	2008-10-23 16:27:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL
08ACCRA1420	GHANA ELECTIONS: A GATHERING STORM? [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ghana's political campaign has become increasingly strident, with the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party accusing the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of unbridled corruption, involvement in narcotics trafficking, and the development of a sophisticated stra [...]	2008-11-03 16:40:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1421	GHANA ELECTIONS: A GATHERING STORM? (CORRECTED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ghana's political campaign has become increasingly strident, with the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party accusing the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of unbridled corruption, involvement in narcotics trafficking, and the development of a sophisticated strat [...]	2008-11-03 17:05:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1426	THE POLITICS OF THE GHANAIAN HAJJ [...] (C) SUMMARY. After two consecutive years of Ghanaian pilgrims missing the Hajj and being left to camp out on the fringes of Accra's airport, rival factions in Ghana's Muslim community met in Ghana's high court on November 3 to determine which group would have the right to organize this year' [...]	2008-11-05 15:53:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1448	GHANA ELECTIONS: BUSSING STUDENTS FOR POLITICAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party in Cape Coast physically prevented a group of university students from transferring their voting district to this university town in Ghana's Central Region early this week. According to NDC party officials, the [...]	2008-11-14 09:20:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1462	GHANA ELECTIONS: THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES [...] SUMMARY. For the first time in its history, Ghana has held two nationally-televised presidential debates in which the candidates for both major parties, along with the two minor parties that currently hold seats in Parliament, came together to answer questions on the issues facing the country. [...]	2008-11-14 13:22:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1466	EC: PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTION CONTINUE, VOTER [...] (U) Summary. The Chairman of Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC),Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, told a November 13 meeting of the Inter-party Advisory Committee (IPAC) that progress was being made in cleaning the voter rolls, with nearly 350,000 names deleted in an on-going program. Afari-Gyan told t [...]	2008-11-14 13:36:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GH
08ACCRA1471	PARTY YOUTH LEADERS ADVOCATE FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 13:32:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KDEM GH
08ACCRA1472	GHANA'S ELECTIONS: AN NPP PARTISAN TAKES AIM AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Kwesi Aning, a researcher at Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC),told PolOff that post-election violence could still take place if the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) perceives that it is losing the election. He expects the elections to be free [...]	2008-11-19 15:53:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SNAR
08ACCRA1473	GHANA ELECTIONS: POLLSTER SEES A SQUEAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Independent pollster and newspaper editor Ben Ephson predicted that the presidential elections will require a runoff, but that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will pick up at least 14 Parliamentary seats to close the gap with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP),[...]	2008-11-20 10:11:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL KDEM GH
08ACCRA1476	JERRY ON JERRY: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FLT. LT. [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador called on former Ghanaian president Jerry J. Rawlings as part of his outreach efforts to convey U.S. neutrality vis a vis the Ghanaian elections to all major political parties. In a marathon session that lasted more than two hours, Rawlings gave an Oscar-worthy perfo [...]	2008-11-20 16:57:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1477	AMBASSADOR MEETS PNC CANDIDATE EDWARD MAHAMA [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Teitelbaum discussed the up coming election with People's National Convention (PNC) presidential candidate Dr. Edward Mahama. Mahama is making his fourth run for president as the PNC's candidate, although he has never received over three percent of the national vote [...]	2008-11-24 09:22:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GH
08ACCRA1480	GHANA: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below are texts of congratulatory messages to President-elect Obama from 2008 Ghana Presidential Candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, MP and Former First Lady of Ghana, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings Dr. (Mrs). 2. Text of letter from Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo: "Dear Senator Obama, RE [...]	2008-11-25 08:08:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC ECON PREL OVIP NI
08ACCRA15	GHANA SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL JOHNSON, JANUARY 7-9, 2008 [...] (SBU) I look forward to your return visit to Ghana and am pleased to provide some background information for you and the delegation. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at the beginning of what promises to be another eventful year for Ghana. After celebrating 50 years of independence in [...]	2008-01-03 16:58:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA1509	GHANA ELECTIONS: POLITICAL PUNDIT PREDICTS NDC WIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Political commentator Kwesi Pratt (Protect) predicts an NDC win in a runoff election. He says that NPP candidate Akufo-Addo has Libyan backing, lacks party support in funding his campaign, is less corrupt than others in the Kufuor government, and is innocent of charges that he ha [...]	2008-11-28 09:03:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1510	GHANA ELECTIONS: ALL THEY ARE SAYING, IS GIVE [...] SUMMARY. If Ghana's December elections somehow go awry, it won't be for lack of trying to focus the attention of the populace on peace. For the past two months, the call for peaceful elections has been omnipresent and inescapable, even drowning out discourse on political platforms and the eve [...]	2008-11-28 09:33:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1525	GHANA ELECTIONS: WHAT MAKES PAPA RUN? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Papa Kwesi Nduom, presidential candidate for the Convention Peoples Party (CPP),has managed to offend most of the party's organizational leaders, and is running his campaign with very little support from the rank and file. According to Ivor Greenstreet, CPP's general secretar [...]	2008-12-03 08:00:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1530	GHANA'S NORTH- HOLDING CALM PRIOR TO ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. The people of Northern Ghana are preparing for the December 7 election with the same mix of campaigning, rallies and calls for peace as the rest of the nation. The north's history of violence-- including some campaign related clashes earlier this political season-- is a source of [...]	2008-12-04 14:54:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM GH
08ACCRA1536	November 2008 Joint US-UNHCR Resettlement Mission to Chad [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the joint US-UNHCR Resettlement Mission to Chad, all partners concluded that it is both appropriate and possible to begin a resettlement program for Darfur refugees in Eastern Chad and Central African Republic refugees in Southern Chad. Despite significant logistical chall [...]	2008-12-04 17:01:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL SU CD
08ACCRA1538	GHANA ELECTIONS: FINAL OPINION POLL PREDICTS A [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-04 17:56:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL KDEM GH
08ACCRA154	CODEL ENGEL'S VISIT TO GHANA [...] SUMMARY - During a January 9 - 11 visit to Ghana, CODEL Engel pressed Ghanaian officials, NGOs and industry for further efforts against the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa sector in accordance with the 2001 Harkin-Engel Protocol. The GOG outlined steps it has taken to survey child labo [...]	2008-01-29 12:48:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM OVIP PGOV PREL ELAB GH
08ACCRA1543	CALM PREVAILS AS GHANAIANS GO TO THE POLLS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ghanaians voted last Sunday for President and members of Parliament in an election that was remarkably orderly and peaceful. The Electoral Commission, true to its word, was well prepared, and very few problems were reported throughout the day. The presidential election, two day [...]	2008-12-09 15:34:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1544	GHANA ELECTIONS: NDC SPREADS MORE RUMORS [...] (C) Embassy was approached by two advisors to National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate John Atta-Mills, Edward Nunoo and Sylvanos Tamakloe, who told Poloffs that Electoral Commission (EC) Director Kwadwo Afari-Gyan was being pressured by the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) to annou [...]	2008-12-09 18:39:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1545	GHANA ELECTIONS: HEADING FOR A RUNOFF DECEMBER 28 [...] (U) The Electoral Commision has announced that Ghana's next president will be determined by a runoff election on December 28. EC Chairman Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan announced the results of the December 7 Presidenial race at a December 10 press conference. With all 230 constituencies reporting, th [...]	2008-12-10 17:24:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINS GH
08ACCRA1559	GHANA ELECTIONS: PARLIAMENTARY KINGMAKERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Although results have not yet been confirmed, it appears certain that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will win a minimum of 113 seats in Parliament, while the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) is certain to win 108. Candidates outside the two major parties a [...]	2008-12-11 14:45:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1581	CODEL NELSON CALLS ON MINISTER, MEETS ELECTION [...] (U) Senator Bill Nelson called on Ghana's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Abraham Ossei-Aidooh, on December 14 to congratulate the Minister and the Ghanaian people on their recent successful presidential and parliamentary elections and to assure the Minister of continued U.S. support for [...]	2008-12-17 16:59:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1585	ACCRA DELIVERS KOSOVO RECOGNITION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-18 15:02:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KVIR GH
08ACCRA1586	GHANA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE REGARDING DEFENSE [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-18 15:03:00	Embassy Accra	SECRET	PARM PREL IR XA GH
08ACCRA1592	SCENE SETTER FOR A/S FRAZER'S VISIT TO GHANA, [...] U.S. Mission Accra warmly welcomes the visit of Assistant Secretary Frazer and Staff Assistant Dana Banks to Ghana, with a scheduled arrival on a UN flight on December 26 at approximately 11:00, and departure on December 28 at 21:55 on a KLM/NWA flight 8590 to Amsterdam. Control officer for th [...]	2008-12-19 07:48:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA1616	A/S FRAZER MEETS WITH CANDIDATES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer met with presidential candidates Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP and John Atta-Mills of the NDC on December 27, one day before the Ghana's runoff election. At each meeting, she underlined the need for both candidates [...]	2008-12-30 10:05:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1617	GHANA ELECTION: ATTA-MILLS VICTORIOUS (ALMOST) [...] (U) The Director of Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC),Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, announced the results of the December 28 presidential runoff election at 4:55 pm on December 30. National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate John Atta-Mills polled 4,501,466 votes (50.13%),and New Patriotic Party [...]	2008-12-30 18:50:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA1624	GHANA ELECTIONS: AKUFO-ADDO NOT READY TO CONCEDE [...] (U) On December 31, one day after the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential runoff election, New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate Nana Akufo-Addo called a press conference at his residence in East Legon to announce that his party had compiled the evidence to back [...]	2008-12-31 17:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08ACCRA176	MEETING WITH MOWAC DEPUTY MINISTER RE BROTHEL RAID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 29, 2008, Ambassador Bridgewater met with Deputy Minister of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC) Daniel Dugen and MOWAC International Desk Director Marilyn Amponsah Annan to discuss the January 19 raid on a brothel (ref B),including the care for the minor victims a [...]	2008-02-05 07:48:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA187	WHAT KENYA MEANS TO GHANA AND THE 2008 ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22 Professor Emmanuel Gyimah Boadi of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD),a leading Ghanaian think tank, said he does not expect a political crisis similar to Kenya's after Ghana's 2008 election. He said Ghana's democracy is more "mature" than Kenya's, and Gh [...]	2008-02-06 15:19:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON GH
08ACCRA188	ELECTORAL COMMISSION PREPARATIONS FOR 2008 ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 16 meeting with Kwadwo Sarfo-Kantanka, Deputy Chairman of Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC),Sarfo-Kantanka said preparations for the election are going well and that the EC should begin to update the voter registers in March or April following the purchase of camer [...]	2008-02-06 16:00:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM GH
08ACCRA194	GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR SECSTATE VISIT FEBRUARY 19-21, [...] Warmest Welcome to Ghana Madame Secretary. Your participation in the President's visit comes at the beginning of what promises to be another eventful year for Ghana. After celebrating 50 years of independence in 2007, Ghana is preparing to hold Parliamentary and presidential elections in lat [...]	2008-02-07 17:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA220	GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR U.S. PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO GHANA [...] (U) Mr. President: Our entire mission joins me in extending a very warm welcome to you to Ghana. We are delighted that you, Mrs. Bush and your delegation are visiting Ghana at the beginning of what promises to be another eventful year. After celebrating 50 years of independence in 2007, Gha [...]	2008-02-13 10:37:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA235	GHANA: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 12:46:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YI GH
