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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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09DHAKA822UNHCR REPORTS INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENT, ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) In a recent briefing to donors on Rohingya refugees, UNHCR Regional Rep Raymond Hall expressed cautious optimism, noting that Burmese and Bangladeshi officials had confirmed in recent meetings that both governments were open to continued dialogue. Hall noted improvements in conditions f [...]
2009-08-20 10:05:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL BG BM
09DJIBOUTI1029CITING SECURITY CONCERNS, GODJ DENIES ACCESS TO SINGLE MALE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Citing national security concerns, Djibouti's Ministry of the Interior decided August 3 to bar all young, single male Somali asylum seekers from entering Djibouti. GODJ officials are concerned about the possibility that Al-Shabaab elements might try to infiltrate Djibouti by p [...]
2009-08-06 13:44:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL ASEC PTER DJ SO
09DJIBOUTI1053DJIBOUTI MIGRATION FLOWS UPDATE: THE VIEW FROM OBOCK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and GODJ authorities, the northern Djiboutian town of Obock continues to be an increasingly popular transit point for Ethiopian and Somali migrants seeking to reach Yemen and the labor markets of the Gulf. During [...]
2009-08-16 14:30:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPGOV SMIG PREF KTIP KCRM ECON DJ SO ET ER YM
09DJIBOUTI1176UNHCR REPORTS RISING NUMBER OF REFUGEES IN DJIBOUTI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR Country Representative Ann Encontre and UNHCR Senior Protection Officer Periklis Kortsaris met with Ambassador, DCM, and ConOff on September 9 to discuss the current situation of refugees in Djibouti. In addition to the more than 10,000 refugees now at Djibouti's sole re [...]
2009-09-27 15:36:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL SMIG KTIP DJ ET ER SO
09DJIBOUTI1303DJIBOUTI: PROGRESS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an October 17-21 visit, G/TIP Program Officer discussed Djibouti's progress on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) with GODJ officials, resident United Nations agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. Since the passage of a comprehensive anti-TIP law in late 2007 [...]
2009-11-15 12:51:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPGOV SMIG KTIP KCRM PREF ECON SO ET ER YM DJ
09DJIBOUTI1423DAS WYCOFF DISCUSSES REGIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On the same day that DAS Wycoff had separate meetings with Djibouti's Foreign Minister and Prime Minister (septels),President Guelleh engaged in a 90-minute exposition of the interlinking security challenges facing Djibouti. Chief security concerns for Djibouti are Eritrea's cont [...]
2009-12-27 12:41:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PREF DJ SO ER YM
09DJIBOUTI191DJIBOUTI: UNHCR UPDATES CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REFUGEES FROM
[...] SUMMARY. On February 23, Ann EnContre, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Djibouti, briefed Conoff on recent UNHCR activities, including UNHCR's latest contingency planning for a possible influx to Djibouti of up to 30,000 refugees from bordering countries. [...]
2009-03-17 14:58:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL SMIG SO DJ ET ER XA
09DJIBOUTI283DJIBOUTI: UNHCR UPDATES CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REFUGEES FROM
[...] SUMMARY. On February 23, Ann EnContre, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Djibouti, briefed Conoff on recent UNHCR activities, including UNHCR's latest contingency planning for a possible influx to Djibouti of up to 30,000 refugees from bordering countries [...]
2009-04-06 15:59:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL SMIG SO DJ ET ER XA
09DJIBOUTI307CONGRESSMAN PAYNE DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES WITH GODJ
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an April 11-13 visit in Djibouti, CODEL Payne discussed regional challenges with Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh and other top GODJ officials. After speaking with President Guelleh about the ongoing Eritrea-Djibouti border dispute, Representative Payne traveled [...]
2009-04-15 05:39:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALOREP PGOV PREL PBTS PHSA PTER PHUM PREF ECON EAID ET
09DJIBOUTI593DJIBOUTI SCREENING PRESUMED SOMALI MIGRANTS AND TRAFFICKERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 31, the USS Lake Champlain disembarked 52 presumed Somalis in Djibouti, who had been picked up May 23 from a skiff adrift in the Gulf of Aden apparently en route to Yemen. UNHCR and Djiboutian officials are jointly screening the group's 48 would-be migrants, who include sev [...]
2009-06-01 08:21:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREF PHSA KCRM KTIP DJ SO YM
09DOHA131QATAR: INPUT FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Post was very encouraged in the second half of the year by the willingness of the government to open a more frank and constructive dialogue on the problem of TIP and how to combat it. As a result of this dialogue, Post gained easier access to Qatari officials, and the government hosted [...]
2009-02-19 10:33:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB
09DOHA132QATAR: INPUT FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] Below is Part 2 of 2 of post's input for the Ninth Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reported. Part 1 has been communicated by septel. 2. (SBU) PARAGRAPH 26: PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS: A. (SBU) What kind of protection is the government able under existing law to provide f [...]
2009-02-19 10:34:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB QA
09DOHA404QATAR'S PM ON PAKISTANI IDP CRISIS
[...] (C) At a June 16 meeting with Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, A A/S Jeffrey Feltman and Ambassador asked whether the GOQ had decided yet on the request by Special Representative Holbrooke for financial support to Pakistan to ease the internally displaced persons [...]
2009-06-18 14:09:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF EAID PK QA
09DUBLIN231IRELAND'S ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN
[...] (U) According to Emma Leonard of Irish Aid, Ireland has approved Euro 550,000 in emergency funding to assist Pakistan's displaced persons. These funds will be distributed through both NGOs (Concern and Trocaire) and UN entities (UNICEF and OCHA). Additionally, Ireland has provided supplies i [...]
2009-06-17 15:28:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EC PGOV PHUM PK EI PREF
09DUBLIN38FURTHER INFORMATION ON IRELAND'S ACCEPTANCE OF
[...] (C) Summary. Ireland has resolved inter-ministerial differences and publicly signaled its readiness to accept Guantanamo detainees as part of a collective EU response to a clear U.S. roadmap leading to Guantanamo's closure. Ireland is ready to consider resettlement of at least one or two de [...]
2009-01-22 17:36:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PTER CU EI MX
09DUBLIN81IRELAND - NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-25 13:27:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EI
09DUBLIN89IRELAND - NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 17:32:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EI ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
09DUSHANBE665FY2009 TAFT FUND FOR REFUGEES PROPOSAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-29 13:00:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID TI
09DUSSELDORF37DECREASE IN REPORTED TIP CASES IN NRW COULD HIDE ADDITIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: The number of human trafficking perpetrators and known victims in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) decreased significantly from last year, but the statistics likely do not capture the full numbers of trafficking perpetrators and victims. Most victims are non-German with many coming [...]
2009-09-25 10:46:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GM
09EFTOLONDON2468TAMIL EXPATRIATES CALL FOR RESETTLEMENT OF IDPS
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary. In an October 21 meeting with four UK citizen Tamils from "Expatriate Tamils," a UK-based diaspora advocacy group, requested that the USG "prevail upon the Sri Lankan government" to allow for timely resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),including 250,000 plus [...]
2009-11-02 16:37:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM XD CE UK PREF
09EFTOSANAA433REFUGEE FLOWS INTO YEMEN STRAIN AN ALREADY BURDENED SYSTEM
[...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: Pressing on an already overburdened system, the number of refugees in Yemen continued to increase in 2008. The ROYG is beginning to feel the increasing pressure from the existing population of refugees, along with these new arrivals, as evidenced by a draft law to end the poli [...]
2009-03-10 12:05:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV YM
09EFTOYEREVAN540EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE FRAUDULENT ASYLUM CLAIM -
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Evidence has come to light during a Visa 92 following-to-join interview that suggests Mr. Vahram ASATRYAN, Alien Registration Number 89780549, submitted a fraudulent claim for asylum. As per 9 FAM Appendix O, 1207.2-5(A),Post is reporting these details to CA/VO/F/P, CA/FPP [...]
2009-08-04 13:47:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KFRD PHUM PREF AM
09EFTOYEREVAN559EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE FRAUDULENT ASYLUM CLAIM -
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Evidence has come to light during a Visa 92 following-to-join interview that suggests Mr. Georgi TOROSYAN, Alien Registration Number 89882674, submitted a fraudulent claim for asylum. As per 9 FAM Appendix O, 1207.2-5(A),Post is reporting these details to CA/VO/F/P, CA/FPP [...]
2009-08-12 11:02:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KFRD PHUM PREF AM
09EFTOYEREVAN677EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE FRAUDULENT ASYLUM
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Evidence has come to light during a Visa 92 following-to-join interview that suggests Arakelyan NAKHSHUN, DOB 16 MARCH 1969, A099-039-244, submitted a fraudulent claim for asylum. As per 9 FAM Appendix O, 1207.2-5(A),Post is reporting these details to CA/VO/F/P, CA/FPP and [...]
2009-09-29 07:11:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAM CVIS KFRD PHUM PREF
09EFTOYEREVAN678EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE FRAUDULENT ASYLUM CLAIM-
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Evidence has come to light during a Visa 92 following-to-join interview that suggests Ms. Ruzan Alekyan, Alien registration number A99587355 submitted a fraudulent claim for asylum. As per 9 FAM Appendix O, 1207.2-5(A),Post is reporting these details to CA/VO/F/P, CA/FPP an [...]
2009-09-29 07:16:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAM CVIS KFRD PHUM PREF
09EFTOYEREVAN874EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE FRAUDULENT ASYLUM CLAIM -
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Evidence has come to light during a Visa 92 following-to-join interview that suggests Lusine TERTERYAN DOB 11AUG1972, submitted a fraudulent claim for asylum. As per 9 FAM Appendix O, 1207.2-5(A),Post is reporting these details to CA/VO/F/P, CA/FPP and USCIS. End Summary. [...]
2009-12-18 15:20:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAM CVIS KFRD PHUM PREF
09FREETOWN56 SIERRA LEONE 2009 TIP SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Sierra Leone continues to struggle in the fight against trafficking. Internal politics and competing priorities overshadowed the TIP issue in terms of attention and financial support in 2008. The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender, and Children's Affairs and the Sierra Leone Police contin [...]
2009-02-19 15:09:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SL
09GABORONE127BOTSWANA: 2009 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) The existence of a human trafficking problem in Botswana is suspected but cannot currently be corroborated by reliable reporting. Few people in the country accurately understand the concept of human trafficking, although local religious and NGO groups are currently working to raise awar [...]
2009-02-17 04:29:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BC
09GABORONE189Botswana Political Briefs February 2009
[...] (U) The following is a compilation of February 2009 political highlights from Botswana. This cable covers: - University of Botswana Re-Opens - First Cholera Death Reported in Botswana - Red Cross Completes Refugee Fund Project - BDP May Change Party Leadership Rules - BDP Wants to Improve [...]
2009-03-10 13:30:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF SCUL SOCI BC
09GABORONE273BOTSWANA: SEEKING CLOSURE ON ART/REFUGEE ISSUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Nolan met with Minister of Health Lesego Motsumi to try to bring closure to the long-pending issue of whether and how to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) to registered refugees in Botswana infected with HIV/AIDS. The Ambassador explained that the USG's commitme [...]
2009-04-02 14:28:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF KHIV EAID PGOV BC
09GENEVA102UNHCR HIGH COMMISSIONER GUTERRES LETTER TO
[...] (U) U.S. Mission Geneva is transmitting the following letter from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres to President Barack Obama. 2. (U) Begin Text 28 Janurary 2009 Dear Mr. President, I have the honour to congratulate you on your inauguration as the 44th [...]
2009-02-04 15:15:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM
09GENEVA1021FIFTH IOM STANDING COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMS AND
[...] (U) Summary: The fifth session of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Standing Committee on Programs and Finance (SCPF) took place October 27-28 in Geneva with Ambassador Mudaran (Venezuela),SCPF Chair, presiding. Member states continued discussion of the 2010 administrative b [...]
2009-11-16 10:06:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM SMIG
09GENEVA1038GENEVA DISCUSSIONS ON GEORGIA ROUND VIII: NO
[...] (SBU) Summary. At round VIII of the Geneva talks, held November 11, Georgia noted its serious concerns about recent Russian rhetoric suggesting an increasing threat from Georgia; Russia and the South Ossetian de facto representatives countered that Georgia was preparing for renewed aggression [...]
2009-11-18 17:48:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL GG RS
09GENEVA1263UNHCR CALLS IN CHINESE EMBASSY ON DEPORTED UIGHURS
[...] (C) UNHCR Asia Bureau Director Kasidis Rochanakorn met with Chinese Mission Counselor for Human Rights Bo Qian December 22 regarding the 20 Uighurs deported by Cambodia back to China December 19. Qian had postponed the meeting the previous day while waiting for instructions from Beijing. Ka [...]
2009-12-23 11:08:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALCH PREF PREL PHUM CB
09GENEVA126598TH IOM COUNCIL - GENERAL DEBATE AND RESOLUTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: IOM Director General William Swing presided over the organization's Ninety-Eighth Council meeting November 23-26, which focused on a number of institutional issues, including budget and structural reform initiatives. Member States agreed to a 1.5 percent increase in IOM's 2010 [...]
2009-12-23 11:09:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL SMIG
09GENEVA16UNHCR REFORM EFFORTS CULMINATE INTO A NEW WAY OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is fundamentally reshaping every aspect of its work to become a streamlined, efficient organization that delivers more robust protection and assistance to its beneficiaries on the ground. UNHCR's new approach harnesses technological adva [...]
2009-01-13 12:23:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL
09GENEVA198NSC SAMANTHA POWER'S UNHCR CONSULTATIONS ON IRAQ
[...] (C) Summary: UNHCR officials told NSC's Samantha Power that Government of Iraq and the UN itself are the biggest immediate obstacles to developing sustainable mechanisms to help Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees return and reintegrate inside Iraq. In the case of the GOI, [...]
2009-03-09 09:29:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PREF PREL
09GENEVA203REPORTING CABLE ON FEBRUARY 24-25 WORKING GROUP ON
[...] (U) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Kingdom - current chair - convened a meeting of the Working Group on Resettlement (WGR) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva February 24 - 25. Representatives of 20 governments as well as UNHCR headquarters and fiel [...]
2009-03-11 15:49:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDAF AS CA EI IC IZ JO NZ PHUM PK PREF PREL
09GENEVA204ROHINGYA: UNHCR TO PUSH REGIONAL APPROACH WITH
[...] Pascale Moreau, Deputy Director, Asia Bureau, told Refugee Officer that UNHCR is working closely with Thailand and other ASEAN governments to address the situation with the Rohingya boat people. Moreau said that UNHCR is trying to convince governments not to deport Rohingya as a first respon [...]
2009-03-11 16:08:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM TH BM
09GENEVA250(SBU) UNHCR 44TH STANDING COMMITTEE: FOCUS ON
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Developments related to UNHCR's operational management and program budgets figured prominently during the March 3-5, 2008, Standing Committee meeting. Discussions included UNHCR's ongoing structural and management change process, implementation of recommendations made by the Board [...]
2009-03-23 17:15:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL
09GENEVA255ASHRAF/MEK: GOI ASKS ICRC PRESIDENT ABOUT MOVING
[...] (U) During a briefing for Ambassadors on his recent trip to Iraq, ICRC President Kellenberger mentioned how often the situation of the Ashraf camp and the future of its Mujahedin e Khalq (MEK) occupants had come up in conversations. He noted that the issue was politically charged and understoo [...]
2009-03-25 08:54:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALIZ PHUM PREF PREL
09GENEVA263UNHCR OFFERS SEVERAL WAYS FORWARD ON THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a very productive March 26 meeting with S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller offered the USG several options to assist in finding durable solutions for remaining [...]
2009-03-30 07:22:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL KDRG PGOV PTER MOPS KAWK KISL
09GENEVA280S/WCI AMB. WILLIAMSON'S GENEVA CONSULTATIONS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: S/WCI Ambassador Williamson met separately with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR). In both meetings he outlined the Department of Justice (DOJ) -led review of the remaining 241 detainees at Guantanamo that i [...]
2009-04-03 15:56:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL KDRG PGOV PTER MOPS KAWK KISL
09GENEVA281UNHCR 44TH STANDING COMMITTEE: FOCUS ON REFUGEE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. During the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR's) March 3-5, 2008 Standing Committee meeting, UNHCR managers briefed Member States on progress made in three thematic areas: a) return and reintegration of displaced populations; b) the global work p [...]
2009-04-06 07:51:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL
09GENEVA336ICRC BRIEFS CHARGE ON WEST BANK BARRIER REPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva has issued a new confidential report on the humanitarian consequences of the West Bank Barrier. ICRC is sharing the report with the Government of Israel (GOI) and a limited number of other countries through their miss [...]
2009-04-29 17:26:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF
09GENEVA383GUANTANAMO: SPECIAL ENVOY FRIED AND UNHCR ON NEXT
[...] (U)Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure Fried and Acting PRM A/S Witten, accompanied by S/GC Williams, Mission RMA Counselor and Legal Adviser, met on May 18th with UNHCR,s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, and her staff to discuss USG progress towards GTMO closure and t [...]
2009-05-20 07:35:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL KDRG PGOV PTER MOPS KAWK KISL
09GENEVA434CHARGE HOSTS IRAQ REFUGEE DISCUSSION WITH GENEVA
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a lunch for key donor country reps, the Charge outlined the new US strategy for Iraq and made a pitch for additional funding, particularly for UNHCR's new proposal to lay the groundwork for sustainable returns for Iraqi refugees and internally displaced. Par [...]
2009-06-09 11:07:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM IZ
09GENEVA53UNHCR WILLING TO ASSIST WITH GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed a willingness to assist the USG, if the USG so desires, in finding durable solutions for some individuals currently detained at Guantanamo. UNHCR could undertake an assessment of detainees' pro [...]
2009-01-22 13:51:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM UNHCR
09GENEVA584SRI LANKA: S/WCI AMB. WILLIAMSON'S GENEVA MEETINGS
[...] (C) S/WCI Amb. Williamson met with representatives of ICRC, OHCHR and UNHCR July 9 to discuss the recent conflict in Sri Lanka in relation to a Congressional reporting requirement in recent supplemental funding legislation. His interlocutors presented a complex picture of what had happened o [...]
2009-07-15 09:23:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALCE MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
09GENEVA59ICRC PRESIDENT LAUDS EXECUTIVE ORDERS ON DETENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-23 15:11:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PREF
09GENEVA592GEORGIA TALKS ROUND 6: MORE CIVIL; MINOR PROGRESS;
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The tone in the sixth round of the Geneva Talks on Georgia was a distinct improvement over round five (reftels),with all participants (except the South Ossetians) being civil and many being constructive. The South Ossetians were the clear exception, sticking to unac [...]
2009-07-16 16:00:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALGG PGOV PHUM PREF PREL RS
09GENEVA61IMPROVING IDP SERVICES IN PAKISTAN: WHO RESPONSE
[...] The Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs (RMA) received the following answers from WHO in response to questions outlined in reftel B. WHO coordinated its response with its office in Islamabad. 2. Vaccinations: WHO experienced difficulties in the first phase of displacement in conducti [...]
2009-01-23 15:54:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM EAID WFP PK
09GENEVA734LAO AMBASSADOR SEES LITTLE INTERNATIONAL ROLE ON
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a meeting with the Charg, Lao Ambassador to the UN Yong , expressed a willingness to have IOM play some role in resettling the Lao Hmong in Thailand, but made it clear that the return of Lao Hmong was a bilateral matter between Thailand and Laos and that any inte [...]
2009-09-04 07:21:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL TH LA
09GENEVA762UNHCR AGREES WITH U.S. APPROACH ON FREEDOM OF
[...] (C) Refugee Officer spoke to Pascale Moreau, Deputy Director for Asia and the Pacific, UNHCR, on points outlined Reftel. Moreau said that UNHCR supported the U.S. concern for IDPs in Manik Farm as well as the need for the GSL to allow IDPs full freedom of movement. Moreau said that UNHCR Hi [...]
2009-09-15 17:26:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALCE EAID EUN MAS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER SOCI
09GENEVA822GENEVA DISCUSSIONS ON GEORGIA: SOME POSITIVE TALK,
[...] (C) Summary: At the seventh round of Geneva discussions on Georgia on September 17, all sides were fairly constructive at the outset, with everyone agreeing that the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRMs) were working better than they had been initially. Discussions on the main [...]
2009-10-01 17:31:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALGG PGOV PHUM PREF PREL RS
09GENEVA90160TH SESSION OF UNHCR EXCOM: FOCUS ON ASIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR's operations in the Asia Region received much attention during the 60th Session of the Executive Committee (EXCOM) from September 28 to October 2. High Commissioner Guterres described UNHCR's efforts to provide assistance to large numbers of refugees and internally displa [...]
2009-10-22 16:31:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL
09GENEVA90560TH SESSION OF UNHCR EXCOM: FOCUS ON ASIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR's operations in the Asia Region received much attention during the 60th Session of the Executive Committee (EXCOM) from September 28 to October 2. High Commissioner Guterres described UNHCR's efforts to provide assistance to large numbers of refugees and internally displa [...]
2009-10-23 15:32:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL
09GENEVA97GAZA APPEAL AVOIDS POLEMICS, STRESSES NEED FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The February 2 launch of the UN's Flash Appeal for Gaza remained focused on humanitarian issues and largely avoided sensitive political issues. Most of the language from an early draft of the appeal that had raised concerns about inserting political issues into humanitarian coord [...]
2009-02-03 15:40:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL EAID KPAL IS
09GEORGETOWN123NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report. 2. (SBU) GUYANA'S TIP SITUATION: A. Sources of information used to compile this report include: the Guyanese media; the Ministry of Home Affairs; the Minis [...]
2009-02-27 16:27:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP PREF ELAB SMIG ASEC KCRM KWMN KFRD GY
09GEORGETOWN539President Jagdeo Discusses Human Trafficking in Guyana
[...] (C) Summary. In an unexpected meeting with a visiting G/TIP Officer on November 24, President Bharatt Jagdeo said he views trafficking in persons as a serious matter and would like to see Guyana ranked higher than Tier 2 Watch list. He said there are three on-going cases to prosecute traffick [...]
2009-12-02 18:18:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM SMIG PREF ELAB KTIP KCRM KWMN KFRD GY
09GRENADA10TIP SUBMISSION - GRENADA
[...] (U) As requested reftel B, below are Embassy Grenada's responses to questions regarding Grenada for the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. ------------------------------------------ PARA 23 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) [...]
2009-02-17 21:41:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP XL PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF GJ
09GUATEMALA164GUATEMALA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TIP LAW
[...] (U) Summary: On February 18, Congress unanimously approved a bill against sexual violence, exploitation, and trafficking in persons. The bill, introduced in August 2008 by Congresswoman Zury Rios Montt (FRG) and Sonia Segura Varsoly (independent),provides a comprehensive legal framework for [...]
2009-02-23 01:47:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN GPOV PHUM PREF SMIG
09GUATEMALA197GUATEMALA'S INPUT FOR 2009 TIP REPORT
[...] Below is post input (keyed to ref B) on anti-trafficking efforts undertaken by the Guatemalan government between April 2008 and February 2009 in the areas of prevention, protection of and assistance to trafficked victims, and investigation and prosecution of traffickers. While challenges remai [...]
2009-03-03 17:15:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC GT
09HALIFAX17SEVEN STOWAWAYS APPREHENDED IN HALIFAX
[...] (SBU) Enforcement officers with the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) took seven male stowaways into custody in Halifax on the afternoon of April 23. All seven were onboard the Swedish-registered container ship "ATLANTIC CONCERT," which arrived [...]
2009-04-24 19:41:00Consulate HalifaxUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHSA PREF PHUM PBTS SMIG EWWT KFRD CA
09HAMBURG25MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN OPENS TIP COUNSELING CENTER - ALL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 4, a counseling center for victims of forced prostitution and trafficking-in-persons (TIP) opened in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (M-V). With this new center, all sixteen German federal states now host NGOs explicitly dedicated to TIP. M-V registers approximately 20 TIP cases [...]
2009-08-07 08:36:00Consulate HamburgUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ASEC KFRD ELAB PREF GM
09HAMBURG9BEST PRACTICES LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL TIP PROSECUTIONS IN LOWER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Combating trafficking in persons (TIP) is a priority for officials in the northern German state of Lower Saxony. In 2008, state officials amended a decree regulating cooperation among the various agencies in order to improve victim assistance programs and cooperation between go [...]
2009-03-26 15:35:00Consulate HamburgUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GM
09HANOI1360Embassy Monitoring of Montagnard Returnees in Gia Lai
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 10, Poloff visited three recent Montagnard returnees in Gia Lai province. All three affirmed that they traveled to Cambodia for economic reasons with the long-term goal of resettlement in the U.S. None reported harassment by local officials prior to fleeing Cambodi [...]
2009-12-15 12:27:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF UNHCR CB VM
09HANOI178 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 1 of
[...] (U) Per the instructions in refels, post provides the following responses to the reporting questions asked in paragraphs 23-27 of ref. A, taking into account the additional guidance and reporting requirements required by the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act [...]
2009-02-27 10:13:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM
09HANOI179 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 3 of
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 10:13:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM
09HANOI180 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 2 of
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 10:13:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM
09HANOI388Footloose in Vietnam?
[...] (SBU) Summary: In its latest attempt to clamp down on illegal behavior at karaoke bars, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MOCST) has drafted a decree that would ban dancing at the popular singing clubs. The proposed regulations were posted on MOCST's website, which says it is tryin [...]
2009-04-24 05:46:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM
09HANOI829North Korean Asylum Seekers Enter Danish Embassy
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 09:43:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF VM KN
09HARARE177TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (TIP) - ZIMBABWE
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Harare's response to questions posed to Post in reftels. ------------------------ Zimbabwe's TIP Situation ------------------------ -- 23 A. (SBU) There are no reliable statistics on the trafficking problem in Zimbabwe. Most information on trafficking comes fr [...]
2009-03-03 11:38:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ZI ASEC
09HARARE261MONITORING REPORT ON GCN G/TIP GRANT
[...] (U) On March 24, 2009, poloff visited the local non-governmental organization Girl Child Network (GCN) to evaluate progress on a US$152,000 grant that was awarded by G/TIP on September 22, 2009. 2. The answers below are keyed in response to questions posed in reftel. A. Political officer [...]
2009-03-26 15:13:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PGOV KTIP ZI
09HARARE307MONITORING REPORT ON HURIDETSA G/TIP GRANT
[...] (U) On March 30, poloff visited the local non-governmental organization Human Rights and Development Trust of Southern Africa (HURIDETSA) to evaluate progress on a US$300,000 grant that was awarded by G/TIP on September 25, 2008. 2. (SBU) The answers below are keyed in response to questions [...]
2009-04-15 12:12:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PGOV KTIP ZI
09HARARE325ZIMBABWE: GOODS PRODUCED WITH FORCED OR EXPLOITATIVE CHILD
[...] This cable provides additional details on goods produced in Zimbabwe with forced labor and exploitative child labor. Reports from the government, the International Labor Organization, industry, and non-governmental organizations that follow labor issues indicate that the vast majority of child [...]
2009-04-20 05:50:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPLAB PHUM PREF PGOV KTIP EMIN EAGR ZI
09HAVANA196SURVEY OF CUBANS ON SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS
[...] (SBU) FROM MARCH 2-18, THE REFUGEE UNIT AT USINT CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF 285 APPLICANTS FOR REFUGEE STATUS ABOUT A WIDE RANGE OF SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN CUBA. THE SURVEY WAS NOT SCIENTIFIC IN THAT THE RESPONDENTS WERE LIMITED TO CUBANS ACTIVELY SEEKING TO LEAVE THE ISLAND. NONETHELESS, IN [...]
2009-03-30 19:26:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREF PREL CU
09HAVANA26019 APRIL REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT CABANAS
[...] USINT officer transferred 43 Cubans from the U.S.Coast Guard Cutter Knight Island to Cuban authorities on April 19 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 9:30 am local time to transfer the migrants. USINT officer briefed the returnees and prov [...]
2009-05-06 19:03:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA317IT'S NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A SURVEY BY USINT OF REFUGEE APPLICANTS REVEALS WIDESPREAD AGREEMENT AMONG RESPONDENTS THAT ALL RACES ARE NOT TREATED EQUALLY IN CUBA. THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS COULD NOT NAME AN AFRO-DESCENDENT LEADER, A REFLECTION OF THE DEARTH OF AFRO-CUBANS IN POSITIONS [...]
2009-05-29 19:01:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPREF ECON PREL CU
09HAVANA510LIVING AND SEEING LIFE IN CUBA DIFFERENTLY: A
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A non-scientific survey of the U.S. Interest Section's (USINT) immigrant visa and refugee populations demonstrates the strong role Cuba's struggling economy and the desire of Cubans to reunite with family play in motivating Cubans to immigrate legally to the United States. The [...]
2009-08-21 12:13:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALCVIS PREF SMIG ECON PINR CU
09HAVANA591 16 SEPTEMBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT
[...] USINT officer transferred 6 Cubans from the U.S.Coast Guard cutter Pea Island to Cuban authorities on September 16 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrant. USINT officer briefed the returnees and prov [...]
2009-09-24 19:15:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA601 26 SEPTEMBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT CABANAS
[...] USINT officer transferred 12 Cubans from the on September 26 without incident. 2. Cutter Pea Island docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrants. USINT officer briefed the returnees and provided standard information packets on legal imm [...]
2009-10-02 18:48:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA602 29 SEPTEMBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT CABANAS
[...] USINT officer transferred 3 Cubans from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kodiak Island to Cuban authorities on September 29 without incident. 2. The Cutter Kodiak Island docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrant. USINT officer briefed the r [...]
2009-10-02 18:49:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA653 10 OCTOBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT
[...] USINT officer transferred 11 Cubans from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter SAWFISH to Cuban authorities on October 10 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrant. USINT officer briefed the returnees and provide [...]
2009-10-28 20:54:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA655 14 OCTOBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT CABANAS
[...] USINT officer transferred 4 Cubans from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter PEA ISLAND to Cuban authorities on October 14 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrant. USINT officer briefed the returnees and provi [...]
2009-10-29 12:42:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA670 2 NOVEMBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT
[...] USINT officer transferred 17 Cubans from the U.S.Coast Guard cutter Kodiak Island to Cuban Authorities on November 2 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrants. USINT officer briefed the returnees and p [...]
2009-11-06 18:19:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA694 UNHCR HAVANA HEAD OFFERS A LOOK AT THIRD COUNTRY REFUGEE
[...] On 4 November, RefCoord called on Alberto Aragon Cao, head of the UNHCR office in Havana. Aragon, a Cuban national, has worked for UNHCR in Havana for 17 years and speaks English well. He previously worked in the Ministry of Education where he dealt frequently with UNHCR on cases of foreign s [...]
2009-11-17 18:06:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL CU
09HAVANA705 16 NOVEMBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT CABANAS
[...] USINT officer transferred 12 Cubans from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter KNIGHT ISLAND to Cuban authorities on November 14 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrant. USINT officer briefed the returnees and [...]
2009-11-23 18:46:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HAVANA709 14 NOVEMBER REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT CABANAS
[...] USINT officer transferred 12 Cubans from the U.S.Coast Guard cutter Knight Island to Cuban authorities on November 14 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrant. USINT officer briefed the returnees and p [...]
2009-11-27 17:17:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
09HELSINKI228FINLAND: 2 MILLION EUROS FOR UN'S MAY APPEAL
[...] Charge Michael Butler delivered reftel demarche on assistance for Pakistan's displaced persons to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director General for Development Policy Ritva Koukku-Ronde. Koukku-Ronde noted that Finland has contributed over four million euros in assistance to Pakistan, pri [...]
2009-06-16 13:02:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EC PGOV PHUM PK FI PREF
09HELSINKI312FINLAND: LET'S TALK DETAINEES, JUST NOT UIGHURS
[...] (C) In an August 18 meeting with CDA Butler, Prime Minister Vanhanen's Senior Advisor Esko Hamilo expressed the Finnish Government's willingness to discuss the possibility of accepting detainees from Guantanamo. Hamilo welcomed the prospect of a visit from Special Envoy Fried in September. He [...]
2009-08-20 14:41:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM FI CH
09HELSINKI59FINLAND: 2009 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) Post's point-of-contact on TIP is Political & Labor Officer Lisa Conesa(ConesaLB@state.gov; Tel: 358-9-6162-5482; FAX: 358-9-6162-5766). Ms. Conesa is an FS-04, and spent 100 hours on preparing the TIP report. Two local LES employees in the Political Section and Consular Section spent 6 [...]
2009-02-18 12:35:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB FI
09HELSINKI60FINLAND: 2009 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 12:46:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB FI
09HELSINKI74FINLAND: POSSIBLE RWANDAN GENOCIDE TRIAL
[...] (U) Summary: On February 5, local media reported that Finnish police referred their investigation of genocide charges against a Rwandan resident in Finland for prosecution. Finnish officials investigated the charges after the Rwandan applied for asylum in Finland. Officials allege that the s [...]
2009-02-26 11:44:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PREF SMIG SOCI FI
09HOCHIMINHCITY145EVALUATING REPORTS FROM THE MONTAGNARD FOUNDATION, INC.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post has followed up on several reports issued from July 2008 through February 2009 by the Montagnard Foundation, Inc. (MFI),the U.S. based advocacy group headed by former FULRO leader Ksor Kok. In the Central Highlands, authorities continue to remain suspicious and watchful o [...]
2009-02-27 10:24:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY19SENATOR WEBB PROMOTES ARVN RECONCILIATION AND CONTINUED
[...] (SBU) Summary: During his December 29-31 visit to HCMC, Senator Jim Webb focused on helping to heal Vietnam's war legacy issues as well as engaging with U.S. and Vietnamese business community on the city's economic future. Visits to both a former ARVN cemetery and an NLF-PAVN cemetery fulfille [...]
2009-01-09 08:33:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL PREF VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY28MONTAGNARD RETURNEES POOR AND FRUSTRATED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Home visits from November 24-26 with 28 Montagnards in two of the poorest provinces in Vietnam revealed that economic factors, particularly a desire to escape from poverty, continue to be the main factors that drove these ethnic minority highlanders to flee to Cambodia, with th [...]
2009-01-12 09:12:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM KIRF UNHCR CB VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY55DISPOSITION OF REFUGEE RECORDS IN HO CHI MINH CITY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para 14. 2. (U) Summary: The following is an item by item plan for disposition of refugee and Amerasian files currently in the custody of the Humanitarian Resettlement Section or the Consular Section of ConGen HCMC. Reference is made to relevant [...]
2009-01-20 07:59:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIEDPREF CMGT VM
09HONGKONG1031HONG KONG FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR TAFT FUND FOR
[...] Summary: At PRM/ANE request, Post has coordinated with Hong Kong's Christian Action NGO on their proposal for a project to increase the capacity of their Chungking Mansions Service Center to address the needs of vulnerable women and children among Hong Kong's refugee and asylum-seeker populati [...]
2009-06-08 06:30:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM HK
09HONGKONG387SUBMISSION FOR 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT:
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, the following are post's contributions to the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People's Republic of China. (Note: Per instructions, subheadings and paragraph letters correspond to those in paragraphs [...]
2009-03-03 10:38:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB HK MC CH
09ISLAMABAD1007 PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of the evening of May 10, the total number of registered new caseload IDPs stood at approximately 360,000 (of whom 15 percent are in camps). According to UNHCR, outgoing Pakistan National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) Chief General Farooq Khan continues to challenge huma [...]
2009-05-11 16:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISLAMABAD1026 PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees will be in Pakistan May 14-17. The overall IDP number is now well above 1 million, and the new caseload is above 485,000. UNHCR has a plane arriving today from Dubai with non-food items which cannot be procured locally. Embassy Islamabad' [...]
2009-05-12 15:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID CASC PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISLAMABAD1030 PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: UPDATE ON EMBASSY EFFORTS - GETTING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-13 12:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PK EAID PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1033 PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: EFFORTS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF
[...] (U) Summary: On May 12 newly appointed Pakistan IDP emergency assistance coordinator Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Division (EAD) Hina Rabbani Khar provided donors an overview of the GOP's new institutional arrangements and approach for dealing with the ID [...]
2009-05-13 15:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREF PK EAID PREL PINR PTER
09ISLAMABAD1042GENERAL NADEEM ON IDP CRISIS, PLANS AND ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 14 meeting with the Ambassador, General Nadeem, Pakistan,s newly appointed IDP coordinator, estimated that the GOP will need approximately USD 500 million for up to 1.5 million IDPs through December. Nadeem put the total IDP number at 1.27 million (of which roughly 20 p [...]
2009-05-14 17:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PGOV PK EAID PTER
09ISLAMABAD1045GOP'S POLITICAL OFFENSIVE ON SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: Addressing the National Assembly May 14, PM Gilani briefed parliamentarians on the government's strategy in Swat, Northwest Frontier Province, particularly efforts to assist the displaced (IDPs) (reftels). He announced he would convene an all parties, conference on May 18; Chief o [...]
2009-05-15 11:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1058 ANNOUNCEMENT PLANS FOR PAKISTAN IDP ASSISTANCE APPEALS
[...] (C) Summary: At a May 15 meeting with the GOP and donors, the UN announced it will delay official announcement of its appeal to May 22. This is to permit the GOP to launch its appeal first; donors will nonetheless receive timely information concerning the UN appeal. The GOP will ask for ful [...]
2009-05-15 18:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1064UNHCR GUTERRES IN ISLAMABAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During separate May 15 briefings for Ambassador and the donor community, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said he was satisfied the GOP now understood the severity and complexity of the IDP challenge and believed the UN response was proceeding better than expect [...]
2009-05-17 12:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID UN PK
09ISLAMABAD1078MILITARY OPERATIONS UPDATE: MAY 18
[...] (S) Summary: The Pakistani Army and Special Services Group (SSG-special forces) continue to prepare for an assault on Swat's main town of Mingora as militants reinforce and resupply their positions. The Army/SSG have lifted the curfew on Mingora several times in an attempt to empty the town [...]
2009-05-18 13:54:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1079IDP CRISIS UPDATE: MEETINGS WITH GOP, G8 HEADS OF
[...] (C) Summary: At a May 18 meeting between GOP Economic Advisor Shaukat Tarin and G-8 Heads of Mission, Tarin said that while the government is focused on immediate IDP emergency needs, it also is looking at reconstruction in order to permit IDPs to return to their homes as soon as their area [...]
2009-05-18 15:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1080IDP STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION PLAN
[...] (C) Summary and action request: The GOP,s strategic communications plan for combating extremism remains nascent, under-resourced, and uncoordinated among civilian and military players. While the government realizes the importance to its military campaign of winning the hearts and minds battle [...]
2009-05-18 15:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1090UN OCHA COORDINATION WITH GOP PRIOR TO MAY 21
[...] (C) In response to questions about the extent of coordination between the GOP and the UN with regard to the GOP-organized donors' meeting scheduled for May 21 and the formal announcement of the UN appeal on May 22, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Head Manuel Bessl [...]
2009-05-19 12:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1091UN OCHA COORDINATION WITH GOP PRIOR TO MAY 21
[...] (C) In response to questions about the extent of coordination between the GOP and the UN with regard to the GOP-organized donors' meeting scheduled for May 21 and the formal announcement of the UN appeal on May 22, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Head Manuel Bes [...]
2009-05-19 12:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1098NADEEM: IDP'S HOLDING AT 1.5 MILLION;
[...] (C) Summary: IDP Special Support Group leader Lt General Nadeem told Ambassador and PO Peshawar May 29 that the number of IDPs was holding at 1.5 million but could grow to two million when military operations begin in the Waziristans. IDPs were returning to Bajaur in FATA; Buner was now safe fo [...]
2009-05-20 09:51:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD1100UNOCHA DISCUSSES IDPS AND HUMANITARIAN
[...] (C) Summary. On May 20, Ambassador met with Rashid Khalikov, the New York Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),and Manuel Bessler, the Pakistan OCHA Director, to discuss the current internally displaced persons (IDP) situation. With the May 2009 revis [...]
2009-05-20 13:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIO PREF PHUM PINR PK PTER PREL PGOV
09ISLAMABAD1111GOP PLEDGES REHABILITATION PACKAGE AND SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 21 conference with international relief organizations, diplomatic missions and donor agencies, Prime Minister Gilani announced Pakistan's three-pronged strategy for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) crisis: Relief, Return/Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction. Gilani [...]
2009-05-21 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1118TURKISH AMBASSADOR: THEIR TRILATERALS, FRIENDS,
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by EmbOffs, met May 20 with Turkish Ambassador Soysal and other Turkish counterparts. The Turkish Embassy, which has taken on a coordinating role for NATO in Pakistan, advocated greater cooperation with the U.S. vis-a-vis Pakistan. Soysal described Turkey's [...]
2009-05-24 06:23:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREF EAID MOPS PHUM MARR PREL PK TU
09ISLAMABAD1120 PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION REPORT, MAY 23, 2009
[...] (SBU) The military assault on Mingora is underway. The number of returns to Bajaur and Buner remains uncertain. Indications are that people are leaving from and returning to Buner in relatively equal numbers. Those returning are doing so to harvest their crops. Save the Children representat [...]
2009-05-25 03:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PGOV PK IO ECON PINR
09ISLAMABAD1122PAKISTAN MILITARY CLAIM MINGORA; PRIME MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan military operations continued on May 25, as the troops continued efforts to recapture the main Swat city of Mingora and secure major intersections and surrounding areas. Major General Athar Abbas, the Director General's Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) spokesm [...]
2009-05-25 12:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1140PAKMIL CONTINUES TO MAKE GAINS IN SWAT; UN PUTS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Pakistan military tightened control around Mingora on May 25 and 26. Swat Taliban leader Maulana Fazullah announced that his men would no longer fight in Mingora and pleaded for those displaced to return to the city. However, Pakistan military officials saw this announcemen [...]
