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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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06REYKJAVIK167 ICELAND TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON MOP-3 FOLLOW-UP
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-11 08:20:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID ETRD TBIO IC
06REYKJAVIK305 LEBANON: ICELAND'S CONTRIBUTION AND DONOR CONFERENCE
[...] (U) To date, the Government of Iceland (GOI) has announced donations of ISK 24 million ($340,000) in humanitarian aid to Lebanon. The pledges were divided between a 27 July tranche to UN agencies and local NGO Church Aid Iceland, and a 15 August tranche split between the World Food Program an [...]
2006-08-25 16:49:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL LE SW IC
06REYKJAVIK431 ICELAND: PEACEKEEPING POLICY AT A CROSSROADS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iceland's Foreign Minister has announced that Iceland will increase the number of peacekeepers sent abroad with the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit(ICRU),while focusing on civilian projects where Iceland has particular expertise and restricting behavior (e.g. wearing battle dress [...]
2006-11-27 11:49:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO EAID NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK50 ICELAND IN NO RUSH TO ASSIST NEW PALESTINIAN
[...] Post discussed reftel points with Icelandic MFA Head of International Institutions Division Nikulas Hannigan February 10. Hannigan took note of U.S concerns about a new Palestinian Authority government that has not committed to non-violence, and he affirmed that Iceland generally supports the [...]
2006-02-13 16:58:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAL EAID IS IC
06RIGA526LATVIA LOOKS TO MAJOR INCREASE IN DEVELOPMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY Latvia is shifting from being a recipient of foreign aid to being a donor. Their recently published development cooperation policy plan for 2007, envisions a roughly four-fold increase in development assistance, focused on Georgia and Moldova, with additional assistance to Ukrain [...]
2006-07-06 07:54:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PREL PGOV GG MD LG
06RIGA619DAS KRAMER TALKS BELARUS, MOLDOVA AND RUSSIA WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In a productive series of meetings in Riga July 24, DAS David Kramer discussed Belarus, Moldova and Russia with key Latvian officials. Latvia is closely watching Belarus' relations with Russia and trying to improve people to people contacts. NGO representatives who work with Be [...]
2006-08-02 11:59:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EAID RS MD BO LG
06RIGA686LATVIA: NO NEW AID AT LEBANON DONOR CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Pol/econ off met on August 25 with Signe Jansone, MFA A/S-level official responsible for the Middle East to deliver demarche on Latvian attendance and financial commitments at the August 31 Stockholm Donor Conference on Lebanon. She said that the Latvian delegation will be headed by Maij [...]
2006-08-28 04:17:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL LE LG
06RIGA733LATVIA: MAINTAINING THE MOMENTUM ON LEBANON
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Off met on September 11 with Signe Jansone, MFA A/S-level official responsible for the Middle East, to deliver demarche on maintaining momentum in Lebanon. Jansone agreed that it is very important not to return to the pre-conflict status quo in Lebanon. She said that it remains [...]
2006-09-12 14:15:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PTER LE LG
06RIGA847LATVIAN MFA ON BELARUS AND GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary: Belarus has dropped the charges against the Latvian diplomat accused in July of distribution of pornography and transferred the evidence to Latvia under the bilateral mutual legal assistance treaty. While this should allow some stabilization in the bilateral relationship, includ [...]
2006-10-17 11:09:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID BO GG RU LG
06RIYADH4776SAG RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON YEMENI GCC ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, MFA Office Director for International Orgnizations. Al-Rassi confirmed that SAG agreed that providing financial assistance to Yemen through the GCC is important in ensuring regional stability. When asked whether they plan on pr [...]
2006-06-14 14:59:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PTER SA
06RIYADH5547COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY
[...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for the visit of Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and his delegation to Saudi Arabia on July 23. Due to recent severe budget cuts, the Mission must direct charge all visit support costs. Country cl [...]
2006-07-12 08:23:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALOVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA
06RIYADH5548SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY TREASURY
[...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Jeddah July 23. Ambassador Oberwetter and Consul General Tatiana Gfoeller look forward to meeting you and will accompany you on a number of your calls on Saudi leaders. Per your request, appointments are being requested in Jedd [...]
2006-07-12 09:05:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETOVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA
06RIYADH6003SAUDI RED CRESCENT TO SEND HUMANITARIAN CONVOY TO
[...] (U) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message responds to Lebanon Task Force and Embassy Tel Aviv requests for assurances and information, to be shared with the IDF, concerning the planned travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. [...]
2006-07-29 13:52:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LE EAID SA
06RIYADH6037TFLE01: SAUDI HUMANITARIAN CONVOY STILL PLANNING
[...] (C) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message responds to Lebanon Task Force and Embassy Tel Aviv requests for assurances and information, to be shared with the IDF, concerning the planned travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. [...]
2006-07-29 20:45:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EAID LE SA
06RIYADH6040TFLE01: SAUDI HUMANITARIAN CONVOY TO BEIRUT
[...] (C) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message concerns the travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. 2. (C) Poloff conveyed reftel E information to Emboff at the Saudi Embassy in Lebanon (Saudi POC) early on the morning of July 30 [...]
2006-07-30 09:29:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EAID LE SA
06RIYADH6440COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY
[...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for a delegation led by Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Principal Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Ambassador James SIPDIS Jeffrey to visit the Kingdom August 14-15 to dis [...]
2006-08-13 11:28:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALOVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA
06RIYADH7990IRAQI DELEGATION VISITS KSA TO DISCUSS IRAQ
[...] The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance confirmed to us on October 9 that an Iraqi technical delegation came to Saudi Arabia on October 7 to discuss Iraqi debt to Saudi Arabia. 2. According to Deputy Minister of Finance Al-Bazi'y, three Iraqi delegates from the Ministry of Finance v [...]
2006-10-11 10:47:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECIN ECON IZ SA
06RIYADH9155KATRINA ASSISTANCE, COMING TO CLOSURE
[...] (U) As per reftel request, on 17 December, Mission delivered a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) formally requesting information on the status of disbursements of the outstanding $48 million of $100 million the SAG pledged for Hurricane Katrina assistance. We request [...]
2006-12-24 10:15:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL EPET SA
06RIYADH9204AVIAN FLU CONFERENCE INVITATION RESPONSE
[...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided a response to the reftel on 11 December 2006 thanking us for notifying them of the Avian Flu conference in Bamako, but regretting the SAG could not participate. The MFA also informed us the SAG has donated $1 million USD to the U.N. Food and Agricultur [...]
2006-12-27 09:47:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR KFLU TBIO PREL EAID SA
06ROME1006 AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES
[...] Summary: On March 28, USMISSION UN ROME met with FAO Animal Production and Health (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation (TCE) Divisions staff to discuss Azerbaijan; global Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) expert needs; personal protective equipment (PPE) needs in the West [...]
2006-04-04 07:16:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO
06ROME1090 AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES
[...] USMISSION UN ROME staff covered the USDA/Washington April 3-6 meetings with FAO on providing U.S. experts for FAO's global efforts to combat Avian Influenza. A separate reporting cable will be issued. During some free periods this week, USMISSION UN ROME held brief discussions with FAO Anim [...]
2006-04-11 07:48:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1149 AVIAN INFLUENZA: U.S. ASSISTANCE TO THE FAO/OIE
[...] Summary: A USDA administrative team from FAS and APHIS visited FAO HQ in Rome April 3-6 to survey FAO resource needs and determine how best to provide personnel resources to assist with HPAI emergency response efforts. FAO is moving forward with plans to establish a Crisis Management Center [...]
2006-04-14 09:25:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1174ITALY SUPPORTS CURRENT EU BURMA POLICY
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered reftel demarche April 13 to Nicola Tassoni, MFA Deputy Southeast Asia Office Director, presenting U.S. concerns regarding some of the statements made at the EC 2006 Burma/Myanmar Forum, and highlighting the importance the U.S. places on coordinating our Burma mess [...]
2006-04-19 07:31:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALBM EAID EU PHUM PREF PREL IT
06ROME1261ITALIAN POLITICIANS REACT WITH GRIEF AND
[...] (C) Italian politicians reacted with grief, solidarity, and condemnation April 28 following the killing of three Italians and a Romanian in Nasiriya. PM Berlusconi said he was deeply grieved by the deaths and center-left leader Prodi called it a tragedy for all of Italy. One center-left party [...]
2006-04-28 05:10:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1322ITALY'S INTERIM RESPONSE: NO IMMEDIATE FUNDS FOR
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. EconOff delivered reftel demarche April 14 to Maria Pia Dradi, Afghanistan Desk Officer for MFA's Office of Development Cooperation (ODC); and PolOff delivered reftel demarche April 18 to Anna Della Croce, MFA's Coordinator for Afghanistan [...]
2006-05-04 12:40:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PREL IT AF
06ROME1347IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA WARNS PRESSING TOO HARD ON QRF
[...] (C) The Italian MFA does not foresee a change in Italy's policy of gradual troop reductions, in consultation with the Iraqis and coalition partners, in Iraq. Barring additional terrorist attacks, the MFA also does not expect major problems with funding renewal for the mission this summer. But [...]
2006-05-05 16:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1413ITALY ON USG ROLE IN WORLD BANK'S MULTILATERAL
[...] EconOff delivered reftel demarche April 14 to Giorgio Guglielmino, Budget Director in MFA's Office of Development Cooperation (ODC),and highlighted the USG's role in proposing and supporting the World Bank's Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI),as well as U.S. leadership as the single [...]
2006-05-11 04:36:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN IT KPAO
06ROME1603ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON DARFUR ACCORD, NOT EXPECTING
[...] (C) Poloff met with Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA Horn of Africa Office Director, May 11 to deliver Reftel A points encouraging Italy to restrict the issuance of visas to members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM); and May 24 to deliver Reftel B points outlining issues for follow-up to the [...]
2006-05-26 15:32:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SOCI PINS SU IT
06ROME163 AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON TURKEY AND THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JANUARY 13, USMISSION UN ROME STAFF MET WITH JOSEPH DOMENECH, FAO CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER, AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY AND NEEDS THERE. ALSO DISCUSSED WAS THE OUTLOOK FOR ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA. FOR TURKEY, DOMENECH STATE [...]
2006-01-18 11:05:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1635PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE DEMARCHE REQUEST
[...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Luciano Pezzotti, MFA Office Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, on May 31. Pezzotti, who is following the process for the Italians, thanked poloff for U.S. views on the details of the temporary international mechanism to deliver humanitarian assistance t [...]
2006-06-01 12:05:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL KPAL IT
06ROME1637IRAQ: ITALIAN LEADERS ASSESSING ITALY'S TROOP
[...] (C) Summary. Italian leaders are evaluating Italy's troop presence in Iraq and seeking ways to reconcile the need to maintain a military presence for civilian force protection with the government's commitment to complete troop withdrawal. In separate discussions with Deputy FM Rutelli and De [...]
2006-06-01 14:25:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1753IRAQ: ITALY HASN'T CLOSED THE DOOR ON PRT YET
[...] (S) Senior Italian diplomatic advisors told visiting Deputy Senior Advisor for Iraq (S/I) Barbara Stephenson June 9 that Italy will withdraw all of its troops in Iraq before the end of 2006, but plans to remain engaged in reconstruction efforts. They were pessimistic about Italy continuing to [...]
2006-06-13 14:18:00Embassy RomeSECRETPARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1849ITALY WORKING THROUGH EU ON VENEZUELA NGO LAW
[...] (C) June 19 Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Acting South America Office Director Paolo Campanini, urging Italy to communicate its concerns with the Venezuelan NGO bill to Caracas. Poloff noted that the draft legislation was vague and would give great discretion to the GOV in hindering NGO [...]
2006-06-22 14:21:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV VE EAID IT
06ROME1870NEW ITALIAN DEPUTY FM SENTINELLI ON AFRICA,
[...] (C) Summary. June 15 DCM Anna Borg met with the new Italian Deputy Foreign Minister for Development Assistance and Sub-Saharan Africa, Patrizia Sentinelli, to discuss Italian involvement in Africa and priorities for development assistance. Sentinelli was open to working with the United States [...]
2006-06-26 09:20:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID AF IT
06ROME2017IRAQ COMPACT LOGISTICS INFORMATION FOR ITALY
[...] (C) The Italian MFA confirms the presence of the three Italian delegates listed in reftel at the July 20 Iraq Compact and would like to accept the U.S. offer to provide transportation from Amman to the International Zone. The delegates' full information is as follows: - Minister Gianludovic [...]
2006-07-17 10:01:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EINV IZ IT
06ROME2076SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COLE
[...] Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Codel Cole. Please find below background information to serve as a scenesetter for visit. 2. U.S.-Italy relations traditionally have been strong regardless of the party in power. The Center Left's April 9-10 election victory should not significant [...]
2006-07-21 09:12:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME209WFP LIST D CHAIR
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 13, Danish Ambassador Poul Skytte Christoffersen, 2005 President of the World Food Program (WFP) Executive Board and chair of WFP's List D countries (OECD),convened his last session as List D Chair. The meeting was called to appoint a new List D chair. The United [...]
2006-01-23 10:14:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC EAID WFP
06ROME2157ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH SOMALIA
[...] The MFA reports Somalia remains a political priority for Italy (ref A),an assertion bolstered by Italy's providing over 21 million euro in foreign assistance in 2005-2006 and Italy's membership in the Somalia Contact Group. That said, aside from some foreign assistance, Italy's economic ties [...]
2006-08-01 13:09:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ETRD SO SW IT
06ROME2234ITALY OK WITH INFORMAL UN MIGRATION DIALOGUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-09 07:28:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF SMIG UNGA IT
06ROME2335LEBANON: ITALY READY TO HELP WITH TROOPS, BRIDGE
[...] (S) Italy is prepared to deploy up to 1,000 troops quickly to UNIFIL and up to 3,000 overall. The Foreign Minister told NEA A/S Welch the cabinet unanimously approved Italy's participation in UNIFIL during its August 18 meeting. Italy is persuaded, based on its own high-level consultations wi [...]
2006-08-18 17:34:00Embassy RomeSECRETPGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PHUM IS LE IT
06ROME2433 ITALY TO PLEDGE 30 MILLION EUROS FOR LEBANON AT STOCKHOLM
[...] (U) Acting EconMinCouns and Econoff met with Federica Ferrari Bravo, Office Director for the Middle East and Balkans in the MFA's Bureau of Cooperation and Development (BCD) August 30 to deliver reftel points. 2. (U) Ferrari Bravo stated that the GOI will pledge 30 million euro at the A [...]
2006-08-30 15:34:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID LE SW IT
06ROME2489ITALY URGES SYRIA TO STOP ARMS FLOW
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Prodi sent his diplomatic adviser to Damascus September 6 with a message for Asad urging compliance with the terms of resolution 1701 and a halt in the arms flow to Lebanon. It was the latest in a series of direct Italian messages to Syria, coming on the heels of [...]
2006-09-06 16:50:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PHUM IS LE IT
06ROME2538IRAQ COMPACT MEETINGS: ITALY EXPRESSES INTEREST
[...] Acting EcMinCouns and Econoff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Finance Director General for International Financial Relations, Ignazio Angeloni, September 7. DG Angeloni stated that the GOI would be interested in actively participating in, and contributing to, all three of the planned [...]
2006-09-11 05:38:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PREL IZ IT
06ROME27GOI: BUDGET CUTS WILL NOT REDUCE AFGHANISTAN
[...] (U) Summary. MFA Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Ambassador Anna della Croce told Charge January 3 that Italy will not allow budget cuts to affect its Berlin pledge of 145 million euros through end-2006. Della Croce expects a decision on GOI participation in the Afghanistan Compact next week [...]
2006-01-04 16:48:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV AF IT AFGHANISTAN
06ROME2982ITALYASKS FOR HELP ON URS LOGISTICS,
[...] (C) Summary. PolMinCouns met with Italian Iraq Task Force coordinator De Martino on October 27 to deliver reftel points and discuss Italian URS logistics. De Martino told PolMinCouns that Italy would be represented at the October 31 Iraq Compact Meeting in Kuwait by the Italian Ambassador to [...]
2006-10-27 15:34:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID NATO IZ IT
06ROME315 FAO EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: INFORMAL DONORS'
[...] Summary and Background. On January 25, 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) held an informal donors' meeting to provide an overview of 2005 activities and special requirements for 2006. Recently appointed TCE Assistant Direc [...]
2006-02-03 11:07:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR ECON SENV UN FAO
06ROME3213 AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE ON TURKEY AI
[...] SUMMARY: FAO SENIOR VETERINARY OFFICIAL JUAN LUBROTH GAVE A PRESS BRIEFING ON MONDAY, JANUARY 16, ON HIS MISSION TO TURKEY TO ASSESS THE AVIAN INFLUENZA SITUATION. THE FAO ASSESSMENT IS MORE OPTIMISTIC THIS WEEK COMPARED TO LAST WEEK WHEN FAO WARNED AI COULD BECOME ENDEMIC TO TURKEY. THE MA [...]
2006-01-17 15:34:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO AMED EAID CASC SENV EAGR KPAO TU AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME428AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA
[...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment arrives [...]
2006-02-13 12:17:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME430AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA
[...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment team ar [...]
2006-02-13 12:18:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME435AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ITALY, IRAQ,
[...] Based on communications today between USMISSION UN Rome staff and Dr. Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, FAO will conduct a press conference on February 14 at 10:30 a.m. The message that will be relayed will include the following: 2. On the Government of Italy's efforts: -- FAO [...]
2006-02-13 15:42:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME46324TH FAO AFRICAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] Summary: The biennial African Regional Conference (ARC) of the UN Agency for Food and Agriculture (FAO),held in Bamako, Mali, from January 30 to February 3 highlighted the continent's lack of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals for reducing hunger and poverty, and pr [...]
2006-02-15 14:54:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR AORC EAID ETRD SENV KUNR XA FAO
06ROME464AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE PROVIDES
[...] On February 14, FAO held a press conference to provide a global update on Avian Influenza. Areas highlighted were Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Europe in general (with a primary focus on Italy),and future preparations for Latin America/Caribbean. Samuel Jutzi, Director of FAO's Animal Product [...]
2006-02-15 16:29:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME465 UN REFORM: INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF
[...] (U) Summary: A Committee of the FAO Council charged with oversight of the comprehensive Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO has just approved the selection of a high-caliber core team of evaluators and decided that the IEE would formally begin on March 13, subject to firm assurance [...]
2006-02-15 16:53:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO
06ROME583ITALY'S DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN DECLINE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In view of Italy's extraordinary 27.6% cut in 2006 foreign assistance from 2005 levels, DCM called on Guiseppe Deodato, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General for Development, recently to hear his views and ensure continued good cooperation on development assistance. [...]
2006-02-24 15:35:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN IT IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
06ROME591 FOOD SECURITY ISSUES IN MOPTI DISTRICT, MALI
[...] Summary: In conjunction with official travel to attend FAO's African Regional Conference in Bamako (septel),Alternate Permanent Representative Willem Brakel, U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome, traveled to Mopti, Bandiagara and surroundings in Central Mali between January 31 and Februa [...]
2006-02-27 09:25:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AORC EAGR ML WFP FAO IFAD
06ROME626AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO DISCUSSIONS ON INCIDENT
[...] Summary: In discussions over the past week, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer Juan Lubroth and Senior Operations Officer Cristina Amaral updated us on FAO activities to combat Avian Influenza (AI). FAO senior management is acting to remove management constraints by: a) instituting a special wai [...]
2006-03-01 16:52:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO BG BM CB EG ID KE LA ML NI VM FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME638SYRIA EIB LOAN: ITALY WILL ALLOW LOAN TO PASS
[...] (C) A/ECMIN and EconOff delivered reftel demarche February 28 to Ignazio Angeloni, Ministry of Finance Director General for International Financial Relations, and Sangante Filippo, Office Director for Bilateral Affairs with non-European Union countries. Angeloni was surprised to hear a Europ [...]
2006-03-02 14:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN EINV EU IT PGOV PHUM PREL EUN
06ROME647ITALIANS UNABLE TO COMMIT MORE FUNDS TO BIH WAR
[...] Summary. GOI budget cutbacks will prevent Italy from pledging additional funds for the BIH War Crimes Chamber. Additionally, the GOI may have difficulty meeting its existing pledge of 1,440,000 Euros for the Chamber. End Summary. 2. Raimondo De Cardona, head of the MFA Balkans Department [...]
2006-03-02 16:42:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV PHUM BK IT
06ROME666WFP'S INTERIM RESPONSE TO UNHAS NEEDS IN PAKISTAN
[...] As per ref A),USMISSION UN ROME shared with the UN World Food Program (WFP) issues of concern that: continued support for the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) is not critical to ongoing humanitarian relief efforts beyond March 31, 2006; both UNHAS and the UN Joint Logistics Center (UNJLC) [...]
2006-03-03 13:01:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON PGOV PREL PK WFP
06ROME678 AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES
[...] Summary: In an effort to keep all USG agencies in Washington and in the field informed on FAO activities to combat and control Avian Influenza (AI),USMISSION UN ROME has instituted this new weekly reporting cable. FAO Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) and Animal Produc [...]
2006-03-03 16:58:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME698SURVEY OF ITALIANS' VIEWS ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
[...] Against the backdrop of April's national elections and a four-year drop in foreign assistance, Inter Press Service News Agency reported the results of a recent survey February 17 indicating most Italians favor using Italian budgetary resources to fight global poverty, rather than increasing m [...]
2006-03-07 08:45:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME71AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE: ITALIAN ENVOY SUGGESTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-09 15:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID AF IT AFGHANISTAN
06ROME766 AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES
[...] Summary: During three days of high-level and technical level discussions with FAO on March 7-9, a consensus was reached that a more robust global response was needed, with FAO, in coordination with OIE, as the global coordinator. FAO hosted the series of meetings relating to improving emerge [...]
2006-03-10 17:11:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME860 AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 16, USMISSION UN ROME staff met with various members of FAO's Animal Production and Health Division (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) for an update on Avian Influenza (AI) operations worldwide as well specific country programs. Much of t [...]
2006-03-17 16:59:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME87AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ANIMAL SITUATION IN
[...] Summary. Responding to alarming media reports on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) outbreaks in Turkey, on January 9, USMISSION UN Rome asked Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer (SVO),to share with us FAO's assessment of the situation in Turkey and ongoing work to control [...]
2006-01-10 16:04:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME904IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA SAYS PRT MOVING AHEAD REGARDLESS
[...] (C) Italy's Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Dhi Qar province will be fully operational by the end of April. MFA officials are confident that, barring an unexpectedly large vote for the extreme left in Italy's April 9 election, a center-left election victory will not affect the current [...]
2006-03-22 15:56:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV EAID IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME925 AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES
[...] Summary: Three FAO documents were shared with USMISSIN UN ROME this week: -- Following meetings earlier this month with several donors, FAO and OIE (the World Organization for Animal Health) released on March 17 the jointly prepared proposal to strengthen response to Highly Pathogenic Avia [...]
2006-03-24 15:37:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06SANAA1125YEMEN CANDIDATES FOR JUNE PEIA TRAINING COURSE IN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-23 11:18:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PINS PREL SENV SOCI XF
06SANAA1223COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NEA/PI OFFICERS,
[...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of NEA/PI Regional Coordinator David Mulenex; NEA/PI Economic Officer Briana Meacham; NEA/PI Political Pillar Manager Owen Kirby; Management Systems International Consultants Jacqueline Vavra and Andrew Griminger; DCHA/DG Specialis [...]
2006-05-03 08:40:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT EAID ECON KMPI KPAO OTRA PREL YM
06SANAA1599U.S ARAB ECONOMIC FORUM JULY 27-29,2006, HOUSTON,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-31 12:16:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP EAID ECON YM
06SANAA1814EMBASSY SANAA COMMENTS ON NIC WATCHLIST
[...] (U) Post recommends the following changes to the suggested test for Yemen in the NIC watchlist of internal instability: 2. (S) "Yemen's risk of significant internal instability over the past six months has slightly decreased due to a successful ceasefire with insurgents in the north, Preside [...]
2006-06-21 11:32:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPINS PGOV PTER EAID PREL KDEM KCRS YM
06SANAA2006MAVERICK FINANCE MINISTER CHARGES AHEAD ON REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's new Minister of Finance, Dr. Seif al-Asali, may march to the beat of a different drummer, but he appears to be making progress on reform following years of corruption by his predecessor. Under Asali's leadership, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) is implementing the first phas [...]
2006-07-12 14:59:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN ECON EAID PINR KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2063WTO MEETING BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO TRADE REFORMS
[...] SUMMARY: When it comes to trade reform, Yemen may finally be willing to do business. The ROYG's World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating team recently returned from the third Working Party meeting in Geneva reporting significant progress. Despite some differences on tariff rates, the ROYG [...]
2006-07-18 13:21:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID ECIN KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2070YEMEN REQUEST FOR FY07 COMMODITIES DONATION UNDER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-20 13:01:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID YM
06SANAA2441AMBASSADOR FINDS STRONG ALLY IN MINISTER OF FINANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 14, Ambassador met Minister of Finance Dr. Saif Al-Asali who was strongly supportive of the U.S. position on Hezbollah. MOF suggested that Yemen was the best hope for the region in its example as an emerging democracy, and urged the United States to back reformers like [...]
2006-08-19 11:08:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD KMPI KMCA YM
06SANAA2546JUSTICE MINISTER LEADS WAY FOR INDEPENDENT COURTS
[...] SUMMARY: Ambassador met the Minister of Justice (MOJ) Ghazi Shaif al-Aghbari on August 27 to discuss judicial reforms and related programs. Under the new minister, Yemen has taken substantive steps to strengthen the independence of the courts, which has produced results in combating corrupt [...]
2006-08-29 14:22:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2559UNDER YEMEN'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE, THE PEOPLE'S
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador met Yemen's Chief Justice Esam Abdul-Wahab al-Samawi for the first time on August 29, and discovered a youthful voice for reform and moderation. Samawi expressed the need for a clearer legal framework for trying suspected terrorists and would-be jihadis. As the newly a [...]
2006-09-03 10:49:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EAID KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2693U.S. AND YEMEN FIGHT CORRUPTION WITH EYE ON MCC
[...] SUMMARY: On September 13, Ambassador signed a USD 1.73 million agreement with the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG) for anti-corruption programming. Minister of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) Abdulkareem al-Arhabi is planning to visit Washington October 11-12 in advance of a [...]
2006-09-19 14:55:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID ECON KMPI KMCA YM
06SANAA3611SANAA POC FOR MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK LOAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-02 11:52:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAID EINV PREL YM
06SANAA872USDA SIGNING: A SMALL STEP FOR FOOD AID, A BIG
[...] SUMMARY: After months of questions about the USDA Food For Progress program in Yemen, Ambassador started fresh on March 27, signing an allocation minute with the ROYG to fund programs with 2004 funds. The new agreement seeks to correct many past problems by introducing new transparency and o [...]
2006-03-28 13:02:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAGR EAID YM
06SANAA887MARIB WELCOMES THE AMBASSADOR WITH THANKS FOR A
[...] SUMMARY: On March 22, Ambassador and USAID Mission Director Mike Sarhan traveled with ROYG Minister of Health, Abdul Karim Rase, to Marib for the dedication of the Medgil Health Center and a tour of the USDA-funded President's Hospital in Marib City. In Marib, the party was joined by Ares Zuki [...]
2006-04-01 05:09:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID YM
06SANJOSE1017COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID PARTICIPANTS
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Democracy and Governance Team Jose Garzon, Ana Klenicki, CAtie Lott, Marie Jude Delatour and Maricela RamirezLeader who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 9 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend and represent USAID [...]
2006-05-12 18:12:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE1251GOCR TROTS OUT THE "COSTA RICA CONSENSUS"
[...] The GOCR used the Santo Domingo meeting of the OAS General Assembly to make its proposal "to link international cooperation with peace, social investment, sustainable development, and a reduction in military spending," which it calls the Costa Rica Consensus. In his speech to the OASGA on Ju [...]
2006-06-07 16:48:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID EFIN CS
06SANJOSE127COSTA RICA SEEKS TO AVOID CONSEQUENCES OF NOT
[...] (C) President Pacheco on January 11 convoked his ministers of foreign affairs, foreign trade, and labor and the Costa Rican Ambassador to the U.S. to discuss with Ambassador and Polcouns the ramifications of the Nethercutt Amendment for Costa Rica. The GOCR officials were specifically concer [...]
2006-01-19 14:10:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ETRD EAID CS KICC
06SANJOSE1281COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID DR. LUCRECIA CASTILLO
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Technical Projects Officer Lucrecia Castillo who will be on assignment from June 13 to June 14. The purpose of this visit is to meet the Costa Rican Vice-Minister of Health as well as with PASCA and CDC-CAP personnel. 2. Post would [...]
2006-06-09 21:51:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE1299 COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CAROLINE BREARLEY AND LARRY
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Caroline Brearley and Larry Brady, USAID Mission in San Salvador, Officials to travel to Costa Rica O/A 06/27- 28/2006. Purpose of the visit: is to iIntroduce the Rregional tTrade pProgram to the U.S. Embassy and to counterparts in th [...]
2006-06-13 16:34:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDSENV OTRA EAID ES CS
06SANJOSE1513COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TONY CAMBAS
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Tony Cambas from Booz Allen, Hamilton,Inc. who will be in Costa Rica from July 16-27, 2006. The purpose of this trip is to implement the second phase of the risk management training under FASTrade's CAFTA-DR Action Plan. 2. Control [...]
2006-07-07 19:12:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE1815COSTA RICA: DEMARCHE ON UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) On August 16, PolCouns and Poloffs met with Carlos Cordero, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Guisella Sanchez, head of the Human Rights Division at the MFA, to discuss talking points from reftel delivered to Cordero on August 4. 2. (SBU) San [...]
2006-08-17 18:32:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF SMIG UNGA CS
06SANJOSE204"COSTA RICA CONSENSUS:" OSCAR ARIAS'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: Oscar Arias, the likely next president of Costa Rica, appears poised to call for a "Costa Rica Consensus," a debt-relief initiative that would be a centerpiece of a promised "active and progressive" foreign policy. He plans to convene an international summit in San Jose to pe [...]
2006-01-27 22:38:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID CS
06SANJOSE2511MICHAEL ERIC KITE/USAID TDY REPORTING CABLE
[...] Summary: USAID/W Democracy Officer, Eric Kite, from the DCHA/DG/Strategic Planning and Research Division (SAR) completed a five-day TDY (November 2 to November 6) for USAID. Mr. Kite worked with USAID grantees University of Costa Rica and Vanderbilt University and an associated multi-nationa [...]
2006-11-07 19:54:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE612COSTA RICA: PROPOSED LABOR PROJECTS UNDER CAFTA-DR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-16 22:35:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD ELAB CS
06SANJOSE812COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARIA SOSA
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to contractor Maria Sosa from Booz Allen Hamilton who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 17 to April 19. The purpose of this visit is to attend a meeting of the regional technical commision on valuation to review the FASTrade [...]
2006-04-12 20:30:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE826COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARIA SOSA
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to contractor Maria Sosa from Booz Allen Hamilton who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 26 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend a regional Customs Directors Meeting. 2. Post understands assistance is not nec [...]
2006-04-19 22:21:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE875COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CAROLINE BREARLEY
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Caroline Brearley, USAID Economic Growth office who will be in Costa Rica on TDY assignment from May 3 to May 5. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Vice Presidents of all Latin American AMCHAMS about CAFTA implementation and Emba [...]
2006-04-25 22:42:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE896COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SILVIA ANZOLA
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Silvia Anzola form Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 26 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend a custom's directors meeting to review draft legislation of CAFTA advance ruling com [...]
2006-04-26 22:36:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE991COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEVEN HENDRIX
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Steven Hendrix, USAID Representative Steven Hendrix who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 9 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to participate in working level meetings of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, a reg [...]
2006-05-10 20:41:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANJOSE993COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSE GARZON
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Jose Garzon, Democracy and Governance Team Leader who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 10 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Latin American Public Opinion Project Workshop to be held in San Jose, in coord [...]
2006-05-10 20:42:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA CS
06SANSALVADOR1085SALVADORAN APPOINTED WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR
[...] On April 21, 2006, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz named Salvadoran Juan Jose Daboub as a Managing Director of the World Bank. Daboub was one of ex-President Flores' most trusted advisors, and he served as Chief of Staff and Minister of Finance during Flores' term from 1999-2004. He is [...]
2006-04-25 21:23:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIBRD PINR ECON EAID EFIN ES
06SANSALVADOR1131 SACA'S ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM AFTER ONE YEAR
[...] Summary. Torola, a small town on the border with Honduras, is the poorest municipality in El Salvador, but also the first to receive targeted assistance from the Salvadoran Government under Saca's anti-poverty program "Red Solidaria." At least for the next few years that the program continu [...]
2006-04-28 16:51:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID ES
06SANSALVADOR1702EL SALVADOR: GOES FINALLY "GETTING IT" ON CRIME?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Barclay met June 27 with President Tony Saca to underscore U.S. concern about El Salvador's worsening crime problems; the President indicated that he intends to make crime his number-one priority during his remaining three years in office. A flurry of recent activity [...]
2006-07-03 18:04:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALEAID ES PGOV PINR PREL
06SANSALVADOR1972DEMARCHE REQUEST IN PREPARATION OF THE UN HIGH
[...] On July 28, Poloff spoke to MFA Office of Multilateral Affairs Officer Felix Ulloa regarding reftel demarche request. Due to the closure of the GOES from July 31 through August 4, Poloff arranged to speak with MFA Social Affairs Director Elizabeth Cubias on August 9. 2. Background: El S [...]
2006-08-10 13:16:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SMIG ES
06SANSALVADOR2034EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S
[...] Pursuant to reftel B, poloff on August 11 delivered White House press release and Department's one-page overview of the President's national strategy to internationalize efforts against kleptocracy to Felix Ulloa, deputy of the MFA's Office of Multilateral Affairs. Embassy INL Director also [...]
2006-08-17 20:11:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EINV ES KCRM KJUS KPOW PGOV PREL
06SANSALVADOR2996LEGISLATURE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES MCC COMPACT
[...] Summary. The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly unanimously approved December 20 the nearly $461 million Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact and its implementing legislation. FMLN Legislative Deputies supported the Compact but had expressed concerns about parts of the implementing legislat [...]
2006-12-22 15:24:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ECON PGOV KMCA MCC ES
06SANSALVADOR547EL SALVADOR PRIORITIES FOR ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS
[...] Summary: As requested in reftel, this cable contains Post priorities for CAFTA-DR environment activities for FY 2006. The proposals described here build upon a consultative process that began almost six months ago and reflect a consensus view on El Salvador's key environment needs and relat [...]
2006-03-06 22:06:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD LAB SENV ES
06SANSALVADOR548EL SALVADOR PRIORITIES FOR LABOR PROJECTS THAT
[...] Summary: Per reftel, this cable provides Post priorities for CAFTA-DR labor-related trade capacity building (TCB) activities for FY 2006. The proposals described here build upon a consultative process that began almost six months ago and reflect a consensus view on El Salvador's key labor [...]
2006-03-06 22:10:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD LAB SENV ES
06SANSALVADOR636CORRECTED COPY - EL SALVADOR PRIORITIES FOR LABOR
[...] Summary: Per reftel, this cable provides Post priorities for CAFTA-DR labor-related trade capacity building (TCB) activities for FY 2006. The proposals described here build upon a consultative process that began almost six months ago and reflect a consensus view on El Salvador's key labor [...]
2006-03-08 20:38:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD LAB SENV ES CAFTA
06SANSALVADOR637CORRECTED COPY - EL SALVADOR PRIORITIES FOR
[...] Summary: As requested in reftel, this cable contains Post priorities for CAFTA-DR environment activities for FY 2006. The proposals described here build upon a consultative process that began almost six months ago and reflect a consensus view on El Salvador's key environment needs and relat [...]
2006-03-08 20:43:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD LAB SENV ES CAFTA
06SANTIAGO273CHILE: TIP PROPOSAL FOR ESF FUNDING IN 2006
[...] In response to ref B, Post proposes the USG fund a series of professional education workshops for public officials and local activists in all regions of Chile with ports or major land-border crossings. The project would help prevent trafficking in persons (TIP) in Chile and would also raise a [...]
2006-02-07 21:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN KCRM PHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG EAID CI
06SANTODOMINGO1898DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ - VISIONS FOR THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 2 President Leonel Fernandez described to the Ambassador his ambitions for the two years remaining in his term, including a "democratic revolution" including grassroots consultations on institutional change. He asked for a friendly hearing and "some modest concession" t [...]
2006-06-06 19:46:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD KDEM KIPR DR
06SANTODOMINGO3031THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT--YOUNG AND TOOTHLESS
[...] Summary. Many believed that President Fernandez would replace the Minister of Environment, Max Puig, at the mid-term point. After many cabinet shifts, however, Fernandez decided to keep Puig, which is a good indicator of where Environment falls on Fernandez's list of priorities....near the [...]
2006-09-22 20:33:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDDR EAGR EAID ECON SENV SOCI TBIO
06SANTODOMINGO3141DENGUE FEVER: SLOW DOMINICAN RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Health authorities in the Dominican Republic continue trying to deal with the widespread outbreak of dengue fever that started in June, asserting at the same time that that there is no epidemic. On September 24 the Public Health Ministry announced that 3,933 cases of dengue [...]