08ACCRA236	GHANA: DEMARCHE ON OSLO PROCESS TO BAN CLUSTER [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 12:49:00	Embassy Accra	SECRET	MOPS PARM PREL GH
08ACCRA281	GHANA'S FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES KOSOVO [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-28 17:42:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL YI GH
08ACCRA292	GHANA: DEMARCHE ON MALDIVES DRAFT UNHRC RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 12:44:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV KCHG UNHRC MV GH
08ACCRA293	GHANA: IAEA BRIEFING ON IRANIAN NONCOMPLIANCE AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 12:45:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR GH
08ACCRA300	PRESIDENT KUFUOR DELIVERS FINAL STATE OF THE NATION [...] SUMMARY: ON FEBRUARY 14, 2008, PRESIDENT KUFUOR DELIVERED HIS FINAL STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT, FOCUSING ON THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITIVE ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE HE CAME TO OFFICE IN 2001. HE SAID HIS GOVERNMENT HAD BROUGHT A PERIOD OF ACCELERATED GROWTH, LARGELY ACHIEVED THROUG [...]	2008-03-03 15:12:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON GH
08ACCRA324	NPP Campaign Strategy Unfolding [...] SUMMARY. In a February 26 meeting with Poloff and visiting Ghana Desk Officer Dana Banks, New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary Nana Ohene Ntow outlined the party's campaign strategy of focusing on the government's record of accomplishments, managing communication issues, and targeting w [...]	2008-03-07 13:19:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR GH
08ACCRA325	NDC Leadership Raises Concern over Preparations for 2008 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a February 27 meeting with Poloff and visiting Ghana Desk Officer Dana Banks, opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) leaders expressed strong concerns over voter registration in advance of the December presidential and parliamentary elections, citing unusually large in [...]	2008-03-07 13:20:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA337	GHANA: DEMARCHE ON MARCH 14 BEIRUT CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-11 16:51:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER MASS PARM SY IS LE
08ACCRA338	GHANA: CIVIL SOCIETY PREPARES TO MEDIATE ELECTION CONFLICT [...] (U) Summary: In a series of meetings between Poloff and representatives of Ghanaian media, think tanks, and religious coalitions, civil society leaders predicted a contentious December presidential election but believed violence could be averted. The leaders conveyed a generally positive view [...]	2008-03-12 07:25:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR GH
08ACCRA339	GHANA ELECTORAL COMMISSION CONFRONTS OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a February 29 meeting with Poloffs, Albert Kofi Arhin, Director of Elections for Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC),outlined the EC's revised schedule of activities in preparation for December presidential and parliamentary elections. The EC has scheduled nationwide voter I [...]	2008-03-12 15:33:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR GH
08ACCRA353	GHANA: PLANNING FOR OIL AND GAS REVENUE [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 25 and 26, the Government of Ghana (GOG) hosted the National Forum on Oil and Gas Development in Accra, followed on February 27, 28 and 29 by the International Summit Workshop on Oil Sector Development. The five days of discussion and consultation were aimed at launch [...]	2008-03-17 09:28:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ENRG EPET PREL ECON EFIN GH
08ACCRA380	Interior Minister Discusses Planned Deportation of Liberian [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 18 meeting with Ambassador Bridgewater, Interior Minister Kwamena Bartels said that the GOG is collaborating closely with UNHCR, the Ghana Refugee Board, and the Government of Liberia in implementing plans to revoke the refugee status and deport 659 Liberian refugees w [...]	2008-03-19 16:41:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA383	Update on Plans to Deport Liberian Detainees [...] (SBU) Following up on reftel discussions concerning the possible deportation of Liberian residents of the Buduburam refugee camp, Ambassador Bridgewater spoke March 20 with Interior Minister Kwamena Bartels. Bartels said that after consultations with UNHCR and the Liberian Government, Ghana is [...]	2008-03-20 14:13:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA384	Update on Plans to Deport Liberian Detainees [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-20 14:13:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA395	GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL FRANK'S VISIT TO GHANA MARCH [...] Mr. Chairman and Honorable Members of Congress: Our entire mission joins me in extending to you a very warm welcome to Ghana. We hope your visit here helps inform you and the committee members, and look forward to supporting your objectives. 2. SUMMARY: After celebrating 50 years of indepe [...]	2008-03-25 14:38:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA422	Liberian Refugee Update: Ambassador's Meeting with UNHCR [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, the Ambassador met with UNHCR Accra Representative Aida Haile Mariam, who provided UNHCR's perspective on the current crisis, including Ghana's efforts to return some Buduburam residents to Liberia. Mariam confirmed that UNHCR is now involved in screening the Liberi [...]	2008-03-31 15:30:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA432	PROPOSALS FOR INL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post proposes five projects to be funded with FY 2008 funds. Post's objective is to build on past efforts to enhance the capabilities of Ghanaian counter-narcotics units, including the Narcotics Control Board, and to focus attention on improving interdiction capa [...]	2008-04-01 17:53:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR GH
08ACCRA433	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORT FOR RENEWAL OF DPRK SPECIAL [...] (SBU) On April 1 PolOffs delivered reftel demarche to Paul Essel, MFA Director of International Organizations Affairs, urging Ghana to support renewal of the mandate of the DPRK Special Rapporteur, and to express our general support for country-specific resolutions within the HRC. [NOTE: Due t [...]	2008-04-01 17:54:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV GH
08ACCRA474	Liberian Repatriation Suspended [...] (U) According to April 4 media reports, the Ministry of Interior has suspended temporarily the proposed repatriation of Liberian refugees until the announced Tripartite Committee (TC) establishes its procedures. Post will confirm and provide additional reports as information is available. [...]	2008-04-04 12:13:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA475	Liberian Refugee Update and Analysis [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 1 Minister of Interior Kwamena Bartels announced that Ghana would deport all 26,967 Liberian refugees in coordination with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),and that in the interim they will be dispersed to various locations to mitigate their thre [...]	2008-04-04 12:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA476	GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY: Speculation continues in Ghana over possible running-mates for opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer Professor John Atta Mills, with former First Lady Nana Rawlings publicly urging Mills to select a female candidate. With the continuing crisis over Liberian refuge [...]	2008-04-04 12:15:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA480	GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY BARRETT'S VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-07 08:10:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA497	Liberian Repatriation Suspended [...] (U) Summary: Following habeus corpus lawsuits filed by two Ghanaian human rights NGOs that challenged the arrest and planned deportation of 23 Liberians, on April 8 the court of appeals has ordered the government to postpone the deportation of 23 Liberians scheduled for the same day. The cou [...]	2008-04-10 15:01:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA509	GHANA TRANSPORTATION: SAFE SKIES AND FRIENDLY PORTS [...] SUMMARY: On April 11, Deputy Secretary of Transportation Thomas Barrett, accompanied by Charge d'Affaires Sue K. Brown, officials from the Department of Transportation, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, met with Ghanaian counterparts to discuss ai [...]	2008-04-15 15:17:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EPET DOT GH
08ACCRA526	MDC GENERAL SECRETARY IN ACCRA: SEEKS GREATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 16, Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Secretary General Tendai Biti, who is visiting Accra to see President Kufour, met with Western diplomats to discuss the post-election situation in Zimbabwe. Biti said that the MDC would call on the international communit [...]	2008-04-17 16:07:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI SF GH
08ACCRA527	MDC GENERAL SECRETARY IN ACCRA: SEEKS GREATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 16, Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Secretary General Tendai Biti, who is visiting Accra to see President Kufour, met with Western diplomats to discuss the post-election situation in Zimbabwe. Biti said that the MDC would call on the international communit [...]	2008-04-17 16:13:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI SF GH
08ACCRA530	GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY: On April 17, former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Alan Kyerematen delivered a resignation letter to his party amidst speculation that he will launch an independent bid for the presidency. Following weeks of intense media speculation, NDC presidential candidate John [...]	2008-04-21 07:44:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF GH
08ACCRA537	GHANA: INVITATION TO PSI WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-23 17:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MNUC GH
08ACCRA538	GHANA: SUPPORT FOR PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-23 17:15:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA545	Court Rules that Liberians May be Deported [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 24 an Accra Court ruled that 23 unregistered Liberians detained by the Ghana Immigration Service since March 17 are living in Ghana illegally and may be deported to Liberia. The ruling could set a precedent for the treatment of the approximately 15,000 unregistered Lib [...]	2008-04-28 15:23:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM LI GH
08ACCRA602	Ghana - Impact of Rising Food/Agricultural Commodity Prices [...] Summary: Ghana is a net food importer and has seen a significant increase in the price of food staples, some portion of which may be explained in part by seasonal factors and the high cost of petroleum. In general, Ghana tends to record surpluses in tubers and deficits in cereals and the sit [...]	2008-05-06 16:34:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL GH
08ACCRA610	Renewed Clashes in Bawku Municipality [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fighting erupted in Bawku May 4, in Ghana's Upper East Region, in a long-running ethnic dispute between the Kusasis and Mamprusis, resulting in five deaths and injuries to countless others. There appears to be an uneasy calm after the intervention of security forces and the ar [...]	2008-05-07 17:50:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA612	NDC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN EVANS ATTA-MILLS [...] (C) Summary. This is the second in a series reporting the Ambassador's discussions with presidential candidates and key interlocutors. National Democratic Party flag bearer John Evans Atta-Mills, looking and sounding strong and projecting energy and confidence, said he is "no one's puppet"; [...]	2008-05-08 16:43:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR PINR ECON GH
08ACCRA614	China's Engagement in Ghana [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While China's close ties to Ghana date to the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1960, economic and commercial ties are growing, with China focused on a series of high-profile infrastructure projects. The Chinese have shown little interest, however, in coordinating with ot [...]	2008-05-08 16:46:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR ECPS EFIN MARR PREL SENV TRGY GH
08ACCRA618	CPP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MOVING QUIETLY TO [...] (C) It was not until 1992 that the CPP began its comeback as a party. Disaffected Nkrumaists had fled to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party in droves, with lesser numbers joining the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The CPP under Nduom's capable leadership is now reaching out to former [...]	2008-05-09 13:29:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL SNAR ECON GH
08ACCRA623	FORMER TRADE MINISTER PREDICTS 2008 PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The former Minister of Trade and leading candidate for the New Patriotic Party presidential nomination Alan Kyerematen discussed a wide range of topics during lunch at my residence on May 9. Alan Kyerematen fought a hard, strong battle, coming in second against 17 NPP candidates [...]	2008-05-12 18:37:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON GH PGOV PINR PREL SNAR
08ACCRA627	PNC FLAGBEARER - DR. EDWARD N. MAHAMA - SERVICE [...] (C) Summary: On May 12 Ambassador Bridgewater hosted People's National Convention (PNC) flagbearer Dr. Edward N. Mahama for lunch at her residence. The relaxed and soft-spoken flagbearer said he shares the philosophy from a statement by Mahatma Gandhi who said "Live simply so that others may [...]	2008-05-13 17:53:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON GH
08ACCRA633	NEW COTE D'IVOIRE AMBASSADOR SAYS GOVERNMENT WILL RESPECT NOVEMBER ELECTION DATE; COMMITTED TO STRENGTHENING ECOWAS [...] (C) In a May 14 courtesy call on Ambassador Bridgewater, the new Cote d'Ivoire Ambassador to Ghana, Ekra Kouassi Florent, said his government would respect the planned November 30 election date, and that despite complaints from some in the international community that preparations are taking t [...]	2008-05-15 16:08:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IV GH
08ACCRA673	AF/W DIRECTOR THOMAS DOUGHERTY'S MEETINGS WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: On May 19, National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate John Atta Mills told visiting AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty that he is determined to ensure a peaceful election in Ghana but that his confidence in the Electoral Commission (EC) has "been shaken." Should there b [...]	2008-05-22 09:24:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SNAR PINR GH
08ACCRA674	AN OVERVIEW OF THE OVERSEAS PROSECUTORIAL DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (SBU) On November 19, 2007, the OPDAT Intermittent Legal Advisor (ILA) arrived at post and commenced her Trafficking in Person (TIP) Program. To date, the OPDAT ILA has trained law enforcement officers from the Ministry of Women and Children (MOWAC),the Department of Social Welfare (DSW),th [...]	2008-05-22 14:24:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS KWMN GH