2009-05-26 13:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1143 UNHCR ON THE PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR Islamabad staff said on May 25 that UNHCR is not providing transport for returning IDPs nor is it being notified, by individual, of their return. UNHCR believes that IDPs are returning only temporarily to harvest their crops and will not return permanently until after they [...]
2009-05-26 17:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM PK EAID PREL PINR PTER
09ISLAMABAD1151UN IDP CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR WAZIRISTAN; MINGORA
[...] (SBU) Summary. On May 27, Ambassador met with representatives from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to discuss OCHA's IDP contingency plan for the Waziristans, which will cost an additional USD 150 million over the recently launched revised UN appeal. OCHA exp [...]
2009-05-27 15:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1179ADB WILL CONDUCT A DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; NO
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 29 meeting with Ambassador, the Asia Development Bank (ADB) committed to doing a joint damage/reconstruction assessment with the World Bank of the conflict-affected areas. In order to properly conduct such a survey, ADB has requested assistance through satellite image [...]
2009-05-29 14:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1180OCHA MEETS WITH IDP DONORS IN ISLAMABAD
[...] (C) Summary: In an informal meeting with donors, Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) officials Rashid Khalkov and Manuel Bessler, expressed concern that Bajaur and Buner are not yet ready to support IDP return. UN contingency planning for a Waziristan displacement may be mi [...]
2009-05-29 14:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1184LOOKING AHEAD: SUPPORT FOR MILITARY/HUMANITARIAN
[...] (C) Summary. Bolstered by ongoing popular and political support, the Pakistani security forces appear determined to win against militants. We expect a Waziristan campaign as early as late June. Meanwhile, Pakistan's military faces an entrenched enemy in Mingora, Swat, and the security situ [...]
2009-05-30 14:02:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM MARR MOPS PREF PK
09ISLAMABAD1186 EMBASSY STAFFING
[...] (SBU) We understand that staffing of embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan has been the subject of high level attention in Washington. We have several urgent needs, which we will outline in upcoming cables, and several individuals whom we would like to retain. 2. (SBU) Most urgently, we [...]
2009-06-01 06:41:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREF PK
09ISLAMABAD1194PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION REPORT, JUNE 1, 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Pakistan government is moving to restore security and services to Swat, but the situation remains dangerous for humanitarian assistance provision. ICRC entered Swat on May 31 but cannot yet access Mingora. ICRC hopes to provide some health and food relief in the coming wee [...]
2009-06-01 18:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1199PM FINANCE ADVISOR ON ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting May 28 with the Ambassador, Shaukat Tarin, the Prime Minister's Advisor for Finance, said that, while he welcomed money coming through the budget, donors should direct their funding to the most effective and cost-efficient platforms for maximum impact. Tarin said th [...]
2009-06-02 12:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1201MILITARY OPERATIONS AND HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Asif Zardari met June 2 with political, military and law enforcement chiefs for Pakistan's four provinces to discuss overall security in the country. Each province is slated to stand up anti-terrorist units. The curfew has been lifted in some of Swat district's main ci [...]
2009-06-02 15:27:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF MOPS EAID PTER PK PINR
09ISLAMABAD1210ICRC TO LAUNCH PRELIMINARY APPEAL TO PROVIDE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is likely to issue at least a preliminary appeal by June 5 for not less than an additional USD 40 million to almost double its program in Pakistan. The expanded program, intended to be massive in scale but limited in time, wou [...]
2009-06-03 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1225JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) Summary: Accompanied by the Ambassador, SRAP Holbrooke visited two internally displaced person camps on June 4. The visits were widely broadcast by the local media. Ambassador Holbrooke had met the previous evening with a large group of delegation heads of international agencies and NG [...]
2009-06-04 16:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1226JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) Summary: Accompanied by the Ambassador, SRAP Holbrooke visited two internally displaced person camps on June 4. The visits were widely broadcast by the local media. Ambassador Holbrooke had met the previous evening with a large group of delegation heads of international agencies and NG [...]
2009-06-05 03:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1227JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-05 03:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD123DCM MEETING WITH FORMER PAKISTAN AMBASSADOR TO
[...] (C) Summary. During a January 12 meeting with DCM, Rustam Shah Mohman, former Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan and former Chief Secretary for the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),expressed his long-held view that most of Pakistan's problems in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) [...]
2009-01-21 04:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1244JUNE 5 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: SRAP Holbrooke's meetings with GOP officials and with Nawaz Sharif received wide coverage in Pakistan's media on June 5. Pakistan's Senate convened after a month's hiatus to debate the military operation in Swat. At a June 4 Army Corps Commanders' meeting, Chief of Staff of the [...]
2009-06-05 15:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1246JUNE 5 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: SRAP Holbrooke's meetings with GOP officials and with Nawaz Sharif received wide coverage in Pakistan's media on June 5. Pakistan's Senate convened after a month's hiatus to debate the military operation in Swat. At a June 4 Army Corps Commanders' meeting, Chief of Staff of the [...]
2009-06-06 05:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1253JUNE 8 MILITARY/SECURITY AND DISPLACED PERSONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: During the evening of June 6 a suicide bomber and accomplices attacked a police post in Islamabad. The blast killed three police and injured several others. Police claimed taking three accomplices of the bomber into custody. Also that evening, two detained top aides to militant [...]
2009-06-08 15:08:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1254NWFP OFFICIALS PLANNING FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF SWAT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Northwest Frontier Province Chief Secretary Javed Iqbal and Chief Economist Shakeel Qadir told DCM and AID Mission Director that they are already planning for the reconstruction of Swat and the greater Malakand division, once hostilities end. Their concept includes an early r [...]
2009-06-08 15:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1272JUNE 10 IDP UPDATE: UN PULLS PERSONNEL OUT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN has moved the majority of its personnel in Peshawar to Islamabad after the June 9 attack on the Pearl Continental hotel resulted in the deaths of two of its officials (septel). This repositioning, the duration of which has not yet been determined, will not prevent the UN [...]
2009-06-10 12:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER PREF PHUM PGOV AID PK
09ISLAMABAD1297GILANI UPBEAT; ASKS FOR HELP ON MANY FRONTS
[...] (C) Summary: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and the Ambassador met June 5 with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and several of his key Ministers. Gilani noted how much had changed politically since Holbrooke's last visit to Pakistan in Apri [...]
2009-06-13 08:33:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PINR PHUM ETRD EAID MOPS KJUS PK
09ISLAMABAD1320JUNE 15 SECURITY AND IDP REPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The announcement by the governor of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) that the government would begin an offensive into South Waziristan Agency dominated headlines. In Malakand, military operations slowed as active resistance dwindled to pockets in Swat, Buner, and Lower Dir [...]
2009-06-15 15:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1340AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 17 VISIT TO SWABI IDP SITE
[...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador, on June 17, visited Swabi school where community volunteers support displaced families from Swat and Buner. The GOP continues registration verification of families displaced by the conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Front [...]
2009-06-17 14:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1360IDPS RETURNING TO BUNER BUT INFRASTRUCTURE STILL
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy representatives who traveled to Buner district in Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) on June 16 reported that residents are returning, with about half the shops and markets open. The representatives assessed infrastructure and reported that, while roadways were in good s [...]
2009-06-19 16:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1374IDP UPDATE: MINGORA ELECTRIFIED; UNHCR GAINS
[...] (C) Summary: On June 21, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) celebrated Pakistan's historic World Cup cricket victory: Pakistan's cricket captain dedicated the victory in London to the plight of the IDPs, and camp residents danced to and cheered the win which was televised. Services, includin [...]
2009-06-22 14:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1411IDP UPDATE: MOI DECLARES SWAT SECURE, DEBIT CARDS
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 24, Minister of Interior Rehman Malik announced that Swat and Malakand division were now secure from terrorists and IDPs could return home once the infrastructure was restored. Many displaced families living in IDP camps, particularly those from Buner, are beginning to [...]
2009-06-26 12:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1413TRIAL SKILLS TRAINING FOR PAK PROSECUTORS
[...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's prosecutors, under-resourced and poorly trained, are routinely characterized as the weakest link in a criminal justice system that sees up to 70 percent of its prosecutions end in acquittal. Prosecutors seldom work with police, do little to prepare their cases for trial [...]
2009-06-27 07:49:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL KJUS PK
09ISLAMABAD1425PROPOSAL FOR THE FY 2009 JULIA TAFT FUND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV AF PK
09ISLAMABAD1445IDP UPDATE: REGISTRATION INITIATED FOR WAZIRISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Registration has begun for internally displaced people from South Waziristan Agency (SWA) in two districts and a frontier region east of the agency; only those whose sole residence is in SWA will be eligible. The Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government has forbidden n [...]
2009-06-30 15:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL
09ISLAMABAD1446IDP UPDATE: REGISTRATION INITIATED FOR WAZIRISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-30 15:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL
09ISLAMABAD1568MEETING WITH UN U/SG JOHN HOLMES: AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 10 meeting with UN Under Secretary John Holmes, Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Mogwanja and UN staff, the Ambassador stressed the importance of getting UN humanitarian assistance into Buner and Swat as soon as possible, the need for the UN to undertake donor coordinatio [...]
2009-07-13 16:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1654INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN PAKISTAN: TRANSITION TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the exception of expected further displacement from Waziristan, the current internal displacement from conflict-affected areas in Pakistan appears close to an end. The government has signed on to principles of safe, voluntary, informed and dignified return and began on J [...]
2009-07-20 16:24:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1662JAPANESE SRAP FOLLOWS UP ON FODP AND IDPS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Japan's Special Representative for Assistance to Pakistan and Afghanistan Yoshikawa revealed that Spain and Kuwait have allegedly withdrawn their pledges from the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) conference in Tokyo. He also commen [...]
2009-07-21 15:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PREL PREF PK
09ISLAMABAD1671FATA: NEW ROUND OF KURRAM SECTARIAN VIOLENCE
[...] (C) Summary: The breakdown in Sunni-Shi'a relations in Kurram Agency and ensuing violence over the past three weeks has cost 120 lives and mobilized the local communities on a scale not seen for months. After the intervention of the Frontier Corps and a jirga drawn from local Sunnis and Shi [...]
2009-07-22 09:23:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREF EAID PGOV MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD1737A/S SCHWARTZ'S MEETING WITH LT. GEN. NADEEM,
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 24 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Migration and Refugees Eric Schwartz, Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad outlined the planned assumption by the Provincial Relief, Rehabilitation and Settlement Authority (PaRRSA) of programmatic responsibility for the GOP's co [...]
2009-07-29 12:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1739ICRC ON THE DISPLACED IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 23 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Eric Schwartz, International Committee of the Red Cross Head of Delegation Pascal Cuttat expressed concern over the speed of government-facilitated IDP return from the camps and the coerci [...]
2009-07-29 12:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1740UNHCR ON THE DISPLACED IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 22 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Eric Schwartz, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country Representative Guenet Guebre Christos and staff requested that the United States Government make clear to the Government of [...]
2009-07-29 12:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1770MOTIVATIONS AND CONCERNS REGARDING EXPEDITED
[...] (C) Summary: Below is an e-mail account providing a timeline of events for the expedited return of displaced persons from Yar Hussain camp, Swabi, in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. It is followed by a review, from an NGO perspective, of some of the likely considerations and mot [...]
2009-07-31 08:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1809HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR FOR PAKISTAN:
[...] (C) In a July 22 meeting between Ambassador Holbrooke and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir indicated unequivocally that his government would support the appointment of a high-level UN humanitarian assistance coordinator for Pakistan. His agreement c [...]
2009-08-05 11:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC PREF EAID PGOV UN PK
09ISLAMABAD1823DUBAI PROCESS CONFERENCE: AF/PAK CONVERSATIONS ON
[...] (SBU) The Canadian Embassy hosted the most recent round of Dubai Process talks between Afghan and Pakistani officials from July 23-24 in Pakistan. Two of the five Dubai Process issues were covered: Movement of People and Counternarcotics. The next session, currently slated for October in Ka [...]
2009-08-06 05:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD183UPDATE ON PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION
[...] (C) Summary. As of January 23, the population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the conflict-afflicted areas of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) continued to rise, with approximately 10,000 families living in the twelve establi [...]
2009-01-28 14:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER MOPS
09ISLAMABAD2149 SWAT HUMANITARIAN AID CONTINUES
[...] (SBU) Summary. USAID/OFDA implementing partners, UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations continue to provide assistance to populations in Swat, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Following an August 30 suicide bombing in Mingora, the capital of Swat District, international media mis [...]
2009-09-07 03:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2161NGOS DISCUSS ASSISTANCE AND SECURITY IN SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: In September 4 discussions, representatives from 14 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs),the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that humanitarian relief was being delivered in [...]
2009-09-08 13:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2231DEMARCHE DELIVERED ENCOURAGING EXPANDED PRESSURE ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-15 13:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIAEA IR KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREF
09ISLAMABAD2288PRIME MINISTER GILANI OUTLINES GOP PLANS ON THE
[...] (C) Summary: In an hour-long meeting September 18, Prime Minister Gilani said the Malakand campaign against extremist groups is 70 percent completed. He emphasized the need to undertake reconstruction and rehabilitation in the region, not only to help the population there but also to convi [...]
2009-09-20 09:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PTER PREL SNAR PINS PREF AMGT PHUM
09ISLAMABAD2311PAKISTAN'S DRAFT AFGHAN MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND
[...] (C) Summary: The final step necessary to extend the permitted stay of Afghan refugees in Pakistan through 2012 is issuance of an executive order by the Prime Minister. A draft Afghan strategy is in the final stages of governmental consideration and will go to the Prime Minister and the Cabin [...]
2009-09-24 14:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL EAID PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD2360PAKISTAN REQUESTS TOKYO PLEDGE FOLLOW UP, BUDGET
[...] (SBU) In a September 16 letter to the Ambassador, Economic Affairs Division Secretary Farrakh Qayyum thanked the USG for committing $174 million in budget support in FY09 and requested an additional $500 million in budget support for FY10 (text in para 3). Qayyum's letter was a follow up to [...]
2009-09-30 05:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID PHUM PREF PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2384UPDATE ON DISPLACEMENT, RETURN, ASSISTANCE, AND
[...] (U) Summary and introduction: According to the Government of Pakistan, approximately 1.85 million of the roughly 2.7 million displaced Pakistanis (69 percent) had returned to their areas of origin as of September 25. Ongoing military operations to clear remaining pockets of insurgent resistan [...]
2009-10-03 07:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL EAID MOPS SNAR PK
09ISLAMABAD2611USAID Funding for Pakistan Food Shortfalls
[...] (U) Summary. The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) expects food shortfalls in Pakistan in late 2009. Current donor pledges to the WFP Emergency Operation (EMOP) will improve, but not resolve, the food pipeline situation. USAID is providing USD 21 million in immediate funding to WFP to prevent any [...]
2009-10-27 15:18:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2675Visit to Waziristan IDP Relief Center
[...] (U) Summary. Following reports of rioting at multiple relief distribution points in Dera Ismail (D.I.) Khan, representatives of USAID, the U.N., a local relief organization, and the media traveled with Lt. General Nadeem Ahmed on October 28 to the newly established centralized relief distribut [...]
2009-11-05 08:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2696THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE UN IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: The UN continues to struggle in structuring itself to play its full role in Pakistan. The departure of Jean Arnault as the Secretary General's representative to the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) not only reduces the UN's leadership role in the group, but also complicates [...]
2009-11-06 13:57:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD2706PAKISTAN REQUESTS USG SUPPORT BID FOR SECURITY
[...] (U) On October 16, post received a diplomatic note in which the GOP formally requested USG support for its candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the term 2012-2013. They noted that Pakistan last served on the Security Council 10 years ago and that their candidatu [...]
2009-11-10 05:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD2769CODEL TIERNEY MEETS WITH PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani told CODEL Tierney November 11 that the Pakistani people were united in the fight against terrorism and supported military efforts in Swat, Malakand and South Waziristan. However, he noted the public was upset with Pakistan's failing economy, pointing out co [...]
2009-11-17 14:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF EAID ECON MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD2822USAID/Pakistan Provides $44 million for Families Displaced
[...] (U) Summary. On November 17, USAID/Pakistan notified the Government of Pakistan (GoP) that USAID had requested release of USD 44 million in budget support for the GoP cash assistance to families displaced by conflict with insurgents. Funds should reach the GoP's bank account by Friday, Novemb [...]
2009-11-21 09:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2839EMBASSY ISLAMABAD P1 REFERRAL: FAMILY OF JOHN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Islamabad hereby refers for P1 U.S. resettlement consideration/in-country processing the family of Syed Hashim, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff member killed by a Baloch nationalist group on February 2, 2009 at the time of the kidnapping of U.S. cit [...]
2009-11-24 12:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PK
09ISLAMABAD2880WORLD FOOD PROGRAM FEARS SHORTAGE OF FOOD FOR IDPs
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) is taking steps to prevent a food shortfall in its Emergency Operation in Pakistan (EMOP) in the coming months. Left unaddressed, this break in the WFP assistance pipeline could affect the 2.7 million individuals, including internally displaced [...]
2009-12-01 05:28:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PK PREL PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2932U.N. EXPLAINS THE DELAYED RELEASE OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The U.N. has proposed a 12-month Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) valued at nearly $800 million - 14 percent larger than the 2009 PHRP. However, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) is concerned that releasing a large appeal will create the perception that the internally [...]
2009-12-05 03:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK
09ISLAMABAD2933U.N. EXPLAINS THE DELAYED RELEASE OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The U.N. has proposed a 12-month Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) valued at nearly $800 million - 14 percent larger than the 2009 PHRP. However, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) is concerned that releasing a large appeal will create the perception that the internally [...]
2009-12-05 03:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK
09ISLAMABAD2942WAY FORWARD ON AFGHAN REFUGEES REMAINS UNCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: A new inter-ministerial subcommittee has been established to find a way forward on Afghan refugee status, repatriation, and security-related issues in Pakistan. While establishment of the subcommittee has rolled back progress on finalizing Pakistan's draft Afghan Management and R [...]
2009-12-08 09:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL EAID PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD2956LAUNCH OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Although the U.N. remains in discussions with the Government of Pakistan (GoP) to obtain a non-objection decision for the release of a seven-month 2010 Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP),the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is considering [...]
2009-12-10 07:03:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK
09ISLAMABAD3037BALOCH REQUEST UNHCR FACILITATE MOVEMENT OF
[...] (S/NF) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXXX, who has been designated by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres as XXXXXXXXXXXX in Pakistan, met with the Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission on December 13 to discuss the U.S. Government's position on the possible movement of Baloch leader Brahmdagh B [...]
2009-12-18 11:04:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PREF PK AF
09ISLAMABAD3116DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS"
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche regarding the U.S. request to cooperate with Pakistan to constructively address the problem of racial and religious intolerance and discrimination to MFA Director General (Americas) Sohail Khan on December 30. Khan noted U.S. opposition to "defamation of r [...]
2009-12-31 07:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD33FATA UPDATE - 2 JANUARY 2009
[...] (C) Summary. On December 28, a polling station in Buner District in the NWFP was bombed, killing at least 37 people and wounding 28 others, and on December 30, the Pakistan military initiated a series of operations in Khyber Agency in the FATA, resulting in the temporary closure of the NATO su [...]
2009-01-06 14:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD377UPDATE ON IDP SITUATION IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. The overall IDP situation has not changed significantly over the past few weeks, with UN estimates of the conflict-affected population still at approximately 300,000. However, there has been an increase in the number affected by conflict in Swat. Despite a proposed peace deal i [...]
2009-02-20 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD468LACK OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO UN APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 8-9. 2. (SBU) Summary. On February 26, representatives from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Program (WFP) called on Charge d'Affaires to discuss their operations within Pakistan. Both organizations committe [...]
2009-03-03 14:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD529 FATA STUDENTS "EXPERIENCE AMERICA"
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10, Principal Officer, US Consulate in Peshawar, USAID Deputy Director for the FATA Development Program and USAID OTI representative met with 15 recent returnees from the Experience America Program (EAP). This USAID multi-year student exchange program is designed to im [...]
2009-03-13 05:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PREF KPAO PK
09ISLAMABAD543UPDATE ON IDP ASSISTANCE IN BAJAUR AGENCY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent military operations in Bajaur that may have "secured" roads in parts of the agency (reftel),the majority of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have not yet begun to return because they see military operations continuing. USAID is currently providing USD 1.8 mill [...]
2009-03-13 15:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER PREF KPAO PK
09ISLAMABAD619AFGHAN REFUGEE UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: UNHCR has suspended operations to assist Afghan refugees in repatriating from Pakistan. Repatriation from Peshawar is suspended until at least April 1, pending an assessment that it is safe for UNHCR personnel and refugees to participate. Repatriation from Quetta is also suspen [...]
2009-03-23 06:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL AF PK
09ISLAMABAD640PRESSING THE UN ON IMPROVING ITS PRESENCE IN
[...] (C) Summary: The UN system needs to appoint a humanitarian coordinator in Pakistan and fill its positions with permanent staff. These are urgent requirements necessary to respond to the problems of Pakistan,s internally displaced. The UN's ability to meet these requirements will be affecte [...]
2009-03-25 14:33:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UN PTER PREF PK
09ISLAMABAD686ISLAMABAD REFUGEE AFFAIRS WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH
[...] (U) UNHCR said voluntary repatriation of registered Afghans in Pakistan would be resumed on April 1. This repatriation would be only from Peshawar as the security situation in Balochistan does not allow for repatriation at the moment. Registered Afghans living in the Northwest Frontier Provin [...]
2009-04-02 05:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF PHUM CA PK
09ISLAMABAD78URGENT NEED TO IMPROVE IDP SERVICES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (U) Summary. President Asif Zardari and Chief of Army Staff General Kayani raised with Ambassador the urgent need to provide the internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered [...]
2009-01-13 15:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD936FOCUSING ON RENEWED IDP ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) remains in flux as military operations continue in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP); post will report specific updates septel. Charge and PO Peshawar have been pressing PM Gilani, the presidency and NWFP Chief Minister Hoti [...]
2009-05-01 11:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PREF PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD940UPDATE ON PAKISTANI IDPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: As military operations continue in Dir and Buner in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),access to these areas remains the greatest impediment to the UN and others conducting registration, assessing needs, and delivering aid. Higher internally displaced persons (IDP) estim [...]
2009-05-01 13:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF PHUM PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD967 UPDATE ON IDP SITUATION IN PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN and partner agencies have now set up three IDP camps, two in Mardan and another in Swabi to accommodate a total of 1150 refugee families. All camps are being developed by UNHCR site planners, and WHO and UNICEF are developing water/sanitation and health facilities. As o [...]
2009-05-06 01:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISLAMABAD991GILANI DECLARES WAR IN SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7 in a landmark television and radio address to the nation, Prime Minister Gilani made an impassioned plea to Pakistanis to support decisive military action against the Taliban in Swat and surrounding areas. All political parties except Imran Khan's and the Jamaat-e-Islami [...]
2009-05-08 13:21:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD993 UN BRIEFS ON IMPENDING PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: URGENT NEEDS
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 9 and 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: Pakistan faces an imminent humanitarian crisis. UN agencies now anticipate a total Pakistan IDP population of 1.3 million. This number includes an anticipated outflow of 800,000 from Dir, Buner and Swat Districts. Reli [...]
2009-05-09 02:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISTANBUL12NGO LEADERS: WOMEN'S RIGHTS THREATENED BY GROWING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Women NGO leaders gathered for lunch hosted by the Consul General on December 17, 2008, commented on the growing conservatism on the part of the Turkish government (GOT) over the past year which ultimately impaired women's rights. According to the leaders present, a tendency t [...]
2009-01-07 14:58:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF OSCE TU PHUM
09ISTANBUL287IRANIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY: NO SIGN YET OF A
[...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with UNHCR and ICMC representatives in Turkey we learned that neither organization has seen a significant surge, yet, of Iranians coming to Turkey to request asylum or refugee status as a result of the post-election crackdown in Iran. However, UNHCR officials [...]
2009-07-28 11:16:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PGOV PREL PINS IR TU AF
09ISTANBUL374IRAN/HUMAN RIGHTS: BAHAI'I TRIAL UPDATE AND
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish Bahai'i community leaders told us the trial of Iranian Bahai'i activists remains scheduled for October 18. Given that the prosecutor and judge involved in the case are the same ones who convicted American-Iranian journalist Roxane Saberi of espionage, the Bahai'i are bra [...]
2009-10-02 07:08:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PINS PREL TU IR
09ISTANBUL50GREEK ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE: DISILLUSIONMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a January 22 courtesy call by Ambassador Jeffrey, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I requested the Ambassador's help in addressing the Patriarchate's problems with the government of Turkey (GOT). He expressed his best wishes for President Obama and his hope that the new a [...]
2009-01-30 09:31:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PHUM TU OSCE
09JAKARTA1035GOI ACTS TO STOP VIOLENCE AT ROHINGYA CAMP IN ACEH
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In response to recent beatings of Rohingya asylum seekers and Bangladeshi migrants by Indonesian Red Cross staff at a camp in East Aceh, the GOI has dispatched a security team to the camp to restore order. The situation [...]
2009-06-19 04:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE
09JAKARTA1049ROHINGYAS IN ACEH -- GOI VOWS QUICK TRANSFER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Key Indonesian officials have agreed with our recommendation to move the Rohingya asylum seekers and Bangladeshi migrants away from the tense Idi Rayeuk camp in East Aceh, Sumatra. They also pledged to act quickly to separate minors. Responding to a demarche on these points de [...]
2009-06-22 08:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM CE
09JAKARTA1257BURMESE ROHINGYA UPDATE -- GOI WORKING WITHIN THE
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia and other members of the Bali Process are meeting July 27-29 in Bali to discuss Asia-Pacific migrant-related issues. One key topic involves the Burmese Rohingya migrants now in Sumatra and what to do about [...]
2009-07-28 09:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA128ROHINGYA REFUGEES IN INDONESIA
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. Please see para 7 for action request. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian government on January 23 invited the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist with the safe repatriation of 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi nationals hou [...]
2009-01-23 10:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA137ROHINGYAS -- URGING THE GOI TO ENSURE PROTECTION
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Although it has publicly classified them as "economic migrants," the Indonesian government has made no final decision regarding the status of 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi boat people. The boat people are mostly ethnic [...]
2009-01-27 11:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA152VP ADVISOR ON U.S. VISIT, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP,
[...] (C) Vice President Jusuf Kalla looks forward to his upcoming visit to Washington, Senior Advisor Gembong Prijono told Pol/C on January 28. Kalla will attend the National Prayer Breakfast and hold events with the Indonesian community during the February 4-5 trip. He also hopes to meet Vice P [...]
2009-01-29 10:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF OVIP ID
09JAKARTA162ROHINGYAS -- IOM ASSISTING INDONESIA TO ASSESS
[...] (U) This message contains an Action Request -- Please see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) began interviewing January 28 the 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi boat people living in a military ca [...]
2009-01-30 11:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA1728SRI LANKAN IRREGULAR MIGRANTS STOPPED BY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Irregular migrants from Sri Lanka are swelling the number of potential refugees seeking to transit Indonesia on their way to Australia. On October 12 an Indonesian warship intercepted a cargo ship that was carrying 253 Sri Lankan refugees in the Sunda Strait between West Java an [...]
2009-10-14 11:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE AF
09JAKARTA176MORE ROHINGYAS ARRIVE IN INDONESIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A second boatload of 198 Rohingyas landed off the eastern coast of Indonesia's Aceh Province on February 3. Interviews with the initial group of 193 Rohingyas/Bangladeshis currently housed on Sabang Island in Aceh were scheduled to conclude on February 3. DepPol/C stressed ag [...]
2009-02-03 12:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1793AS MIGRANT FLOWS INCREASE, GOI AND AUSTRALIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has intercepted another group of Sri Lankan migrants traveling by boat in Indonesian waters. The GOI is detaining the migrants, who were on their way to Australia. These 78 migrants join 255 Sri Lankans who are being held by the Indonesian government after their boat was [...]
2009-10-28 08:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID AS CE
09JAKARTA182ROHINGYA BOAT PEOPLE HOSTED BY ACEHNESE COMMUNITY
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan and Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The 198 Rohingyas that landed in northern Aceh on February 2 are being well cared for by members of the Acehnese community. The local government has asked the International Organization [...]
2009-02-04 10:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM PK AF
09JAKARTA1895UPTICK IN NUMBER OF MIGRANTS ON WAY TO AUSTRALIA
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. It was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI is intercepting a rising number of migrants on their way to Australia. Over 100 Afghan migrants were detained in two tranches on No [...]
2009-11-16 10:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF ID AS CE AF
09JAKARTA1907CASE INVOLVING SRI LANKAN MIGRANTS SUCCESSFULLY
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A month-long asylum-related stand-off came to end on November 16 when 56 Sri Lankan migrants agreed to leave a ship moored near an island off of Sumatra. The migrants will now be processed by [...]
2009-11-18 07:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF ID AS CE AF
09JAKARTA194ROHINGYA SITUATION BREAKTHROUGH -- UNHCR PROMISED
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The GOI's Department of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) has told UNHCR that it will be granted access to the two groups of Rohingya boat people being cared for in Aceh. The promise is contingent on UNHCR including humanitar [...]
2009-02-05 10:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA2033G/TIP -- URGENT NEED TO REFORM INDONESIAN LABOR
[...] This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 6. 2. SUMMARY: The Indonesian Working Group on Labor Migration (IWGLM) is seeking International Organization for Migration (IOM) assistance in reforming Indonesian Labor Law 34 on the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers. Th [...]
2009-12-11 10:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ID
09JAKARTA205ROHINGYA IN EAST ACEH RECOVERING FROM ORDEAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Consulate Medan staff brought sports equipment in a February 5 visit to the East Aceh site camp of the 198 Rohingya that were rescued off of the coast of Aceh on February 3. The Rohingya seemed to be recovering from their ordeal well thanks to efforts by local officials, the Ind [...]
2009-02-06 08:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF SOCI ID
09JAKARTA2092ROHINGYA MOVED FROM ACEH TO MEDAN, AWAIT NEXT STEPS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesian authorities transferred 190 Rohingya to Medan from Aceh on December 17, where many had spent nearly a year in one of two camps located in East Aceh and on Wei Island. The arrival of the Rohingya was rejected by communities at two original sites intended for their relo [...]
2009-12-22 09:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF SOCI ID
09JAKARTA252ROHINGYAS -- INDONESIA WORKING WITH UNHCR, PUSHING
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The GOI will soon grant access to UNHCR to the nearly 400 Rohingya boat people rescued by Indonesian authorities off the coast of Aceh in January-February. UNHCR and IOM personnel met with the GOI to present a plan fo [...]
2009-02-12 10:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA346PROTECTION FOR ROHINGYAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has thanked the GOI for its efforts to provide protection to the Rohingya boat people who have been rescued in Indonesian waters. GOI officials reiterated their commitment to addressing the Rohingya's humanitarian needs and working with the UN High Commissioner for Refug [...]
2009-02-27 10:12:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA378INDONESIA -- ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2009
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya and Consulate Medan. 2. (SBU) OVERVIEW: The past year did not witness significant change in overall trafficking patterns in Indonesia. There is a continuous trend of Indonesians seeking work abroad as high unemployment and [...]
2009-03-04 08:17:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF ELAM EAID ID
09JAKARTA39BURMESE AND BANGLADESHI REFUGEES IN ACEH
[...] Summary. 177 Burmese and 16 Bangladeshi refugees were rescued by Indonesian fisherman off of the island of Sabang in Aceh after drifting through the Indian Ocean for nearly a week. The refugees were bound for Malaysia and are currently at a naval base at Sabang pending a decision from the Indo [...]
2009-01-09 10:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF ID
09JAKARTA458Ambassador Hume Visits Rohingya Refugees in Aceh
[...] (SBU) On March 7, Ambassador Hume visited the 193 Rohingya boat people on Wei island off Aceh's northern tip. The Rohingya refugees are housed on the Sabang Naval base, a large compound with good access control and adequate space. Although the camp is technically off limits to unauthorized pe [...]
2009-03-16 08:57:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF ID
09JAKARTA459Ambassador Hume Discusses Election Plans with Acehnese
[...] (U) Summary: In early March Ambassador Hume met with senior Acehnese political and security officials including the governor and the provincial police chief to discuss the upcoming legislative elections and the Mission's plan to dispatch personnel to the province to observe the situation. Go [...]
2009-03-16 08:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF ID
09JAKARTA52BURMESE AND BANGLADESHI REFUGEES IN ACEH
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Over 190 Burmese and Bangladeshi refugees continue to be housed in an Indonesian military camp in Sabang off the coast of Aceh in north-western Sumatra Island. The GOI is reviewing what to do about the refugees who wer [...]
2009-01-12 09:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF ID
09JAKARTA629ROHINGYAS TREATED WELL IN INDONESIA, INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) This is an Action Request--see Para 9. It was coordinated with Consulate Medan and is Sensitive but Unclassifed. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Department of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) has given the International Organization for Migration (IOM) access for the first time to the second g [...]
2009-04-07 07:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA698BALI PROCESS REINVIGORATED, SEEKS ANSWERS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The April 14-15 Bali Process Ministerial Conference established a reinvigorated ad hoc mechanism for member countries to raise transnational issues, which could address the Rohingya problem. Another breakthrough was the attendance of a senior Burmese official. While the Rohing [...]
2009-04-17 11:25:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM PHUM
09JAKARTA870UNHCR RECOMMENDS REFUGEE PROTECTION FOR ROHINGYAS;
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan; it also contains an Action Request -- please see para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR has submitted its recommendations to the GOI on the nearly 400 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants staying in two camps in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Rohingy [...]
2009-05-19 10:27:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL ID BM CE
09JAKARTA884UNHCR TO GET ACCESS TO SRI LANKAN MIGRANTS;
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR has been given access to 55 Sri Lankans migrants who drifted ashore in western Aceh Province on May 14. The GOI, for safety and security reasons, moved the Sri Lankans from a warehouse to a prison, a move which [...]
2009-05-22 08:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE
09JAKARTA928BALI PROCESS TO ADDRESS ROHINGYA ISSUE IN JULY AD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bali Process Steering Committee will meet on June 3 to discuss transnational migration issues, a senior Indonesian diplomat has told DepPol/C. Participants are planning a July senior officials' meeting which is meant to focus on recent migration movements in the region. A [...]
2009-06-01 09:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA953PAKISTAN'S DISPLACED PERSONS CRISIS -- ENGAGING
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche re Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pakistan to Cicilia Rusdiharini, Deputy Director for American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on June 2. W [...]
2009-06-04 07:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF ID PK
09JAKARTA988IRREGULAR MIGRANT FLOWS SURGING THROUGH INDONESIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of irregular migrants transiting Indonesia this year is on pace to quadruple over last year's flow due primarily to a surge of arrivals from Afghanistan. The number of migrants now in Indonesia has reached a peak not seen in nearly a decade. Many of the migrants were [...]
2009-06-10 07:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE AF
09JEDDAH39RUNAWAY SAUDI MAID ISSUE CONTINUES TO RAISE DEBATE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The issue of foreign domestic workers fleeing from the homes of their employers remains a hot topic in Saudi Arabia. A well-connected labor lawyer explained to Poloff that workers are being lured by organized groups encouraging illegal work and prostitution. A private Saudi adver [...]
2009-01-29 14:19:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG SA
09JEDDAH61SAUDI ARABIA: CONTRIBUTION TO THE NINTH ANNUAL
[...] (SBU) KEY POINTS: --Saudi Arabia continues to be a destination country for foreign domestic workers, primarily women from East and South Asia, who are either trafficked into the Kingdom or whose treatment after arriving in the country qualifies them as victims of trafficking. --In additio [...]
2009-02-11 06:26:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09JEDDAH72JEDDAH'S SITTEEN BRIDGE: CONGEN OFFICERS WITNESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the process of confirming a Saudi newspaper story that Indonesian workers were congregating under a Jeddah bridge awaiting deportation, ConGen officers spoke to several prospective deportees while observing hundreds being loaded into busses en route to the deportation center. [...]
2009-02-18 15:24:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09JERUSALEM100UNRWA AND ICRC SUSPEND MOVEMENT IN GAZA FOLLOWING LETHAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 8, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) decided to suspend movements inside Gaza following several security incidents involving IDF strikes on UN and ICRC staff, vehicles, and facilities. U [...]
2009-01-09 18:39:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PREF EAID KWBG KPAL ASEC IS
09JERUSALEM101GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 10, 2009, 1300 LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Abbas, in a press conference with President Mubarak January 10, called on HAMAS and Israel to accept the UNSC resolution immediately and said the Egyptian proposal is the means to implement the resolution. He said Palestinian reconciliation is necessary, but that pea [...]
2009-01-10 12:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF IS
09JERUSALEM102GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE - JANUARY 10
[...] (SBU) Summary. All Gaza crossings were closed on January 10. UNRWA restarted coordination with the IDF following a meeting with GOI officials on January 9, and requested permission for trucks to enter Gaza on January 11. UNRWA shelters now hold more than 21,000 displaced people. Health, wate [...]
2009-01-10 16:41:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD CASC IS PREF
09JERUSALEM103GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 11, 2009, 1300 LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli military operations continued January 10-11, primarily in northern Gaza. IDF troops moved closer to the urban centers of Gaza City and Khan Yunis. Airstrikes caused a number of casualties, including civilians, mostly in northern Gaza. Gaza-based medical sources reporte [...]
2009-01-11 11:47:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF IS
09JERUSALEM104GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE - JANUARY 11
[...] (SBU) Summary. Kerem Shalom crossing and Nahal Oz fuel transfer station were open on January 11. UNRWA coordinated several convoys through Kerem Shalom. Karni crossing remains closed. The GOI announced another three-hour "humanitarian pause" on January 11, but there was confusion among UN [...]
2009-01-11 17:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS PREF
09JERUSALEM1089UNRWA'S June 2009 Advisory Commission Meeting
[...] (SBU) At the June 9-10 Advisory Commission (AdCom) meeting of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Amman, Jordan, Commissioner General Karen AbuZayd noted that the total deficit of $107 million, including $39 million of essential operatin [...]
2009-06-26 14:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAL KWBG JO SY LE
09JERUSALEM111GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 12, 2009, 1300 LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli military operations continued January 11-12, with heavy fighting occurring in and around Gaza City as troops moved closer to urban areas. Airstrikes targeted the northern Gaza Strip and the Rafah border area. Gaza-based medical sources reported as many as 888 Palestin [...]
2009-01-12 11:49:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF IS
09JERUSALEM1155GAZA CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: UN and NGO contacts report that socio-economic conditions in Gaza continue to deteriorate as legitimate imports remain limited and the private sector dormant. ConGen Gaza contacts and recent visitors to Gaza report adequate supplies of basic commodities, including a glut of som [...]
2009-07-07 12:02:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL EAID PGOV PTER ECON KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM116GAZAN CONTACTS MAKE GOOD USE OF "HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Gaza contacts reported that the daily "humanitarian pauses" in the fighting allow them to take care of household chores and stock up on supplies, but do not mean a complete cessation of IDF attacks. Some contacts and USG partners reported severe damage to their homes from IDF [...]
2009-01-12 16:44:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAID IS KWBG MOPS PHUM PREF
09JERUSALEM119GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 13, 2009, 1300 LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli military operations continued January 12-13, with heavy fighting occurring in and around Gaza City as troops moved closer to urban areas. Airstrikes targeted the northern Gaza Strip and the Rafah border area. Gaza-based medical sources reported as many as 921 Palestin [...]
2009-01-13 11:33:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF IS
09JERUSALEM130GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2009, 1300 LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli military operations continued January 13-14, with heavy fighting occurring in and around Gaza City. Airstrikes targeted the northern Gaza Strip and the Rafah border area. Gaza-based medical sources reported as many as 976 Palestinians dead and 4,418 wounded since hosti [...]
2009-01-14 12:15:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF IS
09JERUSALEM132PD CONTACT IN GAZA SEES "NO PLACE TO GO, AND NO
[...] (C) Summary. As the Israeli military operation in Gaza ended its 18th day, a Post PD partner vividly described the severe psychological strain Gazans face as a result of internal displacement and humanitarian suffering. Dr. Awni Karzon, American Corner Gaza Director, spoke of danger and physi [...]
2009-01-14 16:51:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAID IS KWBG MOPS PHUM PREF PTER KPAO
09JERUSALEM133GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE -- JANUARY 14
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kerem Shalom crossing was open on January 14 for approximately 100 truckloads. Nahal Oz fuel transfer station and Karni conveyer belt were closed. An estimated 10 trucks of medical supplies entered through Rafah. ICRC and Gaza water and sanitation authorities reported signif [...]
2009-01-14 17:36:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS CASC PREF
09JERUSALEM138GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 15, 2009, 1300 LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. IDF troops moved central Gaza City the morning of January 15. Contacts there told ConGenOffs by phone that the city is "burning" and residents are fleeing as the IDF advanced into the city center from three directions. They said the threat to their lives increased and humanit [...]
2009-01-15 12:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF AFSN CASC IS
09JERUSALEM141CONGEN FSN EMPLOYEE PLEADS FOR EMERGENCY
[...] (C) Summary: PD FSN Essam Mattar called PD Chief from Gaza City by phone January 15 and begged for assistance to be evacuated from Gaza. He had fled earlier in the day from his home, which was destroyed by Israeli rocket fire, seeking shelter from Israeli military operations raging in his nei [...]
2009-01-15 14:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALAFSN KWBG MOPS PHUM PREF PTER KPAO IS
09JERUSALEM144ICRC SURGEON DESCRIBES CONTROLLED CHAOS AT MAIN
[...] (C) Summary. ICRC surgeon Harald de Veen told donors and international medical NGO representatives January 14 that Gaza City's main government hospital, al-Shifa, has been functioning as well as can be expected and coping with massive numbers of injured. He said clinical staff are capable a [...]