2006-10-03 20:29:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID AMED EAGR PREL PGOV SENV TBIO DR
06SANTODOMINGO3521DOMINICAN POLITICS III #10: FERNANDEZ"S BIG
[...] (U) This is the tenth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third years of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez has initiated a program to reform the constitution of the Dominican Republic, seizing the opportunity presented by a [...]
2006-11-16 18:41:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYDR EAID ECON PGOV PHUM SMIG
06SANTODOMINGO3617DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WILL ATTEND BAMAKO CONFERENCE
[...] The Dominican Republic will be represented at the Bamako Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza by Dr. Elizabeth Gomez, Chief of the General Directorate of Epidemiology Ministry of Health. Dr. Gomez noted that she received an explicit invitation to attend, addressed directly to her and ex [...]
2006-12-01 10:55:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID PREL TBIO KFLU MA DR
06SANTODOMINGO761PROPOSAL FOR LABOR JUSTICE ACTIVITIES IN THE
[...] The following is Embassy's response to request for project proposals. (Begin Text) Proposal for Labor Justice Activities in the Dominican Republic A. Characteristics of Labor Justice in the Dominican Republic: description and justification for proposed activities A study of cas [...]
2006-03-03 14:54:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EAID ETRD SENV DR
06SANTODOMINGO772DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: USAID DR-CAFTA ENVIRONMENT
[...] Summary: This is the 2006 USAID/Dominican Republic Environment Program Request which will support the environmental obligations of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, the Central American countries, and the United States (DR-CAFTA) and the regional environmental cooperati [...]
2006-03-03 21:20:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD LAB SENV DR
06SANTODOMINGO776DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: USAID DR-CAFTA ENVIRONMENT
[...] Summary: This is the 2006 USAID/Dominican Republic Environment Program Request which will support the environmental obligations of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, the Central American countries, and the United States (DR-CAFTA) and the regional environmental cooperati [...]
2006-03-03 22:26:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD LAB SENV DR
06SANTODOMINGO778CORRECTED: PROPOSAL FOR LABOR JUSTICE ACTIVITIES
[...] Summary: This is the corrected 2006 Embassy request for funding of a Dominican Republic Labor Justice capacity building program to support implementation of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic and the United States and enforcement of the Dominican Labor Law. This program [...]
2006-03-03 23:08:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EAID ETRD KJUS DR
06SAOPAULO1059 AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES THE USAID-SPONSORED PARAISOPOLIS
[...] Ambassador Sobel participated in a September 27 ceremony to inaugurate the USAID Paraisopolis Slum Electrification and Loss Reduction (SELR) Program. Close to 100 people attended the ceremony. In his comments, the Ambassador emphasized the importance of the project itself and the rapport bet [...]
2006-10-05 13:14:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR EAID BR
06SAOPAULO1082 AMBASSADOR SOBEL MEETS WITH PRIVATE SECTOR IN SAO PAULO
[...] (U) Ambassador Sobel met with various business leaders and organizations during his September 26-28 visit to Sao Paulo. Septels report on Ambassador Sobel's meetings on education during this visit and his inauguration of a USAID-sponsored development project. The leader of an important indust [...]
2006-10-11 12:53:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR EAID BR
06SARAJEVO1279BOSNIA: STATE COURT BALANCES 2007 BUDGET, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: On May 24 the BiH State Court Registry presented international donors with a realistic plan to balance the 2007 budget and keep the War Crimes Chamber going. This presentation came as a result of collective donor pressure on the Registry to face the fiscal reality that pledges at [...]
2006-06-05 16:38:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALKAWC EAID PHUM PREL BK
06SEOUL1031RECENT TRENDS IN PRC-DPRK ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND
[...] (SBU) Chinese economic ties with North Korea have expanded greatly in the past two years. Although the ROKG welcomes the stabilizing effect that Chinese trade and investment brings to the DPRK, it is alarmed at the PRC's growing influence, to the point that ROK officials now routinely assert [...]
2006-03-29 08:22:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID KN KS
06SEOUL1050CAMBODIAN PM HUN SEN'S VISIT TO ROK FOCUSES ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 20-24 visit to South Korea of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen focused almost exclusively on the Cambodians' interest in obtaining ROK designation of Cambodia as a country "qualified to export labor to South Korea." Accompanied by eight ministers, Hun Sen also secured [...]
2006-03-30 07:50:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL ELAB EAID KS
06SEOUL1089S/E LEFKOWITZ'S REMARKS ON KAESONG PROMPT
[...] (C) Recent South Korean press reports drew attention to Special Envoy Jay Lefkowitz's March 30 remarks at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) calling for independent monitoring of labor conditions at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),and the subsequent response from Assistant Unificat [...]
2006-04-03 08:48:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID KN KS
06SEOUL1179DPRK REQUESTS ANOTHER 300,000 TONS OF FERTILIZER
[...] (U) The Yonhap News Agency reported April 10 that, via a Red Cross telegram, the DPRK had requested an additional 300,000 tons of fertilizer assistance from the ROK. Ministry of Unification officials reportedly told Yonhap that they expected the request for fertilizer would be an agenda item [...]
2006-04-10 08:52:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID KS KN
06SEOUL1322MOU PREVIEWS APRIL 21-24 INTER-KOREAN MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) In an April 20 preview of the April 21-24 inter-Korean ministerial in Pyongyang, Assistant Minister for Unification Policy and Public Affairs Lee Kwan-sei told the DCM that the ROK planned to urge the DPRK to return to the Six Party Talks and agree to the resumption of general officer-lev [...]
2006-04-21 08:11:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC EAID PHUM KN KS
06SEOUL1399MINISTRY OF UNIFICATION ON APRIL 21-24
[...] (C) In an April 26 read-out of the April 21-24 inter-Korean ministerial in Pyongyang, Assistant Minister for Unification Policy and Public Affairs Lee Kwan-sei emphasized to the DCM the extensive effort Seoul made on persuading the DPRK to return to the Six Party Talks and to engage the inter [...]
2006-04-26 08:27:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC EAID KN KS
06SEOUL1434SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO DPRK DISCUSSES INTERNAL
[...] (C) In an April 24 call on the Ambassador, Swedish Ambassador to the DPRK Mats Foyer confirmed that last year's bumper harvest was not sufficient to overcome the food shortage in North Korea caused by systemic failures in central food distribution. Foyer saw, however, little sign of politica [...]
2006-04-28 08:58:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC EAID SW KN KS
06SEOUL1470UNIFICATION MINISTER ON SIX PARTY TALKS, S/E
[...] (S) In a May 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Unification Lee Jong-seok said he believed, from his meetings with North Korean counterparts at the April 21-24 inter-Korean ministerial in Pyongyang, that the DPRK would return to the Six Party Talks if given a face-saving way to do so. [...]
2006-05-02 07:20:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPREL PHUM MNUC EAID KN KS
06SEOUL1643AMERICAN ACADEMIC SKEPTICAL ABOUT KIM DAE-JUNG'S
[...] (SBU) In a May 12 meeting with poloff, Dr. Brian Myers, Professor of Korean Studies at Inje University, expressed skepticism that a June visit to North Korea by former President Kim Dae-jung would result in any substantial changes in the North's behavior or its return to the Six Party Talks. [...]
2006-05-17 00:06:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MNUC EAID KN KS
06SEOUL1737 DPRK FOOD SITUATION: BAD, AND POSSIBLY CRITICAL
[...] (C) We have recently seen a number of predictions that North Korea is, or will soon be, suffering a situation similar to the famine of the middle and late 1990's. Disruptions in distribution of rations and reports of localized food shortages are cited as the main proof of an impending crisis. [...]
2006-05-23 09:40:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALEAID EAGR PGOV PREL KS KN
06SEOUL2182"STRENGTHENING SELF-RELIANCE, BUT NOT AT THE COST
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent speech to ROK generals, President Roh Moo-Hyun identified security as the most important element in inter-Korean relations, above peace and unification. While reaffirming his commitment to realizing a &self-reliant8 defense, Roh emphasized the importance of the U.S. [...]
2006-06-30 08:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID KN KS
06SEOUL2362UNIFICATION MINISTRY ON JULY 11-13 INTER-KOREAN
[...] (C) On July 14, Assistant Unification Minister Lee Kwan-sei provided a readout of the July 11-13 inter-Korean ministerial to the A/DCM and emphasized that South Korean government used the meetings to urge the DPRK to return to the Six Party Talks and convey strong ROK regret about the DPRK mi [...]
2006-07-14 10:16:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC EAID KS KN
06SEOUL2451DEMARCHE DELIVERED: JULY 20 COMPACT MEETING IN
[...] In response to reftel demarche, poloff met with Director of Development Cooperation Division Choe Cheol-kyu, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MOFAT) International Economic Affairs Bureau, to convey appreciation for the ROKG's willingness to attend the Iraq Compact meeting. Choe [...]
2006-07-21 07:00:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECIN OTRA IZ KS
06SEOUL2575ROK WORKING ON ITS OWN STATEMENT TO SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-31 08:59:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ KS
06SEOUL2855DPRK TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL FLOOD AID
[...] In addition to the previously announced 100,000 metric tons of rice in response to extensive flooding in the North (reftel),the South Korean government will also send material for reconstruction and repair. Official estimates of death and damage were also released following discussions betwee [...]
2006-08-22 03:55:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PREL PINR KS KN
06SEOUL3097ROKG SQPORTS IRAQ COMPACT MEETINGS
[...] (SBU) The South Korean Government attaches great importance to the upcoming Iraq Compact meetings, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Director of North America Division I Hahn Choong-hee, and will participate in all three meetings mentioned in reftel: ROK Ambassador to Iraq Ja [...]
2006-09-08 07:13:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KS PREL
06SEOUL3916TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS ROKG ON
[...] (C) Summary. On November 8, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt met National Security Advisor and Foreign Minister-Designate Song Min-soon, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM-Finance and Economy) Kwon O-kyu, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Special Representative for Korean Pen [...]
2006-11-14 04:56:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL KS IZ AF
06SEOUL423DPRK ECONOMY: CHINESE EXPERTS FORESEE ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) A January 18-19 academic conference in Beijing explored the potential for North Korea to change its "military first" security policy in order to realize more meaningful economic reform, faster economic growth and an increase in international aid. The American organizers of the event wor [...]
2006-02-07 06:35:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALECON EAID PREL PGOV KN KS CH JA
06SEOUL425WHAT IS GOING ON WITH NORTH KOREAN ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) In the three years following North Korea's July 2002 economic reform program, most South Korean experts on the North Korean economy came to share certain assumptions about the state of transformation of economic policy in the North. Some of the key elements of that shared "conventional wi [...]
2006-02-07 07:00:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALEAID EAGR EFIN PREL KN KS
06SEOUL498FORMER KIM IL SUNG UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SAYS
[...] (SBU) Dr. Cho Myungchul, a think tank researcher who defected to South Korea in 1994 after years of living among the DPRK elite, told poloff on February 8 that social discontent among the DPRK's working class was kept in check through propaganda and periodic acts of decency by the state, rath [...]
2006-02-14 05:02:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI MNUC PINR EAID ECON KN KS
06SEOUL551USAID OFFICIAL DISCUSSES DPRK FOOD SITUATION WITH
[...] (SBU) Visiting USAID official Jon Brause met with a range of ROKG officials and NGO and other agency leaders involved in assistance to the DPRK, February 12-16. Brause articulated the USG position on the upcoming WFP proposal for Protracted Relief and Recovery Operations (PRRO) in the DPRK, a [...]
2006-02-17 07:03:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL KS KN
06SEOUL609NGO PROJECT TARGETS FAMILY REUNION FOR
[...] (SBU) On February 22, Stephen W. Linton, Chair of the Eugene Bell Foundation (EBF),an NGO with a long history of providing humanitarian assistance to DPRK medical institutions, told the Ambassador about his organization's new project to help Korean-Americans locate relatives in the DPRK. Li [...]
2006-02-24 06:29:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI EAID KN KS
06SEOUL821DPRK DELAYS NORTH-SOUTH TALKS, ROKG OFFICIALS
[...] (C) The Korea Central News Agency (KCNA),the DPRK's official mouthpiece, reported on March 11 that North Korea notified South Korea by telegraph that it would delay the March 28-31 inter-Korean ministerial to "an appropriate date in April" to protest the March 10 announcement of the annual R [...]
2006-03-14 09:09:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM EAID ECON KN KS
06SEOUL935SENATOR BOND'S MARCH 20 CALL ON MINISTER OF
[...] (C) In a March 20 meeting with Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond, ROK Minister of Unification Lee Jong-seok underscored the level of importance the ROKG attached to the U.S.-ROK alliance, stressing that Seoul looked to Washington to counterbalance the increasing Chinese influence in the region. [...]
2006-03-23 04:30:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MASS ECON EAID KN KS
06SEOUL972ROKG DOWNPLAYS "ABDUCTEE" INCIDENT AT INTER-KOREAN
[...] (C) In retaliation for statements by two ROK journalists that a North Korean participating in the latest North-South family reunions had been "abducted," DPRK officials on March 22 refused to allow 99 elderly South Korean participants to depart the venue for 10 hours. The two journalists were [...]
2006-03-24 08:33:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID KN KS
06SKOPJE1117MACEDONIA: GOM FACING POTENTIAL POLITICAL FALLOUT
[...] (SBU) Macedonia,s new government faces several critical challenges in the electricity market. In the short-term, the supply of available electricity may not be sufficient to meet demand this winter. In addition, the newly privatized electricity distribution company is beginning to enforce p [...]
2006-11-27 16:11:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON EINV EAID MK
06SOFIA1063BULGARIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON HLD; REQUESTS
[...] (U) Summary: We delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Kamen Velichkov of the MFA,s Department of UN and Global Issues on July 28. He said the GOB sees no need for a permanent forum on migration and that migration issues are best discussed in regional fora. He also requested USG support for Bulg [...]
2006-08-01 06:45:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF SMIG UNGA BU
06SOFIA1205BULGARIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1701, MINISTER TO ATTEND
[...] (C) We delivered reftel A & B talking points to Margarita Isaeva from the MFA's Near East and Africa Directorate on August 25. Isaeva was unaware of any planned delegations to or from Iran or Syria, and considered them unlikely for the foreseeable future. However, she promised to share our c [...]
2006-08-25 13:30:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MOPS MARR IR LE SY SW BU
06SOFIA1661ANTI-OC TRAINING CENTER: BULGARIA READY TO HOST
[...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Mission strongly supports establishment of a South Eastern European Regional Organized Crime Training Center (SEEROCTC). We believe a center located in Bulgaria will advance U.S. rule of law objectives here and regionally. A center in Bulgaria would build on an [...]
2006-12-13 11:13:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM EAID KJUS KCOR SNAR KPAO BU
06STATE201180Bamako Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza reviews
[...] Summary: Meeting in Bamako Dec. 6-8, international donors pledged approximately $475.9 million in new assistance for the global fight against avian and pandemic influenza (API),including $100 million from the USG (the largest single pledge, followed by Canada and the European Commission). The [...]
2006-12-20 17:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR TBIO KFLU EAID ECON PREL ML
06STATE202474GRANTING OF GSP BENEFICIARY STATUS TO EAST TIMOR
[...] This is an action request, please see paragraph 2. 2. While the exact release date remains uncertain, an upcoming Presidential proclamation will announce the USG's decision to grant East Timor least developed beneficiary developing country (LDBDC) status under the U.S. Generalized System [...]
2006-12-22 19:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID ETRD
06STATE202476BULGARIA AND ROMANIA WILL NO LONGER BE DESIGNATED
[...] This is an action request, please see paragraph 2. 2. Bulgaria and Romania currently receive benefits under the U.S. Generalized System of Benefits (GSP) program, which provides for duty-free export to the U.S. for 3,400 products. Both countries are also scheduled to become European Union [...]
2006-12-22 19:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON ETRD
06STATE60256UNDER SECRETARY SHINER,S APRIL 3, 2006
[...] (U) Classified by: Wendell Albright, Acting Director, EAP/J, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) April 3, 2006; 4:00 P.M.; Washington. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. Under Secretary Shiner Louis Bono, Special Assistant, E Wendell Albright, Acting Deputy Director, EAP/J Rober [...]
2006-04-14 21:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EAID EAGR ETTC ENRG EAIR JA IN CH
06STATE66104Deputy Secretary Zoellick's April 18, 2006
[...] (U) April 18, 2006; 4:00 p.m.; Washington D.C. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary D Staff Aaron Jost Ambassador William Hudson Embassy Pol/Econ Deputy Susannah Cooper Tunisia Deskoff William Lawrence (notetaker) Tunisia Defense Minister Kamel Morjane Ambassador Neji [...]
2006-04-26 22:11:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR PINS ECON EAID
06STOCKHOLM1452LEBANON DONORS CONFERENCE IN STOCKHOLM AUGUST 31
[...] (SBU) Donors pledged 942 million USD in early recovery and humanitarian aid at the August 31 Stockholm Conference for Lebanon,s Early Recovery, nearly double the 500 million target set by the Government of Sweden, which hosted the event. Representatives from 50 countries as well as UN agenci [...]
2006-09-12 13:15:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL LE SW
06STOCKHOLM935SWEDEN: DEMARCHE REGARDING VENEZUELAN ANTI-NGO LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-22 15:29:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM VE EAID SW
06SUVA121PRC PREMIER'S EARLY APRIL VISIT TO FIJI MAKING A
[...] (SBU) Summary: Heads of government from eight Pacific Island countries will be attending the PRC-sponsored China-Pacific Island economic cooperation conference in Nadi, Fiji April 5-6. Each leader will hold a bilateral with Premier Wen Jiabao April 5. All eight countries will reportedly s [...]
2006-03-29 00:42:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD ECIN CH FJ PP TW
06SUVA123PRC PREMIER'S EARLY APRIL VISIT TO FIJI MAKING A
[...] (SBU) Summary: Heads of government from eight Pacific Island countries will be attending the PRC-sponsored China-Pacific Island economic cooperation conference in Nadi, Fiji April 5-6. Each leader will hold a bilateral with Premier Wen Jiabao April 5. All eight countries will reportedly s [...]
2006-03-29 19:59:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD ECIN CH FJ PP TW
06SUVA156CHINA WADES MORE DEEPLY INTO THE PACIFIC
[...] (C) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his delegation met with many Pacific Island leaders and businesses during an April 4-5 visit to Fiji. The leader of each of the eight Pacific Island nations with which China has relations held private discussions with Premier Wen, at the conclusion of which t [...]
2006-04-21 02:56:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ECIN ETRD FJ CH TW
06SUVA222TONGA STRUGGLES TO STABILIZE ITS ECONOMY; HOPES
[...] (C) Summary: Tonga's economy continues to feel the impact of last year's public servant's strike settlement. The FY 2006/7 budget deficit, even after implementation of a planned "redundancy package" that will result in 700-1000 fewer government workers, will be in the T$16-20 million range ( [...]
2006-05-24 03:11:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID TN CH
06SUVA323CODEL HYDE'S VISIT TO FIJI, AUGUST 15-17
[...] (SBU) Visiting House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde congratulated Fiji's Minister of Foreign Affairs Tavola on Fiji's recent national elections, testimony to the strong democratic institutions Fiji has developed. The Minister hoped that Fiji will be considered for Mill [...]
2006-08-17 00:51:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR EAID ETRD CVIS FJ TN
06SUVA324FIJI FOREIGN MINISTER AND CODEL HYDE: U.S., UK,
[...] (C/NF) Per reftel, HIRC Chairman Henry Hyde's CODEL visited Nadi, Fiji, August 15-17. Other delegation members included Congressmen Rohrabacher (R-CA),Faleomavaega (D-AS),Watt (D-NC),and Flake (R-AZ). During the meeting with Fiji Foreign Minister Tavola and MFA CEO Mataitonga, Congressman [...]
2006-08-17 00:57:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID FJ CH XV
06SUVA341PACIFIC THOUGHTS ON RESTRUCTURE OF REGIONAL
[...] (U) Pacific leaders tasked a group of experts to consider ways regional agencies might be rationalized. The experts' report advocates realigning 10 regional agencies into three pillars. The Pacific Island Forum (PIF),the regional policy-oriented body, would acquire policy/negotiation aspect [...]
2006-08-28 23:28:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL EFIS EAID SENV SPC PIF XV
06SUVA427TAIWAN PRESIDENT CHEN'S VISIT TO NAURU; READ-OUT
[...] (C) Summary: According to Australia's Consul General in Nauru, security concerns were paramount during Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's six-hour state visit to Nauru September 6. Of the 80-member Taiwan delegation that made the trip, 30 were security guards. The Nauru Police were required [...]
2006-10-12 21:47:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID TW NR FJ CH XU
06SUVA459ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S OCTOBER 25 MEETING WITH PACIFIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pacific heads of government welcomed EAP Assistant Secretary Hill's participation in a Pacific Islands Forum special session with the U.S. in Fiji on October 25, 2006, as a sign of stepped-up U.S. engagement with the region. A/S Hill proposed to revitalize the Joint Commercial [...]
2006-10-26 22:41:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD EAID FJ NZ XV
06SUVA490PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM 2006: A/S HILL UNDERSCORES
[...] (C) EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill emphatically reaffirmed U.S. commitments and interests in the Pacific at the 2006 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) summit in Nadi, Fiji. In a new PIF-Leaders "special session" for the United States, Hill countered a suggestion that the U.S. has disengaged [...]
2006-11-13 15:26:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALAORC PREL EAID ECIN ETRD FJ XV
06SUVA508TONGA NAT'L COMMITTEE CHAIR BLAMES PM SEVELE FOR
[...] (C) According to Sitiveni Halapua, the Chairman of Tonga's National Committee on Political Reform (NCPR),and a person whose instinct is always to find the middle ground, much of the blame for the atmosphere that led to last week's riot in Nuku'alofa rests on the shoulders of Prime Minister Sev [...]
2006-11-20 22:33:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID TN
06SUVA55PLANS FOR PRC-SPONSORED CONFERENCE, ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary. The PRC has launched an ambitious, high profile outreach to the Pacific Island nations through a large-scale regional development conference and trade fair it is sponsoring in Fiji April 5-6. Premier Wen Jiabao will come to Fiji to open the conference, to which Ministers (and [...]
2006-02-14 22:59:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD EFIS ECIN CH FJ PP TW
06TAIPEI1432Visit to Taiwan by Senior Advisor for Agricultural
[...] Summary: Madelyn Spirnak, the State Department Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology, visited Taipei from March 29 - April 1, 2006. She discussed U.S. agricultural biotechnology policy with a wide range of officials. It became clear that Taiwan authorities do not have a long term stra [...]
2006-04-25 07:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON SENV OTRA ETRD TW KPAO OIIP TBIO
06TAIPEI2421TAIWAN PARTICIPANTS IN APEC SEMINAR ON PANDEMIC
[...] Dr. Chan-Hsien Chiu Director of Surveillance Taiwan Center for Disease Control e-mail: zschou@cdc.gov.tw tel: 886-2-23434901 fax 886-2-23210110 2. Ms. Lili Lee Deputy Director, Pandemic and Biosafety Preparedness E-mail: lililee@cdc.gov.tw tel: 886-2-23917675 fax: 886-2-23570944 The [...]
2006-07-17 22:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON TBIO KFLU APECO TW
06TALLINN370ESTONIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-20 12:55:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBM EAID EU PHUM PREF PREL EN
06TALLINN475DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT AND
[...] (C) On May 17 Polecoff delivered reftel points on restricting visas to members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),and encouraging support for the Darfur Peace Agreement, to Marek Luts, MFA Sudan Desk Officer. According to Luts, some in Brussels would like to see an end to EU fundin [...]
2006-05-18 14:27:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPREL CVIS PINS SOCI EAID EN
06TALLINN644 CREATION OF A BALTIC AMERICAN ENTERPRISE FUND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since its launch in 1995, the Baltic American Enterprise Fund (BalAEF) has played an important role in promoting economic growth in the three Baltic states. It is important for U.S. interests in the Baltics and beyond to create a successor institution that will be ready to st [...]
2006-07-12 08:04:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PREL EN LH LG
06TALLINN688ESTONIA: UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-31 13:08:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SMIG UNGA EN
06TALLINN778ESTONIA: DONOR ASSISTANT TO LEBANON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-25 11:52:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL LE SW EN
06TASHKENT302 OSCE FACES AN UPHILL BATTLE TO KEEP ITS PRESENCE
[...] (C) Summary: OSCE Ambassador Jenca told the Ambassador that the GOU continues to review the Tashkent CenterQs mandate. Jenca expects a change for the worse, perhaps even a proposed decrease in OSCE international staff, when the current mandate expires in June. OSCE officers are facing accred [...]
2006-02-09 08:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE PGOV ECON EAID UZ
06TASHKENT377NO UNAUTHORIZED COOPERATION WITH FOREIGNERS
[...] (C) Summary: An August 2005 decree of the GOU Higher Education Ministry effectively imposed a blanket prohibition on any cooperation between Uzbek educational institutions and foreign organizations without explicit prior government approval. The decree mentions the Peace Corps by name, and th [...]
2006-02-23 07:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEAID KPAO PGOV UZ
06TASHKENT756FY06 FUNDING OF OSCE EXTRABUDGETARY PROJECTS IN
[...] (U) Summary: The OSCE website listing of extrabudgetary projects does not reflect any activities in Uzbekistan. Post recommends the USG contribute funding to the following projects that fulfill both U.S. and OSCE interests: a research grant on intellectual property rights (IPR) (USD 100,000 [...]
2006-04-19 07:27:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON OSCE PHUM PREL UZ
06TASHKENT834MULTILATERAL DEBT RELIEF DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-27 02:17:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PGOV UZ
06TASHKENT882WE AGREE TO AGREE: KARIMOV RECEIVES INDIAN PM
[...] (C) Summary: After years of GOU pressure, the Indian PM finally visited Tashkent on April 25-26. The timing was convenient, as President Karimov departed one week later to Pakistan. The PM's visit resulted in numerous agreements, but most lacked substance, according to the Indian DCM. Seven [...]
2006-05-03 13:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON IN PGOV PREL PTER UZ ZK
06TBILISI2708SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF SOUTH OSSETIA ECONOMIC
[...] (C) International donors, OSCE, Georgia, and South Ossetia kicked off the new economic rehabilitation initiative for South Ossetia with the first steering committee meeting in Tskhinvali October 6, much of which was open to Georgian and SIPDIS South Ossetian media. DCM signed a memorandum w [...]
2006-10-11 13:25:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID GG
06TBILISI2935FINANCE MINISTER HEARS USG RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
[...] (U) On October 25, Econoff presented Finance Minister Aleksishvili with a non-paper on consolidation of the GOG revenue agencies (the tax administration, the customs service and the financial police) that the Ambassador gave to PM Noghaideli at their meeting on October 13 (reftel). Econoff al [...]
2006-11-02 14:02:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID GG
06TEGUCIGALPA2057HONDURAN FOOD SAFETY LABS IN DISARRAY
[...] (SBU) Summary. A recent USDA lab assessment mission determined that Honduras, food safety organization (Senasa) does not have labs sufficiently supplied or staffed to do even the most basic food safety testing. The assessment team visited animal health, plant health and pesticide detection lab [...]
2006-10-30 20:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID ETRD PGOV PREL HO
06TEGUCIGALPA2256LABOR MINISTRY SEEMS INCAPABLE OF DEALING WITH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Labor Minister Rixi Moncada Godoy, in an 11/8 meeting with Laboff to discuss CAFTA compliance, essentially sought to slough off responsibility for getting recalcitrant companies to permit labor inspections, arguing that the Embassy should somehow pressure them to admit inspecto [...]
2006-12-01 16:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALELAB ETRD EAID ECON PGOV HO
06TEGUCIGALPA2393CUMPLE Y GANA HELPS FUND RENOVATION OF REGIONAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 13, 2006 Laboff participated in the inauguration of the newly renovated regional office of the Ministry of Labor (MOL) in Choluteca, which was financed in part by the USG funded Cumple y Gana project. With USD 15 million in total DR-CAFTA related funding, Cumple y G [...]
2006-12-29 21:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ELAB ETRD PGOV HO
06TEGUCIGALPA430Proposal for Strengthening Trade Unions' Effective
[...] Summary: As per the referenced cable, Congress appropriated $40 million ($20 million in ESF and $20 million in DA) in FY 2006 for trade capacity building in CAFTA-DR countries to be used in the areas of labor and the environment. This proposal is the first of three USAID/Honduras responses to [...]
2006-03-06 20:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD EAID ECON PGOV HO
06TEGUCIGALPA431Proposal to Improve the Agribusiness Workplace in
[...] Summary: As per the referenced cable, Congress appropriated $40 million ($20 million in ESF and $20 million in DA) in FY 2006 for trade capacity building in CAFTA-DR countries to be used in the areas of labor and the environment. This proposal is the second of three USAID/Honduras responses t [...]
2006-03-06 20:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD SENV EAID ECON PGOV HO
06TEGUCIGALPA432Proposal for Strengthening Honduran Judicial
[...] Summary: As per the referenced cable, Congress appropriated $40 million ($20 million in ESF and $20 million in DA) in FY 2006 for trade capacity building in CAFTA-DR countries to be used in the areas of labor and the environment. This proposal is the third of three USAID/Honduras responses to [...]
2006-03-06 20:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD EAID ECON PGOV KJUS HO
06TEGUCIGALPA872POTUS Meeting June 5 With Honduran President Mel
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One hundred days into his term, President Mel Zelaya remains somewhat of an enigma. On the positive side, he has strongly supported CAFTA; cooperated fully with the DHS/ICE deportation of illegal immigrants (nearly 200 daily); acted - with limited resources - to combat the expl [...]
2006-05-12 12:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON PGOV EPET SNAR EAID SENV KJUS HO
06TELAVIV1064ISRAELI NSA EILAND ON AID TO PALESTINIANS,
[...] (C) Summary: Israeli National Security Adviser Giora Eiland and his chief of staff, Roy Dick, told the Ambassador and DCM on March 14 that the GOI has not yet established a clear interagency position on assistance to the Palestinians. Eiland said that the NSC's plan on possible steps to reduce [...]
2006-03-16 15:38:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER EAID KWBG KPAL LE IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL
06TELAVIV1110GOI AND PA OFFICIALS DISCUSS KARNI CLOSURE SOLUTION
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Tel Aviv - Consulate General Jerusalem cable. 2. (C) Summary: Officials from the GOI, PA, Egyptian Embassy, and EU-BAM met at the Ambassador,s Residence on March 19 to discuss the movement of commercial goods and humanitarian supplies between Gaza and Israel and [...]
2006-03-20 15:46:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON PHUM PREL PINS EAID PTER KWBG EG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1318FM LIVNI SEEKS NEW MECHANISM FOR DELIVERING AID TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asked NEA A/S David Welch and DAPNSA Elliott Abrams on March 30 for USG help in formulating a new mechanism to deliver aid directly to the Palestinian people; without this mechanism, she said, other donors might "take their own decisions" and use a de [...]
2006-04-04 04:02:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALIS KPAL PGOV PHUM PREL PREF EAID ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1754DAGAN AND CODEL LIEBERMAN DISCUSS HAMAS-LED PA AND
[...] (C) Summary: Meir Dagan, director of the Mossad, told Codel Lieberman on April 20 that Hamas won the Palestinian elections because it was more united and organized than Fatah. He said that Palestinians mainly voted for Hamas to protest Fatah corruption, but added that 60 percent "still back [...]
2006-05-05 07:43:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
06TELAVIV1838AL QUDS UNIVERSITY RENEWS CALL FOR U.S. SUPPORT
[...] (C) In a meeting with Presidential Science Advisor John Marburger at Hebrew University April 23, Ziad Abdeen, Senior Researcher at Al Quds University, reiterated reftel request for U.S. support for Al Quds regional fundraising efforts. Abdeen was attending the meeting at Hebrew U. representing [...]
2006-05-10 14:05:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN EAID KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID
06TELAVIV1923GOI CONCERNED MECHANISM TO PROVIDE AID TO
[...] (C) Summary: During a May 12 meeting with the Ambassador, MFA Deputy Director General for Economic Affairs Yossi Gal and Deputy Director General for Europe Ron Curiel expressed concern about the EU offer to develop a mechanism to deliver assistance to the Palestinians, fearing it might be used [...]
2006-05-17 12:27:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EAID PREL PHUM ENRG KWBG KPAL IS GTIP ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID
06TELAVIV1932ADDITIONAL TOPICS FOR OLMERT MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON
[...] (C) Summary: Ehud Olmert's main public goal for his first trip to Washington as prime minister is to win U.S. support for what he calls the "convergence plan," which will relocate 60,000 - 80,000 settlers from isolated areas in the West Bank to other settlement blocs west of the separation barr [...]
2006-05-17 16:49:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PTER KWBG KPAL IR IS ISRAEL RELATIONS
06TELAVIV1946ISRAEL'S NEW FINANCE MINISTER COMMITTED TO FISCAL
[...] (C) Finance Minister Hirchson told the Ambassador that the new government would continue to practice fiscal restraint, and will resist strong pressures from members of the coalition to open the spending floodgates. He pledged that the 2006 budget would not be renegotiated and would keep to t [...]
2006-05-18 15:45:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IS KWBG KPAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
06TELAVIV1978ISRAELI PLAN FOR CONTINUED SHEKEL CHECK CLEARING
[...] (S) The Bank of Israel (BOI) and Ministry of Finance (MOF) are developing a package of proposals to present to the Israeli banks that handle shekel check clearing for Palestinian Banks. The purpose is to convince the banks to continue to provide the check-clearing services, which they offici [...]
2006-05-19 15:43:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IS KWBG KPAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
06TELAVIV1982CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CONVEYS ISRAELI BANKING
[...] (S) Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer and his antiterrorism finance team told Treasury U/S Stuart Levey and the Ambassador on May 2 that Israeli banks want to end their relationships with Palestinian banks due to fears of being accused of involvement with terror finance. They said that [...]
2006-05-19 17:24:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IS KWBG KPAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
06TELAVIV2011ISRAELI READOUT ON LIVNI-ABBAS MEETING
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's chief of staff, Jakub "Yaki" Dayan, told the Charge May 23 that the GOI's meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on May 21 in Sharm el-Sheikh does not represent a change in Israel's view of Abbas. The GOI nevertheless maintains low-level c [...]
2006-05-23 15:32:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG EAID EG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV2056GOI STILL UNSURE ABOUT TRANSFER OF MONEY FOR
[...] (C) The GOI has not yet decided how to effect the transfer of NIS 50 million for humanitarian medical aid to the Palestinians from the PA customs revenue it is holding. Officials claim to fear that the transfer, done outside the aegis of the Paris Protocol, would not be recognized as legitima [...]
2006-05-26 07:53:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID KWBG KPAL ETRD IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID
06TELAVIV2120GOI HITS SNAG IN MEDICAL AID DISTRIBUTION;
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 31 meeting, COGAT head General Yossef Mishlev said that the GOI intends to use NIS 50 million from frozen clearance revenues to purchase goods in Israel and transfer them through NGOs/international organizations to Palestinian hospitals or to the central medical supply w [...]
2006-06-01 16:37:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL PINR IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID
06TELAVIV2226FM LIVNI DISCUSSES FUNDING MECHANISM, PALESTINIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 7 meeting with NEA A/S David Welch, the Ambassador, and NSC/IPA/J Director Greg LoGerfo, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni reiterated Israel's willingness to help avoid any humanitarian crisis in the Occupied Territories. A/S Welch urged the GOI to consult closely with the USG [...]
2006-06-09 12:17:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KWBG KPAL IS GTIP ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
06TELAVIV2345DEADLINE FOR ENDING ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN BANKING
[...] (C) A senior Bank Hapoalim official said that all Israeli banks were set to cut ties with Palestinian banks due to the fear of being implicated in a chain of financial transactions that might enable a terrorist attack. He said that the banks want the GOI to issue them a list of suspect indi [...]
2006-06-15 16:12:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD EAID PGOV PREL IS KWBG KPAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
06TELAVIV2421 NGO LEADERS EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT SHARED MOUNTAIN
[...] (SBU) PALESTINIAN AND ISRAEL REPRESENTATIVES OF ECOPEACE/FRIENDS OF THE EARTH MIDDLE EAST (FOEME) MET WITH NEA SENIOR S&T ADVISOR CHARLES LAWSON, CONSULATE GENERAL ECONOMIC OFFICER AND EMBASSY ESTH OFFICER AT THE CONGEN IN JERUSALEM JUNE 14 TO DESCRIBE THEIR FINDINGS ON THE DETERIORATING MOUNT [...]
2006-06-21 12:48:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID PREL KPAL KWBG JO IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
06TELAVIV2430MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT'S TOP PRIORITY IS
[...] (C) Summary: Environment Minister Gideon Ezra told NEA Senior S&T Advisor Charles Lawson June 15 that his top priority is cooperation with the Palestinians on sewage and other pollution concerns. He said that Defense Minister Peretz had determined that such cooperation was humanitarian and in [...]
2006-06-21 13:00:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALSENV EAID PREL KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
06TELAVIV2459FERRERO-WALDNER SEEKS ISRAELI CONTRIBUTION TO TIM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 19-20 visit to Israel, European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner sought Israeli support for the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) and urged the GOI to contribute revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority through the mec [...]