08ACCRA690	AF/W DIRECTOR DOUGHERTY MEETS NPP CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 20 New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo told visiting AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty that he was optimistic about his party's chances in the December election. While acknowledging problems with inflation, corruption and narcotics, Akufo-Addo la [...]	2008-05-28 11:45:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SNAR GH
08ACCRA723	June 3 Liberian Refugee Repatriation Update: Ambassador's [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 3, the Ambassador met with UNHCR Accra Representative Aida Haile Mariam, who provided an update on the voluntary repatriation of Liberians from Ghana. Since April, 1,200 Liberian refugees in Ghana have returned to Liberia. UNHCR is working toward facilitating the repatr [...]	2008-06-04 16:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA741	AMBASSADOR BRIDGEWATER PAYS FAREWELL CALL ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-10 16:36:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV GH
08ACCRA746	GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) Summary: President Kufuor plans to bestow Ghana's highest civilian award on opposition presidential candidate John Atta Mills, to the vocal consternation of top New Patriotic Party leaders. The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) accuses President Kufuor of confli [...]	2008-06-11 10:35:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SNAR PREL GH
08ACCRA751	June 9 Darfuri Asylum Seekers: Ambassador's Meeting with [...] (SBU) On June 9, the Ambassador met with Ghana Refugee Board (GRB) Chair Emmanuel Bentil Owusu, GRB Secretary Mummuni Abdulai Bawumia, UNHCR Accra Representative Aida Haile Mariam, UNHCR Protection Officer Paulette Dadey, and UNHCR Durable Solutions Officer Senai Terrefe to discuss the situatio [...]	2008-06-11 16:13:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL SU GH
08ACCRA755	SOLDIER BAR BROTHEL ALIVE AND THRIVING [...] (SBU) On June 6, 2008, at approximately 2230 hours two Embassy officials visited the establishment known as the "Soldier Bar" located around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Accra, to determine if prostitution, particularly involving minors, took place at this location. It had been reported previous [...]	2008-06-13 08:29:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SMIG ASEC PREF KCRM KWMN GH
08ACCRA78	KUFUOR SACKS MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) On January 12, President Kufuor fired Minister of National Security Francis Poku, who had served as Ghana's National Security Coordinator since 2002 and Minister of National Security since 2006. According to sources, the final straw in the tense relationship between Kufuor and Poku was Po [...]	2008-01-14 17:38:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GH
08ACCRA788	ACCRA DEMARCHE ON SUPPORF FOR IAEA INSPECTION IN [...] (S) Ambassador Pamela E. Bridgewater delivered reftel demarche on June 23 to Ghanaian Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Charles Brempong-Yeboah. Brempong-Yeboah expressed agreement with the measure and said that he would pursue the issue with Ghana's representative with the IAEA, Professor Adzei Beko [...]	2008-06-23 18:08:00	Embassy Accra	SECRET	KNNP PREL PARM SY

08ACCRA798	GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL PRICE'S VISIT TO GHANA JUNE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-23 18:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA849	KOSOVO RECOGNITION: GOVERNMENT OF GHANA RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-03 15:30:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV GH
08ACCRA87	GHANA: DEMARCHE ON RESOLVING KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-15 17:39:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNMIK PGOV UN YI EU GH
08ACCRA93	EVICTION AGAINST BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE [...] On January 9, a disgruntled landlord attempted to evict the Bulgarian Ambassador from his residence which doubles as the Bulgarian Embassy. According to several sources, the landlord and his minions arrived early in the morning on January 9, forced their way inside the compound and began carr [...]	2008-01-16 16:43:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OFDP PGOV GH
08ACCRA933	COCOA AND CHILD LABOR: TULANE CONSULTATIVE MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY. Tulane University hosted in Accra July 15 the second annual consultative meeting on its research into child labor in the cocoa sector. The meeting was attended by Government of Ghana officials, led by Deputy Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare and o [...]	2008-07-16 16:49:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM OVIP PGOV PREL ELAB GH ILAB IV
08ACCRA934	ACCRA RESPONSE: RALLYING SUPPORT FOR INDIA-IAEA [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-17 13:43:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL ETTC GH
08ACCRA945	ACCRA RESPONSE TO GHANA TIP RAID [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-22 16:29:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL GH KWMN
08ACCRA97	FORMER MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY UNDER HOUSE [...] On January 16, sources told us that elements of the Ghana Police and military surrounded former Minister of National Security Francis Poku,s home, effectively placing him under house arrest. (NOTE: Poku was removed from his post as Minister on January 12 as reported reftel. END NOTE.) Source [...]	2008-01-17 11:25:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GH
08ADANA15	TURKEY: COURT TO TRY THREE CHILDREN FOR SINGING KURDISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Diyarbakir court has accepted an indictment against three local teenagers accused of spreading PKK propaganda by singing a Kurdish song at a music festival in San Francisco last October. The offending song, "Ey Rakip," is the national anthem of the Kurdistan Regional Governm [...]	2008-04-18 13:09:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TU PGOV PHUM PREL
08ADANA21	GOT URGES GREATER U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN NEXT YEAR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 3rd Iraqi International Trade Fair kicked off in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep on May 22. According to organizers, over 400 local and foreign exhibitors from 32 countries were present at the four-day event. High-ranking Turkish and Iraqi officials in attenda [...]	2008-06-10 11:36:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL TU IZ
08ADANA22	TURKEY: CODEL TANNER DISCUSSES EU, TERRORISM AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) CODEL Tanner met with Adana Governor Ilhan Atis on May 30. During the meeting, participants discussed topics covering Turkey's European Union accession process, security and terrorism, and energy. Atis said Turkey's bid for the EU was motivated by a desire to improve technology and ec [...]	2008-06-11 09:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PREL PTER ENRG TU
08ADANA24	TURKEY: COURT ACQUITS THREE CHILDREN INDICTED FOR SINGING [...] (U) The Diyarbakir Heavy Criminal Court on June 19 acquitted three teenagers, who were accused of "making propaganda for a terrorist organisation or its aims" under the anti-terrorism law. The prosecution was brought after the children, who are all members of the Diyarbakir Yenisehir Municipa [...]	2008-06-20 09:13:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ
08ADANA35	TURKEY: MERSIN PUSHING FORWARD TO PROSPERITY, WINS EU'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Eastern Mediterranean port of Mersin has become Turkey's first city to win funding under the EU's "Region of Knowledge" (ROK) project, focusing on innovation in agriculture and food processing. The project brings together 12 entities (government, private sector and NGOs) fr [...]	2008-09-26 08:42:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN PREL TU ZM
08ADANA36	TURKEY: MERSIN PUSHING FORWARD TO PROSPERITY, WINS EU'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Eastern Mediterranean port of Mersin has become Turkey's first city to win funding under the EU's "Region of Knowledge" (ROK) project, focusing on innovation in agriculture and food processing. The project brings together 12 entities (government, private sector and NGOs) fr [...]	2008-10-06 06:10:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN PREL TU ZM
08ADANA43	TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN'S VISIT TO THE SOUTHEAST PROVOKES [...] (U) Summary: Thousands of Kurds turned out to oppose Prime Minister Erdogan's visit to the southeastern cities of Van and Hakkari and to protest AKP's lack of movement forward on the Kurdish issue. Suspension of municipal services such as garbage collection and public transportation accompani [...]	2008-11-04 07:35:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER TU
08ADANA47	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 12, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-26 08:53:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
08ADANA48	TURKEY: HATAY BUSINESS LEADERS SANGUINE ON INCREASING [...] (U) SUMMARY. Prominent members of Hatay's business community are hopeful about increasing trade and commerce with Syria through the province's two border gates. Syria's recent reduction of a border fuel tax augers well for improved trade conditions for Turkish transporters, although truck c [...]	2008-11-26 13:20:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL SY
08ADDISABABA1001	ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: SRSG ENNIFAR ON THE FUTURE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 8, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar, United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Force Commander Major General Mohammad Taisir Masadeh, and UNMEE Addis Ababa Head of Office Joseph Stephanides briefed the Ambassador on the [...]	2008-04-10 15:05:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1013	SOMALIA: TFG DCM PLEADS FOR ROBUST INTERNATIONAL [...] (S/NF) Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Deputy Chief of Mission in Addis Ababa Jibril Osman offered a bleak assessment of current developments in Somalia, describing an almost unbridgeable rift between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein Adde, the [...]	2008-04-14 12:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ASEC ET SO
08ADDISABABA1022	ETHIOPIA PRIME MINISTER TO CALL ON UN SECRETARY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu on April 11 made it clear to Ambassadors representing PermReps to the UN Security Council that Ethiopia was frustrated and dismayed with the April 8 Secretary General's report on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. SIPDIS [...]	2008-04-14 13:32:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1056	ETHIOPIA: ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADORS SAY ETHIOPIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 8, Ambassador Yamamoto and PolOffs attended a lunch hosted by the Yemeni Ambassador to Ethiopia to further dialogue concerning policy in the Horn of Africa between the Embassy and the resident ambassadors to Ethiopia from Arab League countries. Attendees included the a [...]	2008-04-15 14:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ET SO XF
08ADDISABABA1063	SOMALIA: MFA HINTS AT AN EXTENDED TFG TRANSITION [...] (C) Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told Ambassador Yamamoto and visiting Director of the Office of East African Affairs James Knight that the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah is working on a plan to extend Somalia's "Transi [...]	2008-04-16 13:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA1074	SOMALIA: PUNTLAND PRESIDENT PLEADS FOR U.S. [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Puntland President Mohamud Musse Hersi told Ambassador on April 9 that the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was the last hope of Somalia and he was concerned that the TFG was failing. President Hersi emphasized that Puntland was committed to a federal system of governm [...]	2008-04-17 14:49:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV MOPS SO ET
08ADDISABABA1106	DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH [...] Poloff, USAID Chief of Health Office, Meri Sinnitt and Project Management Specialist, Eshete Yilma delivered reftel points and shared the International Health Regulations (IHR) plan with Ministry of Health (MoH) officials on April 17th. The MoH has in place a System Integrated Disease and Surv [...]	2008-04-22 10:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO ET
08ADDISABABA1134	SOMALIA: SPOKESMAN FOR PRESIDENT YUSUF SAYS THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Mr. Hussein Mohammed, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Spokesman for the Office of the President, told Emboffs on April 18 that TFG Prime Minister Nur Adde had failed as Prime Minister and insisted that the TFG must never compromise with the al-Shabaab insurgents. Hussein [...]	2008-04-24 11:30:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA1154	REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY! [...] (C) Understanding Ethiopia's domestic political (and economic) actions, and developing a strategy for moving the ruling party forward democratically, requires understanding the ruling Tigrean People's Liberation Front's (TPLF) prevailing political ideology: Revolutionary Democracy. Hard-line T [...]	2008-04-28 14:43:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA117	ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE SRSG ENNIFAR REPORTS [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 12, Ambassador and PolOff attended a "Friends of UNMEE" meeting at United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) headquarters where acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar briefed the diplomatic community on the current state [...]	2008-01-15 14:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1197	CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN ETHIOPIA [...] (SBU) Per Ref A, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is active in Ethiopia in a number of sectors, most notably infrastructure development and telecommunications. They are also developing several model farms to introduce techniques to increase yield and improve food security in Ethiopia. PRC [...]	2008-04-30 13:33:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAGR EFIN ET CH
08ADDISABABA1198	ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: SRSG ENNIFAR PROVIDES UNMEE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar told the diplomatic community SIPDIS on April 29 that the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) was coming to an end and that all of the contingent owned equipment would be shipped out of Er [...]	2008-04-30 14:07:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1284	OGADEN: MIXED HUMANITARIAN ACCESS, LOOMING DROUGHT [...] (SBU) In a May 9 roundtable discussion with donors, NGOs expressed concern over the overwhelming inadequacy of the Ethiopian Government (GoE)'s humanitarian appeal to respond to current drought conditions in Ethiopia and detailed persistent bureaucratic impediments to their ability to provide [...]	2008-05-13 14:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID EAGR PREL ET