2009-01-15 16:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPHUM SOCI EAID ICRC KWBG KPAL PREF PTER GZ IS
09JERUSALEM147GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 16, 2009, 1300 LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. The IDF drew back from some parts of Gaza City on the morning of January 16 after heavy fighting and airstrikes killed a number of militants and civilians, primarily in the Tel al-Hawa and Zaytun neighborhoods. An IAF airstrike in northern Gaza City killed Hamas leader Said Si [...]
2009-01-16 11:42:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF AFSN CASC IS
09JERUSALEM158GAZANS RESILIENT IN REBUILDING THEIR SHATTERED
[...] (C) Summary. With a cease-fire in Gaza, two Gazans, whose stories Post tracked throughout the 22 days of fighting, are picking up the pieces of their lives and their homes, focusing on the welfare of their families above all else, and getting ready to go back to school. In telcons with PD Off [...]
2009-01-20 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALAFSN KWBG MOPS PHUM PREF PTER KPAO IS
09JERUSALEM1584HAMAS PURSUES THREE-FOLD STRATEGY IN GAZA
[...] (C/NF) Summary. In separate meetings August 27, UNRWA Director for Gaza John Ging and Gaza-based Associated Press reporter Ibrahim Barzak characterized Hamas' agenda in Gaza as three-fold: (1) imposing gradual social and cultural change in accordance with Islamic values; (2) seeking internat [...]
2009-09-02 14:09:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER PREF KISL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1652NASER AL-QIDWA ON FATAH, PALESTINIAN
[...] (C) Summary. Newly-elected FCC member Nasir al Qidwa said Fatah's abilities to overcome internal rivalries will determine whether it ultimately emerges stronger after its recent Congress in Bethlehem. He is skeptical that Fatah is prepared for new elections, despite favorable polls, and beli [...]
2009-09-11 15:11:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREF PTER PGOV KWBG KPAL KUNR IS EG
09JERUSALEM1697DEMARCHE: REINFORCING SPEAKING ROLE FOR ISRAEL AT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 13:59:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF KPAL KWBG KUNA IS
09JERUSALEM1702PMA, UNRWA AGREE TO CONSOLIDATE CASH REQUESTS,
[...] (C) Summary: Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) Governor Jihad al-Wazir and UNRWA Deputy Director in Gaza Aidan O'Leary agreed to consolidate PA and UN requests to the Government of Israel (GOI) for cash transfers to Gaza. Al-Wazir and O'Leary also discussed Gaza's burgeoning tunnel economy a [...]
2009-09-17 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID KWBG IS PREF
09JERUSALEM1705GAZA: LIMITED FOOD, FUEL, AND MEDICINE;
[...] (SBU) Summary: Access to Gaza for goods through Israeli crossing points remains severely constrained. While there are adequate stocks of basic food items in Gaza, the lack of variety and continuing price increases are negatively impacting people's health. A lack of medicine is crippling th [...]
2009-09-18 14:34:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PREF PGOV KWBG SENV IS GZ
09JERUSALEM1715TULKAREM -- IMPROVED SECURITY, BUT NO SIGN OF
[...] (C) Summary. In a September 16 visit to Tulkarem, ConGenOffs heard from Palestinian refugees and business leaders that, while security has improved in the city, the local economy is struggling and has not benefited from any easing of internal movement, unlike other West Bank communities. Wit [...]
2009-09-23 14:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PTER ETRD ECON KWBG KPAL ASEC IS
09JERUSALEM1792PA AND UNRWA EFFORTS AGAINST ANTI-ISRAEL INCITEMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In October 1-2 meetings, PA Minister for Religious Affairs Mahmoud al-Habash and UNRWA Gaza Director John Ging discussed PA and UNRWA efforts to eliminate incitement in PA mosques and Gaza schoolrooms. Al-Habash noted that the PA, which currently controls 80-90 percent of the We [...]
2009-10-09 04:38:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV KINF KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1830ABSENCE OF ISRAELI VISAS HINDERS WEST BANK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli immigration practices are limiting West Bank enterprises' ability to conduct business, according to contacts working on the planned Rawabi housing/commercial estate. Because only companies and NGOs registered in Israel can apply for Israeli work permits, West Bank compa [...]
2009-10-14 14:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV CASC CVIS PREL PREF KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1890SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR RICE
[...] (C) Summary. Since the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June 2007 and the subsequent establishment of an "emergency government" in the West Bank under PM Salam Fayyad, the trajectories of Gaza and the West Bank have increasingly diverged. In Gaza, Hamas has consolidated control, thanks to externa [...]
2009-10-16 16:41:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETPGOV PREL PHUM PREF KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1956OCTOBER 27 HOME DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality executed demolition orders on October 27 for five buildings (a total of nine housing units) in East Jerusalem, displacing or partially destroying the homes of 45 Palestinian residents. The Municipality also dismantled a tent in the Sheikh Jarrah neig [...]
2009-10-28 18:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM196PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY AND HAMAS COMPETE FOR
[...] (S) Summary: Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are competing for control over relief efforts in Gaza. On January 24, Hamas officials announced formation of a committee to oversee Gaza relief operations. Local NGOs in Gaza say Hamas has warned them to coordinate their activities with [...]
2009-01-27 16:03:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETEAID ECON PTER PGOV PHUM PREF KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1964USUN AMBASSADOR RICE VISITS WEST BANK REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On October 22, USUN Ambassador Susan Rice visited UNRWA facilities in Jalazone refugee camp and visited a Palestinian information technology company and a USAID emergency job program site. UNRWA staff and Palestinians interlocutors alike commented that while some improvements [...]
2009-10-30 14:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID ECON KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1984UNSCO AND UNRWA DESCRIBE CONTRADICTIONS IN GAZA
[...] (C) Summary. In an October 22 meeting with USUN Ambassador Susan Rice, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) Robert Serry and UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Director for Gaza John Ging emphasized the need to restart essential infrastructure projects in Gaza, inc [...]
2009-11-03 18:39:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREF PTER PGOV EAID KPAL GZ IS
09JERUSALEM2094GAZANS FACE COOKING GAS SHORTAGE, HIGH PRICES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Humanitarian and commercial shipments from Israel into Gaza in October continued at levels generally consistent with previous months. However, a serious shortage of cooking gas (used for heat and sterilization, as well as food preparation) in recent weeks has led to the closure [...]
2009-11-20 14:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PREF IS GZ PTER
09JERUSALEM2129UNRWA'S November 2009 Advisory Commission Meeting
[...] (SBU) At the November 17-19 Advisory Commission (AdCom) meeting of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),Commissioner General Karen AbuZayd highlighted chronic funding shortfalls and looked to host and donor governments to consider innovative ways to finance UNRWA operations. UNR [...]
2009-11-25 09:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PGOV EAID KPAL KWBG JO SY LE
09JERUSALEM222FAYYAD DISCUSSES FINANCES, PLANS FOR PA ROLE IN
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 28 meeting with the Consul General, Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad described his plans to involve the PA in Gaza reconstruction, and expressed concern about the PA's dire financial situation. He also expressed appreciation for the Obama Admin [...]
2009-02-02 16:09:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON KWBG PGOV IS PREF PTER
09JERUSALEM2333GAZA'S BUSINESS COMMUNITY: FED UP WITH POLITICS,
[...] (C) Summary. Gazans are broadly disgusted with political parties (both Hamas and Fatah) and are focused on day-to-day issues of survival, according to Post contacts in Gaza's business community, who remain confident in the resourcefulness and resilience of the business culture in Gaza. The [...]
2009-12-29 09:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID PTER KWBG PREF IS
09JERUSALEM234EAST JERUSALEM RESIDENTS BLAME SETTLERS FOR
[...] (C) Summary. On February 1, eight Palestinian girls were injured when the floor of their classroom in an UNRWA school in Silwan collapsed. Residents of the area blamed the collapse on archeological excavations being carried out by the Elad organization. UNRWA is investigating the cause of [...]
2009-02-03 15:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALIS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM246PA WORKS TO LIMIT HAMAS CONTROL OF SHIPMENTS
[...] (C) Summary: Transportation contacts reported that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Egyptian authorities are working to prevent Hamas from confiscating Arab-donated shipments of humanitarian supplies in Gaza. Contacts said that more than 1,000 truckloads of donations to the PA are waiting [...]
2009-02-05 15:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS PREF PTER
09JERUSALEM258GUNMEN STEAL UNRWA TRUCKS; UNRWA SUSPENDS ALL
[...] (SBU) Transport contacts reported to EconOff late February 5 that gunmen connected to Hamas seized eleven truckloads of Arab donations containing rice and flour intended for UNRWA. The trucks had entered Israel from the Nizzana/al-Aouja border crossing with Egypt and then passed through Kerem [...]
2009-02-06 15:27:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PTER PREL PGOV KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM266REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION OF SIX USAID ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that the Department authorize six USAID assistance projects in Gaza, including water and sanitation projects and the provision of plastic sheeting to elementary schools. The projects will meet urgent humanitarian needs for the population of Gaza. Authorization [...]
2009-02-09 13:30:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PTER PGOV PHUM PREF KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM277UNRWA RESUMES AID SHIPMENTS TO GAZA
[...] (SBU) UNRWA contacts told Poloff that UNRWA resumed aid shipments to Gaza. Forty-eight truckloads of food and non-food items were transferred by UNRWA through Kerem Shalom on February 11. 2. (SBU) The resumption of aid shipments follows the return on February 8 and 9 of 3,500 blankets an [...]
2009-02-12 15:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS PREF PTER UNRWA KWBG KPAL IS GZ
09JERUSALEM378UNRWA'S FEBRAURY 2009 EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE ADVISORY
[...] (SBU) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) convened an Extraordinary Session of the Advisory Commission in Amman, Jordan on February 17. UNRWA underlined its dire financial situation and provided an update on its operations in Gaza. UNRWA a [...]
2009-03-04 14:15:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAL
09JERUSALEM39GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE: JANUARY 5 - LIMITED FOOD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Limited humanitarian shipments and fuel passed into Gaza on January 5. Distribution within Gaza was restricted due to the security situation. Gaza City is increasingly isolated, with movement (including of ambulances) and communication to the south restricted. Gaza City resi [...]
2009-01-05 17:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON ETRD IS KWBG PHUM PREF
09JERUSALEM47GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE: JANUARY 6
[...] (SBU) Summary: WFP contacts report that 59 truckloads of humanitarian and commercial shipments entered Gaza via Kerem Shalom crossing on January 6. A limited shipment of industrial fuel was delivered to the Gaza power plant, which remains shut down due to insufficient fuel supplies. Movement [...]
2009-01-06 17:42:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ETRD IS KWBG PHUM PREF
09JERUSALEM491GOI DEMOLISHES WEST BANK RESIDENCES, DISPLACING 25
[...] (C) Summary. Israeli authorities demolished four structures on March 18, three of them residential, displacing 25 Palestinians in the village of al-'Azariya in the West Bank, just outside Jerusalem. One house was on the Palestinian side of the barrier, in a built-up area of al-'Azariya. Th [...]
2009-03-19 16:13:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM597Rival Palestinian Political Factions Claim Victory In UNRWA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Competing statements have described UNRWA's employee union triennial elections, for which results were released March 25, as a "victory" for either Hamas or "the PLO." UNRWA and Palestinian contacts maintain that candidates for employee union offices do not run on party platfor [...]
2009-04-01 14:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PHUM PREF EAID KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM66IDF FIRE KILLS 40, INJURES 45 IN VICINITY OF UNRWA
[...] (SBU) Summary. IDF mortar fire in the direction of UNRWA's "al-Fukhara" Jabaliya Prep C Girls school killed 40 and injured 45 on January 6, according to UNRWA. The school was being used as one of 25 emergency shelters for displaced persons in the northern Gaza Strip. An IDF press statement [...]
2009-01-07 13:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM MOPS KWBG KPAL IS GZ
09JERUSALEM749HUMANITARIAN AID ACCESS TO GAZA REMAINS LIMITED
[...] (SBU) UN and NGO contacts report that movement of humanitarian aid into Gaza continues to face significant obstacles. USAID and NGOs cite increased difficulty in securing access since late February. Despite GOI assurances to the USG in March and an Israeli Cabinet decision that all food woul [...]
2009-05-06 14:48:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL EAID PGOV KWBG PTER IS
09JERUSALEM78AS RESOURCES DWINDLE, GAZAN CONTACTS SHARE
[...] (C) Summary. Gaza contacts reported a growing scarcity of vital resources and described to ConGenoffs the strategies they employ to survive. The internally displaced, who have moved in with family or to UNRWA shelters, face an especially dire situation, according to contacts. Even in their [...]
2009-01-08 16:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON IS KWBG MOPS PHUM PREF
09JERUSALEM895IDF DEMOLISHES 18 SITES IN NORTHERN JORDAN VALLEY;
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) demolished structures at 18 sites in the northern Jordan Valley on June 4, displacing 190 Palestinians from their homes in Area C. Tubas Governor Sami Musallam claimed the demolitions are designed to drive Palestinians from the Jordan Valley an [...]
2009-06-05 14:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM97ICRC AND PCRS DETAIL HORRIFIC SCENES IN EVACUATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) statement on January 8 described the discovery of four children next to their dead mothers and at least 12 dead bodies in a house in Gaza City's Zaytun neighborhood. A Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medical worker pr [...]
2009-01-09 17:50:00Consulate JerusalemSECRET//NOFORNPREL PHUM MOPS ICRC KWBG KPAL IS GZ PREF
09KABUL1257UNHCR, ICRC STILL WATCHING FOR CROSS-BORDER FLIGHT
[...] (SBU) Summary. The leadership of Kabul-based offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) shared an overview of their planning for potential movement of Pakistani refugees to Afghanistan with the Refugee Affairs [...]
2009-05-17 13:50:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF UN AF PK
09KABUL1344PROPOSAL FOR 2009 JULIA TAFT FUND
[...] (SBU) We propose to use the Taft Fund to support building a medical clinic and expanding an existing school at Sohadat land allocation site (LAS),west of Herat. Sohadat LAS is a government-sponsored township for landless former refugees and internally-displaced persons (IDPs). Neighboring v [...]
2009-05-28 13:39:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PGOV AF
09KABUL1835 Paktika Prepares for Returnees and Refugees from
[...] Paktika provincial government and international organizations (IOs) discussed humanitarian assistance to possibly hundreds of families fleeing from military operations in North and South Waziristan, Pakistan. IOs have delivered supplies to the provincial capital Sharana, but transport to the [...]
2009-07-12 06:39:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PREF AF PK
09KABUL263IRAN EVICTING AFGHAN MIGRANTS, PUSHING TO CONVERT
[...] (C) Summary: Iran continues to deport (illegal) Afghan economic immigrants at the rate of about 1,400 a day, despite Afghanistan's top refugee official's announcement that he had convinced Iran to stop deporting refugees and economic migrants through the winter. The official has since priva [...]
2009-02-05 11:05:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL AF IR
09KABUL3405PAKISTANIS ENTER KUNAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN, TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-25 10:47:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF UNHCR ICRC XD
09KABUL362AFGHANISTAN'S 2009 TIP QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 03:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09KABUL3912PARLIAMENT SUMMONS MINISTERS TO REPORT ON REFUGEE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-07 13:05:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF UNHCR XD
09KABUL40SCENE-SETTER: GENERAL PETRAEUS VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Embassy Kabul warmly welcomes your return visit to Afghanistan. Your presence at the Afghan National Military Academy,s first graduation will significantly enhance this milestone event. 2. (SBU) The coming year will take its identity from the Afghan presidential elections, and from i [...]
2009-01-08 12:17:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PREF AF
09KABUL640INSECURITY DELAYS AFGHAN REFUGEE REPATRIATION FROM
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR has suspended operations to assist Afghan refugees repatriate from Pakistan. Repatriation from Peshawar is suspended until at least April 1, pending an assessment that it is safe for UNHCR personnel and refugees to participate. Repatriation from Quetta is suspended indef [...]
2009-03-18 10:05:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF UN AF PK IR
09KABUL838AFGHAN AUTHORITIES ARREST WOULD-BE SUICIDE BOMBERS
[...] (C) Summary: April 1 Afghan border officials intercepted and arrested militants, camouflaged as repatriating refugees, transporting a truckload of explosives through the Torkham border crossing. The militants appear to have coordinated the timing and manner of transporting the explosives with [...]
2009-04-03 03:56:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREF PTER UN AF PK
09KAMPALA113UGANDA DELAYS IMPLEMENTATION OF NORTHERN RECOVERY PLAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uganda (GOU) has announced a delay in the implementation of the Peace, Recovery, and Development Plan (PRDP),its framework for rehabilitation and recovery in war-ravaged northern Uganda. On December 22, 2008, Prime Minister Apollo Nsibambi informed donors in [...]
2009-01-29 07:56:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL EAID UG
09KAMPALA120 NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (JANUARY 1-31, 2009)
[...] Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social servi [...]
2009-02-02 13:15:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
09KAMPALA163 UGANDA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2009
[...] Embassy POC for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) issues is Political/Economic Chief Kathleen FitzGibbon, Tel: 256-41-306-214, Mobile: 256-772-220-030, Fax: 256-41-345-144. To prepare this report, P/E Chief Kathleen FitzGibbon (FS-02),spent 30 hours, political assistant Gracie Jaasi spent 15 hour [...]
2009-02-13 09:26:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV
09KAMPALA243 NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (FEBRUARY 1-28, 2009)
[...] Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social servi [...]
2009-03-06 05:38:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
09KAMPALA311UGANDA/DRC: OPERATION LIGHTENING THUNDER MOVES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ugandan officials told the diplomatic corps in a briefing on March 24 that Operation Lightening Thunder (OLT) had moved from Phase I to Phase II. OLT's Phase I had reduced the Lord's Resistance Army's (LRA) core strength and demonstrated that regional partners could cooperate [...]
2009-03-25 10:26:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MOPS MASS UG CG SU
09KAMPALA312UGANDA/DRC: OPERATION LIGHTENING THUNDER UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable is the first of periodic updates on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Lightning Thunder (OLT). This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of OLT, but rather offers spot [...]
2009-03-25 14:19:00Embassy KampalaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PREF MARR MOPS UG CG SU
09KAMPALA325UGANDA/DRC: OPERATION LIGHTENING THUNDER UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Lightning Thunder (OLT). This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of OLT, but rather offers spot information [...]
2009-03-30 11:41:00Embassy KampalaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PHUM PREF MOPS MARR UG CG SU
09KAMPALA341UGANDA/DRC: OPERATION LIGHTNING THUNDER UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Lightning Thunder (OLT). This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of OLT, but rather offers spot information [...]
2009-04-03 09:15:00Embassy KampalaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PREF UG CG
09KAMPALA347UGANDA/DRC: KONY'S DOCTOR ESCAPES, DISCUSSES OLT
[...] Summary: The following is the account of Kotto Kpenze, a Central African Republic (CAR) abductee, who served as Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony's "doctor" for the past year. Kpenze escaped from the LRA on March 30 near Sakure, a village on the border between Sudan and the Dem [...]
2009-04-06 11:50:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PREF MOPS MARR UG SU CG CT
09KAMPALA363 NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (MARCH 1-31, 2009)
[...] Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social servi [...]
2009-04-08 04:59:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
09KAMPALA380UGANDA/DRC: OPERATION RUDIA II UPDATE (APRIL 15,
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) previously known as Operation Lightning Thunder (OLT). Now under Congolese command, it is known as "Rudia II." This report is not meant to provide an overarching narra [...]
2009-04-15 13:18:00Embassy KampalaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PREF UG CG
09KAMPALA430UGANDA/DRC: CAPTURED LRA OFFICER TELLS HIS STORY
[...] Summary: The following is the account of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Colonel Thomas Kwoyelo, who was injured and captured by the Ugandan Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) on February 3 during a firefight. Kwoyelo had been a senior officer until LRA leader Joseph Kony decided to execute LRA deput [...]
2009-04-28 10:43:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PREF MOPS MARR UG SU CG CT
09KAMPALA431UGANDA/DRC: CAPTURED LRA OFFICER TELLS HIS
[...] Summary: The following is the account of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Colonel Thomas Kwoyelo, who was injured and captured by the Ugandan Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) on February 3 during a firefight. Kwoyelo had been a senior officer until LRA leader Joseph Kony decided to execute LRA depu [...]
2009-04-28 10:52:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PREF MOPS MARR UG SU CG CT
09KAMPALA463 NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (APRIL 1-30, 2009)
[...] Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social servi [...]
2009-05-06 05:12:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
09KAMPALA629 Transitioning Northern Uganda - One Year of OTI
[...] Summary: In June of 2008 USAIDs Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) opened the Northern Uganda Transition Initiative (NUTI) program in support of U.S. Government objectives to facilitate the transition from relief to humanitarian recovery in the North. Managed out of the USAID mission but [...]
2009-06-18 09:42:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG
09KAMPALA7 NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (DECEMBER 1-31, 2008)
[...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social s [...]
2009-01-07 07:14:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
09KATHMANDU105SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT TO NEPAL
[...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Kathmandu warmly welcomes you to Nepal. Your visit will be the highest-level visit by a U.S. official since the Maoists won a plurality in the Constituent Assembly (CA) election in April 2008 and formed a coalition government in August. Bilateral Relations ------------- [...]
2009-02-09 10:17:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER EAID PREF PHUM CH BT NP
09KATHMANDU1077NEPAL: PRM PDAS PRESSES GON ON REFUGEE PROTECTION
[...] (C) Summary:During a November 11-12 visit to Kathmandu, PRM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Samuel Witten met with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala and Home Minister Bhim Rawal to discuss the situations of Tibetans and Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. The Gove [...]
2009-11-24 11:45:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL NP BU
09KATHMANDU14A SNAPSHOT AT KATHMANDU'S TIBETAN RECEPTION CENTER
[...] (C) For months following the virtual closure of the Tibet/Nepal border after the March 2008 protests in Lhasa, almost no new arrivals came from Tibet to Kathmandu's Tibetan Reception Center (TRC). By fall 2008 a small but steady number of Tibetans began to arrive at the TRC. To gain a pictu [...]
2009-01-06 08:33:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM NP CH IN
09KATHMANDU186GOVERNMENT FOLLOWS THROUGH ON "PRE-EMPTIVE" ACTION
[...] (C) In the early hours of March 9, the Nepali Government arrested and detained 12 apparently undocumented Tibetans. The only woman was released, the others have not yet been charged. Tibetan sources reported that others were threatened and their documents and cell phones confiscated. A Tibet [...]
2009-03-09 09:55:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM CH NP
09KATHMANDU24NEPALI GOVERNMENT BACKTRACKING, "STILL
[...] Following the Government of Nepal's (GON) previous commitment to a registration and limited resettlement program for Tibetan refugees in Nepal in November 2008 (reftel),post learned in late December that the Government might be reconsidering its support. Ambassador Powell received confirmat [...]
2009-01-07 10:11:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM CH IN NP
09KATHMANDU528A/S BLAKE RAISES TIBETAN, BHUTANESE REFUGEES IN
[...] (SBU) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Kathmandu told visiting Assistant Secretary Robert Blake that registration and i.d. card issuance for the Tibetan refugee population remains politically sensitive, but that UNHCR remains optimistic progress can b [...]
2009-06-19 05:55:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM BT CH NP
09KATHMANDU564TIBETAN PROTESTERS DETAINED IN KATHMANDU
[...] (SBU) In the first Tibetan political protest since March 2009, a group of 34 Tibetans took a bus from Kathmandu to the Nepal-Tibet border early on June 26, reportedly to turn themselves over to Chinese authorities and become martyrs for the cause of a free Tibet. The group was intercepted and [...]
2009-06-26 09:30:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM CH NP
09KATHMANDU569NEPAL RELEASES TIBETAN PROTESTERS
[...] (SBU) On June 28, following interventions by Tibetan community leaders and the Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),the Government of Nepal's Immigration Department released the 34 Tibetan protesters detained on June 26 (reftel). The Immigration authorities initia [...]
2009-06-29 08:19:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL CH NP
09KATHMANDU570NEPAL: FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON PEACE PROCESS,
[...] (C) During the Ambassador's farewell call on June 29, Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala confirmed that the cabinet had decided to extend the UN Mission in Nepal's mandate in Nepal. The cabinet also approved the extension of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for an additional [...]
2009-06-29 08:20:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM UN CH NP
09KATHMANDU645NEPAL'S TIBETAN REFUGEE POLICY UNDER STRAIN
[...] (C) The Government of Nepal's policy of permitting Tibetan refugees to remain quietly in Nepal while accommodating Chinese demands to prevent "anti-China" activities is under increasing strain. Tibetan activists have recently conducted several public protests, Nepali authorities detained the [...]
2009-07-17 10:15:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM CH IN NP
09KATHMANDU679NEPAL: UNHCR ADVOCATES REGISTERING TIBETANS
[...] (SBU) During a July 13 meeting of the U.S.-hosted Tibetan Discussion Group, Kathmandu's UNHCR Representative Daisy Dell advocated for registration of Tibetan refugees in Nepal. Based on experience with Nepal's Bhutanese refugee community, Dell sees registration as the necessary first step t [...]
2009-07-24 08:45:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL CH IN NP
09KATHMANDU787NEPAL: FM SYMPATHETIC ON TIBET BUT CHANGE UNLIKELY
[...] (C) In an August 24 meeting with Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala (septel),Charge expressed U.S. concern about recent, and highly inaccurate, reports in the Nepali media linking the Tibetan Reception Center to anti-Chinese activities. Noting the U.S.-funded Center is well-respected and plays an [...]
2009-08-25 08:39:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM NP CH
09KATHMANDU834NEPAL ARRESTS, RELEASES TIBETANS
[...] (C) On September 6, the Nepal Police Chief District Officer ordered the release of nine Tibetans refugees who had been held for four and five days. The CDO told OHCHR that the nine were being released on his authority and could be detained again by the same means. Seven of the Tibetans, rang [...]
2009-09-09 11:16:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM CH NP
09KATHMANDU870(C) NEPAL FM: IF NOT INDIA, HOW ABOUT CHINA?
[...] (C) Summary: During Foreign Minister Koirala's recent trip to China, Chinese officials expressed continuing "concern" about the activities of Tibetan refugees in Nepal. China promised Koirala only a handful of small-sum infrastructure projects. The Indians are "not happy" with Nepal's cooper [...]
2009-09-21 12:41:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF CH NP
09KATHMANDU946BHUTAN REFUGEE FOOD SUPPLIES INTERRUPTED
[...] (U) Summary. World Food Program (WFP) food supplies for Bhutanese refugees living in camps in Nepal are insufficient, so WFP will soon provide half rations for about one month. Meanwhile, UNHCR reports that security in Bhutanese refugee camps is good and fraud is relatively low in refugee res [...]
2009-10-14 12:18:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF EAID NP
09KHARTOUM1035DARFUR ROUNDUP: SLA/AW CLAIMS GOS ATTACK ON KORMA; ABU
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF),the Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minnawi (SLA/MM) and Chadian armed opposition forces have been positioned in the areas of Kutum, Abdel Shakur and Al Dur in North Darfur, according to UN sources. Sudan Liberation Army /Abdel Wahid (SLA [...]
2009-09-08 13:46:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1073 Disaster Declaration - Khartoum Floods
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see Paragraph 6. 2. (U) Summary: In late August, heavy rains in Khartoum State caused massive flooding in Soba Aradi, Mayo, Jebel Aulia, and other settlements largely occupied by South Sudanese and Darfuri war-displaced populations. Houses and latrines [...]
2009-09-23 13:55:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU
09KHARTOUM1080 SOUTH DARFUR HAC READMITS IOM
[...] (U) Summary: On September 15, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed "Terms of Engagement" with the South Darfur Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). The document clarifies the relationship between IOM and the South Darfur HAC, permitting IOM to commence population tracking an [...]
2009-09-24 09:50:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1095UNAMID TO BE GRANTED ACCESS TO KORMA IN WAKE OF ATTACKS ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) continues to be denied access to the town of Korma following clashes between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) faction there on September 17-18. UNAMID's most recent attempt t [...]
2009-09-28 17:29:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1102UNAMID CLOSER TO FULL DEPLOYMENT, BUT STILL FACING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 13 visit to the El Fasher headquarters of the United Nations - African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),UNAMID leadership told Special Envoy (SE) Gration that they are working vigorously to shift the mission's focus from deployment to employment. The force is now [...]
2009-09-29 09:31:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1103IN AIN SIRO, REBELS TELL SE GRATION THEY'RE READY FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 13 visit to the rebel enclave of Ain Siro, local Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) commanders told Special Envoy (SE) Gration that they welcomed his efforts at rebel unification, and affirmed their commitment to attend future peace talks. They said, howeve [...]
2009-09-29 09:32:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1105BEYOND THE TRILATERALS: RETURNEES, UNMIS, AND WILDLIFE
[...] (U) Summary: Special Envoy (SE) General Scott Gration facilitated the fourth round of trilateral talks with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and National Congress Party (NCP) in Juba, Southern Sudan from September 9-10. Recently returned members of the Southern Sudanese diaspora [...]
2009-09-29 09:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREF SENV SU
09KHARTOUM1108DARFUR UPDATE: UNAMID CONVOY AMBUSHED IN GENEINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) convoy was ambushed by unknown assailants near Geneina, West Darfur, resulting in one death and two injuries. In Jebel Marra, the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) faction is building up troop strength in strateg [...]
2009-09-30 14:22:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1110 Sudan Disaster Redeclaration
[...] (U) Summary: USAID continues to provide humanitarian assistance to respond to the needs of conflict-affected and vulnerable populations in Sudan. Due to the ongoing, complex emergency and humanitarian conditions in Sudan, Chief of Mission Robert Whitehead re-declares a disaster and requests c [...]
2009-10-01 06:00:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU
09KHARTOUM1137SOUTH KORDOFAN'S ICC-INDICTED GOVERNOR PURSUES DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. On September 27 and 28, South Kordofan's ICC-indicted Governor, Ahmed Mohamed Haroun (NCP) and his SPLM deputy Abdel Aziz Al Helou, hosted a meeting in Kadugli for donors and UN partners. Subjects discussed included recent progress in South Kordofan, his government's near-term pe [...]
2009-10-08 15:20:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF KDEM ECON EPET SU
09KHARTOUM1156 Drought Threatens Livelihoods in North Darfur
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.N. field staff predict that low rain levels recorded this year may trigger displacement, increase reliance on humanitarian assistance, and heighten inter-community competition for scarce water resources. End summary. ------------------- NO RAIN, NO HARVEST -------------- [...]
2009-10-15 05:13:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1177 Gender-Based Violence: Progress in Darfur and Northern
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 3 meeting with USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA),the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) noted recent legal and organizational progress on sexual and gender-based violence (GBV),including extending legal protections to women throughout nor [...]
2009-10-20 05:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1199DARFUR UPDATE: UNAMID FEARS ATTACKS COMING IN JEBEL MARRA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) officials are deeply concerned that the Government of Sudan (GOS) plans to fortify recent gains against Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) forces by attacking the rebel stronghold of West Jebel Marra in the coming [...]
2009-10-25 15:54:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1205Tripartite Joint Technical Committee conducts workshop on
[...] (U) Summary: The Tripartite Joint Technical Committee (TJTC) facilitated a workshop from October 10 to 12 to encourage cooperation between national and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Workshop results encouraged increased information sharing and openness in NGO partners [...]
2009-10-26 04:55:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1215 USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with UN DSRSG to Sudan
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with Deputy Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General (DSRSG) and Humanit [...]
2009-10-29 07:25:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1216 USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with NGO Steering
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with the Khartoum-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee as p [...]
2009-10-29 13:11:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1217 USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with NGO Steering
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with the Khartoum-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee as p [...]
2009-10-29 14:07:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1222 OCTOBER HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING FOCUSES ON DARFUR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The expanded High-Level Committee (HLC) met on October 28. Committee members discussed key challenges in the humanitarian operating environment in Darfur as a follow-up to the recent HLC visit to El Geneina, West Darfur. Much of the discussion focused on the October 24 abduc [...]
2009-11-01 04:41:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1227 OCTOBER HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING FOCUSES ON DARFUR
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a spirited session of the expanded High-Level Committee (HLC) on October 28, committee members discussed key challenges in the humanitarian operating environment in Darfur as a follow-up to the recent HLC visit to El Geneina, West Darfur. The discussion centered on the Octo [...]
2009-11-01 13:49:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1229 USAID Acting Administrator's Meeting with Humanitarian
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 25, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham, Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle, and USAID Senior Policy Advisor Steven Pierce met with the South Darfur Area Humanitarian [...]
2009-11-02 10:22:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1235 USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with Donors in
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with donors and UN representatives in Khartoum as part of an October 24 - 27 delega [...]
2009-11-03 14:47:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1236 USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with State Minister of
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with State (Deputy) Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, H.E. Dr. Abdel Bagi El-Geilan [...]
2009-11-03 14:54:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1237 USAID Acting Administrator Meeting on Elections in
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle participated in an elections and political processes roundtable in Khartoum. They met w [...]
2009-11-03 14:58:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1249 USAID Acting Administrator Visit to Nyala, South Darfur
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 25, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham, Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle, and USAID Senior Policy Advisor Steven Pierce conducted a seven-hour visit to Nyala, Sout [...]
2009-11-04 09:13:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1264USAID/OFDA Darfur Agriculture and Food Security Assessment
[...] (U) Summary: The 2009 harvest outlook in Darfur is mixed. Reports from most of West Darfur indicated reliable rains, while parts of South and North Darfur did not. In addition to general agricultural development challenges, lack of humanitarian access and insecurity continue to render rural [...]
2009-11-08 15:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1266USAID/OFDA Darfur Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
[...] (U) Summary: Despite adequate safe drinking water supply in most internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Darfur, substantial gaps remain in sanitation and hygiene services, according to USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) ad [...]
2009-11-09 07:31:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1273GHAZI ADDRESSES CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE, DARFUR PEACE
[...] (C) Summary: On November 11, CDA Whitehead met with Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin to discuss the sequencing of the Chad-Sudan Dtente Process (ref a),the lag in the Darfur peace process, and the ongoing bilateral discussions between the SPLM and the NCP to resolve outstanding Compr [...]
2009-11-11 08:48:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL UN AU SU CH
09KHARTOUM1279AU LIAISON ANALYSES PEACE AND SECURITY MEETING
[...] (C//NOFORN) SUMMARY: On November 09, Poloff met with Boitshoko Mokgatlhe, African Union (AU) Liaison Officer for Sudan. Mokgatlhe went over the main points recommended by the 207th meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) in Abuja (ref. A) and quietly confirmed the widespread speculati [...]
2009-11-15 06:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU
09KHARTOUM1298HAC COMMISSIONER REPORTEDLY ANNOUNCES PLANNED CLOSURE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to November 10 and 11 local media reports, Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) Commissioner Hassabo Abdel-Rahman announced on UN-sponsored radio that the Sudanese government is planning to close Darfur internally displaced person (IDP) [...]
2009-11-17 11:52:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID PREF PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1326Preview of Sudan 2010 Humanitarian Work Plan
[...] (U) Summary: On November 15, USAID attended a stakeholders' conference providing a preview of the UN and partners 2010 Humanitarian Work Plan. The conference, chaired by Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) Ameerah Haq and Commissioner of the Government of Nation [...]
2009-11-23 12:34:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1347Darfur Food Survey Shows Mixed Results for 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: The World Food Program (WFP) Food Security Monitoring System (FSMS) has surveyed Darfuri households since the start of 2009 to track trends in food security across the region. The implementing food aid community has become increasingly concerned that many camp-based internally d [...]
2009-12-02 07:50:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1349SUDAN: ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT INACTIVE
[...] (SBU) On November 25, EmbOff discussed Sudan's policy on the Arab League Boycott (ALB) of Israel with Abdel Aziz M. Ahmed, head of the Multilateral Trading Department of the Government of Sudan (GOS) Ministry of Foreign Trade. Ahmed stated that there has been no change in Sudan's policy or pr [...]
2009-12-02 08:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV SOCI UN SU
09KHARTOUM1350THE EMERGING STORY ON "SUDANIZATION" OF HUMANITARIAN AID
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-02 08:49:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SMIG SOCI UN SU
09KHARTOUM1357SLA/AW UP IN ARMS AFTER LONG RESPITE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The central region of Darfur known as Jebel Marra remains unstable following internal conflict among rebels commanders aligned with Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW). SLA/AW rebels in far northeast North Darfur staged two successful attacks in November on Government [...]
2009-12-06 10:18:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1370SPLM'S ARMAN DESCRIBES POLICE ABUSE; ARRESTED DEMONSTRATORS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 8, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Head of Northern Sector Yasir Arman described how several Government of Sudan (GOS) junior police officers "beat him with their boots" and a police baton while he was in police custody on December 7. Arman stated he receiv [...]
2009-12-08 13:20:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREF SU
09KHARTOUM1378SPLM'S AMUM PAUSES PROTESTS, VOWS CONTINUED OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition party protests will continue until outstanding CPA implementation issues are resolved, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary General Pagan Amum told DCM Asquino on December 9. While Amum has decided to hold off on leading any protests in Khartoum in the [...]
2009-12-10 07:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREF SU
09KHARTOUM1383FOOD SECURITY WORSENS IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN SUDAN
[...] (U) Summary: Southern Sudan continues to be plagued by a food security crisis in several states due to a combination of poor rainfall, heightened insecurity leading to population displacements, and high cereal prices. Hope that the second cereal harvest in November would bring some relief has [...]
2009-12-10 13:31:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM1405SOUTHERN SUDAN LRA UPDATE, DECEMBER 14, 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: While the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) activities have diminished in Western Equatoria since September, there are reports that the LRA has moved operations into Raja County, Western Bahr el-Ghazal, and unconfirmed reports of movement into South Darfur. The Ugandan People's Defen [...]
2009-12-15 08:19:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS SU UG CG CT
09KHARTOUM1426SE GRATION'S DECEMBER 15 MEETING WITH UNMIS JUBA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On his December 15 trip to Juba, Sudan, SE Gration met with UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Deputy Regional Coordinator Lise Grande, and heard her concerns regarding mounting food shortages and governance issues in the region. Grande painted a grim picture of food needs, explaining [...]
2009-12-20 08:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SU
09KHARTOUM1474PORT SUDAN AS POTENTIAL LOGISTICAL SOLUTION FOR REGIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: There is no recent history of vessels with USG humanitarian aid cargo waiting for berthing space due to port congestion outside of Port Sudan. The same can-not be said for Djibouti port to the south. In order to avoid delays of emergency food aid delivery to Ethiopia due to port co [...]
2009-12-30 14:54:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU
09KHARTOUM217WHILE ABYEI TEETERS ON THE EDGE, COMPLEX BUDGETIING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over eight months after the June 8 Roadmap Agreement was signed, the Abyei Interim Administration remains stymied by a critical lack of funding. GoS officials described complex and confusing financing procedures, and blame the AIA for failing to take the steps necessary for mo [...]
2009-02-18 12:14:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM410SUSPICIOUS SOUTH DARFUR IDPS CONVINCED OF GOS PLAN TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The most contentious political issue in South Darfur remains the presence of 90,000 plus residents in Kalma camp. Suspicious tribal leaders and IDP representatives speaking with poloff in Nyala expressed fear that the GOS intends to evacuate the camp to force its residents back [...]
2009-03-23 09:13:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM418KALMA IDP LEADERS CONTINUE TO REFUSE HUMANTIARIAN SERVICES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Humanitarian efforts in volatile Kalma IDP camp have ground to a halt as IDP leaders there have responded to the INGO expulsions by rebuffing UN efforts since March 21 to resume services. Unrealistically demanding the return of the expelled NGOs, along with refusing any Sudanese [...]
2009-03-24 14:14:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM421THE UN UNVEILS THE RESULTS OF THE JOINT UN-GNU ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On March 24, the UN released a statement on the joint UN-Government of National Unity (GNU) assessment of humanitarian needs in Darfur following the early March expulsions of non-governmental organizations (NGO). According to the UN, the expulsions resulted in significant [...]
2009-03-25 14:12:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM428ADDING INSULT TO INJURY - GNU DEMANDS EXORBITANT SEVERANCE
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On March 22, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Labor issued a "ministerial decree," arguing that expelled non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had infringed on laws and regulations regarding the humanitarian work in Sudan (an accusation used by the Humani [...]
2009-03-26 15:06:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM429SEARCHING FOR "TRACK THREE" ON DARFUR HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) This is an action message, please see para 7. 2. (SBU) Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for Humanitarian Affairs Ameerah Haq met with a core group of major donors on late on March 25 to inaugurate a weekly ad hoc coordination mechanism in Khartoum between [...]
2009-03-26 15:06:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM436 THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN NORTH DARFUR
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On March 23-24, U.S. Embassy and USAID staff met with staff from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in El Fasher and attended the state-level Interagency Management Group (IAMG) meeting in North Darfur chaired by OCHA to discuss the current s [...]
2009-03-30 08:49:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM439ABYEI ADMINISTRATOR TRAVELS TO KHARTOUM TO RESOLVE FUNDING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Abyei Administrator Arop Mayok is in Khartoum to try to secure the release of GNU revenues for his Administration. The annual Misseriya cattle migration has gone fairly smoothly, but both the Dinka and Misseriya continue to be worried about security as they remain respectively [...]
2009-03-30 14:22:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID SOCI ASEC KPKO UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM440GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN TURNS UP THE HEAT ON INGO SEVERANCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As expelled non-governmental organizations (NGOs) continue to close-out Sudan programs, the Government of National Unity (GNU) continues to harass and intimidate the already traumatized humanitarian staff remaining in Khartoum. According to information from several meetings bet [...]