2006-06-22 10:20:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPAL KWBG PGOV IS EUN GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV2679MOF OFFICIAL PRESENTS THE CASE FOR EXTENDING THE
[...] (C) Finance Ministry official Eyal Klein told Deputy Economic Counselor July 4 that the GOI decision to increase year-to-year spending from 2007 to 2009 by 1.7 percent, in violation of its commitment to the U.S. in the 2003 U.S. - Israel Loan Guarantee Agreement (LGA) to keep spending increa [...]
2006-07-05 15:55:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
06TELAVIV3561TOURGEMAN AND STAFFDEL TALWAR DISCUSS LEBANON,
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 24 meeting, Shalom Tourgeman, foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, predicted to Staffdel Talwar that budget wrangling will be taking place between the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) over the next few months as usual. The [...]
2006-09-07 13:45:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PGOV PREL KWBG IS LE SY
06TELAVIV4395ISRAELI KIBBUTZ AND PALESTINIAN VILLAGE LOOKING TO SET UP
[...] (SBU) Embassy ESTH and Econoffs and USAID representatives attended a briefing October 31 at Kibbutz Metzer regarding a proposed agribusiness project involving the kibbutz and the nearby Palestinian village of Qafin. Metzer is east of Hadera and about 1.5 kilometers west of the Green Line. The [...]
2006-11-03 15:34:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR EINV PGOV PREL KPAL KWBG IS
06TELAVIV4741THIRTY-METER SEWAGE WATERFALL AND OTHER CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary: Israeli infrastructure and environment officials told NEA Senior S&T Advisor Charles Lawson that they remain concerned about neglect of sewage and other waste on the West Bank. Increasing damage to the Mountain Aquifer shared by Israelis and Palestinians is epitomized by a thirt [...]
2006-12-06 12:12:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSENV EAID PREL ECON KPAL IS
06TELAVIV4853ISRAEL-JORDAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection welcomes cooperation and exchange with Jordan's Green Police. The GOI also welcomes the upcoming World Bank feasibility study of the proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea water conveyance project. Two kibbutzim have helped the GOI fulfill t [...]
2006-12-15 14:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECON PREL EAID EPET JO IS
06TELAVIV515ISRAELI FM ON REVENUE TRANSFERS, MEETINGS IN
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 2 meeting in Tel Aviv, FM Tzipi Livni told the Ambassador and DCM that the Israeli Cabinet will discuss revenue transfers to the PA on February 5, adding that she did not expect the issue to still be on the agenda when she meets the Secretary next week. Livni sa [...]
2006-02-03 15:08:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PGOV EAID PTER KPAL KWBG IS EG ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS
06TELAVIV518SHIMON PERES ON PALESTINIAN 'COHABITATION'
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Shimon Peres reiterated a pitch for U.S. financial support for Negev/Galilee development and political support for private-sector-led development of the Jordan Valley. The Ambassador stressed the importance of supporting the careta [...]
2006-02-06 07:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN EG IS JO KWBG PGOV PINR PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS
06TELAVIV712POLLUTED MOUNTAIN AQUIFER BINDS PALESTINIANS AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: A recent symposium on pollution of shared Israeli-Palestinian groundwater highlighted that sewage and untreated solid waste seriously threaten the health of the Mountain Aquifer which provides water to Palestinians, Israeli settlers on the West Bank, and other Israeli citizens [...]
2006-02-17 14:05:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PREL EAID PGOV KPAL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06TELAVIV814ISRAEL WANTS TO PREVENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN PA
[...] (C) Ministry of Finance DG Yossi Bachar emphasized in a February 23 meeting with NEA DAS Dibble that the GOI is torn between the imperative of not dealing with a Hamas-led PA government on the one hand and doing everything possible to not harm the Palestinian population on the other. He said [...]
2006-02-27 13:32:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PREL IS KWBG KPAL GOI EXTERNAL HUMANITARIAN AID ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
06THEHAGUE1110NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: FOLLOW-UP ON DARFUR PEACE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-17 05:34:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL SOCI EAID SU NL
06THEHAGUE1163DUTCH CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUDAN TOP 400 MILLION USD
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-23 11:31:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID MARR PREF KPKO SU NL
06THEHAGUE1357NETHERLANDS/VENEZUELA: DEMARCHE ON ANTI-NGO LAW
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche June 15 to MFA Venzuela desk officer Dimitri Vogelaar. According to Vogelaar, the NGO law was raised in the June 6 COLAT working group, at the EU. On June 8, a resident European Union representative met in Caracas with the Vice Foreign Minister for Europe [...]
2006-06-16 10:52:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KDEM PGOV PREL VE NL
06THEHAGUE1675NETHERLANDS/UNGA: HLD ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche July 31 to MFA UN and IFIs Senior Policy Officers Vasco Rodrigues and Andrea Maessen-Nederlof. Also present was MFA Migration and Alien Affairs Policy Advisor Marieke van Renssen. 2. (U) The Dutch delegation will likely include Development Minister van [...]
2006-08-01 14:29:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNGA EAID PREF SMIG NL
06THEHAGUE1913(C) ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON - DUTCH PLAN ADDITIONAL
[...] (U) On August 30, Econoff shared reftel points on U.S. assistance to Lebanon with Maaike van Koldam, Deputy Head, Humanitarian Aid Division, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Van Koldam confirmed that Dutch assistance to date totaled 4.8 million euros committed and pledged. 2. (C) Va [...]
2006-08-30 16:27:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL IS LE SW NL
06THEHAGUE193NETHERLANDS/AFGHAN DONORS CONFERENCE: DUTCH WILL
[...] Econoff delivered reftel information on planed U.S. participation and pledging to MFA Afghan desk officer Marit van Zomeren on 25 January. Van Zomeren appreciated receiving the information. 2. In a subsequent phone call, South Asia office director Wilfred Mohr confirmed Development Minis [...]
2006-01-27 13:28:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV AF NL
06THEHAGUE1999PAKISTAN BORDER STRATEGY MEETING: DUTCH ATTENDEES
[...] (SBU) Emboffs delivered reftel invitations to Dutch officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance. The following Dutch officials plan to attend the September 18 Pakistan Border Strategy meeting: -- Ruud Treffers, Director General for International Cooperation, Dutch [...]
2006-09-13 12:37:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCT EAID PK NL
06THEHAGUE2235HIV/AIDS: DUTCH SEEK BROAD-BASED COOPERATION
[...] SUMMARY: The Dutch want to significantly expand bilateral cooperation on HIV/AIDS in Africa and seek State concurrence to develop these initiatives. See Action Request in paragraphs 5-7. END SUMMARY. 2. In response to reftel request for ideas to reinvigorate the 2003 U.S.-Dutch bilateral a [...]
2006-10-16 06:09:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KHIV NL UNGA AF
06THEHAGUE2561NETHERLANDS/BOLIVIA: GONL REMAINS POSITIVE ON
[...] (C) Summary: Bolivian President Evo Morales, on his second visit to the Netherlands this year, continued to impress hopeful GONL officials with his goal of social justice and his ability to reach political solutions. The Dutch say Morales understands the need for good relations with the U.S b [...]
2006-12-06 14:23:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ECON EPET BO NL
06THEHAGUE812NETHERLANDS/BURMA: RESPONSE TO EC COMMENTS AT
[...] (C) Summary: The GONL is adamantly opposed to any change in the European Union's position on Burma. Sanctions should remain in place. According to the Dutch, the comments of EU officials, including European Commission DG for External Relations Eneko Landaburu, do not represent EU policy. The [...]
2006-04-12 13:34:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID PREF PREL BM EU NL
06THEHAGUE986NETHERLANDS MAY END DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch parliament passed a resolution this month mandating an end to direct development assistance to the Kenyan government, unless substantial and significant progress on corruption is shown. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told emboffs it will spend the next 5 months (i.e., [...]
2006-05-03 12:18:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALEAID KCOR PREL XW ZF
06TIRANA313SCENESETTER FOR MCC VISIT TO ALBANIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The new Government of Albania (GoA),led by Prime Minister Sali Berisha, took office in September 2005. Berisha's governing coalition, led by his Democratic Party, was elected largely on a campaign promise to combat endemic organized crime and corruption. The new GoA has ta [...]
2006-03-28 14:36:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KMCA OTRA AL
06TIRANA351ALBANIA AND USAID SIGN MCC THRESHOLD PROGRAM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge Corporation's CEO Ambassador Danilovich and VP Bent visited Albania on April 3 to participate in a signing ceremony for a USD 13.8 million Threshold Program Agreement and to meet with GoA officials. The program is designed to reduce the opportunities for [...]
2006-04-07 07:56:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KMCA OTRA AL
06TIRANA816ALBANIA ON HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON MIGRATION
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, we delivered points on the upcoming UN High-Level Dialogue (HLD) on International Migration and Development to Saimir Repishti, chief of the UN section at the MFA. Repishti informed us that Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kosta Barka (or his deputy) would likely lead Al [...]
2006-08-01 16:05:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF SMIG UNGA AL
06TOKYO1231IRAQI AMBASSADOR VISITS KOREA, URGES ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary. Iraqi Ambassador to Japan, Al-Jumaily, visited Seoul February 22-25 to express appreciation for and encourage further support in reconstruction, discuss future Korean military engagement, and notify MOFAT of Iraq's intention to reopen its embassy in Seoul. As he has done in Japan [...]
2006-03-08 04:57:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID JA KR IQ
06TOKYO1447AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO THE AI
[...] (U) ESToff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Economic Cooperation Bureau Aid Planning Division Deputy Director Taro Yamamoto on March 17 and delivered reftel demarche. Yamamoto said that Japan has not yet decided on its response to the current outbreak of H5N1 in Burma. Tokyo is, h [...]
2006-03-17 09:56:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO EAGR EAID KFLU JA FAO WHO BM
06TOKYO1528AVIAN INFLUENZA: UPDATE ON JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO
[...] (U) On March 23, AID Counselor and ESToff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MOFA) Economic Cooperation Bureau Aid Planning Division Deputy Director Taro Yamamoto to receive further details on Japan's planned assistance to Burma in light of the recent avian influenza outbreak in poultr [...]
2006-03-23 08:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR EAID KFLU JA FAO WHO BM
06TOKYO1610AMBASSADOR YAMAMOTO DISCUSSES IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
[...] (C) Summary. During a March 27 meeting with the DCM, MOFA Ambassador for Counterterrorism (CT) Cooperation, Reconstruction Activities in Iraq and North Korea Nuclear Issues Tadamichi Yamamoto: -- outlined Japan's immediate plans to assist with Iraq's reconstruction, -- welcomed an updat [...]
2006-03-28 07:46:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID IZ JA
06TOKYO1612AMBASSADOR YAMAMOTO DISCUSSES COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] (C) Summary. During a March 27 meeting with the DCM, MOFA Ambassador for Counterterrorism (CT) Cooperation, Reconstruction Activities in Iraq and North Korea Nuclear Issues Tadamichi Yamamoto: -- stressed the need to identify implementable steps for the next U.S.-Japan-Australia CT Trilate [...]
2006-03-28 07:48:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL SNAR EAID IN MY RP JA
06TOKYO1735JAPAN DELAYS DECISION ON CHINA LOAN PROGRAM
[...] (C) Summary: Japan has decided to delay a decision on extending ODA yen loans to China for FY 2005 (April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006),reflecting growing political difficulties in the bilateral relationship. The delay resulted from a determination by MOFA that its proposal for a yen loan pr [...]
2006-03-31 07:35:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH JA
06TOKYO1982EAP A/S HILL'S MEETING WITH ASIAN DG SASAE ON
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 11 tour d'horizon of issues affecting the Asian region, MOFA Asian Affairs DG Sasae told A/S Hill: -- Japan is emphasizing relations with Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam in its strategic thinking with ASEAN; -- Japan will not stand in the way of Russia becoming a [...]
2006-04-12 09:30:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ECON ETRD EAID ASEAN ID TW IN CH
06TOKYO2061WHA A/S SHANNON'S APRIL 11 MEETING WITH MOFA
[...] (C) Summary. During a April 11 meeting with WHA A/S Shannon, MOFA Economic Cooperation Bureau DDG Sugita discussed Japan's ODA efforts in Latin America. He described difficulties increasing aid to the region due to Japan's traditional focus on Asia and poverty-alleviation efforts in Africa. [...]
2006-04-17 08:04:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EINV EAID APECO XR XK LA CH
06TOKYO2240MOFA DEPUTY MINISTER PUSHES FOR NEW ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Mitoji Yabunaka proposed that the U.S. and Japan begin preparations for a new U.S. Japan economic framework in a meeting with the Charge on April 24. The full proposal, with a broad focus and more emphasis on cooperation could be fle [...]
2006-04-25 23:11:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EAID EAGR ETTC ENRG JA IN CH
06TOKYO2328 Japanese Responses to Questions on French
[...] The Japanese Ministry of Finance provided the following responses to the questions sent reftel: Question: Does Japan levy airline ticket taxes which are used for general development assistance, or any other non-aviation related purpose, within the country? Answer: No. Question: If s [...]
2006-04-28 05:02:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN EAIR AFIN APECO JA
06TOKYO2663U.S.-JAPAN-ROK POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION
[...] (C) Summary. In the May 11 U.S.-ROK-Japan Policy Planning Session meeting between S/P Director Stephen D. Krasner, Japanese Deputy Vice-Minister for Foreign Policy Masaharu Kohno and Korean Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations Park In-Kook, the three delegates o [...]
2006-05-15 09:05:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN EAID MARR UNSC IR IZ KS CH JA
06TOKYO2714U.S.-JAPAN-ROK POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION
[...] (C) Summary: During the May 12 U.S.-Japan-ROK Policy Planning discussion, South Korea DFM Park In-Kook expressed concern over the conditionalities the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) places on recipient governments. Japan DVFM Masaharu Kohno observed that elections were key to the de [...]
2006-05-17 07:51:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEAID UNSC PHUM KS CH RS JA
06TOKYO3193FOREIGN MINISTERS RELEASE "ACTION PLAN" AT CENTRAL
[...] (C) Summary. The June 5 "Central Asia Plus Japan" dialogue in Tokyo produced an "Action Plan" with specific initiatives for regional cooperation in the areas of counterterrorism, counternarcotics, anti-personnel landmine clearance, poverty alleviation, health care, the environment, disaster p [...]
2006-06-09 05:59:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PTER PGOV SNAR AF KZ KG UZ TI TX
06TOKYO3357JAPAN-CENTRAL AND SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE RELATIONS:
[...] (C) Summary. In a recent review of Japan's relations with Central Europe, MOFA officials related that ties with Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia are moving away from assistance and toward direct investment. Japan's relationship with Romania and Bulgaria is largely focused on ener [...]
2006-06-18 23:55:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID AADP SENV XH ZL ZS JA
06TOKYO4260JAPANESE RESPONSE TO APEC DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Japanese officials expressed support for U.S. APEC goals set out in reftel, in particular, the completion of the IPR model guidelines and extension of the mandate of the Counter-terrorism Task force (CTTF). However, Japanese interlocutors were cautious of plans to reinvigorate [...]
2006-07-31 08:05:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID APECO JA
06TOKYO4295JAPANESE STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR IRAQI-UN LAUNCH
[...] (U) Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso on July 28 made the following statement of support for the Iraqi-U.N. launch of the International Compact With Iraq. BEGIN TEXT: Â [...]
2006-08-01 07:17:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ JA
06TOKYO4508KANDAHAR-HERAT RING ROAD: JAPAN LOOKING FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-10 08:38:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREL AF JA
06TOKYO4630S/P KRASNER BRIEFS JAPANESE OFFICIALS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Policy Planning Director Dr. Stephen Krasner in Tokyo on August 9, briefed a number of Japanese MOFA officials on the proposed Partnership for Democratic Governance (PDG). MOFA DDG for International Cooperation Hiroshi Fukada responded that the PDG would fit well with Japan's a [...]
2006-08-15 23:56:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PREL JA
06TOKYO4752MOFA OFFICIAL ON REINVIGORATING APEC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Japan agrees, in principle, on the need to institutionally strengthen APEC but believes more discussion is needed to determine the most effective way forward, according to Japan's APEC Senior Official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Acknowledging the prospect of p [...]
2006-08-18 08:20:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PREL APECO JA
06TOKYO4920JAPANESE MINISTER VISITS LIBYA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Minister of Science and Technology Iwao Matsuda visited Libya August 13-22 where he met with a number of officials including Libyan Leader Muammar Qadhafi on August 16. Matsuda congratulated Qadhafi for Libya's decision to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. Qadhafi [...]
2006-08-28 22:55:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG EAID LY JA
06TOKYO5514IRAQI AMBASSADOR CONCERNED ABOUT JAPAN'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Ambassador to Tokyo is concerned that Japan's commitment to playing a leading role in the International Compact With Iraq could falter unless pressed by his government and the United States. He laments the fact that the government of Iraq apparently lacks the depth to pu [...]
2006-09-25 09:06:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL IZ JA
06TOKYO5566JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION AFFIRMS
[...] (C) Japan's newly appointed Ambassador for Iraqi Reconstruction Gotaro Ogawa September 26 reaffirmed to DCM Japan's support for the International Compact With Iraq. Ogawa believes that following meetings in New York and Abu Dhabi that there is a new momentum to promote the Compact. Ogawa also [...]
2006-09-26 08:56:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL PINR IZ JA
06TOKYO5574GOJ STRUGGLES TO UPGRADE INDIAN ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Despite India's position as a top Japanese aid recipient from 2003-05, growth in Japan-India trade over the past five years has lagged behind growth in India's trade with China, the United States, and others. What growth that has occurred has been one-sided, and Japan now ranks below the [...]
2006-09-27 00:20:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PREL EFIN EAID JA IN
06TOKYO5626INR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FORT'S SEPTEMBER 25
[...] (C) Summary: Government belt-tightening will return Japan's overseas development assistance (ODA) to its 1984 levels in the next five years, MOFA Director General for Global Issues Tsuruoka told INR A/S Fort on September 25. These cuts will eventually hinder diplomatic efforts. The cuts shou [...]
2006-09-28 05:47:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR UNSC EAID CH KN JA
06TOKYO6249VIETNAM'S PM VISITS JAPAN; ISSUES JOINT STATEMENT
[...] (SBU) Vietnam's Prime Minister concluded a positive four-day visit to Japan on October 22, drawing favorable reviews in the press for the growing relationship between the two countries. DPRK sanctions and UN reform were also on the agenda. Prime Minister Dzung stressed his strong opposition [...]
2006-10-26 10:34:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD EAID JA VN
06TOKYO6367JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO APEC DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) (SBU) Emboff delivered reftel demarche on U.S. APEC priorities separately to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry APEC Director Kunihiko Shinoda and Ministry of Foreign Affairs APEC Director Mitsuko Shino. Both expressed broad support for U.S. goals and pledged continued close coope [...]
2006-11-02 09:39:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID APECO JA
06TOKYO6839LDP INTEREST IN AID TO INDIA SURPRISINGLY HIGH,
[...] (SBU) After a recent lecture on trends in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA),Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers peppered Takushoku University President Toshio Watanabe with questions about how to use aid to turn India into a counterweight to China, Watanabe told Econoff in a Novembe [...]
2006-12-04 08:51:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON JA PGOV IN
06TOKYO7132JAPAN SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT IN HALTING UNDP
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 26 meeting with Charge, MOFA Director-General for Global Affairs Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka asked the United States to support its effort to suspend UNDP activities in the DPRK. Tsuruoka cited two reasons for this step: the DPRK's failure to accept UNSCR 1718, and the [...]
2006-12-26 09:05:00Embassy TokyoSECRETEAID KFPC KWBG KNNP KUNR PGOV JA UNDP
06TRIPOLI472LIBYAN SCIENTISTS DETAIL PRIORITIES FOR COOPERATIVE EFFORTS
[...] (C) Scientists working at the National Bureau for Research and Development, linked to the General People's Committee for Manpower, Training and Employment (GPCMET) headed by Matouq Matouq have used a number of recent meetings to detail the types of projects that they hoped would result fro [...]
2006-09-06 17:53:00Embassy TripoliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ENRG ETTC PARM KNNP LY
06TRIPOLI527LIBYA: UN RESREP ASSESSES OPPORTUNITIES FOR BILATERAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative Julio Grieco told poloff September 17 that there were opportunities for the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) to expand on activities already underway in Libya that focus on education, financial sector refo [...]
2006-09-20 11:05:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF PGOV LY
06TUNIS1021HUNGER STRIKE BY TWO TUNISIAN JOURNALISTS NOT A
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-02 06:21:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI TS
06TUNIS1220TUNISIA OBSERVES WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-22 11:56:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI TS
06TUNIS1238EMBASSY TUNIS ENGAGES TUNISIAN JOURNALISTS ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-23 14:00:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI TS
06TUNIS227SIGNS OF INCREASED PRESS FREEDOM, BUT TUNISIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-03 14:40:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI TS
06TUNIS2287TUNISIA NOT INTERESTED IN MCA
[...] (SBU) In reponse to Embassy reminders for financial data for Millennium Challenge Account selection, the Government of Tunisia has declined to submit the required information, thereby withdrawing Tunisia from consideration for MCA funding. In a meeting with EconOff, MFA Deputy Director for th [...]
2006-09-05 11:25:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID KMCA TS
06TUNIS2492HIV/AIDS AND THE GLOBAL FUND: EMBASSY TUNIS
[...] (U) Per reftel, an interagency committee, comprised of participants from the Health Unit, Public Affairs, the Political and Economic Section, and DOD's Office of Defense Cooperation reviewed the GOT submission to the Global Fund. The following comments are keyed to reftel para 8 questions: [...]
2006-10-04 09:17:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KHIV SOCI TBIO TS
06TUNIS2861TUNISIA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: Nov. 1 - Nov. 30
[...] (U) This cable contains highlights of recent economic developments in Tunisia on the following topics: A. Tunisia Plans to Build Nuclear Power Plant by 2020 B. Tunisie Telecom Privatization Receipts To Reduce External Debt C. Central Bank Intervenes in Bank Lending D. GOT Subsidies R [...]
2006-12-07 09:08:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN ENRG EAID EPET TS
06TUNIS2916ADB PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT BANK'S FUTURE, WARY
[...] (U) Summary: During the Ambassador's December 11 courtesy call on African Development Bank (ADB) President Donald Kaberuka, Kaberuka touched on the differing problems and varying situations of African nations and the importance of adapting the services provided by the ADB to meet these challen [...]
2006-12-15 14:53:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECIN KDEM TS
06TUNIS452TUNISIAN RESPONSE: COLLABORATING WITH
[...] SUMMARY: Embassy Tunis welcomes the OES-led initiative to develop targeted activities in support of basic science and mathematics education, which are top priorities in Tunisia. Opportunities I-V, presented in reftel A, are all viable options for collaboration with Tunisian groups. In addi [...]
2006-03-02 11:02:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL SENV KPAO TS
06TUNIS808U.S./EU LUNCH ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN TUNISIA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-06 12:41:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI TS
06ULAANBAATAR261PROTESTS AGAINST MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT GROW
[...] ( U ) SUMMARY: Protests organized by a loose coalition of five local Mongolian groups have escalated slightly in the past few days but remain peaceful; business is conducted as usual in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. The protest groups are continuing to demand respectively the resignation [...]
2006-04-12 08:06:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ECON KPAO MG
06ULAANBAATAR275MPRP DENIES PRESS CLAIM THAT IT BLAMES THE
[...] ( SBU ) SUMMARY: The April 14 front page lead article for Odrin Sonin, a major Mongolian daily under Democratic party ownership, quoted Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) officials as stating that the MPRP believed the most truthful rumors circulating held the U.S. Embassy respons [...]
2006-04-17 03:43:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ECON KPAO MG
06ULAANBAATAR382Minister Claims U.S. Paid MP Bribes
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Over the last week, Minister of Industry and Trade Jargalsaikhan appears to have made claims to different audiences (including the Cabinet and foreign mining company representatives) that USAID had paid several hundred thousand dollars to an MP for anti-corruption e [...]
2006-05-17 07:34:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ETRD EINV PREL PGOV PINR MG US
06ULAANBAATAR396TIP Seminar Raises Awareness, Coordination
[...] A hands-on seminar aimed at countering trafficking in persons (TIP) in Mongolia was held in Ulaanbaatar on April 26-27. The training - held by The Asia Foundation (TAF) and the U.S. Embassy - brought together law enforcement and government officials, human rights lawyers, and representatives [...]
2006-05-24 07:51:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB MG
06ULAANBAATAR499MCC EURASIA DIRECTOR REID'S MEETINGS WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Millennium Challenge Corporation Eurasia Managing Director Frances Reid met with Mongolia's President, Prime Minister, Speaker, and Vice Foreign Minister, among others, during the course of her June 12-22 visit to Mongolia. During her meetings, she expressed appreciation for th [...]
2006-06-29 01:45:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV PREL EAID PGOV MG
06ULAANBAATAR525Scenesetter for Presidential Delegation
[...] We and the Mongolian Government very much look forward to your visit. The presence of a presidential delegation at the 800th anniversary celebrations continues a stellar 2005-6 year for high-level USG visits to Mongolia -- starting off with Peace Corps Director Vasquez last July, Speaker Has [...]
2006-07-10 06:34:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP PREL PGOV EAID ETRD MG
06ULAANBAATAR539Secretary Johanns' Visit Advances Relationship
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Secretary for Agriculture Mike Johanns headed a Presidential Delegation which visited Mongolia July 12-13. During very cordial meetings with President Enkhbayar and Prime Minister Enkhbold, Johanns conveyed President Bush's congratulations on Mongolia's 800th annivers [...]
2006-07-18 01:47:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP EAID MASS MG US
06ULAANBAATAR552EBRD OPENS FOR BUSINESS IN MONGOLIA
[...] (U) Summary: On July 15, 2006, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) received notification from the Russian Federation that it had ratified Mongolia's accession to the EBRD, the last of the sixty-one EBRD members to do so. EBRD Business Group Director Olivier Deschamps a [...]
2006-07-20 07:06:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL MG
06ULAANBAATAR572Exim's First Visit to Mongolia: Transactions in Aircraft
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) Export Finance Group Senior Vice President (SVP) John McAdams visited Mongolia July 6 to 11 to explain Ex-Im Bank's programs. Prime Minister Enkhbold gave McAdams an overview of the Mongolian situation and desired projects, w [...]
2006-07-27 23:29:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID PGOV PREL KMCA MG
06ULAANBAATAR591IMF PUTS NEW PROGRAM NEGOTIATIONS WITH MONGOLIA ON
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Local IMF Resident Representative Jang (strictly protect) told Emboffs August 3 that the IMF had decided to postpone further discussion with the Government of Mongolia (GOM) over a new IMF program to replace its long-lapsed program. Jang was now informing key donors and would a [...]
2006-08-03 08:52:00Embassy UlaanbaatarCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN EAID PREL PGOV SOCI MG
06ULAANBAATAR61New Mongolian Cabinet Confirmed
[...] (SBU) On the evening of January 27-28, Mongolia's Parliament, the State Great Hural (SGH),approved 16 of the 17 nominees for Cabinet positions. At 4 AM on January 28, the SGH then recessed for the Mongolian New Year holiday (Tsagaan Sar). It is not known when a candidate will be resubmitte [...]
2006-02-01 08:51:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR EAID MG
06ULAANBAATAR610Mongolia Scenesetter for Codel Kolbe
[...] We look forward to hosting you in early September, and to showing you how U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used here to benefit the Mongolian and American people. Your visit here will continue a stellar year for high-level bilateral engagement. Over the last year, visitors have included: Spea [...]
2006-08-13 22:51:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OREP PGOV MARR EAID MG
06ULAANBAATAR615Koizumi's Visit to Mongolia: A Feel Good Experience
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to the Japanese DCM (protect),Prime Minister Koizumi's August 10-11 visit to Mongolia was a relaxed visit without much new in substance; rather it was a celebration of a relationship untroubled by the political problems Japan has elsewhere in the region. No new aid [...]
2006-08-14 07:16:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECON MG JA KN
06ULAANBAATAR621Mongolia's Shadow Economy: Half as Large as the Official
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to a USAID-funded analysis, the informal economy in Mongolia is about 45% to 50% the size of the formal economy. This contrasts with the current official estimate of just 11% from the National Statistics Office (NSO). Using a new estimate based on a large sample surv [...]
2006-08-16 02:23:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL EAID MARR SOCI MG
06ULAANBAATAR622Efforts Against Domestic Violence Increasing
[...] Mongolia is increasing efforts to combat an epidemic of domestic violence which affects perhaps a third of all women. As well as a 2004 law, a draft national action plan will be submitted in September, and the Supreme Court may clarify some remaining legal issues in coming months. While publ [...]
2006-08-16 02:47:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SOCI EAID PREF MG
06ULAANBAATAR660Fiscal Snapshot: High Mining Revenues a Boon and a Danger
[...] SUMMARY: Buoyed by sharp GDP growth in the last few years, Mongolia's government finds itself in a time of relative plenty. However, these large revenue increases have been driven by high international commodity prices for gold and copper. When the good times end for copper and gold, Mongoli [...]
2006-09-05 02:51:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL EAID EMIN SOCI MG
06ULAANBAATAR667WHITHER U.S.-MONGOLIA RELATIONS?
[...] (U) As I conclude my three-year tour as chief of mission in Mongolia, I offer the following reflections on the past and recommendations for the future, as we pursue the "comprehensive partnership" with Mongolia that was first enunciated in the July 2004, and reaffirmed in the November 2005, Jo [...]
2006-09-07 09:54:00Embassy UlaanbaatarCONFIDENTIALMG PREL EAID ECON PGOV KMCA MASS
06ULAANBAATAR671Codel Kolbe Advances U.S. Interests
[...] (U) SUMMARY: During a September 1-3 visit, Codel Kolbe examined U.S. assistance programs in Mongolia, with a particular focus on the proposed Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. The Codel stressed that qualifying for MCA is not enough, and that Mongolia will need to take the time and e [...]
2006-09-08 07:40:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OREP PGOV MARR EAID KMCA KPAO MG
06ULAANBAATAR673World Bank Offers Prescriptions for Investment Climate
[...] SUMMARY: A recent World Bank report provides a concise, well-documented account of the problems -- particularly corruption -- affecting Mongolia's investment climate. It also offers recommendations on how to tackle these problems. While the Spring session of Parliament passed tax reform and [...]
2006-09-08 08:48:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EFIN EAIR PGOV PREL MG
06ULAANBAATAR682CODEL KOLBE DISCUSSES DPRK REFUGEE ISSUES, MORE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Mongolian General Intelligence Agency (GIA) officials told visiting CODEL Kolbe that since 1998 Mongolia had facilitated the resettlement in South Korea of 1,976 North Koreans and that 136 were presently in Mongolia being processed. To date, all North Koreans crossing into Mong [...]
2006-09-12 07:53:00Embassy UlaanbaatarCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM PREF EAID MG KN KS
06ULAANBAATAR683SAUDI ARABIA MAY SOON ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-13 01:48:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID MG SA ZR
06ULAANBAATAR724AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL CALLS ON PRESIDENT, SPEAKER,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the Ambassador's initial meetings with President Enkhbayar, following presenting his credentials on September 20, State Great Hural Speaker Nyambdorj on September 25, and Prime Minister Enkhbold, the Mongolian leaders stressed good bilateral relations, and pressed for early c [...]
2006-09-27 09:06:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ETRD MG
06ULAANBAATAR728Mongolia Scenesetter for Codel Hagel
[...] We look forward to hosting you October 7 to 9. Your visit here will continue a stellar year for high-level bilateral engagement. Over the last year, visitors have included: Speaker Hastert and delegation, then Rep. Leach (both in August 2005); Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld (October); the Pres [...]
2006-09-28 07:03:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OREP EAID MARR MG
06ULAANBAATAR783AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-17 08:40:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL EAID KCOR KMCA MG
06ULAANBAATAR790Mongolian Government, Donors Discuss Progress, Coordinate
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Government of Mongolia (GOM)officials and external partners (donors) convened the second bi-annual technical meeting October 9-10 to discuss progress in key areas since their first meeting in February 2006 (reftel),as well as to discuss plans for key sectors such [...]
2006-10-18 09:10:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PREL PGOV MG
06ULAANBAATAR795Mongolia's MCA Compact Nears Critical Juncture
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-23 08:58:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID KMCC ECON MG
06ULAANBAATAR809Mongolia's MCA Compact Nears Critical Juncture
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mongolia has submitted a rough draft of a program memo which -- with substantial hard work by both Mongolian and U.S. counterparts over coming months -- may enable a Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact to be signed in early Spring 2007. A Compact will likely involve a sig [...]
2006-10-31 08:42:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID KMCC ECON MG
06ULAANBAATAR829Country Clearance for MCA's Roche International
[...] We welcome and grant country clearance to Roche International consultants Christian Berube, David Burns, Asil Gezen, Dennis Lindberg, Lawrence Phipps, and Deana Silverston for their travels to Mongolia during the month of November. The purpose of the visit is to work with MCC's Burak Inanc and [...]
2006-11-11 07:29:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA EAID KMCA ECON MG
06ULAANBAATAR841Public Diplomacy Captivates Mongolian Media by Highlighting
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-22 08:31:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC PREL EAID SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC MG
06ULAANBAATAR878Provincial Perspectives: Khentii and Dornod Aimags See
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a brief November 19-21 easterly swing through Dornod and Khenti provinces, leaders there expressed concern about growing unemployment pressures but were hopeful that investments in mining, for the former, and agribusiness and tourism, for the latter, would provide needed j [...]
2006-12-20 02:15:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID EMIN PGOV MG
06USEUBRUSSELS4207EU PRESIDENT BARROSO'S JANUARY VISIT: THE VIEW
[...] (C/NF) European Union Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso's January 8 trip to Washington is an opportunity to marshal Commission support for action over the next six months in accelerating political and technical cooperation on energy and climate change, completing the Doha Round, and ma [...]
2006-12-22 11:21:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCVIS EAID ECON ELAB ENRG EUN PGOV PHUM PREL
06USUNNEWYORK1070UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT'S 14TH
[...] (U) Summary: Building on reforms advanced since the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the May 1-12 fourteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14) successfully focused on practical approaches to increase access to modern energy services. An interagency U.S. [...]
2006-05-25 14:26:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI ENRG EAID TRGY ECON UN
06USUNNEWYORK1079DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PAUSE AS G77 DEPARTS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-26 19:37:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN KUNR UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK1224DEVELOPMENT RESOLUTION NEGOTIATIONS SHIFT INTO NEW
[...] (u) The current phase of negotiations on the development resolution in follow-up to the World Summit Outcome ended at midnight Thursday (6/16-17) without an agreed text. Facilitator Paul Lolo of Nigeria will no longer be available and responsibility for further progress will revert back to th [...]
2006-06-16 19:45:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN KUNR UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK1227PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION:
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Guidance requested in para below. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The 31 members of the newly-formed UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)(reftel),agreed informally on June 16 that Angola will serve as the first Chair of the PBC, paving the way for the formal inaugural [...]
2006-06-16 21:28:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID UN
06USUNNEWYORK1229PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION:
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Guidance requested in para below. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The 31 members of the newly-formed UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)(reftel),agreed informally on June 16 that Angola will serve as the first Chair of the PBC, paving the way for the formal inaugural [...]
2006-06-16 21:48:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID UN
06USUNNEWYORK1245NOTE TO SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE FROM
[...] Mission received the following note dated June 15, 2006, from Kjell Magne Bondevik, UN SYG's Special Humanitarian Envoy for the Horn of Africa, requesting a meeting on June 26, 2006, to discuss the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. USUN is in discussion with IO/RHS on how to faci [...]
2006-06-21 13:58:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM XW
06USUNNEWYORK1335PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION: FIRST MEETING
[...] (U) SUMMARY. UN officials, international financial representatives and 31 member states inaugurated the Peacebuilding Commission on June 23. The Angolan permrep took the chair, and announced the selection by consensus of Norway and El Salvador as vice chairs. Each will lead country-specific [...]
2006-07-10 17:23:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALAF EAID PREL UNSC KPKO KCRS
06USUNNEWYORK1493UN DEMOCRACY FUND REVIEWS FIRST PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-07 17:18:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EUN KDEM KUNR PHUM
06USUNNEWYORK1572DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PREVENTING DPRK ABUSE OF THE
[...] As a follow up to the demarche Mission delivered on August 8th to acting UN Controller Jay Karia concerning currency transactions between United Nations agencies and the government of North Korea (DPRK) (ref B),Mission asked the following UN entities whether they have ongoing activities in DP [...]
2006-08-18 16:13:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAID KN KNNP MNUC PARM
06USUNNEWYORK1665FOLLOW-UP TO UNDP DEMARCHE:DPRK ABUSE OF THE UN
[...] (S) As a follow up to the demarche Mission delivered on August 16th to Darshak Shah, Director and Comptroller of UNDP and Julie Anne Mejia, UNDP Treasurer, concerning currency transactions between United Nations agencies and the government of North Korea (DPRK) (ref B),Mission met with Mr. Sh [...]
2006-08-30 20:02:00USUN New YorkSECRETAORC EAID KN KNNP MNUC PARM
06USUNNEWYORK1689UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE CONSULTATIONS IN
[...] (SBU) The UN's Electoral Assistance Division hosted a discussion August 31 in New York on electoral assistance to Timor-Leste. Finn Reske-Nielsen, newly named deputy SRSG (Reconstruction, Development, Humanitarian Affairs) to Timor-Leste, outlined his plan to closely coordinate with local Emb [...]