08ADDISABABA1285	ETHIOPIAN FRUSTRATION WITH THE UNSC OVER THE BORDER [...] (C) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles met with the UK, French and U.S. Ambassadors May 9 to state that Ethiopia would disengage and keep quiet on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute. Meles said the Ethiopian Government (GoE) had developed a set of new proposals to break the impasse and push forw [...]	2008-05-13 14:57:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KPKO PBTS PREL MARR ET ER
08ADDISABABA129	ETHIOPIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE ON CERD [...] (U) Ms. Lulit Zewdie, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry's Counselor for UN Principal Organs, confirmed to PolEcon Chief on January 16 that Ethiopia will vote in favor of U.S. candidate for the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper. The Ethio [...]	2008-01-16 09:11:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNGA ET
08ADDISABABA131	USAU: MEETING BETWEEN AMBASSADOR COURVILLE AND MR. [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 10 January 2008, AMB Courville met with Mr. Nicolas Bwakira, AU Special Representative to Somalia to discuss the development of a roadmap for the way ahead in Somalia. 2. (U) PARTICIPANTS: AMB Cindy Courville, AU Special Representative to Somalia Mr. Nicolas Bwakira, USAU [...]	2008-01-16 10:15:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR PGOV PREL
08ADDISABABA1324	ETHIOPIA: PURGED AIR FORCE COMMANDER SAYS MILITARY [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Alemshet Degiffe, an Oromo Major-General purged in 2006 while serving as commander of the Ethiopian Air Force, told the Ambassador on May 12 that the Ethiopian military suffers from ethnic division and Tigrayan dominance. Alemshet said Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles cannot [...]	2008-05-14 13:05:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1357	ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS DESCRIBE EPRDF CONSOLIDATION OF [...] (S/NF) Following the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) landslide victory in the April local elections (ref A),Deputy Political-Economic Counselor spoke separately with ten scholars to canvass elites' opinions on the current Ethiopian polity. The scholars divi [...]	2008-05-16 07:58:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ASEC ET
08ADDISABABA1358	ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS DESCRIBE THE WEAKENING OF STATE [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian scholars interviewed on the Ethiopian polity following the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) landslide victory in the April local elections (ref A) cautioned that the EPRDF power play is weakening state institutions and adversely impacting the [...]	2008-05-16 08:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ASEC ECON ET
08ADDISABABA1359	ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS DESCRIBE EPRDF AUTHORITARIAN [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian scholars interviewed on the Ethiopian polity following the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) landslide victory in the April local elections (ref A) cautioned that the EPRDF has employed authoritarian tactics to consolidate and extend its control [...]	2008-05-16 08:07:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ASEC ET
08ADDISABABA1360	ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS VOICE CONCERNS OVER ETHIOPIA'S [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian scholars interviewed on the Ethiopian polity following the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) landslide victory in the April local elections (ref A) warned that the EPRDF power play, as it is unfolding, threatens Ethiopia's stability. The scholar [...]	2008-05-16 08:13:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ASEC ET
08ADDISABABA1361	ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS OFFER VIEWS ON 2010 ELECTIONS [...] (S/NF) Parts I-IV of this series (refs A, B, C, D) outlined how, in the views of Ethiopian scholars, the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is consolidating de facto one-party rule, weakening state institutions, and creating conditions that risk Ethiopia's stabili [...]	2008-05-16 08:22:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ASEC ET
08ADDISABABA1411	ETHIOPIA-ISRAEL-U.S.: GETTING OUR MIL TO MIL [...] (C) Ambassador, DATT and SAO requested Prime Minister Meles to review the military training offered by the U.S. Government for his military personnel and to develop a five year plan, to allow the USG to consider how to better meet the needs of the Ethiopian military. This year, after great ef [...]	2008-05-21 14:14:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET	PREL MARR EAID ET IS
08ADDISABABA1416	PARTY-HACK ANOINTED MAYOR OF ADDIS ABABA [...] (SBU) Following its landslide victory in the April 2008 local elections, the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) appointed Defense Minister Kuma Demeksa, an opportunistic 50-year old party loyalist, as mayor of Addis Ababa. In a conference held at the City Hall on M [...]	2008-05-22 05:15:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PINR PGOV PREL PHUM ET
08ADDISABABA1427	ETHIOPIAN MFA OFFICIALS SAY ALGIERS AGREEMENT NEAR [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. United Nations in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Head of Office Joseph Stephanides told PolOff and visiting Eritrea Desk Officer on May 15 that Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told Stephanides on May 15 that Ethiopia insists that Eritrea must demil [...]	2008-05-23 05:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1493	ETHIOPIA WILLING TO INCREASE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador-at-Large Coordinator for Counterterrorism Dell L. Dailey and Ambassador Yamamoto on May 21, 2008 that his government was grateful for the counterterrorism support it received from the United States and that Ethiopia was w [...]	2008-06-02 08:41:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PREL SO ET
08ADDISABABA1494	UNMEE: A FORCE IN NEED OF A MISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 17-18, PolOff and visiting Eritrea Desk Officer visited United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) headquarters in Adigrat, Ethiopia and learned that Ethiopian military activity had declined following a burst of movement in April, when several Ethiopian milita [...]	2008-06-02 08:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1533	ETHIOPIA: ACTION REQUEST FOR PRE-BLAST TRAINING [...] ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Addis Ababa requests DS/ATA provide Ethiopia the following courses, to be conducted in Ethiopia, as soon as possible: Explosive Incident Countermeasures (EIC) and Advanced Explosive Incident Countermeasures (AEIC). The courses have been requested by the Ethiopian poli [...]	2008-06-05 06:04:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PREL PHUM ET
08ADDISABABA1546	LACK OF POLITICAL WILL PROMPTS TREASURY PROJECT SUSPENSION [...] SUMMARY: Seven months after the signing of the Terms of Reference (TOR) between the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and the U.S. Treasury Department for an Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) program, the U.S. Department of Treasury has decided to suspend work on the [...]	2008-06-06 05:33:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN EAID ECON EFIN PTER PREL ET
08ADDISABABA1564	ERITREAN OPPOSITION UNITES, AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The May 5-11, 2008 Eritrean political opposition congress in Addis Ababa reformed and expanded the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) to serve as the umbrella organization for all Eritrean opposition groups. Embassy officers spoke with more than a dozen opposition leaders and [...]	2008-06-09 10:19:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PBTS ET ER
08ADDISABABA1571	ETHIOPIA'S BROKEN PROMISES [...] (S/NF) A paradigm shift must occur in the United States' discourse with Ethiopia on foreign assistance. Over the past year, the United States Government (USG) has delivered on all Ethiopian government (GoE) claims of "broken promises" in order to enhance the security of the Ethiopian state and [...]	2008-06-09 12:47:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR MASS MOPS ET
08ADDISABABA1592	AMBASSADOR SETS DEMOCRATIC SPACE MARKER WITH [...] (SBU) In a June 3-4 visit to Tigray, Ambassador conveyed a clear message of concern over political space and the need for the core ruling party, the Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF),to ease its stranglehold on civil society and the political opposition in order to maintain stability in [...]	2008-06-11 04:44:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PBTS ET
08ADDISABABA1593	MELES ON NEW CSO/NGO LAW: BRACE FOR CHANGE [...] (C) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles told Ambassadors from the UK, France and the U.S. that the new CSO/NGO law (Ref. A) would be introduced to the Parliament before the July 7 recess and would become law probably by September. Meles presented a forceful argument for the new law. Characterizin [...]	2008-06-11 04:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL ET
08ADDISABABA1672	UNDERCUTTING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: FURTHER RESTRICTING NGOS [...] (SBU) A series of recent Ethiopian Government (GoE) administrative requirements risk severely undercutting our foreign assistance operations. The now inevitable civil society organizations (CSO) law (Refs A and B) will likely force the end of all of our, and other donors', democracy and govern [...]	2008-06-19 05:08:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL ABUD ET
08ADDISABABA1674	DISMANTLING ETHIOPIA'S POLITICAL SPACE [...] (S/NF) This is the first in a series of cables outlining policy options on U.S.-Ethiopia relations in light of recent restrictions on political and democratic space (Refs. A and B). 2. (S/NF) The ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) came to power in 1991 under mu [...]	2008-06-19 08:15:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC EAID ET
08ADDISABABA170	ETHIOPIA ENGAGED IN PRIVATE DISCUSSIONS WITH [...] (S/NF) Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in Ambassador January 19 to discuss Somalia. With legal advisor Minelik present, Seyoum told the Ambassador that Ethiopia has over the past several months approached moderate elements of the former Islamic Courts Union (ICU) of Somalia. Meetings ha [...]	2008-01-22 14:12:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER ET SO
08ADDISABABA173	ETHIOPIA FIRM ON LEAVING ALGIERS PROCESS IF UN [...] (S/NF) Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in Ambassador January 19 to emphasize that the Ethiopian leadership had met January 18 and decided that if the UN Security Council should adopt this week to accept the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission's (EEBC) demarcation by map coordinates, or [...]	2008-01-23 04:46:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	KPKO PBTS PREL ET ER
08ADDISABABA174	ETHIOPIA PRIME MINISTER URGES AMBASSADORS FROM UN [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles called in the local Ambassadors from UN Security Council member states on January 21 to urge them to advise their respective representatives in New York to remain neutral during discussions by the UNSC on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border and extension of the mandate for the [...]	2008-01-23 12:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KPKO PBTS PREL ER ET
08ADDISABABA1754	Ethiopia Supports United Nations Military Observer Mission [...] (SBU) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called together the Ambassadors representing the Permanent Five (P5) UN Security Council (UNSC) countries to highlight Ethiopia's concerns regarding the current draft UNSC resolution on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. Seyoum cautioned that, if changes [...]	2008-06-27 08:18:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PREL UN ET
08ADDISABABA1755	DEATH OF PRIME MINISTER MELES'S FATHER [...] (U) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's father, Ato Zenawi Asres, passed away on June 26, after a prolonged illness. Ato Zenawi was 82 years old. Prime Minister Meles, family and senior government officials will attend Ato Zenawi's funeral on June 27 in the northern Ethiopian town of Adwa [...]	2008-06-27 08:19:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL ET
08ADDISABABA1815	USAU: APRIL 9-11 AFRICAN UNION CONSULTATIVE [...] SUMMARY: From April 9-11 the African Union (AU) Consultative Meeting on Women and Gender met in Addis Ababa to review a framework paper to be subsequently endorsed by the AU Council of Ministers as the definitive AU statement on gender policy and gender mainstreaming. Subsequent to the meet [...]	2008-07-07 06:23:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI AU
08ADDISABABA1817	USAU: PROPOSAL FOR AFRICAN CLIMATE POLICY CENTER [...] SUMMARY: On May 20 African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) officials briefed donor partners on joint efforts to establish an African Climate Policy Center (ACPC). The African Development Bank (ADB) is also involved in the initiative to address the challe [...]	2008-07-07 06:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID SOCI AU
08ADDISABABA1825	USAU: JUNE 11-12 MEETING OF IGAD COUNCIL OF [...] SUMMARY: On June 11-12 the Foreign Ministers of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) convened in Addis for their twenty-seventh Ordinary Session. The meeting was chaired by Kenya, co-chaired by the Italian Ambassador, and addressed by Ethiopia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, [...]	2008-07-07 06:28:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID AU
08ADDISABABA1850	TAILORING U.S. ASSISTANCE TO BILATERAL REALITIES [...] (SBU) Ethiopia is now the second largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the preponderance of this assistance is humanitarian, including food aid, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),the Child Survival and Health Program Funds (CSH),of [...]	2008-07-08 05:36:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL ABUD ET
08ADDISABABA1856	ETHIOPIA EXPRESSES CHANGE OF HEART ON POST-UNMEE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in Ambassador July 7 to seek United States' views and to inform the United States Government (USG) in advance that Ethiopia is now not/not in favor of a follow-on United Nations (UN) military observer mission upon the conclusion of United Nations Missi [...]	2008-07-08 12:00:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS UN ER ET
08ADDISABABA1919	ETHIOPIA CONCERNED FOR ITS TROOPS IN WAKE OF [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles told Ambassador July 11 that, in the wake of the killing of five Rwandan troops in Darfur, he was concerned for the safety of Ethiopia's 1500 troops now being deployed to Darfur. Meles asked the United States for assistance in pressing the United Nations and others for [...]	2008-07-14 14:32:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO ET