2009-03-30 14:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM451USAID EXPLORES NEW APPROACH FOR GOS-USAID COOPERATION IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 26, USAID Mission Director and USAID Legal Advisor met with Government of National Unity (GNU) Undersecretary of the Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC),Elfatih Ali Siddig to resume dialogue between USAID and MIC regarding programs on which the two agencies can c [...]
2009-04-01 08:53:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KDEM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC
09KHARTOUM500SE GRATION'S VISIT TO ABYEI: INSECURITY, BUDGET, AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Abyei and Agok on April 7, SE Gration heard a consistent message from residents and officials, who said that the failure to fully implement the CPA and the Abyei Roadmap left the IDPs in Agok fearful of returning home and dependent on international NGOs for all basic services [...]
2009-04-13 08:32:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM511SE GRATION TELLS FM ALOR URGENT ACTION NEEDED IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Foreign Minister Deng Alor, the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration said that it is urgent to address security, humanitarian, and political problems in Darfur. Gration also promised that the U.S. will offer its full support to good-faith initiatives [...]
2009-04-14 09:23:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF EAID ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM514SE GRATION'S MEETING WITH MISSERIYA ARAB LEADERS:
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Khartoum on April 10, the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration heard Misseriya grievances related to their lack of representation in CPA negotiations and the June 2008 Abyei road map and the likely Misseriya rejection of the results of the ongoing arbitration over [...]
2009-04-14 10:44:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM539CODEL KERRY'S MEETING WITH SUDANESE PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 16, Senator Kerry told Presidential Advisor Nafie that the change of administrations in Washington opens an opportunity for the United States and Sudan to begin a new dialogue, and he identified the provision of humanitarian assistance following the expulsion of 13 NGOs [...]
2009-04-21 11:28:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM610Confronting Challenges to Humanitarian Operations in West
[...] (SBU) From April 15 to 17, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) field officers visited El Geneina, West Darfur, for the first time since July 2008. There they discussed the impact of the early March non-governmental organization (NGO) expulsions on humanitarian progr [...]
2009-05-10 15:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PREL PREF ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM631SUDAN - DONORS MEET WITH UN UNDER-SECRETARY-GERNERAL
[...] (SBU) On May 10, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes met with international donors, including U.S. Embassy and USAID/Sudan staff, to discuss the humanitarian situation in northern Sudan following the early March expulsion of non-gove [...]
2009-05-13 11:38:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM632MINNAWI PREPARES TO COUNTER JEM DEPREDATIONS
[...] (C) SLM/A leader Minni Minnawi told CDA Fernandez on May 12 that he is returning to the field in Darfur as soon as possible, perhaps on May 13, to defend his remaining positions in North Darfur against the depredations of the Chadian-suppored Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). JEM attacked S [...]
2009-05-13 11:57:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL UN AU SU
09KHARTOUM633MINNAWI PREPARES TO COUNTER JEM DEPREDATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-13 11:57:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL UN AU SU
09KHARTOUM660 SOUTHERN SUDAN - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN LRA-AFFECTED
[...] Between May 7 and 14, humanitarian officers from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (State/PRM) and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) reviewed the ongoing emergency in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)-affected areas in Eas [...]
2009-05-18 14:15:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV PREL EAID SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM665AMNA DIRAR FORMS EASTERN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LAMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Eastern Front has effectively dissolved after electoral officials denied requests to register it as a political party, Dr. Amna Dirar told poloffs in a May 17 meeting. In response to this setback, Dirar formed the Eastern Democratic Party to provide an alternative to the tri [...]
2009-05-20 04:34:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PINR KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM746DARFUR - HUMANITAREAN SITUATION IN KALMA IDP CAMP CRITICAL
[...] (U) Kalma internally displaced person (IDP) camp, near Nyala, South Darfur, remains one of the most significant humanitarian-gap areas following the early March expulsions of international non-governmental organizations by the Government of Sudan (GoS). According to field reports, the humanita [...]
2009-06-14 06:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM802PARTING THOUGHTS ON THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN DARFUR FROM THE
[...] (SBU) On his last day on the job after five years with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan, two of those years as the OCHA/Sudan Chief, Mike McDonagh (protect) provided USAID officers with a candid tour d'horizon of the humanitarian situation in Darfur. [...]
2009-07-01 08:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM810USAID/FFP DEPUTY DIRECTOR'S TRIP TO DARFUR
[...] From June 20-24, a USAID team comprising the visiting Deputy Director of the Office of Food For Peace (FFP),Washington and Sudan-based FFP Officers and a USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Field Officer visited Darfur to meet with officials from the UN World Food Program ( [...]
2009-07-06 14:39:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PREL PREF ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM811DARFUR HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] (SBU) The number of security incidents involving the UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Darfur has remained stable, with no increases reported in recent weeks. Nevertheless, the situation on the ground is unpredictable, with security remaining a primary concern for agencies. [...]
2009-07-06 14:47:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM91ABYEI ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE DUE TO LACK OF
[...] (SBU) According to Administrator Arop Mayok, the Abyei Interim Administration (AIA) has made little progress in securing funding since Mayok's meeting with CDA Fernandez in early December (ref A). Four months after it was established, the Government of National Unity (GNU) still has provided th [...]
2009-01-25 13:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID SOCI KPKO UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM916TAHA ASSESSES CPA, APPEALS FOR LIFTING OF
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting, Government of National Unity (GNU) Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha offered Representative Keith Ellison a mixed assessment on implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Provisions like Wealth Sharing, he said, have been successful becau [...]
2009-08-07 09:29:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID EFIN PREF PGOV KPKO SU
09KHARTOUM934SEVENTEEN ARRESTED IN CRACKDOWN FOLLOWING CAMP MURDER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Seventeen people have been detained in Abu Shouk and Al Salam Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps following the murder of a pro-government umda (community leader) on August 2, according to IDP community contacts. UNAMID Human Rights has confirmed that at least 13 people are [...]
2009-08-12 10:44:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM990CDA DISCUSSES DARFUR WITH UNAMID COMMANDER
[...] (SBU) Summary. General Martin Luther Agwai, outgoing Force Commander for the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),told Charge on August 26 that Darfuris know little about democracy, and view the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) as a southern party, while the Arab [...]
2009-08-27 11:41:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF KDEM EAID UNSC SU
09KIGALI142RWANDAN-CONGOLESE COOPERATION IN THE WAKE OF
[...] (C) Summary. The conclusion of Operation Umoja ("Our Unity) and the withdrawal of Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) troops from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have set the stage for further concerted bilateral Rwanda-Congo cooperation in the Kivus and beyond. Operations in South [...]
2009-03-04 09:19:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL RW CG
09KIGALI152NO FORMAL REQUEST YET FOR SUPPORT FOR RETURNEES
[...] (SBU) The Government of Rwanda (GOR) Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) and the United Nations High Council for Refugees (UNHCR) jointly held an information session March 3 on the status of preparations and outstanding needs to address Rwandans returning from conflict areas in neighboring [...]
2009-03-06 13:33:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF RW
09KIGALI262"REPATRIATE OR INTEGRATE" - BURUNDIAN REFUGEES IN
[...] (U) Representatives from the Governments of Rwanda (GOR) and Burundi (GOB) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) held a tripartite meeting in Kigali on April 22 to discuss the repatriation of the 2,024 Burundian refugees currently residing in the Kigeme Camp in Rwanda's N [...]
2009-04-30 13:20:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF RW
09KIGALI353UNHCR ON CLOSURE OF KIGEME CAMP, RETURNING RWANDAN
[...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met with United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Rwanda Country Representative Nyekan (protect) to discuss the June 2 closure of Kigeme refugee camp, and the return of Rwandan refugees from Uganda. While 1500 Burundian refugees in Kigeme accepted return in Ma [...]
2009-06-10 11:27:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM RW
09KIGALI47CONGOLESE REFUGEES DEMONSTRATE AGAINST ARREST OF
[...] (SBU) Congolese refugee supporters of detained CNDP General Laurent Nkunda protested in two camps in Rwanda on January 25, Kiziba camp near Kibuye and Gihembe camp in Byumba. Sources at the Rwandan National Police and the local UNHCR office confirmed that the protests turned violent in Kiziba [...]
2009-01-27 14:29:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM RW
09KIGALI529RWANDA URGES REFUGEES IN UGANDA TO RETURN HOME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Approximately 15,000 Rwandan refugees remain in Uganda, despite Rwandan, Ugandan and UNHCR agreement that they should return to Rwanda by August 31. Most of these fled Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, although some have been in Uganda for decades. They are located both in camps [...]
2009-08-26 15:36:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV RW UG
09KIGALI749REFUGEE ISSUES IN RWANDA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Rwanda hosts 53,000 Congolese refugees in three refugee camps and 2,000 urban refugees from various nearby countries. Standards of living in the camps are high, although land and sanitation issues are sometimes problematic. Although relations between Rwanda and the DRC have impr [...]
2009-11-13 12:13:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PGOV CG RW
09KIGALI786KITCHEN GARDENS INCREASE FOOD SECURITY OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: American Refugee Committee (ARC) has implemented a project to improve food production by and for vulnerable families in the Kiziba refugee camp in western Rwanda, using grant funds from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration's 2009 Julia Taft Fund for Refugees. On Novemb [...]
2009-11-25 06:18:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL EAID CG RW
09KIGALI861REFUGEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-17 10:30:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PREF RW
09KINSHASA1033CLAN FIGHTING: EQUATEUR PROVINCE REMAINS TENSE
[...] Summary: Dongo, the sleepy Ubangui river town that was the scene of recent fighting between the rival Enyele and Manzaya clans, is calm, but completely deserted. A small detachment of MONUC's Ghanaian force is in Dongo, along with 300 Congolese Rapid Intervention Police (PIR) elements. The [...]
2009-11-24 17:08:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PGOV CG
09KINSHASA1042 War Crimes Ambassador Rapp visits DRC;
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador at Large for War Crimes (S/WCI) Stephen Rapp visited the DRC from November 12-14 as part of a follow-on mission to Secretary Clinton's August visit. He interacted with a variety of Congolese and international actors in meetings with the Minister of Justice, the Vice [...]
2009-11-30 06:34:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA1052Rumors and Realities of Rwandan Returnees in North Kivu
[...] (SBU) Summary: Statistics from UNHCR, MONUC, the Congolese National Commission for Refugees (CNR),and independent field investigations indicate that significant numbers of ethnic Tutsis are entering North Kivu from Rwanda. UNHCR's estimate of 12,000, while plausible, is probably inflated. [...]
2009-12-02 14:00:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PGOV PREL CG
09KINSHASA1061SA WOLPE IN KINSHASA 2/3: ANGOLAN RESOURCES,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Special Advisor for the Great Lakes Howard Wolpe met with GDRC decision makers and key foreign ambassadors as part of his November 13-17 visit to Kinshasa in which he outlined USG objectives and initiatives in the region (reftel B). In meetings with GDRC Foreign Minister Thambw [...]
2009-12-07 10:17:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHSA PREF CG
09KINSHASA108EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 3
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Human Rights Watch on Bosco --------------------------- 2. (SBU) In a February [...]
2009-02-03 14:22:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA1083DONGO, KATUMBA'S RESIGNATION, AND ANGOLA -- ANY
[...] (S) Summary: The situation in Dongo remains very fluid, with over 74,000 DRC refugees having crossed over the Ubangi River into the Republic of Congo and up to 38,000 IDPs in the area within the DRC. The region remains too unsafe for humanitarian workers to enter. MONUC has publicly announc [...]
2009-12-15 10:05:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETPGOV PREL PINS PHUM PREF MOPS EAID CG
09KINSHASA1084DONGO, KATUMBA'S RESIGNATION, AND ANGOLA -- ANY
[...] (S) Summary: The situation in Dongo remains very fluid, with over 74,000 DRC refugees having crossed over the Ubangi River into the Republic of Congo and up to 38,000 IDPs in the area within the DRC. The region remains too unsafe for humanitarian workers to enter. MONUC has publicly announce [...]
2009-12-15 10:06:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETPGOV PREL PINS PHUM PREF MOPS EAID CG
09KINSHASA1085LRA UPDATE REPORT - DRC
[...] Below is information keyed to reftel request. This report represents a compilation of statistics and information from various governmental, non-governmental, MONUC, and press sources. Post cannot fully verify the various information, nor ensure that the information is exhaustive. It represen [...]
2009-12-15 10:06:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS CG
09KINSHASA1096EMBASSY KINSHASA TEAM VISITS BAS CONGO TO DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) Summary: An Embassy Kinshasa team comprised of two political officers, a representative of the office of the defense attache, and a USAID/OFDA representative visited the province of Bas-Congo on November 3-4 to look at the humanitarian situation. Angola has expelled approximately 140,00 [...]
2009-12-16 13:28:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAID PREF PGOV KWMN PREL AG CG
09KINSHASA1105AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba on December 17 to discuss MONUC's mandate renewal, fighting in the Dongo area of Equateur Province, and DRC-Angolan relations. Septel reports on discussions regarding finding a site to build a new embassy, as well as GD [...]
2009-12-17 16:05:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC MOPS PHUM PREF CG AG
09KINSHASA111EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 4
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. DRC-Rwandan Joint Operations ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC repor [...]
2009-02-04 12:56:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA1129DRC-RWANDA BILATERAL COMMISSION DISCUSSES SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The DRC-Rwandan Joint Grand Commission met in Kinshasa December 17-19, after a recess of 21 years. Minister for International Cooperation Raymond Tshibanda led the DRC delegation and his former homologue and newly appointed Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo led the Rwandan c [...]
2009-12-22 17:02:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS EPET EAIR MARR PREF RW CG
09KINSHASA1149 MASISI LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP YIELDS PROMISING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 12 Michel Kassa briefed USAID Mission Director and TDY poloff on a Wilson Center-organized leadership training workshop held November 23-27 in Goma that brought together 100 representatives of six communities in Masisi District, North Kivu. The end results show prom [...]
2009-12-28 10:56:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF AORC PREL CG
09KINSHASA1154 DRC-ANGOLA COMMUNIQUE ON DECEMBER 15-17 BINATIONAL
[...] (SBU) The DRC-Angola Bilateral Commission met December 15-17 in Luanda. The December 17 joint communique on the meeting refers mostly to migration and economic issues. The Commission agreed, however, to set up an expert working group to discuss maritime boundaries. Regional cooperation mini [...]
2009-12-29 06:29:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET PREL PREF PBTS AO CG
09KINSHASA116EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 5
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Transformed Into Political Party? -------------------------------------- 2 [...]
2009-02-05 13:06:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA12EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 6
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Nkunda Ousted? -------------- 2. (SBU) Goma PolOff reported that CNDP Spokespe [...]
2009-01-06 12:27:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA120DRC: A Look Back on 2008 and a Preview of 2009
[...] (SBU) The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (GDRC) faced substantial challenges in 2008 but made tangible progress in dialogue with armed groups, judicial, decentralization, and economic reforms and development cooperation. In 2009, the DRC faces many of the same challenges that [...]
2009-02-05 18:38:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF EAID KDEM KPKO CG
09KINSHASA122EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 6
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Operation Umoja Wetu (Our Unity) -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) MON [...]
2009-02-06 13:17:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA128 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 9
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Pareco Opts for Political Path ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) Apparentl [...]
2009-02-09 12:40:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA130 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 10
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. DRC Spokesman: Rwanda Will Extradite Nkunda ----------------------------------------- [...]
2009-02-10 10:56:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA138 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 11
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Special Parliamentary Session on RDF/FARDC Operations? ------------------------------ [...]
2009-02-11 12:06:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA140 FOREIGN MINISTER'S FEBRUARY 11 BRIEFING TO AMBASSADORS ON
[...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted embassy late February 9 to request ambassador's attendance at briefing next day by Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwanke at MFA headquarters. Present at the briefing were ambassadors of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, South Af [...]
2009-02-11 14:27:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG UN EUN
09KINSHASA145 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 12
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) MONUC noted reports of clashes be [...]
2009-02-12 12:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA149 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 13
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) MONUC sources confirmed a Reuters [...]
2009-02-13 14:01:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA154 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 17
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in Eastern DRC --------------------------------- 2. (SBU) MON [...]
2009-02-17 15:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA155UNHCR ASSESSMENT OF OPERATIONS AGAINST FDLR AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Deputy Representative, Mohamed Toure, recently met with PolCouns and PolOff to discuss security and humanitarian issues in Eastern DRC, as well as civilian protection challenges stemming from the separate joint operations against th [...]
2009-02-17 15:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM PGOV CG UG
09KINSHASA158 CNDP ENTERS NORTH KIVU PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Local radio in Goma announced on February 15 that there had been a shake-up of the North Kivu provincial cabinet. Most significantly, the CNDP received several ministerial positions in the government. In addition, several new or restructured ministries seemingly reflect the CNDP leader [...]
2009-02-18 13:19:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF CG
09KINSHASA159 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 18
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in Eastern DRC --------------------------------- 2. (SBU) MON [...]
2009-02-18 13:19:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA161 DRC: RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL
[...] (U) This message contains Embassy Kinshasa's responses to questions in reftel, paragraphs 23-27, on trafficking in persons. 2. (SBU) Begin responses to paragraph 23: -- A. What is (are) the source(s) of available information on trafficking in persons? What plans are in place (if any) t [...]
2009-02-18 15:00:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF KTIP KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG ASEC ELAB CG
09KINSHASA164 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 19
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Operations against the FDLR --------------------------- 2. (SBU) The 21st FARDC [...]
2009-02-19 11:59:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA169 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 20
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. FDLR Operations --------------- 2. (SBU) Goma PolOff and post have received info [...]
2009-02-20 13:19:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA172 OPERATION LIGHTNING THUNDER: SITUATION FROM DUNGU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Goma poloff recently traveled to Dungu in Haut Uele with MONUC escorts to gather information related to Operation Lightning Thunder. All MONUC personnel remain garrisoned at the Dungu airstrip, which is well guarded by an unknown number of UPDF and FARDC battalions. No MONUC f [...]
2009-02-23 14:10:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA173EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 23
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in North Kivu -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC [...]
2009-02-23 16:34:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA175 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 24
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in North Kivu -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC [...]
2009-02-24 17:43:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA176 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 25
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. RDF Departure Ceremony ---------------------- 2. (SBU) A large crowd at the Goma [...]
2009-02-25 14:03:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA179 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 26
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. End of Operation Umoja Wetu (Our Unity) --------------------------------------- 2 [...]
2009-02-26 12:00:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA180 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CONTINUES CRITICISM OF MONUC
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. MSF: MONUC Should Be More Pro-active ------------------------------------ 2. (SB [...]
2009-02-26 13:43:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL MOPS PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA187 EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 27
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in North Kivu -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Accor [...]
2009-02-28 09:16:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA189 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 2
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. FDLR Issues ----------- 2. (SBU) As part of the February 25 ceremony held in Gom [...]
2009-03-02 13:14:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA190 BALANCE SHEET ON THE DRC-RWANDAN JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite some significant risks and political fall-out, the joint FARDC-RDF operations were a success on the whole. Most significantly, the operations have solidified the rapprochement between the GoR and GDRC, who were at the brink of war just three months ago. The FDLR is in [...]
2009-03-02 13:17:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA194 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 3
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in North Kivu Province ----------------------------------------- [...]
2009-03-03 10:59:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA197 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 4
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Issues in South Kivu ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) The Interna [...]
2009-03-04 12:44:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA20EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 7
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Internal Discord --------------------- 2. (SBU) Goma PolOff reported that C [...]
2009-01-07 12:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA202 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 5
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Issues in North Kivu and Orientale ----------------------------------------- [...]
2009-03-05 08:54:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA222 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 6; THE
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) USG personnel in Goma met recently with a Congolese civilian who has worke [...]
2009-03-09 10:49:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA223 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 9; SOUTH KIVU ARMED GROUPS
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) U.S. personnel in Goma met on March 6 with Vincent Ngeya Tambwe, who repre [...]
2009-03-10 07:04:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA226 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 10; IDP UPDATE FOR NORTH KIVU
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) U.S. personnel met on March 9 with Gloria Fernandez, head of OCHA in the D [...]
2009-03-10 12:39:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA23EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 8
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Internal Discord --------------------- 2. (C) A senior MONUC political offi [...]
2009-01-08 15:40:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA233 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 12; INTEGRATION PROCESS FAVORING
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) Goma sources recently spoke with two well-informed individuals, who mainta [...]
2009-03-12 14:38:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA237 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 13; STATUS OF GDRC-CNDP TALKS
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) International Facilitation members in Goma met on March 11 with MONUC Poli [...]
2009-03-13 12:09:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA241 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 16: WITHDRAWAL OF
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. UPDF Withdrawal --------------- 2. (SBU) Somewhat unexpectedly, the withdrawal o [...]
2009-03-16 12:03:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA246 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 17: ONGOING INSECURITY IN KIVUS
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Continuing LRA Attacks ---------------------- 2. (U) Both Caritas and MSF have i [...]
2009-03-17 12:03:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA249 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 18
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) During a March 16 briefing, MONUC Goma noted that Uruguayan reinforcements [...]
2009-03-18 15:43:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA266 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 23: GDRC-CNDP AGREEMENT
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. GDRC-CNDP Agreement ------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC informed post on March 23 [...]
2009-03-23 15:17:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA275 ATTEMPTS TO BRING STATE AUTHORITY TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: MONUC-trained police are deploying to former CNDP-occupied areas, as the GDRC attempts to establish state authority in the region north of Goma. Police who worked under the CNDP administration remain in the region, and integration with the national police (PNC) has been uneven [...]
2009-03-26 10:35:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA277 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 26: FURTHER ANALYSIS OF
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Aftermath of GDRC-CNDP Agreement -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) A numb [...]
2009-03-26 12:55:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA28EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 9
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Internal Discord --------------------- 2. (SBU) The CNDP released a commu [...]
2009-01-09 12:55:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA292 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 27
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in the Kivus ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Near Pin [...]
2009-03-27 15:37:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA295 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 30: STEPS TOWARDS NORMALIZATION
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. DRC-Rwandan Diplomatic Relations -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Durin [...]
2009-03-30 10:27:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA3MONUC RESPONSE TO CNDP CLAIM OF FARDC TROOP MOVEMENTS
[...] (SBU) MONUC SRSG Alan Doss refuted CNDP claims of FARDC troop movements within disengagement zones north of Goma in a December 29 letter to CNDP Chairman Laurent Nkunda. Doss also called on CNDP and FARDC to provide for the free movement of people and goods and to protect the "fundamental" ri [...]
2009-01-02 11:22:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA30EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 12
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Internal Discord --------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC military officials re [...]
2009-01-12 10:21:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA307 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 1: DRC SENATE COMMISSION
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Amnesty Law ----------- 2. (U) The DRC Senate's Defense, Security and Border Cont [...]
2009-04-01 13:04:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA309POSSIBLE VOLCANIC ERUPTION NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE SERIOUS
[...] (U) Summary. Scientists predict that Mount Nyamulagira, a volcano 20 miles north of Goma, could erupt in the next few days. Nyamulagira erupts every 2 years on average, and typically has little effect on populated zones to the south. Airborne ash and smoke may have a negative impact on air t [...]
2009-04-01 13:23:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID PREF CG
09KINSHASA31EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 13
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. FDLR Issues ----------- 2. (SBU) MONUC Force Commander Gaye told Goma PolOff, [...]
2009-01-13 11:41:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA319 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 3: AMNESTY LAW STALLED IN
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Amnesty Law Still Pending ------------------------- 2. (U) On April 2, the DRC Se [...]
2009-04-03 12:15:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA323 OPERATION KIMIA II - MORE STICK, LESS CARROT?
[...] (SBU) Summary: MONUC and the FARDC are ramping up preparation for Operation Kimia II with an aggressive campaign to increase steadily pressure on the FDLR. In contrast to Operation Umoja Wetu, the new operation will not include DDRRR outreach efforts to convince Rwandan rebels to return home [...]
2009-04-06 08:10:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA324 MONUC -- NO EASY SOLUTION FOR ANTI-LRA OPERATIONS
[...] (S) Summary: According to MONUC Kinshasa, the FARDC will deploy up to three new brigades in Haut-Ulele for Operation Lightning Thunder (OLT). Rudia II operations against the LRA will assume a more aggressive stance, as well as deploying Joint Protection Teams to help augment civilian protect [...]
2009-04-06 09:51:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MOPS CG
09KINSHASA326 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 6
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) Armed men looted the International [...]
2009-04-06 11:13:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA33THE CNDP RIFT: VIEWS OF TWO PROMINENT EASTERNERS
[...] (C) In separate meetings with PolCouns and PolOff on January 8 and 9, Eugene Serufuli, former North Kivu Governor, and Enoch Ruberangabo Sebineza, a South Kivu civil society activist and former parliamentarian, discussed the recent CNDP split, as well as the prospects of joint DRC-Rwandan mil [...]
2009-01-13 14:31:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PREF CG
09KINSHASA349 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 9; FARDC ABUSES INCREASING
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. FARDC Abuses Increasing ----------------------- 2. (SBU) Most of the rank and fil [...]
2009-04-09 13:02:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA361 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 10
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) The FARDC clashed with the FDLR in [...]
2009-04-10 11:50:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA370 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 14
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Political and Security Situation -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Genera [...]
2009-04-14 12:06:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA377EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 16
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA Operations ------------------- 2. (U) According to media sources, Uganda [...]
2009-04-16 10:45:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA378AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH EUGENE SERUFULI:
[...] (C) During an April 14 meeting with Ambassador, Eugene Serufuli, former RCD Governor of North Kivu, clearly advocated for a decoupage of North Kivu into a Rwandophone-dominated Petit Nord and a Nande-dominated Grand Nord. He cautioned against viewing ethnic relations in Eastern DRC through [...]
2009-04-16 11:15:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS CG
09KINSHASA383 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 17
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) According to MONUC, the FARDC cla [...]
2009-04-17 14:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA388DIMENSIONS OF THE RWANDOPHONE RISE IN NORTH KIVU
[...] (C) Summary: It appears likely that, as previously reported, one of the central dynamics in North Kivu in the coming months will be the rise of "Rwandophone" power. The context of this dynamic is that in late 2008, Presidents Kabila and Kagame probably made a deal whereby Kagame would deact [...]
2009-04-20 13:24:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA39EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 14
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Internal Discord --------------------- 2. (SBU) A senior MONUC official tol [...]
2009-01-14 11:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA390POTENTIAL RESISTANCE TO THE RWANDOPHONE AGENDA IN
[...] (C) Summary: Reftel was analysis of key aspects of what appears to be an active policy, closely connected with recent Kinshasa-Kigali rapprochement, to secure Rwandophone dominance in North Kivu, specifically in the "Petit Nord". This message outlines the likely sources of resistance to this [...]
2009-04-21 09:38:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA394 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 22
[...] The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. Radio Okapi reports that relative calm has [...]
2009-04-22 13:46:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA4CNDP STIPULATES VERIFICATION OF ALLEGED FARDC TROOP
[...] (SBU) A January 1 CNDP statement mass emailed by spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa stipulated the "verification" of CNDP claims of FARDC troop movements into disengagement zones in areas north of Goma. CNDP states that verification is a prerequisite to the resumption of bilateral talks between CNDP [...]
2009-01-02 11:38:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA40EUSECS WORK WITH THE INTEGRATION PROCESS IN NORTH
[...] (C) Summary: According to the North Kivu team head of the European Security Mission in the DRC (EUSEC),Jean-Louis Pecheux, money to pay all FARDC soldiers in North Kivu for the month of March has arrived in Goma. However, most of the newly integrated troops have still not been paid for Janu [...]
2009-04-30 14:18:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA400 VISIT TO A FORMER FDLR STRONGHOLD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Joint Monitoring Group Task Force (JMG-TF) travelled on April 17 to Nyabiondo, which lies 20 kilometers southwest of Masisi, to assess the situation on the ground, particularly with regard to the status of the FDLR in the area. JMG-TF members received a briefing from the MON [...]
2009-04-23 14:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA403 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 24
[...] The items contained in this report consist rincipally of spot information from various soures. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all te information contained therein be confirmed at ths time. Security Situation ----------------- 2. (SBU) Based on movements of LRA cadre, MOUC beli [...]
2009-04-24 10:08:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA406CEREMONY TRUMPETS COMPLETION OF INTEGRATION PROCESS
[...] (SBU) Goma officer, together with other international community representatives, participated in a ceremony in Goma on April 18 to mark the end of the integration process in North Kivu. Representatives of all armed groups in North and South Kivu, except the FRF, were present. 2. (SBU) Rep [...]
2009-04-24 14:01:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA410 EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 27
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) MONUC sources say the villages of [...]
2009-04-27 11:03:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA413CONVERSATION WITH PROMINENT GOMA NGO LEADER ABOUT
[...] (C) Summary: We recently met with Alois Tegera, head of a Goma NGO, to discuss the rise of Rwandophone influence in North Kivu. Tegera expressed hope that the Kabila-Kagame rapprochement would bring long-term stability to North Kivu, while at the same time evincing regret about what he perc [...]
2009-04-28 07:14:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA422 MEETING WITH NEW CNDP LEADERSHIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: We recently met with members of the new CNDP leadership who, while remaining generally patient with the government, nevertheless displayed some anxiety and distrust over certain aspects of the new dynamics in North Kivu. This was displayed primarily in their continued antipath [...]
2009-04-30 07:13:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA423 RESTARTING UNHCR TRIPARTITE MEETINGS
[...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff recently met with officials from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the DRC's National Commission for Refugees (CNR) to discuss USG interest in restarting tripartite meetings. UNHCR recommended that the USG send observers to the Tripartite Working Groups [...]
2009-04-30 08:36:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL AO CG
09KINSHASA424EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 30; BOSCO ALLEGEDLY PART
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Bosco Allegedly Part of Kimia II -------------------------------- 2. (U) BBC and [...]
2009-04-30 09:17:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA430EUSEC'S WORK WITH THE INTEGRATION PROCESS IN NORTH
[...] (C) Summary: According to the North Kivu team head of the European Security Mission in the DRC (EUSEC),Jean-Louis Pecheux, money to pay all FARDC soldiers in North Kivu for the month of March has arrived in Goma. However, most of the newly integrated troops have still not been paid for Janu [...]
2009-04-30 14:18:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA435 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 4
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) MONUC reported significant, but uns [...]
2009-05-04 16:40:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA438 TRANSFORMATION OF KIVU ARMED GROUPS INTO POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Based on recent conversations in Goma, it appears that a majority of the armed groups in North and South Kivu will coalesce into four political parties. The CNDP and PARECO-Hutu will create individual parties, and most of the various Mai-Mai groups will form two umbrella groupin [...]
2009-05-05 13:42:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA441MEETING WITH UNHCR REPRESENTATIVES ON REFUGEE RETURN
[...] (SBU) Summary: We recently met with the UNHCR team in North Kivu. They are under political pressure as a result of the recent thaw in relations between the GDRC and the GoR to facilitate the return of Congolese refugees to the Petit Nord. At the moment, those in Rwanda are staying put, but [...]
2009-05-05 15:37:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA443 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 6
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. GDRC-CNDP Negotiations ---------------------- 2. (U) Local media in Kinshasa rep [...]
2009-05-06 14:01:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA446CURRENT CNDP INTERNAL DYNAMICS: NKUNDA LOYALISTS
[...] (C) Summary: We recently met with Maitre Muiti, one of Nkunda's former right-hand men. He confirmed the return of Nkunda loyalists to the CNDP political fold. However, Muiti underscored the CNDP leadership's anxiety about the GDRC's commitment to the March 23 agreement, and he cast doubts o [...]
2009-05-07 11:22:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF CG
09KINSHASA451AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SOUTH KIVU GOVERNOR
[...] (C) Summary: During a recent conversation with ambassador, South Kivu Governor Louis Muherhwa said he had stressed to senior GDRC officials the need to coordinate upcoming Kimia II military operations with the provincial government. Muherhwa noted that, although integration had generally be [...]
2009-05-07 18:08:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PREF CG
09KINSHASA455SCENESETTER FOR MAY 18-19 VISIT OF U.S. PERMANENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),with the assistance of Great Lakes neighbors and the international community, achieved tangible progress in efforts to resolve persistent conflict and insecurity in its eastern provinces in late 2008 and early 2009. However, despite DRC [...]
2009-05-08 10:57:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UNSC MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA456 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 8
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) FARDC troops rescued four Congole [...]
2009-05-08 12:32:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA46EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 15
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Internal Discord --------------------- 2. (SBU) Precise information regardi [...]
2009-01-15 13:55:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA460 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 11
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) MONUC reports that the LRA ambush [...]
2009-05-11 10:41:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA461RECOMMENDATION: PRM FY 2009 JULIA TAFT REFUGEE FUND FOR
[...] Embassy Kinshasa requests $20,000 from the Julia Taft Refugee Fund for the construction of safety walls around open gas holes in the North Kivu IDP camps of Buhimba and Bulengo. Due to the volcanic activity in the region, there are certain holes in the ground where extremely high, and often l [...]
2009-05-11 15:31:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL CG
09KINSHASA463 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 12: MAI-MAI WITHDRAWAL FROM MARCH
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Mai Mai Withdrawal From March 23 Agreement ---------------------------------------- [...]
2009-05-12 11:38:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA465 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 13: GDRC MEETING WITH
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. First Meeting between Kivu Armed Groups and the GDRC -------------------------------- [...]
2009-05-13 11:40:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA471 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 15
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. South Kivu Integration ---------------------- 2. (SBU) We followed up with sever [...]
2009-05-15 11:04:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA472 DAY OF CELEBRATION: AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES MOBA HOSPITAL
[...] Summary: Ambassador inaugurated a hospital May 6 in Moba, Katanga, which was rehabilitated by the FY2008 Julia Taft Refugee Fund. Local officials and several hundred villagers from Moba welcomed the Ambassador with much fanfare. Following the inauguration ceremony, the delegation reviewed t [...]
2009-05-15 11:04:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV CG
09KINSHASA475 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 18
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA Operations ------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC reported a FARDC-LRA clash [...]
2009-05-18 10:00:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA487 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 20
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Visit of UNSC Ambassadors ------------------------- 2. (U) Ambassadors to the Un [...]
2009-05-20 15:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA495PROMINENT NORTH KIVU TUTSI ON GOVERNOR PALUKU,
[...] (C) Summary: Prominent Tutsi businessmen Emmanuel Kamanzi recently told us that North Kivu Governor Julien Paluku is in a political fight to maintain his position, with President Kabila favoring his replacement by former governor Eugene Serufuli. However, Kamanzi noted that it is still unce [...]
2009-05-26 06:30:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALECIN MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA497 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 26
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained herein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA Operations ------------------- 2. (SBU) The UPDF recently clashed with [...]
2009-05-26 12:48:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO KTIP CG
09KINSHASA5 EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 2
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. North Kivu Security Situation ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) CNDP issued [...]
2009-01-02 11:43:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA501 EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 28
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained herein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) There have been unconfirmed repo [...]
2009-05-28 12:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA503NORTH KIVU HUNDE DISCUSSES RWANDOPHONIE
[...] (C) Summary: A North Kivu Hunde contact recently told us that both DRC President Kabila and Rwandan President Kagame want North Kivu Governor Julien Paluku to step down. While Nande do not oppose Paluku being replaced, they do not want a Rwandophone governor or vice-governor. The GDRC, in t [...]
2009-05-28 14:39:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PINR PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA510ANTI-RWANDOPHONE SENTIMENT AMONGST THE HUNDE
[...] (C) Summary: In a recent conversation with two prominent members of the Alliance of Patriots for a Free Congo (APCLS),the Hunde-led organization vowed to continue its armed struggle against Rwandophones, whom they characterized as "Rwandan refugees." The APCLS remains convinced that the Go [...]
2009-06-01 16:32:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA512 EASTERN DRC NOTES - JUNE 2
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) On May 25, LRA soldiers attacke [...]
2009-06-02 10:49:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA516 EASTERN DRC NOTES - JUNE 3
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA Operations ------------------- 2. (SBU) The FARDC has deployed additi [...]
2009-06-03 12:11:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA519KABILA AND SENIOR GDRC OFFICIALS MEET WITH THE
[...] (C) Summary: The GDRC, including at the presidential level, has held separate meetings with the CNDP, South Kivu Armed Groups (SKAGs),and the North Kivu Armed Groups. We have received a readout on the first two. The CNDP has officially been recognized as a political party, but there is ju [...]
2009-06-05 09:02:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PREF PHUM CG
09KINSHASA521RWANDOPHONIE: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT MEANS -- THE
[...] (C) Summary: Since the early 2009 rapprochement between Kinshasa and Kigali, there has been great focus on the phenomenon of Rwandophone ascendancy in North Kivu to the detriment of other ethnic groups. Much has been reported (reftels) about the different aspects (political, economic, and s [...]
2009-06-05 11:30:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON PREF PHUM MOPS CG
09KINSHASA529VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK: OPEN FOR BUSINESS AGAIN
[...] (U) Summary: Virunga National Park in the eastern DRC reopened for limited tourism in early May 2009 following two years of inactivity. There are still pockets of FDLR rebels and Mai Mai militia in the park, but Park Director Emmanuel de Merode believes tourism is vital to the park's surviva [...]
2009-06-08 07:44:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EIND PGOV PREL PREF CG
09KINSHASA541 EASTERN DRC NOTES - JUNE 10
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA Operations ------------------- 2. (U) On June 7-8, there were skirmis [...]
2009-06-10 09:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA55CONTINUING MONUC DDRRR EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) MONUC/DDRRR is prepared to transport combatants from the Rally for Unity and Democracy (RUD),cantoned at Kasiki, to Rwanda under its existing process. MONUC/DDRRR Officer in Charge Bruno Donat has proposed bringing trucks to Kasiki on or around January 23 to initially transport to Goma [...]
2009-01-20 14:12:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA552 EASTERN DRC NOTES - JUNE 12
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA Operations ------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC reported that 10 abduct [...]
2009-06-12 11:37:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA558 Integration in South Kivu Moving Slowly
[...] (SBU) Summary: Integration in South Kivu continues to be hampered by logistical problems and the FRF's decision not to participate in the process. MONUC is optimistic (perhaps overly) that it can overcome the logistical issues and that lead negotiator Malu Malu will be able to persuade the F [...]
2009-06-16 11:39:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF MASS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA56EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 20: GDRC AND BOSCO
[...] (SBU) At a January 16 press conference in Goma, it was announced that CNDP renegade Bosco Ntaganda had signed a peace agreement with the GDRC. Ntaganda and other high-level CNDP commanders were at the press conference, as well as GDRC and GoR representatives. The press conference was precede [...]
2009-01-20 14:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA573FORMER NORTH KIVU GOVERNOR SERUFULI ON DECOUPAGE,
[...] (C) Summary. Former North Kivu Governor Eugene Serufuli has reiterated complaints about the power of ethnic Nande in North Kivu Province and his support to split the province into Nande and "Rwandophone" dominated zones ("decoupage"). He described his relationship with detained Tutsi rebel l [...]
2009-06-18 07:49:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREF PINR PREL CG RW
09KINSHASA578DRC: MBUSA NYAMWISI -- YESTERDAY'S MAN?
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 9 meeting with TDY poloff, Minister of Decentralization and Territorial Development Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi expressed bitterness and resignation about developments in the DRC. An ethnic Nande, who in October was demoted from Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mbusa strongly c [...]
2009-06-19 09:58:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PINS PREF RW CG
09KINSHASA581EASTERN DRC NOTES -- JUNE 19
[...] (U) The information contained in this cable consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation -- Haut Uele/Dungu -------------------------------------- 2. [...]
2009-06-19 14:19:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PREL PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA6EASTERN DRC NOTES - January 5
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) The CNDP and an unspecified Mai [...]
2009-01-05 09:23:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA618 POSITIVE TREND: CONGOLESE REFUGEES IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: PRM desk officer and poloff visited the Congolese refugee camps in northeast Zambia, escorted a return convoy of 511 refugees to Katanga, and visited refugee return and reintegration projects June 11-17. The government of Zambia (GRZ) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner [...]
2009-06-29 15:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV KTIP ZA CG
09KINSHASA63EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 21
[...] (SBU) MONUC has confirmed that 1,500-2,000 Rwandan troops entered the DRC at 6:30AM on January 20, moving towards Rumangabo, approximately 30 kilometers north of Goma. The RPF forces will reportedly link up with FARDC and CNDP elements in Rumangabo to carry out joint operations against the FD [...]
2009-01-21 16:41:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA64DR CONGO QUARTERLY REFUGEE REPORT, DECEMBER 2008
[...] (SBU) Continued attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have displaced thousands of citizens in the DRC. UNHCR estimates that there are currently over 104,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Dungu Territory. In 2008, UNHCR reported that it assisted with the return of over 39,000 [...]
2009-01-21 16:42:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PREL KPKO CG CF TZ UG ZA UN
09KINSHASA71EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 22
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Rwandan Soldiers in the DRC --------------------------- 2. (SBU) A MONUC spokesp [...]
2009-01-22 13:41:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA78EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 23: NKUNDA CAPTURED
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Nkunda Captured --------------- 2. (SBU) Multiple press sources reported that Nk [...]
2009-01-26 07:22:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA784 CIVILIAN PROTECTION AGAINST LRA ATTACKS
[...] (U) Responses to reftel-specific questions for the DRC are in paragraph two below. Our response has been cleared by USAID/OFDA and DAO representatives at post. 2. (SBU) --What are the current MONUC and FARDC response capacities in LRA-affected areas? The FARDC has approximately 6,000 s [...]
2009-08-25 13:27:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA808ADVANCING THE SECRETARY'S INITIATIVE FOR DRC VIA US
[...] (SBU) The Secretary's August 10/11 visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resulted in several new areas for cooperation and assistance. Building on the Secretary's offer to President Kabila of U.S. technical assistance and expertise, post has launched a strategy for the five themes d [...]