2006-09-01 15:30:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM TT PO GV EAID
06USUNNEWYORK1790UNGA 61: PRESIDENT-ELECT KHALIFA LAYS OUT HER
[...] (U) On September 11, Ambassadors Bolton and Wallace called on incoming President of the General Assembly Haya al Khalifa at the Bahraini Mission to the UN. Khalifa had, just hours before, been ceremoniously handed the gavel by outgoing President Eliasson in the General Assembly Hall. Bolton [...]
2006-09-12 21:09:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EFIN EAID KUNR UNGA BA
06USUNNEWYORK1839CONFERENCE ON UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION: NGOS
[...] SUMMARY: On September 5, civil society think tanks, NGOs, and UN mission representatives discussed next steps for the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) during a German NGO-sponsored symposium on "Getting the Peacebuilding Commission off the Ground - How to Include Civil Society on the Ground." [...]
2006-09-20 13:33:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO EAID SOCI BR SL
06USUNNEWYORK2147UN SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS THREE RESOLUTIONS BY
[...] (U) The United Nations General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial Affairs) adopted three resolutions by consensus on November 7. Prior to adoption, the Committee Chair read out a statement that there were no program budget implications (PBIs) associated with these resolutions. [...]
2006-11-13 23:33:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECIN EFIN ETRD UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2176UN SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS THREE RESOLUTIONS BY
[...] (U) The United Nations General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial Affairs) adopted three resolutions by consensus on November 17. The resolutions adopted were as follows: -- A/C.2/61/L.42 (draft resolution submitted by South Africa on behalf of the G77 under agenda item 53(b [...]
2006-11-21 23:48:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN ETRD UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2189UNGA RESOLUTION ON STRENGTHENING ECOSOC ADOPTED;
[...] Meeting in plenary session November 20, the General Assembly adopted draft resolution A/61/L.24, entitled "Strengthening of the Economic and Social Council." The Secretariat read a carefully worded statement regarding SIPDIS ECOSOC's entitlement to hold meetings as a charter body. It note [...]
2006-11-27 15:31:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KUNR ECOSOC
06USUNNEWYORK221961ST UNGA: SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS FOUR
[...] Summary: On November 22, the UN's Second Committee on economic and financial affairs passed four resolutions, including one condemning the Israeli destruction of oil tanks in Lebanon. Four countries joined the US to vote No on the Lebanese resolution, with the EU members/applicants among the [...]
2006-12-06 17:02:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD EFIN SENV UNGA IS LN
06USUNNEWYORK223061ST UNGA: SECOND COMMITTEE VOTES ON TRADE; ADOPTS
[...] Summary: On December 1, the UN's Second Committee on economic and financial affairs passed five resolutions, including one on international trade that called for the restarting of the WTO Doha round. The US was alone in voting against it, while a large block of 52 countries including the EU a [...]
2006-12-08 18:38:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAID SENV UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2246UN SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES WORK, ADOPTS ELEVEN
[...] Summary: Concluding its work for 2006, the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee on economic and financial affairs adopted ten resolutions and one decision by consensus and voted (at EU insistence) on a resolution on global climate change during action on December 8. UN Under Secre [...]
2006-12-13 19:39:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EFIN ETRD TSPL SENV UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2273DEMARCHE DELIVERED:UNDP ACTIVITIES IN NORTH
[...] (S) Summary. Ambassador Wallace met with Kemal Dervis, Administrator of UNDP, on Tuesday, December 19, to deliver a demarche regarding UNDP activities in North Korea (DPRK). Ambassador Wolff was scheduled to deliver the demarche with Ambassador Wallace, but was unable to attend due to a last m [...]
2006-12-21 19:52:00USUN New YorkSECRETEAID KFPC KN KNNP KUNR PINR PREL UNDP
06USUNNEWYORK2288ECOSOC RESUMED 2006 SESSION - SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
[...] Summary: The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) resumed work December 11-15 to tackle a range of issues deferred from the summer session in Geneva (reftel). Of a limited number of items completed in the resumed session, approvals of outstanding NGO applications and of the work related to [...]
2006-12-26 16:26:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECPS EFIN PHUM ECOSOC
06USUNNEWYORK347INVITATION TO MARCH 9 LAUNCH OF UPGRADED CERF
[...] Mission received the following letter of invitation from Jan Egeland, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, addressed to Mr. Frederick Schieck, Acting Administrator, USAID, Mr. William Garvelink, Senior Deputy Asssistant Administrator, USAID, and [...]
2006-02-24 17:16:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM UN
06USUNNEWYORK352AMBASSADOR WOLFF'S FEBRUARY 21 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 22, meeting Ambassador Wolff and Belgian Ambassador Johan Verbeke discussed the Human Rights Council, Peacebuilding Commission and U.S.-EU cooperation. Both Ambassadors agreed that the U.S. and EU needed to cooperate more closely to avoid having our mutual inte [...]
2006-02-24 23:36:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPHUM KUNR EUN HPKO EAID BE
06USUNNEWYORK457UN REFORM/PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION: FINANCIAL
[...] (U) Summary. The selection of the thirty-one members of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) Organizational Committee remains stalled over the regional breakdown of the ECOSOC seats (reftel). USUN, however, has managed to facilitate a rotational agreement among the top ten financial contributor [...]
2006-03-10 00:17:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPKO KUNR UNSC UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK469UN DEMOCRACY FUND: TEXT OF NOTE FROM UN SECRETARY
[...] (U) Mission received the following diplomatic note from the UN Secretary-General regarding the establishment of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF). The note outlines the vision and basic structure of the Fund and notes the first meeting of the Advisory Board that took place on March 6. (Note: Refte [...]
2006-03-13 15:46:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EUN KDEM KUNR PHUM
06USUNNEWYORK530UN HIGH LEVEL PANEL ON SYSTEM-WIDE COHERENCE: U/S
[...] Summary: In New York consultations March 13, Under Secretary Shiner surveyed the upcoming work of the UN SIPDIS Secretary General's High-Level Panel on UN System-wide SIPDIS Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and Environment. The thirteen-member Panel -- man [...]
2006-03-17 16:40:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN ETRD KUNR AORC SENV UN
06USUNNEWYORK547ECOSOC MEETING ADOPTS HUMANITARIAN SEGMENT THEME
[...] Summary: ECOSOC (UN Economic and Social Council) held informal consultations March 10 on open items handled in the current organizational session, followed by a brief formal meeting to adopt the Humanitarian Affairs Segment theme. The President proposed continued consultations on the Operation [...]
2006-03-20 22:11:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KUNR KPKO ECOSOC TBIO PHUM
06USUNNEWYORK616LETTER FROM U/SYG JOSE OCAMPO ON THE TRUST FUND ON
[...] Mission received the following note dated March 10, 2006, from Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, addressed to Ambassador Bolton, regarding contributions for the Voluntary Fund on Indigenous Issues. Text of note follows in para 2 below. 2. Begin [...]
2006-03-28 16:04:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI PHUM EAID UN
06USUNNEWYORK625ECOSOC TERMINATES COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-29 17:25:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID KUNR KPKO ECOSOC
06USUNNEWYORK680UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION - ECOSOC COMPONENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-03 23:18:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALKPKO EAID PREL AORC UN ECOSOC
06USUNNEWYORK764HIRC DELEGATION DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, UN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A House International Relations Committee (HIRC) delegation led by Chairman Henry Hyde met the GA President's Chef de Cabinet and subsequently with six key G77 ambassadors March 27 to discuss a range of issues. Key topics of discussion centered on the recently created UN Human [...]
2006-04-11 18:36:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKUNR PHUM EAID KPKO UNSC
06USUNNEWYORK776LETTER FROM UNDP ADMINISTRATOR KEMAL DERVIS TO U/S
[...] USUN received a letter, dated April 5, 2006 addressed to Ambassador Bolton, transmitting a letter to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paul Dobriansky, regarding UNDP's role in the Community of Democracies. Text of letter and note follow below. 2. Begin text of c [...]
2006-04-12 18:36:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SOCI UN KDEM EAID
06USUNNEWYORK897SYG LETTER OF APPRECIATION TO SECRETARY RICE RE:
[...] USUN received the following cover letter from Alicia Barcena, Acting Chef de Cabinet, and attached letter from the UN Secretary General to Secretary Rice, thanking the USG for its additional contribution of $7,920,000 to the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). Text of cover letter and let [...]
2006-05-02 12:59:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KDEM KUNR PHUM
06VATICAN218SLOW BUT STEADY: MOVING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY FORWARD
[...] (C) With a grant from EB, Post brought three American researchers to speak with various Holy See interlocutors to increase acceptance and understanding of agricultural biotechnology in advance of the publication of a key Vatican document on hunger. After several years of lobbying b [...]
2006-10-19 09:12:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALVT TBIO EAGR EAID FA
06VATICAN220VATICAN OFFICIAL INTERESTED IN BENIN BIOTECH
[...] (C) During a recent EB-sponsored speakers program, Emboff and visiting U.S. researchers met with Monsignor Jean Laffitte, Vice President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, to discuss the potential of agricultural biotechnology and the promise it holds for Africa. Laffitte was concerned when [...]
2006-10-19 11:18:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALBN VT EAGR EAID TBIO ECON
06VATICAN221SLOW BUT STEADY: MOVING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY FORWARD
[...] (C) With a grant from EB, Post brought three American researchers to speak with various Holy See interlocutors to increase acceptance and understanding of agricultural biotechnology in advance of the publication of a key Vatican document on hunger. After several years of lobbying by Post, th [...]
2006-10-19 11:41:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID ECON TBIO VT OIIP
06VIENNA1174AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: ADDRESSING UN FINANCIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-24 16:43:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PREL AF AU
06VIENNA2947KLEPTOCRACY: DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA ON U.S.
[...] Ambassador conveyed reftel demarche to Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, and Justice Minister Karin Gastinger on September 26. DCM discussed the issue separately with Chancellery Foreign Policy Advisor Hans-Peter Manz on September 26. EconPolCou [...]
2006-10-03 09:04:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDKCOR ECON EAID EINV PGOV KCRM AU
06VIENNA3279AVIAN FLU: BAXTER-AUSTRIA DEVELOPS A VACCINE AGAINST HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Austrian-based research facility of the U.S. healthcare company Baxter has developed a vaccine against the current strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The vaccine has been successfully tested in mice and also with human subjects, yielding a protection rate between 70 [...]
2006-11-08 13:58:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU ASEC SENV EAGR EAID ECON WHO AU
06VIENNA3297WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE IN VIENNA
[...] Delegates from 306 national trade union organizations representing 168 million workers in 154 countries met Nov. 1-3 in Vienna to found the International Trade Union Confederation. "The Confederation exists to unite and mobilize the democratic and independent forces of world trade unionism i [...]
2006-11-09 14:48:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON ETRD EAID PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI ILO
06VIENNA3347POLIO ERADICATION EFFORTS: NO ADDITIONAL AUSTRIAN
[...] EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche regarding the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on November 14 to Jean Paul Klein, the Ministry of Health's (MoH) Senior Advisor on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. 2. Klein acknowledged the importance of polio eradication, but said the GoA was u [...]
2006-11-17 11:23:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL TBIO AU
06VIENNA3348SOUTH ASIA EARTHQUAKE: AUSTRIAN PLEDGES COMMITTED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-17 12:33:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL AU
06VIENNA3477DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BAMAKO CONFERENCE ON AVIAN
[...] EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche on November 29 to Christian Lassmann, the Austrian MFA's Deputy Director for Social and Health Issues. Lassmann acknowledged the importance of the conference. He promised to pass on USG concerns and interest in the success of the conference to the Minist [...]
2006-12-04 15:49:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR KFLU TBIO PREL EAID AU
06VIENNA470AVIAN INFLUENZA LIKELY IN AUSTRIAN SWANS
[...] (SBU) The Ministry of Health and Women's Affairs (MoH) publicly announced on February 14 that tests by the Austrian National Veterinary Institute indicate there is a 70% probability that two dead swans found in southern Austria were infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The MoH follo [...]
2006-02-15 15:58:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC TBIO SENV EAGR EAID ECON WHO AU
06VIENNA488AVIAN FLU: AUSTRIAN HEALTH MINISTRY VIEWS
[...] (U) Summary: DCM discussed avian flu in a February 16 meeting with Dr. Clemens Auer, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Health and Women (MoH). The two also exchanged views on biotechnology and tradition-based violence against women. On avian flu, Auer said that the GOA welcomes improving in [...]
2006-02-16 18:06:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV EAGR EAID ASEC ECON WHO PHUM AU
06VIENNA610AVIAN FLU: EU HEALTH MINISTERS AFFIRM NEED FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a February 24 Informal Meeting on the "Impact of Avian Influenza on Public Health in Europe," EU Health Ministers stressed the importance of public awareness. Austrian Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat pointed to the need for more public outreach, noting the Presidency [...]
2006-02-28 15:58:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU ASEC TBIO SENV EAGR EAID ECON WHO AU
06VIENNA696AVIAN FLU: CATS IN AUSTRIA "REJECT" H5N1 VIRUS
[...] On March 6, the Austrian Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Veterinary Director of the Austrian state of Styria announced that Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) tests confirmed the existence of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in the saliva of three cats. However, the MoH subsequ [...]
2006-03-07 16:59:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU ASEC TBIO SENV EAGR EAID ECON WHO AU
06VIENNA894STATUS OF AUSTRIAN RECONSTRUCTION DISBURSEMENTS IN
[...] As of December 2005, Austria has disbursed Euro 1.5 million (USD 1.8 million) in technical assistance to Iraq, according to Lydia Saadat, the MFA's Assistance Coordinator for the Middle East and Asia. (Saadat's department is updating figures for the first quarter of 2006). Austria had pledg [...]
2006-03-27 06:27:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN IZ AU
06VIENNA941AUSTRIAN ENERGY INITIATIVES - BEST PRACTICES
[...] Post solicited information about domestic and international energy initiatives from Herbert Lechner, Scientific Director from the quasi-governmental "Austrian Energy Agency" (AEA),and from Aloisia Woergetter, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Sustainable Development Unit. The GoA pro [...]
2006-03-30 11:18:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI ENGR EAID EPET TRGY AU
06VIENTIANE1232REPRESENTATIVE MCCOLLUM MEETS VICE FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Representative Betty McCollum of Minnesota, in her first visit to Laos, pressed Vice Foreign Minister Phongsavath to accept more of a role for NGOs, to take advantage of international respect for the ICRC by allowing it to monitor the situation of the Hmong within Laos, to resolve [...]
2006-12-29 05:40:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALEAID LA OREP PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH
06VIENTIANE1234REPRESENTATIVE MCCOLLUM MEETS LAO VICE PRIME
[...] (C) Summary: Representative Betty McCollum pressed Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad for more cooperation on dealing with unexploded ordnance, education, and health care and effectively used her attendance at Christmas Mass to indicate the importance of freedom of religion to the United [...]
2006-12-29 05:49:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALEAID LA OREP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TH
06VIENTIANE307ADB EXAMINES ITS OPTIONS IN A DONOR-DRIVEN ECONOMY
[...] (C) Summary. As part of a new Country Strategy and Program (CSP),the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to re-vamp and trim its lending and granting policies for Laos. This is partly in response to criticisms of ADB projects from development partners, but mostly due to ADB guidelines for conti [...]
2006-03-31 09:13:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PGOV PHUM ECON LA
06VIENTIANE405THE EU AND THE WAGES OF FECKLESS AID IN LAOS
[...] (C) Summary: Feckless aid has long provided a life-line to the Lao government, despite its failure to meet conditions set for certain projects and its regular violations of human rights. Major donors such as the Japanese look set to continue to bankroll the regime unconditionally, and the EU [...]
2006-05-04 09:42:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PGOV PHUM LA
06VILNIUS137PDAS VOLKER MEETS WITH LITHUANIA'S FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (C) EUR PDAS Kurt Volker and Ambassador discussed regional issues February 8 with MFA Undersecretary Albinas Januska, Lithuania's chief foreign policy strategist. Januska provided a readout of a "difficult conversation" between GOL FM Valionis and Ukrainian FM Tarasyuk in which Valionis urged [...]
2006-02-10 16:47:00Embassy VilniusCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID PGOV BO UP LH
06VILNIUS84GOL ACKNOWLEDGES U.S. ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-26 13:47:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV AF LH
06WARSAW1161POLAND'S ECOFUND: CRISIS OR MISUNDERSTANDING?
[...] (SBU) Action request for State, EB/IFD/OMA and OES/ENV, paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Internal disputes at Ecofund discussed in Ref A have grown worse, threatening to disrupt the operations of the Fund. At the heart of the matter is the role that the Polish Treasury Ministry is play [...]
2006-06-13 14:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SENV KSCA PL
06WARSAW1515POLAND: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON CONTRIBUTIONS FOR
[...] On July 18, Econoff delivered reftel demarche points to Mr. Jerzy Pomianowski, Director of Development Co-operation Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr.Pomianowski sent the following response dated July 21, 2006. 2. Begin text. Thank you for the information on U.S. assistanc [...]
2006-07-25 15:44:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN EUN PL
06WARSAW1551LEBANON - TAPPING INTO POLAND'S POTENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. According to senior officials in the MFA and the presidential chancellery, the Polish government is prepared to contribute to the planned stabilization force in Lebanon. In addition, the GOP wants very much to participate in future meetings of the Lebanon Core Group, particularly [...]
2006-07-28 14:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID LE PL
06WARSAW2491POLISH ATTITUDES TOWARD INVOLVEMENT IN AFGHAN DRUG
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-01 13:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR EAID EUN SNAR PL
06WELLINGTON27NEW ZEALAND: PLEDGING FOR AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-11 23:09:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV AF NZ
06WELLINGTON349NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DONATION FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-07 23:41:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PREL AF NZ
06WELLINGTON596DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-01 04:59:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SMIG UNGA NZ
06WELLINGTON597NEW ZEALAND WILL NOT ATTEND APEC SEMINAR ON
[...] (SBU) On July 10, Poloff delivered reftel invitation to Llewellyn Roberts, Pandemic Planning Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),and on July 19 to MFAT representatives with the Americas Division and the United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division, which is the div [...]
2006-08-01 05:01:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECIN TBIO KFLU APECO NZ
06WELLINGTON613NEW ZEALAND'S HIGH COMMISSION WILL REPRESENT GNZ
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-07 22:47:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECIN TBIO KFLU APECO NZ
06WELLINGTON685NZ ASSISTANCE FOR LEBANON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-30 05:45:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL LE SW NZ
06WELLINGTON709 NEW ZEALAND - INVITATION TO PAKISTAN BORDER STRATEGY
[...] Embassy delivered reftel invitation to New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen on September 7, 2006. Copies of the invitation were also faxed to Scott McHardy at the NZ Treasury, Matt Dalzell of NZAID, and Gabrielle Rush from the Americas Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. [...]
2006-09-08 02:13:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID CT NZ PK
06WELLINGTON833 NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FRANCES REID AND ALISA
[...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to MCC Managing Director for Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, Ms. Frances Reid, and EAP/ANP Desk Officer Ms. Alisa Wong to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 2-4, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with multilateral and bi [...]
2006-10-25 02:10:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA EFIN EAID AS FJ NZ
06WELLINGTON925NEW ZEALAND: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BAMAKO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-24 00:25:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR TBIO PREL EAID NZ
06WINDHOEK79POHAMBA LAUNCHES ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1, President Hifikepunye Pohamba officially launched the Namibian Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). In his speech marking the event, Pohamba reiterated his distaste for corruption and urged the ACC to pursue all corrupt individuals "regardless of their status in s [...]
2006-02-03 10:31:00Embassy WindhoekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID ECON PHUM WA
06YEREVAN1026ARMENIA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UN HIGH-LEVEL
[...] We delivered reftel points to Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan July 31. He said that the GOAM had not yet determined its position, but that if most countries wanted a forum to discuss migration, Armenia would participate. He s [...]
2006-07-31 10:44:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SMIG UNGA AM
06YEREVAN1105REMITTANCES: ARMENIA'S SECOND-HAND DUTCH DISEASE?
[...] (U) Local media are abuzz with conspiracy theories regarding the sharp appreciation of Armenia's currency, the Dram. The Dram exchange rate is up nearly 30 percent against the dollar since 2003, 7 percent in the first six months of 2006 alone. We believe the Armenian Central Bank (CBA)--as d [...]
2006-08-11 12:59:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN1265FM OSKANIAN'S FAREWELL SENDOFF TOUCHES ALL THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian's farewell lunch for the Ambassador offered a review of current issues. Oskanian expressed relief and exasperation about the ability to reach consensus on how the NK/Occupied Territories fires issue would be managed at the UNGA. He worried over the Iranian nuclear [...]
2006-09-13 07:10:00Embassy YerevanSECRETPREL PGOV ETTC EAID SCUL OVIP KNNP UNGA AM IR
06YEREVAN1300 USG INTERNET FREEDOM INITIATIVES IN ARMENIA
[...] Per reftel request, Embassy Yerevan presents its comprehensive review of usaid internet freedom programs in Armenia: ------------------------ Economic Growth Programs ------------------------ A. Project Name: Competitive Armenia Private Sector (CAPS) Program Recipient: IT companies, I [...]
2006-09-18 12:15:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECPS EINT PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1365LOCAL ACTIVISTS SKEPTICAL FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WILL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26, donor organizations presented election assistance plans to a group of local NGO partners. The NGOs were pessimistic that technical assistance and training would make much difference to the conduct of the 2007 elections, believing the GOAM would pre-determine the [...]
2006-10-02 12:56:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1440ARMENIA'S SCORECARD DELIVERED WITH A WARNING ON
[...] (SBU) On October 6, 2006, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and MCC Resident Country Director Alex Russin presented the MCC Indicator Scorecard on Armenia to Armenia's full MCA Governing Council, chaired by the Prime Minister. While we told the Council that Armenia had technically passed the criteria, [...]
2006-10-13 10:03:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM KMCA AM
06YEREVAN1445 ARMENIAN REGIONAL NGOS MEETING WITH SOME SUCCESS
[...] PAO and PAS Grants Manager recently visited several NGOs outside of Yerevan that had received support from the Democracy Commission, whose work encompassed anti-corruption (in public education),journalism, and human rights. Not only did we find dedicated people, young and old, staffing the o [...]
2006-10-13 11:07:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1456ARMENIA RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT NDI ACTIVITIES,
[...] (C) On October 17, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian delivered a non-paper to CDA objecting to some activities in Armenia of the National Democratic Institute. While the paper (full text below) purports to support NDI's democratization goals, it objects to alleged NDI actions to develo [...]
2006-10-17 13:20:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID AM
06YEREVAN1679PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN CRACKS THE DOOR WIDER FOR NDI;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian used his meeting with EUR/ACE Tom Adams to complain at length about allegedly anti-government NDI activities, while reiterating appreciation for other NDI programs. He stated that NDI would be registered "after the elections." However, NDI would remain free [...]
2006-12-06 09:02:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PHUM KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1685NDI PRESIDENT'S VISIT SPEAKS TO ARMENIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-06 14:47:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1686AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS IN ARMENIA
[...] The GOAM, with support from the USG, has significantly improved its avian flu preparedness, but would still face serious challenges responding to a large-scale outbreak. At a recent meeting, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Levon Rukhkian told us that the Ministry had almost completed a series [...]
2006-12-07 06:14:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID PREL TBIO KFLU AM
06YEREVAN1700 ARMENIA TV ARGUES ITS CASE
[...] (SBU) MCC Country Director and PAO met with Armenia TV President Bagrat Sargsian and toured the company's facilities. Sargsian affirmed his belief in the TV channel's independence and promised to provide opposition candidates a platform to air their views in the lead-up to the May parliamenta [...]
2006-12-11 08:02:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1706ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES NATIONAL SECURITY
[...] (U) Members of parliament debated the country's first-ever draft National Security Strategy December 1. Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian presented the draft and moderated a remarkably civil and constructive discussion. Heads of foreign missions, representatives of NGOs and journalists were in [...]
2006-12-12 09:06:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1735KOCHARIAN LAYS DOWN HIS MARKERS ON ELECTION PERIOD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian delivered a nationally-televised interview December 15, laying out his expectations for the campaign season and May 2007 parliamentary elections. Kocharian called for elections to be free and fair, placing the onus on election commissions and political parti [...]
2006-12-19 14:07:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN174 "WHO'S WHO" IN ASSISTANCE FUNDING TO ARMENIA
[...] International assistance has been the primary driver of development in Armenia since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In the early 1990s, Armenia suffered devastating losses in its industrial sector and severe deterioration of its public infrastructure. Initial [...]
2006-02-07 11:04:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG EFIN EAID PREL AM
06YEREVAN192ARMENIA'S COMPETITION COMMISSION: GROWING
[...] (SBU) Founded in 2001 to regulate monopolies and combat anti-competitive behavior, the Armenian Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (the Commission) plays a limited role in managing the Armenian marketplace. The Commission's caseload and enforcement action increased signific [...]
2006-02-09 12:51:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL EAID ETRD AM
06YEREVAN255DEMOCRACY, MCA AND CORRUPTION FOCUS OF USATF
[...] (SBU) Minister of Finance Vardan Khachatryan and Ambassador Evans co-chaired the mid-term review session of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF) February 17. The USG raised issues linked to the Action Plan of the September 2005 USATF meeting held in Washington and reque [...]
2006-02-22 12:44:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV AM
06YEREVAN258ORPHANED RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES IN ARMENIA: SEARCH
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian nuclear regulatory authorities are preparing to ship two high-intensity, orphaned radiological sources to Russia for secure storage. According to the director of the quasi-govermenta [...]
2006-02-23 03:39:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP AM
06YEREVAN269 ARMENIA ENJOYS FOUR YEARS OF DOUBLE-DIGIT
[...] (SBU) For the fourth year in a row, Armenia's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a double-digit rate according to National Statistical Service data. (Note: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has consistently praised the National Statistical Service for the quality of its data. End Note. [...]
2006-02-23 14:30:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN281KEEPING ARMENIA'S LIGHTS ON: PIPE DREAMS AND
[...] (C) President Robert Kocharian is, by most accounts, Armenia's negotiator-in-chief on energy. He has personally formulated and, through a tight network of close advisors, controlled the implementation of the GOAM's strategically important and financially significant energy deals with Russia a [...]
2006-02-27 10:58:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP GG AJ AM
06YEREVAN354 ARMENIA'S POVERTY RATE FALLS TO 34.6
[...] (SBU) According to the National Statistical Service (NSS),Armenia's poverty rate was 34.6 percent in 2004, down from 56.1 percent in 1998- 1999. The rate of extreme poverty in 2004 was 6.4 percent, down from 21 percent. These findings were based on an NSS survey supported by the World Bank [...]
2006-03-09 14:05:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB EAID PHUM AM
06YEREVAN380 HIGH DEMAND FOR AGRICULTURAL LOANS
[...] The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) recently released the results of a survey of 635 farmers around the country aimed at estimating local demand for agricultural loans. The CBA estimated that, without considering profitability and collateral requirements, total demand for loans was approximat [...]
2006-03-16 13:44:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN389SHIPMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES: CORRECTING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-19 11:55:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP RS AM
06YEREVAN532USG ROLE IN WORLD BANK MULTILATERAL DEBT RELIEF
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-13 11:01:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN KPAO AM
06YEREVAN560CODEL KOLBE: KOCHARIAN REQUESTS BENCHMARKS TO
[...] (C) During their April 10-12 visit to Yerevan (ref A),Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Subcommittee for Foreign Operations Jim Kolbe, Congressman Scott Garrett and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Amb. John Danilovich discussed developments related to im [...]
2006-04-18 13:03:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV EAID AM
06YEREVAN666ARMENIA'S ECONOMY INSULATED FROM PLANE CRASH,
[...] (C) On May 3, an Armavia flight to Sochi crashed into the Black Sea, killing all 113 aboard. Two days later, a fire in a Brussels maintenance hangar destroyed another Armavia aircraft as well as a second plane owned by another Armenian company. Investigations into both the crash and the fire [...]
2006-05-12 13:05:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR EAID PREL RS BE AM
06YEREVAN682ARMENIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH REMAINS STRONG
[...] (SBU) Armenia's GDP grew by eight percent during the first quarter of 2006, continuing a trend of impressive, often double-digit, growth rates over the past few years. Construction remained the primary driver of growth, up 25.2 percent compared to the first quarter of 2005. Retail trade was [...]
2006-05-18 07:05:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN74KOCHARIAN WON'T CONDEMN REFERENDUM, STILL HOPES
[...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with President Kocharian, the Ambassador pressed for a clearer GOAM acknowledgement of shortcomings in the November 27 constitutional referendum. The January 12 response to Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Danilovich from FM Oskanian was a principled statement, [...]
2006-01-18 11:56:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM
06ZAGREB1004DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-24 06:00:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SMIG UNGA HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB1065USAID GIFT PROJECTS IN CROATIA
[...] USAID in Croatia has two existing and one planned program, which contribute to the goals of Internet freedom in promoting access to and use of the Internet. 2. Project Name: Local Government Reform Program Recipient: Local and regional governments throughout Croatia Project Description: Us [...]
2006-09-07 11:19:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINT EAID PHUM HR
06ZAGREB1101CORRECTED COPY: USAID GIFT PROJECTS IN CROATIA
[...] This message updates and replaces Zagreb 01065. USAID in Croatia has three existing and one planned program, which contribute to the goals of Internet freedom in promoting access to and use of the Internet. 2. Project Name: Local Government Reform Program Recipient: Local and regional gover [...]
2006-09-13 10:44:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINT EAID PHUM HR
06ZAGREB1333MINORITIES MAKE PROGRESS; MORE WORK TO BE DONE
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A survey of minority legal and cultural rights conducted by a Croatian Serb NGO shows that Croatia has a good legal framework in place but that implementation, especially on the local level and in "war affected areas" lags behind the legal ideal. Presenting the findings o [...]
2006-11-06 06:26:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID PHUM HR
06ZAGREB1415CROATIA SHARPENS REGULATORY GUILLOTINE
[...] Summary: The Croatian government has undertaken an ambitious regulatory reform campaign aimed at easing bureaucratic impediments for business and improving the investment climate. The program, supported by USAID, is known as the "regulatory guillotine." Its aim is to create an inventory of al [...]
2006-11-28 12:39:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EAID HR
06ZAGREB919CROATIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES LEBANON AID
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-01 13:32:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL LE HR
07ABIDJAN1084COTE D'IVOIRE ROLLS OUT PRELIMINARY COCOA-CHILD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Prime Minister's interministerial taskforce rolled out preliminary results of its industry-funded survey of child labor in the cocoa sector on Oct. 12. It found that 22 percent of children in the region are involved in cocoa production, and a majority of them are involved [...]
2007-10-24 14:34:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1176DOES LACK OF DONOR ASSISTANCE EXPLAIN SLOW
[...] (C) Summary: During a number of recent public events, President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro have blamed slow implementation of the Ougadougou Peace Agrement (OPA) on a lack of international donor assistance. The Prime Minister and President both made this assertion in meetings with the [...]
2007-11-26 16:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID PGOV PREL IBRD IMF IV
07ABIDJAN1209COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT MEETING 2007 BUDGET
[...] (C) Summary. A Joint International Monetary Fund, World Bank and African Development Bank team briefed the donor community on its initial findings on November 26. The assessment team was broadly complimentary of the government's efforts to remain within budget targets and to adopt more tra [...]
2007-12-07 17:55:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN1227SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit to Cote d'Ivoire. Yours will be the second recent visit of high-level U.S. government officials, following the November visit of Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. We believe your visit will be viewed as a sign of increased USG intere [...]
2007-12-14 17:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1236PRESIDENT GBAGBO VISITS NEW FORCES STRONGHOLD;
[...] (SBU) Summary: From November 28-30, President Gbagbo visited the north of Cote d'Ivoire for the first time since becoming head of state. Press reports were favorable and key Gbagbo aides noted that large crowds welcomed the President. The visit demonstrated that the general public is anxious f [...]
2007-12-18 16:44:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ECON UN IV
07ABIDJAN1238SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit. Yours will be the first visit by a Congressional delegation to Cote d'Ivoire in many years. Senator Harkin and Representative Engle's roles in developing and implementing the international public/private accord (the "Harkin-Engle Protocol" [...]
2007-12-18 18:02:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1241SPECIAL REP BADINI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OPA; FOCUS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador discussed recent developments with the Ouagadougou Political Accord with the Facilitator,s special representative, Boureima Badini, on December 14. Badini confirmed that the complementary accords were meant to keep pressure on the parties, but said he was satisfied tha [...]
2007-12-20 07:19:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID MARR IV
07ABIDJAN1245OPPOSITION LEADER OUATTARA STILL DOUBTS GBAGBO'S COMMITMENT TO
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 20, conversation with Ambassador, RDR par leader Ouattara expressed concern about ongoing delays in the deploymen audiences foraines teams, the lack of precision about the identificatio process and the role of technical operator SAGEM. The RDR will be prepa a presiden [...]
2007-12-21 16:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID IV
07ABIDJAN1265EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has the will to combat drug trafficking, but lacks the capacity. Also, as it concentrates on steering the country out of its five-year political crisis, its attention is focused on other priorities. The Inter-ministerial Committee to Combat Drug Traffick [...]
2007-12-31 16:33:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID KCRM PREL SOCI SNAR IV
07ABIDJAN293COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR PREPARING FOR JUNE DEADLINE
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled with Lou Mazel, DCM Monrovia, and Mohamud Osman, USAID/FFP Dakar, from February 25 to March 3 to visit WFP and UNHCR offices in Cote d'Ivoire (Tabou, Guiglo) and Liberia (Harper) and to meet with refugees and [...]
2007-03-19 09:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM EAID UNHCR SOCI LI IV
07ABIDJAN326COTE D'IVOIRE: THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) and Regina Davis, USAID/OFDA's Principal Regional Advisor for West Africa (PRA),met in Abidjan with UN-OCHA, other UN agencies, NGOs, and donor Embassies to discuss opinions on UNHCR's handling of its Protection Cluster responsib [...]
2007-03-27 10:24:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PHUM UNHCR IV
07ABIDJAN666COTE D'IVOIRE SUPPORT FOR UNITAID
[...] (U) Cote d'Ivoire's Ministry of Finance confirms that Cote d'Ivoire is funding its commitments to UNITAD via the levy of a "solidarity tax" on airline tickets. Taxes are USD 4 (CFA 2000) per ticket for short and medium distance flights (generally flights remaining on the African continent),an [...]
2007-06-25 07:47:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KHIV TBIO PREL
07ABIDJAN683COTE D'IVOIRE NOMINATION FOR ATTENDEE OF USDA GLOBAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-27 10:04:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KHIV TBIO PREL
07ABIDJAN895ASSESSING THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE ONGOING
[...] (C) Summary. World Food Program, UNited Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and private business leaders in the "Greater West" region, which straddles the "Green Line" and encompasses the extreme western portion of the former "Zone of Confidence," concur that the situation remains v [...]
2007-08-24 12:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PREL PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN925COTTON, CASHEWS, TIMBER: MAINSTAYS OF THE ECONOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Cotton, cashews and forest products are the mainstays of the economy in the North and West, but each sector is experiencing varying levels of difficulty. Cotton production is down by 40 percent since the division of the country in 2002, and both producers and ginning enterpris [...]
2007-09-04 07:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR PGOV EAID ETRD SENV IV
07ABIDJAN95INCREASING U.S. SUPPORT FOR COTE D'IVOIRE'S
[...] (U) Post strongly supports the IFES proposal for a two-year project to expand U.S. support for the electoral process in Cote d,Ivoire. 2. (U) IFES has done excellent work in the first phase of this project. In particular, the Prime Minister,s Secretary General wrote to us that the roundtab [...]
2007-01-26 14:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREL PGOV IV
07ABUDHABI1126EMIRATES FOUNDATION: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
[...] (C) On June 28 Emboffs met with Peter Cleaves, Emirates Foundation CEO, to discuss the Foundation,s plans to advance intellectual and social growth in the UAE. The Emirates Foundation, launched in 2005 by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),has an endowment of over USD 100 [...]
2007-07-05 12:28:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALEAID SOCI SCUL AE
07ABUDHABI1180DUBAI RULER/UAE PM MOHAMMED BIN RASHID ON IRAQ,
[...] (S) Summary: On July 15, Ambassador met with UAE Vice President, Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR). MbR complained about the Iranian influence in Iraq and voiced his belief that the current situation in Iraq is a civil war which w [...]
2007-07-16 15:05:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR MOPS PARM EAID IR IZ LE AF PK SY
07ABUDHABI1323ASSISTANCE FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) On August 9, CDA conveyed points on UAE financial assistance to the PA to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for International Cooperation, Mohammad Abdul Rahim Abdul Jalil, temporarily the ranking official present at the Ministry. After first remonstrating that the UAE has "already done a lot [...]
2007-08-09 12:42:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPAL XF AE
07ABUDHABI1324ASSISTANCE FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) On August 9, CDA conveyed points on UAE financial assistance to the PA to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for International Cooperation, Mohammad Abdul Rahim Abdul Jalil, temporarily the ranking official present at the Ministry. After first remonstrating that the UAE has "already done a lot [...]
2007-08-09 12:43:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPAL XF AE
07ABUDHABI141UAE RED CRESCENT ON AID TO LEBANON AND AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) On January 30, Econoff spoke with Dr. Saleh Al Ta,ie, head of the Relief and Emergency Department at the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) regarding the UAE,s recent aid to Lebanon and Afghanistan. Dr. Al Ta,ie said that the UAE,s $300 million pledge to Lebanon, announced at the Paris Co [...]