08ADDISABABA194	STRENGTHENING CHINA TIES, FOREIGN MINISTER YANG JIECHI IN [...] (U) Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visited Ethiopia at the end of a four country tour of Africa. During a quick one-day stop, Yang met with Prime Minister Meles and Foreign Minister Seyoum on Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, bilateral programs, and China's outreach to Africa. The larg [...]	2008-01-25 06:23:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID EINV ET CH
08ADDISABABA1941	USAU: SUDAN PRESIDENT BASHIR TELLS AFRICAN UNION [...] (C) During a July 16 courtesy meeting between the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security (Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra) and the Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Africa (Major General Cornell Wilson),the Commissioner revealed several comments regarding his meeting in Kharto [...]	2008-07-16 14:29:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AU
08ADDISABABA2078	A DIALOGUE ON ETHIOPIA'S DEMOCRATIZATION: DRL A/S [...] (C) In a broad-ranging 90-minute conversation, DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer effectively noted senior Washington concerns about recent developments in Ethiopia's progress toward democratization with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on July 23. In response, the Prime Minister conveyed the mo [...]	2008-07-29 07:43:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2093	ETHIOPIA REGISTERS AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - HOPE FOR [...] The Ethiopian Ministry of Justice formally registered the American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia (ACCE) on June 26 after a concerted 20-month effort by Embassy Addis Ababa to establish what is only the fourth American Chamber of Commerce in Africa. The establishment of the ACCE offers a uniq [...]	2008-07-30 12:58:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ECON PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2103	DRL A/S KRAMER NOTES U.S. CONCERN ON CSO LAW [...] (SBU) DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer highlighted significant U.S. concerns over the likely impact and potentially unintended consequences of Ethiopia's draft Civil Society Organizations (CSO) law in meetings with Prime Minister Meles, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu, [...]	2008-07-31 08:47:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2105	Prime Minister Meles set on new CSO/NGO law in autumn [...] (SBU) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassadors from the UK, France and US on July 30 during the third of a series of meetings that the proposed Charities and Societies Organizations Law (CSO) has become so politicized that it has exacerbated animosities within the Central Committe [...]	2008-07-31 13:17:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2112	U.S.-ETHIOPIAN RELATIONS MESHED IN UNEASY INTERNAL [...] (S/NF) The growing independence in bilateral policy discussions by hard-liners within the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party -- including members of the Central Committee and Executive Committee or "Politburo", as well as by powerful outsiders like military [...]	2008-08-01 11:49:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC EAID ET
08ADDISABABA2116	GOVERNMENT RELEASES POLITICAL PRISONER ON [...] (SBU) Seven days after Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights, and Labor David Kramer asked senior Ethiopian Government (GoE) officials to grant political detainee Assefa Abraha parole in accordance with standard Ethiopian judicial practice, the GoE released the former senior offic [...]	2008-08-04 09:24:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KJUS PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2122	ETHIOPIA NOT LEAVING SOMALIA YET [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian MFA Acting Chief of the Foreign Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa told PolOff on August 1 that the Ethiopian government had not yet made a decision whether to withdraw its military forces from Mogadishu or Somalia, but he emphasized that his government was increas [...]	2008-08-04 13:36:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA2131	SOMALI TFG OFFICIAL SAYS YUSUF CANNOT BACK DOWN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Deputy Head of Mission in Addis Ababa Jibril M. Osman (Hawiye/Murosade) told PolOffs on August 4 that TFG President Yusuf could not back down against the Ethiopian ultimatum that Yusuf must support TFG Prime Minister Nur Adde's a [...]	2008-08-05 14:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA214	PM'S ADVISOR BEREKET DISCUSSES ELECTIONS AND VOA [...] (C) In a broad-ranging discussion with visiting Africa Bureau PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield on January 17, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Bereket Simon, offered his version of history and less than wholly accurate assurances to comfort the USG that the Government and ruling Ethiopian Pe [...]	2008-01-29 04:48:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV KPAO PREL ET
08ADDISABABA215	PM'S ADVISOR BEREKET DISCUSSES ELECTIONS AND VOA [...] (C) In a broad-ranging discussion with visiting Africa Bureau PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield on January 17, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Bereket Simon, offered his version of history and less than wholly accurate assurances to comfort the USG that the Government and ruling Ethiopian Pe [...]	2008-01-29 05:29:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV KPAO PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2157	ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UNMEE'S LIQUIDATION UNDERWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the final "Friends of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)" meeting on August 4, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar told the diplomatic community that UNMEE did not fail at its job, rather it performed its mission well [...]	2008-08-07 13:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA2159	PRESS FREEDOM - OPPRESSIVE OR PERMISSIVE: DRL A/S [...] (SBU) During his July 23-25 visit to Addis Ababa, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor David Kramer met with media professionals and civil society leaders on the state of press freedom in Ethiopia and engaged senior Ethiopian Government (GoE) leaders on press fre [...]	2008-08-08 06:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA216	ERITREAN OPPOSITION PARTIES AGREE TO FORM NEW [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 24, Ambassador and Embassy Officers met with the newly appointed three-man Liaison Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) Secretariat--Hussein Khalifa of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF),Mengesteab Asmerom of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (EL [...]	2008-01-29 10:19:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PBTS ET ER
08ADDISABABA2232	ETHIOPIA LOOKING TO WITHDRAW FROM MOGADISHU [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian MFA Acting Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa told PolOffs on August 7 that he expected the Ethiopian military to withdraw from Mogadishu by the end of September and redeploy to Baidoa and other areas outside of the city, allowing the newly trained Som [...]	2008-08-13 14:15:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA2234	ETHIOPIA/CHINA: DEPARTING PRC ECONOMIC COUNSELOR [...] (C) Noting that he would soon depart for a new assignment in Monrovia, PRC Economic and Commercial Counselor in Ethiopia Liu Yunbiao told Emboffs that his office would continue to pursue opportunities for cooperation with the United States in Ethiopia, as well as Liberia. Liu observed his vie [...]	2008-08-14 04:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR EAID ET
08ADDISABABA2254	GOVERNMENT DIVERTS WORLD BANK PROJECT FUNDING TO [...] (SBU) The Ethiopian Council of Ministers on August 1 approved the transfer of U.S. $301 million from on-going World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) projects to provide subsidized fertilizer to the agricultural sector. The funding -- U.S. $237 million from World Bank projects and U.S. [...]	2008-08-15 11:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR ECON PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2265	GOE SUMMONS TFG, TFG LEADERS REMAIN ENTRENCHED [...] (S) Despite clear and stern messages from the Ethiopian Government (GoE) to resolve personality conflicts and move on with governance and reconciliation, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur (Adde) Hassan Hussein remained entrenched in their re [...]	2008-08-18 14:35:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET	PGOV PREL SO ET
08ADDISABABA2266	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR PURCHASE OF NIGHT [...] (S) Embassy Addis Ababa's Country Team supports the purchase of Night Vision Devices (NVDs) for the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) (reftel 07 Addis 3266). The requirement is for the procurement of 400 AN/PVS 7-B and ancillary equipment. 2. (S//NF) Reason for Article or Servi [...]	2008-08-19 04:29:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET	EAID MASS PREL
08ADDISABABA2281	ETHIOPIA OFFERS A WAY FORWARD ON SOMALIA [...] (C/NF) Summary. The MFA Acting Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa on August 18 passed PolOffs Ethiopia's proposed way forward through the current Transitional Federal Government (TFG) crisis, provided TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur "Adde" ar [...]	2008-08-19 13:52:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA2290	ETHIOPIA: "WE'RE FOLLOWING CHINA'S MODEL" [...] (C) At a hail and farewell on August 19 for Chinese Economic and Commercial Counselor Liu Yunbiao (reftel) and his replacement, Qian Zhaogang, Ethiopian State Minister for Trade and Industry Tadesse Haile extolled the close and growing commercial relationship between China and Ethiopia and sai [...]	2008-08-21 07:32:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ET CH
08ADDISABABA2322	SOMALI TFG PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER AGREE ON [...] (C/NF) Summary. Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur "Adde" are expected to sign an agreement in Addis Ababa on August 26 confirming their willingness to work with each other, bridging, at least for now, their recent imp [...]	2008-08-25 14:17:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO PINR SO ET
08ADDISABABA2338	SOMALI TFG LEADERSHIP SIGNS AGREEMENT IN ADDIS [...] (C/NF) Summary. Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf, Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur "Adde", and Speaker Sheikh Aden Mohammed Nur Madobe signed an agreement on August 26 in Addis Ababa that commits the leaders to working together for the remainder of the transi [...]	2008-08-27 15:11:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO PGOV SO ET
08ADDISABABA2379	ETHIOPIA SEEKS ASSISTANCE IN WITHDRAWAL FROM [...] (C) Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu called in the Ambassador of the U.S. and Charges d'Affaires of the UK and Germany September 2 to discuss ideas to avoid a power vacuum, violence, and possible revival of extremist elements as Ethiopian forces begin phased redepl [...]	2008-09-04 05:41:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV SO ET
08ADDISABABA2471	(C) ETHIOPIA WILL NOT SUPPORT ZIMBABWE HUMAN [...] (C) PolOffs raised reftel points with Abebaw Feleke, Acting Director of UN Main Organs, and Tesfaye Yilma, Director General for Europe and the Americas, in the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry on September 4. Neither official disclosed the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) likely response on the questio [...]	2008-09-08 06:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN ET ZI
08ADDISABABA2478	ETHIOPIAN HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID [...] (C) Ethiopian Air Force Chief of Staff Major General Molla Hailemariam Alemayehu told SAO and PolOff on August 28 that Ethiopia was prepared to provide four MI-35 HIND helicopter gunships and two MI-17 HIP transport helicopters for the United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeeping f [...]	2008-09-08 08:36:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SU ET
08ADDISABABA2482	GOVERNMENT SET TO PASS CSO LAW [...] (SBU) The release of a minimally altered, near final version of Ethiopia's highly contentious Civil Society Organizations (CSO) law suggests that the Ethiopian Government (GoE) is preparing to rush the bill through Parliament this Fall. The impact of the law on U.S. foreign assistance program [...]	2008-09-08 12:10:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV EAID PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2531	COMMERCE VISIT PUNCTUATED BY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT DOING [...] (U) U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Holly Vineyard's August 17-20 visit to Ethiopia highlighted an economy offering significant opportunities as well as great challenges. While the Ethiopian economy has shown significant growth in recent years, business and developm [...]	2008-09-15 14:12:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2541	ETHIOPIA/CHINA: PRC COMPANIES FEEL FOREIGN [...] (C) During a working lunch, newly arrived People's Republic of China (PRC) Ambassador to Ethiopia Gu Xiaojie and DCM Zhang Yuebang said that Ethiopia's foreign exchange crunch (septel) was "trouble" for Chinese companies, which have been unable to procure easily materials and supplies from int [...]	2008-09-16 08:49:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PINR EAID CH ET
08ADDISABABA2560	HAILU SHAWAL: NO NEED FOR COALITIONS FOR NOW [...] (C) Ethiopian opposition parties should "get their own houses in order" and not form coalitions at this time, disgruntled former Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) stalwart Hailu Shawal told the Ambassador. Hailu disparaged the efforts of other opposition parties and contended that his A [...]	2008-09-17 13:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR ET
08ADDISABABA2561	ETHIOPIA BRACES FOR AN UNCERTAIN RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (S/NF) Prime Minister Meles told the Ambassador during a private two hour meeting September 13 that Ethiopia is committed to U.S. relations as the cornerstone for its security and development, but many ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party members and non-party [...]	2008-09-17 13:19:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM ET
08ADDISABABA2587	SUPPLEMENT TO COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR PURCHASE [...] (S)Embassy Addis Ababa's Country Team still supports the purchase of Night Vision Devices (NVDs) for the Ethiopian National Defense Force (REFTELs) and offers the below information for clarification of outstanding issues. The requirement is for the procurement of 400 AN/PVS 7-B and ancilla [...]	2008-09-18 11:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	EAID MASS PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2658	SE WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES SUDAN WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles on August 8 told visiting Special Envoy for Sudan Williamson that Ethiopia was preparing to send four helicopter gunships to Darfur, and that two additional helicopters could be provided with assistance for upgrades or if the United Nations rel [...]	2008-09-24 11:57:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPKO SU ET