2009-08-31 12:21:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCOR PGOV PREF ECON EAGR EAID KJUS EINV MASS
09KINSHASA81LRA OPERATION LIGHTNING THUNDER - THE VIEW FROM
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides an overview of information with respect to issues surrounding Operation Lightning Thunder against the LRA, since military action began in December 2008. It highlights LRA atrocities committed against the civilian population following and preceding the operat [...]
2009-01-26 11:09:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA814 APPOINTMENT OF POC FOR SGBV
[...] Embassy Kinshasa is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Sara Rasmussen-Tall as the Point of Contact for Sexual and Gender Based-Based Violence (SGBV) programs within the USAID Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo. 2. The USG maintains active programs to respond to severe a [...]
2009-09-03 14:06:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF KWMN KJUS EAID CG
09KINSHASA815USAID MISSION DIRECTOR MEETS WITH DEPUTY SRSG FOR HUMAN
[...] Summary: USAID Mission Director Stephen Haykin met with Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, Leila Zerrougui on August 28. Zerrougui provided a comprehensive perspective on the related issues of weak security apparatus of the Congolese state, impunity and human rights issu [...]
2009-09-03 14:06:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM SOCI KWMN KJUS PREF CG
09KINSHASA822 Developing a matrix for follow-up actions to
[...] Background: A number of possible areas for U.S.-DRC cooperation were discussed during Secretary Clinton's meetings with President Kabila and Prime Minister Muzito (reftels). Embassy has developed a matrix below, at para. 2., as the basis for implementing actions discussed during the Secretar [...]
2009-09-09 08:52:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCOR PGOV PREF ECON EAGR EAID KJUS EINV
09KINSHASA842 Scopes of work for follow-up actions to the
[...] See guidance request at para. 3. 2. Ref A provides a matrix for follow-up actions to the Secretary's August 10-11 visit to Kinshasa and Goma. Additional information on the overall themes and strategy for each action item can be found in Refs B and C. This cable (para. 4) provides, as ind [...]
2009-09-18 09:39:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCOR PGOV PREF ECON EAGR EAID KJUS EINV
09KINSHASA85EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 27
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Joint Plan Briefing ------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC reported that GDRC repres [...]
2009-01-27 12:40:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA852 EASTERN DRC NOTES - SEPTEMBER 21: IDP CAMPS
[...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained herein be confirmed at this time. IDP Camps Almost Empty ---------------------- 2. (SBU) UNHCR reported that most [...]
2009-09-21 15:10:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM KPKO CG
09KINSHASA86AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION WITH PRIME MINISTER MUZITO
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with DRC Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito on the latter's request January 26 to discuss the economic crisis facing the country and the current situation in the east. In particular, Muzito asked for USG help with respect to IMF consideration of emergency financial ass [...]
2009-01-28 13:27:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CG
09KINSHASA873 PROLIFERATION OF MAI MAI GROUPS
[...] (SBU) During a recent visit to Goma, AU Special Envoy Benjamin Mkapa and his aide, General Sumbeiywo, received complaints from various North and South Kivu Mai Mai (local militias) groups about non-implementation of the March 23 agreements. Citing GDRC inaction, especiall since the August mee [...]
2009-09-24 17:21:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM KPKO CG
09KINSHASA886NGO ACTIVIST ON RUDIA II, KIMIA II, AND INTEGRATION
[...] (C) Summary: Noel Atama, a field researcher for the NGO ENOUGH, told PolCouns recently that, although the tide had turned against the LRA, capturing LRA leader Joseph Kony and dismantling the rebel group could ultimately take time. On Kimia II, Atama encouraged the FARDC to stay the course, [...]
2009-09-29 11:28:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PREF PHUM PREL CG
09KINSHASA89EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 28
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Joint FARDC/RDF Operation ------------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC announced on [...]
2009-01-28 16:01:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA896 DDRRR, the FDLR, and Kimia II
[...] (SBU) Summary: Goma PolOff recently met with DDRRR officials, who presented a snapshot of their efforts in the Kivus. Many ex-CNDP units, "integrated" into the FARDC, continue to use child soldiers, according to DDRRR interlocutors. FARDC cooperation with DDRRR over the last month has impro [...]
2009-09-30 15:46:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PREF PGOV PREL PHUM CG
09KINSHASA915RE-EMERGENCE OF CNDP'S NKUNDA WING?
[...] (C) Summary: Former CNDP Spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa recently told us that the "real CNDP," i.e., the Nkunda wing was poised to reenter the DRC political fray. Claiming that the Bosco wing had no authority to sign the March 23 agreement with the GDRC, Bisimwa presented us with a memo outlini [...]
2009-10-07 12:46:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PINR PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA92EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 29
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Joint FARDC/RDF Operation ------------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC reported that [...]
2009-01-29 14:33:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA929GDRC WANTS ORDERLY RETURN OF REFUGEES FROM BURUNDI
[...] (U) Minister of Communication Lambert Mende announced on October 8 that the GDRC was temporarily closing its border with Burundi to "avoid anarchy," as DRC refugees moved to return to the DRC (reftel). Press reports indicated that 480 refugees were turned away attempting to cross into the DRC [...]
2009-10-09 12:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PGOV CG
09KINSHASA936EASTERN DRC NOTES -- OCTOBER 13: BOSCO SAID TO BE
[...] (C) Summary: Sources in Goma have told us that former CNDP military chief Bosco Ntaganda has met with several Mai Mai groups in North Kivu to discuss the possibility of establishing a new militia. A former member of Nkunda's inner circle, a lawyer named Muiti, opined that attempts by Nkunda [...]
2009-10-13 16:14:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PHUM PREF PGOV PREL KPKO CG
09KINSHASA94EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 30
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. LRA Issues ---------- 2. (SBU) MONUC reported that on January 27, LRA rebels kil [...]
2009-01-30 08:46:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA957DRC-ANGOLAN EXPULSIONS: CALMER BUT TENSION UNDER
[...] (C) Summary: UNHCR estimates that the GDRC has expelled nearly 40,000 Angolans, mostly refugees with status, in the past two weeks in retaliation for the GOA's expulsion of 18,000 illegal DRC aliens. UNHCR noted that, according to a recent survey, as many as 42,000 Angolan refugees had expr [...]
2009-10-21 11:00:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL CG AO
09KINSHASA959 Human Rights Watch criticizes Kimia II
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers told Charge d'affaires that the impact of Kimia II on the civilian population is more brutal than MONUC reports indicate. HRW proposes a re-evaluation of Kimia II with pressure on both the GDRC and international community. Two of t [...]
2009-10-21 13:04:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA98EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 2
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) During a February 1 press conference, President Kabil [...]
2009-02-02 12:28:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA990The Rapid Exodus of IDPs from the Camps in Goma, DRC
[...] (U) A rapid field study of the sudden exodus of an estimated 65,000 residents of camps for displaced populations in the Goma area has revealed evidence of excessive use of violence and the violation of humanitarian principles during the camps closure. The sudden camp closures also damaged relat [...]
2009-11-04 09:48:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF CG
09KINSHASA997CONTESTED TRIBAL CHIEF SUCCESSION LEADS TO ETHNIC
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The killings last week of 47 policemen in Equateur Province stemmed from an intra-tribal argument between competing clans' candidates for tribal chieftain. Since then, some 16,000 refugees who fear continued ethnic violence or reprisals by the national police have fled into Congo- [...]
2009-11-05 16:36:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL CG
09KOLONIA19ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR THE FEDERATED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-11 06:13:00Embassy KoloniaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB FM
09KUALALUMPUR102MALAYSIA'S NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Malaysia made some progress in addressing the challenges associated with trafficking in persons during this reporting period, building incrementally on the advances it made last year. Malaysia began implementing and enforcing its comprehensive anti-trafficking law, which went [...]
2009-02-13 09:30:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN KFRD KTIP
09KUALALUMPUR140PRM TEAM DISCUSSES ROHINGYA REFUGEE ISSUE WITH
[...] (C) MFA officials told a visiting PRM team and our Regional Refugee Coordinator February 11 that while Malaysia does not recognize refugee status, it is willing to participate in regional talks on the issue. The representative noted that there is not currently the political will in Malaysia [...]
2009-02-26 08:45:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL SMIG KTIP MY
09KUALALUMPUR188MALAYSIA POSITIVE ON ASEAN SUMMIT, VAGUE ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysia held a positive view of the 14th ASEAN Summit, according to a March 6 Foreign Ministry briefing attended by Polcouns, as the outcomes had reinforced ASEAN community building. Malaysia supported ASEAN's endorsement of a step-by-step regional approach to the Burmese Ro [...]
2009-03-11 11:40:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF ASEAN BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR245MALAYSIAN POLICE INVESTIGATES BURMESE REFUGEE TIP
[...] (U) Inspector General of Police (IGP) Musa Hassan announced a joint investigation by Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) and Malaysia's Immigration Department into allegations that Immigration officials are involved in the trafficking of Burmese refugees along the Malaysia-Thai border. The April 1 [...]
2009-04-02 12:16:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PINR PINS PHUM KTIP BM BX ID MY
09KUALALUMPUR387DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 09:32:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF EAID PK MY
09KUALALUMPUR421 FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR PRM JULIA TAFT FUND FOR REFUGEES
[...] Summary. Post submits for funding consideration the proposal in para 3 from Harvest Centre Bhd. The grant would fund teacher training to improve educational opportunities for all refugee children, but in particular the ethnic Rohingya Muslims, ethnic Burmese Muslims, and Chin communities. T [...]
2009-05-29 08:56:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM SMIG SCUL BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR600TIP: FIRST ARREST OF IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS
[...] (SBU) Police have announced the arrest of five immigration officials under Malaysia,s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act for alleged involvement in a TIP syndicate. As the first GOM acknowledgement of official involvement in TIP, this is a significant step forward in Malaysia's newfound activism [...]
2009-07-21 08:21:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KTIP PHUM PREF PREL MY
09KUALALUMPUR780MALAYSIA: DONOR SUPPORT FOR ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-27 23:36:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ET EUN KE MY PREF SO
09KUALALUMPUR79MALAYSIA: ROHINGYA SITUATION STATUS QUO
[...] (C) Summary: The UNHCR has not detected any change in the status quo or increase in the number of Rohingya refugees entering Malaysia so far this year. A Foreign Ministry official said Malaysia would have "no problem" in joining a contact group with Thailand on the Rohingya situation, but g [...]
2009-02-06 10:14:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL SMIG BM ID TH MY
09KUALALUMPUR84BANGLADESH ENVOY DECLINES TO RETURN TO DHAKA
[...] (C) Bangladesh High Commissioner M. Khairuzzaman, together with spouse Rieta Rahman, called on the Ambassador January 30 and explained that he did not intend to return to Dhaka to face what he termed politically motivated and renewed charges related to the 1975 assassination of Bangladesh fou [...]
2009-02-09 05:54:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PREF BD MY
09KUWAIT157KUWAIT'S 2009 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Executive Summary: Physical abuse of domestic workers and withholding of payment remained the most common trafficking problems for Kuwait,s two million foreign workers. Although the GOK made little real progress in combating these problems over the past year, there were some bright spo [...]
2009-02-24 03:36:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09KUWAIT213DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO PAKISTAN'S IDP
[...] (U) EconCouns delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Hamad Bu Rahmah, Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Counselor on March 10. Rahmah was not aware of the UN and ICRC requests but said he would coordinate with the MFA Economic Department on the GoK response. He sai [...]
2009-03-10 14:57:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF PK KU
09KUWAIT539DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] On May 26, econoff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asian Department Counselor Rashid Al-Hajeri. In response to a query about the USD 49 million commitment made by Kuwait at the Pakistan Donor's conference in Tokyo in April, Hajeri confirmed that this contribution ref [...]
2009-05-28 13:23:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF PK KU
09KUWAIT555KUWAIT HAS NOT YET CONSIDERED NEW AID FOR PAKISTAN
[...] (U) Econoff followed up on the possibility of Kuwait aid for Pakistan's IDPs with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Counselor Rashid Al-Hajri on June 1. Al-Hajri said the GoK's new Cabinet, which met first on May 31, had not yet considered the issue of relief for Pakistani IDPs. Officials from the [...]
2009-06-02 13:47:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID PHUM PK KU
09KUWAIT593TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: GOK WELCOMES CRITICISM, SAYS
[...] POLCOUNS on June 15 delivered reftel demarche notifying Kuwait of its Tier 3 ranking in the 2009 TIP report both to Mr. Hamad Sulaiman Al-Mishaan, First Secretary of the Americas Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),and to Mr. Hamad Al-Medhadi, Undersecretary for Co-operative A [...]
2009-06-15 14:00:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09KUWAIT639KUWAIT'S AID TO PAKISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary and Key Points ---------------------------- -- The Kuwait Red Crescent (KRC) has made preparations to provide Pakistani Internally Displaced Persons with 20,000 tents and 10,000 packages of foodstuffs, cooking ut [...]
2009-06-28 13:20:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PHUM PREL PK KU
09KUWAIT798KUWAIT FUND COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary and key points. On August 12, Waleed Al Bahar, Regional Manager for Central Asian and European Country Affairs, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development(KFAED) met with EconCouns to discuss funding to Pakistan. - Al Bahar was unaware of allegations of any GoK withdrawal [...]
2009-08-13 09:47:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREF PREL KU PK
09KUWAIT883DESIGNATION OF MISSION DISASTER RELIEF OFFICER AND
[...] (U) Per reftel, Chief of Mission (COM) Embassy Kuwait has designated a Mission Disaster Relief Officer (MDRO) and Mission Disaster Relief Alternate (MDRA) to serve as the focal point for disaster-related information, planning, and activities affecting Kuwait. The contact details for MDRO and [...]
2009-09-03 10:14:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SOCI EAID PREF KU
09KUWAIT992KUWAIT PROVIDES EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO
[...] (U) On October 13 the Amir, with the approval of the Cabinet Council, instructed the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society (KRCS) to send immediate emergency humanitarian assistance to Yemen. The Yemeni Red Crescent Society made the appeal for urgent support to the KRSC due to the deteriorating situat [...]
2009-10-15 14:13:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREF PREL YM KU
09LAGOS465NEW WAVE OF NIGERIANS RETURN FROM BAKASSI
[...] (C) ConGen Lagos contacts confirmed press reports that increasing numbers of fishermen and their families are seeking refuge near Calabar in Cross River State, after alleged violent clashes with Cameroonian gendarmes in Bakassi. These individuals claim to have been harassed, illegally detain [...]
2009-12-04 18:22:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS PREF PREL PHUM NI
09LAGOS99NIGERIA: NEW BAKASSI LOCAL GOVERNMENT: WHERE ARE
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 12-14 trip to Cross River State, Poloffs, visit to the New Bakassi Local Government Area indicated that most, if not all, of the Nigerian citizen Bakassi residents who returned to Nigeria were temporarily housed for one to two months, and then sent away to other [...]
2009-03-04 14:51:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF NI
09LAHORE116PUNJAB SUPPORTS IDP EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Human Rights Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered 54,396 individuals in Punjab as of June 6, the majority of whom have taken refuge in private residences, but UNHCR expects many more have arrived in the province. The Punjab Government, Governor and other politi [...]
2009-06-16 02:28:00Consulate LahoreUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PGOV EAID PK
09LIBREVILLE295GABON: GOVERNMENT DISMISSED, REAPPOINTED, AND
[...] (C) On June 19 Interim President Rose Francine Rogombe accepted the constitutionally-mandated resignation of Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong and the demission of the Cabinet of Ministers. Ndong was appointed hours later to head a transitional government that looks much like its predecessor. [...]
2009-06-22 16:29:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREF GB
09LILONGWE103IOM BI-REGIONAL WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS HORN OF AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently held a three-day bi-regional workshop on irregular migration flows from Eastern to Southern Africa. The workshop brought together representatives from eleven governments spanning Ethiopia to South Africa to discuss pot [...]
2009-02-27 09:44:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PREF PHUM KTIP
09LILONGWE105IOM BI-REGIONAL WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS HORN OF AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently held a three-day bi-regional workshop on irregular migration flows from Eastern to Southern Africa. The workshop brought together representatives from eleven governments spanning Ethiopia to South Africa to discuss pot [...]
2009-02-27 14:43:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PREF PHUM KTIP
09LILONGWE606MALAWI: REFUGEE FLOW SLOWED BY TIGHTER BORDERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: RSO and Poloff visited Malawi's Dzaleka Refugee Camp on October 27 and learned that the GOM has tightened border controls along Malawi's frontier with Tanzania. UNHCR and NGO staff believe commercial smuggling of Ethiopian and Somali refugees through Malawi has been reduced due t [...]
2009-11-12 14:57:00Embassy LilongweSECRETASEC KTIP PREL PREF PTER MI
09LILONGWE762009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - MALAWI
[...] SUMMARY. The government of Malawi remains committed in its fight against trafficking but continues to suffer from a lack of resources. Malawi is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking and the GOM acknowledges that trafficking is a problem. The Ministry of Women and Child D [...]
2009-02-13 10:56:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
09LIMA275PERU RESPONSE TO TIP REPORTING QUESTIONS
[...] (SBU) Embassy Lima submits the follow response to the TIP reporting questions found in paragraphs 23-29 of the cable guidance (reftel) in regards to the 2008 Trafficking in Persons report. 2. (SBU) Peru's TIP Situation (paragraph 23) A) The primary sources for information contain [...]
2009-03-03 19:13:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09LISBON101PORTUGAL: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] The Monitoring Center for Trafficking in Persons; 2. The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF); 3. The High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI); 4. The Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV); 5. The International Organization for Migration (IOM); 6. The [...]
2009-02-17 16:22:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD KTIP ASEC PREF ELAB
09LISBON19PORTUGAL QUESTIONS ON RESETTLING CUBAN MIGRANTS
[...] (C) DCM and Pol/Econ Counselor met January 9 with Rui Macieira, Deputy for Security Issues to Portuguese MFA PolDir Nuno Brito. Portuguese President Cavaco Silva announced at UNGA last September that Portugal has doubled the number of asylum-seekers it would accept annually, and we wished to [...]
2009-01-12 10:34:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PO
09LISBON283PORTUGAL: PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS INTENSIFIES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-27 14:57:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF
09LISBON395PORTUGAL ON DONOR SUPPORT FOR ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-22 07:32:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PO
09LISBON46PORTUGAL QUESTIONS ON RESETTLING CUBAN MIGRANTS
[...] This cable is unclassified and can be shared with UNHCR or other interested agencies. 2. Embassy Lisbon officers met January 9 with Portuguese MFA officials regarding Cuban migrants. Portuguese President Cavaco Silva announced at UNGA last September that Portugal has doubled the number of [...]
2009-01-23 14:49:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV PO
09LISBON494PORTUGAL ON FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR INTERNALLY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-11 14:36:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN
09LISBON65FURTHER ON PORTUGAL'S CONSIDERATION OF CUBAN
[...] (C) On January 29, DCM and Pol/Econ Counselor met a second time with Rui Macieira, Deputy PolDir for Security Issues at the Portuguese MFA. This meeting followed up our Jan. 9 discussion (ref A) of the possibility of Portugal accepting for resettlement Cuban migrants currently at Guantanamo. [...]
2009-01-29 17:05:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PO
09LJUBLJANA162SLOVENIA UNABLE TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (C) ADCM met with Tomaz Mencin, head of the Division for Africa, the Near East, Asia and Oceania, and Natalija Raisp, head of the Asia section, on June 9 to urge Slovenia to heed the UNSYG's warning that there will be a severe crisis if the UN is forced to cut services because of the unmet UN a [...]
2009-06-10 05:48:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PHUM PREF PK SI
09LJUBLJANA332SLOVENIA: NO EASY SOLUTION FOR GUANTANAMO DETAINEE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-21 05:51:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PREF PHUM SI
09LJUBLJANA37SLOVENIA PRESENTS CANDIDATURE FOR MEMBERSHIP OF
[...] (U) Embassy received a Note Verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 5. Text follows: 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America in Ljubljana and has the honour t [...]
2009-02-13 16:25:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PGOV UN EAID SOCI SI
09LJUBLJANA38SLOVENIA: 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] The answers provided below are keyed to the questions asked reftel regarding Slovenia's TIP Situation. 2. Slovenia's TIP Situation --------------------------- A. The Government of Slovenia (GoS) provides information on trafficking in persons through its national coordinator for and thr [...]
2009-02-13 17:02:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09LONDON1256KOSOVO CHARGE EXPECTS TO BE NAMED AMBASSADOR TO
[...] (C) Kosovo Charge Muhamet Hamiti informed Political Minister Counselor that he will travel to Pristina the week of May 31 to complete the "bureaucratic" procedures for his appointment as Ambassador to the Court of St. James, with accreditation to New Zealand (per reftel, the GONZ has agreed [...]
2009-05-27 15:17:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALODIP PREF KVPR NZ KV UK
09LONDON1642FOOD SECURITY: INCREASED SPENDING OVER NEXT THREE
[...] (SBU) Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Special Advisor on Development, Brendan Cox, informed Emboff July 7 that food security is a G8 priority for the Prime Minister and that the UK Government will be increasing its food security and agriculture assistance to USD 1.8 billion over the next three y [...]
2009-07-16 10:03:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO UG UK
09LONDON1946SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT HOLDS EMERGENCY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Scottish Government severely underestimated the both USG and UK public reaction to its decision to grant compassionate release to convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi on August 20. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has privately indicated that he was "shocked" [...]
2009-08-24 14:05:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREF PTER UK LY
09LONDON2784LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU TO THE
[...] Embassy London received on December 10 the following letter for the Secretary from Archbishop Desmond Tutu as the Chair of The Elders Foundation. The letter is copied to U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Genera [...]
2009-12-11 15:17:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL PREF OPRC PHUM XA SU UK
09LONDON646PAKISTAN: UK CONSIDERING SUPPORT FOR IDPS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-13 09:59:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF PK UK
09LUANDA747UPDATE ON ANGOLAN RETURNEES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A USAID assessment team visited Uige Province from 20 November to 4 December to assess the current conditions of reception camps and resettlement zones for the approximate 22,000 Angolans who have flooded back to Uige since the DRC began expelling them on 5 October (see reftels) [...]
2009-12-10 18:12:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM AO
09LUANDA784ANGOLA-DRC BILATERAL COMMISSION MEETS, PUTS OFF
[...] (SBU) A cabinet-level delegation led by DRC Minister of International and Regional Cooperation Raymond Tshibanda traveled to Luanda December 15-17 for a meeting of the binational commission between Angola and the DRC. The two sides discussed a range of bilateral issues at the ministerial and [...]
2009-12-23 12:55:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EPET AO CG
09LUSAKA760G/TiP: KEEPING ZAMBIA ENERGIZED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-29 04:51:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KWMN KOCI SMIG SOCI PREF ZA
09LUSAKA768G/TiP: KEEPING ZAMBIA ENERGIZED
[...] (SBU) Summary/Action Request: Zambian authorities and civil society are energized around efforts to operationalize the 2008 Anti-Human Trafficking Act and 2009 Anti-TiP Policy, interlocutors impressed upon G/TiP Reports Officer Stephanie Kronenburg during her October 12-17 visit. With prevent [...]
2009-11-03 05:00:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KWMN KOCI SMIG SOCI PREF ZA
09LUSAKA839Ambassador's Tour d'Western Horizon
[...] (SBU) Summary: Zambia's Central and Western provinces offer great capacity for growth and development but continue to struggle with a lack of good governance, deficiencies in infrastructure, and the unresolved status of refugees. Ambassador met with Amcit entrepreneurs and activists, local le [...]
2009-11-20 04:26:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREF PREL KWMN CASC SOCI ZA AO
09LUXEMBOURG52LUXEMBOURG'S 9TH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) Post hereby submits the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons Report for Luxembourg. 2. (U) Post point of contact for the TIP report is Adam Center, phone: 352 46-01-23.x2227; fax: 352 22-64-57. Post spent approximately 30 hours compiling this report: FSO FO-03: 15 hours; FSN-10: 15 [...]
2009-02-25 11:47:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09MADRID1101SPAIN APPRECIATES USG OUTREACH REGARDING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),on October 7 held a DVC with GOS officials and Embassy Madrid staff in which he expressed his interest in maintaining open dialogue with Spain and outlined areas for prospective co [...]
2009-11-17 07:55:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09MADRID112IOM INVITATION TO MIGRATION AND MICROECONOMIC
[...] (U) The International Organization for Migration representational office in Spain has sent an invitation informing post of the opportunity for two USG representatives to attend the second "International Experts Meeting on Microeconomics and Migration" (RIEMM) which is to take place March 27, 2 [...]
2009-02-02 17:01:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDSP ECON PREF
09MADRID1134IMMIGRANTS IN SPAIN: FEWER JOB OPPORTUNITIES,
[...] SUMMARY. With unemployment nearing 20 percent, immigrants in Spain are finding work sparse and low-paying, according to informal interviews conducted in past several months. Immigrants, many from Latin America or North Africa, have seen previously abundant sources of work dry up in the first [...]
2009-11-25 16:22:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREF PREL SMIG
09MADRID1186SPAIN WILL CONSIDER ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE TO WFP
[...] Post conveyed reftel appeal December 11 to MFA SubDirector General for Continental Asia Jose Luis Garcia Galan, who agreed to discuss the matter with colleagues at the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). 2. AECID contacts, in response to the urgent appeal [...]
2009-12-15 16:08:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON ETRD IO PGOV PHUM PK PREF PREL
09MADRID187NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR SPAIN
[...] (SBU) Pursuant to REFTELS, the following is input from Embassy Madrid and CG Barcelona for the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Post will need to supply an update cable to incorporate additional legal and judicial statistics. Embassy POC is Political Officer Hugh Clifton, Te [...]
2009-02-20 20:33:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SP KT
09MADRID298SPAIN: SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FOR NINTH ANNUAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-23 18:03:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SP
09MADRID373SPAIN: FURTHER INFORMATION FOR NINTH ANNUAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-13 06:19:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SP
09MADRID952DONOR SUPPORT FOR ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA, AND KENYA:
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Pablo Yuste, Head of the Department of Emergencies and Post-Conflict in the Office of Humanitarian Action in the Spanish Agency for International Development Aid (AECID). Yuste stated that Spain was aware of the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Ke [...]
2009-09-24 09:15:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR PREF ET SO KE SP
09MANAGUA1031CONTINUATION OF TPS FOR NICARAGUA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Per ref A, following is Embassy Managua's assessment of Nicaragua's current conditions and ability to reabsorb the roughly 4,000 Nicaraguans granted Temporary Protective Status (TPS) after Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Nicaragua has yet to fully recover from Hurricane Mitch, and the [...]
2009-10-19 21:52:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF SMIG NU
09MANAMA107EMBASSY MANAMA'S INPUT FOR BAHRAIN TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Bahrain's government demonstrated a commitment to actively combating Bahrain's human trafficking problem. At the same time, senior Bahraini officials recognize that they need to continue their efforts to change society's attitude toward TIP issues, and to educate officials on h [...]
2009-02-22 13:51:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09MANAMA147BAHRAIN HOSTS ANTI-TIP CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The government of Bahrain hosted a two-day international conference on combating trafficking in persons. The conference was the first of its kind in the Gulf. The conference concluded with a resolution to continue the fight against trafficking in persons. End Summary. 2. ( [...]
2009-03-11 12:53:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF
09MANILA444PHILIPPINES: INPUT FOR THE 2009 TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) This cable includes the Mission's input for the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The information and statistics cover the period from March 2008 to February 2009, unless otherwise noted. The Mission's TIP point of contact is Political Officer Michael Pignatello, PignatelloMX@stat [...]
2009-03-02 08:30:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG RP
09MAPUTO289MOZAMBIQUE: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) Mozambique is a source and possibly a destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. The use of forced and bonded child laborers is a common practice in Mozambique's rural areas, often with the complicity of family [...]
2009-02-26 11:07:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KTIP PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD ASEC PREF
09MAPUTO615MOZAMBIQUE'S PROPOSAL FOR FY 2009 JULIA TAFT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to reftel 08 State 014280, U.S. Embassy- Maputo submits the following proposal for consideration under the FY 2009 Julia Taft Refugee Fund. The Zimbabwe-Mozambique Solidarity Alliance (ZIMOSA),working in partnership with the Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM) [...]
2009-05-29 08:20:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL
09MAPUTO806ZIMBABWEANS IN MANICA CANNOT AFFORD TO GO HOME
[...] (C) Summary: Extending along much of Zimbabwe's eastern border, Manica Province has been the recipient of a wave of Zimbabwean refugees, as well as a higher-than-average incidence of cholera over the past year. Currently, refugees are fewer and the effects of the cholera outbreak earlier this [...]
2009-07-21 09:26:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SMIG ZI MZ
09MAPUTO968ILLICIT DIAMOND TRADE: FROM ZIMBABWE TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs traveled to Manica to investigate rumors of rampant diamond smuggling from Zimbabwe. Open borders and corrupt government officials make trafficking in goods and people easy, and poloffs found evidence of both. In response to Ref A, Charge met with Minister of Natural Re [...]
2009-08-31 12:12:00Embassy MaputoSECRETPREL PGOV ECON EMIN PREF PHUM SMIG MZ ZI
09MEXICO2079 O CANADA, WE STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 13, 2009, Canada announced that it will implement a visa requirement on travelers from Mexico and the Czech Republic, effective at 12:01 am, July 17. The putative reason, according to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is to quell the flow of applicants from both countri [...]
2009-07-16 19:46:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS PREL PREF ECON PGOV SMIG MX EZ CA
09MEXICO2658MEXICO ON UNRWA AT 60 - SPEAKING ROLE FOR ISRAEL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-04 23:59:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA KPAL IS MX
09MEXICO2692CANADIAN VISAS FOR MEXICANS, PART TWO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since Canada's sudden imposition of a visa requirement for Mexican (and Czech) tourists on July 16, the Mexican government has countered only with a visa requirement for Canadian diplomats. Despite the initial visa backlog and outcry by the Mexican media that the requirement was [...]
2009-09-11 22:52:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS ECON PGOV PREF MX CA
09MEXICO48MEXICO ON POSSIBLE IRAN PRESIDENCY OF UNDP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-08 23:23:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF IR UN EAID MX
09MEXICO586NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT -
[...] The mission's point of contact on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is Poloff Suzanne Archuleta. She may be reached by telephone at (52) (55) 5080-2000, ext. 4806, or by fax at (52) (55) 5080-2247 or ArchuletaMS@state.gov. Post requests that the names of the non-governmental organizatio [...]
2009-02-27 23:36:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG KTIP
09MEXICO814MEXICO PLEASED WITH IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH CUBA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Mexico is pleased with Cuban cooperation in keeping with the Migration MOU signed last November that so far has reportedly contributed to the repatriation of over 100 Cubans. On the commercial front, Mexican exports rose by approximately 80 percent in 2008. Given lingering c [...]
2009-03-20 13:23:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM PREF SMIG ETRD CU MX
09MEXICO828NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT -
[...] The mission's point of contact on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is Poloff Suzanne Archuleta. She may be reached by telephone at (52) (55) 5080-2000, ext. 4806, or by fax at (52) (55) 5080-2247 or ArchuletaMS@state.gov). Post requests that the names of the non-governmental organizati [...]
2009-03-20 22:39:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
09MINSK86BELARUS: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (U) This is Embassy Minsk's submission for the ninth annual TIP report. Responses, based on information received March 12, 2009, are keyed to ref A and subsequent tasking ref B. 2. (SBU) This report identifies anti-TIP NGOs and international organizations by name. However, for security [...]
2009-03-16 14:13:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB BO
09MONROVIA81LIBERIA: DISASTER ADVISORY ON MOTH AND CATERPILLAR
[...] SUMMARY: This is a DISASTER ALERT cable to report widespread infestation of crops by caterpillar moths (presumed by some to be 'army worms') in central and northern Liberia. The Liberian Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced January 20 a state of emergency in 50 villages of central Liberia [...]
2009-01-23 15:44:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF WFP IZ LI PHUM
09MONTEVIDEO89URUGUAY 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: There is a relatively low incidence of trafficking in persons in Uruguay but the government is nonetheless undertaking robust efforts to improve public consciousness, detection, prosecution and protection of victims, to the extent possible with existing resources. These efforts to ta [...]
2009-02-13 16:55:00Embassy MontevideoUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG UY
09MOSCOW1003RUSSIA BLAMED FOR BLEAK SOUTH OSSETIA CIRCUMSTANCES
[...] (C) Summary: In a recent spate of reports on the situation in South Ossetia, the Russian print and internet media painted a bleak picture of post-conflict living conditions and allowed discontent with Russia to shine through. The press noted the lack of aid and ineffectiveness of reconstruct [...]
2009-04-20 13:30:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF RS GG
09MOSCOW11ARMENIA: STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY GAPS IN REFUGEE PROTECTION,
[...] (U) Summary: A draft UNHCR Armenia conference report on November 2008 stakeholders' consultations identifies significant legal, economic, and social challenges to refugees' integration in the impoverished former Soviet republic. While it makes dozens of recommendations for strengthening prote [...]
2009-01-07 14:10:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL SMIG AM
09MOSCOW1249KADYROV FEELING THE PRESSURE AFTER TERRORIST
[...] (C) Summary: Less than one month after Moscow lifted the counter-terrorism regime in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov is beginning to show even less patience with opposing views. He has declared an end to the amnesty procedure by which former fighters came down from the mountains and out of the fore [...]
2009-05-18 14:39:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PHUM PINR PREF RS
09MOSCOW181UNHCR SECURITY ADVISOR IN NORTH CAUCASUS HOPEFUL
[...] (C) Summary: According to UN security officials based in Vladikavkaz, Ingushetia's new president has made a promising start as he tries to restore calm to the restive North Caucasus republic. Recent attacks on civilians in North Ossetia, meanwhile, do not appear to these observers to portend [...]
2009-01-27 15:24:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF MARR UNHCR PINR PTER RS
09MOSCOW182INGUSHETIYA AT THE CROSSROADS
[...] (C) Summary: In his first three months as president of Ingushetiya, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has made all the right moves to tackle what he believes are the three root causes of extremism and crime in the northern Caucasus republic -- corruption, unemployment and a lack of credibility in the gover [...]
2009-01-27 15:36:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR PREF ECON RS
09MOSCOW1836 RUSSIA: COMPETING PRIORITIES, POOR FUNDING INHIBIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Refugee and IDP women in Russia face even greater hurdles to equality than their sisters in the native and local population (refs A and B). Frequently they come from cultures in which women are subordinate to men, and populations in exile appear inclined to cling to outmoded ge [...]
2009-07-17 10:54:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF SOCI PHUM KWMN RS
09MOSCOW196RUSSIAN SOLDIER FLEES TO GEORGIA
[...] (U) On January 27 Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Colonel Aleksandr Drobyshevskiy announced that Georgian special services had captured Junior Sergeant Aleksandr Glukhov of the Russian army the previous night (reftel). Drobyshevskiy said that Glukhov's statements that he fled his post in th [...]
2009-01-28 15:19:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS PBTS RU GG
09MOSCOW323ICRC Maintains No Humanitarian Crisis in South Ossetia
[...] (SBU) Summary: In Moscow February 5, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Russian Delegation officials stated that there is no humanitarian emergency in South Ossetia, despite reports of potential food shortages. Although there are some needs that continue to demand attention, such [...]
2009-02-11 07:49:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM PINR ICRC RS GG
09MOSCOW389IRC Chief Says Working in Chechnya Getting Easier
[...] (SBU) Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC)'s Russia Country Director spoke with Moscow diplomats February 11 about his work in the North Caucasus, some of it funded by State/PRM, and about the difficulty of functioning amid instability and corruption. Despite the obstacles, IRC's [...]
2009-02-18 06:08:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM RS
09MUSCAT253EMBASSY MUSCAT INPUT TO THE 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) This report covers anti-trafficking efforts by the Government of Oman (GOO) from April 2008 to March 2009. Paragraph three begins text. Compiling the report required 48 hours at the FS-04 level, 3 hours at the FSN-09 level, 6 hours at the FS-02 level, 3 hours at the FS-01 level, and 3 hou [...]
2009-03-30 12:15:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PREF SMIG ASEC MU
09MUSCAT619OMAN FORMALLY CONFIRMS $12 MILLION DONATION TO AMELIORATE
[...] (SBU) Embassy received June 13 a diplomatic note confirming an Omani contribution of $12 million to address the IDP crisis in Pakistan. This result comes on the heels SRAP Holbrooke's June 6 meeting with Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. The amount represents an increase of $2 million over the [...]
2009-06-14 05:11:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL EAID MU PK
09MUSCAT987OMANI RELIEF AID TO YEMEN'S SA'ADA REFUGEES
[...] (U) Oman has begun new deliveries of relief supplies to Yemen according to both the Oman and the Yemen press. According to the Oman Charitable Organization (OCO),Oman's official aid agency, there will be delivery of 300 tons of food, tents, mattresses and medicine, destined for Sa'ada refugee [...]
2009-10-28 12:36:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PREF MU
09NAIROBI1030SOMALIA - DADAAB REFUGEES' VIEWS ON THE WAY FORWARD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-21 12:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1031SOMALIA - DADAAB REFUGEES' VIEWS ON THE WAY FORWARD
[...] (SBU) The residents of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 270,000 refugees, the vast majority of whom are Somali, were bitter about the last 18 years of disorder in Somalia but generally optimistic about rebuilding the country. However, the refugees were divided on the cause of the [...]
2009-05-21 12:44:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1032SOMALIA - OPPORTUNITIES FOR PD ENGAGEMENT WITH DADAAB
[...] (SBU) The residents of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 270,000 mostly Somali refugees, demonstrated a wide range of activities aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation among Somalis in Dadaab and in Somalia at large. These worthy projects certainly merit support, and offer gr [...]
2009-05-21 12:46:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1033SOMALIA - DADAAB REFUGEES' VIEWS ON U.S. POLICY
[...] (SBU) The residents of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 270,000 mostly Somali refugees, espoused a wide range of both positive and negative views on the U.S. government's involvement in Somalia. In general, most were grateful for U.S. aid to the camp, but many felt the United Sta [...]
2009-05-21 13:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1105SOMALIA - ON AND OFF FIGHTING IN MOGADISHU CONTINUES AMIDST
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to well-placed sources within and outside of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG),on and off fighting continues in Mogadishu between TFG forces, al-Shabaab and other extremists, with the TFG making some gains in western areas of the city. A May 31 gai [...]
2009-06-04 05:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1179SOMALIA - SOMALILAND DEMOCRACY AT CRITICAL JUNCTURE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Democracy in Somaliland is at a critical juncture. After being delayed four times, presidential elections are scheduled for September 27. However, negotiations are still under way between the three political parties regarding a Code of Conduct that attempts to level the playin [...]
2009-06-11 14:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO
09NAIROBI1428SOMALIA - Writers Program's Somali Outreach
[...] Four American writers conducted an extremely successful outreach visit to Somali youth during an ECA- and University of Iowa's International Writers Program-sponsored June 9-18 trip to Kenya. While they also did Kenya-specific programming on the same trip, this message highlights the outreach t [...]
2009-07-07 13:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1585 Somalia - U.N. Response to al Shabaab Raids
[...] (SBU) Al-Shabaab's July 20 raids on U.N. compounds in Baidoa (Bay Region) and Wajid (Bakool Region) have raised anew divisions among United Nations agencies working in Somalia. In addition, these incidents raise serious questions about the trade-offs between upholding humanitarian principles a [...]
2009-07-23 14:32:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL PREF SO
09NAIROBI1616SOMALIA - Report from Dadaab: Women's Bleak Reality
[...] Summary: While Dadaab's 287,000 refugees are all suffering from tremendously overstretched resources and services, women are disproportionately affected by the difficult conditions and daily challenges of camp life. The most pressing issues identified by the women and girls in Dadaab include [...]
2009-07-28 07:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI KWMN KE SO
09NAIROBI1885KENYA BACK TO THE FUTURE: CHARTERHOUSE BANK LOOKS
[...] (C) Ambassador met with Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Njuguna Ndung'u at the latter's request on September 2. Ndung'u provided Ambassador with a heads-up that Charterhouse Bank (reftel a),which has been closed by order of the Ministry of Finance and supervised by the CBK for the last [...]
2009-09-08 14:09:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KCRM KE PGOV PREF KCOR
09NAIROBI2024A "STEP BACKWARD" ON LAND IN DADAAB
[...] Summary. This is an action request. See paragraph 7. The Government of Kenya (GOK) has yet to authorize the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to construct a fourth refugee camp in Dadaab to relieve severe overcrowding. UNHCR Africa Region Head George Okoth-Obbo said the de [...]
2009-09-25 10:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE OPDC PGOV PREF PREL
09NAIROBI2029 HORN OF AFRICA EL NINO REGIONAL
[...] The recently concluded Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in East Africa Climate Outlook Forum confirmed the presence of the El Nino weather phenomenon in the greater Horn of Africa region. El Nino conditions are expected to result in normal to above-normal rainfall during the [...]
2009-09-28 08:50:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2079 SOMALIA FY 2010 DISASTER REDECLARATION
[...] According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU),nearly 3.8 million people require humanitarian assistance in Somalia, representing 50 percent of the total population and a 17 percent increase since January 2009. The combined ef [...]
2009-10-01 06:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF SO
09NAIROBI2081KENYA FY 2010 DISASTER REDECLARATION.
[...] An estimated 3.8 million drought-affected individuals require emergency food assistance in Kenya, according to the joint Government of Kenya (GOK),U.N., and non-governmental organization (NGO) Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG). The poor performance of the February to June long rain [...]
2009-10-01 08:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2083KENYA - 2010 HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANNING
[...] On September 23 and 24, the Kenya U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) organized the 2010 Kenya Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan (EHRP) workshop to asses current and projected countrywide humanitarian conditions to inform the development of the 2010 EHRP schedul [...]