2007-01-30 12:59:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL AF LE AE
07ABUDHABI1730INVITATION TO PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN DEVELOPMENT
[...] Embassy delivered an invitation letter to UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi's office on September 16, the first day after the end of the UAE's Eid Al-Fitr holiday. Al-Suwaidi had already departed for the U.S. On September 18, Econchief contacted Saeed Al-Hamiz, Central Bank [...]
2007-10-18 14:20:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID AF PK AE
07ABUDHABI190UAE FOLLOW-UP ACTION: URGING SUPPORT FOR LIBERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-07 07:54:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREL LI AE
07ABUDHABI195ABU DHABI FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT: PROJECTS IN LEBANON,
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-07 11:45:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EAID PHUM LE AF YM AE
07ABUDHABI197ABU DHABI FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT: PROJECTS IN LEBANON,
[...] (C) On February 6, Econoff met with Ahmed Hussain Al Baker, Acting Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (Fund) to discuss the Fund's assistance to Lebanon and Afghanistan. The UAEG pledged $300 million in soft loans to Lebanon during the Paris Donors' conference. Al Baker sa [...]
2007-02-07 12:51:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EAID PHUM LE AF YM AE
07ABUDHABI1998UAE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES
[...] Summary: the UAE, the second largest economy in the Arab World, is in the midst of aggressive economic development. Dubai is building high profile luxury projects such as the "Palms" and the world's tallest skyscraper, the Burj Dubai. On November 19, 2007, Amman ESTH Hub Officer visited Abu [...]
2007-12-13 13:24:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD EAID PGOV AE
07ABUDHABI248UAE REPRESENTATIVE AT THE LIBERIA PARTNERS, FORUM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-14 08:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREL LI AE
07ABUDHABI301REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON PHILADELPHIA HURRICANE REBUILDING
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request. 2. (U) On February 18, Post received a diplomatic note from the Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Abu Dhabi inquiring about the legitimacy of the Philadelphia Hurricane Rebuilding Committee (Committee). The Kenyan Embassy reports that several Ken [...]
2007-02-21 13:24:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL KE AE
07ABUDHABI324UAE OFFICIALS SIGN AGREEMENT FOR $300 MILLION LOAN TO
[...] (U) On February 20, 2007, the UAE signed an agreement to extend a $300 million "easy-term" loan to Lebanon, which the UAE pledged at the January 25 Paris donors' conference. According to local press reports, the loan will be repayable in 20 years at a 2.5 percent interest rate plus 0.5 percent [...]
2007-02-25 14:13:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM LE AE
07ABUDHABI389UAE ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ FROM 2003-2006
[...] (SBU) On March 7, 2007 Yousef Al Otaiba International Affairs Director for the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court provided Ambassador with a matrix of UAE assistance to Iraq from 2003-2006. 2. (SBU) According to the matrix, the UAE Armed Forces provided 129,857,752 dhs ($35,287,433) from 2003-20 [...]
2007-03-08 12:17:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM ECON PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI427UAE ATTENDANCE AT INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ
[...] (SBU) On March 11, Embassy passed copy of letter from Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt to UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdulla bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (AbZ) along with cover message from Ambassador urging UAE to send senior level participants to the UN Interim Meeting. Econchief contacted Ministry [...]
2007-03-14 09:45:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI430UAE TO SEND AMBASSADOR TO US TO INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) On March 14, MFA senior America's desk officer Rowda Al-Otaiba contacted econchief to say that the UAE had changed its head of delegation to the March 16 ICI interim meeting. The head of delegation would be Ambassador Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash UAE Ambassador to the U.S. rather than the U [...]
2007-03-14 12:10:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI513UAEG CHANNELS EXTERNAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE
[...] (U) On March 14, 2007, semi-official Arabic daily Al Ittihad, reported that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MbR),UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai issued a decree on February 27 to channel external humanitarian assistance by charities, local governments or other e [...]
2007-03-27 11:48:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM KPAL IZ AF AE
07ABUDHABI53URGING GULF ENGAGEMENT AT PARIS DONORS' CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) On several occasions, Ambassador has urged UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (AbZ) to have the UAE to demonstrate a high level of support for Lebanon both by sending a ministerial level delegation to the meeting and by providing a strong show of financial support f [...]
2007-01-16 12:14:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PREL LE AE
07ABUDHABI63PM SINIORA VISIT TO ABU DHABI
[...] (SBU) Summary: Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora concluded a very positive visit to the UAE on January 16, with a one-on-one meeting with UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, meetings with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, other UAE officials, and the Lebanese ex [...]
2007-01-17 14:20:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECON LE AE
07ABUDHABI633INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ (ICI) - UAE
[...] (U) As part of our continuing efforts to urge the UAE to attend the ICI signing cerimony and to reaffirm its decision to forgive Iraqi debt, Ambassador met with UAE Minister of State for Financial and Industrial Affairs Dr. Mohammed Khalfan bin Kharbash on April 17. Dr. Kharbash stated that t [...]
2007-04-17 11:59:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN IR PGOV PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI683INTERNATIONAL COMPACT ON IRAQ (ICI) - UAE ATTENDANCE AND
[...] (C) On April 19 Ambassador spoke to UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) to press for high level attendance at the May 3 International Compact on Iraq, preferably AbZ himself. Ambassador also raised the issue of UAE's forgiveness of Iraqi debt (Paris Club terms, following Saudi Arabia's April 17 ann [...]
2007-04-24 15:48:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN IR PGOV PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI718INTERNATIONAL COMPACT FOR IRAQ -- NO UAE DEBT
[...] (C) Summary: The UAE will be represented by Minister for Governmental Sector Development Sultan Al-Mansouri at the ICI signing ceremony. He will not have authorization to make any public commitment to Iraqi debt relief. However, the UAE is not asking Iraq to service its debt, nor is interest [...]
2007-05-01 13:25:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN ECON PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI731UAE RED CRESCENT HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO AFRICA
[...] SUMMARY: During January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, the UAE Red Crescent Society (RCS),the main quasi-government charity, provided USD 13.36 million in humanitarian assistance to Africa, according to official figures received from the RCS. This assistance included: miscellaneous relief USD 3.5 [...]
2007-05-03 07:27:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM MOPS PREL XF SO IZ AF AE
07ABUDHABI801AMF DG ON IRAQ COMPACT SIGNING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-17 10:44:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI90UAE MINSTATE FINANCE AND AMF HEAD ON LEBANON
[...] (SBU) On January 22, Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Timothy Adams, Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner, Treasury DAS Ahmed Saeed, and Econchief met with UAE Minstate Finance Dr. Mohammed Khalfan bin Kharbash. Adams told Dr. Kharbash that the U.S. planned to come to th [...]
2007-01-24 09:12:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PREL LE AE
07ABUDHABI976REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON USG ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 2. (SBU) Yousef Al-Otaiba, Director of International Affairs for Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan asked Ambassador for detailed information on U.S. humanitarian and military assistance to Lebanon. This request for i [...]
2007-06-14 09:09:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL MARR LE AE
07ABUJA1007 ILEA GABORONE - Train the Trainer on Fraudulent Documents
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Immigration Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and National Agency on Prohibition of Traffic in Persons respectively are nominated to attend the above referenced ILEA Training. Tanko Nuhu DOB - 09 January 1962 Gender - Male Ra [...]
2007-05-22 14:59:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA1158ECOWAS: PROGRESS ON AGRICULTURAL HARMONIZATION
[...] Summary: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member states met on May 16-18 to discuss harmonization of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulations for ECOWAS non- West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). Participants agreed that the signed UEMOA regulation should be [...]
2007-06-08 10:52:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN ETRD EAGR ECON EAID NI ECOWAS
07ABUJA1391NIGER DELTA: VP ENGAGES THE DONORS
[...] (U) Summary: Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan met with representatives of lead donor agencies on June 27 to consult with them regarding the Niger Delta. The Vice President said that stabilizing the Delta is his top priority, but offered little in the way of concrete plans or progr [...]
2007-07-02 10:56:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL ENRG NI
07ABUJA1457ECOWAS PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND AGOA FORUM
[...] ECOWAS has notified EconOff that Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, President of the ECOWAS Commission, will represent ECOWAS at the AGOA Forum in Accra. CAMPBELL [...]
2007-07-09 16:57:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EINV EAID WTRO NI
07ABUJA1506 ILEA GABORONE - Law Enforcement Executive Development
[...] The following 10 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Customs Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigeria Police Force, State Security Services and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Chikan Eli [...]
2007-07-13 11:32:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA1555NORWEGIAN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN OIL SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Norway has an MOU with the Nigerian Government to provide technical assistance in the oil sector to make available Norway's experience and expertise as an oil producing nation in managing the resource for national benefit. The framework includes public/private institutional coo [...]
2007-07-20 12:29:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EAID PHUM EITI NI
07ABUJA1576 ILEA GABORONE - Small Arms Trafficking Course, August
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigeria Police Force, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Yunana Ayuba Dickson DOB - 02 December, 1971 Gender - Male Rank - [...]
2007-07-24 15:32:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA1582NIGERIA: MISSING LONG-TERM ENERGY PLAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nigeria faces power problems despite abundant oil and gas resources because it does not have a coherent long-term energy plan, according to Dr. Joseph Makoju, Special Adviser to the President on Electric Power. Since 2005, the GON has spent $13.7 billion on the power sector, h [...]
2007-07-25 11:39:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON EINV EAID NI
07ABUJA1607NIGERIA: DOMESTIC ENERGY SECTOR IN TRANSITION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Nigeria's power sector was in transition and the World Bank was integrally involved in this process, according to World Bank (WB) Energy Specialist Waqar Haider. He identified three aspects to the transition: unbundling the Nigerian Electric Power Authority (NEPA); regulatory fun [...]
2007-07-26 14:11:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON EINV EAID NI
07ABUJA1614NIGERIA: WEST AFRICAN GAS PIPELINE UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The World Bank-assisted West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project was nearing completion, but faced several lingering impediments, according to Senior World Bank (WB) Energy Specialist Waqar Haider. The pipeline would not be commissioned until June 2008 at the earliest. Pipeli [...]
2007-07-27 06:55:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON EINV EAID NI
07ABUJA1663PROGRESS IN THE NIGERIAN HOUSING SECTOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-03 09:31:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV NI
07ABUJA2098 ILEA GABORONE - Document Fraud and Document Examination
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Customs Service and the State Security Services are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Nongo Samuel DOB - 05 Feb 1963 Gender - Male Rank - Superintendent of Immigration Curr [...]
2007-09-28 11:28:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA2178COMMERCE MINISTER PROPOSE DECEMBER TIFA; SEEKS INCREASED US
[...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Commerce and Industry Charles Ugwuh proposed December 10-11 as possible dates for the Trade Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) 2007 Council meeting in Abuja. He said the Nigeria government (GON) is enthusiastic, but has yet to discuss an inter-agency approved age [...]
2007-10-10 15:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EINV EAID NI
07ABUJA2237OUTBREAK OF VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS IN NIGERIA
[...] Summary. An outbreak of at least 69 circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (cVDPV) cases have been reported between 2006-7 mostly in Nigeria's northern states of Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Bauchi, and Jigawa due to low immunization of children under five years. Internationally, cVDPVs has been kn [...]
2007-10-22 10:08:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAID DEOC SOCI PGOV NI
07ABUJA2322NIGERIA: PILOTING THE PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Nigeria is an admittedly risky environment in which to pilot a new governance initiative, particularly at the state level. Despite the risk, the establishment of better governance in Nigeria can have positive spillover effects for the rest of West Africa and the continent as a [...]
2007-11-01 15:44:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EUN OECD NI
07ABUJA2430FY 2007 CARRY-OVER ESF PROJECT PROPOSALS:
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Abuja supports USAID Bilateral Mission proposal to use USD 500,000 from AF ESF to help media, civil society and the National Assembly monitor and move forward Nigeria's electoral reform process. Embassy also supports USAID West African Mission proposal to utilize USD 200 [...]
2007-11-23 10:05:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV AFIN AMGT PHUM PREL ETRD NI
07ABUJA2491NIGERIA DELEGATION TO NEW DELHI IPAPI CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-03 14:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL NI
07ABUJA2546NIGERIA COMMEMORATES WORLD AIDS DAY
[...] Summary: The HIV infection rate in Nigeria is estimated to be 4.4% or 3.9 million inhabitants with the most vulnerable the 20-24 year age group along with an estimated 930,000 orphans. The USG is the largest bilateral donor at $304 million for 2007 and holds the donor coordination chairmanshi [...]
2007-12-11 10:09:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAID KPAO SOCI PGOV NI
07ABUJA25602007 ECOWAS DONORS' MEETING
[...] Summary: Development partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met November 20-21 in Abuja for a progress report on the organization's initiatives. The central vision of the ECOWAS Commission was transforming ECOWAS into an "ECOWAS of the People." While peace and sec [...]
2007-12-13 06:19:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ETRD EINV EAID PREL NI ECOWAS
07ABUJA2589NIGERIA-IMF ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION, ECONOMIC DIAGNOSTIC AND ADVISORY DISCUSSION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-18 12:53:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD ECON EPET EAID PINR NI
07ABUJA2600TIFA COUNCIL- U.S.-NIGERIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Following the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting with the Government of Nigeria (GON),the U.S. and GON agreed on a work plan and joint-communique that paves the way forward for greater dialogue and engagement. Several GON officials expressed interes [...]
2007-12-21 12:20:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV NI
07ABUJA2601NIGERIA: SUCCESSFUL AGOA WORKSHOP AND SHEA BUTTER SITE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The AGOA workshop presented an opportunity for the Nigerian private sector to listen to and speak with GON and USG officials on how Nigerian exporters have benefited and can continue to benefit from AGOA. The private sector was well-represented and flexible considering the last [...]
2007-12-27 06:48:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV NI
07ABUJA370 ILEA GABORONE - Financial Forensics Techniques Course
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Edozie, Hycenth Azuka DOB - 23 May 1966 Gender - Male Rank - Superintendent of Police [...]
2007-02-23 12:11:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA404NIGERIA AVIAN FLU U.S. RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although Nigeria is now better able to take samples and test reported outbreaks, most of the problems that have dogged the country in responding to AI persist. Surveillance remains very weak and urgently needs attention. Inter-ministerial cooperation is still a problem. The publi [...]
2007-03-02 12:50:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAID EAGR NI
07ABUJA44NIGERIA CENSUS RESULTS - STATUS QUO MAINTAINED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Nigerian National Population Commission (NPC) released the first census in 15 years. The census tabulations affirmed conventional wisdom that the majority of the population is in the 17 northern states - 75 million compared to 65 million in the southern states. The largest [...]
2007-01-10 15:47:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI KDEM ECON PGOV EAID NI
07ABUJA582MISSION PLANS TO OBSERVE NIGERIAN ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Nigerians are scheduled to vote for Governors and State Assembly members on April 14 and for the President and National Assembly members on April 21. These elections will mark the first transition of power from one civilian government to another in Nigeria's history. Election [...]
2007-03-26 13:53:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC AMGT EAID KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA603Avian Influenza -- State and DOD Contacts
[...] For G/AIAG Hollis Summers Embassy Nigeria Contacts on Avian Influenza State: Economic Counselor Necia Quast E-mail: QuastNL@state.gov Phone: 234-9-461-4119 Department of Defense: Office of Defense Cooperation ODC Chief Luis Perozo E-mail: PerozoL@state.gov Phone: 234-9-461-4168 [...]
2007-03-28 16:15:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAGR EAID NI
07ABUJA608NIGERIA: FALLING BEHIND MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
[...] Summary. Nigeria is not on track to meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) due to a lack of policy coordination between the federal, state and local governments. A major impediment is the lack of staff available to implement and monitor MDG projects. The Government of Nigeria (GON) ha [...]
2007-03-29 11:02:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PGOV NI
07ABUJA621PRESIDENT LAUNCHES NIGER DELTA MASTER PLAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a high-profile, media event, President Obasanjo on March 27 launched the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan. The following day, March 28, the Minister of External Affairs hosted a breakfast with the diplomatic corps focused on the Delta. The President, in a wide [...]
2007-03-30 08:21:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EAID SOCI NI
07ABUJA628NIGERIA'S ECONOMY ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: On the eve of elections, from some angles Nigeria's economic performance looks impressive: low debt, high reserves, strong export earnings, stable inflation, GDP per capita up, strong non-oil sector growth, improved budget management, and increasingly modern banking all form the b [...]
2007-03-30 14:08:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EFIN ENRG EAID SOCI NI
07ABUJA638 ILEA GABORONE - Personnel and Facility Security Course,
[...] The following 5 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Police Force are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Ohiozoba O. Ehiede DOB - 18 September 1965 Gender - Male Rank - Superintendent of Police Current Position - Staff Officer II Passport No - A3400336A Ex [...]
2007-04-03 16:58:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA692Outbreak Communications Evaluation
[...] (SBU) Nigeria has recently completed, though not yet formally adopted, a second draft of its Integrated National Avian Influenza Response Plan. Copies of that plan were submitted to AIAG via e-mail. Three UN consultants worked closely with the GON on this new draft, including a UN Communicatio [...]
2007-04-12 13:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAID EAGR NI
07ABUJA928NIGERIA - WTO ARTICLE XXI AND AGOA FORUM
[...] On May 11, 2007 Econoffs delivered reftel A demarche to Dr. Yemi Obafemi, Director of External Trade at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Obafemi said the ministry will review the WTO Article XXI Notice before providing a response. He noted that an inter-ministerial committee of the Gov [...]
2007-05-14 09:26:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EINV EAID WTRO NI
07ACCRA2162GHANA'S ICT DEVELOPMENT: IS THE GLASS HALF FULL?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is the first of two cables on the Information Communications Technology (ICT) sector in Ghana. It covers policy and services. Septel will address privatization of the two national carriers. Ghana's ICT sector has considerable promise. Telephone penetration rates have ri [...]
2007-10-11 08:34:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EAID GH
07ACCRA2320SCENESETTER FOR FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR PISTOLE'S
[...] (SBU) We look forward to your November 9 visit and provide the following background: 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ghana celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2007 as Sub-Saharan Africa's first independent country. It has emerged from a turbulent history into a period of stability, democracy and sus [...]
2007-11-01 15:15:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR ASEC ECON EAID GH
07ACCRA2381Ghana - Signs of Economic Overheating
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of its most recent mission to Ghana, the IMF expressed concern about an overall worsening of the macro-economic situation and signs that the economy may be overheating. While growth continues to be strong, foreign reserves are at worrisome levels, inflation seems st [...]
2007-11-08 13:40:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID GH
07ACCRA474GHANA AT 50: U.S.-GHANA RELATIONS
[...] (U) Summary: This is the fifth in a series of scene setter cables focusing on Ghana at 50. Despite periods of friction in our relations, Ghana and the U.S. have had strong, positive ties for the past decade and are now at an all-time high. Ghana is a reliable, democratic partner for the U.S [...]
2007-02-28 17:59:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC EAID ECON ETRD GH PGOV PHUM PREL
07ADDISABABA1016REPRESENTATIVE MCGOVERN MEETS PM TO DISCUSS FOOD
[...] In response to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles' concern for the urban poor, Representative James McGovern (Massachusetts) explained to the Prime Minister that the Embassy and USAID could advocate for more food aid for the urban poor by arguing that it is an emergency food need. The Congressman [...]
2007-04-05 12:46:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA1042AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOR ETHIOPIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post's inter-agency Avian Influenza Committee met March 29 to review the situation in Ethiopia with respect to a possible outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the country. While HPAI has been confirmed in several states bordering Ethiopia (Sudan and Djibouti) [...]
2007-04-09 14:23:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYET KFLU TBIO AMED EAID EAGR SENV XW
07ADDISABABA1079SOMALIA: TFG REACHES OUT TO HAWIYE, BUT PLANS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Somalia's Ambassador to Ethiopia and PermRep to the African Union, Abdulkarim Farah, disputed reports of inter-clan tensions between the Darood (President Abdullahi Yusuf's clan) and Hawiye who control Mogadishu, asserting they were exaggerated by disenchanted Hawiye/Habr-Gedir/Ay [...]
2007-04-11 08:02:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS EAID KDEM ET SO QA CA
07ADDISABABA115ETHIOPIA: TITLE 1 EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE REQUEST
[...] I, Ambassador Donald Yamamoto, urgently request Title 1 emergency food assistance for Ethiopia. As mentioned in the reftel, Prime Minister Meles requested Title 1 food assistance during A/S Jendayi Frazer's visit on January 4 to help meet the critical needs of the urban poor. The Prime Mini [...]
2007-01-16 14:04:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA1166ETHIOPIA: OPPOSITION LEADERS EXPRESS FRUSTRATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with opposition parliamentary leaders, Ambassador explained planned USG Title 1 food assistance to help relieve economic strain on urban poor and solicited leaders' views on political openness outside Addis Ababa. Ambassador noted that the food would be used to co [...]
2007-04-17 12:15:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM KDEM ET
07ADDISABABA1222ETHIOPIA: MFA HIGHLIGHTS COUNTER-TERRORISM AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 18 courtesy call, newly appointed Ethiopian MFA Counselor for Europe and America Tebege Berhe said conditions in Somalia had improved over the previous month, but that military operations remained "incomplete," having been curtailed due to concern about civilian casua [...]
2007-04-19 15:11:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ET ER SO
07ADDISABABA1225ETHIOPIA: MFA HIGHLIGHTS COUNTER-TERRORISM AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 18 courtesy call, newly appointed Ethiopian MFA Counselor for Europe and America Tebege Berhe said conditions in Somalia had improved over the previous month, but that military operations remained "incomplete," having been curtailed due to concern about civilian casua [...]
2007-04-20 04:35:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ET ER SO
07ADDISABABA1271DEVELOPMENT AND EXERCISING AVIAN AND PANDEMIC RESPONSE
[...] SUMMARY: Post's inter-agency Avian Influenza Committee met March 29 to review the situation in Ethiopia with respect to a possible outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the country (reftel b). The GOE's recent revamping of its National Task Force for the Prevention and Contr [...]
2007-04-24 08:37:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDET KFLU TBIO AMED EAID EAGR SENV XW
07ADDISABABA1280ETHIOPIA: THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXERCISING OF AVIAN AND
[...] (U) CORRECTED VERSION OF ADDIS 1271. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In consultation with local actors and international agencies, Ethiopia has developed a national avian influenza preparedness plan, which includes containment measures such as vaccination of domestic poultry and culling. The Government [...]
2007-04-25 05:05:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYET KFLU TBIO AMED EAID EAGR SENV XW
07ADDISABABA1281TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROPOSALS FOR
[...] Per reftel, Post submits the following anti-trafficking in persons project proposals for consideration of funding from FY 2007 INCLE and ESF appropriations. As a Tier Two country, Ethiopia is trying to combat a significant trafficking challenge, especially of women and children; ESF and INCLE [...]
2007-04-25 05:06:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG ET
07ADDISABABA1309ETHIOPIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USARCENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S. engagement with Ethiopia focuses on the objectives of bolstering democratic institutions and processes and the protection of human rights; enhancing regional security and fighting terrorism; and supporting economic reform and development, breaking the cycle of food insecurit [...]
2007-04-27 12:24:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV EAID MASS KDEM ET ER SO
07ADDISABABA1350ETHIOPIA: EU MEMBERS NEGATIVE ON GOE ACTIONS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassadors from EU member states emerged angry and pessimistic from a 3-hour meeting with PM Meles April 18. They were reacting to the Prime Minister's comments on defeating the insurgency in Somalia as well as his remarks concerning upcoming local elections in Ethiopia, which [...]
2007-05-03 08:25:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ASEC SO ET
07ADDISABABA1397SOMALILAND FOREIGN MINISTER REVIEWS COOPERATION
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. On May 4, Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi M. Duale updated Ambassador and poloff on his recent visit to Europe to promote Somaliland's external relations with potential donors, and ongoing consultations with Ethiopia on cross-border counter-terrorism cooperation. FM Dual [...]
2007-05-08 10:17:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PBTS PTER EAID KDEM ET SO DJ
07ADDISABABA1406ETHIOPIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USCENTCOM CDR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S. engagement with Ethiopia focuses on the objectives of bolstering democratic institutions and processes and the protection of human rights; enhancing regional security and fighting terrorism; and supporting economic reform and development, breaking the cycle of food insecurit [...]
2007-05-08 15:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV EAID MASS KDEM ET ER SO
07ADDISABABA1500SOMALIA: ETHIOPIAN STATE MINISTER TEKEDA PROPOSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu informed Ambassador on May 16 that the GOE believed that Mogadishu was the most effective venue for a joint U.S.-GOE approach to Somali President Yusuf on political engagement of Hawiye leaders, as it would provide an opportunity to [...]
2007-05-16 14:51:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EAID ET SO
07ADDISABABA1512ETHIOPIA: PRIME MINISTER RELUCTANTLY SEEKS
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Meles met Ambassador to request reluctantly financial assistance to help the Ethiopians train the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia's (TFG) troops and police, as well as build capacity and infrastructure. The Prime Minister said the budget is extremely [...]
2007-05-18 18:41:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREL EAID KPKO ET SO
07ADDISABABA1652 ETHIOPIAN PATRIARCH A CRITICAL ALLY ON THE BATTLEFRONT
[...] SUMMARY. The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abuna Petros, and the Ambassador appeared at a public event on May 23 to advocate for HIV/AIDS victims to take antiretroviral treatment (ART),not just traditional holy water alone, as treatment for their disease. Hundreds of worshipper [...]
2007-05-30 07:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO EAID KHIV SOCI OEXC ET
07ADDISABABA2027ETHIOPIA ETHNIC INSURGENCY (C-AL7-01035):
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate briefings to Embassy officers, representatives of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders),as well as USG-funded researchers conducting a regional assessment of Somali issues, have highlighted concerns that the Government of Ethiopia's ongoing counterinsurg [...]
2007-06-27 16:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MOPS EAID ET
07ADDISABABA207ETHIOPIA: USG ASSISTANCE NEEDED TO MEET BURDEN OF
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopia's announcement that it will begin withdrawing troops from Somalia highlight the GOE's assessment that it has largely met its strategic objectives. While active engagement by the USG and others in the international community will be required to mobilize and support an [...]
2007-01-24 14:38:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETEAID PREL MASS KDEM ET SO
07ADDISABABA2174USAID/DCHA FIELD TRIP AND ASSESSMENT, AFAR REGION, ETHIOPIA
[...] SUMMARY. Drought in Ethiopia's Afar region has taken its toll on pastoralists in woredas most affected by the failure of recent rains, including Chifra, Uwa and Awra. While access to water is a concern, the lack of browse, pasture, and fodder for livestock has had a devastating impact on catt [...]
2007-07-12 09:06:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR PREF ET
07ADDISABABA2196(C-AL7-01035) UN AGENCIES AND NGOS DISCUSS
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Ambassador convened a meeting on July 3 of UN agencies and USAID-funded NGOs operating in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region, as well as major development partners, to exchange information on current security and humanitarian conditions in the Ogaden and to separate f [...]
2007-07-13 15:43:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINS EAID EAGR MOPS ET
07ADDISABABA2197(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: WFP OFFICIAL DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. An American security coordinator for the World Food Programme (WFP),who has traveled extensively in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region to coordinate WFP airdrops, assesses that the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) does not seek to target Americans or humanitarian [...]
2007-07-13 17:43:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV MOPS EAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA2265 ETHIOPIA: FLOOD WARNING - PREPARING FOR THE WORSE
[...] SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST for AF Bureau, USAID-OFDA, DCHA and DOD/OSD: Early warning for the Horn of Africa forecasts heavy rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands, great or greater than last year's, during the July-Sept "kiremt" season with serious floods likely, especially in major river basins [...]
2007-07-18 08:34:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF MASS ET
07ADDISABABA2285(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: UN AGENCIES ALLEGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs report that Somali Region authorities have decided to allow the delivery of emergency food relief--presumably under military escort--to 5 zones in the Ogaden where military operations are ongoing. However, the UN and NGOs also note that the Ethi [...]
2007-07-20 17:29:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINS MOPS EAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA2343(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. UNOCHA Head of Office Paul Hebert reported that government officials had decided on July 21 to allow emergency food relief to be delivered to the 5 zones in the Ogaden area of the Somali Region where military operations against the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) were ong [...]
2007-07-25 07:42:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PINS PHUM EAGR EAID ET
07ADDISABABA2361ETHIOPIA: PRIME MINISTER WEIGHED DOWN BY SOMALI
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Meles, visibly weighed by the past weeks of tough negotiations on the amnesty for 38 high profile opposition leaders jailed since December 2005, and the close oversight of operations in Somalia and the Ogaden, questioned the Ambassador on July 24 over the Ogaden [...]
2007-07-25 15:34:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREL PINS CASC EAID MASS MOPS ET SO IS
07ADDISABABA2369ETHIOPIA: PRESSURED BY HARD-LINERS, GOE LASHES OUT
[...] (S/NF) The GOE's expulsion of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from the Somali Region highlights the deep internal cabinet divisions over operations in the Ogaden and extending into the conduct of operations in Somalia, and has implications for relations with the U.S. During [...]
2007-07-26 15:30:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINS MOPS EAID ET US
07ADDISABABA2376(C-AL7-01035): ETHIOPIA: GOE ORDERS ICRC TO CLOSE
[...] (S) SUMMARY. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that Ethiopian officials have ordered the ICRC to close its two offices in the Somali Region, and to immediately dismiss all of its staff in the Somali Region. While portrayed as a decision by regional-level authorities, [...]
2007-07-27 16:38:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREF PHUM PINS MOPS EAID ET
07ADDISABABA2381ETHIOPIA: CONFERENCE EXAMINES PROGRESS TOWARD MDGS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: At a half-day seminar, GOE and NGO officials discussed Ethiopia's progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Participants highlighted that Ethiopia had integrated and streamlined MDGs into national development polices and programs, such as the 2002-2005 Su [...]
2007-07-30 07:49:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KMCA ET
07ADDISABABA2413(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: TRADE RESTRICTIONS IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Results of a Save the Children- UK assessment representing the donors indicate that, in the limited areas assessment teams were able to visit, under current conditions of restrained trade up to 500,000 people in Ethiopia's Somali Region may need food assistance in the upcoming m [...]
2007-08-02 05:10:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PINS PHUM EAGR EAID ET
07ADDISABABA2439ETHIOPIA: (C-AL7-01035) UNOCHA REPORTS EMERGENCY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An August 2 briefing by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reports that despite the recent decision by Somali Region officials to allow emergency food relief to the Ogaden area---where military operations against suspected Ogaden National Libera [...]
2007-08-02 16:17:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PINS PHUM EAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA2445ETHIOPIA: (C-AL7-01035) ACTIONS AGREED ON OGADEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador convened a meeting on August 3 to address current developments in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region, and possible responses by international partners. UN officials, NGO representatives, and key donor missions reviewed the humanitarian and security situation i [...]
2007-08-03 16:31:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREF PGOV PINS PHUM EAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA2523ETHIOPIA: (C-AL7-01035) SOME COMMERCIAL FOOD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On August 9, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reported that World Food Program (WFP) emergency food relief is now finally en route to the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region, with 4 trucks making deliveries, and 32 other trucks anticipated [...]
2007-08-10 12:22:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV MOPS EAGR EAID ET
07ADDISABABA2524ETHIOPIA: (C-AL7-01035) SOME COMMERCIAL FOOD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On August 9, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reported that World Food Program (WFP) emergency food relief is now finally en route to the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region, with 4 trucks making deliveries, and 32 other trucks anticipated [...]
2007-08-10 12:25:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREF PHUM PGOV MOPS EAGR EAID ET
07ADDISABABA2557MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE
[...] SUMMARY AND OVERALL ASSESSMENT: Refugee Coordinator (refcoord) Kent (Sam) Healy visited Kakuma refugee camp at Kakuma, Kenya, several times the first 7 months of 2007. During these visits, time was spent to monitor and evaluate the IRC program "Continuation of an Integrated Health Care, and A [...]
2007-08-15 11:02:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID ET KE SU
07ADDISABABA2566 ETHIOPIA DISASTER DECLARATION: IMMINENT
[...] ACTION REQUEST: Ambassador requests Department's concurrence to announce disaster declaration from Addis Ababa, rather than from Washington. If Department concurs, Post seeks to make this announcement on Friday, August 17. END ACTION REQUEST. 2. SUMMARY. Concerns that a severe humanitaria [...]
2007-08-16 11:14:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR ET PHUM PGOV PREF MOPS
07ADDISABABA2576ANALYSIS OF USAID/OFDA WATER INTERVENTIONS AND RELATED
[...] SUMMARY. The USAID/OFDA Shelter and Settlements (S&S) Advisor in conjunction with USAID/OFDA Ethiopia staff monitored field activities in selected areas of Ethiopia's Oromiya Region from July 25 to August 4, to assess strategic water interventions and implications on population and migration i [...]
2007-08-17 02:19:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SENV EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA26362007 BELG SEASON PRE-HARVEST ASSESSMENT IN
[...] SUMMARY. The Disaster Prevention Preparedness Agency (DPPA) led multi-agency teams that conducted a pre- harvest and needs assessment of the 2007 Belg season between June 24 and July 14, 2007. This involved 15 teams visiting all Belg producing and pastoral areas in the country. The purpose [...]
2007-08-27 05:01:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA2749ETHIOPIA: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER MEETS WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer met with NGOs, UN agencies, and Ambassadors from major donor countries and interested parties on the Ogaden. In the fourth such meeting convened recently by Ambassador Yamamoto to consider the humanitarian and security situation in the Ogaden [...]
2007-09-10 06:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PHUM MOPS EAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA2805UN ON OGADEN: POCKETS OF CRISIS, ALARMING HUMAN
[...] (C) Deputy UN Humanitarian Coordinator and head of the UN Assessment Mission to the Ogaden, Paul Hebert (strictly protect),briefed Ambassador Yamamoto and Embassy and USAID staff on September 13 on the findings of the United Nations, August 30-September 6 Assessment Mission to the Ogaden. The [...]
2007-09-17 05:00:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID EAGR PGOV PREF MOPS ET
07ADDISABABA2876 ETHIOPIA'S HUMANITARIAN OUTLOOK - FLOODS UPDATE
[...] SUMMARY: The overall humanitarian outlook in Ethiopia for the remainder of 2007 is cause for concern. While some areas of the country are particularly fragile, the combination of flooding, emerging nutrition hotspots, continued outbreaks of acute watery diarrhea (AWD),poor belg season rains, [...]
2007-09-20 12:38:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR ET PHUM PGOV PREF MOPS
07ADDISABABA3068GOE/PRC: CHINA SIGNALS WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE
[...] (C) China is willing to compare notes with the United States on demonstration agricultural projects in Ethiopia, to have its volunteers in Ethiopia participate in events hosted by other third-country volunteer programs, and to consider cooperation between Chinese and American telecommunication [...]
2007-10-17 08:56:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV EAID ET
07ADDISABABA3087H.R. 2003 IMPEDES ARTICLE 98 RATIFICATION
[...] (SBU) Acting MFA Director General for Legal Affairs Ato Minelik Alemu told Charge on October 11 that the unanimous passage of H.R. 2003 (The Ethiopian Democracy and Accountability Act) on October 2 by the U.S. House of Representatives has made it effectively impossible for the Ethiopian Govern [...]
2007-10-22 05:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA PREL EAID PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3099ETHIOPIA: EQUIPMENT REQUEST FOR DARFUR
[...] (SBU) AmEmbassy Addis Ababa supports the application of peacekeeping (PKO) funds toward the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) to equip ENDF troops heading to Darfur to serve as peacekeepers. The GOE has requested that the U.S. provide night vision goggles, bulletproof vests, tents, an [...]
2007-10-22 14:10:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PREL EAID MASS ET SU
07ADDISABABA3159AFRICAN UNION RESPONSE TO U.S. OFFER OF C3IS
[...] This cable is from the U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU),2. On October 24, 2007, USAU received Diplomatic Note from the African Union responding to the USAU's note verbale 210/07 of September 7. The diplomatic note from the African Union states that the AU is still in the process [...]
2007-10-25 13:03:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECPS MASS MCAP PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA3160CORRECTION - AFRICAN UNION RESPONSE TO U.S. OFFER
[...] This cable is from the U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU),2. On October 24, 2007, USAU received Diplomatic Note from the African Union responding to the USAU's note verbale 210/07 of September 7. The diplomatic note from the African Union states that the AU is still in the process [...]
2007-10-25 13:10:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECPS MASS MCAP PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA3168CORRECTION 3 - AFRICAN UNION RESPONSE TO U.S.
[...] This cable is from the U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU),2. On October 24, 2007, USAU received Diplomatic Note from the African Union responding to the USAU's note verbale 210/07 of September 7. The diplomatic note from the African Union states that the AU is still in the process [...]
2007-10-25 13:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECPS MASS MCAP PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA3217COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GENERAL WARD AND TEAM -
[...] Embassy Addis Ababa and the U.S. Mission to the African Union welcomes General Wlliam E. Ward and his Team to Ethiopia from November 6-9, 2007. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Travelers should re-confirm this clearance wit [...]
2007-11-01 10:19:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA3218CORRECTED COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GENERAL WARD AND
[...] Embassy Addis Ababa and the U.S. Mission to the African Union welcomes General William E. Ward and his Team to Ethiopia from November 6-9, 2007. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Travelers should re-confirm this clearance wi [...]