08ADDISABABA2749	THE VIEW FROM INSIDE ETHIOPIA'S ERITREAN REFUGEE [...] (C/NF) Summary. Acting RefCoord and PolOff visited the Eritrean refugee camps at Shimelba and My-Ayni from September 15 to September 19 in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, and met with Eritrean refugees, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials, Ethiopian Administration for Refugee/Return [...]	2008-10-06 13:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREF PREL PBTS MOPS ET ER CH
08ADDISABABA2750	(S) ETHIOPIA EXPLORING CHANGING TFG PRESIDENT AND [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told the Charge on October 3 that Ethiopia's objective for the upcoming October 27-29 InterGovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit in Nairobi was to constrain Somalia's Transitional Federal Government [...]	2008-10-06 13:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA277	SUDAN: ETHIOPIAN STATE MINISTER TEKEDA ON SUDANESE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On February 1, Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told Ambassador, AF/SPG Director Lauren Landis, and PolOffs that he expected Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor to be able to help improve relations between the United States and Sudan. Tekeda note [...]	2008-02-05 14:32:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ET SU

08ADDISABABA2801	ETHIOPIAN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS REPORT #1 [...] (C/NF) Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) foreign liaison officer Brigadier General Hassan told the DATT on October 2 that the ENDF has an advance element of 360 troops in Darfur which includes infantry and engineers. However, the first battalion's equipment has yet to arrive in Darfur [...]	2008-10-07 14:00:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPKO SU ET
08ADDISABABA2803	ETHIOPIA SEES IRAN RELATIONS AS "PROBLEMATIC" [...] (S/NF) In separate October 6 meetings with Pol/Econ Chief, two Ethiopian Foreign Ministry officials noted that Ethiopia maintains a "problematic" relationship with Iran. Noting recent press reports of Iranian solidarity with Eritrea over "the plots of big powers" and an Iran-Eritrea memorandum [...]	2008-10-08 07:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ET IR ER
08ADDISABABA2817	ETHIOPIA'S NOMINATION: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE 2009 [...] (U) Embassy Addis Ababa would like to nominate Ms. Birtukan Midekssa Deme, Chairperson, Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, as our nominee for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. The remainder of this cable is tracked to nomination detail criteria outlined in reft [...]	2008-10-14 04:52:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM ET
08ADDISABABA2837	BEIJING OLYMPICS IMPRESS ETHIOPIA [...] (U) Discussions with Ethiopian officials, political opposition leaders, and professional colleagues suggest that China impressed Ethiopia by hosting one of the most precisely orchestrated and technically impressive Olympic Games in memory. While news of pre-games demonstrations did reach the E [...]	2008-10-14 13:17:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ET CH
08ADDISABABA2848	ETHIOPIA: TFG PRESIDENT MUST GO, ALL OPTIONS ON [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told the Ambassador and PolOff on October 14 that Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf must be replaced in order to produce political progress in Somalia. Tekeda said all options were o [...]	2008-10-15 14:47:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA286	ETHIOPIA: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER AND PRIME [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 31, Assistant Secretary Frazer met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in a broad ranging 100 minute discussion on Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, and the Eritrean border. Also in attendance were Ambassador Yamamoto, Ambassador Courville, Sudan S/E Will [...]	2008-02-06 07:54:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS PNAT MOPS KPKO ET ER SO SU KE
08ADDISABABA2867	DASD WHELAN MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER MELES [...] (C) Summary: DASD Theresa Whelan and Ambassador Yamamoto met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles on October 15 to discuss security issues of mutual interest. The primary topic was the situation in Somalia. The PM laid out two scenarios -- one that had the Somali TFG "getting its act togeth [...]	2008-10-16 15:01:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ET SO
08ADDISABABA2941	MORE ETHIOPIAN MFA THOUGHTS ON SOMALIA NEXT STEPS [...] (S/NF) Summary. In response to the Ambassador's pushback that Ethiopia not hijack the upcoming Nairobi summit with radical "regime change," Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told the Ambassador on October 21 that the Ethiopian government saw three available optio [...]	2008-10-27 09:33:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA2944	ETHIOPIAN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS REPORT #2 [...] (C) Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Chief of Staff General Samora told the DATT on October 23 that Ethiopia was now planning to send only five MI-24/35 HIND helicopter gunships to Darfur as part of its United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) deployment package. Samora also said th [...]	2008-10-27 10:51:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SU ET
08ADDISABABA2969	DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-30 10:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN
08ADDISABABA304	ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE DECIDES TO WITHDRAW FROM [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On February 6, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar ordered the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) to execute a complete withdrawal from Eritrea after being unable to obtain fuel from the Eritrean government since December 1 [...]	2008-02-07 12:08:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA3051	USAU: AU DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ON PIRACY, SOMALIA, [...] (C) Summary: African Union Deputy Commissioner Erastus Mwencha told Ambassador on November 5 that African states are mobilizing to combat piracy along their coasts. Mwencha indicated that the AU and AU member states would likely support the renewal of UNSCR 1816. Addressing the crisis in Soma [...]	2008-11-06 10:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AU
08ADDISABABA3066	USAU: AU, PARTNERS KEEPING PRESSURE ON MAURITANIAN [...] (U) Summary: The African Union and its international partners agreed on November 10 in Addis Ababa to issue a communique warning the Mauritanian junta of sanctions and isolation should they fail to respond to the international community's demand for the immediate unconditional liberation of Pr [...]	2008-11-12 05:28:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KDEM AU MR
08ADDISABABA3082	ETHIOPIA FRUSTRATED BY IGAD, BUT NOT DETERRED [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin on November 7 told the Ambassador that the status quo in Somalia was hopeless, and that bringing Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia/Djibouti (ARS) head Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his faction into the government would increas [...]	2008-11-12 10:44:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA3092	PRIME MINISTER MELES DISCUSSES AGRICULTURE [...] (C) Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Professional Staff Member (PSM) Michael V. Phelan met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on November 6 to discuss potential United States support for agricultural development to enhance food security in countries and regions receiving a signifi [...]	2008-11-13 08:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAGR OTRA EAID ET SO
08ADDISABABA3108	USAU: AU UNVEILS STRATEGIC AND BUDGET PLANS TO [...] (U) Summary: Peace and Security will remain one of the African Union's (AU) top priorities in the coming years, according to the proposed budget for 2009 that the organization presented to its international partners group on November 13. The AU's other "pillars" upon which the budget, as well [...]	2008-11-14 10:36:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL AU
08ADDISABABA3109	SOMALIA: TFG ON THE BRINK OF IMPLOSION [...] (S/NF) Summary. Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur Adde told the Ambassador and PolOff in separate meetings on November 13 that neither was willing to compromise with the other over the formation of a new cabinet as r [...]	2008-11-14 10:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA3142	ETHIOPIA/CHINA: WU BANGGUO'S VISIT TO ETHIOPIA [...] (C) People's Republic of China (PRC) Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) Wu Bangguo met separately with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Speaker of the House of Federation Degfie Bula, Speaker of the House of People's Representatives (Ambassador) Teshome Toga [...]	2008-11-18 10:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON CH ET
08ADDISABABA3145	FRUSTRATED ETHIOPIA TO LEAVE SOMALIA AT YEAR'S END [...] (C) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in the U.S. and UK Ambassadors on November 17 to discuss the Somalia crisis. Seyoum said that Ethiopia plans to depart Somalia in 45 days, by the end of December, but will support African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces until then. [...]	2008-11-18 11:22:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC KPKO ET SO
08ADDISABABA316	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROPOSALS FOR [...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides the following five (5) submissions on anti-trafficking in persons project proposals for consideration of funding from FY 2008 INCLE and ESF appropriations. Responses are keyed to questions in paragraphs 20 and 21 of reftel. Full proposals will be sent via e-mail. [...]	2008-02-11 04:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG
08ADDISABABA3166	ETHIOPIA/SOMALIA: IGAD COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (C) The Ethiopian government (GoE) is "more than pleased" with the outcome of the November 18 Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Council of Ministers' Extra-ordinary Session (the Ministerial),according to GoE Special Envoy to Somalia Abdeta Dribssa. Abdeta and, separately, th [...]	2008-11-21 08:56:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO ET SO
08ADDISABABA3185	USAU: AU TO LEAD DELEGATION TO MAURITANIA [...] (U) Summary: A high-level delegation from the African Union (AU) and partner international organizations will travel to Mauritania within the next three weeks to meet with ousted President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and junta leader General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to find a way out of [...]	2008-11-24 07:26:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNSC EU AU
08ADDISABABA3187	USAU: AMISOM EVALUATING MOGADISHU WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) On 20 November 2008, Colonel George Amamoo, the Acting Chief of the African Union's (AU) Strategic Planning and Management Unit (SPMU) for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) called a meeting of local Defense Attaches to provide an update of the situation in Somalia. The Acting [...]	2008-11-24 09:39:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS
08ADDISABABA3188	RECONCILING THE OROMO LIBERATION FRONT AND [...] (SBU) Recognizing that the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) is widely supported -- at least in principle -- among Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, Embassy Addis Ababa has long held that reconciliation between the Ethiopian Government (GoE) and OLF is critical to the long-term political st [...]	2008-11-24 09:56:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ET
08ADDISABABA3235	USAU: AFRICOM COMMANDER MEETS WITH AU HEAD KIKWETE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion with AFRICOM Commander General William E. &Kip8 Ward, Tanzanian President and African Union Assembly Chair Jakaya Kikwete discussed the Africa Union,s Peace and Security Architecture, Sudan, the Eastern Congo, Somalia, piracy, and the perception of A [...]	2008-11-26 12:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AU
08ADDISABABA3240	USAU: MAURITANIA'S ASSEMBLY SPEAKER URGES MORE [...] (C) Summary: Mauritania's National Assembly Speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir told the Ambassador on November 27 that sanctions targeting select members of the military junta and their supporters, including business owners, government ministers, and other government officials, will likely be req [...]	2008-11-28 08:01:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MR AU
08ADDISABABA3242	AFRICOM COMMANDER AND PRIME MINISTER MELES DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. Visiting USAFRICOM commander General William E. Ward met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on November 21 to reinforce AFRICOM's relationship with Ethiopia, and to discuss regional dynamics. Meles, focused primarily on Somalia, said the Somali Transitional Federal Gove [...]	2008-11-28 08:18:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA3258	USAU: AU PLANS LAST-MINUTE MEASURES TO SAVE AMISOM [...] (S/NF) Summary: At a December 1 meeting with the USAU Ambassador at AU headquarters, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra outlined a series of steps that the AU intends to take by mid-December to encourage Ethiopian forces to remain in Somalia, despite recent public statements t [...]	2008-12-02 13:37:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PREL UNSC AU
08ADDISABABA3276	ARAB LEAGUE MEMBERS PRESS FOR ROLE ON SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary. In the third in a series of U.S. Embassy Addis hosted meetings with the Arab League Ambassadors (Reftel),Arab colleagues pressed for an international conference on Somalia, and a greater Arab League mediating role, including discussion on troops and financial assistance for pe [...]	2008-12-04 12:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET XF
08ADDISABABA3283	CODEL MEEK DISCUSSES SOMALIA, HR 2003, TERRORIST [...] (C) Visiting Congressmen Kendrick Meek, Charles Boustany, and Andre Carson met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Wednesday, December 3 to discuss the timeline of Ethiopia's withdrawal from Somalia, the Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act (H.R. 2003) before Congress, and al-Sh [...]	2008-12-05 12:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV SO ET
08ADDISABABA3289	USAU: GENERATING DONOR SUPPORT FOR AMISOM [...] (U) This message contains an action request in paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: The USAU Ambassador convened a meeting of the U.K., the EU, and the U.S. on December 8 to discuss the amount and kind of support each might be able to provide in order to expand and sustain AMISOM. From this initial [...]	2008-12-09 11:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS UNSC AU