2009-10-01 12:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2093KIBAKI THE KEY TO DADAAB
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Nairobi has consistently engaged senior Government of Kenya (GOK) officials and members of the international community to resolve severe overcrowding in the Dadaab refugee camps (Reftels C-N). Since last October, the Ambassador has repeatedly brought to the attention o [...]
2009-10-02 11:29:00Embassy NairobiSECRETKE PREF PREL
09NAIROBI2141SOMALIS IN KENYA BEING RECRUITED TO FIGHT IN
[...] (C) Summary: Reports from the Garissa Member of Parliament (MP) and UNHCR officials that Government of Kenya (GOK) officials and Somalis aligned with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) are supporting the recruitment of Kenyan-Somalis in North East Province and Somali refugees from the [...]
2009-10-09 06:00:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNKE MARR MOPS PINR PREF PREL PTER SO
09NAIROBI2169UPDATE ON RECRUITMENT OF KENYAN SOMALIS TO FIGHT
[...] (C) On October 9, Garissa town's Member of Parliament Aden Duale told PolOff that during a second conversation with Kenyan Minister of Defense and fellow Kenyan Somali Mohamed Yusuf Haji, Haji not only told him that Somalis were recruiting young men in Kenya to fight in support of the Transiti [...]
2009-10-15 10:00:00Embassy NairobiSECRETMARR MOPS PINR PREF PREL PTER KE SO
09NAIROBI2245USAID/OFDA and USAID/FFP Marsabit, Isiolo, and
[...] (U) From October 5 to 10, USAID's Offices of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) staff visited Laikipia District, Rift Valley Province, and Isiolo and Marsabit districts, Eastern Province, to assess reports of food insecurity associated with poor perfo [...]
2009-10-28 05:27:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2360USAID/OFDA COAST PROVINCE FLOODS ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) According to the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS),heavy rains from late October to early November resulted in flooding in Malindi, Magarini, Kwale, Kilifi, Mombasa, and Tana Delta districts, Coast Province, killing at least four people and displacing more than 1,000 households. In respons [...]
2009-11-16 11:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2361A/S SCHWARTZ DISCUSSES FOOD AID IN SOMALIA WITH WFP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRM Assistant Secretary (A/S) Eric Schwartz met with World Food Program (WFP) Somalia, based in Nairobi, to seek clarification on how food aid is delivered in Somalia and the potential ramifications on WFP operations if the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) restrictions are n [...]
2009-11-16 14:21:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALEAID KE PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI2364GOK BORDER MANAGEMENT SUPPORTS REQUESTED IN RETURN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 21, PRM Assistant Secretary (A/S) Eric Schwartz and Ambassador Ranneberger met with three senior government of Kenya (GOK) officials (Director General of National Security Intelligence Services Michael Gichangi, Minister of Immigration Otieno Kajwang, and Minister of [...]
2009-11-17 08:06:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKE PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI2586Ambassador's Letter to GOK on Expanding US Support to
[...] Ambassador Ranneberger sent the following letter on December 8 to the Kenyan Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security Professor George Saitoti. The letter was a follow-up to the conversation PRM Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz and the Ambassador had with Mi [...]
2009-12-15 13:54:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF SO KE PREL
09NAIROBI2594COLLECTIVE DEMARCHE TO PRESIDENT KIBAKI ON DADAAB
[...] During the visit of PRM Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz to Kenya on October 17 - 22, the donor community agreed to a collective demarche urging President Kibaki to authorize the opening of a fourth Dadaab camp (09 Nairobi 2363). Ten Ambassadors signed a joint letter which was sent to P [...]
2009-12-17 06:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF KE SO
09NAIROBI267GOK COMMITS TO FOURTH DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP
[...] During his recent visit, UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) Craig Johnstone told the Ambassador that he had received a "commitment" from the Kenyan Prime Minister to a package approach to resolving Somali refugee issues - including the allocation of land for a fourth camp - to relieve severe [...]
2009-02-11 11:45:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI308AMBASSADOR REQUESTS PERSONAL INTERVENTION OF
[...] Following the Ambassador's meeting with the UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) on February 5 (Reftel),the Ambassador sent the following letter to the Kenyan Prime Minister on February 18 urging the PM's personal intervention in implementing the package of activities agreed with the UNHCR DH [...]
2009-02-19 14:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE PGOV PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI450USRAP EXPLORES POSSIBILITY OF INITIATING REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) UNHCR-Djibouti anticipates submitting between 400-450 Priority 1 referrals to the USRAP (US Refugee Admissions Program) should USRAP reinitiate refugee resettlement in Djibouti. Embassy Djibouti, while neutral about USRAP re-initiating resettlement activities, is concerned that USRAP [...]
2009-03-06 07:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYDJ ET PREF PREL SMIG SO XA
09NAIROBI571KENYA: GOK THOUGHTS ON DADAAB REFUGEES AND FOURTH
[...] Summary: Government of Kenya (GOK) officials underscored the need for a "special solution for a special problem" during a recent discussion about Somali refugees in Kenya with representatives of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). They highlighted Kenya's waning patience w [...]
2009-03-23 09:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV EAID PHUM KE ET SO
09NAIROBI708Somalia - Humanitarian Funding Not Keeping Pace With Rising
[...] (SBU) At the end of March 2009, contributions to the U.N.-led Common Appeals Process (CAP) stood at $251 of the $918 million requested for humanitarian operations in Somalia. Food aid accounts for $200 million of this received amount, leading to an imbalance in the response. Several sectors hav [...]
2009-04-08 04:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL PREF SO
09NAIROBI718Somalia - Central Region Drought Decimating Livelihoods
[...] A briefing on April 2, by the United Nation's Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) to donors highlighted the severity of the ongoing drought in Somalia's Central Regions (Mudug and Galgaduud extending into Hiran). Based on an analysis of historical indictors, FSAU states that this drought is comp [...]
2009-04-08 16:46:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF SO
09NAIROBI873SOMALIA - IDPs RETURNING TO MOGADISHU
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-05 10:55:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF SO
09NAPLES64LAMPEDUSA: THE TINY ITALIAN ISLAND THAT LOOMS LARGE FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 13 visit to Italy's southernmost territory, the island of Lampedusa, we observed a well-run migrant detention center that provides humane treatment, food and medical care to those who arrive by boat from North Africa. While the camp has suffered from severe overc [...]
2009-05-22 19:34:00Consulate NaplesUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL SMIG PGOV PBTS PHSA UNHCR IT LY
09NASSAU99THE BAHAMAS -- NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (U) As requested in ref A, please find Post's responses to questions for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. -------------------------------------- Para 23 -- THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) A. What are the sources of available informatio [...]
2009-02-13 20:54:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG BF
09NDJAENA423MISSION ENDORSES DIS SUPPORT AT UPCOMING UN
[...] (SBU) The UN will host an October 2 pledging conference in Brussels for P5 nations and other donor countries to seek financial support for programs under MINURCAT's Trust Fund. The UN is specifically seeking 21.6 million USD to finance continued training for the Chadian Integrated Security De [...]
2009-09-29 11:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA101HUMANITARIAN CONTINGENCY PLANS IN CHAD: LEGAL,
[...] (SBU) The recent expulsion of 13 key NGOs implementing humanitarian assistance programs in Darfur has sparked concern that affected IDPs may consider moving across the border into eastern Chad in order to access established assistance programs targeting the existing population of approximately [...]
2009-03-24 11:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF UN CD SU LY
09NDJAMENA111MAKING CHAD A PART OF THE SOLUTION IN DARFUR: AN
[...] This is an action message: See para 5 and subsequent. ---------------------------- CHAD MOST AFFECTED BY DARFUR ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) Besides Sudan itself, Chad is the country most affected by the Darfur Crisis. Virtually all Darfuri refugees are in Chad, which also [...]
2009-03-27 13:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM PTER MASS LY SU CT CD
09NDJAMENA122MINURCAT DEPUTY SRSG ON NEW PKO'S FIRST WEEKS
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT Deputy SRSG Rima Salah briefed the diplomatic community April 1 on MINURCAT's achievements during its first two weeks of existence, as well as future challenges. Salah reviewed UNSCRs 1778 and 1861, which mandates security and protection of international humanitarian workers [...]
2009-04-07 12:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM UN SU CH CD
09NDJAMENA125PLANNING FOR NEW REFUGEES IN CHAD; NGO CAPACITY
[...] (U) Much of the information in this cable was previously transmitted to Department offices by RefEmail. ------------------------------------- NGO PLANS FOR POSSIBLE DARFURI INFLUX ------------------------------------- 2. (U) Ndjamena-based Regional Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) met with [...]
2009-04-08 11:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU UN LY CD
09NDJAMENA128AMBASSADOR PRESSES GOC ON TIP/CHILD SOLDIERS, JEM,
[...] (SBU) This is an Action Request -- please see Para 12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Ambassador told FORMIN April 10 that he was seeking an audience with President Deby to discuss several issues of capital importance to the US, namely: The need for the GOC to make speedy, concrete p [...]
2009-04-14 15:10:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PHUM MASS KTIP PREF MARR AU
09NDJAMENA129 HUMANITARIAN UPDATE FROM NDJAMENA
[...] (U) This cable constitutes one of a series of weekly updates on the humanitarian situation among Darfur refugees in Chad and Chadian IDPs. ------------------- MINURCAT TAKES ON RESPONSIBILITY FOR HUMANITARIAN SECURITY IN EASTERN CHAD ------------------- 2. (U) Ndjamena-based Refuge [...]
2009-04-14 16:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV UN SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA139CHAD: AN ELECTORAL HISTORY (1959-2009).
[...] (SBU) A key U.S. goal in Chad involves the success of the August 13 Accord process, which comprises political and electoral reforms leading to credible legislative and local elections in 2010 and similar presidential elections in 2011. The Chadian people have had a variety of national voting [...]
2009-04-21 10:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL PINR CD
09NDJAMENA143SCENESETTER FOR SE GRATION'S MAY 1-3 VISIT TO CHAD
[...] (C) Embassy N'Djamena welcomes your visit to Chad. This message is aimed at providing you with background for use in meeting with Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, and for other requested meetings. It focuses primarily on Chad's role in the Darfur crisis, in regional humanitarian assistan [...]
2009-04-27 14:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MASS MARR LY SU CD
09NDJAMENA149CHAD REBEL COLUMNS CROSS INTO SOUTHEAST CHAD FROM
[...] (SBU) CHAD REBELS CROSS THE BORDER: We believe that three or perhaps four columns of Chad rebels have entered southeastern Chad since yesterday, and are likely strung out along the border from points SE of Abeche to the CAR/Sudan/Chad tri-border area, north and south of Goz Beida town. Tota [...]
2009-05-05 13:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA151CHAD UPDATE, 12PM, MAY 6: CHAD GOVERNMENT FORCES
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message is based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others. We gather information from all sources and try to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Some reports recirculate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition. Some reports are based on rumors or garble f [...]
2009-05-06 11:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA153CHAD UPDATE, AFTERNOON MAY 6: CHAD GOVT AIR FORCE
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message is based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others. We gather information from all sources and try to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Some reports re-circulate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition. Some reports are based on rumors or garble [...]
2009-05-06 15:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA156CHAD UPDATE, MORNING 5/7: REBELS CONSOLIDATE,
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message presents a composite view of the current situation based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others, and our best analysis. Some reports re-circulate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition; others are based on rumors or garbled fact. We cite few s [...]
2009-05-07 11:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA161CHAD UPDATE, 5/8: GOC DEFEATS REBELS DECISIVELY
[...] (SBU) CHAD REBELS STATUS: As of morning May 8, the Chadian military inflicted two decisive defeats on Chad rebels. The rebels appear to have been decisively defeated in May 7 battles south of Am-Dam and later near Am-Timan, inflicting heavy casualties. Remaining rebels are dispersed and in [...]
2009-05-08 11:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA162KHALIL IBRAHIM PRESENTS -- "THE NEW JEM"
[...] (SBU) JEM Chief Dr. Khalil Ibrahim told SE Gration May 2-3 that his recently enhanced and expanded movement was the "New JEM" whose top priority was peace, not conquest. Khalil claimed to represent over 200 Sudanese tribes, offered proof that a number of former commanders of separate rebel m [...]
2009-05-08 13:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF AU LY CD
09NDJAMENA163CHAD UPDATE: FM FAKI'S MAY 9 REPLY TO U.S.
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro issued a demarche to FM Moussa Faki Mahamat May 9 to discourage GoC hot pursuit of remaining Chadian rebels into Sudan; to remind the GoC of the moral high ground that Ndjamena occupied at present; to describe SE Gration's efforts to convince the Sudanese government to [...]
2009-05-10 12:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA165CHAD UPDATE 5/10: GOC TRUMPETS DECISIVE VICTORY
[...] (SBU) MILITARY BALANCE: As of May 10, the Government of Chad (GOC) continues to trumpet its "decisive victory" over Union of Resistance Forces (UFR) rebels in southeastern Chad. On May 6 and 7, Chadian military forces bombed rebel columns near Koukou, Angarana, Kerfi, and Haouish. According [...]
2009-05-10 15:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA170CHAD UPDATE MAY 11: LIFE RETURNING TO NORMAL ONE
[...] (SBU) RETURN TO NORMAL: Life is returning to normal as the GOC and others continue to assess the impact of the May 4 rebel incursions and plan for the future. MINURCAT has resumed all operations in the east. 2. (SBU) DEBY VISITS TROOPS: President Deby, accompanied by acting Minister of [...]
2009-05-11 16:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA175CEDANT ARMA TOGAE? WHERE CHAD GOES FROM HERE,
[...] (SBU) The invasion of eastern Chad by Chadian rebels from Sudan, their decisive defeat by Chad government forces, and the GOC,s initial reaction to those events last week confirmed a changed balance of power between Chad and Chad rebels and raised questions regarding the GOC's military and d [...]
2009-05-13 09:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF UN SU LY CH IS QA CD
09NDJAMENA177CHAD'S PRESIDENT CONTINUES ANTI-SUDAN STANCE
[...] (SBU) Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno held a rally May 13 in N'Djamena to protest against "Sudanese aggression," given the May 4-7 incursion by Chadian rebels from Sudan. Five times during the President's 15-minute speech, he focused specifically on Sudanese President Omar El Bashir, sayi [...]
2009-05-14 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA181HUMANITARIAN UPDATE FROM NDJAMENA REGIONAL REFUGEE
[...] (U) This cable continues a series of regular updates on the humanitarian situation among Darfur and CAR refugees in Chad and Chadian IDPs. This report is from the Accra-based Regional Refugee Coordinator for Resettlement currently in Chad on temporary duty. ------------------------------ Ch [...]
2009-05-16 09:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV UN SU GH CD
09NDJAMENA184CHAD PLANS TO WITHDRAW FROM AU AND QATARI
[...] (SBU) FORMIN Faki thanked Ambassador May 15 for the USG's public support of Chad during the recent rebel incursion and explained that the GOC was likely to "freeze" or "suspend" participation in AU-sponsored and Qatar-sponsored mediation efforts to normalize Chad-Sudan relations, because of AU [...]
2009-05-18 13:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA185CHAD ADMITS MILITARY "HOT PURSUIT" INTO SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) The GOC confirmed publicly May 17 that it had made good last week on its long-standing pledge to exercise "right of hot pursuit" by pursuing fleeing Chad rebels back into Sudan and carrying out air strikes against them. The GOC appears to have displayed some restraint in these operat [...]
2009-05-18 13:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA188USG AND FRIENDS SUPPORTS UNICEF'S EFFORTS ON CHILD
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro and French Ambassador co-hosted a meeting (held in this Embassy) May 19 for key partners and international NGO representatives to discuss the current situation of children affected by armed conflict in Chad and to explore ways in which Chad's international partners inter [...]
2009-05-21 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP PREL PGOV PREF SU UN CD
09NDJAMENA190STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: CHAD'S 2009 POPULATION
[...] Summary: Chad's second post-independence population census kicked off May 19 with registration of the President. The census is a necessary precondition for national elections in 2010 and 2011, and will facilitate donor planning for development assistance. The USG has contributed $1.5 million [...]
2009-05-21 16:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KDEM PHUM PREF PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA192STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: CHAD'S 2009 POPULATION
[...] Summary: Chad's second post-independence population census kicked off May 19 with registration of the President. The census is a necessary precondition for national elections in 2010 and 2011, and will facilitate donor planning for development assistance. The USG has contributed $1.5 million [...]
2009-05-21 16:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KDEM PHUM PREF PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA195CHAD-SUDAN: GOC SHOULD "SEIZE THE MOMENT" TO
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro and DCM told GOC Ambassador to the U.S. Bechir May 22 that the GOC should "seize the moment" to exploit diplomatically its recent military successes. We acknowledged Bechir's expression of gratitude for the clear USG public position on the rebel attack and told him tha [...]
2009-05-24 14:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MARR MASS SU LY IS CD
09NDJAMENA196JOUBERT TO DEBY: TRANSLATE BATTLEFIELD VICTORY
[...] (C) Visiting French Presidential Advisor Joubert issued a demarche to President Deby and senior aides May 23, urging the GOC to translate its recent victories on the battlefield into diplomatic successes by exercising great care in its approach to Sudan, by reaching out to some of the Chad re [...]
2009-05-25 10:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LY SU UN FR PREF PHUM MOPS CD
09NDJAMENA197JEM-SLA/AW ALLIANCE OFFER ON THE TABLE, BUT IN THE
[...] (SBU) JEM and SLA/AW leaders met north of N'Djamena May 22 to discuss forming a political alliance, according to a JEM member who spoke with poloff May 25. SLA/AW leaders told us that that the difference between the secular SLA and the Islamist JEM would likely prevent an alliance, although t [...]
2009-05-26 15:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA208CHAD'S DC AMBASSADOR CLAIMS USG NOW HAS "MORE
[...] (U) This is an Action Message -- please see para 8. ---------- KEY POINTS ---------- 2. (C) Key Points are: -- Chad AMB to the US Bechir claims USG support of Chad vs. Sudan following recent rebel attack gave USG "unprecedented leverage" with President Deby; -- Bechir said this w [...]
2009-06-03 14:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA213CHAD COMMITTED TO NEGOTIATED PEACE WITH SUDAN BUT
[...] (SBU) Key Points are: -- FORMIN Faki was effusive in his praise for President Obama's Cairo speech, saying it effectively rebutted extremist and Islamist propaganda; -- President Deby welcomes the opportunity to meet with A/S Carson and SE Gration at AU Tripoli Summit; -- Deby had succ [...]
2009-06-05 10:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA214INTRA-CHADIAN DIPLOMACY: REBEL DEFECTIONS
[...] (U) This message has an Action Request for Khartoum -- see para 6. ------------ KHARTOUM 729 ------------ 2. (SBU) Khartoum 729, another of the Embassy's superb reporting and analysis efforts, confirms the potentially decisive impact on the Chad rebellion of the GOC's victory over at [...]
2009-06-08 16:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA232UN POLICE ASSESSMENT MISSION TO CHAD REPORTS
[...] Charge d'affaires and Refugee Coordinator received an outbriefing from members of the DPKO Mid-Term UN Police Assessment Mission to Chad June 13, including a generally positive assessment of performance by the DIS (Detachement Integree de Security, the special police force established to prov [...]
2009-06-16 08:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA234MINURCAT CHIEF DESCRIBES POST-EUFOR TROOP
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, UN Special Representative Victor Angelo da Silva chaired a meeting of diplomatic reps in N'Djamena to address concerns about MINURCAT's peacekeeping activities, including the inability of some contributing states to deploy fully-equipped peacekeeping contingents i [...]
2009-06-16 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM SU CT CD
09NDJAMENA235CHAD WEEKLY HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] RefCoord participated in the latest IASC meeting June 9 led by the Humanitarian Coordinator and attended by UNDSS, as well as representatives of humanitarian organizations. DSS reported that crime levels are increasing in eastern Chad as is usual at the beginning of rainy season, with a partic [...]
2009-06-17 08:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA259EU SPECIAL ENVOY PURSUES GOC-REBEL DIALOGUE
[...] (C) The EU,s Special Envoy for Africa, Ambassador Georg Lennkh, updated Charge June 26 on his recent efforts to bring the GOC and Chadian rebel groups together to discuss peaceful resolution of their differences. Lennkh said that at least some rebels seemed amenable to meeting with the GOC, [...]
2009-06-26 16:39:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF SU LY EU CD
09NDJAMENA267MINURCAT CAN HELP REDUCE CHAD-SUDAN TENSIONS, SRSG
[...] (SBU) During the June 29 meeting with Special Envoy for Sudan Scott Gration, MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo made the following key points: -- MINURCAT (and likely UNAMID) could assist Dakar Contact group border monitoring mission, with amended mandates(s) and several hundred more troops, espe [...]
2009-06-30 14:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS PHUM SU LY QA CT CD
09NDJAMENA269SE GRATION SEES SLA/AW CAUTIOUS AND JEM INTRANSIGENCT ON
[...] (SBU) Darfur's rebel groups will continue to oppose the Doha process for different reasons, representatives from Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) and the Justice Equality Movement (JEM) told Special Envoy Gen. Scott Gration, separately, on May 27 in N'Djamena. SLA/AW's main command [...]
2009-07-02 08:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA282 CHAD STARTS IMF PROGRAM BASED ON BUDGET REVISIONS
[...] (SBU) The IMF and GOC announced July 7 an agreement for a six-month IMF "Staff Monitored Program" to run April-October 2009, based on Chad's revised 2009 budget that meets IMF's requirements for better public revenue management in the face of diminished oil prices. The IMF-GOC agreement, aft [...]
2009-07-13 09:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EFIN ECIN PGOV PREF CD
09NDJAMENA283WHAT THE USG EXPECTS FROM CHAD: PEACE IN DARFUR,
[...] (SBU) Ambassador told Chad FORMIN Faki July 10 that The Secretary's willingness to meet with him was primarily a function of the centrality of he Darfur crisis to USG policyin the region; that she would be interested to hear from him how Chad could best play an active and positive role in rest [...]
2009-07-13 12:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA284CHAD'S ELECTRICITY: MORE GENERATION BY 2011, AWAITING
[...] (SBU) Yaccoub Brahim Djouma, Director General of the national electric company, had little relief to offer for the weeks-long power outages that were commonplace in the capital, counting on replacement parts and cooler temperatures, in a meeting with emboffs July 6. He outlined a long-term p [...]
2009-07-13 15:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EINV ENRG PREF CD
09NDJAMENA286GOC CONSIDERS RETROFITTED C-130H AIRCRAFT TO MEET
[...] (SBU) This is an Action Message -- see para 8. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Chad remains interested in acquiring C-130 aircraft to fulfill its significant airlift needs, despite earlier unsuccessful attempts to procure C-130Js through FMS. GOC-USG conversation [...]
2009-07-14 11:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MASS PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA290GOC POISED TO ACT ON GTIP RECOMMENDATIONS
[...] (SBU) The GOC's inter-ministerial committee to address the recommendations in the USG action plan on trafficking in persons met July 14 with local human rights organizations and UNICEF representatives. The participations agreed on a collaborative way forward regarding investigations of abuse [...]
2009-07-16 15:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA292GOC AIR ACTION VS. REBELS IN SUDAN BORDER AREA
[...] (SBU) GOC military aircraft carried out operations from their Abeche base July 16. It is not yet confirmed if these operations were carried out inside Chad or across the border in Sudan. French diplomats and MINURCAT officials report that the GOC moved two SU-25 aircraft to Abeche on July 15 [...]
2009-07-17 11:54:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA294CHAD ELECTORAL PROCESS: DESPITE PROGRESS, DIVIDED
[...] (SBU) Chad's electoral reform process took two steps forward and one step back last week. Both the government and opposition sides agreed on their lists of 15 names each for members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). The CENI then elected July 16 by consensus Ngarmadja [...]
2009-07-21 09:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA298GOC PROVIDES LETTER CONFIRMING "PSI BATTALION"
[...] (SBU) VISITING DASD HUDDLESTON ASKED DEFMIN KAMOUGUE JULY 6 FOR DOCUMENTARY CONFIRMATION OF HIS ASSURANCES THAT THE CHADIAN ARMY'S COUNTER-TERRORISM UNIT (AKA "PSI BATTALION") HAD BEEN PLACED UNDER THE CHAIN OF COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF JOINT STAFF OF THE CHAD MILITARY. 2. (SBU) ON JULY 8, [...]
2009-07-22 08:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER MASS PGOV PHUM PREF CD
09NDJAMENA304UNSYG CONDEMNATION OF CHAD "ATTACK" ON SUDAN
[...] (C) The Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General issued a statement July 20 alleging and condemning a Chadian "aerial attack" of Sudanese territory. The facts of the UN statement contradict Embassy reporting and other sources that indicate the July 16 Chadian air action against suspected Ch [...]
2009-07-27 11:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY UN CD
09NDJAMENA305USG SHOULD SUPPORT MINURCAT'S REQUEST FOR
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- See para 8. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) MINURCAT and DOD officials concur on the need for additional USG military staff officers to deploy to MINURCAT. DOD has recommended that a total of eight USG military officers serve in the peacekeeping miss [...]
2009-07-27 11:20:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS MARR KPKO SA CD
09NDJAMENA306REBEL LEADER SOUBIANE RALLIES TO THE GOC AND
[...] (SBU) Chad's official press reported July 27 that Ahmat Hassaballah Soubiane, leader of a major Chad rebel group, returned to Chad July 26, along with two allied rebel group leaders, after having reached agreement with GOC representatives, led by National Mediator Abderaman Moussa, along the [...]
2009-07-27 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF LY SU CD
09NDJAMENA311GOC SHOULD BUILD ON MOMENTUM TOWARD NORMAL
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro told FORMIN Faki July 24 that GOC should build on the momentum created by his successful visit to Washington and productive talks with senior USG policy makers to move forward on normalization of Chad-Sudan relations by ending the "proxy war" between the two countries' [...]
2009-07-28 06:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA318PARLIAMENT PASSES POLITICAL PARTY CHARTER,
[...] (SBU) The National Assembly passed a key law supplementing the July 16 law regulating political parties (Political Party Charter) that provoked opposition outrage. The supplemental law added to the Charter law a controversial provision that prohibits elected officials from switching parties af [...]
2009-08-03 07:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA334FRENCH CDA ON CHAD-SUDAN BORDER ISSUES
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR MET WITH FRENCH CHARGE ERWAN DE GOUVELLO AND SECOND COUNSELOR FOR POLMIL AFFAIRS JEROME THEUERKAUFF ON AUGUST 6. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF OUR DISCUSSION WERE: -- THE FRENCH WERE SKEPTICAL OF RECENT SUDAN GOVERNMENT ACCUSATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE INCURSIONS INTO SUDAN BY CH [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS MARR SU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA336SRSG ANGELO ON U.S. SUPPORT FOR MINURCAT, CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR NIGRO MET WITH MINURCAT SRSG VICTOR ANGELO ON AUGUST 7. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF OUR DISCUSSION WERE: -- ANGELO WAS EFFUSIVELY APPRECIATIVE OF THE RECEPTION AND COMPREHENSION HE RECEIVED DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO WASHINGTON, PARTICULARLY IN THE DEPARTMENT. -- ANGE [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY FR UN CD
09NDJAMENA341DEBY OPINES ON CHADIAN SECURITY, REBELS, AND OIL REVENUE IN
[...] (SBU) President Deby, in an unexpected move, held an unusually inclusive press conference August 11, which is Chadian Independence Day. The Presidency invited all of Chad's journalists, including -- exceptionally -- reporters from independent media, to the event. Deby spoke at length in res [...]
2009-08-14 08:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM ECON EPET CD
09NDJAMENA342FORMIN DENIES ATTACKING SUDAN AND SEIZING
[...] (SBU) Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat told Ambassador August 13 that no/no Chadian military units had attacked Sudanese villages in recent weeks; that the GOC had not/not seized any Sudanese properties in Chad, but had prohibited the reopening of the Sudanese School in Ndjamena f [...]
2009-08-14 11:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS PHUM LY QA SU UN CD
09NDJAMENA343LIBYA INTENSIFIES ITS SUPPORT TO CHAD AND ITS EFFORTS TO
[...] (SBU) LIBYAN AMBASSADOR GREEN SALEH GREEN DESCRIBED TO AMBASSADOR ON AUGUST 6 HOW LIBYA HAD INTENSIFIED BOTH ITS BILATERAL SUPPORT FOR CHAD AND ITS EFFORTS TO NORMALIZE CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS SINCE HIS RETURN TO NDJAMENA AS COM. LIBYA IS INVESTING HEAVILY IN CHAD'S ECONOMY -- BUDGET SUPPORT, TR [...]
2009-08-17 08:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY FR UN CD
09NDJAMENA348TIP: CHAD'S POSITIVE EFFORTS ON IMPLEMENTING USG
[...] (SBU) The Secretary General of the Ministry of Human Rights reported August 17 on the GOC's progress against the USG's TIP action plan for Chad. The SG highlighted the inter-ministerial team that visited southern towns to investigate suspected cases of child herders, providing recommendatio [...]
2009-08-19 13:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA350NEW SUDAN DCM ON CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS: "DIPLOMACY
[...] (C) Sudanese DCM gave POLOFF August 18 an overview of Chad-Sudan issues, stressing that the GOS sought international pressure on JEM to return to Doha, and that the GOS itself was pressuring Chadian rebels to return to Chad. DCM expressed his desire to have Chad-Sudan relations "normalize" a [...]
2009-08-21 11:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA PINR CD
09NDJAMENA353HISTORIC LEADER GOUKOUNI OUEDDEI RETURNS TO CHAD,
[...] (SBU) Ex-President and long-time opposition figure Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad August 18, met with President Deby and PM Abbas, and announced that he would return to Chad "permanently" to continue his efforts towards "national reconciliation" both with internal opposition political part [...]
2009-08-24 12:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PINR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA355CHAD'S NATIONAL MEDIATOR ON A ROLL: GOUKOUNI, SOUBIANE
[...] (SBU) Chad's National Mediator Abderamane Moussa told Ambassador and visiting SFRC Staffdel August 24 that the GOC was fully committed to national reconciliation with Chad rebels and to facilitating similar reconciliation in Darfur. Moussa described his role in bringing ex-rebel Ahmat Soubian [...]
2009-08-25 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PINR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA361GOC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-28 11:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA362GOC DENOUNCES USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS TO MILITARY COMMANDERS,
[...] (SBU) The MFA invited embassies and international organizations to accompany a cadre of GOC officials visiting Chadan military barracks to address the issue of child soldiers. The brigadier general heading the delegation proclaimed a forceful message of intolerance for the practice of child s [...]
2009-08-28 11:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA380 DEBY'S BEST BOYS: CHADIAN PRIME MINISTERS SINCE 1992
[...] (SBU) Idriss Deby took power by a coup d'etat in December of 1990, after which he ruled for several years through a number of "revolutionary councils" staffed by his supporters. Since Deby "regularized" his government in 1992, some ten men have served as Prime Minister, one of them twice. T [...]
2009-09-04 10:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PINR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA381SRSG ANGELO CONFIRMS MASSIVE DEFECTION FROM REBEL
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo told Ambassador September 3 that he could confirm that as many as 1,500 former Chad rebels crossed back into Chad from Sudan in the past few days. ------------------------ SOUBIANE AND HASSABALLAH ------------------------ 2. (SBU) Angelo said that th [...]
2009-09-04 15:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS MARR SU LY PKO CD
09NDJAMENA391UN EXPERTS ON CHAD ELECTIONS: CENSUS WILL TAKE
[...] (SBU) A UNDP-sponsored team of electoral experts told us that they found Chad's "overall electoral environment" to be "positive" and had therefore recommended "significant UN support" to Chad's electoral process, including a "massive international observation mission." The team briefed Embof [...]
2009-09-10 14:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM UN CD
09NDJAMENA399FORMIN FAKI SAYS CHAD ACTING RESPONSIBLY ON JEM,
[...] (U) ACTION MESSAGE: This is an action message: See para 8. ------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Chad FORMIN Faki told Ambassador September 16 that he was looking forward to representing Chad as Head of Delegation at the UNGA and afterwards in Washington. Faki said that Chad had cont [...]
2009-09-16 12:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF SU PHUM LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA40EMBASSY N'DJAMENA'S EAC CHANGES POST POLICY ON
[...] (SBU) Embassy N'Djamena's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on Thursday, February 5 in order to discuss the deteriorating security situation in Abeche, the regional capital of eastern Chad. 2. (SBU) RSO presented a briefing on the current security situation in eastern Chad. He emphasiz [...]
2009-02-10 16:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID PREF CD UN
09NDJAMENA401FRENCH IN CHAD SEE IMPROVED CLIMATE FOR CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (SBU) French Ambassador Bruno Foucher, who returned last week from nearly two months in France, told me September 15 that he saw more indications of willingness to normalize Chad-Sudan relations on both sides of the border than he had before he left N'Djamena in mid-July. ----------- REASO [...]
2009-09-16 17:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF SU LY QA FR MARR CD
09NDJAMENA406AN EER FOR CHAD
[...] (SBU) We learned two days ago of President Deby's decision to accept the invitation to lunch with POTUS and other African heads of state during upcoming UNGA meetings. This visit affords Embassy a good opportunity to lay out Chad's record of progress since its nadir of contemporary existence [...]
2009-09-18 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY QA FR PKO MARR
09NDJAMENA413 GOC STILL COLLECTING INCREASED WORK PERMIT FEES FOR
[...] (SBU) The Chadian Presidency's August decision to suspend implementation of a plan to demand large increases in expatriate work permit fees, following interventions by Esso and the USG, appears to have given some breathing room to some foreign workers and to firms who wish to employ them (incl [...]
2009-09-24 16:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD EPET PREL PREF CD
09NDJAMENA422 DISASTER RE-DECLARATION FOR CHAD COMPLEX EMERGENCY
[...] The Republic of Chad continues to suffer from a complex humanitarian emergency affecting more than 1.1 million persons, including Sudanese and Central African refugees, Chadian internally displaced persons (IDPs),and other conflict-affected Chadians. The disaster is beyond GOC's capacity to [...]
2009-09-29 08:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD
09NDJAMENA423MISSION ENDORSES DIS SUPPORT AT UPCOMING UN
[...] (SBU) The UN will host an October 2 pledging conference in Brussels for P5 nations and other donor countries to seek financial support for programs under MINURCAT's Trust Fund. The UN is specifically seeking 21.6 million USD to finance continued training for the Chadian Integrated Security De [...]
2009-09-29 11:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA431HIGH PROFILE GOC CORRUPTION CASES MAY BE THE START OF A
[...] (SBU) As Chad's oil revenue dwindles and the GOC exhausts its 2008 budgetary surplus, allegations of corruption are dominating local political discourse and headlines. Chad's Ministry of Morality, charged with investigating corruption within government ranks, has been hard at work, sparing no [...]
2009-10-08 08:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA436CHAD: BIG SPENDING AND GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED HOMES
[...] (U) With the National Assembly in session and the security situation here still calm, the pace of activity on a number of domestic issues that we have been tracking has picked up. -- On October 9, the Council of Ministers approved a long-awaited 2010 budget, which will shortly be presented [...]
2009-10-09 13:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF ECON EFIN CD
09NDJAMENA437COTTON: CHAD'S SECOND EXPORT SECTOR IN TROUBLE
[...] (U) CotonTchad, the GOC's largest parastatal and second largest exporter (after the oil sector),is in danger of bankruptcy. Complicated arrangements with growers require complex financial deals, which are challenging for a company that is poorly managed and plagued by corruption. In recent [...]
2009-10-09 14:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF ECON ETRD CD
09NDJAMENA438GHAZI VISIT TO CHAD; DEBY-BASSOLE MEETING; DOHA
[...] (SBU) UN/AU Darfur Mediator Djibrill Bassole briefed USG officials October 10 on his meetings earlier in the week with Chadian President Idris Deby Itno, FONMIN Moussa Faki Mahamat, and Sudan rebel leaders from the JEM and various SLA factions. Bassole indicated that Sudanese Presidential Ad [...]
2009-10-10 18:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM QA SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA441CHAD: UPDATE ON CIVIL SOCIETY DISCOURSE AND
[...] (SBU) The Electoral Reform Committee created to implement the reforms of the August 13, 2007 Accord continues to focus on the task of educating civil society on political discourse, in preparation for 2010 elections. After some initial uncertainties (reftel),the Committee has organized two [...]
2009-10-14 17:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA447STATUS OF OURE CASSONI REFUGEE CAMP -- MOVE SEEMS
[...] (SBU) The refugee camp in northeastern Chad on the Chad-Sudan border known as Oure Cassoni appears slated to be moved away from the border. The GoC announced on 14 September that the camp had to move (reported Ref A),and has designated a new site for its location. The United Nations High C [...]
2009-10-16 09:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL SO CD
09NDJAMENA456CHAD POLMIL ISSUES: C-27JS VICE C-130JS? AND NEW
[...] (SBU) The GOC is exploring the purchase of C-27J "Spartan" military transport aircraft, a joint Italian (Alenia) and U.S. (Lockheed Martin) product, in place of or to complement the C-130Js it long has sought to buy. If the Lockheed Martin connection with Alenia permits the USG to help Chad, [...]
2009-10-20 07:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS MARR PREF PTER PINR CD
09NDJAMENA457GOC "INTRA-CHADIAN DIPLOMACY" SCORING CONTINUED
[...] The Deby Government's outreach to Chad rebels and former regime opponents, which we have long characterized as "intra-Chadian diplomacy," to distinguish it from classic, "Westphalian" intra-state diplomacy, has played a major role in ensuring Chad's national security by dividing and weakening [...]
2009-10-20 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA462JEM ON THE DEFENSIVE
[...] (SBU) Khalil Ibrahim and Secretary of Humanitarian Affairs Suleiman Jamous, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Djibril Ibrahim, Secretary for Administration Abubakar Hamid, Economic Advisor Bushara Suleiman Nour, and Secretary for Finance Azadein Yousif. asked to see Ambassador Nigro and others at [...]
2009-10-20 16:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA465CHAD: RUSSIAN SPECIAL SUDAN ENVOY BRIEFS PERM-3
[...] (SBU) Russian Special Envoy for Sudan Mikhail Margelov briefed U.S., French, and Chinese Ambassadors to Chad October 20 on his Chad visit, at Russian Embassy over breakfast. 2. (SBU) Margelov said that a recent seminar in Moscow on the CPA was a Russian attempt to interest Sudanese parties [...]
2009-10-21 12:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM RU SU FR CD
09NDJAMENA466CHAD: FRENCH HERE CONTINUE BULLISH ON CHAD-SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) French DCM Erwan de Gouvello gave DCM an example of his nation's continued optimism about the prospects for Chad-Sudan rapprochement, GOC outreach to Chad rebels, and Chad's own progress toward improved standards of governance, based on the October 14-21 visit of Chadian President Idris [...]
2009-10-21 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM FR SU CD
09NDJAMENA469 IOM IN CHAD: NEEDS MORE STAFF AND RESOURCES TO SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Accra and N'Djamena RefCoords have found that, in the continued absence of permanent staff to manage the USG's resettlement program for Central African and Sudanese Refugees in Chad, IOM's temporary staff are increasingly overwhelmed. We have requested acting IOM Chief of Mission in Ch [...]
2009-10-23 07:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA471CHAD: ESSO-CHAD MEETS DEBY CRITIQUE AND HOLDS
[...] (SBU) ESSO-Chad Chief De Mahieu told Ambassador October 21 that ExxonMobil had successfully defended its management of the petroleum project during a meeting with President Deby in Washington last month, satisfying the skeptical Deby that the consortium was not/not being pressured by third par [...]
2009-10-23 08:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET ETRD PREF EINV US CD
09NDJAMENA476UNICEF IN CHAD: CHILD SOLDIERS, MALNUTRITION, AND
[...] (SBU) UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director briefed Ambassador October 19 on UNICEF's main challenges in Chad in coming months. Johnson addressed child-soldiers in Chad, saying that UNICEF is working with the GOC ministries of Defense, Interior, and Social Affairs on child soldiers in the Chadi [...]
2009-10-26 08:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL PREF CD SO
09NDJAMENA479CHAD: MINURCAT SRSG GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ON
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo told Ambassador October 22 that he was "guardedly optimistic" regarding the current trend in Chad-Sudan relations, where momentum toward normalization and ending support for military proxies was building, and on Chad's election process, making "credible if n [...]
2009-10-26 09:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU FR LY UN AU CD
09NDJAMENA481POSSIBLE FUNDING IMPLICATIONS OF HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES PLAN
[...] (U) This is an USAID/OFDA reporting cable drafted by OFDA/Khartoum TDY Oumar M'Bareck and OFDA/Washington TDY George Siasoco. Post thanks OFDA for their close collaboration during this visit. - - - - SUMMARY - - - - 2. (SBU) OFDA discussions in N'Djamena and Abeche with humanitarian i [...]
2009-10-26 14:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA482CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] (U) The following is an update of RefCoord N'Djamena activities for the period of 12 to 23 OCT, 2009. ------------------------------ RET'S SUDAN CURRICULUM EXAMS FOR GRADES 8 AND 11 -- PILOT CONTINUES IN 2010 ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) RefCoord met 12 OCT with Refugee Edu [...]
2009-10-26 14:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA485FORMIN SAYS CHAD PUSHING TO NORMALIZE WITH SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) FM Moussa Faki Mahamat told Ambassador and DCM October 27 that Chad was "perfectly serious" about pursuing normalization with Sudan; still talking to Sudan about confidence-building measures and normalizing relations along lines agreed during Dr.Ghazi Salahuddin's visit last month; and [...]