2007-11-01 10:28:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA3254UPDATE ON HUMANITARIAN DYNAMICS IN THE OGADEN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent discussions between Post and UN agency, donor, and NGO interlocutors over the past two weeks highlight the challenges facing the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali region. Ongoing commercial restrictions, limited operational access due to internal security operations in res [...]
2007-11-06 14:32:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3266ETHIOPIA: POST ENDORSES 1206 TRANCHE TWO PROPOSALS
[...] (S) Embassy Addis Ababa strongly endorses the two FY 2008 Section 1206 tranche two proposals that Post's Security Assistance Office submitted to CENTCOM (ref). The first proposal requests $4.4 million in personal protective equipment for Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) personnel; the [...]
2007-11-07 14:04:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNEAID PREL PTER ET
07ADDISABABA327AU SUMMIT: ETHIOPIA FOREIGN MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum advised Assistant Secretary Frazer on the imperative nature of the international community to commit resources to help Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) stabilize Somalia. He stressed the urgency and the importance of ensuring a suc [...]
2007-02-03 09:52:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREL EAID MOPS SO ET ER IT SA AU
07ADDISABABA3323US TREASURY TAX PROGRAM TERMINATED - WORK STILL TO BE DONE
[...] SUMMARY: Since a U.S. Department of Treasury advisor began working with Ethiopia's Federal Inland Revenue Agency (FIRA) to improve its audit and collection programs in March 2004, FIRA has increased revenue collection by over 65 percent. While the assistance has shown tremendous results - larg [...]
2007-11-14 10:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAID ET
07ADDISABABA3334USAID FIELD ASSESSMENT IN THE OGADEN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A small USAID team traveled to conflict-affected areas of the Ogaden November 4-8, 2007 to try to obtain some ground truth on humanitarian, conflict and commercial trade conditions. Following the field assessment, USAID confirms the situation to be very serious and a continued ca [...]
2007-11-15 14:15:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3354USAU: AFRICOM COMMANDER GENERAL WARD MEETING WITH
[...] This cable is from U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On November 7 AFRICOM Commander General Ward met Ambassador Said Djinnit, Commissioner of Peace and Security at the African Union to discuss AFRICOM. General Ward described AFR [...]
2007-11-20 05:56:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL MARR MASS
07ADDISABABA3355USAU: AFRICOM COMMANDER WARD MEETING WITH AFRICAN
[...] This cable is from U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (C) SUMMARY: AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward met with African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare on November 8. Their discussion focused on the status of standing up AFRIC [...]
2007-11-20 05:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL MARR MASS
07ADDISABABA3386PRIME MINISTER TELLS ADMINISTRATOR FORE "WE WILL
[...] (C) Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Fore questioned Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles on reports of imminent starvation of children and that only half of the necessary food assistance is reaching the afflicted area of the Ogaden. The Prime Minister stressed that he wo [...]
2007-11-24 17:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID ET SU
07ADDISABABA3407ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S VISIT TO THE OGADEN: URGENT
[...] USAID Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Henrietta Fore and Assistant Administrator Almquist visited Gode November 25, meeting with NGOs and local Government officials. Local officials said that the two major developments since the September 7 visit to Gode by Assistant Sec [...]
2007-11-28 11:58:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3434MELES TELLS CODEL INHOFE HR2003 INSULTING
[...] (SBU) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles acknowledged Ethiopia's challenges as an emerging democracy to a visiting CODEL led by Senator James Inhofe, but clearly stressed that H.R. 2003 - The Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act - was an insult and risks jeopardizing the excellent U.S.-Ethiopi [...]
2007-12-03 04:49:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV EAID PTER ET SO
07ADDISABABA3454AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S OGADEN
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Yamamoto delivered Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore's letter about Ethiopia's Ogaden region to Prime Minister Meles on December 4. The letter and Ambassador's comments laid out key findings from Administrator Fore's November 25 visit [...]
2007-12-05 06:51:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAID PREL ET
07ADDISABABA3466PASTORALISTS HIGHLIGHT INEFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE AND CONFLICT
[...] (SBU) Deputy Pol/Econ Chief and USAID/Ethiopia Senior Policy Advisor (EmbOffs) attended a UNOCHA-coordinated pastoralist conference in Hudet, Liben Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia November 28-December 3. Pastoralists from throughout the Horn of Africa convened in plenary and focus groups to addr [...]
2007-12-06 12:46:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAID SCUL ET
07ADDISABABA3542MELES Pressures CODEL MEEK on H.R. 2003
[...] (SBU) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles pressured Codel Meek to reverse his support for H.R. 2003 - The Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act - during a November 29 meeting. Meles went on to describe the bill as an attempt to micromanage Ethiopia's internal processes and said he felt personal [...]
2007-12-17 05:33:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV EAID PTER ET SO
07ADDISABABA3584ETHIOPIA: USAID OFDA REPORT - UPDATE OF OGADEN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This USAID OFDA report corresponds to a meeting hosted by the Ambassador on December 14 (septel),the fifth in a series of meetings of NGOs, UN agencies and donor countries, with the purpose of discussing and sharing information on the Ogaden. The general consensus at this meet [...]
2007-12-18 13:44:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID PHUM SENV EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA3586ETHIOPIA: EMBASSY COORDINATED MEETING ON UPDATE OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 14, the Ambassador hosted the fifth in a series of meetings of NGOs, UN agencies and donor countries, with the purpose of discussing and sharing information on the Ogaden. The general consensus was that access to the region by NGO groups has improved and that consid [...]
2007-12-18 13:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID PHUM SENV EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA3601ETHIOPIA: UN AND NGOS EXPRESS FRUSTRATION OVER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Key UN agencies and prominent international NGOs told Poloff in meetings on December 20 that, despite much of the progress discussed in the December 14 meeting at the Ambassador's residence (reftel),GoE bureaucratic challenges and deliberate interference at the local, regional a [...]
2007-12-21 11:21:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PHUM SENV EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA3610DPPA SOMALI REGION DEYR ASSESSMENT
[...] On December 21, members of the United States Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia attended the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GFDRE) Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA) Deyr/Karan Assessment briefing for Somali Region. Acco [...]
2007-12-26 13:23:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3611USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM IN ETHIOPIA: SOMALI REGION
[...] Between December 20 and 22, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia security officer met with representatives from the U.N., U.S. Embassy, and non governmental organizations (NGOs) in Addis Ababa to discuss security conditions in Somali Region. Discussions con [...]
2007-12-26 13:24:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3642USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: HEALTH AND NUTRITION
[...] Summary: Between December 20 and 26, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia health and nutrition specialist met with representatives from the U.N., the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GFDRE),and non-governmental organizations (NGO [...]
2007-12-31 12:25:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3644STATUS OF USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM IN ETHIOPIA
[...] Summary: On December 19, staff from USAID and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of a six-person U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT). The team will assess and report on humanitarian conditions in Somali Region t [...]
2007-12-31 12:25:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA412ETHIOPIA'S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER OUTLINES RECENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Ethiopia's Speaker of Parliament, Ambassador Teshome Toga, outlined for the Ambassadors' Donor Group (ADG) parliamentary reforms being implemented. Significant reforms included: the right of the opposition to propose agenda items and bills without securing a minimum number of spo [...]
2007-02-09 06:52:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID KDEM ET
07ADDISABABA420SOMALILAND FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS UNSCR SHOULD
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 9 meeting with Ambassador, Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi M. Duale underscored Somaliland's role in promoting regional stability, practicing democracy, and fighting terrorism, and announced that President Kahin would seek reelection. Duale expressed apprecia [...]
2007-02-09 13:59:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS KDEM EAID SO ET DJ KE UG EG SU
07ADDISABABA421ETHIOPIA: AIRLINE CHIEF SEEKS USG ASSISTANCE WITH
[...] (SBU) At a meeting with the Ambassador February 5, Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Officer Girma Wake requested USG assistance with two of the airline's strategic initiatives: membership in the Star Alliance airline network and establishment of a free trade zone at Bole International Airpo [...]
2007-02-09 14:00:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EAID EAIR ET
07ADDISABABA484DEMARCHE ON WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD SELECTION
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Counselor and PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Abdulkadir Risku and Eyob Tekaliyn of the MFA's International Organizations Directorate on February 16th. PE Counselor emphasized the important stake that Ethiopia, a large recipient of WFP assistance, had in maintaining stron [...]
2007-02-16 10:10:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALWFP EAID AORC
07ADDISABABA494Ethiopia Gets It -- Economic Reform is Critical, Title I
[...] (SBU) This is an action message. Post seeks an update on the status of approval and expected delivery date of Title I food assistance for Ethiopia. See para 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum called in the Ambassador February 19 to underscore the urgency of Prime Minis [...]
2007-02-20 14:36:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR ECON ET
07ADDISABABA60SOMALILAND FOREIGN MINISTER APPEALS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 14 meeting with Charge a.i. Wilgus and deputy pol-econ counselor, Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi M. Duale expressed interest in establishing a closer strategic relationship with the United States, and appealed for both humanitarian and military assistance to [...]
2007-01-09 10:42:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER EAID KISL SO ET RW AU XA
07ADDISABABA697ETHIOPIA: BACKGROUND FOR U.S./CHINA DIALOGUE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-06 06:29:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREL EAID EFIN ET
07ADDISABABA777ETHIOPIA: STARBUCKS ATTEMPTS TO DIFFUSE COFFEE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Starbucks senior vice president Dub Hay announced February 18 that it will not oppose Ethiopia's efforts to obtain trademarks for its specialty coffees, temporarily blunting the public relations firestorm waged by international NGOs. Hay, however, privately told the Ambassador [...]
2007-03-15 13:13:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA78PM MELES AND TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF DISCUSS NEXT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Meles stressed to Ambassador and DCM Jan. 9 that this was the best time for stabilizing and creating a new order in Somalia without warlords and extremists. He said the Somali clan system and Somalia practices must be respected and not circumvented in order to ens [...]
2007-01-10 16:01:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE
07ADDISABABA80CORRECTED COPY - PM MELES AND TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF
[...] (U) Revised to correct classification info in paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Meles stressed to Ambassador and DCM Jan. 9 that this was the best time for stabilizing and creating a new order in Somalia without warlords and extremists. He said the Somali clan system and Somalia [...]
2007-01-11 05:38:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE
07ADDISABABA852SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION
[...] (S) Per reftel, Post has reviewed the proposal to provide USD 15 million in Section 1206 funds for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Yemen, Kenya, and Tanzania, as part of the East Africa Regional Security Initiative (EARSI). Post supports funding the proposal in FY07, with the following observations (see [...]
2007-03-19 14:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNMASS PREL PTER EAID KPKO ET SO
07ADDISABABA87ETHIOPIAN FM HAILS COOPERATION, BUT SEEKS LOWER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 11 meeting with Ambassador, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin expressed appreciation for U.S. military cooperation and U.S. political support of its intervention in Somalia, saying that Somalia was "a common challenge" that could not be addressed unilaterally. [...]
2007-01-11 14:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS EAID ET SO KE ER
07ADDISABABA89ETHIOPIAN FM HAILS COOPERATION, BUT SEEKS LOWER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 11 meeting with Ambassador, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin expressed appreciation for U.S. military cooperation and U.S. political support of its intervention in Somalia, saying that Somalia was "a common challenge" that could not be addressed unilaterally. [...]
2007-01-12 09:08:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS EAID ET SO KE ER
07ADDISABABA91ETHIOPIA: WTO ACCESSION MOVES FORWARD WITH MFTR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE's December 22 submission of the Memorandum of Foreign Trade Regime (MFTR) to the WTO Secretariat ends a two-year delay in Ethiopia's WTO accession SIPDIS process. News accounts of the political debate prior to the memorandum's approval by the Council of Ministers sugg [...]
2007-01-12 10:44:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EAID ET
07ADDISABABA92FOREIGN MINISTER SEYOUM ON SOMALIA: INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Seyoum briefed Addis Ababa-based Ambassadors Donor Group on Somalia on January 11, making two main points: 1) the dispatch of a stabilization force to Somalia, and especially Mogadishu, is urgent, and the international community should engage at all levels to mak [...]
2007-01-12 11:09:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALAU EAID MOPS PREL PTER ET SO
07ALGIERS1330GOA EAGER BUT CAUTIOUS ON FINANCIAL REFORM
[...] SUMMARY: The Algerian Ministry of Finance leadership recognizes it should foster predictability for foreign investors, diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons and reform its financial sector. It is eager for U.S. assistance to meet these goals, but fearful of any sudden shock to its fin [...]
2007-09-18 11:25:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID PREL AG
07AMMAN1150JORDANIAN VIEWS ON JAPAN'S "CORRIDOR OF PEACE AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordan has been discussing a number of Jordan Valley projects with the Israelis over the past several years. Several would be contingent upon financial support from Japan. All are likely to be discussed in the four-party talks between Japan, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian T [...]
2007-03-13 14:45:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EAGR ELTN PREL KPAL IS JO JP
07AMMAN1555JORDAN AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-12 11:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL IZ JO
07AMMAN2017Developing Aqaba - The Gateway to Jordan
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a May 2-3 trip to Aqaba, the Ambassador discussed the significant achievements in development of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) with local officials, shipping agents, students, young entrepreneurs, scientists, and environmental activists. The private sector has i [...]
2007-05-13 09:29:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV SENV SOCI JO
07AMMAN2562JORDAN SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY PROCEEDING WITH PLANS
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: After years of research and discussion, the GOJ is evaluating three bids to transfer water from the Disi Aquifer in southern Jordan to Amman. Officials are also contemplating an unofficial offer from an Arab country to exploit Disi and/or build a large desalinatio [...]
2007-06-14 13:02:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SENV JO
07AMMAN2639JORDAN AND UNITAID
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-20 14:00:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID TBIO KHIV PREL JO
07AMMAN2640UPDATE ON EFFORTS TO EDUCATE ADDITIONAL IRAQIS IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Amman remains actively engaged with the GOJ, UNICEF, UNHCR, and key NGOs in preparing programs that will enable Jordanian public schools to accept additional Iraqi students. While all parties await the results of the FAFO survey (ref a) on the demographics of Iraqis in [...]
2007-06-20 14:05:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN2784UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JUNE 28
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordan will host a neighbors' conference in July about Iraqi refugees. UNICEF, UNHCR, the USG and NGOs continue to prepare to assist the GOJ educate Iraqi schoolchildren in Jordan, but await a GOJ mechanism to approve and implement them. The Ministry of Education (MoE) has not [...]
2007-06-28 12:13:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV SOCI EAID JO IZ
07AMMAN2827 JORDAN REPEATS REQUEST FOR U.S. SUPPORT FOR PARIS CLUB
[...] (SBU) Jordanian officials have renewed their request for the U.S. to join in supporting a debt buyback scheme. The King's Officer Director, Bassem Awadallah, sent Ambassador a new background paper and the text of a letter the Finance Minister sent to the head of the Paris Club (text below). [...]
2007-07-01 15:51:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID PREL JO
07AMMAN2964IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JULY 10
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ is still planning for an Iraq Neighbors conference on refugee issues July 22, although concerns about Syrian and Iranian participation seem to be slowing the decision-making. Meanwhile, the GOJ is working to clarify its policy on enrollment of Iraqi children in schools, [...]
2007-07-10 10:12:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN2981PRIVATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS AFFECT
[...] (U) On June 26, Jordan's Ministry of Education (MoE) issued its annual letter to Jordanian private school principals advising them which students would be permitted to enroll in private schools for the 2007/2008 academic year. The letter stated that non-Jordanian students could register for sc [...]
2007-07-11 14:31:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN2994Water Update in Jordan
[...] (SBU) Summary: Rainfall close to long-term averages over the last year in Jordan has helped ease water shortages, at least in the short-run. Miyahuna, the new privately-run water company in Amman, expects water consumption in the city to grow by 8 percent annually, meaning 20,000 or more new [...]
2007-07-12 13:11:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID PGOV EAGR JO
07AMMAN3083JORDAN PREFERS BUT CANNOT AFFORD U.S. WHEAT
[...] (U) Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) Montaser Oklah reiterated Jordanian interest in purchasing U.S. wheat during a July 9 meeting with Econoffs and Shannon Schlect, the U.S. Wheat Association's Assistant Regional Director for the Middle East/East Africa. Schlect [...]
2007-07-19 13:47:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID JO
07AMMAN3177 HUNDREDS ILL FROM NONFATAL, WATERBORNE PARASITE IN MAFRAQ;
[...] (U) Summary: Approximately 900 residents in Jordan's northern Mafraq Governorate were recently infected by a nonfatal parasite found in their water tanks. Prime Minister Bakhit formed a committee headed by Minister of Health Kharabsheh to investigate the causes of the diarrhea and high fever [...]
2007-07-26 14:18:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID PGOV EAGR JO
07AMMAN3208MODEST PROGRESS ACHIEVED AT JULY 26 RWG IN AMMAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Modest progress was achieved during the July 26 Jordanian-Iraqi co-chaired Refugee Working Group (RWG) in Amman. In a significant breakthrough, the Government of Jordan announced the opening of its public and private schools to displaced Iraqis living in Jordan, regardless of t [...]
2007-07-30 13:53:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF SOCI EAID IZ JO SY EG IR TU
07AMMAN3215KING ACCEPTS RESIGNATIONS OF HEALTH AND WATER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Bakhit announced on July 29 the resignations of Minister of Water and Irrigation Alem and Health Minister Kharabsheh. The two offered their resignations following parasitic contamination of water supplies in northeastern Jordan that infected hundreds. New ministers have not [...]
2007-07-30 14:52:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV SENV EAID EAGR JO
07AMMAN3369GOJ RAPIDLY PREPARING SCHOOLS FOR IRAQI STUDENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Education (MoE) sent a letter to all public school principals on August 6 instructing them to allow Iraqi students to register in public and private schools regardless of residence status for the 2007-08 school term. Major Jordanian daily newspapers prominently r [...]
2007-08-09 14:32:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN3472JORDAN SEES SLIGHT INCREASE IN TRADE DEFICIT AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan saw its trade deficit widen slightly to USD 3.4 billion during the first half of 2007, due to imports that more than doubled rising exports. Despite an overall increase in total national exports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) reported that apparel exports to [...]
2007-08-19 13:17:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ELAB EAID IS IZ JO
07AMMAN3545UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - AUGUST 22
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minster Khatib confirmed that the Governments of Iraq and Jordan agreed in principle to implement a process for issuing visas to Iraqis seeking to enter Jordan. Jordanian schools began on August 19, though with far fewer Iraqis then expected. USAID, UNICEF, UNHCR and [...]
2007-08-22 14:55:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN3565Jordan: New Environmental Police Swings into Action
[...] Summary: The Ministry of Environment's (MOE) recently formed enforcement corps of environmental rangers, known as the Environmental Police Department (EPD),has gotten off to an active start. The local press reports the EPD has issued over 4,000 violations since the beginning of the year. Th [...]
2007-08-23 13:07:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD EAID PGOV JO
07AMMAN3579SLOW BUT STEADY PROGRESS ON QIZ LABOR ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since the Ministry of Labor (MOL) published a Plan of Action in March 2007, Jordan has been making slow but steady progress on labor issues in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs). For the first time, a Jordanian court found supervisors in one factory guilty of physical abu [...]
2007-08-26 13:05:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALELAB ETRD EAID JO QIZ
07AMMAN3697LIMITED CABINET RESHUFFLE BRINGS IN THREE
[...] (U) As expected, Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit announced September 2 the names of three ministers to replace vacancies left by recent resignations (reftels). All three new ministers are considered technocrats by observers: the new Minister of Finance was promoted from Secretary General (the nu [...]
2007-09-03 13:52:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYJO PGOV SENV EAID EFIN PINR
07AMMAN3772 JORDAN ASSIGNS MCC POINT OF CONTACT, REASSIGNS
[...] Over the course of August, Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit issued a series of decisions restructuring GOJ management of MCC issues. All responsibilities previously delegated to the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC) have been transferred to the Prime Ministry, includin [...]
2007-09-11 14:46:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV ECON JO MCC
07AMMAN3806The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Balancing Development and
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) manages the city of Aqaba and its surrounding 26 kilometers of Jordanian coastline. Roughly 30 percent of this strategic and precious real estate is a protected marine habitat. During meetings regarding environmental issues in [...]
2007-09-13 11:24:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ETRD EAID PGOV JO
07AMMAN3812PRIVATIZATION IN JORDAN: MOVING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE
[...] (U) Summary: Having begun privatization of its significant assets in 1999, the Government of Jordan (GOJ) currently has projects underway in energy, grain storage, and water. The nature of these efforts has begun changing from privatization to "public-private partnerships (PPP)" due to a decli [...]
2007-09-13 14:41:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EINV KPRV JO
07AMMAN3817JORDAN'S STONE AND MARBLE INDUSTRY: BETWEEN A ROCK
[...] Summary: Exports to the U.S. from Jordan's stone and marble industry reached $1.3 million in 2006, representing one of the few Jordanian goods besides garments to enter the U.S. market, but still only a small fraction of the $1.4 billion in total Jordanian exports to the U.S. Although the co [...]
2007-09-13 15:01:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EIND EAID JO
07AMMAN3871IRAQIS IN JORDAN ENROLLING AT A MODERATE PACE;
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Iraqi enrollment in Jordanian schools reached 21,000 as of September 15, with the GOJ agreeing to extend enrollment through September 30. No consensus has emerged to fully explain the low enrollment totals. UN agencies and NGOs are actively engaged in a last-ditch effort to cla [...]
2007-09-17 15:52:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN3889JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND AHLC
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-19 11:30:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPAL KWBG XF EUN
07AMMAN3907IRAQI ENROLLMENT IN JORDANIAN SCHOOLS
[...] (SBU) In response to lower-than-expected enrollment of Iraqis and anecdotal reports of stumbling blocks to Iraqi registration in Jordanian public schools (ref A),UNCHR and UNICEF convened a standing-room only meeting of NGOs and donors on September 18 to identify outstanding obstacles to Iraq [...]
2007-09-20 14:24:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN4074GULF TRAVELERS CONTRIBUTE TO A SUCCESSFUL SUMMER TOURISM
[...] (U) Summary: As of the end of August 2007, the number of Gulf state-based tourists visiting Jordan had increased 3.4% compared to the same 8-month period in 2006. Gulf tourists visit Jordan primarily in the summer for the relatively temperate weather, family entertainment, and common culture. [...]
2007-10-03 11:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EIND JO
07AMMAN4190RESTAURANT INDUSTRY GROWING IN JORDAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Revenues from Jordan's restaurant industry have grown 42 percent since 2006, and the total number of restaurants has increased by 18 percent. The restaurant sector currently employs about 11,000 people in Jordan, and government officials and restaurant owners believe the industr [...]
2007-10-16 11:36:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EIND JO
07AMMAN4274Construction Underway for Al-Mushatta Qualifying Industrial
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The newly established Al-Mushatta Industrial City, a designated Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) on the outskirts of Amman, aims to be the first "green" QIZ in Jordan. Al-Mushatta has partnered with an environmental services organization to screen prospective investors in the [...]
2007-10-21 11:01:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ETRD EAID PGOV JO
07AMMAN4328JORDAN: MCC INDICATOR SCORECARDS DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Reftel points were delivered to Nasser Shraideh, Secretary General at the Ministry of Planning, on October 23 SIPDIS by visiting MCC Director of Threshold Programs Maria Longi, accompanied by DCM and USAID officers. MCC representative Longi explained the rationale of the scorecards, [...]
2007-10-25 06:20:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC
07AMMAN4338DESPITE INCREASED REVENUES, SECOND BUDGET SUPPLEMENT NEEDED
[...] (U) Summary: Jordan's 2007 budget and initial supplementary annex estimated USD 5.6 billion in total revenues, including foreign grants, and USD 6.1 billion in expenditures. While the GOJ's revenue projections are on-track, skyrocketing fuel subsidy costs have necessitated an additional USD 7 [...]
2007-10-25 11:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID ECON ENRG PGOV JO
07AMMAN4379FY08 PRIORITIES AND WORK-ITEMS FOR AMMAN ESTH HUB
[...] The Amman ESTH Hub for the NEA Bureau was established in 1997. The current incumbent (Manu Bhalla) is the fourth Hub officer. He is supported by regional environmental specialist Rana Safadi, who has served with the Hub for eight years. Key Priorities and Work Items ----------------------- [...]
2007-10-30 09:49:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TSPL TBIO ETRD EAID PGOV JO
07AMMAN4453UNHCR AND NGOS OUTLINE ADMISSIONS AND ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a two-day visit to Amman, Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues Ambassador James Foley, accompanied by DHS Senior Advisor for Iraqi Refugees Lori Scialabba, discussed admission and assistance priorities with senior United Nations refugee officials, NGOs, and Jordania [...]
2007-11-04 10:13:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN4575DRAFT 2008 BUDGET EXPECTS HIGH INFLATION AND SLOWING GDP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's 2008 budget now being prepared is expected to include raises for public sector employees and pensioners, and to exclude fuel subsidies, which have necessitated budget annexes in 2007. The draft budget assumes a slow-down in GDP growth to four percent in 2008 after three [...]
2007-11-15 05:56:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID ECON ENRG PGOV JO
07AMMAN4622 JORDAN IN NEED OF GSM-102 PROGRAM OR OTHER EXPORT CREDIT
[...] This message contains an action message for the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the Small Business Administration, and USDA. Please see paragraphs 3 and 6. 2. Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Secretary General Montasser Oklah told EmbOffs and visiting representatives from the Foreign Agricu [...]
2007-11-19 14:01:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON JO
07AMMAN4628U.S.-SPONSORED WORKSHOP HELPS TO ESTABLISH VISION AND SET
[...] Summary: In a strong interagency showing, five USG agencies collaborated to hold a November 12-15 workshop for the Ministry of Environment's (MOE) one-year old enforcement corps of environmental Rangers. With over 50 participants on each of the three days, the workshop resulted in a draft str [...]
2007-11-20 10:11:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD EAID PGOV JO
07AMMAN4790JORDAN REQUESTS $1.9 BILLION IN ECONOMIC AND
[...] In his first meeting with the Ambassador on November 27, new Prime Minister Nader Dahabi said that Jordan sought an immediate increase of ESF for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Chief of the Royal Court Bassem Awadallah subsequently conveyed a more detailed funding proposal through letters dated [...]
2007-12-05 16:48:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREF JO
07AMMAN4793CONGRESSWOMAN MCCOLLUM DISCUSSES IMPACT OF IRAQI REFUGEES
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the November 24-27 visit to Jordan of Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN),Government of Jordan (GOJ) officials described the strain that approximately 500,000 Iraqis have been placing on the Jordanian infrastructure. All stressed that while Jordan has opened up public [...]
2007-12-06 07:10:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID ECON PREL IZ JO
07AMMAN4816STAFFDEL WELLS EXAMINES CONDITIONS OF IRAQIS AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: During their five-day visit to Jordan, Staffdel Wells spoke with senior GOJ officials, refugee processing agencies, and NGOs in an effort to (1) better understanding the socioeconomic situation of Iraqi refugees in Jordan; (2) review refugee processing efforts and outcomes; and [...]
2007-12-06 15:44:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV SOCI EAID JO IZ SY
07AMMAN4820TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT APPLAUDS GOJ
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 5 visit to Jordan, Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt emphasized that Jordan's economic reform program made it possible for the U.S. to support the GOJ proposal to the Paris Club to buy back some of its debt. He encouraged continued reforms, especially eliminat [...]
2007-12-09 11:57:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID JO IZ
07AMMAN4991 Jordan Seeing More Illegal and Violent Strikes in QIZ
[...] (SBU) Jordan's garment factories in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ's) have been experiencing strikes five to six times a month, often led by Bengali workers, according to the Jordanian Ministry of Labor (MOL). MOL inspectors have seen strikes become more "illegal" in nature, normally oc [...]
2007-12-18 11:58:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB ETRD EAID KTEX JO
07AMMAN4993Jordan's Garment Association Cites Shortage of Labor as
[...] (U) This contains an action request for USTR. See para 16. 2. (SBU) Summary: Jordanian garment exports to the U.S. fell 6.4% during the first nine months of 2007. During a December 13 lunch, the newly elected Board for the Jordan Garments, Accessories, Textiles Exporters' Association (J [...]
2007-12-18 11:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB ETRD EAID KTEX JO
07AMMAN542FIRST GOVERNMENT SHELTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
[...] SUMMARY: Queen Rania inaugurated a shelter for victims of domestic abuse in Amman, to be run by the Ministry of Social Development. The shelter provides emergency housing for abused women over fourteen years of age and their young children. The shelter is the first government-run facility of [...]
2007-02-06 15:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID KWMN JO
07AMMAN551GOJ TO REQUEST SUPPLEMENTAL ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Increasingly concerned by violence in the Palestinian areas and in Iraq, and by prospects that both conflicts could further destabilize the region, senior Jordanian officials have told Ambassador that the GOJ will soon ask the U.S. for supplemental military and economic assistan [...]
2007-02-07 07:05:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL MASS EAID JO
07ANKARA1033 TURKISH NEXT STEPS ON EREZ ZONE
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 1 meeting, Guven Sak, the brains behind the Turkish business association TOBB's effort to develop the Erez industrial zone in northern Gaza, described his planned next steps. Consonant with reftel reporting, Sak believes that a security arrangement covering movement [...]
2007-05-02 14:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EAID KWBG BEXP TU
07ANKARA105ISPARTA: SMELLING THE ROSES WHILE WAITING FOR PRIVATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Isparta, five hours southwest of Ankara, is a central Anatolian city of 150,000, aptly nicknamed "The Land of Roses" owing to its production of sixty percent of the world's rose oil. A candidate for the GOT's expanded regional investment incentives program, Isparta was ultima [...]
2007-01-19 13:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA111TURKISH PARTICIPATION AT PARIS DONOR'S CONFERENCE
[...] (C) Ambassador Koray Turgay, the Turkish MFA official responsible for assistance issues, confirmed that Foreign Minister Gul will represent Turkey at the "Paris III" donor's conference January 25. Turgay said the Minister had not made a final decision on how much Turkey would pledge but it wo [...]
2007-01-19 15:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID LE TU
07ANKARA1199TURKEY STILL SEEKS CLARITY ON POST-SHARM WORKING
[...] (C) MFA Undersecretary (D-equivalent) Apakan told the Ambassador May 15 that GOT Special Envoy Celikkol will soon travel to Baghdad. Celikkol hopes to finalize arrangements with the Iraqis on the Neighbors-plus working groups agreed at Sharm el-Sheikh and also consult with Amb. Crocker. Apaka [...]
2007-05-18 10:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ENRG EPET TU IZ
07ANKARA1554THE GUAM ORGANIZATION: PRE-SUMMIT DEMARCHE
[...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA South Caucasus Desk Officer Yavuz Kul. Kul noted that Turkey follows the group, and said that member countries have solicited Turkey's more active involvement, believing it will strengthen the organization. Turkey, however, is only represented by its Am [...]
2007-06-18 14:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID AJ GG MD UP TU
07ANKARA1674TURKEY SUPPORTIVE OF AFGHAN RULE OF LAW CONFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: In keeping with the high priority it attaches to Afghanistan, the Turkish Government plans to send Under Secretary Apakan (D equivalent) to the Rome Conference. Although Turkey will be supportive of Rule of Law initiatives it will not be in a position to pledge additional monies f [...]
2007-06-28 14:00:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKJUS EAID AF TU
07ANKARA1744TURKEY SUPPORTS PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-09 12:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID OECD TU
07ANKARA1893TURKEY: FUNDING REQUESTED FOR ANTI-TIP INITIATIVES
[...] (SBU) Post requests Department and USAID consider funding anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) initiatives in Turkey to support Turkey,s efforts to qualify as a Tier I TIP country (see paras. 3 - 6). U.S. resources and/or expertise in the areas cited in the 2007 TIP Report can improve Turkey,s [...]
2007-07-25 07:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN EAID ELAB PHUM SMIG SOCI TU
07ANKARA220 TURKISH BUSINESS ECOURAGED ON GAZA PROJECT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish business officials say they had productive meetings in Israel in mid-January about their proposed development of the Erez Industrial Zone in Gaza. Israeli officials said they would start work on special tax and security arrangements for the zone, with the MOD taking t [...]
2007-02-02 06:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAID PREL TU
07ANKARA2483Turks worried about cholera outbreak want to provide
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. ----------------------------------- GOT Concerned about Outbreak Spread ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) On October 1, we met with Ministry of Health Department Head for Communicable Diseases Dr. Mehmet Ali Torunoglu to discus [...]
2007-10-05 08:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA2512TURKEY'S TIP SHELTERS FACING CRITICAL BUDGET
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Budgetary short-falls threaten the continued operation of Turkey's two dedicated anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) shelters. While the Istanbul shelter is at least secure through the end of 2007, Ankara shelter administrators have told us that they have had to divert resource [...]
2007-10-11 07:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID AFIN ELAB PHUM SMIG SOCI TU
07ANKARA2626Turkish Response to Washington International Renewable
[...] This is an Action request. See paragraph 3. 2. There was a Turkish Holiday in mid-October that delayed the Turkish Government's response to the invitation to the WIREC Conference. The MFA informed us October 16 that the GOT would like to participate in the conference, and has one confirmed [...]
2007-10-24 10:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA TU
07ANKARA283 Cases of H5N1 Avian Influenza Confirmed in Poultry in
[...] (U) Summary. In a press release, the Ministry of Agriculture (MARA) confirmed that 170 birds died of Avian Influenza (AI) on a small farm in the village of Bogazkoy in the province of Batman. On Feb. 9, MARA confirmed that the birds were indeed infected with the H5N1 strain of AI. All precau [...]
2007-02-09 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU KFLU
07ANKARA2893TURKEY: RELIEF ON THE WAY FOR ANKARA TIP SHELTER
[...] (SBU) The Ankara TIP shelter, operated by the Foundation for Women's Solidarity (FWS),remains open despite a three-month funding short-fall. FWS could not pay salaries in September, October, or November 2007. The Canadian International Development Agency has responded positively to the IOM [...]
2007-12-04 15:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID AFIN ELAB PHUM SMIG SOCI TU
07ANKARA3014TURKEY'S TOP BUSINESS GROUP TAKES LEAD IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodities Exchanges (TOBB) is a leader in the Ankara Forum for Economic Cooperation between Turkey, Palestine, and Israel (refs A-C). They are developing free trade zones in Gaza and the West Bank, although they are frustrated by lack of pro [...]
2007-12-19 10:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ETRD PREL TU IZ AF PA IS
07ANKARA325SUCCESS STORY - AFGHAN-TURKISH COUNTERNAROCTICS TRAINING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post organized an INL-funded, DEA-run counternarcotics training program for Afghan and Turkish counternarcotics supervisory agents in Ankara January 29-February 2. The course advanced multiple USG goals at very modest cost: bringing together Afghan and Turkish officials to enha [...]
2007-02-15 13:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR EAID KPAO TU
07ANKARA354TURKEY AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - NO HUMAN CASES
[...] SUMMARY: The GOT moved rapidly to contain outbreaks of avian influenza in chickens in villages in Batman and Diyarbakir provinces in the southeast that began on February 5 (refs). Ministry of Agriculture (MARA) officials culled nearly 3,000 birds and are implementing other appropriate biosecu [...]
2007-02-16 15:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU KFLU
07ANKARA430ANKARA'S MAMAK DISTRICT: VOICES OF ANKARA'S HAVE NOTS
[...] (SBU) Summary. A visit to one of Ankara's oldest squatter settlements provided insight into the multiple challenges Turkey faces in dealing with its endemic squatter housing problem, which is linked to persistent regional income disparities and the country's deep urban and rural poverty. Res [...]
2007-02-27 11:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA482TURKEY AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] As of February 28, the H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been detected in 12 locations of four districts in Batman province, including one area with wild birds, and in six locations of two districts in Diyarbakir province. There have been a total of 283 dead birds with confirmed cases of H5N [...]
2007-03-05 07:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU
07ANKARA491PROGRESS IN TURKEY'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A visiting U.S. team was impressed by the level of commitment and sophistication in emergency planning evidenced in a range of meetings with national-level disaster assistance players in the Turkish capital. FEMA and OFDA committed to follow up with the Turkish Emergency Manage [...]
2007-03-05 13:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SENV EINV TU
07ANKARA615TURKEY OPEN TO PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC
[...] (SBU) We have provided reftel's non-paper to several different offices at the Turkish MFA, particularly those involved in the recent Policy Planning Talks: the Americas desk, their Policy Planning shop and the Office of Multilateral Economic Affairs. S/P Krasner raised the PDG in his February [...]
2007-03-19 08:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID OECD KDEM TU
07ANTANANARIVO100COMOROS EAGER FOR BILATERAL TALKS WITH U.S.
[...] SUMMARY. During meetings January 22-23 in the Union of the Comoros, PolEcon Chief and visiting Desk Officer laid the ground work for the first meeting of the U.S.-Comoros Joint Committee for Bilateral Cooperation. The Comoran officials expressed interest in discussing the African Growth and O [...]
2007-01-31 13:18:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID ECON ENRG KISL CN
07ANTANANARIVO1056 COMORAN PRESIDENT SAMBI, "I WILL END ANJOUAN CRISIS OR
[...] (U) This message includes an Action Request, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Celebrating the end of Ramadan October 13, Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Sambi made a public declaration that he would resolve the ongoing Anjouan crisis or resign. Reflecting on public opinion that he had accomplished [...]