08ADDISABABA3296	PRIME MINISTER MELES EXPLAINS SOMALIA WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles praised U.S. relations as vital to regional security and Ethiopia's efforts to fight poverty, during the visit by Senator Inhofe, who was accompanied by Congressmen Miller, Neugebauer and Aderholt. Prime Minister Meles particularly praised our bilateral intel [...]	2008-12-09 13:41:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EAID ET SO SU
08ADDISABABA3336	USAU: AU HOPING TO MOBILIZE AFRICAN LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: African Union Chairperson and President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete is going to convene certain African heads of state in Pretoria on December 14 in hopes that they can forge a strong enough message to deliver to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to pressure him to implement a pow [...]	2008-12-10 15:14:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI AU
08ADDISABABA3337	USAU: AU PARTNERS DISCUSS AMISOM SUPPORT WITH [...] (C) Summary: The African Union (AU) is ready to provide additional AMISOM troops in Mogadishu and it is also prepared to publicly reiterate its support for the rehatting of those troops under an eventual UN peacekeeping mission. The AU is still waiting for some of its international partners to [...]	2008-12-10 15:39:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SO AU
08ADDISABABA3343	EMBASSY CONCURRENCE FOR FY09 HORN OF AFRICA [...] (U) Embassy Addis Ababa has reviewed and supports S/CT's proposal to provide training in Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Counterinsurgency Operations to Ethiopia to help the Ethiopian government (GoE) build its capacity to perform these operations in an effective manner that respects hum [...]	2008-12-12 08:37:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER ET SO
08ADDISABABA3376	USAU: AU PSC MINISTERIAL TO ADDRESS DRC, SOMALIA, [...] (U) Summary: The African Union,s Peace and Security Council (PSC) will hold a ministerial meeting on December 22 to address the situations in Eastern Congo, Somalia, and Mauritania. At this point, ministers from Zambia, Ethiopia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Gabon are expected to attend. The cu [...]	2008-12-17 14:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM AU
08ADDISABABA338	ETHIOPIA: CENTCOM COMMANDER AND PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Visiting USCENTCOM commander Admiral William J. Fallon met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on February 7 to reinforce CENTCOM's relationship with Ethiopia and to discuss regional dynamics. On Kenya, Meles suggested that the United States might look to informal non-s [...]	2008-02-11 14:22:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER SO KE
08ADDISABABA339	PRESIDENT YUSUF IN ADDIS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Yamamoto and DCM Malac met with President Yusuf on February 9 during his stopover in Addis en route back to Somalia. Although frail, Yusuf was engaged and forcefully stated his intention to stay in power through the end of his mandate in late 2009. He reiterated his c [...]	2008-02-12 04:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC ET PGOV PREL SO
08ADDISABABA3393	ETHIOPIA WILL PROVIDE FULL SUPPORT TO AMISOM UNTIL [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi emphasized that the Ethiopian Government (GoE) fully supports the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and is making every effort to support AMISOM's security. He expressed hope that AMISOM can expand its forces to replace the departing Ethiop [...]	2008-12-19 07:28:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL MASS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA3398	USAU: AU PSC TO CONSIDER SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (C) On December 19, USAU Ambassador met with AU Commissioner for Peace and Security (PSC) Ramtane Lamamra and delivered reftel points on Mauritania. The Mauritanian situation will be on the Peace and Security Council Ministerial Meeting agenda on December 22. In the meeting with Lamamra, Amb [...]	2008-12-19 18:30:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR AU
08ADDISABABA3399	USAU: LAST-MINUTE RUSH TO BEEF UP AMISOM [...] (U) This message contains Action Requests in paras 6 and 12. 2. (C) Summary: With AMISOM's mandate running out and a withdrawal of Ethiopian forces from Somalia's capital imminent, the African Union (AU) and its partners are spending the final days of 2008 in a diplomatic race to secure f [...]	2008-12-19 20:11:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MCAP SO AU
08ADDISABABA3400	ANECDOTES ON RULING PARTY RIFTS [...] (S/NF) In a series of recent conversations with individuals close to the government and/or to individuals within the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition, we have heard reports of several looming rifts and internal tensions within each EPRDF sub-party. W [...]	2008-12-22 05:39:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PREL ET
08ADDISABABA3422	PRIME MINISTER MELES CRITICIZES U.S. STATEMENT ON [...] (C/NF) The United States was successful in getting the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) attention with our statement to the World Bank on December 10 noting concern about continued funding of projects without the necessary macroeconomic fundamentals in place to ensure long-term growth and sustaina [...]	2008-12-22 15:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL EFIN PGOV ET
08ADDISABABA3424	ETHIOPIA: THE VIEW FROM HARAR AND DIRE DAWA (PART [...] (C) The Harar regional state faces an acute water shortage and receives ninety percent of its budget from a federal subsidy, severely constraining development, the Harar Regional President told PolOff during PolOff's December 10-12 visit to Harar and Dire Dawa to assess political and economic [...]	2008-12-23 12:33:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL KIRF ET
08ADDISABABA3425	ETHIOPIA: THE VIEW FROM HARAR AND DIRE DAWA (PART [...] (C) Harar and Dire Dawa based contacts, including religious leaders, told PolOff on a December 10-12 trip to the two cities (reftel) the mixed Christian and Muslim regions of Harar and Dire Dawa are a model for religious tolerance and the religious community in both places vigilantly guards ag [...]	2008-12-23 12:41:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL KIRF ET
08ADDISABABA3426	USAU: AMISOM MANDATE EXTENDED BY TWO MONTHS [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request in paragraph 9. 2. (U) Summary: On December 22, the African Union's Peace and Security Council (PSC) agreed to extend AMISOM's current mandate for two months, and also asked the AU Commission to work closely with the Government of Ethiopia to ensur [...]	2008-12-23 14:31:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV USUN KPKO SO AU
08ADDISABABA3441	IGAD SANCTIONS SOMALIA PRESIDENT YUSUF [...] (SBU) Summary. Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) foreign ministers met December 21 in Addis Ababa to discuss the political and security situation in Somalia. They praised the Somali parliament and Prime Minister for rebuffing President Abdullahi Yusuf,s recent ham-handed at [...]	2008-12-24 09:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA3450	USAU: AU PSC MINISTERIAL TAKES STRONG STAND [...] (U) This message contains an action request in paragraph 6. 2. (U) Summary: At an African Union Peace and Security Council Ministerial meeting on December 22, the AU agreed to take concrete measures against the coup leaders who overthrew the legitimate government of Mauritania. Specific [...]	2008-12-24 16:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN MR AU
08ADDISABABA3451	USAU: AFRICAN UNION WARNS GUINEA COUP LEADERS OF [...] (U) In the wake of Guinean President Lansane Conte's death and the military takeover of the country, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council met December 24 in an emergency session where it warned of "stern measures" if the coup materializes. Those measures could include suspending [...]	2008-12-24 16:34:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GV AU
08ADDISABABA3456	USAU: GUINEA'S AU MEMBERSHIP SUSPENDED [...] (U) As expected, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council voted on December 29 to suspend Guinea from the organization until the country returns to constitutional order. The Council also reiterated its "firm condemnation" of the December 23 coup, which it regards as "a flagrant viol [...]	2008-12-29 12:26:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV GV USAU
08ADDISABABA3462	IFIS' ACTIONS IN ETHIOPIA REMAIN IFFY [...] (C) As Ethiopia grapples with an increasingly dire economic crisis its need for financial and development assistance from international financial and development institutions (IFIs) is acute. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (the Bank) have not engaged the Ethiopian Govern [...]	2008-12-30 05:30:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV EFIN PREL IBRD ET
08ADDISABABA3469	TFG PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL ON SOMALIA'S FUTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) presidential hopeful and former Ambassador Dr. Yusuf Omar Al-Azhari told the Ambassador on December 26 that the Ethiopian government was supportive of his candidacy to replace former TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf, however, he did [...]	2008-12-30 14:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA3474	ETHIOPIANS "SLOWING" WITHDRAWAL UNTIL AMISOM [...] (SBU) This cable contains an ACTION REQUEST in paragraph 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S/NF) Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador on December 31 that Ethiopia is "slowing" its troops' withdrawal from Mogadishu and Somalia until Ugandan and Burundian reinforcements arrive for the African [...]	2008-12-31 15:41:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS UN SO ET
08ADDISABABA3475	ETHIOPIAN HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles told the Ambassador on December 31 that Ethiopia is perplexed by UN delays with Ethiopia's deployment to Darfur. Meles argued that Ethiopia will abide by any decisions made by the UN because Ethiopia is committed to Darfur operations. This is born out of deep concerns [...]	2008-12-31 15:47:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR MASS PREL ET SU
08ADDISABABA3476	ETHIOPIA UNCOMPROMISING ON REJAILING OF OPPOSITION [...] (S/NF) Ambassador called on Prime Minister Meles on December 31 in an effort to secure the release from prison of prominent opposition leader Birtukan Midekssa, who had been jailed on the evening of December 29 (Reftel). Birtukan was arrested on alleged charges of violating the terms of her [...]	2008-12-31 15:51:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA352	ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE'S RELOCATION TO ETHIOPIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 11, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar and United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Force Commander Major General Taisir Masadeh briefed the Ambassador and the diplomatic community that UNMEE's relocation from Eritrea [...]	2008-02-12 09:17:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL PBTS MOPS ET ER
08ADDISABABA382	ETHIOPIA COOL TO KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke with State Minister Tekeda Alemu February 12, 2008 on the anticipated independence of Kosovo. Tekeda replied that Ethiopia has not given great thought to this issue, but would be hesitant to make any statement for or against this pronouncement. Tekeda opined that the Ser [...]	2008-02-14 08:59:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU ET
08ADDISABABA420	ETHIOPIA-PUNTLAND ENHANCE SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Puntland President Mohamud Muse Hersi and his security chief, Abdullahi Said, told Ambassador February 16 that Puntland and Ethiopia have a security cooperation arrangement for training and information sharing. Further, the President noted that Puntland is committed to fight [...]	2008-02-19 14:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA421	SIYE ABRAHA SEEKS NATIONAL UNITY PARTY [...] (C) On February 15, Ambassador met Siye Abraha, former Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) stalwart, former Defense Minister and the architect of the military defeat of the Derg, to discuss Siye's plans following his return to Ethiopia from the United States. Siye broke ranks with the [...]	2008-02-20 05:15:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA430	ETHIOPIA URGES UNSC ACTION AGAINST ERITREA OVER [...] (SBU) Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tekeda Alemu, called in the Ambassadors representing the member states on the UN Security Council on February 19 to urge immediate UN action against Eritrea in response to restrictions on UNMEE troop relocation. Noting that Eritrea,s restr [...]	2008-02-20 12:40:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS ER ET
08ADDISABABA46	ETHIOPIAN DEPLOYMENT PLANS FOR DARFUR [...] (C) Defense Minister Kuma Demeksa and Chief of Military Staff, General Samora Yonus reiterated to Ambassador messages from the Ethiopian Military (ENDF) to the Embassy Defense Attache's office that as many as 1,500 Ethiopian troops will be prepared to deploy to Darfur within 15 days, but r [...]	2008-01-08 14:18:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR PREL EAID ET
08ADDISABABA463	(S) ETHIOPIA: EMBASSY ADDIS ABABA EAC CONVENES [...] (S) On February 21 the Ambassador convened the Embassy Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review the Embassy's security posture in light of developments in the Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute (Refs A, B and C). The EAC reviewed tripwires but did not take any new action (REF D). DCM, RSO, CO [...]	2008-02-22 04:37:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET	ASEC PREL PTER CASC ET
08ADDISABABA465	SOMALILAND PRESIDENT WELCOMES A CLOSER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Somaliland President Dahir Riyale Kahin told the Ambassador and PolOff on February 21 that his government was ready to increase the bilateral relationship between Hargeysa and Washington. Kahin said that he had ordered his government to work with Washington without restrict [...]	2008-02-22 12:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA506	ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE OFFICE HEAD SAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 26, United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Head of Addis Ababa Office Joseph Stephanides told visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) POLAD and PolOff that UNMEE's relocation to Asmara was going well and that UNMEE was in no dang [...]	2008-02-27 13:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA527	Ogaden: Continued Action Required to Meet Tough [...] (SBU) During a February 22-23 visit to the Ethiopia Somali region, Ambassador, USAID Mission Director, USAID Advisor for the Somali region, and RSO met Ethiopia Somali region President Abdullahi Hassan and his staff in charge of humanitarian relief in the Ogaden to press for improved food dist [...]	2008-02-28 05:43:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ET
08ADDISABABA54	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER WELCOMES US ASSISTANCE TO OGADEN [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legesse applauded USG support and development cooperation with Ethiopia in a very warm and cordial January 2nd meeting with Ambassador, Acting Director of USAID/Ethiopia, and political counselor. Addisu welcomed USAID's Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT),not [...]	2008-01-09 05:14:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREL ET