2009-10-27 14:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF MARR SU NI CD
09NDJAMENA498CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE: THE NEXT STEP IS DEFINITELY
[...] (SBU) "The ball is definitely in Sudan's court" in the current Chad-Sudan bilateral process aimed at detente between the two countries, Francophonie "Ambassador" Hassan Lebatt told Ambassador and DCM October 30. Lebatt, who is a keen analyst of the Chad-Sudan situation and very well-informed, [...]
2009-10-30 12:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA499CHAD: SOUBIANE'S REBELS "RE-INTEGRATED" INTO
[...] (U) The GOC announced October 28 that some 1,744 fighters from Ahmat Soubiane's National Movement (MN) rebel group had been integrated into the Chadian Army (ANT) on October 27 in a ceremony conducted in the GOC's military re-integration camp in the town of Moussoro, some 100 miles northeast o [...]
2009-10-30 14:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA500CHADIAN ELECTORAL PROCESS: FRANCOPHONIE PUSHES
[...] (SBU) The representative to Chad of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Hacen Lebatt, called on Ambassador Nigro October 30 to express concern that technical matters including the question of whether to hold a biometric census risked setting back Chad,s electoral timetable. L [...]
2009-10-31 12:39:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM CD CT
09NDJAMENA503THE CHADIAN GO-BETWEEN? EX-REBEL SOUBIANE "TELLS
[...] (SBU) Ambassador and DCM met November 2 with Ahmat Soubiane, who described his reasons for going into rebellion, his reasons for returning to Chad, his intention to continue to work to reconcile his former rebel comrades with the GOC, his intention to devote himself initially to socio-economic [...]
2009-11-02 15:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR PHUM PREF PINR SU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA507CHAD: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH RECENTLY HARASSED
[...] (U) Ambassador and POLOFF met October 30 with two human rights activists whose harassment by unknown men last week made the local press. The two men, Massalabaye Tenebaye, President of the Chadian Human Rights League, and Michel Barka, President of the main labor confederation, the Chadian La [...]
2009-11-03 10:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL PREF CD
09NDJAMENA510CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena and Accra RefCoords' activities for the period of 26 - 30 OCT, 2009. ------------------------------- REFCOORD AND RSO EASTERN CHAD SECURITY FAMILIARIZATION VISIT ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) N'Djamena and Accra RefCoords and N'dja [...]
2009-11-03 12:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA511EASTERN CHAD: SECURITY FAMILIARIZATION VISIT TO ABECHE --
[...] (SBU) Post's current security practices for travelers to Abeche and eastern Chad under Chief of Mission authority are largely adequate within the security context. These practices are based on the operating rule that travelers will be under the protection of, and will abide by, the practices a [...]
2009-11-03 13:24:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA512UNHCR/WFP ON FOOD AND PHYSICAL SECURITY SITUATION FOR TWO
[...] (U) Summary: Following a Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) in mid-October to study the situation of CAR refugees and Chadian host populations in southern Chad, UNHCR ResRep Stefano Severe and WFP ResRep Jean-Luc Siblot held an October 27 briefing to present agency assessments of two sites of CAR [...]
2009-11-03 13:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA520CHAD: MINURCAT AND PERM-5 AMBASSADORS SHARE
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: See Para 16. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo told Perm-5 Ambassadors accredited to Chad on November 4 that he was deeply concerned about rising criminality in Eastern Chad, which was beyond the current ability of internatio [...]
2009-11-06 11:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CASC UNSC ASEC SU CD
09NDJAMENA526CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE 02-06 NOV, 2009
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena RefCoord's activities for the period of 02-06 NOV, 2009. ------------------------------ EASTERN CHAD SECURITY CONCERNS DOMINATE MULTILATERAL MEETINGS ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) RefCoord attended the meeting of the Interagency Stee [...]
2009-11-09 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA531IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: ABECHE, CHAD'S EASTERN
[...] (SBU) Abeche, the metropole of eastern Chad, is the center of activity for the local population and the international community's humanitarian and peacekeeping operations, as well as the far-flung region's commercial and administrative center, both civilian and military. The GOC's efforts to [...]
2009-11-12 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF ECON CD
09NDJAMENA533EAC -- EMBASSY N'DJAMENA -- EASTERN CHAD TRAVEL
[...] (SBU) Ambassador convened Embassy N'Djamena's Emergency Action Committee on Thursday, 12 November, in order to discuss the evolving security situation in eastern Chad. EAC meeting was attended by ADCM, RSO, PRM, Pol/Econ, Pol/Mil, DATT, PAO, D/D, and CON. 2. (SBU) The area referred to as e [...]
2009-11-13 12:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA536CHAD/JEM: FRENCH AND LIBYANS ON JEM ISSUES
[...] (SBU) The French ambassador told us 11/14 that he had no information regarding recent or upcoming deliveries of arms to JEM in Chad and that he believed that the GOC has put Khalil Ibrahim "on a short leash," restricting his in-country travel to prevent him from getting involved in JEM armed [...]
2009-11-16 13:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MARR SU LY PINR ER FR CD
09NDJAMENA539CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, 09 - 15 NOV 2009
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena RefCoord's activities for the period of 09 - 15 NOV 2009. 2. (U) In this edition: -- CONTINUED FOCUS ON EASTERN CHAD SECURITY (PARA 3) -- UN ACTION LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF UNSCR 1888 IMPLEMENTATION (PARA 5) -- CONAFIT URGES NGO COOPERATION ON SEC [...]
2009-11-17 13:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA540C-130 AIRCRAFT FOR CHAD: EMBASSY NDJAMENA
[...] (C) Embassy N'Djamena supports USG assistance to help Chad meet its legitimate needs for military air transport along the lines proposed Ref B, namely the package of C-130Rs, C-130Fs, and maintenance services at a cost of about USD 115 million. The visit here of an interagency assessment team, [...]
2009-11-17 15:45:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PGOV ECON PREF PTER EFIN SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA542 IOM/Chad: Tonneau meetings with Chadian Officials;
[...] (SBU) Michele Tonneau, Geneva-based Chief of Movement Management Division, Operations Support Department for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) visited Chad from November 2-6 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Chad on behalf of IOM. Due to the unexpec [...]
2009-11-18 12:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA55URF LEADER ABU GARDA TO PRESENT HIS CASE BEFORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese rebel Bahr Abu Garda, leader of the URF coalition, will travel to the Netherlands to present his case to the International Criminal Court (ICC),his spokesman told Embassy Ndjamena. If this information is correct, URF may be trying to recapture international attention [...]
2009-02-23 17:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UN AU SU CD
09NDJAMENA551ESSO CHIEF ON CHINESE OIL PROJECTS IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) The Chinese are making concrete progress to exploit wells, build a pipeline system, and construct a refinery near the capital for domestic production, after years of speculation about Chinese development of oil fields in Chad, ESSO/Chad chief de Mahieu told Ambassador November 18, cal [...]
2009-11-20 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EPET PREF CH CD
09NDJAMENA556CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, 16 - 22 NOV 2009
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena RefCoord's activities for the period of 16 - 22 NOV 2009. 2. (U) In this edition: (SBU) IRC SEEKS TO RE-STRUCTURE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR OURE CASSONI (SBU) UN HUMANITARIAN AIR SERVICE IN THE BLACK AGAIN (SBU) UNHCR TO BRIEF DONORS ON 2010 [...]
2009-11-23 13:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA557 CORRUPTION SCANDAL WIDENS BUT DEBY SPARES POWERFUL
[...] (SBU) A corruption scandal involving officials of the ministries of Education and Health has widened, implicating seven additional ministers and deputy ministers. Six of the seven were ordered to provide testimony while President Deby spared the seventh: powerful Infrastructure Minister Youn [...]
2009-11-23 15:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA562EU TROIKA REP ON CHAD-SUDAN DYNAMICS
[...] (SBU) EU Special Chad Rep Georg Lennkh gave DCM a November 24 read-out of the recent UN/AU-sponsored Darfur civil society conference in Doha, which he attended. Lennkh emphasized that public statements from both Chad and Sudan at the Doha event confirmed the three-step sequence of confidenc [...]
2009-11-25 11:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EU MARR PREF SU CD
09NDJAMENA563BLACK GOLD RISING? CHAD'S PROSPECTIVE OIL
[...] (SBU) ESSO/Chad has returned to a normal pattern of payment to the GOC, after the 2008-2009 decline in world oil prices and the restructuring of the ESSO-GOC payment agreement resulted in lower-than-normal GOC oil revenues in the first half of 2009, ESSO/Chad chief De Mahieu told Ambassador No [...]
2009-11-25 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET EFIN PREF PREL IMF MASS MARR IBRD
09NDJAMENA57MINURCAT SOLICITS FUNDING FOR CONTINUED CHADIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: MINURCAT officials, UN Police (UNPOL) Chief Major General Chaumont and SRSG Assistant Gerard Gerrold, met with the DCM February 24 to discuss continued funding for MINURCAT activities in eastern Chad targeting police capacity-building and improvements in the Rule of Law sector. [...]
2009-02-24 17:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF UN CT CD
09NDJAMENA576MISSION, GOC, AND IO INVOLVEMENT IN ACTIVITIES AGAINST
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post would like to take the opportunity to highlight its long history of fighting gender-based violence (GBV) and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Chadian society. The GOC has recently inaugurated its own GBV campaign. In addition, the UN system is deeply enga [...]
2009-12-03 09:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM EAID SOCI KWMN CD
09NDJAMENA588CHAD: MINURCAT MAKING BIG PUSH ON SECURITY IN EAST
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo met December 7 with representatives of UN member states resident in N'Djamena to describe the PKO's "big push" over the past month to enhance security in Eastern Chad, in the wake of recent kidnappings and a general increase in criminal activity directed agai [...]
2009-12-08 11:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID PREF EU FR UNSC CA CD
09NDJAMENA591HOW TO THINK ABOUT CHAD: ASSESSING CHAD'S PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) The Chad of December 2009 is not the Chad of December 2007. Much has happened in the intervening two years and the Chad's overall trajectory has generally been positive, when viewed in terms of USG bilateral and regional strategic goals. Any punctual assessment of USG policy toward C [...]
2009-12-09 13:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID PREF EU FR US CD
09NDJAMENA592MINURCAT SRSG SEEKS USG HELP ON TROOP COMMITMENTS,
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- See paras 6 and 7. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) SRSG Angelo, the head of the UN peacekeeping operation in Chad and CAR (MINURCAT),has asked for the USG's assistance on two issues of importance: -- Angelo seeks USG help in encouraging the governm [...]
2009-12-10 10:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF KPKO UN GH NP CD
09NDJAMENA594CHAD NEWLY CAUTIOUS ON C-130 PURCHASE, AMB BACHIR
[...] (SBU) Chadian Ambassador to the U.S. Adam Bechir told Ambassador and DCM December 11 that his government's authorities were not leaning forward on any purchase of strategic air transport at the moment. Bachir said that at the highest level the GOC favored none of the "strategic left package [...]
2009-12-14 11:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL MARR PREF MASS CD
09NDJAMENA595GOC CONTINUES EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE CHILD SOLDIERS
[...] (SBU) The Government of Chad continues its efforts to eliminate child soldiers in its own ranks, after having made definite progress on underage personnel in Chad rebel ranks. The GOC completed a significant sensitization mission regarding child soldiers with recent visits to its Moussouro an [...]
2009-12-14 12:56:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF MARR MASS CD
09NDJAMENA60JEM-KHALIL OUTLINES STATEGY MOVING FORWARD
[...] (C) JEM chairman Khalil Ibrahim told the Ambassador February 25 that he was satisfied with the Doha Agreement and that he would return to Darfur to recruit other potential stakeholders from rebel groups, civil society, refugees, and IDPs, to form a broader JEM-led delegation for the next sessi [...]
2009-02-25 17:39:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF UN AU SU CD
09NDJAMENA601CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE "ON TRACK," CHAD REBELS IN
[...] (SBU) FORMIN Moussa Faki Mahamat told Ambassador December 11 that the Chad-Sudan bilateral effort aimed at normalization of relations by ending their proxy war was "still on track," but going slower than the GOC would like, Faki said that the GOS apparently had duly "cantoned" some Chad rebel [...]
2009-12-15 15:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA602"INTRA-CHADIAN DIPLOMACY" AND "CHADIAN NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) National Mediator Abderamane Moussa told the Ambassador December 14 that the GOC's "national reconciliation" efforts continued to claim success, with the return of former armed rebels and former regime opponents to Chad. Moussa cited three recent events: the return to Chad this week [...]
2009-12-16 13:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MARR PHUM ECON EFIN PINR SU
09NDJAMENA617CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE: FORMIN FAKI TO LEAD CHAD
[...] (C) Chad FORMIN Faki will lead a Chad delegation to Khartoum December 24, as the next step in the ongoing bilateral detente process, Chad AMB to Washington Bechir told Ambassador and DCM December 23 that he and the MFA Military Advisor would accompany FORMIN Faki, as would the Governors of C [...]
2009-12-23 14:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PREF MARR MASS SU CD
09NDJAMENA621CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA622CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA623CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA624CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA70CHAD ELECTIONS UNLIKELY BEFORE 2010
[...] (SBU) Parliamentary and local elections in Chad are unlikely to be held until the first half of 2010, but the Chadian parties to the electoral reform process and Chad's key international partners remain committed to working towards credible elections as agreed in the 2007 August 13 Accord. Al [...]
2009-03-04 17:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF EU FR AU CD
09NDJAMENA71CHAD/CAR: SRSG UPBEAT ON MINURCAT II DEPLOYMENT,
[...] (SBU) SRSG Victor Angelo gave a generally positive briefing to the NDjamena Diplomatic Corps March 3 on the status of the March 15 transition of military security responsibilities from EUFOR to MINURCAT II; on MINURCAT's continued deployment; and on the PKO's current operations. All GOC-UN acc [...]
2009-03-05 12:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF UN EU AU PKO SU CT CD
09NDJAMENA79WORLD BANK WANTS GOC PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT HQ IN
[...] (SBU) World Bank Director of Operations for Chad Mary Barton-Dock told Ambassador March 4 the Bank's relationship with the Government of Chad had not progressed in the month and a half since the Bank had "partially" reopened its Chad office. A meeting between WB President Zoellick and Prime M [...]
2009-03-10 06:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID EFIN AU CD
09NDJAMENA89"MY FRIENDS, HURRY UP AND VOTE" -- THE U.S.,
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro joined visiting French FORMIN Bernarnd Kouchner and EU and OIF special representatives in a forceful four-way March 14 demarche to Chad's Electoral Reform Committee, urging it to resolve problems currently blocking progress toward legislative and local elections during 2 [...]
2009-03-17 09:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF OIF EU AU CD
09NDJAMENA97MINURCAT RISING: REINFORCED UN PKO REPLACES EUFOR
[...] (SBU) The EU PKO EUFOR, one of two PKOs authorized by UNSC 1778, stood down March 15, transferring its authority to provide security to civilians in Eastern Chad and Northeastern CAR to the UN's MINURCAT, whose mandate was enhanced to include such a role by UNSC 1861. Many of EUFOR's EU-membe [...]
2009-03-23 08:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MASS MARR UN PKO SU LY
09NEWDELHI1233DALAI LAMA PRAISES PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DIPLOMATIC
[...] (SBU) On June 15, Representative of the Dalai Lama in India, Tempa Tsering, delivered a letter from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama. The letter commends the President's efforts to reach out to Muslim countries and resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tsering confirmed that Pres [...]
2009-06-15 10:54:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL PREF IN CH
09NEWDELHI1318INDIA WELCOMES SRI LANKAN DELEGATION, PROGRESS ON
[...] (U) Senior Adviser to the Sri Lankan President Basil Rajapaksa and his brother, Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gothbaya Rajapaksa, met with Indian External Affairs Minister Krishna in Delhi on June 24. They discussed the resettlement and rehabilitation of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) [...]
2009-06-25 11:38:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PREF PTER CE IN
09NEWDELHI1487POWER STRUGGLE IN LITTLE LHASA: TIBETAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The battle for control over the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (TGIE) has begun in Dharamsala, India. As the Dalai Lama turned 74 years old on July 7, Tibet watchers reiterated that the most volatile times in Tibetan politics usually occur around the time of a Dalai Lama's death. T [...]
2009-07-19 14:01:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM PINR KDEM CH IN
09NEWDELHI1667DALAI LAMA SEEKS U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH CHINA ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a August 8 introductory meeting, the Ambassador sought the Dalai Lama's views on his upcoming October visit to the U.S. and his strategy for engaging China. The Dalai Lama suggested the U.S. engage China on climate change in Tibet, recognizing that Tibetans could wait five to ten ye [...]
2009-08-10 13:20:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALSENV PHUM PREL PGOV PREF KDEM CH IN
09NEWDELHI1935BHUTANESE CHARGE HUMS AN OLD REFRAIN ON BHUTANESE
[...] (SBU) PRM DAS David Robinson met Bhutan's Charge d'Affaires Kinga Singye on September 4 to discuss Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Robinson reported on the excellent progress of third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees from Nepal and his own recent visit to Bhutanese refugees successful [...]
2009-09-16 12:55:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM CH SL IN
09NEWDELHI1955PRM DAS ROBINSON DISCUSSES STATUS OF TIBETAN, SRI
[...] (SBU) PRM DAS David Robinson held meetings with representatives from the Dalai Lama's Office, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA),Catholic Relief Services' (CRS),and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) during his September 4th visit to New Delhi. During these meeting [...]
2009-09-22 02:49:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM CH SL IN
09NEWDELHI2461PDAS WITTEN DISCUSSES REFUGEE ISSUES IN INDIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a two-day visit to New Delhi, PRM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Samuel Witten discussed Bhutanese refugees, Tibetans in India, and the status of UNHCR in India. Key members of the Bhutanese Core Group agreed that we should submit test humanitarian return cases [...]
2009-12-09 11:17:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL IN SL
09NEWDELHI2462PDAS WITTEN DISCUSSES GOI ASSISTANCE TO SRI LANKA'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a lengthy meeting at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on November 10, Suresh Reddy, Director for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and the Maldives, described India's relief efforts for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka with PRM Principal Deputy Assi [...]
2009-12-09 11:18:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL IN SL
09NEWDELHI2588BHUTANESE KING'S SUCCESSFUL FIRST STATE VISIT TO
[...] (U) The King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, visited India from December 21-26 on his first state visit to a foreign country following his coronation in November 2008. In addition to holding meetings with political figures that included the President and Vice President of India, Pri [...]
2009-12-31 02:39:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM CH BH IN
09NEWDELHI278DALAI LAMA REQUESTS SECRETARY TO PROMOTE CALM IN
[...] (C) Summary. In a February 13 farewell meeting, the Ambassador sought the Dalai Lama's views on the Secretary's upcoming visit to Beijing. The Dalai Lama underlined that neither Tibetan leaders nor the PRC would like a repeat of last year's violence. Consequently, he suggested the Secretary [...]
2009-02-13 12:23:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL IN CH
09NEWDELHI319BOUCHER IN BHUTAN: VISIT EXPLORES WAYS TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. The February 9-11 visit to Bhutan of Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher demonstrated continuing U.S. support for the tiny Himalayan kingdom. In meetings with the Prime Minister, the Minister of Economic Affairs, and the Fourth King, Boucher addressed Bhutan's peaceful transit [...]
2009-02-20 05:46:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PREF PREL IN BH
09NEWDELHI369DALAI LAMA SUCCESSION SPECULATION: MARCH 10
[...] (C) Summary. The February 25 Tibetan New Year (Losar) marks the beginning of a tense three-week prelude to March 10, the 50th anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising that led the Dalai Lama to flee China. Tibetan exiles in India have followed the lead of their compatriots in China and shunned [...]
2009-02-27 12:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PREF IN CH
09NEWDELHI41INDIA CONSIDERING U.S. VIEWS ON POSSIBLE IRAN
[...] (SBU) Poloff on January 8 conveyed to MEA United Nations Economic and Social Division Director Dinesh Patnaik reftel points, informing the GOI of U.S. concerns about a possible Iranian presidency of the United Nations Development Program's Executive Board. On January 9, Patnaik told Poloff th [...]
2009-01-09 09:25:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID IN IR PREF UNDP
09NEWDELHI654DALAI LAMA URGES USG TO ADHERE TO HISTORIC U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 30 meeting, the Charge d'Affaires solicited the Dalai Lama's views on the Tibet movement. This was the first meeting between a senior USG official and the Dalai Lama since March 10, the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's escape to India in [...]
2009-04-03 03:21:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL IN CH
09NEWDELHI814INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY URGES COOPERATION ON SRI
[...] (C) Charge met with Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon April 23 for a discussion on the urgent humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka and its ramifications for India. Menon began the conversation by noting that External Affairs Minister Mukherjee had requested a telephone call to Secretary [...]
2009-04-23 14:57:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PREF ASEC CE IN
09NEWDELHI829RAJAPAKSA PROMISES A PAUSE TO INDIAN ENVOYS
[...] (C) On April 25, National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan told Charge that Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa had agreed to announce on April 27 a cessation of hostilities with the LTTE. Narayanan, who had traveled with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon to Colombo on April 24, related that he had p [...]
2009-04-25 13:28:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PREF ASEC IN
09NEWDELHI863DEMOCRACY-IN-EXILE - TIBETANS DEBATE REFORM AMIDST
[...] (C) Summary. Following the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape to India, Tibetans now look toward their future and the implementation of further democratic reforms for the government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Authority (CTA). While the exile community has the instruments of democra [...]
2009-04-30 13:51:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PREF CH IN
09NEWDELHI996INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY WEIGHS POST-CONFLICT
[...] (C) Charge met with Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon May 15 for a discussion on the urgent humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka. Menon acknowledged the dire situation and said that the fighting was more intense in the conflict zone, with higher casualty figures and more use of heavy we [...]
2009-05-15 13:42:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PREF CE IN
09NICOSIA123REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS -- NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) Paras 3-6 are sensitive but unclassified -- not for internet distribution. 2. (U) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the April 2008 - February 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is John Rhatigan, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3364, Fax: [...]
2009-02-13 10:39:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV PHUM PREF CY
09NICOSIA124TURKISH CYPRIOT-ADMINISTERED AREA -- NINTH ANNUAL
[...] (U) Paras 3-6 are sensitive but unclassified --not for internet distribution. 2. (U) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the April 2008 - February 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is John Rhatigan, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3-364, Fax: [...]
2009-02-13 14:15:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KFRD KWMN ELAB PGOV PHUM PREF
09NICOSIA580CYPRUS SHARES USG CONCERNS OVER SRI LANKAN IDPS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-14 13:49:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID CE CY
09NOUAKCHOTT1WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS, JUNTA STYLE
[...] (C) Summary. Since the August 6 military coup, little has filled the state-run media besides promises that the self-proclaimed Chief of State Ould Abdel Aziz will make life better for all Mauritanians and public declarations of support for the junta. In an effort to sway public support, Mau [...]
2009-01-02 11:24:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON MR PREF
09NOUAKCHOTT158MAURITANIA 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Per reftel instructins, post submits the following information on Mauitania for the Ninth Annual Trafficking in Persos (TIP) Report. POC for this report is Political fficer Nitza Sola-Rotger, phone: (222) 525-2660 xt 4404, sola-rotgern@state.gov. 2. (SBU) MURITANIA'S TIP SITUATION [...]
2009-02-22 10:27:00Embassy NouakchottUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCM KTIP KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC
09NOUAKCHOTT313MAURITANIANS REPATRIATED FROM SENEGAL SURPASS
[...] (U) Summary: The cumulative number of Mauritanian refugees repatriated from Senegal surpassed 10,000 people in April. There are approximately 10,000 more refugees that remain in Senegal that have expressed their intent to return to Mauritania. To date, all of the refugees have returned to the [...]
2009-04-30 16:26:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF SOCI ECON MR
09NOUAKCHOTT705MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR THE
[...] (U) Summary: This month in Mauritania, President Aziz's government took important first steps towards fighting corruption while a poll financed by the World Bank found that 82.9 percent of Mauritanians think the government is corrupt. The Spanish and the French sent high level emissaries to [...]
2009-11-02 07:45:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EMIN EAIR EAID MR
09OSLO140FAMILY OF TURKMEN POLITICAL PRISONER REQUESTS USG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The family of jailed Turkmen civil rights activist Gulgeldy Annaniyazov, living in Norway, has contacted the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and requested that the US Embassy in Turkmenistan do what it can to determine his welfare and lobby for his release. Actions by the Norwegian M [...]
2009-03-04 07:55:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF TX NO
09OSLO169NORWAY GIVES $2.3M FOR PAKISTAN IDPS, HAPPY TO
[...] (C) Summary: Last week Norway announced $2.3 million of aid that will go to UNICEF and the ICRC to help the northwest frontier provinces. While thrilled to be included in the Friends of Pakistan (FOP) group, as well as being asked to join the upcoming Tokyo Donor's conference, the GON sees it [...]
2009-03-16 14:51:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREF EFIN IBRD IMF PK NO
09OSLO225DINNER WITH MUGABE--THE NORWEGIAN REPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following Minister Solheim's visit to Harare, the Norwegians believe that President Mugabe is looking for a graceful exit, and that ZANU-PF forces are plotting to derail the unity government. The Norwegians believe, however, that the March 30 SADC meeting's strong stand on Madagas [...]
2009-04-02 13:37:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREF PGOV PREL ZI NO
09OSLO435REQUEST FOR PAROLE FOR ISRAILOV, SJARPUDI ELFIROVITSJ
[...] (SBU) Name: Israilov, Sjarpudi Elfirovitsj 2. (SBU) DPOB: 17 January 1956, Engels, Kazakhstan 3. (SBU) Justification of Special Public Benefit Parole request: The full justification for parole is classified and contained in reftel, 09 Oslo 412. There is a USG interest in Mr. Israilov' [...]
2009-07-09 14:24:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF CVIS
09OSLO525NORWAY'S IMMIGRATION POLICY A HOT TOPIC IN PUBLIC
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Due to a significant increase in the number of immigrants seeking asylum in Norway and news reports of generous welfare payments, the right of center "Progress Party" (FrP) has been largely successful in driving the public debate on Norway's integration and immigration policy. F [...]
2009-08-26 07:37:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI PREF NO
09OSLO536NORWEGIANS COMBATIVE ON ISRAEL UNRWA SPEAKING ROLE
[...] (C) Summary: The Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle-East Section, Jorn Gjelstad, was surprisingly engaged, sensitized, and generally combative upon presentation of reftel demarche concerning a speaking role for Israel at the upcoming "UNRWA at 60" event (UNRWA is the UN Relie [...]
2009-09-01 15:32:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA IS KPAL NO
09OSLO552NORWAY AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON SRI LANKA IDP
[...] (C) Norway's response to reftel demarche was uniformly positive. Poloff met with Tone Allers, Sri Lanka Desk officer at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Allers, after having two days to digest the information in the demarche and share it with the Norwegian embassy in Colombo, [...]
2009-09-11 12:33:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN
09OSLO572SE WOLPE HAS PRODUCTIVE TALKS WITH GON AND NGOS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Howard Wolpe had a day of productive meetings on September 4 in Oslo with representatives of the Norwegian government (GON),the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC),Norwegian Church Aid (NCA),and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). The GON agreed t [...]
2009-09-18 08:52:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL KPKO KWMN SOCI NO
09OSLO593NORWEGIAN HORN OF AFRICA EMERGENCY AID: HOLDING
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA officials on September 24. After the Government of Norway (GON)'s announcement September 9 that it would dedicate about $8.7 million to emergency food aid for the Horn of Africa region, the MFA emphasized that Norway has only about that amo [...]
2009-09-25 12:08:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN
09OSLO647NORWAY'S VIEWS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff discussed reftel priorities with Anne Merchant, the coordinator of Norway's UNGA Third Committee matters in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). While the meeting contained no surprises, Merchant shared her views on how to diminish bloc-voting in the Third Committee. In [...]
2009-10-26 10:26:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PREF NO UN
09OSLO65NORWAY REFUSES TO OPPOSE IRANIAN PRESIDENCY OF
[...] (C) Poloff spoke re reftel with Lars Henie, Deputy Section Head of the UN section of the MFA. Henie had been "expecting" poloff's call on this, and had been "coordinating and clarifying" a response to our expected request for cooperation. Henie had the following to say: --The GON "does not [...]
2009-01-08 15:19:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREF IR UN EAID NO
09OSLO692NORWEGIANS RECEPTIVE ON BHUTAN REFUGEES AND CORE
[...] (C) Poloff met on November 6 with Lasse Bjorn Johannessen, Senior Advisor in the Asia Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to deliver reftel points. Johannessen recently returned from a tour as the Deputy Chief of Mission for the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi. Johannessen said th [...]
2009-11-06 15:31:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALBT IN NP PGOV PREF PREL NO
09OTTAWA151CANADA?S TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) OVERVIEW OF CANADA'S TIP SITUATION A. The Government of Canada collects trafficking in persons (TIP) information through a number of sources, including police and court-reported data and reported case law. The 2008 Annual Criminal Intelligence Service Canada Report on Organized Cri [...]
2009-02-27 21:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN
09OTTAWA260CANADA MAINTAINING 2009 IMMIGRATION TARGETS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In light of the current economic conditions, Canada is reviewing its 2009 immigration targets but may end up maintaining Canada's 2009 target of about a quarter million new permanent residents. In 2008, Canada accepted a record high of 247,202 permanent residents. Canada is [...]
2009-04-01 18:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF SMIG ELAB CA
09OTTAWA348PERSISTENT ABUSES IN REFUGEE SYSTEM PROVOKE
[...] (C) Summary. Canada is increasingly concerned about "wide-scale and almost systematic abuse" of its generous immigration, citizenship, and refugee policies. According to a recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),the number of asylum seekers to Canada in 2008 increa [...]
2009-05-12 20:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL SMIG CVIS KFRD MX EZ CA
09OTTAWA382DEMARCHE ON PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-22 15:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA EAID PHUM PK PREF
09OTTAWA383CANADA SECURES FIRST WAR CRIMES CONVICTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada on May 22 secured a landmark first judicial decision under its 2000 Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (CAHWCA),convicting failed refugee claimant Dsir Munyaneza on all seven charges against him related to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes during t [...]
2009-05-22 17:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KAWC PREF RW CA
09OTTAWA385CANADA GIVING $8 MILLION FOR PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-22 20:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA PK EAID PHUM PREF
09OTTAWA543CANADIAN PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT TORTURE VICTIMS
[...] (U) Summary. Canada avoids deporting individuals to any country where they would be at risk of persecution, torture, or cruel and unusual punishment. With a few exceptions, anyone ordered removed from Canada may apply for a pre-removal risk assessment. "Security certificate" legislation s [...]
2009-07-16 18:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PGOV PREL UN CA
09OTTAWA708CANADA SUPPORTIVE OF SRI LANKA FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
[...] (C) Canada is supportive of the U.S. strategy to promote freedom of movement in Sri Lanka (reftel),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) South Asia Deputy Director Jonathan Yendall. He cautioned that he was still seeking to coordinate a "whole of governme [...]
2009-09-11 19:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN
09OTTAWA765CANADA SPEAKING OUT ON AVERTING A REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) According to Policy Advisor for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Sarah Robertson of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs (DFAIT),DFAIT's Director General for Stabilization and Reconstruction Elissa Goldberg spoke out at the UNHCR's Executive Committee [...]
2009-10-01 19:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL KE UNHCR CA
09OTTAWA956WFP Assistance Demarche for Pakistan Delivered to Canadians
[...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Jennifer MacKay, Development Policy Officer Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and to Frederic Levesque, Program Officer, Pakistan/Afghanistan, DFAIT on December 14. MacKay acknowledged the demarche and said she would do her best to find [...]
2009-12-15 21:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PK PREF PREL CA
09OUAGADOUGOU227POVERTY AMONG BURKINABE TUAREGS COULD LEAD TO INSECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minority Tuareg communities in northern Burkina Faso are racked by extreme poverty, which is exacerbated by often refusing to send their children to school, a lack of consistent access to water, and decreasing reserves of livestock, which are their main source of income. Burkina [...]
2009-03-24 16:27:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL PHUM ML NG UV
09PANAMA196PANAMA: PLANS FOR NORMALIZATION FOR COLOMBIANS
[...] (C) The GOP planned to offer legal immigrant status to individuals living in the Darien region under Temporary Humanitarian Protection (THP) status, said MFA DG of Exterior Policy Javier Bonagas told POLOFF on February 20. The official census of THP persons taken in 2004 counted 542 Colombia [...]
2009-03-10 15:52:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTBS SOCI PM
09PANAMA422PANAMA: JULIA TAFT REFUGEE FUND NOMINATION
[...] (U) Post is pleased to nominate local NGO Fundacion Calicanto for a 20,000 USD grant from the Julia Taft Refugee Fund for job training for refugees and persons under Temporary Humanitarian Protection (THP). Filling A Gap ------------- 2. (U) A critical gap in services provided to refug [...]
2009-05-27 15:44:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF
09PANAMA873ILLEGAL AFRICAN MIGRATION POSES CHALLENGE TO PANAMA
[...] (U) The number of illegal African migrants smuggled through Panama has grown six-fold in 2009. Somali and other Horn of Africa migrants are a particular concern for Panama, which has shown no inclination to accept them as refugees, yet is struggling to find a humane response to the increase. [...]
2009-12-10 20:17:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PM SO SMIG PREF
09PARIS1195UNRWA AT 60 DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On August 31, poloff delivered talking points to MFA Deputy Middle East DAS Frederic Bereyziat, per reftel. Bereyziat was confident France would approve the Government of Israel's (GOI) request to speak at the UNRWA meeting on September 24. He was adamant that Israel needed to re-engage [...]
2009-09-01 13:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA KPAL FR
09PARIS1396FRANCE AGREES KENYA SHOULD INCREASE ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF agrees with the U.S. that Kenya should do more to assist refugees from Somalia in Kenya. MFA staff is considering how to approach Kenya; one possibility would be for FM Kouchner to raise the issue with Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the latter's October 20-2 [...]
2009-10-15 08:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNHCR KE FR
09PARIS268FRANCE: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In 2008 France took significant steps to combat trafficking in persons, ratifying the EU convention on Action Against Trafficking in Persons and changing the French anti-trafficking law to better prosecute forced labor violations. The French government used its anti-trafficking [...]
2009-02-20 18:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF
09PARIS362EUFOR/MINURCAT: FRENCH PLEASED WITH TRANSITION TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France is pleased with the transition from EUFOR/MINURCAT to the UN's MINURCAT successor operation in Chad and C.A.R., MFA Chad/C.A.R. deskoff Vincent Alexandre reported on March 11. The transition was going smoothly mainly because force generation problems had been overcome. [...]
2009-03-12 13:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM PREF CD CT FR
09PESHAWAR100MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary. From May 8, the Pakistani army has stepped up its operations in Swat, concentrating its efforts on the areas south of the central Khwazakhela region. A relaxation of the curfew in Swat on May 10 allowed large numbers of residents to flee lower Swat. According to initial estimate [...]
2009-05-11 11:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK
09PESHAWAR101MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION UNDERWAY
[...] (C) Summary. From May 12-14, the Pakistani army continued intensified operations in Swat. There appeared to be an increase of forces on the ground, and a helicopter-borne commando raid into the militant headquarters in central Swat's Peochar valley dominated headlines. Militants in Swat cont [...]
2009-05-14 12:30:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER EAID PK
09PESHAWAR103IDP CRISIS UPDATE: UN AGENCIES AND ICRC CONVEY IDP NEEDS IN
[...] (C) Summary: A group of four Peshawar-based representatives from United Nations agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told the Ambassador the rising number of internally displaced people (IDPs) is swamping the capacity of the Pakistani government. The group agr [...]
2009-05-21 10:43:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09PESHAWAR109AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER
[...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan sees operations in Dir and Buner winding down although Sultanwas in northern Buner is targeted for an operation o/a May 20. People are returning, particularly to lower Buner, and Khan cautioned that the IDP emergency should not obscure the need t [...]
2009-05-23 07:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PREF EAID PK
09PESHAWAR110MALAKAND UPDATE AND WAZIRISTAN PLANNING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-25 06:50:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALEAID MOPS PK PREF PTER
09PESHAWAR113EXPECTED SOUTH WAZIRISTAN OPERATION CREATES DISPLACEMENT,
[...] (C) Summary: South Waziristan Agency (SWA) residents fear an imminent attack by Pakistani armed forces and have begun to flee the Mehsud areas of SWA into the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to their north and east. The displacement is complicating th [...]
2009-05-27 10:18:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPREF PTER MOPS PGOV PK EAID
09PESHAWAR114EXPECTED SOUTH WAZIRISTAN OPERATION CREATES DISPLACEMENT,
[...] (C) Summary: South Waziristan Agency (SWA) residents fear an imminent attack by Pakistani armed forces and have begun to flee the Mehsud areas of SWA into the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to their north and east. The displacement is complicating th [...]
2009-05-28 04:01:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPREF PTER MOPS PK PGOV EAID
09PESHAWAR115EXPECTED SOUTH WAZIRISTAN OPERATION CREATES DISPLACEMENT,
[...] (C) Summary: South Waziristan Agency (SWA) residents fear an imminent attack by Pakistani armed forces and have begun to flee the Mehsud areas of SWA into the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to their north and east. The displacement is complicating th [...]
2009-05-28 04:16:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPREF PTER PGOV PK EAID
09PESHAWAR116PESHAWAR UNHCR CHIEF ON UNHCR ACTIVITIES IN NWFP
[...] (C) UNHCR Peshawar told Peshawar PO on May 28 that the IDP population stands at 2.5 million with many in "transit" and "spontaneous" camps still not registered. UNHCR Peshawar is increasingly focusing on assisting IDP populations in these unofficial camps and schools. Most outflows from South [...]
2009-05-29 13:08:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PGOV PK PREL
09PESHAWAR131MILITARY ACTION IN FR BANNU: OPENING MOVE FOR WAZIRISTAN?
[...] (C) Summary: A Pakistani military operation in Frontier Region Bannu, on the border of North Waziristan Agency (NWA),has resulted in over two hundred deaths and significant displacement. The operation, launched two weeks after the kidnapping of 120 students and staff from Razmak Cadet [...]
2009-06-16 12:52:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PREF PK
09PESHAWAR158NWFP: TWO WEEKS AFTER SWAT'S OPERATION DECLARED OVER,
[...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the government of Pakistan declared the end of its military operation in Swat and invited the return of internally displaced Swatis, the picture of security in Swat is mixed. Around half of Swat's IDPs have returned, but the distribution of the returns is skew [...]
2009-08-03 14:45:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID MOPS PTER PK
09PESHAWAR73FATA: BAJAUR CONDITIONS UPDATE
[...] (C) Bajaur-based officials are reporting significant numbers of returnees within the past two months (approximately 211,000). While at odds with numbers reported by UN agencies, fraud (double dipping on benefits, people from areas other than Bajaur seeking benefits, etc.) may be contributing t [...]
2009-04-20 13:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR91MALAKAND DIVISION: DARUL QAZA ANNOUNCED; OPERATIONS
[...] (S/NF) Summary. During May 1-3, the Pakistani army secured a key road in Buner and made preparations to move into Shangla and Swat. The government of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) announced the establishment of the Darul Qaza (appellate court) for the Malakand Division, as required b [...]
2009-05-04 12:35:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETMOPS PTER PGOV EAID PREF PK
09PESHAWAR93NWFP: DETERIORATING CONDITIONS IN SWAT AMID TALK OF
[...] (S) Summary. According to Frontier Corps (FC) commander General Tariq Khan, Swat operations are imminent, but no decision has been made over whether regular army or FC will lead the operation. General Tariq, however, told Peshawar PO that FC does not have enough forces to take on Swat where m [...]
2009-05-06 12:06:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETMOPS PREF PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR97MALAKAND DIVISION: FIGHTING IN SWAT BUT "NO OPERATION" YET
[...] (C) During May 4-6, militants in Swat acting on the previously announced withdrawal (Ref A) from the Swat peace accord, attacked security forces throughout Swat and seized government buildings before apparently being evicted from at least some of these by security forces. Despite this action, [...]
2009-05-07 12:28:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK
09PHNOMPENH1142009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR CAMBODIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-19 06:06:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CB ELAB KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
09PHNOMPENH131JUSTICE MINISTER COMMENTS ON LY VOUCH LENG'S NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a courtesy call with Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana on February 25, the Ambassador expressed concern over the recent news that former Appeals Court President and member of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy Ly Vouch Leng was recently appointed as a legal counse [...]
2009-02-25 10:52:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KTIP KWMN CB
09PHNOMPENH25SECVET COMPLETION FROM EMBASSY PHNOM PENH
[...] (SBU) One individual was security vetted by ROK on January 13, 2009. The individual's bio info is listed below. 2. (SBU) Choi Chun-Hui (alternate spellings: Choi Chun-Hee, Coi Cun Hui) - (F) - DOB: 11 June 1969 - POB: Hamgyung Buk-Do, Moosan-Gun, Moosan. CAMPBELL [...]
2009-01-14 03:37:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF CB
09PHNOMPENH577SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR JIM WEBB VISIT TO PHNOM
[...] (SBU) Senator Webb: We warmly welcome your August 18 visit to Cambodia. Your visit comes as the tempo quickens in the conduct of U.S.-Cambodian bilateral relations, which exemplifies a broader and growing USG interest in Cambodia. There have been positive developments in several key areas: p [...]
2009-08-11 12:11:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS PREF CB
09PHNOMPENH913(C) AMBASSADOR MEETS UNHCR TO DISCUSS UIGHURS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting December 14 with Ambassador Rodley, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials recounted a "very positive" discussion with Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) officials regarding the 22 Uighur asylum-seekers in Cambodia. According to UNHCR, the [...]
2009-12-14 10:53:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH925(C) UPDATE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN CAMBODIA
[...] (C) Representatives of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) are close to finding a new location for the Uighur asylum-seekers in Phnom Penh that would offer improved protection. According to UNHCR, the goal is to house the Uighurs [...]