2007-10-15 09:05:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN
07ANTANANARIVO1114 DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN MORONI DISCUSSES CRISIS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The diplomatic corps in Moroni and Government of the Union of the Comoros were surprised by Grande Comore island president Abdouloihab's visit to Anjouan. The international community, led by the African Union (AU),is working to apply sanctions and encourage the Union Governm [...]
2007-11-02 10:11:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN
07ANTANANARIVO116 MCC CEO DANILOVICH VISITS MADAGASCAR
[...] SUMMARY: MCC CEO Ambassador John J. Danilovich, accompanied by Catholic Relief Services President and MCC Board Member Kenneth Hackett assessed progress under Madagascar's Compact January 31 to February 2. President Ravalomanana committed to take immediate steps for the remediation needed on [...]
2007-02-06 08:12:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON PGOV PREL MA
07ANTANANARIVO1221 LIFE IN ANJOUAN UNDER COLONEL BACAR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reports from Anjouan, where EmbOffs have been unable to visit for six months, indicate life in limbo for most of the 240,000 people living there. There are unconfirmed reports that many opponents to Bacar, journalists, activists, intellectuals, and teachers, have been impriso [...]
2007-12-04 04:55:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON SOCI EAID CN
07ANTANANARIVO1227COMOROS: HOPE REMAINS FOR A NEGOTIATED ANJOUAN
[...] (C) I visited Moroni November 28-30 to take stock of political and economic developments there, and to pave the way for A/S Frazer,s December 22-23 visit there. This visit came in the immediate wake of the AU Peace and Security Council,s (PSC ) see reftel a) decision to extend Anjouan sanctio [...]
2007-12-06 04:17:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON SOCI EAID CN
07ANTANANARIVO1236BRINGING COMOROS INTO THE FOLD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As we look at the question of AGOA eligibility for Comoros, the two key interlocking issues are security and opportunity - and how each could be strengthened by AGOA. The Comoran people have a tragic history and few economic endowments; their most famous native son is infamous - [...]
2007-12-12 13:23:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID KDEM CN
07ANTANANARIVO128BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMOROS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S. Government is missing the opportunity to build a strong relationship with the Union of the Comoros. In light of the recently-completed Operational Plan process for the Comoros, Post considers that USD 100,000 in security assistance is inadequate to seriously advance tran [...]
2007-02-08 14:09:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALEAID PTER PREL IR CN
07ANTANANARIVO177 MADAGASCAR DECLARES FLOOD DISASTER
[...] With tens of thousands of Malagasy displaced by flooding from the worst rainy season in recent memory, Foreign Minister Marcel Ranjeva convened donors February 20 to coordinate the ongoing humanitarian response and make an appeal for emergency assistance. FonMin Ranjeva affirmed the GOM had ma [...]
2007-02-21 13:18:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL SOCI SENV MA
07ANTANANARIVO180 CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM TO BE HELD APRIL 4
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Madagascar (GOM) has announced a Constitutional Referendum to be held April 4, 2007. A hastily-convened committee is considering over 200 possible changes, and will soon make recommendations to the Council of Ministers, who will then decide which changes shoul [...]
2007-02-22 12:59:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA
07ANTANANARIVO221MADAGASCAR 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: Madagascar is not a country of origin, transit or destination for internationally trafficked men and women. During the year, there were reports of trafficking within the country's borders. Madagascar has a confirmed child sex tourism problem. The domestic legal framework, cultural [...]
2007-03-06 14:07:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07ANTANANARIVO225 COMOROS 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) The Embassy Point of Contact for TIP is Political Officer Silvana Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez can be reached via email at RodriguezSD [at] state.gov, via telephone at 261.20.22.212.57, or via facsimile at 261.20.22.251.71. POLOFF Rodriguez spent approximately 1 hour preparing this report. [...]
2007-03-07 11:48:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID CN
07ANTANANARIVO232GOM PROPOSES CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Madagascar (GOM) has publicly proposed a number of constitutional changes to be voted on in a referendum April 4, with the stated goal of driving forward the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP),its signature development program (REF A). Changes include eliminating the [...]
2007-03-09 06:16:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA
07ANTANANARIVO236AMERICAN WEEK IN MAHAJANGA IS A HIT
[...] SUMMARY: From February 27 - March 1, 40 Mission personnel and numerous partners hosted American Week in Mahajanga, a city on Madagascar's northwestern coast with a sizeable Muslim population. Well over 5,000 local citizens visited our exhibit booths, attended an Embassy-sponsored basketball to [...]
2007-03-09 10:23:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM KMCA KPAO EAID PHUM PINR AMGT ASOC MA
07ANTANANARIVO237CONCERNED PRESIDENT DENIES POWER GRAB
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-09 12:37:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ASEC PREL FR MA EAID SENV KDEM
07ANTANANARIVO248CONCERNED PRESIDENT DENIES POWER GRAB
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-12 14:11:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ASEC PREL FR MA EAID SENV KDEM
07ANTANANARIVO252CONCERNED PRESIDENT DENIES POWER GRAB
[...] (C) President Ravalomanana summoned Ambassador McGee to his office on the morning of March 9 to address a number of issues. First, the President conveyed his concern at seeing Somalis and Pakistanis on the northern coast of Madagascar (location still being determined) during a recent vacation [...]
2007-03-13 08:15:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ASEC PREL FR MA EAID SENV KDEM
07ANTANANARIVO262CYCLONE INDLALA STRIKES MADAGASCAR - FIRST REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: Tropical cyclone Indlala struck the east coast of Madagascar early morning on March 15, with the city of Antalaha hardest hit. Due to the ongoing lack of communications, we do not have reliable information about casualties and property damage, but expect it may be considerable. Six [...]
2007-03-15 12:33:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID PREL SOCI CASC MA
07ANTANANARIVO270CYCLONE INDLALA STRIKES MADAGASCAR - SECOND REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: After hitting Antalaha and Maroantsetra hard, tropical cyclone Indlala has gradually dissipated as it moves west/southwest over land. Amidst the ongoing lack of definitive communication, unofficial reports of structural and flooding damage are considerable; contacts cite "thigh-deep" [...]
2007-03-16 11:07:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID PREL SOCI CASC MA
07ANTANANARIVO276CYCLONE INDLALA STRIKES MADAGASCAR - THIRD REPORT
[...] Government of Madagascar officials are starting to release initial assessments of the comprehensive damage tropical cyclone Indlala left in its wake, primarily in the northeastern and northwestern regions of the country. The National Bureau of Management of Risk and Catastrophe reports 14,000 [...]
2007-03-19 14:09:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID PREL SOCI CASC MA
07ANTANANARIVO301MIXED REACTIONS TO PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: With only eight days to go, Madagascar's upcoming constitutional referendum has failed to garner the same amount of enthusiasm seen in the recent presidential election. The average citizen has little understanding of the proposed amendments and public reactions have been mixed wi [...]
2007-03-27 13:07:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA
07ANTANANARIVO321JAYA: MADAGACAR'S SIXTH CYCLONE
[...] Tropical Cyclone Jaya made landfall on Madagascar's battered northeast coast on April 3, weakened as it crossed the north end of the island, then re-emerged into the Mozambique Channel on April 4. As of 1200 local time on April 4, the storm has largely dissipated, although it will be watched c [...]
2007-04-04 11:35:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV PREL PGOV SOCI CASC MA
07ANTANANARIVO325TURNOUT FOR REFERENDUM LOW BUT PEACEFUL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Anecdotal and radio reports from around the country reflect a peaceful day at the polls for Madagascar's constitutional referendum with no security incidents. Voter turnout seems to be considerably lower than for the recent presidential election due to apathy that the constitut [...]
2007-04-04 13:33:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA
07ANTANANARIVO352RESULTS NEARLY COMPLETE, REFERENDUM VICTORIOUS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Waiting on results from only 27 of the country's 17,000-plus polling stations, Madagascar's constitutional referendum passed with a 75.37 percent approval rate and a 43.7 percent voter turnout. The usual criticism from the opposition post-referendum will likely fall on deaf ears [...]
2007-04-12 13:47:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA
07ANTANANARIVO393 AF/E Director Reddick in Antananarivo
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Madagascar April 15-18, East Africa Bureau (AF/E) Director Reddick paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister to discuss the April 4 referendum and ongoing disaster response. In meetings with the Red Cross and the Presidency, Director Reddick explored possible solutions to M [...]
2007-04-23 13:44:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA
07ANTANANARIVO399DELEGATION HOLDS BILATERAL TALKS WITH COMOROS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer's suggestion to President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi on the sidelines of UNGA last September (REF B),a U.S. delegation led by Director of the Office of East African Affairs Eunice Reddick held the first ever bilateral discussions wi [...]
2007-04-24 11:39:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR CN
07ANTANANARIVO404MADAGASCAR AT THE HALFWAY POINT OF MCC COMPACT
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Two years ago Madagascar became the first country to sign a Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),recognizing progress in investing in people, economic freedom, and governing justly. Remarkable achievements in the Compact's priority areas of l [...]
2007-04-25 08:23:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALEAID KMCA ECON PGOV PREL MA
07ANTANANARIVO430 U.S. FUND SEEKS MADAGASCAR FOREST DEAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since a meeting in September, 2006, between President Ravalomanana and the president of the Global Environment Fund (GEF),a deal to create a 30,000 hectare sustainable forestry operation in Madagascar has progressed in fits and starts. Interrupted by the December 3 presidential [...]
2007-05-03 09:40:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAGR EAID ECON PGOV PREL MA
07ANTANANARIVO435 COASTAL UNREST CONTINUES IN MADAGASCAR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Public demonstrations in Madagascar against blackouts and poor study conditions (reftels) have expanded to include political opposition grievances. Protests seem to be spreading to different coastal cities and even potentially Antananarivo. After several days of protests with li [...]
2007-05-04 09:47:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA
07ANTANANARIVO452 COMOROS AWAITS SAMBI'S REACTION TO BACAR'S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union's (AU) special envoy to the Comoros Jose Francisco Madeira returned May 8 from a second mission to Anjouan, bringing back with him approximately 15 Union government officials and soldiers who had been held hostage by "President" Bacar's forces. Bacar told Made [...]
2007-05-10 13:48:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR CN
07ANTANANARIVO520 EMBEZZLING PLAGUES MADAGASCAR'S CENTRAL BANK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Central Bank of Madagascar (BCM) faces growing concerns about its competence following recent cases of embezzlement. Three weeks ago evidence came to light that USD six million was missing at the BCM's Manakara agency. Local press reported last week another case of theft of [...]
2007-05-31 11:22:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV EAID MA
07ANTANANARIVO566 ANJOUAN'S BACAR MOVES TO DERAIL COMOROS VOTE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Violence broke out again on the Comoran island of Anjouan June 5 as island strongman Mohamed Bacar continued his pattern of extralegal efforts to cling to power. Bacar, who stepped aside as island president to run for reelection (Reftels),appears to have no intention of losing [...]
2007-06-06 12:58:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN
07ANTANANARIVO567 COMOROS' SAMBI POSTPONES ANJOUAN'S ELECTION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi postponed Anjouan's island election to June 17, contrary to international pressure. Deposed Anjouan island president Bacar continues his "end-game" threatening to hold elections anyway. Votes in Grand Comore and Moheli will go [...]
2007-06-07 12:53:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN
07ANTANANARIVO573 TWO-THIRDS OF COMOROS ISLAND ELECTIONS SUCCESSFUL
[...] (U) This is an Action Request - see para 6. 2. (SBU) The people of Grand Comore and Moheli in the Union of the Comoros went to the polls June 10 to elect new island "presidents" (governors). The pro-Sambi candidate Abduloihabi (known as "Albino") leads in Grand Comore, followed by a chari [...]
2007-06-11 10:06:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN
07ANTANANARIVO583 AU CHALLENGES ANJOUAN'S BACAR IN COMOROS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union insists deposed island president Mohamed Bacar must allow island elections on Anjouan June 17; however, it cannot so far enforce compliance. The renegade Bacar is reportedly fortifying his position on the island against possible attack. (Note: No AmCits are [...]
2007-06-13 12:41:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN
07ANTANANARIVO585 COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a letter to President Bush (full translation in Paragraph Two),Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of the Union of the Comoros, seeks U.S. support for a military effort to restore democracy to the island of Anjouan. Sambi describes the repeated efforts - by his government as we [...]
2007-06-13 13:35:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN
07ANTANANARIVO595COMOROS ELECTION POSTPONED AS BACAR SEIZES POWER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shortly after inaugurating himself "President" of Anjouan on the morning of June 14, Colonel Mohamed Bacar resumed his position at the presidential palace. A high-level Comoran delegation will arrive in Addis Ababa June 14 to lobby the African Union (AU) to hold an extraordinar [...]
2007-06-14 14:12:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN
07ANTANANARIVO60U.S. DELEGATION CONGRATULATES MADAGASCAR'S PRESIDENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A Presidential Delegation led by Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns attended the inauguration of President Marc Ravalomanana's second term and held a number of meetings on the sidelines. Applauding Ravalomanana's progressive leadership style, the delegation extended its congra [...]
2007-01-22 14:13:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA CN
07ANTANANARIVO608COMOROS AWAITS AU DECISION ON MILITARY OPTIONS
[...] (U) With "President" Bacar of Anjouan refusing to hold new island presidential elections sanctioned by the international community, South Africa is reportedly organizing an urgent meeting of regional foreign ministries and an official from the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council June [...]
2007-06-18 13:27:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN
07ANTANANARIVO615 AFRICAN UNION CHALLENGES BACAR IN THE COMOROS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An African Union (AU) ultimatum and ministerial delegation to the Union of the Comoros is applying pressure on renegade Anjouan island "President" Mohamed Bacar. All three islands of the Union are calm, awaiting Bacar's response to the AU. Rumors abound from Anjouan that Bacar [...]
2007-06-21 09:36:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC AU CN
07ANTANANARIVO642COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS U.S. POLITICAL SUPPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a letter to President Bush (full translation in paragraph two),Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of the Union of the Comoros, seeks U.S. support urging an African Union (AU) decision to take robust action against Comoran warlord Mohamed Bacar. Sambi expresses his disappointmen [...]
2007-06-29 11:26:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AU EAID PHUM PINR ASEC MOPS CN
07ANTANANARIVO681 COMORANS HOLD BREATH WAITING FOR ANJOUAN ELECTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Delegates of the Government of the Union of the Comoros as well as those sent by renegade Anjouan Island warlord Mohamed Bacar met under African Union auspices July 8 and 9 in Pretoria to seek a solution to their inter-island impasse. Rather than holding a negotiation between [...]
2007-07-11 12:54:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC AU CN
07ANTANANARIVO685 COMOROS STABILITY IMPROVING ON TWO ISLANDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Compared to their predecessors, the newly installed island presidents on both Grande Comore and Moheli appear more conciliatory and more willing to work constructively with the Government of the Union of the Comoros. As such, prospects for greater Union stability - [...]
2007-07-12 13:20:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PINR ASEC AU CN
07ANTANANARIVO687 MADAGASCAR ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM AT RISK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID continues to play a vital leadership role among environment donors in Madagascar seeking to advocate and implement sound conservation and natural resource management policies. Review of the third phase of the environment program has been protracted and did not result in c [...]
2007-07-12 13:32:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO EAGR ECON EAID PGOV MA
07ANTANANARIVO692FRENCH VIEW OF THE COMOROS
[...] (C) French Ambassador to the Comoros, Christian Job, met Charge July 9 in Moroni and provided an overview of French-Comoran relations. According to Job, from the French side the relationship is grounded in four facts. First, the shared history dating from 1841. Second, legitimate French in [...]
2007-07-13 10:03:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALCN EAID FR PGOV PINR PREL
07ANTANANARIVO702 MOHELI, THE FORGOTTEN COMORAN ISLAND
[...] SUMMARY. There are four inhabited islands in the Comoran archipelago. France administers Mayotte. Of the other three, comprising the Union of the Comoros, two are of comparable size and population - Grande Comore being slightly larger than Anjouan. The third is Moheli, an environmental jew [...]
2007-07-17 06:29:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV TBIO EAGR ECON PGOV CN
07ANTANANARIVO710 ENVIRONMENTAL TRAFFICKING IN MADAGASCAR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Recent cases involving tropical hardwood and endangered tortoises highlight the serious problem of environmental smuggling in Madagascar. The island is attractive to smugglers because a broad range of unique species inhabit the island and because law enforcement services tend to [...]
2007-07-19 10:44:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO EAGR ECON EAID PGOV CH MA
07ANTANANARIVO717MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK: SSH/DHRF SUCCESS
[...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador's Special Self Help (SSH) and Democracy and Human Rights Funds (DHRF) provide direct, inexpensive, and meaningful assistance to projects throughout Madagascar and the Comoros. They generate tremendous positive publicity and good will for the United States. From women [...]
2007-07-20 09:05:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL KPAO MA CN
07ANTANANARIVO723 PROSPECTS AND PROSTITUTION IN MINING BOOM TOWN
[...] SUMMARY: As Qit Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ramps up its mining activities in southeastern Madagascar, the former "ghost town" of Fort Dauphin is rapidly changing. Embassy staff consulted local officials and NGOs to assess the potential for human trafficking. While it is clear "trafficking in p [...]
2007-07-23 13:01:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB EAID MA
07ANTANANARIVO757 COMOROS, THE COUNTRY DEBT-RELIEF LEFT BEHIND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One of the world's poorest Muslim democracies, the Union of the Comoros has a stock of debt equal to 70 percent of GDP. If not for an annual influx of over USD 12 million in remittances from Comorans living abroad, the tiny country of 700,000 mostly subsistence farmers would f [...]
2007-07-30 11:11:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN IBRD IMF ECON EAID PREL CN
07ANTANANARIVO77COMOROS PRESIDENT WELCOMES U.S. COOPERATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of the Union of the Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, met with the Ambassador January 18 and with Peace Corps Director Ronald Tschetter January 19 on the margins of the investiture of Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana (Ref A). Sambi reaffirmed his desire for as [...]
2007-01-23 13:10:00Embassy AntananarivoSECRETPREL PMIL PINR EFIN PGOV PTER EAID KISL CN
07ANTANANARIVO777 CROP REPORTS FORECAST ACUTE RICE SHORTAGES
[...] SUMMARY: According to harvest forecasters in the Government of Madagascar's (GOM) Prime Minister's office, Madagascar's severe 2006-07 cyclone season destroyed the equivalent of 60,000 tons of rice (reftels). Already an annual rice importer, Madagascar will likely need almost 300,000 tons of [...]
2007-08-02 10:34:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EAGR PREL SOCI MA
07ANTANANARIVO779 BACAR'S DEFIANCE LEAVES AU FEW OPTIONS IN THE COMOROS
[...] (U) Little has changed in the Union of the Comoros in recent days (reftels). African Union (AU) Envoy Francisco Madeira again threatened Anjouan island renegade, Mohamed Bacar, and again offered an ultimatum. In a press statement July 28, Madeira said, "Bacar's boat is sinking and anyone lef [...]
2007-08-02 12:50:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN
07ANTANANARIVO815COMORAN PRESIDENT CONSIDERING MILITARY OPTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Comoran President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi wants the AU to take control of Anjouan by force to allow free elections there, and he believes this could be done without bloodshed. However, he will not wait indefinitely and has a plan for Union forces to take Anjouan - which he [...]
2007-08-16 13:50:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AU EAID PHUM PINR ASEC MOPS CN
07ANTANANARIVO836AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE PRESIDENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Little more than 48 hours after arriving in Madagascar, Ambassador R. Niels Marquardt presented his credentials to Malagasy President Marc Ravalomanana. In a wide-ranging discourse, the President expressed appreciation for U.S. programs and support, while requesting further assi [...]
2007-08-22 13:19:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID MA
07ANTANANARIVO851AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MALAGASY PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara invited Ambassador Marquardt for a meeting the day after the credentials ceremony with the President. A friendly but direct Rabemananjara said Malagasy do not want a single ballot and the electoral commission is already strong and independent [...]
2007-08-24 09:53:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EAID EWWT ASEC SNAR MA
07ANTANANARIVO852 IMF AFRICA DIRECTOR LAUDS MALAGASY ECONOMY
[...] (U) International Monetary Fund Africa Director Bio-Tchane met President Marc Ravalomanana August 22 for consultations on Madagascar's economic management and performance. Bio-Tchane also held meetings with Minister of Finance Radavidson, Central Bank Governor Rasamoely, and private sector re [...]
2007-08-24 10:17:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV EAID MA
07ANTANANARIVO853 COMORAN FM JAFFAR REITERATES PRO-AMERICAN STANCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Ahmed Said Ben Jaffar welcomed the Ambassador to the region, encouraging him to visit the Comoros to deliver credentials and see the country at the first opportunity. Jaffar expressed frustration that the African Union (AU) had not upheld commitments with regar [...]
2007-08-27 11:18:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID CN
07ANTANANARIVO892EITI: CAN MADAGASCAR AVOID THE RESOURCE CURSE?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Madagascar's Government and mining companies joined August 28 in making public declarations for the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). Much work remains for the GOM to meet all conditions, but the Presidency and Ministers of Energy and Mines are committed to m [...]
2007-09-04 11:05:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EFIN EPET ECON PGOV EAID MA
07ANTANANARIVO998 LUKEWARM COMORAN REACTION TO LATEST AU MEETING
[...] (U) Six "concerned" African Foreign Ministers met in Cape Town September 18 to discuss the ongoing de facto secession in Anjouan, Union of the Comoros. This Ministerial Council adopted the recommendations of an experts group that met in Addis Ababa September 4. While the declaration calls fo [...]
2007-10-01 03:35:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN
07ASHGABAT1001TURKMENISTAN: NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION SERVICE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent introductory meeting with U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director Dan Stein, officials of Turkmenistan's National Civil Aviation Service expressed interest in possible developme [...]
2007-09-21 12:46:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAIR PGOV PREL TX
07ASHGABAT1008SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: WHO IS PRESIDENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Little in the way of personal detail is known about the real President Berdimuhamedov, but examining rumors, official biographies and the comments of those who have worked with him provide some insight into his personality. Descended from Turkmen intelligentsia, Berdimuhamedov [...]
2007-09-24 07:53:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ECON KDEM TX
07ASHGABAT1015TURKMENISTAN: WORLD BANK CAUTIOUSLY LOOKING AT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The World Bank's Bishkek-based Country Manager for Turkmenistan, Roger Robinson, told the Charge September 24 that he was in Ashgabat to look for ways the World Bank can re-engage with the Government of Turkmenistan. In re [...]
2007-09-24 11:37:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID EFIN IBRD TX
07ASHGABAT1018 TURKMENISTAN: STATE AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHT
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation's August 20-25, 2007 visit to Turkmenistan, headed by Michael Cromartie, received positive state and international media. However, state media avoided any frank discussion of religious freedom issues with [...]
2007-09-25 07:37:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX
07ASHGABAT1079TURKMENISTAN: GERMAN EXPERTS PRESS LEGAL REFORM
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A German academic delegation from the German Association for Technical Cooperation visited Ashgabat the week of October 1 to hold a roundtable with a number of Turkmenistan's ministries and government agencies dir [...]
2007-10-05 11:42:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX
07ASHGABAT1083 TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA UNSURE OF ITSELF WHILE THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. State media gave minor coverage to the U.S. CENTCOM visit, headed by the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, September 27-28. However, it had been believed that the visit would not be covered at all, according to working level sta [...]
2007-10-09 03:42:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX
07ASHGABAT1098 UNITED NATIONS REVIEWS RECENT GOVERNMENT REQUESTS FOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 8 donor meeting organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),Turkmenistan Resident Representative Richard Young provided an update on recent United Nations' activity, and outlined the [...]
2007-10-11 04:15:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM UN TX
07ASHGABAT1130TURKEMNISTAN ASKS FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE ON HUMAN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Chairman Shirin Ahmedova told USAID Regional Democracy and Governance Office Director Kim Delaney October 18 that the Institute is on the hook to President Berdimuhamedov to [...]
2007-10-19 06:13:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM TX
07ASHGABAT1140 TURKMENISTAN: SUPREME COUNCIL REQUESTS PRESENTATION ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In USAID's first meeting with Turkmenistan's Supreme Council on Science and Technology on October 18, the Council's Deputy Chairwoman and Department Head for State Science Policy Realization explained the body's role [...]
2007-10-22 09:04:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX
07ASHGABAT1156 TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 24, the Director of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights Under the President of Turkmenistan, Shirin Ahmedova, proposed that the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) jointly organize [...]
2007-10-26 06:57:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX
07ASHGABAT1182AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TURKMEN PROMOTE COOPERATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The California-based Christian evangelical group "Friends of the Turkmen" has spent a dozen years slowly building relations with Turkmenistan government officials. Although they have contacts with small Protestant congregations in the country, their focus is more on education and [...]
2007-11-01 12:17:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EAID SOCI KIRF TX
07ASHGABAT1221ADB IN TURKMENISTAN: OUT OF TOUCH BUT LOOKING FOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Asian Development Bank (ADB),long dormant in Ashgabat, especially after the Government of Turkmenistan failed to respond decisively to the bank's initial feasibility study for a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakis [...]
2007-11-09 07:17:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EPET EAID EFIN EINV TX
07ASHGABAT1223TURKMENISTAN: STATE TV REQUESTS U.S. EXPERTS FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para nine below. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post's PAO had an especially productive and open meeting with a Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting official that demonstrated a firm commitment and deisre for tangible movement on President Berdimuhamedov's recent ca [...]
2007-11-09 13:22:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PROP EAID SCUL KPAO KDEM TX
07ASHGABAT1236 TURKMENISTAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION WELCOMES PROPOSAL FOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In a November 9 meeting to discuss possible cooperation under USAID's new regional basic education program, Education Minister Muhammetgeldi Annaamanov told USAID representatives that training for primary and seconda [...]
2007-11-15 11:58:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX
07ASHGABAT1269 TURKMENISTAN: ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN WARMLY COVERED IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman's November 14-15 visit to Turkmenistan received broad coverage in both state and international media. Bodman's remarks at Turkmenistan's International Oil and Gas Exhibition conference (TIOGE),and his meetings with Turkmenistan's preside [...]
2007-11-23 11:54:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX
07ASHGABAT1282 TURKMENISTAN: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE MISSES BOAT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite earlier expressions of interest in a USAID proposal to develop an Investor's Roadmap to improve Turkmenistan's investment climate, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF) is unwilling to commit to USG te [...]
2007-11-26 13:12:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EAID PINR PREL PGOV TX
07ASHGABAT1285TURKMENISTAN: LAUNCH IN BALKAN PROVINCE BRINGS NATIONAL
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On November 16, USAID's implementing partner Project HOPE organized a ceremony in Balkanabat city marking the expansion of DOTS, the internationally recognized approach to control tuberculosis (TB),to three new town [...]
2007-11-26 14:44:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX
07ASHGABAT1350TURKMENISTAN MOJ OFFICIALS INTRIGUED BUT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 7, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles and other delegation members met with Ministry of Justice (MOJ) officials to discuss registration of religious groups and NGOS as well as various [...]
2007-12-14 08:53:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KIRF EAID TX
07ASHGABAT1352TURKISH INSTRUCTORS MAKE OBSERVATIONS AT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Two officers from Turkey's Ministry of the Interior, Department of Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime led a workshop sponsored by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for a group of Turkmenistan la [...]
2007-12-14 11:40:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR EAID TX
07ASHGABAT1379 TURKMENISTAN: DAS BARKS-RUGGLES VISIT HIGHLIGHTED IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Erica Barks-Ruggles visited Turkmenistan December 6-9, 2007. State media highlighted her meetings at Turkmenistan's ministries and government agencies. "Reuters" gave accurate coverage of the visit, focusing on a [...]
2007-12-19 11:56:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO TX
07ASHGABAT1391 TURKMENISTAN: MFA WELCOMES USAID PROPOSAL FOR NEW
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of his initial visit to Turkmenistan, USAID/CAR Regional Mission Director Bill Frej met with First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vepa Hajiyev on December 13 to discuss potential opportunities to expan [...]
2007-12-26 03:37:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON TX
07ASHGABAT158U.S. ASSISTANCE GROUP MEETING WITH CENTRAL BANK ACTING
[...] (SBU) Under the umbrella of EUR/ACE Coordinator Adams' visit, USAID Regional Director Crowley raised program implementation issues with Central Bank of Turkmenistan (CBT) Chairman Geldymurad Abylov on January 30. Abylov stated that the CBT was working to prepare for introduction of national a [...]
2007-02-07 12:30:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PGOV PINR EAGR ECON ETRD TX
07ASHGABAT162U.S. ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR ADAMS' MEETING WITH AGRICULTURE
[...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Coordinator Adams and delegation heard upbeat accounts of farming-sector developments from Turkmenistan's Agriculture Minister, Esenmyrat Orazgeldiyev, on January 31. Without mentioning recent years' notorious crop shortfalls and other problems, Orazgeldiyev depicted his sector a [...]
2007-02-08 11:48:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD TX US
07ASHGABAT163COORDINATOR ADAMS MEETING WITH MINISTER OF HEALTH AND
[...] (SBU) Minister of Health Care and Medical Industry Byashim Sopiev expressed undiluted appreciation for past and present joint health programs, and readiness for new ones, throughout a one-hour meeting with EUR/ACE Assistance Coordinator Tom Adams, USAID Assistant Administrator Douglas Menarchi [...]
2007-02-08 11:48:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT171EUR/ACE VISIT WITH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE
[...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Director of FSA Programs Deborah Klepp discussed potential areas for U.S. technical assistance with Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance (MOEF) Tuvakmammed Japarov and Chief International Specialist Galina Romanova on January 31 as part of EUR/ACE Coordinator Adams's Turkmenist [...]
2007-02-09 10:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD PINR TX US
07ASHGABAT175EUR/ACE Adams' Visit: Turkmenistan's Newest
[...] (SBU) U.S. government security assistance delegates visiting Turkmenistan January 31-February 2 met with law-enforcement donor-community members from several international organizations and diplomatic missions for a discussion that quickly focused on border-security issues, specifically border- [...]
2007-02-09 11:29:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM SNAR KIPR PREL TX US
07ASHGABAT201ACTING PARLIAMENT SPEAKER NURBERDIYEVA WELCOMES A/S BOUCHER
[...] (U) Acting Parliamentary (Mejlis) Speaker Akja Nurberdiyeva unreservedly welcomed SCA A/S Boucher's suggestion of legislative exchange and assistance activities in their cordial February 15 meeting. Nurberdiyeva described the Mejlis's altered functions and listed its main current agenda items [...]
2007-02-16 12:06:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT220A/S BOUCHER MEETS, VIEWS SUCCESS OF USG PROGRAMS IN LEBAP
[...] (SBU) A/S Boucher found Turkmenabat (capital of Lebap province),broadly aglow in anticipation of new post-Niyazov openness and opportunities, and looking for the United States to help realize the latter, in his February 16 meetings with the governor, community-activist groups, American-Corne [...]
2007-02-22 03:18:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT221TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV'S CABINET
[...] (SBU) The collective impression of Berdimuhammedov's Cabinet decisions to date -- especially for the Ministries of Education and of Oil and Gas -- at first glance is dismaying and raises concerns that Turkmenistan's post-Niyazov governance is set to stay the same despite all the campaign hints [...]
2007-02-22 03:19:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT226NEW ROUND OF CABINET ANNOUNCEMENTS IN TURKMENISTAN
[...] (SBU) President Berdimuhammedov's latest tranche of personnel picks, published February 22, does even less than the prior day's to fuel outsiders' hope of early new approaches in Turkmenistan's governance. Locals, however (including many who have typically been skeptics),stand by their belie [...]
2007-02-22 13:34:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL SOCI EAID TX
07ASHGABAT228CULTURE AND EDUCATION APPOINTMENTS IN TURKMENISTAN -- MORE
[...] (U) President Berdimuhammedov's February 21 appointments in the cultural and educational sectors represent no break with the past, though in the case of the Institute of Culture and state daily newspaper, Neutral Turkmenistan, they may signal some change in the operation of the affected instit [...]
2007-02-22 13:42:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT236IN TURKMENISTAN TOP SECURITY FIGURES RE-CONFIRMED; NEW
[...] (U) Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov has reappointed his entire inherited "power ministries" team to serve in his own government, though without reappointing Defense Minister Mammetgeldiyev to his previous dual role as Secretary of the National Security Council. The new president also [...]
2007-02-26 13:26:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT242PDAS MANN SCENESETTER: TURKMENISTAN'S POST-NIYAZOV OIL/GAS
[...] (SBU) In marked contrast to Niyazov, President Berdimuhammedov has no past or expertise in the hydrocarbon sector. His and his new government's first concern has been not to introduce any instability into the status quo, and they may initially be even more unready to enact new directions than [...]
2007-02-28 13:12:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT247PDAS MANN SCENESETTER (II): TURKMENISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND
[...] (U) Post's knowledge regarding Turkmenistan's supply of electricity to Afghanistan remains essentially limited to the scant and mainly declarative details reported after the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed last April 24 by President Niyazov and an Afghanistani delegation headed by [...]
2007-03-01 13:34:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG PREL SOCI EAID AF TX US
07ASHGABAT260PRIVATE SECTOR OIL AND GAS TELLS PDAS MANN MORE FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) Private sector oil and gas representatives told visiting PDAS Steven Mann during a March 4 lunch that the primary inhibition to the further (and long-term) development of Turkmenistan's oil and gas sector was lack of foreign direct investment (FDI). They also believed that a corollary t [...]
2007-03-05 13:40:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG PREL SOCI EAID AF TX US
07ASHGABAT317TURKMENISTAN, AFGHANISTAN TO EXPAND ELECTRICITY TRADE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: USAID-Kabul's power team concluded an "understanding" March 23 in Ashgabat that is likely to lead to Turkmenistan providing northwest Afghanistan (initially) a regular supply of electric [...]
2007-03-26 12:20:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EAID AF TX UZ TI IR
07ASHGABAT407DAS ROMANOWSKI SCENESETTER -- TURKMENISTAN AND ITS
[...] (SBU) Your visit to Turkmenistan is an opportunity to help determine whether recently-elected President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov is serious about reform of the educational system or whether his pledge to improve education was more a cynical campaign ploy. Original enthusiasm over Berdimuham [...]
2007-04-20 13:32:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT48 TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA INFORMATIVE ON USTDA DELEGATION
[...] (U) State media provided positive and informative coverage on the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) delegation visit, headed by its regional director Dan Stein. The delegation held talks at ministries and agencies August 6-11, 2007. STATE MEDIA ANNOUNCES DELEGATION VISITING TURKMENI [...]
2007-09-11 04:00:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX
07ASHGABAT583BERDIMUHAMMEDOV FIRES MINISTER OF CULTURE, RECTOR OF
[...] (U) In his June 8 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, President Berdimuhammedov fired Minister of Culture Enebay Atayeva and former Minister of Education-then-director of the International Turkmen Turkish University (ITTU) Shemshat Annagylyjova. Dismissing Atayeva with a reprimand for "serious shor [...]
2007-06-12 12:57:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US
07ASHGABAT754TURKMENISTAN: USAID DAA LUTEN PROPOSES MFA
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hajiyev was pleasant but non-committal to proposals for more direct contacts between embassy personnel and working-level Turkmenistan officials during a 60-minute meeting July 23 with [...]
2007-07-27 17:11:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAGR EAID TX
07ASHGABAT757CENTRAL BANK OF TURKMENISTAN OPEN TO RENEWED U.S.
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) During a July 23 meeting with USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, the Central Bank of Turkmenistan indicated openness to assistance from the United States for the first time in two years. Assistance [...]
2007-07-27 17:22:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAGR ECON EAID EFIN TX
07ASHGABAT758 MEJLIS CHAIRS OPEN TO USAID COOPERATION
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) During a July 24 meeting with USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, Maral Poltayeva, Chairperson of the Mejlis (Parliament) Committee on Social and Economic Policy, and Akmuhammet Shamuhammedov, Chairm [...]
2007-07-30 03:37:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID TX
07ASHGABAT762TURKMENISTAN: DONORS COMPARE NOTES
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten met on July 24 with representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB),UNDP, World Bank (WB) and EU/TACIS. All agreed that working assistance programs remains a c [...]
2007-08-01 09:45:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID TX
07ASHGABAT768 TURKMENISTAN: AFGHANISTAN'S "UNPROFESSIONAL" BEHAVIOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan's Ministry of Energy and Industry Foreign Economic Affairs Department Chief Eziz Berdimyradov blasted Afghanistan's approach to negotiating increased electrical sales as "unprofessional" and questione [...]
2007-08-02 09:15:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ENRG AF TX
07ASHGABAT803TURKMENISTAN: "DEVELOP CIVIL SOCIETY" MEANS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: New Minister of Education Annaamanov appears slightly open to cooperation with the United States. However, his director of the International Department, Nury Bayramov, remains a significant impediment. Foreign Ministry Americas Department Director Bashimov told the Charge expli [...]
2007-08-07 10:09:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID SCUL KPAO KDEM TX
07ASHGABAT817 TURKMENISTAN: DASHOGUZ FARMERS MAKE GOOD USE OF U.S.
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. SUMMARY 2. (U) During his July 25 meeting with USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, Dashoguz Hakim [governor]Saparmyrat Ashyrov positively assessed USAID's contributions to economic development in Dashoguz welayat [pro [...]
2007-08-08 13:18:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID AF TX
07ASHGABAT836 TURKMENISTAN: FARMERS SPEAK OUT IN MARY PROVINCE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. SUMMARY 2. (U) During his July 27 meeting with the economic growth delegation led by USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, a cautious Mary Hakim Muhammet Gurbannazarov credited the contributions of Turkmenistan's first [...]