08ADDISABABA583	MFA DISCUSSES SOMALIA, ETHIOPIA/ERITREA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Officials from Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs including State Minister Dr. Tekeda Alemu met for lunch with Ambassador Yamamoto and Emboffs. The discussion was wide-ranging and candid. On Somalia, the MFA shared information regarding the Foreign Minister,s February 27 tri [...]	2008-03-03 08:32:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	ER ET PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL
08ADDISABABA598	ETHIOPIA: ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADORS RECOMMEND [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 12, Ambassador Yamamoto held a lunch for the resident ambassadors to Ethiopia from Arab League countries. In attendance were the ambassadors from Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Sudan, and the Arab League representative to the Afri [...]	2008-03-04 06:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ET SO XF
08ADDISABABA614	ETHIOPIA'S SUBMISSION TO THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Post provides the following input on trafficking in persons issues in Ethiopia. 2. (U) Embassy point of contact: Pol/Econ Officer Kimberly E. Wright, office: +251 (11) 517-4112; fax: +251 (11) 124-2405, WRIGHTKE2@STATE.GOV 3. (U) Number of hours spent in preparation of TIP report cable: [...]	2008-03-04 10:16:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ET PRM ASEC PREL
08ADDISABABA696	RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONALLY-MANDATED REPORT ON FISCAL [...] This cable presents post's response to questions on Ethiopia's fiscal transparency. 2. While Ethiopia does not have specific laws or regulations governing the pubic disclosure of revenues and expenditures in national budgets, the information is regularly published and disseminated at the di [...]	2008-03-10 10:06:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL ET
08ADDISABABA699	PRC/ETHIOPIA: PRC OPEN TO TRADE AND AGRICULTURE [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed with PRC Embassy counterparts opportunities for coordination and collaboration on trade and agriculture, particularly the participation of Chinese companies in the newly-formed American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia. PRC interlocutors explained that, despite a re [...]	2008-03-10 14:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KPKO CH ET
08ADDISABABA71	USAU: REQUEST FOR SUPOORT FOR AVIATION FUEL FOR [...] (U) This cable is from US Mission to African Union (USAU) Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (U) Summary. Political unrest in Kenya has interrupted aviation fuel supplies into Burundi. Currently there is no aviation fuel available for the Burundi to airlift their 1st Battalion of Peacekeepers to Mo [...]	2008-01-10 04:46:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR PGOV PREL
08ADDISABABA718	FORMIN DETAILS EFFORTS AT SOMALI STABILIZATION, [...] (C) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told Ambassador on March 11 that he clearly told Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) leaders during his February 27 visit to Baidoa that they "shouldn't expect the Ethiopian umbrella to be cast for long unless they sat down to serious busin [...]	2008-03-13 07:07:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ET SO
08ADDISABABA719	ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: WITHOUT TSZ THERE IS NO ALGIERS [...] (C) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told Ambassador Yamamoto in a March 11 meeting that the actions by the UN Security Council over the coming days and weeks with regard to the Ethiopia-Eritrea border conflict will dictate how Ethiopia responds. Seyoum described the UN Security Counc [...]	2008-03-13 07:08:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PBTS PREL ET ER
08ADDISABABA723	ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE'S DEPARTURE MORE THAN HALF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 12, United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Head of Addis Ababa Office Joseph Stephanides told PolOff that more than half of UNMEE personnel in Eritrea had already left the country. He said the remaining staff would be out of Eritrea by March 19, except [...]	2008-03-13 14:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA774	COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR [...] Embassy Addis Ababa welcomes Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., U.S. Special Envoy for Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) Threat Reduction, PM/WRA Senior Policy Advisor Stephanie Pico, and PM/WRA Technical Advisor Michael Kunst to travel to Ethiopia March 27-28 and April 1, 2008. [...]	2008-03-19 14:34:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN MARR OTRA PREL MU YM DJ EG SA ET
08ADDISABABA84	ERITREA: OPPOSITION GROUPS EXPLORING FORMATION OF [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 9, PolCouns and PolOff met with Noor M. Idris, Chairman of the opposition Eritrean Nahda Party (ENP),to discuss current opposition efforts to form a new, more inclusive umbrella group. Noor explained that at least 11 opposition parties would hold a conference in [...]	2008-01-11 08:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PBTS ET ER
08ADDISABABA853	STAFFDEL YOUNG DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND SUDAN WITH [...] (C) Ethiopia seeks USD 17 million in funding in order to train 10,000 Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) police, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of the Minister's Cabinet told StaffDel Young on March 24. Abdeta expressed confidence that the military situation is improving in [...]	2008-03-31 10:18:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ET KE
08ADDISABABA854	SOMALIA: TFG AMBASSADOR TO CHINA HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Ambassador to China Mohammed Awil met with Deputy Pol-Econ Chief on March 15. Awil was in transit to Beijing, having come earlier that week from Mogadishu. Awil described the situation in Mogadishu was "normal," with the TFG enduring continue [...]	2008-03-31 10:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV ET KE
08ADDISABABA855	ETHIOPIAN MFA OFFICIAL ON POLICY TOWARDS SOMALIA, [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian MFA Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdeta Dribssa (strictly protect) candidly told Emboffs on March 13 that the international community must realize that Ethiopia has genuine security interests in Somalia. He noted that Ethiopia had already drawn down its forces in Somalia [...]	2008-03-31 12:32:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA86	UTDS -- A TIGREAN OPPOSITION EMERGES [...] (SBU) Sixteen years after coming to power as part of the Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF),six years after being ejected from the party, and two years after seeking formal registration, the Union of Tigreans for Democracy and Sovereignty (UTDS) emerged in November as Ethiopia's first r [...]	2008-01-14 04:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PBTS ET
08ADDISABABA87	(C) DEFENSE OFFICIALS IMPOSE LAST-MINUTE [...] (S/NF) Despite Prime Minister Meles' apparent receptivity to discussing Ethiopia's arms supply relationship with North Korea (Ref A) as well as discussion with the Secretary during her visit, Ethiopia's Chief of Defense Staff (CHOD),General Samora Yonus, adamantly opposes U.S. scrutiny of Ethi [...]	2008-01-14 04:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM MARR PREL KN ET
08ADDISABABA89	DEFENSE OFFICIALS REQUEST MORE MILITARY AID [...] (C) In January 3 and 4 meetings with Ambassador, DATT, ORA Chief, and P/E Chief, Defense Minister (DefMin) Kuma Demeksa and Chief of Defense Staff (CHOD) Gen. Samora Yonus respectively argued for more U.S. military assistance to Ethiopia to focus more on in-country training to develop Ethiopia [...]	2008-01-14 08:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL EAID ET
08ADDISABABA929	EMBASSY ADDIS ABABA EAC CONVENES TO REVIEW [...] (S) The Ambassador convened the Embassy Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on April 3 to review the Embassy's security posture following the March 18 designation of Al-Shabaab as a foreign terrorist organization FTO) (Ref A),Ethiopia's continued military involvement in Somalia, developments on [...]	2008-04-04 07:14:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET	ASEC CASC PREL PGOV ET
08ADDISABABA94	REDIRECTING THE BILATERAL MILITARY DIALOGUE [...] (C) Ethiopian Government (GoE) officials, and particularly the Ethiopian military's (ENDF) Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Samora Yonus, have increasingly complained in recent years of "broken promises" for military assistance by the United States. The USG's refusal to provide the final two of fou [...]	2008-01-14 13:31:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL EAID ET
08ADDISABABA941	USAU: AFRICAN UNION REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL AND [...] THIS CABLE IS FROM THE U.S. MISSION TO THE AFRICAN UNION (USAU) AMBASSADOR DR. CINDY L. COURVILLE. 2. SUMMARY: AU Peace and Security Commission is requesting USG financial and logistical support to establish a temporary AMISOM Mission Headquarters in Mogadishu. The current Headquarters is [...]	2008-04-07 04:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS AU
08ADDISABABA946	MELES ON ETHIOPIAN PLANS TO "REDEPLOY" FROM SOMALIA [...] (S) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador Yamamoto on April 3 that Ethiopia is looking to "redeploy" its approximately 2,500 troops in Somalia to the Ethiopian towns of Dolo Odo and Ferfer along the Ethiopia-Somalia border. While there are some factors aggravating Ethiopia's e [...]	2008-04-07 14:14:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET	MOPS PREL PGOV ET SO
08ADDISABABA952	NORTH KOREA: ETHIOPIA REQUESTS ALTERNATE SUPPLIER [...] (S/NF) Ambassador Yamamoto delivered reftel demarche on Ethiopia's procurement of rocket fuel and oxidizer to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in a one-on-one meeting April 3. Without either confirming the veracity, or otherwise substantively commenting, on the arrangement, Meles noted simply that [...]	2008-04-07 14:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	ET ETTC KN MARR MASS MCAP PARM PREL
08AITTAIPEI1002	Taiwan COA Minister and AIT Director Discuss [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 2 introductory call at the Council of Agriculture (COA) on new Chairman, Chen Wu- hsiung, the AIT Director raised the importance of resolving key access issues for U.S. agricultural products including beef, pork, and rice. Responding on beef, the Chairman expressed c [...]	2008-07-09 09:07:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TW
08AITTAIPEI1088	DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on July 21, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional 11 Iranian entities and individuals under E.O.13382 for being involved in Iran's nuclear or missile programs. 2. [...]	2008-07-24 00:27:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN FARM PTER PREL ETTC PINR UNSC ECON IR TW
08AITTAIPEI1100	DEMARCHE ON IRISL CARGO INSPECTION PROVISION OF [...] (S) AIT officers conveyed Ref A demarche on implementation of the IRISL cargo inspection provision of UNSCR 1803 to the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) on July 15, the Foreign Ministry on July 18, and Customs on July 21. Michael Hsu, Acting Director of MOFA's North American Affairs Department, [...]	2008-07-25 10:42:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET	PREL PARM PINR ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD KNNP IR TW
08AITTAIPEI1142	EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - JULY 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 05:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW
08AITTAIPEI1325	EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - AUGUST 2008 [...] (SBU) On August 14, the Advisor met with officials of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to discuss trade promotion activities in North Korea and Burma. TAITRA is a non-governmental organization funded partly by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). TAITRA works closely [...]	2008-09-05 08:43:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW
08AITTAIPEI1363	DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on September 11, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional 5 Iranian entities listed under E.O. 13382 for involvement in Iran's nuclear or missile programs. 2. (U) In [...]	2008-09-16 06:00:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC EFIN FARM PREL UNSC ECON GM IR TW
08AITTAIPEI1390	DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five Iranian entities designated under E.O. 13382 on August 12, 2008: --Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Medicine, --Esfahan [...]	2008-09-22 09:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC EFIN FARM PREL UNSC ECON GM IR TW
08AITTAIPEI1467	TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on October 3, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional five individuals and two entities pursuant to E.O. 13438 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and the G [...]	2008-10-14 10:18:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW
08AITTAIPEI1472	DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER: DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC [...] (S) On October 3, AIT officers conveyed reftel non-paper on the U.S. designation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line (IRISL) and 18 subsidiaries under E.O. 13382 ("Blocking the Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and their Supporters") to the Department of North Ame [...]	2008-10-15 08:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET	PREL PARM PINR ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD KNNP IR TW
08AITTAIPEI1473	EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - SEPTEMBER 2008 [...] (SBU) On September 4, the Advisor met with officials of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to discuss Taiwan's trade promotion activities in the Middle East. TAITRA is a non-governmental organization funded partly by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). TAITRA works clo [...]	2008-10-15 08:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW
08AITTAIPEI1474	DELIVERY OF NON-PAPERS: IRAN FIRMS SEEKING TAIWAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-16 02:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET	PREL PARM PINR ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD KNNP IR
08AITTAIPEI1482	TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five individuals and two entities designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 16, 2008 pursuant to E.O. 13438 for thre [...]	2008-10-17 09:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW

08AITTAIPEI1499	DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER: RESPONSE TO BOFT ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-23 07:59:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC TW IR MY

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