2009-12-16 09:18:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH926AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES UIGHURS AND DRUG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rodley met December 17 with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior (DPM) Sar Kheng to discuss the Uighur asylum seekers in Phnom Penh. The DPM expressed disappointment at an initial lack of cooperation by the local United Nations High Commission for Refugees ( [...]
2009-12-17 07:24:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR CB
09PHNOMPENH934(C) UIGHURS MOVE AGAIN; UPDATES ON SITUATION
[...] (C) Officials from UNHCR confirmed that the group of 20 Uighurs relocated for a second time the evening of December 17, to a single-family dwelling rented by UNHCR. Cambodian police officers are assisting in providing security at the site; UNHCR said the officers have received explicit prote [...]
2009-12-18 07:39:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM
09PHNOMPENH954CORRECTED COPY - DEPORTATION SCENARIO FOR 20 UIGHUR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 19 at 9:15 p.m., the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) deported 20 Uighur asylum-seekers back to China. Police removed the Uighurs from their safe house on December 18 around 6:00 p.m., and held them in a detention facility inside the Ministry of Interior compound [...]
2009-12-21 11:23:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH957CAMBODIA, UNHCR, AND THE UIGHURS: THE MADNESS OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a joint demarche on Deputy Foreign Minister Long Visalo December 21, Ambassadors and Charge strongly protested the deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers on December 19, noted that the deportation had occurred despite repeated assurances by senior Cambodian officials that it [...]
2009-12-22 10:20:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH958CAMBODIAN ABOUT FACE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM SEEKERS PORTRAYED IN
[...] SUMMARY: The Cambodian press has been following the plight of the Uighur asylum seekers since their presence in Cambodia became widely known on December 4. The media excerpts tell an extraordinary story in itself, and offer a revealing picture of the Cambodian government's reversal from origi [...]
2009-12-22 10:21:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV PHUM PREL CB
09PHNOMPENH959CAMBODIAN ABOUT FACE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM SEEKERS PORTRAYED IN
[...] SUMMARY: The Cambodian press has been following the plight of the Uighur asylum seekers since their presence in Cambodia became widely known on December 4. The media excerpts tell an extraordinary story in itself, and offer a revealing picture of the Cambodian government's reversal from origi [...]
2009-12-22 10:41:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV PHUM PREL CB
09PHNOMPENH960CAMBODIA, UNHCR, AND THE UIGHURS: THE MADNESS OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 21 meeting with Charge and other diplomatic representatives to discuss the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) refoulement of 20 Uighur asylum seekers December 19 (Ref A),UNHCR Regional Representative Raymond Hall stated that although Cambodia had tried hard o [...]
2009-12-22 10:47:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM PGOV CB
09PODGORICA37MONTENEGRO'S KOSOVO IDPS: STILL IN LIMBO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent statements by President Vujanovic have drawn attention to the more than 16,000 refugees from Kosovo - called internally displaced persons (IDPs) by the GoM - still on Montenegrin soil. Because of security, legal, and economic concerns, very few have returned to Kosovo sin [...]
2009-02-10 19:27:00Embassy PodgoricaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PGOV PREL MW
09PORTAUPRINCE199HAITI'S SUBMISSION FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. The following are Post's responses to reftel questions posed for the reporting period. HAITI'S TIP SITUATION ---------------------- 2. (SBU) Question 23: -- A. Reliable sources for additional information includ [...]
2009-02-20 18:17:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09PORTOFSPAIN33JOINT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS WORKSHOP FOR T&T AND COLOMBIA
[...] (SBU) During a January 15 meeting with a local International Organization of Migration (IOM) representative, EmbOffs learned of a planned workshop between the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (GOTT) and the Government of Colombia (GOC) to strengthen their ability to combat trafficking in per [...]
2009-01-27 12:20:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTIP KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC TD
09PORTOFSPAIN52T&T RESPONSE TO U.S. PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS ILLICIT
[...] (U) In response to reftel, Post delivered a non-paper regarding U.S. assistance programs to combat illicit trafficking in small arms to Trinidad & Tobago's Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director of International Affairs in the Ministry of National Security Antoinette Lucas-Andrews; Special Advis [...]
2009-02-09 17:10:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIEDPREF KCRM PREL PGOV TD
09PRAGUE296CZECHS TO HELP SUPPORT PAKISTAN IDPS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-01 07:11:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PK PREF PREL PGOV EZ EUN
09PRAGUE318CZECHS TO SUPPORT PAKISTAN IDPS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-10 15:33:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEAID EC PGOV PHUM PK EZ EUN PREF
09PRAGUE518UNRWA AT 60: SPEAKING ROLE FOR ISRAEL: CZECH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-01 13:58:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA IS KPAL EZ
09PRAGUE670CZECH REPUBLIC: REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF
[...] (U) The Czech Republic has a strong record of active engagement and support for democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. Former Czech President Vaclav Havel established the Czech government's principled position on Cuba during his administration, following the Czech Republic' [...]
2009-11-13 15:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALCU ETRD ETTC EZ PREF XG
09PRAGUE89Ninth Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report - Czech
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified entire text; not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Czech Republic is meeting the Minimum Standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons as set forth in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2005, in that: a) The government provide [...]
2009-02-12 15:24:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09PRAIA204DECLARATION OF DISASTER FOR FLOODING IN SAO NICOLAU, CAPE
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. SUMMARY: Torrential rains have fallen on the island of Sao Nicolau, Cape Verde, during September and October 2009, causing flooding that has killed at least three people, displaced at least 41 families, and destroyed homes, personal p [...]
2009-10-28 17:59:00Embassy PraiaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SOCI EAID PREF CV
09PRETORIA1356POLICE ARREST 244 ZIMBABWEAN MIGRANTS IN JOBURG
[...] On July 3 police in Johannesburg conducted a midnight raid of the area around the Central Methodist Church, arresting 344 mainly Zimbabweans sleeping in the street. Rights organizations condemned the police action as "heavy-handed" and "disproportionate" and promised to defend the detainees i [...]
2009-07-06 11:50:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SF
09PRETORIA1592South Africa: Demarche Request for Donor Support for
[...] Senior Agricultural Attache provided reftel demarche points to South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DICO),Directorate of the Horn of Africa and Indian Ocean Islands, Mr. Gabriel P. Setlhoke, Director. 2. Mr. Setlhoke accepted the demarche on behalf of DICO, [...]
2009-08-04 15:09:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF DJ ER KE SO UG
09PRETORIA1740XENOPHOBIA IN SOUTH AFRICA: ROOT CAUSES REMAIN,
[...] South African townships remain at risk of renewed xenophobic violence, such as was seen in the mid-2008 mob attacks on African migrants. Foreigners make easy scapegoats for enduring grievances of poverty, unemployment, housing shortages, and poor public services, and the SAG has not taken de [...]
2009-08-27 10:15:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SF
09PRETORIA1766WOMEN MIGRANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA: A HARD ROAD TO
[...] In an August 27 panel discussion, three speakers discussed the plight of female migrants in South Africa. Compared to men, women on the move are more vulnerable to robbery and attack, facing more limited job options, and often encumbered by children. Border crossings are extremely risky for [...]
2009-09-01 14:36:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM PREF KTIP SF
09PRETORIA1959RESETTLEMENT SET TO GROW (CAUTIOUSLY) FROM S.AFRICA
[...] (SBU) On a September 7-10 visit, U.S. Regional Refugee Coordinator met with key counterparts in an ongoing effort to expand the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) in Southern Africa. The program vets African applicants (of diverse nationalities, but from South Africa likely mainly Somal [...]
2009-09-28 10:31:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SF
09PRETORIA1983SOUTH AFRICA REAFFIRMS PROGRESSIVE STANCE ON
[...] (SBU) In a September 21 keynote speech to a regional intergovernmental workshop on migration, Department of Home Affairs (DHA) Deputy Minister Malusi Gigaba forcefully reiterated the SAG's commitment to freedom of movement. Nations must shift their paradigms on migration, he said, to see it a [...]
2009-10-01 14:41:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SF
09PRETORIA1984SADC STATES PREPARE FOR U.N. MIGRATION FORUM (GFMD)
[...] At a September 21-23 forum in Cape Town, government officials from fourteen states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) discussed policies and programs to leverage migration for economic development. The workshop was a regional precursor for a wider U.N. event, the Global For [...]
2009-10-02 10:06:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SF
09PRETORIA2267SAG "NEGLECTING" AND "FAILING" RURAL CONSTITUENTS,
[...] (C) From October 21 to 23 emboffs visited rural Mpumalanga province, where human rights NGOs said the SAG was failing to protect the rural poor and neglecting to provide public services to remote communities. While township residents have protested violently over poor service delivery, rural [...]
2009-11-05 16:56:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF ELAB EAGR SF
09PRETORIA2622SAG'S HOME AFFAIRS MINISTRY IN OPERATIONAL OVERHAUL
[...] The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is a notoriously dysfunctional bureaucracy long due for an overhaul. Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, formerly Foreign Affairs Minister and ex-wife of the President, is leading a "Turnaround" project aiming to increase efficiency, tighten security, cut out [...]
2009-12-22 16:10:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM PGOV SF
09PRETORIA553STUDY FINDS XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS DRIVEN BY LOCAL
[...] On March 11, a Wits University team unveiled the results of their research into the direct triggers of last year's xenophobic attacks in South African townships. Interviews and focus groups with over 300 residents of seven areas found the attacks were premeditated and organized by community [...]
2009-03-24 11:18:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SF
09PRETORIA728PRETORIA PROPOSAL -- FY'09 TAFT FUND FOR REFUGEES
[...] Post hereby submits a proposal (ref B) for PRM's FY 2009 Julia V. Taft Fund for Refugees (ref A),recommending a grant of $20,000 to Ikenze Kungwe Mazwi Community College, a start-up elementary and high school serving children of Zimbabwean migrants in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Funds will be u [...]
2009-04-15 11:46:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF SOCI ASEC CASC SF ZI
09PRETORIA770SOUTH AFRICA ANNOUNCES PERMIT FOR ZIMBABWEANS
[...] The SAG's April 3 announcement of a temporary permit for Zimbabweans to remain in South Africa is a potentially groundbreaking step in assistance to the continuing mass influx of Zimbabwean migrants. Compared to the asylum channel, the permit is much better suited to Zimbabweans' mainly econ [...]
2009-04-17 15:07:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PREF PGOV SA
09PRETORIA771SA PERMIT FOR ZIMBABWEANS (PART 2)
[...] There are currently more questions than answers surrounding the SAG's implementation of a temporary permit for Zimbabwean migrants to remain in South Africa (ref A). The Minister of Home Affairs' (DHA) April 3 announcement of the new policy was a surprise, albeit a welcome one, to the rights [...]
2009-04-17 15:08:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL SF
09PRETORIA994SA-ZIMBABWE BORDER: COPING WITH CONTINUED HEAVY
[...] A May 7-8 visit to the South African and Zimbabwean border towns of Musina and Beitbridge found the border zone was beginning to normalize despite continued heavy flows of Zimbabwean migrants into South Africa. The SAG's halt in deportations has reduced migrants' vulnerability to police hara [...]
2009-05-15 14:36:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PREF KTIP SF
09PRISTINA18KOSOVO: RETURNS DOWN SHARPLY IN 2008
[...] (C) SUMMARY. According to UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) numbers, only 569 persons returned to Kosovo in 2008, compared to 1815 returnees in 2007. This decline can be attributed to many factors, chief among them Kosovo's declaration of independence on February 17, 2008, which appea [...]
2009-01-15 09:34:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KV UNMIK PREF
09PRISTINA20KOSOVO GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO SHELTERS FOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In 2008, the Government of Kosovo's (GOK) Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (MLSW) took effective measures to ensure the continued operation of victims of trafficking (VOT) shelters in Kosovo. In 2007, two of the three VOT shelters in Kosovo -- Hope and Homes (HAH) and the Ce [...]
2009-01-15 10:49:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09PRISTINA314STEADY PROGRESS ON KOSOVO'S ANTI-TIP EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo devotes high-level government attention to anti-trafficking and continues to make steady progress. A recent investigation into five Kosovo Police officers suspected of involvement in trafficking resulted in suspensions, and prosecutors are continuing the investigation. T [...]
2009-07-31 05:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KV
09QUITO1005PRM DAS Robinson Visit to Quito and Ecuador's Northern
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) DAS David Robinson visited Ecuador on November 5-6 to discuss refugee programs and conditions. During meetings with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Government and Police, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, R [...]
2009-11-30 18:00:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PREF PGOV PTER KCRM SMIG SNAR SOCI EC CO
09QUITO177ONE YEAR AFTER BREAK WITH COLOMBIA, GOE REMAINS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Correa government ramped up its rhetoric against Colombia in recent weeks, spurred by a desire to defend itself against accusations of narco-politics, the first anniversary of the March 2008 Colombian attack on a FARC camp in Ecuador, and Colombian remarks. The GOE was deli [...]
2009-03-11 23:43:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PREF SNAR OAS EC CO
09QUITO322COMBATTING ECUADOR'S INCREASING REFUGEE POPULATION
[...] SUMMARY: This cable summarizes a review of the World Food Program's (WFP) assistance to Colombian refugees (defined in this cable as persons of concern) in northern Ecuador. The review was conducted by Barry Burnett, USAID/DCHA/FFP, over the period April 6 - April 10, 2009 and included field [...]
2009-05-06 15:58:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL SMIG EC
09QUITO396ECUADOR - RECOMMENDATION FOR JULIA TAFT REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Quito recommends Asylum Access-Ecuador as a 2009 recipient of the Julia Taft Fund for Refugees. Asylum Access' mission in Ecuador is to assist refugees in realizing their rights to employment, education, and security within their first country of refuge. The Taft assi [...]
2009-05-29 20:53:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PGOV EC
09QUITO609ECUADOR: REFUGEE CONDITIONS IMPROVING, BUT
[...] (U) Ecuador hosts the largest refugee population in the Western Hemisphere with 25,000 registered refugees and another 135,000 Colombians living in a refugee-like situation. Colombian refugees have poured into Ecuador as a result of Colombia's conflict for the past nine years. The Colombia-E [...]
2009-07-20 21:34:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG SNAR SOCI EC CO
09QUITO883Refugees Programs in Ecuador Risk Benefitting the FARC
[...] (S/NF) This is an action request. See para. 9. 2. (S/NF) Summary and Comment: Embassy Quito and the Regional Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) request guidance on how to respond to information that suspected FARC members have manipulated Ecuador's Enhanced Registration Program implemented [...]
2009-10-15 20:44:00Embassy QuitoSECRET//NOFORNPREF PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG SNAR SOCI EC CO
09QUITO999PRM DAS Robinson Visit to Quito and Ecuador's Northern
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) DAS David Robinson visited Ecuador on November 5-6 to discuss refugee programs and conditions. During meetings with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Government and Police, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, R [...]
2009-11-25 23:44:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PREF PGOV PTER KCRM SMIG SNAR SOCI EC CO
09RABAT706WESTERN SAHARA REALITIES
[...] (C) Summary: Although the Western Sahara negotiations have now re-started (Reftel),the conflict is 34 years old. The Government of Morocco (GOM) has invested tremendous resources in the territory, and some observers estimate that it spends USD 2.7 billion per year on the territory and its 385,000 [...]
2009-08-17 17:34:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPBTS PHUM ECON PREF WI AG MO
09RABAT776UNHCR VISIT YIELDS HOPE FOR PROGRESS IN MOROCCO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR Antonio Guterres briefed US and Swedish diplomats on his Sept. 8-12 trip to Algeria, Morocco and Western Sahara. He described as generally positive the Moroccan, Algerian and Polisario responses to his calls for larger and more frequent family visitations; for a direct land [...]
2009-09-14 16:31:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV SMIG PREL MO AG
09RABAT876IOM CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF
[...] The Government of Morocco (GOM) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) organized a conference on the Impact of the World Economic Crisis on Migration, October 12 and 13, in Rabat. Minister-delegate for Moroccans Living Abroad Mohammed Ameur, IOM Director General William Swi [...]
2009-10-28 18:52:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN SMIG PREF MO
09RABAT935UPDATE ON THE AMINATOU HAIDAR CASE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prominent pro-independence and human rights activist Aminatou Haidar remains in Spain following the GOM's refusal to allow her to enter Morocco on November 13. The GOM has now announced that Haidar will be granted a new passport if she re-applies for one at the Moroccan consulat [...]
2009-11-25 16:56:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PGOV MO
09RABAT941MOROCCO CONVOKES P5+SPAIN TO REVIEW HAIDAR CASE
[...] (C) Summary: The Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 26 summoned representatives of the P5 and Spain to discuss the Aminatou Haidar case and its potential effect on UN-brokered negotiations over the status of the Western Sahara. The GOM asserted that the next move is Haidar's an [...]
2009-11-30 18:44:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL MO
09RABAT977WESTERN SAHARA: SAHRAWI ACTIVISTS CONCERNED ABOUT
[...] (C) Summary: In the wake of King Mohammed VI's stern November 6 speech, Sahrawi pro-independence and human rights activists report a tangible uptick in police harassment and decreased tolerance for freedom of expression in Western Sahara. They have refrained from organizing demonstrations or [...]
2009-12-15 16:47:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREF PREL UN MO WI
09RABAT990AMINATOU HAIDAR RETURNS SAFELY TO WESTERN SAHARA
[...] (C) Summary: Prominent Sahrawi pro-independence activist Aminatou Haidar returned safely to the Western Sahara on December 18 aboard a Spanish military aircraft. She recovered her passport at the airport, completed normal Moroccan immigration formalities, and proceeded from the airport to her home [...]
2009-12-18 15:40:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PREF PGOV UN WI MO
09RANGOON164BURMA: HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES VISITS BURMA
[...] (C) UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres' March 7-12 visit to Burma was strictly controlled by the GOB, according to local UN staff. Guterres visited Nay Pyi Taw, Sittwe (Rakhine State),and Myeik (Thanintharyi Division). Guterres met with the Ministers for Home Affair [...]
2009-03-13 07:40:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PREF BM
09RANGOON571BURMA: TIP REPORT TIER 3 REASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) The GOB has not made notable progress on the recommendations listed in the 2009 TIP Report. End summary. No Prosecutions of Military or Civilian Officials --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (C) The 2009 TIP report recommended the GOB criminally prosecute mili [...]
2009-08-31 10:30:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPHUM KWMN KCRM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SMIG KTIP
09REYKJAVIK49 NINTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) Embassy point of contact on the trafficking in persons (TIP) issue is Political Officer Brad Evans, tel. +354-562-9100x2294, fax +354-562-9139, unclassified e-mail EvansBR@state.gov. Hours spent on preparation: - Pol Officer (FS 02) 18 hrs - Pol Assistant 50 hrs - DCM 1 hrs T [...]
2009-03-06 16:25:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG KTIP KFRD PREF IC
09REYKJAVIK50 NINTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) Embassy point of contact on the trafficking in persons (TIP) issue is Political Officer Brad Evans, tel. +354-562-9100x2294, fax +354-562-9139, unclassified e-mail EvansBR@state.gov. Hours spent on preparation: - Pol Officer (FS 02) 18 hrs - Pol Assistant 50 hrs - DCM 1 hrs T [...]
2009-03-06 16:26:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG KTIP KFRD PREF IC
09RIYADH1460UNHCR REPORTS WORSENING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN
[...] (C) Acting UNHCR Regional Representative Dr. Hamdi Bukhari reported that the humanitarian situation in Yemen is deteriorating and blamed clashes between the al-Houthi rebels and Yemeni forces for causing civilian casualties on October 29. Dr. Bukhari faulted the Saudi government for not doin [...]
2009-11-03 11:09:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL SA YM
09RIYADH1494UNHCR SAUDI-YEMEN BORDER RELIEF HALTED BY FIGHTING
[...] (C) Acting UNHCR Regional Representative Dr. Hamdi Bukhari reported that UNHCR will conduct two separate missions to assess the prevailing security and humanitarian situations along the Yemen-Saudi border. Although ready to proceed with a much needed relief convoy at the Alp border crossing, [...]
2009-11-09 13:11:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF SA YM
09RIYADH1525SAG EFFECTIVELY PROVIDING FOR GROWING NUMBER OF
[...] (C) Since the Saudi-Yemen border conflict began on November 3, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has been rapidly increasing, and is now estimated at 8,000 persons. As a result of the border security threat, an estimated 240 villages and 51 schools have been evacuated or clos [...]
2009-11-16 14:36:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF SA YM
09RIYADH1538UNHCR CONFIRMS SAG'S FIVE-STAR HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS
[...] (C) Acting UNHCR Regional Representative Dr. Hamdi Bukhari confirmed on November 17 that Saudi Civil Defense was effectively managing the humanitarian situation along the southern Saudi Arabian border. Returning from a two day trip to Yemen, Bukhari reported that UNHCR Camp Muzruk had reached [...]
2009-11-18 13:05:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF SA YM
09RIYADH1662UNHCR ASKS SAG TO HELP RATHER THAN DEPORT IDPS
[...] (C) UNHCR Deputy Regional Representative Dr. Hamdi Bukhari informed Poloff that a third UNHCR cross-border relief convoy was temporarily halted until a joint "gap" assessment was completed by the International Red Crescent (IRCRC) and UNHCR. The IRCRC expressed concern over insufficient coop [...]
2009-12-22 14:42:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF SA
09RIYADH671AMB HOLBROOKE MEETING WITH KING ABDULLAH
[...] (C) United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, AMB Richard Holbrooke, met with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud for 40 minutes on May 17. AMB Holbrooke stressed the importance that the new Administration ascribes to Afghanistan and Paki [...]
2009-05-18 07:01:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREF PTER
09ROME1049GAERC DEMARCHES ON SRI LANKAN IDPS; ARMENIA,
[...] (SBU) On September 11, Post delivered reftel points to Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for EU External Relations Minister Michele Esposito. Minister Esposito, who deals with all GAERC-related issues, noted that there is no item pertaining to Sri Lanka on the September 14-15 GAERC [...]
2009-09-11 12:38:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EUN MASS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER SOCI
09ROME1371GOI TO DISBURSE WFP ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN
[...] (U) Summary. The GOI will immediately disburse 500,000 euros to assist the WFP in Pakistan. End summary. 2. (SBU) On December 14, ECONOFF met with an official in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to convey the USG request for immediate support for the WFP (reftel). The official, [...]
2009-12-15 10:58:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD IO IT PGOV PHUM PK PREF
09ROME176ITALY: MFA HESITANT IN PRESSING MOI ON CUBAN
[...] (C) A/DCM met February 10 with MFA Americas DG Verderame, at the latter's request, as well as with Migration Deputy DG Palladino to discuss our pending request for the resettlement in Italy of Cuban protected migrant Luis Manuel Alfonso Romero, currently at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo [...]
2009-02-12 15:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PREF SMIG KAWC IT CU
09ROME204ITALY: 2008 TIP REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-20 16:09:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM PHUM PREF KWMN KFRD SMIG IT XX
09ROME316ITALY,S RESPONSE TO PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Counselor Valter Zucconi of the Directorate for Development Cooperation said the GOI hopes to approve between 30 and 40 million Euros in soft loans for Pakistan's provinces bordering Afghanistan by June of 2009. Italy had already pledged one million Euros to the World Food [...]
2009-03-17 17:15:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PK PREF
09ROME352ITALY: 2008 TIP REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-25 15:52:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM PHUM PREF KWMN SMIG IT
09ROME437NO MORE MR. NICE GUY (I): INEFFECTIVE ITALIAN
[...] (SBU) Recent tragic reports of boatloads of African immigrants crossing from Libya to Lampedusa, a 12 square mile island off of the coast of Sicily, have transfixed local, regional and international audiences. The arrivals have accelerated a law and order approach to irregular immigration pr [...]
2009-04-17 12:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF IT
09ROME438NO MORE MR. NICE GUY (III): INEFFECTIVE ITALIAN
[...] (SBU) This is the third in a series of three reporting cables on immigration in Italy. This first reporting cable described the current situation. The second reported on the government's reaction to the immigration challenge. This third cable examines the concerns raised by the government's [...]
2009-04-17 13:34:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF IT
09ROME439NO MORE MR. NICE GUY (II): INEFFECTIVE ITALIAN
[...] (SBU) This is the second in a series of three reporting cables on immigration in Italy. This first reporting cable described the current situation. This second cable reports on the government's reaction to the immigration challenge. The third examines concerns about the limitations of the g [...]
2009-04-17 13:34:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF IT
09ROME600ITALY ENACTS A TOUGH SECURITY LAW IN RESPONSE TO
[...] (C//NF) During the week of May 18, the parties of the governing coalition finally reached an accord and passed a tough new security law that will allow the GOI to detain irregular immigrants for up to six months, for the first time classifies irregular immigration as a crime, and gives the leg [...]
2009-05-22 14:51:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREF PREL IT
09ROME623ITALY GIVES 760K EUROS FOR PAKISTANI IDPS; 40M
[...] (C) Summary: In response to humanitarian needs created by recent hostilities in the Swat valley, Italy has pledged 400,000 Euros for emergency aid to be managed through the Pakistani Red Crescent, as well as another 360,000 Euro "in kind" donation of humanitarian supplies. Italy is also fi [...]
2009-05-29 14:06:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PHUM PREF PK IT
09ROME912ITALY DELIVERS EMERGENCY AID TO HORN OF AFRICA
[...] (U) On 15 July Econoff delivered reftel demarche concerning emergency aid to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia to Giovanni Battici, Coordinator for Italy's Emergency Aid within the Development Cooperation section of the MFA. Italy's main focus for aid to Somalia, Battici said, was in building hospit [...]
2009-08-06 09:26:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO UG PGOV PREL KPKO
09RPODUBAI162IRAN REGIONAL PRESENCE OFFICE -- WINDOW ON IRAN -- APRIL 7,
[...] (S/NF) Update on Roxana Saberi: Two separate IRPO contacts have asserted that Roxanna Saberi is part of a political struggle over IRIG relations with the US. One of them, a friend of Saberi who works for BBC Farsi, said that Saberi was taken by elements in the Ministry of Intelligence and Secur [...]
2009-04-07 14:51:00Iran RPO DubaiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM PREF ECON EAGR IR
09RPODUBAI171IRAN REGIONAL PRESENCE OFFICE DUBAI: WINDOW ON IRAN - APRIL
[...] [S/NF] Iranian UN OCHA head seen as invaluable link to IRIG: According to an Iranian employee of the UN Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (please protect),the current OCHA director in Tehran, Ali Ashraf Mojtahed Shabestari, is so well-respected by IRIG officials that their r [...]
2009-04-15 13:25:00Iran RPO DubaiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM PREF ECON EAGR IR
09RPODUBAI327IRAN: PROTESTER DESCRIBES POST-ELECTION IRIG INTIMIDATION
[...] (C) Summary: An Iranian woman from Shiraz seeking refugee status in the West spoke with IRPO regarding the IRIG harassment she faced after participating in post-election protests. Her background made her a likely target for the IRIG; she is an English teacher, has friends in the US and UK, and [...]
2009-08-11 08:36:00Iran RPO DubaiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREF PGOV PHUM IR
09SANAA1122YEMEN TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: ROYG ACCEPTS RANKING,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-17 12:49:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09SANAA1287ROYG FACES OBSTACLES TO FULL REFUGEE REGISTRATION
[...] (C/NF) Although refugee-registration centers are now open in Sana,a and Aden, many questions loom over refugee affairs in Yemen. Widespread discrepancies in official reporting on the number of refugees in the country, and ineffectual communication and cooperation between government ministries [...]
2009-07-22 09:45:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREF PGOV PHUM PREL SO UNHCR YM
09SANAA1330RED SEA PIRACY: HUDAYDAH'S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a July 21 visit to Hudaydah, political figures, business leaders, and the local Coast Guard commander described how piracy is driving up business and security costs for public and private sector alike, at a time when both are are feeling squeezed by the international financi [...]
2009-07-29 13:42:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT JA PGOV PHSA PREF YM
09SANAA1507SA'ADA: WITH PLANES AND TANKS, ROYG SIGNALS SIXTH
[...] (S) SUMMARY. The spread of violent clashes across Sa'ada, al-Jawf and the Saudi border and confluence of the Houthi rebellion with tribal and sectarian conflict in the region has finally drawn the ROYG into what now appears to be the sixth round of fighting. After several months of sporadic [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy SanaaSECRET//NOFORNMCAP MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PTER YM
09SANAA1527ROYG PROSECUTES SUSPECTED SOMALI PIRATES, BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the prosecution of 22 suspected Somali pirates, the ROYG is now fighting piracy in the courts as well as at sea. The piracy trials warrant close monitoring, as the number of suspected pirates handed over to Yemeni authorities is likely to increase as a result of heighten [...]
2009-08-17 10:02:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALEWWT KCOR KCRM PGOV PHSA PREF YM
09SANAA1532SIXTH ROUND OF SA'ADA FIGHTING INTENSIFIES
[...] (S) SUMMARY. The sixth round of fighting between the ROYG and the Houthis, which began on August 11, has continued to escalate, kinetically and rhetorically. On August 13, the ROYG gave the Houthis six conditions for ceasing hostilities, including one that the Houthis most likely have no powe [...]
2009-08-17 15:12:00Embassy SanaaSECRETMCAP MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PTER YM
09SANAA1555AS SA'ADA CONFLICT RAGES, HUMANITARIAN IMPACT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As fighting continues in Sa'ada governorate, concern is growing about the conflict's humanitarian impact, with thousands of newly displaced people seeking shelter at camps in Sa'ada, Hajja, Amran, and al-Jawf governorates. President Saleh continues to press a military solution [...]
2009-08-20 10:41:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALMCAP MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PTER YM
09SANAA1604CONTRABAND AND CONFUSION IN THE GULF OF ADEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On an August 8 visit to Aden, PolOffs heard from a variety of sources that smuggling -- of drugs, diesel, weapons, alcohol, and human beings -- is thriving along Yemen's coasts. These illicit flows are difficult to disentangle from legal maritime activities, as well as piracy, [...]
2009-08-29 12:15:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALEWWT MCAP PHUM PGOV PHSA PREF SNAR KTIP YM
09SANAA1633PEAK REFUGEE SEASON: INCREASING NUMBERS OF
[...] (U) This cable was drafted in coordination with Embassy Addis Ababa. Summary ------------ 2. (C) SUMMARY: Press reporting on the &12,0008 refugees crammed into Bossaso, Somalia waiting to transit to Yemen in September has been largely exaggerated. Many of these refugees have already arr [...]
2009-09-02 14:17:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PHUM PREL DJ ELAB ER ET SMIG UNHCR
09SANAA1851YEMEN: PRM VISIT UNVEILS GROWING RESENTMENT
[...] (C) In an October 4-5 PRM visit to Yemen, a series of meetings with NGOs and international organizations (IOs) elucidated several challenges: a growing resentment toward refugees on the part of the ROYG and general population, severely limited access to Ethiopian detainees, increasing numbers [...]
2009-10-07 12:19:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PHUM PREL ET SMIG UNHCR YM
09SANAA204265 JEWS MAKE THEIR EXODUS FROM YEMEN, RESETTLE IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite bureaucratic, logistical, cultural and personal hurdles, 65 Yemeni Jews traveled to the U.S. in 2009 as part of the special P-1 refugee resettlement process. The most recent group of Jewish refugees traveled on October 26 amid death threats from an estranged ex-husband a [...]
2009-11-09 13:42:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA204357 JEWS MAKE THEIR EXODUS FROM YEMEN, RESETTLE IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite bureaucratic, logistical, cultural and personal hurdles, 57 Yemeni Jews traveled to the U.S. in 2009 as part of the special P-1 refugee resettlement process. The most recent group of Jewish refugees traveled on October 26 amid death threats from an estranged ex-husband a [...]
2009-11-10 04:27:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA2116SITREP: YEMEN'S MOST VULNERABLE REFUGEES IN BASATEEN AND
[...] (U) Summary: Although still a minority segment of Yemen's vast and growing refugee population, the 15,000 residents of the UNHCR-run refugee camp in Kharaz and the 40,000 plus residents of the urban slum of Basateen are among the most vulnerable. During a November 16 - 18 visit to these areas, [...]
2009-11-23 14:46:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV UNHCR YM
09SANAA2124IDPS IN AMRAN ESCAPE WAR BUT STILL EXPOSED TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The approximately 28,000 IDPs in Amran governorate may have escaped the conflict zone, but their survival remains precarious. Local authorities view them with suspicion and have attempted to restrict and manipulate aid delivery for political purposes. The camp established for [...]
2009-11-24 11:37:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UNHCR YM
09SANAA2227SA'ADA, MONTH FIVE: IS SALEH SERIOUS ABOUT ENDING
[...] (S) SUMMARY. A week after ceasefire negotiations between the ROYG and the Houthis broke down, bombing continues apace in war-torn Sa'ada governorate. President Saleh continues to send signs that he is still committed to a military end to the conflict and attempts at reaching a political solu [...]
2009-12-16 15:08:00Embassy SanaaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PREF SA YM
09SANAA2287YEMEN: HOUTHI HEAD POSSIBLY DEAD, BUT REBELS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. With the ROYG and international community refocused on the long-running battle against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the civil war against the Houthi rebels in northern Sa'ada governorate continues to rage, despite rumors that Houthi commander Abdulmalik al-Houthi is dead. [...]
2009-12-31 10:17:00Embassy SanaaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PREF MOPS YM SA
09SANAA291INTERIOR MINISTER GIVES AMBASSADOR ASSURANCES ON
[...] (C) The Minister of Interior gave the Ambassador on February 16 assurances on a number of issues ranging from reports of recently released al-Qaeda suspects to information sharing with the Embassy to the protection of Yemen's Jewish community. While Post is relatively confident that the issu [...]
2009-02-17 12:05:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PREF KIRF
09SANAA42YEMEN RESPONSE TO OPPOSING IRAN PRESIDENCY AT UNDP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-11 05:04:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF IR UN EAID YM
09SANAA433REFUGEE FLOWS INTO YEMEN STRAIN AN ALREADY BURDENED SYSTEM
[...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: Pressing on an already overburdened system, the number of refugees in Yemen continued to increase in 2008. The ROYG is beginning to feel the increasing pressure from the existing population of refugees, along with these new arrivals, as evidenced by a draft law to end the poli [...]
2009-03-10 12:05:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV YM
09SANAA502ROYG DIGS IN ITS HEELS ON ISSUANCE OF JEWS'
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite U.S. pressure, the ROYG continues to stall on the issuance of passports to a group of Reyda Jews, citing discomfort over media attention surrounding the February emigration of a Jewish family to Israel. Families in Reyda reported incidents of rocks thrown at their homes [...]
2009-03-24 11:26:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA504AMISOM DEMARCHE: ROYG RESPONDS SOMALI FORCES NEED
[...] (C) POL/E Chief delivered reftel demarche to Abdulhakim al-Iryani, Director of the Foreign Minister's Office. Iryani said that he was pleased that the USG was engaging countries in the region on Somalia. He asserted that the piracy, terrorism, and refugee flows coming out of that country are [...]
2009-03-24 15:02:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF KPKO SO YM
09SANAA560SIXTH ROUND IN SAADA: WHERE'S THE TIPPING POINT?
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The threat of a sixth round of fighting between the al-Houthi rebels and government forces in Saada looms large. Potential flashpoints include the issue of prisoners, tribal warfare in the northern governorates and the grim humanitarian situation. The constant drumbeat of viol [...]
2009-04-01 06:53:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALMCAP MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF YM
09SANAA596SOME MEMBERS OF REYDA JEWISH COMMUNITY RECEIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-08 13:42:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA597VISIT TO REFUGEE AREAS IN YEMEN INDICATES NEED FOR
[...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: A continued increase in the flow of migrants and draw down in international funding of NGOs threatens an already vulnerable and underserved community in the Basateen urban area and Kharaz refugee camp in the south of Yemen. A reduction in the funding of programs will have a d [...]
2009-04-08 16:22:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV YM
09SANAA9JEWS BEGIN MOVE TO SANA'A AFTER STONINGS IN REYDA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After anti-Israel demonstrations turned into a violent episode of stone-throwing on January 4, the Reyda Jews began moving to government housing in Sana'a on January 5. Several people were injured as a result of the violence and at least one man was hospitalized for his injuri [...]
2009-01-05 13:13:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA939SECURITY CONCERNS, BUREAUCRACY HINDER DELIVERY OF
[...] Insecurity and bureaucratic foot-dragging are hindering efforts to provide assistance to Yemen's strife-torn Sa'ada province. A key needs assessment remains stalled awaiting ROYG approval, possibly as a result of the ROYG's hesitancy to allow outsiders to view the scope of the humanitarian cr [...]
2009-05-18 06:25:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PREF YM
09SANJOSE127 PART 1 OF 2: COSTA RICA'S NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) Part 2 of this report is being sent septel. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The most significant progress the GOCR made since the November 2008 TIP Interim Assessment (Ref A) - and during the reporting period in general - was its February 12, 2009, passage of a Victim and Witness Pro [...]
2009-02-27 22:07:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG KTIP ASEC CS
09SANJOSE128 PART 2 OF 2: COSTA RICA'S 9TH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) This cable is Part 2 of 2 and continues section numbering from Part 1 (septel),in according with TIP reporting instructions. --------------------------------------------- - III. INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION - CONTINUED --------------------------------------------- - E. LAW ENFORCEME [...]
2009-02-27 23:05:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG KTIP ASEC CS
09SANJOSE225COSTA RICA: FULL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CUBA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 18, Costa Rica re-established full diplomatic relations with Cuba, ending 48 years of limited contact. In an open letter to the Costa Rican people and in his press conference announcing the change, President Oscar Arias said "the time had come" for "direct and open dialo [...]
2009-03-25 16:58:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALCS CU PGOV PINR PREL PREF
09SANJOSE385COSTA RICA'S TAFT REFUGEE FUND PROPOSAL 2009
[...] Embassy San Jose would like to submit the project "Promoting Refugee Self-Reliance Through Micro-Credit", in partnership with the Association of Professionals in Development for the Promotion of the Persons in Poverty (APRODE) and the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, to the Julia Ta [...]
2009-05-11 14:41:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL ELAB EAID CS
09SANJOSE692A SNAPSHOT OF COSTA RICA'S REFUGEE COMMUNITY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-14 20:18:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM ELAB EAID SMIG CS KWMN
09SANJOSE715NATIONAL ASSEMBLY GETS BUSY - PASSES NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Costa Rica's National Assembly capped off an uncharacteristically productive month-and-a-half on August 11 by approving the final version of an Electoral Reform bill. This came after the Assembly passed a new Anti-Organized Crime bill in early July, and an Immigration Reform bi [...]
2009-08-24 08:21:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PINR PREL ASEC CVIS PTER SNAR PREF
09SANJOSE812COSTA RICA'S CLOSE RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Costa Rica has an expanding political and economic relationship with Colombia, which it currently sees as its second closest partner in Latin America, behind Panama. Politically, Presidents Arias and Uribe share a warm relationship, and the two countries coordinate closely on l [...]
2009-09-24 18:02:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PREL PINR ASEC PTER SNAR PREF CO CS
09SANSALVADOR1562008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) The following is post's response to Reftel. The text directly tracks reftel Paragraph 23-27 and relevant subsections. 2. (SBU) Responses to checklist items follow. Note internal paragraph numbering. ------------------------------------------ Paragraph 23 - The Country's TIP Situation [...]
2009-02-20 16:12:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09SANSALVADOR71SALVADORAN FOREIGN MINISTER REQUESTS MEETING WITH
[...] This in an action cable. Please see paragraph four. 2. On Wednesday, January 21, the office of Salvadoran Foreign Minister Marisol Argueta de Barillas contacted the embassy and requested a meeting with Secretary Clinton on the morning of Tuesday, January 27. Minister Argueta will be in Wa [...]
2009-01-22 22:56:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDES PGOV PREF
09SANSALVADOR970EL SALVADOR: COUNTRY CONDITIONS AS THEY RELATE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Current infrastructure, economic, and political conditions in El Salvador would not allow the country to absorb, in an orderly manner, the return of the 258,000 Salvadoran beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) living in the United States. El Salvador has not finished [...]
2009-10-09 15:08:00Embassy San SalvadorSECRET//NOFORNPHUM PREF SMIG ES
09SANTIAGO156 CHILE: 2009 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) The following information is Post's submission per ref A. Post will continue to gather information on TIP and submit relevant updates prior to April 15. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOC made progress during the reporting period in its efforts to confront TIP. Individual agencies, most notably [...]
2009-02-20 19:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KTIP ELAB KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF KCRM CI
09SANTIAGO391CHILE'S STEADY TIP PROGRESS WARRANTS TIER 2
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the GOC is making significant progress in eliminating trafficking in persons, Post strongly recommends that Chile remain a Tier 2 country. GOC prosecution and prevention efforts are substantial and noteworthy, with the number of new cases opened up 10 percent and large-scale [...]
2009-04-23 18:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP ELAB KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF KCRM CI
09SANTODOMINGO1016VIGILANTE MOB KILLS HAITIAN AND DOMINICAN
[...] A vigilante mob in Las Charcas de Azua, a northwestern province of the Dominican Republic, on 8/30, hunted down and killed a Haitian and a Dominican national suspected of having robbed and murdered a local youth. The mob then reportedly burned the bodies in front of the murdered youth's family [...]
2009-09-04 12:16:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF DR
09SANTODOMINGO1266GRUESOME MURDER OF THREE HAITIANS SPARKS
[...] SUMMARY: The gruesome killing and incineration of three Haitians in the Dominican Republic, two of whom were minors, engaged in cutting down trees to make charcoal near the southwestern border town of Jimani on 10/20, has shocked both countries. The Foreign Ministry condemned the action, whi [...]
2009-10-30 14:29:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL SENV DR
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