2007-08-15 10:47:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ENRG AF TX
07ASHGABAT851 STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT USAID DELEGATION VISIT ON ECONOMIC
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: State media provided positive and broad coverage at an unprecedented level for Deputy Assistant Administrator for USAID Drew Luten's visit to Turkmenistan, July 22-28, as the head of a delegation discussing economic [...]
2007-08-20 12:35:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID ECON SCUL KPAO OIIP TX
07ASHGABAT861 FM MEREDOV: TURKMENISTAN WANTS BROADEST POSSIBLE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a positive meeting with EEB Assistant Secretary Daniel Sullivan, Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov said SIPDIS Turkmenistan wanted concrete cooperation with the United States on the widest possible range of i [...]
2007-08-22 11:42:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ECON EAID ENRG TX
07ASHGABAT865TURKMENISTAN'S HYDROCARBON AGENCY: "HELP!"
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a remarkable meeting with EEB Assistant Secretary Sullivan, Turkmenistan's top energy negotiator, who is close to Berdimuhamedov, made crystal clear he is feeling overwhelmed by his responsibility and lack of [...]
2007-08-23 06:17:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID EPET TX
07ASHGABAT873TURKMENISTAN: NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan has decided at the highest level it wants to cooperate with the United States on economic reform and energy policy. We need to take advantage of this historic opportunity with a tiger-team response. If we can be nimble enough to be successful, we will have three o [...]
2007-08-23 10:41:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID EPET KDEM KIRF IR
07ASHGABAT893 TURKMENISTAN: GETTING AROUND THE ROADBLOCK AT THE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At the Ministry of Education (MOE),Charge made progress in drawing the Minister's attention to continuing concerns with the Embassy's education and exchange programs. This meeting was perhaps the first opportuni [...]
2007-08-28 12:30:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID SCUL KPAO TX
07ASHGABAT899TURKMENISTAN OFFICIALS TELL STAFFDEL ANAND THEY
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs (HCFA) staff delegation visiting Turkmenistan August 24-25 came eager to see evidence of positive changes in the right direction. All of their inter [...]
2007-08-29 14:18:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID TX
07ASHGABAT920TURKMENISTAN: IMPLEMENTING "EDUCATION REFORM"
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: September 1 marked the first day of the new school year in Turkmenistan under new educational reforms that President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov enacted after taking office in February 2007. The changes, which inclu [...]
2007-09-05 08:55:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID SCUL SOCI KPAO TX
07ASHGABAT923 REQUESTING DATA FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT COMPACT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-05 10:44:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID SCUL KMCA TX
07ASHGABAT966 TURKMENBASHY AMERICAN CORNER: MAYOR SAYS ONLY FOREIGN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The American Corner in the Caspian Sea port city of Turkmanbashy, closed since May 2005, can reopen if we find an "appropriate stand-alone building." This would entail higher expenses than normal for an American [...]
2007-09-13 10:29:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID SCUL KPAO TX
07ASHGABAT975TURKMENISTAN: U.S.TREASURY DEPARTMENT IDENTIFIES
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A September 10 visit by a Department of the Treasury delegation demonstrated both a strong need for monetary and fiscal policy reform, and that Treasury assistance would be useful. Although the Central Bank's Ch [...]
2007-09-14 13:12:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD TX
07ASHGABAT976TURKMENISTAN: U.S.TREASURY DEPARTMENT IDENTIFIES
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A September 10 visit by a Department of the Treasury delegation demonstrated both a strong need for monetary and fiscal policy reform, and that Treasury assistance would be useful. Although the Central Bank's Ch [...]
2007-09-14 13:13:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD TX
07ASHGABAT983 TURKMENISTAN: STATE AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHT A/S
[...] (U) State media positively highlighted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan's participation in the August 13 inauguration ceremony of the Imamnazar border checkpoint on the Turkmen-Afghan border and his August 14 meeting with Turkmenistan' [...]
2007-09-18 09:30:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP RS TX
07ASMARA28GOING, GOING, NEARLY GONE: HUMAN RIGHTS & CIVIL
[...] (C) Summary: Eritrea, once praised by many for its freedoms and possibilities, has abandoned the path of human rights and instead become one of the most restrictive and controlling societies in the world. The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) operates with a callous indifference to [...]
2007-01-10 13:59:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UNSC ECON EAID SOCI KIRF KPAO
07ASMARA345ERITREAN MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT "FROZEN"
[...] (C) President Isaias Afwerki has, by all accounts, recently "frozen" Minister of National Development (MOND),Woldai Futur, essentially stripping him of his substantive responsibilities but stopping short of formally dismissing him. In January the European Commission and World Bank both r [...]
2007-04-02 13:22:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EAID ECON ER
07ASMARA36TIME TO SPEAK UP: A NEW STRATEGY FOR ERITREA
[...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The serious abuses of human rights fo which the Government of Eritrea is responsible and its continued rejection of even the most fundamental democratic principles in governance remain serious problems and a major impediment to improvemen of bilateral ties. (refte [...]
2007-01-11 13:57:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UNSC ECON EAID SOCI KIRF KPAO ER
07ASMARA453 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOR ERITREA
[...] As reported in ref C, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) has extremely limited resources to battle an outbreak of human-to-human highly pathogenic influenza. The country's weak infrastructure and resource shortages raise serious questions about the GSE's ability to respond to even a [...]
2007-05-16 12:12:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO AMED EAID EAGR SENV ER
07ASMARA509HOT AND DRY IN KEREN: THE LOCAL ECONOMY SHRIVELS UP
[...] On a recent trip to Keren, Embassy employee observed that Eritrea's economic crisis appears more acute outside of the capital city of Asmara. Keren sits 91 km northwest of Asmara in the Anseba Zone. With a population of 120,000, Keren is a major agriculture center of Eritrea, particularly for [...]
2007-06-07 14:37:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID ECON ER
07ASMARA615ASSAB TRIP REPORT - LOCAL ECONOMY TANKING
[...] (C) Summary. Between June 16 and June 18, 2007, FSN members of post traveled to Assab, the second port city of Eritrea. They found an economy that had virtually ground to a halt and were told by local business owners that this was due to governmental restrictions on trade and movement. They [...]
2007-07-12 14:08:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EAID ECON EFIS ER
07ASMARA931CHINESE IN ERITREA SEEK ACTIVE ROLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Chinese Ambassador to Eritrea, Shu Zhan, says he and his mission seek to play a more active role in Eritrea than had the Chinese Embassy in the past. Regarding President Isaias' experience in China during the throes of the Cultural Revolution, Shu said that "perhaps he learn [...]
2007-12-10 12:33:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EAGR KOLY ER CH
07ASTANA1062KAZAKHSTAN: PARTICIPATION IN THE FORMAL SIGNING OF THE
[...] (U) On April 25, the Government of Kazakhstan informed Post via diplomatic note that Ambassador Bagdad Amreyev, Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Egypt, will attend the signing of the International Compact with Iraq on May 3 in Egypt. 2. (SBU) Sergey Savelyev of the MFA's International Security di [...]
2007-04-25 14:53:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN KZ
07ASTANA1625KAZAKHSTAN SUPPORTIVE OF US INITIATIVE FOR GREATER UNDP
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-14 00:10:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNDP EFIN EAID KZ
07ASTANA1639 KAZAKHSTAN REACTION TO EITI VALIDATION DEADLINE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Per Ref A action request, Kazakhstan appears well on its way to meeting the September 2007 deadline for completing the four Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) "sign-up" indicators, with the last criteria -- publication of a work plan -- likely to be fulfilled late [...]
2007-06-15 06:58:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ENRG EPET KZ
07ATHENS123FOREIGN MINISTRY ON GREEK AID TO IRAN, LEBANON,
[...] (C) Summary: EconCouns met January 17th with George Pandremenos, Diplomatic Director, Office of Deputy Foreign Minister Stylianides, to discuss reftels. Regarding the Paris donors' conference for Lebanon (Reftel A),Pandremenos stated that Foreign Minister Bakoyiannis and General Secretary of [...]
2007-01-19 14:16:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON EAID EXIM UNSC OECD GR IR LE
07ATHENS1707GREECE DISASTER DECLARATION
[...] I am declaring a disaster in Greece for the loss of life, loss of property, and loss of livelihoods caused by the extensive wildfires currently raging throughout Greece. I request USD 100,000 for immediate disaster relief from USAID/DCHA/OFDA. The Government of Greece has not yet made an off [...]
2007-08-28 12:21:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID PREL GR
07ATHENS1710GREECE DISASTER DECLARATION
[...] I am declaring a disaster in Greece forthe loss of life, loss of property, and loss of livelihoods caused by the extensive wildfirs currently raging throughout Greece. I request USD 100,000 for immediate disaster relie from USAID/DCHA/OFDA. The Government of Greece has not yet made an offici [...]
2007-08-28 12:22:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID PREL GR
07ATHENS1715REQUEST FOR EXEC SEC TO EXEC SEC FOR EUCOM
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see para four. 2. (C) Ref A reports on the outbreak of wildfires in Greece. Early on Saturday August 25, MFA SecGen Agathocles told Charge that the government of Greece would welcome any and all support that the USG or U.S. Military Forces could provi [...]
2007-08-29 03:55:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALEAID MASS PREL GR
07ATHENS1741GREE FIRES: AUGUST 31 UPDATE
[...] (SBU) The Greek wild fires continue to diminish. The Greek Government's focus is turning to reconstruction and support for victims. There has been prominent coverage of President Bush's message of condolence to PM Karamanlis. The Government of Greece has welcomed U.S. firefighting equipment [...]
2007-08-31 13:04:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDOPS CASC PREL PGOV EAID GR
07ATHENS1761GREEK FIRES: SEPT. 4 UPDATE
[...] (U) This message contains an action request -- see paragraph 9. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Greek Fire Service has announced that all wild fires are now out. PM Karamanlis presented a recovery plan to the nation over the weekend, as did opposition PASOK's Papandreaou. FM B [...]
2007-09-04 15:02:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS CASC PREL PGOV EAID GR
07ATHENS1892 Athens "Challenge of Climate" Conference - Oct 14-16
[...] Summary. Details of the upcoming "The Challenge of Change" climate change conference are solidifying in wake of the recent national elections in Greece. As the list of confirmed speakers fills with prominent members of Government andthe Energy community, the conference has grown to include a [...]
2007-09-20 04:58:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KGHG SOCI ENGR EAID GR
07ATHENS2006 Date Change for Athens "Challenge of Climate" Conference -
[...] Summary. In response to the recent GoG elections, and the selection of new Minister of Development Christos Folias, the organizing committee of the Athens "Challenge of Change" Climate Change conference announced the postponement of the conference until May 2008. The primary reason given for [...]
2007-10-05 14:30:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV SOCI EAID GR
07ATHENS763GREECE WANTS TO ATTEND SIGNING OF INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) On April 12, DepPolCouns delivered reftel points on the signing of the International Compact with Iraq to Greek MFA D1 International Organizations Directorate deputy chief Ambassador Alexandros Rallis then followed up with acting deputy chief of the A7 Directorate for Arab and Middle East [...]
2007-04-17 09:02:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PGOV PREL GR
07BAGHDAD1045MNF-I AND REGIONAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAM MEMBERS
[...] (U) RRT Off attended a meeting on March 1 in Sulaimaniyah led by Major General Benjamin Mixon, Commanding General of the 25th Infantry Division and Brigadier General Frank Wiercinski, Assistant Division Commander for the US Multi-National Division North in Iraq, with the Governor of Sulaiman [...]
2007-03-26 18:54:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD1550ACCELERATING BUDGET EXECUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-11 10:59:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL EAID PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD1576CORRECTED COPY: ACCELERATING BUDGET EXECUTION
[...] (C) Summary: Capital budget execution in Iraq is a problem acknowledged by all levels of the Iraqi government. The GOI recognizes that delivering goods and services is a vital aspect of economic governance, and a major element of the GoI's popular reputation. Given the importance of capital [...]
2007-05-14 07:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL EAID PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD1654TWO ISSUES REGARDING IRRF RE-OBLIGATION AUTHORITY
[...] As the infrastructure programs supported by Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds (IRRF) come to an end over the next year, it is important that we retain the ability to shift funds among projects through re-obligation authority. We also need to make the de-obligation/re-obligation procedures m [...]
2007-05-21 07:00:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID IZ PREL
07BAGHDAD1806IRAQ COMPACT: DPM BARHAM SALIH APPROVES
[...] (SBU) According to Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih,s office, the DPM has approved a UN-drafted framework for establishing a Secretariat to govern implementation of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI). DPM Chief of Staff Ahmed Salman, joined by UN and World Bank representatives [...]
2007-05-30 16:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN IZ
07BAGHDAD2051 Iraq Generates 5000 MW of Electricity - ITAO Project
[...] SUMMARY. On June 7, 2007 electricity peak production in Iraq achieved a milestone of 5000 MW and on the next day production reached 5208 MW. After a short downturn, over 5000 MW was again attained on June 13th and 14th. These are the highest production levels since August of 2006 and represe [...]
2007-06-22 10:11:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL SOCI IQ
07BAGHDAD2067 IRAQ'S HANDLING OF THE CURFEW AT THE BAGHDAD AIRPORT
[...] SUMMARY: Following the recent al-Askiri Mosque bombing, the Government of Iraq imposed a curfew. Curfews, of course, have complex consequences. The GoI's successful handling of the curfew in regard to passenger traffic at the Baghdad International Airport showed its increased abilities to plan [...]
2007-06-24 14:46:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAIR PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD2346PRT MOSUL: USAID'S SNOWBALLING PROGRESS IN NINEWA
[...] (SBU) Ninewa PRT's robust USAID efforts are making exceptional progress, especially in Ninewa's most difficult areas. New sustainable programs coordinated with Coalition and Iraqi leadership have multiplied our efforts to empower Provincial government and promote economic recovery. USAID an [...]
2007-07-15 12:28:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON OIIP PGOV KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD2402FINMIN JABR DISCUSSES DEBT, BUDGET AND BANKING
[...] (C) Begin Summary: In a meeting with Finance Minister Bayan Jabr, Economic Minister Charles Ries discussed a wide range of economic issues including the status of an agreement on the extension of a credit line between the Trade Bank of Iraq and JP Morgan, an update on Kuwaiti diesel fuel import [...]
2007-07-19 07:25:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN IZ PREL
07BAGHDAD2513NINEWA'S HERKI KURDS - THIS PROVINCE'S LARGEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurds of the Herki tribe, notorious in Iraq for their role as collaborators with Saddam Hussein, are the largest unresolved IDP issue in the northern province of Ninewa. They face threats from the Kurdish political establishment, which has not forgotten their actions under [...]
2007-07-30 06:15:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV MARR EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD2541BUDGET EXECUTION UPDATE: ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT NOT
[...] (C) Summary: Several actions undertaken by the Government of Iraq (GOI) in recent months and an increase in data reporting by GOI units underscore the importance with which the GOI now views this issue. The developing creation of a culture of accountability between the GOI and its citizens is [...]
2007-07-31 13:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IZ EAID PREL PGOV
07BAGHDAD2550IRFFI DONORS DISCUSS TERMS OF REFERENCE
[...] (SBU) The Italian Embassy hosted an informal meeting of the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) Donors Committee on July 31. Representatives from Donor countries were invited to review a draft report on the Terms of Reference (TOR),which were originally raised at the l [...]
2007-08-01 07:16:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD2568JAPANESE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCES NEW LOANS FOR
[...] (C) Begin Summary: Japanese Ambassador in Charge of Reconstruction Assistance to Iraq Gotaro Ogawa told Economic Minister on July 31 that the GOJ was prepared to sign an agreement with the GOI Minister of Finance for two new reconstruction projects financed by soft loans. Despite meeting with [...]
2007-08-02 05:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD2668NINEWA: DPM SALAH HOSTS BREAKTHROUGH MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih hosted August 1 a breakthrough meeting between senior Iraqi Government ministers and deputy ministers, and Ninewa Governor Kashmoula, his top two technical deputies, and seven Provincial Directors General (PDG) representing key central [...]
2007-08-11 12:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR EAID ECON IZ
07BAGHDAD2713NINEWA: GETTING HAJJ FLIGHTS OFF THE GROUND AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Salih and Acting Minister of Transportation verbally committed to ensuring that this year's Hajj flights will leave from Mosul Airport during an August 1 meeting with Ninewa Governor Kashmoula, senior Ministers and Provincial Director Generals (reftel). Thi [...]
2007-08-15 12:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID EAIR ECON KISL PGOV PHUM IZ
07BAGHDAD2724 IRAQ'S RAILROAD
[...] SUMMARY: According to a July 25 report by the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE),the Iraqi Republic Railway (IRR) is assessed as functional and currently transports grain, petroleum and refined oil products in southern Iraq, cargo from Syria, excluding Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) and a limi [...]
2007-08-16 02:17:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAIR PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD2728BAGHDAD CITY HALL TAKES INITIATIVE TO EXPAND ITS
[...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Baghdad Amanat (City Hall) has been independently continuing and improving earlier USG capacity building projects. In particular, a city Training Center is providing technical and management classes to Amanat professional sta [...]
2007-08-16 12:12:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PINR PINS EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD2730NINEWA: TERRORISTS, CRIMINALS AND NON-SUNNI
[...] (C) Summary: Although Mosul University in the northern Iraqi province of Ninewa has operated nearly continuously since 2003, the triple threats of terrorist infiltration, criminal activity and a gutting of the non-Sunni student population and professoriate threaten the institution. During an [...]
2007-08-16 12:17:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV SCUL KPAO PINR PHUM EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD2744NINEWA: IRAQI DPM VISITS BOMB SITE, BRINGS USD 1
[...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, accompanied by the Minister of Defense and Deputy Minister of Interior, August 16 visited the site of the August 14 VBIED attacks on the villages of Qahtaniya and Al Jazeera in the Ninewa province of northern Iraq. With best estimates by the provincial [...]
2007-08-16 17:21:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV EAID PREL PINR PTER KDEM ASEC IZ
07BAGHDAD2757Electricity Mirage: No Provincial
[...] SUMMARY: Three provincial governors (Najaf, Al Anbar and Basrah) have said publicly that they intend to disconnect their governates from the national electricity grid. None has actually done so. They are exercised over the Iraq Ministry of Electricity's inability to meet growing provincial elec [...]
2007-08-19 09:56:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAIR PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD2780RELIEF EFFORTS IN WAKE OF AUGUST 14 BOMBINGS IN
[...] (C) Relief efforts are broadening following the August 14 bombings in Qahtaniya and Al Jazeera in Ninewa Province, northern Iraq, with the arrival of additional Iraqi contributions, as well as assistance from international organizations and NGOs - following on the initial relief primarily prov [...]
2007-08-20 11:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PREL PINR PTER KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD2818BAGHDAD ELECTRICITY SHORTAGES EXACERBATED BY FUEL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Baghdad residents get an average of about two hours per day of electricity from the national grid and an additional 16.3 hours per day of electricity from neighborhood and personal generators, at a total cost of about USD 171.00 per month, according to local contacts and a recent [...]
2007-08-22 12:53:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PINR IZ EAID EAIR PREL
07BAGHDAD2833NINEWA: IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE NEEDS BEING MET IN
[...] (C) Given the recovery efforts on the ground in Qahtaniya and Al-Jazeera after the massive August 14 attacks (reftels),local Iraqi officials are still trying to set a final, accurate number of casualties. The latest numbers provided by Coalition Forces are 345 killed, 725 wounded (about 320 [...]
2007-08-23 16:53:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PREL PTER KDEM MOPS IZ
07BAGHDAD2860NINEWA: PRT SUPPORTS FARMERS' ASSOCIATION IN
[...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa is supporting the formation of grassroots farmers' organizations in the religiously and ethnically diverse towns of Bartallah & Al Qosh in northeastern Ninewa P [...]
2007-08-26 10:44:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EAGR PHUM PGOV KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD2899 CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN THE KURDISH REGION
[...] SUMMARY: Over the past two weeks there has been a rise in illnesses with diarrhea and vomiting in Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk. The Kurdistan regional Minister of Health estimates that there are a total of 4,000 new cases since the middle of August. Of these cases, 70 have been confirmed as cholera [...]
2007-08-29 13:39:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD2947INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ'S SLUGGISH
[...] (C) Summary: Iraqi implementation of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) is in danger of losing momentum following its May 3 launch. The GoI named a director on May 28 to its ICI Secretariat, but has not staffed the Secretariat, nor formed most of the ICI working groups. The SIPDIS [...]
2007-09-03 15:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECIN ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IZ PREL
07BAGHDAD2976INAUGURAL IRAQ ECONOMIC CONTACT GROUP MEETING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-05 13:23:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECIN ECON EFIN EINT EINV ENRG EPET ETRD
07BAGHDAD3006CORRECTED COPY: INAUGURAL IRAQ ECONOMIC CONTACT
[...] (U) This is a corrected copy of Baghdad 02976. Previous transmission sent in error. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On August 21 Economic Minister Charles Ries convened a meeting of senior diplomatic, military, and international institution officials in Baghdad interested in economic issues. EMIN told th [...]
2007-09-08 11:41:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECIN ECON EFIN EINT EINV ENRG EPET ETRD
07BAGHDAD3078INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN IRAQ
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At 2.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs),Iraq now ranks third in the world among countries with IDP populations, behind only Sudan and Colombia. Such large-scale displacement in Iraq is producing potentially permanent social and religious segregation. Coordination r [...]
2007-09-12 11:26:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDUN EAID PREF PHUM PREL ECON IZ
07BAGHDAD3104NINEWA: 2007 HAJJ FLIGHTS: PROGRESS TO DATE,
[...] (SBU) PRT Ninewa organized a September 5 meeting of the Mosul Airport Hajj Operations Committee for Iraqi Prime Ministerial Advisor on Airports and Seaports Ahmed Al-Saadawi and Ninewa Governor Kashmoula. Both reported the Hajj Committee had approved Mosul as a point of embarkation for 2007 [...]
2007-09-15 05:06:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PGOV EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD3176UPDATE ON INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ
[...] (C) The Iraqis have made additional progress in implementing the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) since post's in-depth reftel. ICI Secretariat head Ahmed Salman (Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih's Chief of Staff (COS)) will be moving to the United States within the month, and the curr [...]
2007-09-21 13:39:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECIN ECON EFIN EINT EINV ENRG EPET ETRD
07BAGHDAD3209 RECORD BREAKING ELECTRICTY PRODUCTION
[...] SUMMARY: On September 16, 2007, the Ministry of Electricity (ME) set the latest in a series of record-breaking electricity production output levels. For the past five weeks the ME has sustained an upward trajectory of power production, which holds the promise of a new higher overall baseline po [...]
2007-09-24 11:38:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAIR PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3529 CHALABI HEADS NEW SERVICES COMMITTEE
[...] SUMMARY: In a follow-on meeting to the inaugural services committee meeting, Iraq Transition Assistance Office (ITAO) Director, Mark Tokola, met with Dr. Ahmed Chalabi on Monday, October 22. The recently named chairman to Mailiki's new services committee briefly discussed the committee's missi [...]
2007-10-24 11:21:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3550WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT IDPS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-26 10:12:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDUN EAID PREF PHUM PREL ECON IZ
07BAGHDAD3565 CHALABI'S SERVICES COMMITTEE SHOWS PROMISE
[...] SUMMARY: Pending a formal executive order from Prime Minister, Nouri AL Maliki, the services committee holds regular meetings and shows early signs of cooperation and action. At an October 25 meeting, the Committee made several decisions. END SUMMARY. ------------------------------- Fuel an [...]
2007-10-28 03:25:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3579NINEWA: NON-TRADITIONAL IDPS PULLED FROM MANY
[...] (C) Management of internally displaced persons (IDPs) is a significant issue facing Ninewa, which contains the second largest IDP population in Iraq. There is one formal camp and a few concentrated settlements; however, the majority of IDPs are spread throughout the ethnic communities in this [...]
2007-10-29 02:53:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PREL MARR EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD3672PRT NINEWA: LOCAL BUSINESS SAY WHAT IT WOULD TAKE
[...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Provincial Reconstruction Team Ninewa (PRT) regularly engages the Iraqi private sector in and around Mosul, a region known for its historically active traders, agricultural processors and constructio [...]
2007-11-06 03:17:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PREL EAGR EAID PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD3674PRT NINEWA: LOCAL FARMERS LAUNCH MULTISECTARIAN,
[...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) In a region of eastern Ninewa, northern Iraq, more often known for confrontation and competition over scarce land resources, six Al Hamdaniya District farmers - with strong PRT Ninewa support (see reftel) - established Oc [...]
2007-11-06 03:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID ECON IZ PGOV PHUM
07BAGHDAD3675PRT NINEWA:LENDING MARKET IS DRY BUT SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-06 03:19:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID EINV IZ PGOV PTER
07BAGHDAD3708 DR. CHALABI'S SERVICES COMMITTEE
[...] SUMMARY: Only three weeks have passed since the surprise announcement naming Dr. Ahmed Chalabi as chair of a new Baghdad services committee. Since that time, the committee has met weekly, had open discussions and come to several conclusions. Implementation of the committee's recommendations is [...]
2007-11-10 12:12:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3793 Baghdad Services Committee
[...] SUMMARY: Attendance at Dr. Ahmed Chalabi's meeting was down this week, lacking representation from the Ministries of Oil, Electricity and Education. The committee heard for the first time from the Ministry of Trade and Commerce as well as the Ministry of Transportation. The committee did review [...]
2007-11-19 04:57:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD38272008 FUNDS FOR IRAQ - THE GROUND TRUTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Less than a year underway, the surge has produced major security, diplomatic and economic results; however, those gains will be in jeopardy should the current House and Senate versions of the fiscal year 2008 State, Foreign Operations and related appropriations bills pass in curr [...]
2007-11-23 13:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PINS ECON PREL ASEC KDEM IZ EAID
07BAGHDAD3833 Baghdad Services Committee
[...] SUMMARY: The Baghdad Services Committee chaired by Dr. Ahmed Chalabi pressed forward on November 20th with a high number of attendees, including representatives from the city administration and the Baghdad Operations Command (security). Given the number of participants representing various inte [...]
2007-11-24 09:30:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3836 Baghdad Services Committee
[...] SUMMARY: The Baghdad Services Committee chaired by Dr. Ahmed Chalabi pressed forward on November 20th with a high number of attendees, including representatives from the city administration and the Baghdad Operations Command (security). Given the number of participants representing various inte [...]
2007-11-25 02:30:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3841IRAQI FINANCE MINISTER UPBEAT ON 2008 BUDGET, DEBT
[...] (C) Begin Summary: During a 21 November working dinner, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN and TreasAtt that he does not anticipate any problems getting the 2008 draft budget passed by the Council of Representatives (CoR). He highlighted four key concessions made by the Kurdistan Regional G [...]
2007-11-25 14:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3862ICI SECRETARIAT IMPLEMENTATION MOVING AHEAD...AGAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih is close to officially announcing an ICI Secretariat head, Iraqi Secretariat staff, and the formation of ICI thematic working SIPDIS groups (TWGs) in an early December ICI Executive Steering Committee meeting in Baghdad. Problems still [...]
2007-11-27 13:03:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON IZ PREL
07BAGHDAD3931 THE EVER-EVOLVING CHALABI SERVICE COMMITTEE
[...] SUMMARY: Chalabi's service committee yet again changed format at it's November 27th meeting. Representatives from Baghdad's rural areas attended last week's meeting and detailed their service needs in what looked and felt like a town hall meeting. At the committee's previous meetings only offic [...]
2007-12-04 02:04:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3946NINEWA: HAJJ FLIGHT INAUGURATES MOSUL'S FIRST
[...] (U) In Mosul's first commercial passenger flight operation since 1993, Iraqi Airways Flight 020 departed Mosul Airport for Baghdad International Airport at 2230 December 2 with approximately 150 Hajj pilgrims. A second Iraqi Airways flight departed Mosul Airport December 3 with approximately [...]
2007-12-05 08:34:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EAIR EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD4006CO-FINANCING HEADLINES IRFFI DONORS COMMITTEE
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Ambassador De Martino chaired the first International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFF) Donors Committee meeting following Bari. Recently arrived UN SRSG Steffan De Mistura also gave opening remarks during a mostly unremarkable meeting. MoPDC senior advisor Dr. [...]
2007-12-10 16:27:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV IZ
07BAGHDAD4014 CHALABI SERVICE COMMITTEE REVIEWS PROGRESS
[...] SUMMARY: Pausing to review previously adopted recommendations, the Services Committee dedicated nearly two hours of discussion at its December 4 meeting to that end. The Ministries of Trade, Oil, Defense, Health and Electricity presented, as did the Amanat and a council representative from Sabi [...]
2007-12-11 10:19:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD4032PM MALIKI CHAIRS ICI BAGHDAD COORDINATION GROUP
[...] (SBU) On December 10 Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki chaired a meeting of International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Baghdad Coordination Group (BCG) to provide the international donor community with an update on ICI implementation. Maliki opened the 45 minute session by noting the difficulties faci [...]
2007-12-12 07:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD4055REHABILITATING INDUSTRY IN DIYALA PROVINCE - PROGRESS AT
[...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. SUMMARY -------- 2. (U) In the wake of recent clearing operations by Coalition Forces in Baqubah, rehabilitation of the primary State-Owned industrial facility in Diyala province made good progress in September and October. The Director General [...]
2007-12-13 15:03:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ
07BAGHDAD4056Currency in the city - A Diyala Banking Update
[...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Despite various setbacks in September, October was a very successful month for banking in Diyala. Most significantly, Ministry of Finance contracted money trucks are now being used to transport funds from Baghdad to Baq [...]
2007-12-13 15:04:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ
07BAGHDAD4063Weekly Update: Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee -
[...] SUMMARY: The December 11 Baghdad Services Committee meeting reviewed previous recommendations, briefly mentioned an oil report to be discussed more thoroughly at an upcoming meeting and reviewed GoI contracting procedures. It was attended by representatives from the Ministries of Defense, Trade [...]
2007-12-14 12:47:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ REL UK
07BAGHDAD4099IRAQI LEGISLATIVE CASE STUDY: JAPANESE ODA LOAN
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Approximately one year following initial agreement, a batch of Iraqi reconstruction assistance projects financed with Japanese soft-loans has nearly completed its journey through the Iraqi legislative process. Currently, ten projects (valued at some USD 2.1 billion) have b [...]
2007-12-17 13:26:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD4111Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - December 16
[...] SUMMARY: The Provision of Services Committee met December 16 in a special meeting to hear from representatives from Nahrawan and Mada'in. Council members detailed their service needs which included potable water, doctors and medical equipment, schools and security for electricity infrastructure [...]
2007-12-18 09:00:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ REL UK
07BAGHDAD4123IMPROVING USG BUDGET EXECUTION IN IRAQ
[...] SUMMARY: We are seeking ways to improve the delivery of programs inside Iraq with resultant increase of US budget execution. Dramatic improvements may be difficult to come by, but we have recommendations to offer that would not only promote funds disbursement, but also improve Iraqi involvement [...]
2007-12-19 04:10:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD4179IMF UNDERPLAYS IRAQ 2007 ECONOMIC GROWTH
[...] (U) This is an action request for the Department, Embassy Amman and Treasury. Please see para 6. 2. (C) On December 19, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unanimously voted to approve a new Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) for Iraq. In its attendant SBA report, the Fund [...]
2007-12-26 07:38:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD453UMM QASR PORT NEED FOR CAPACITY BUILDING AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 1, a visit by the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office's (IRMO) Director of Operations for Electricity and Oil, its Trade Office, and Econ officers to the Government of Iraq's (GoI) port facilities at Umm Qasr (PUQ) provided a first-hand look at the chaotic, ineffi [...]
2007-02-11 12:00:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON EAID ETRD EWWT PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD536WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR STRESSES COMMITMENT
[...] (C) Summary. World Bank Managing Director Dr. Juan Jose Daboub visited Baghdad Feb. 12 for a one-day visit that included a call on the Charge and his senior economic team. Daboub reaffirmed that Iraq,s development remains a top priority for the Bank, striking an unexpectedly positive note on [...]
2007-02-15 07:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EAID IZ
07BAGHDAD558NINEWA: TURKISH CONSULATE STANDS UP IN MOSUL
[...] (C) Turkish Consul General for Mosul Huseyn Botsali arrived in Mosul 10 February to assume permanent residence at the new GOT Consulate in Mosul. He met PRT Team Leader Knight at PRT offices 11 Feb to review administrative and support matters arising from his new status as our permanent int [...]
2007-02-17 13:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF EPET EAID MARR TU IZ
07BAGHDAD699 NEA DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUTLER
[...] (SBU) During his first visit to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, NEA DAS Butler held separate meetings on February 16 with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Director of the Office of Foreign Relations Falah Mustafa Bakir and Minister of Planning and Development Othman Shwani. 2. (SBU) Both B [...]
2007-02-25 15:31:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPOL ECON EAID AMGT IZ
07BAGHDAD810COMMERCE U/S LAVIN VISIT TO ERBIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Department of Commerce Under Secretary Franklin Lavin met with GOI officials, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) representatives and US and Iraqi business leaders in Erbil Feb 19-20 to engage on economic policy and inaugurate the US-Iraq Business Dialogue and launch the Commercial [...]
2007-03-07 07:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EINV IZ
07BAGHDAD836REQUEST FOR EXPEDITED APPROVAL TO PROVIDE
[...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 9 and 10. This is a joint cable from Ambassador Khalilzad and General Petraeus. 2. (C) Summary: Government of Iraq ministries continue to face major obstacles to the prompt execution of their budgets, particularly major procurements of [...]
2007-03-09 11:49:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON ENRG IZ
07BAGHDAD838UPDATE ON BASRAH CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
[...] (U) This is an action requested message, action requested in paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary: IRMO has worked closely with GRD over the past two months to assure that the donation of Spain through UNDP could be utilized as quickly as possible on the project. UN required UNDP to treat funds as [...]
2007-03-09 14:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON ENRG IZ
07BAGHDAD866HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTRY COMPLAINS OF LOW DONOR
[...] (C) Summary. Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) senior officials complained to PolOffs March 6 that they had yet to see substantive assistance from international donors, despite efforts by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to coordinate such assistance. At the heart of the ministry's e [...]
2007-03-12 07:38:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID IZ
07BAKU12072008 BUDGET FORECASTS ANOTHER LARGE INCREASE IN
[...] (SBU) The Cabinet of Ministers approved the 2008 state budget on September 25 and sent it to the President's office for approval and final submission to Parliament. Exact details regarding the composition of the budget have not yet been disclosed publicly. According to initial press reports, [...]
2007-10-02 07:45:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID AJ
07BAKU1239AZERBAIJAN DOING BUSINESS EASIER; TRANSPARENCY NOT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's ranking in the 2008 World Bank/IFC "Doing Business" report improved five positions, to 96 of 178, due primarily to the April 2007 Presidential decree instructing government ministries and agencies to develop a plan to improve the business climate, including developing [...]
2007-10-16 06:24:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL KCOR EAID AJ
07BAKU1265AZERBAIJAN: U.S. SPEAKER ON AVIAN INFLUENZIA ROBERT TANAKA
[...] Summary: Embassy Baku hosted a U.S. Speaker on Avian Influenza (AI) Dr. Robert Tanaka June 12 - 16. Tanaka held meetings at the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, State Veterinary Service, visited other organizations involved in health protection issues, and conducted a media interv [...]
2007-10-19 12:19:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR KFLU KPAO AJ
07BAKU131GOAJ RAISES SALARIES AND MINIMUM WAGE TO COUNTER
[...] (U) At a January 22 meeting with government ministers, President Aliyev publicly expressed his support for the recent increase in fuel prices and public utility tariffs (refs a and b). The President also announced new government measures, including salary increases, in order to minimize the n [...]
2007-01-26 12:32:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL EAID AMGT AJ
07BAKU1320AZERBAIJAN'S "NEW" PARLIAMENT SETTLES INTO ITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's "new" Parliament, which was elected in November 2005, began its fourth session on October  [...]
2007-11-02 08:44:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ
07BAKU1330PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH: ECONOMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 23 cabinet meeting, President Aliyev detailed the social and economic successes of the first nine months of 2007. In a prepared statement, Aliyev commended the Government of Azerbaijan's (GOAJ) efforts to create jobs, develop the rural areas and improve the living [...]
2007-11-06 10:17:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EAID PREL KCOR EFIN AJ
07BAKU1389WESTERN AZERBAIJAN: REGIONAL NON-OIL SECTOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Econoffs visited a range of private and primarily agricultural companies in western Azerbaijan around Azerbaijan's second largest city, Ganja, to discuss regional development in the non-oil sector. The team met with Ganja's regional governor, visited the newly opened regional ai [...]
2007-11-16 13:04:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR EAID USDA AJ
07BAKU1404AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMOCRACY MESSAGE IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a November 7 visit to the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan, the Ambassador delivered a strong message on the importance of democratic development to Azerbaijan's future. She met with Nakhchivan Prime Minister Alovsat Bakhshiyev, and visited several Nakhchivani historic [...]
2007-11-26 09:38:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PBTS EAID AR AJ
07BAKU1446AMBASSADOR REVIEWS RANGE OF PARLIAMENTARY ISSUES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Speaker of Parliament Ogtay Asadov said that USAID's Parliamentary Assistance Project has so far been successful. The Ambassador urged Parliament to move quickly on draft new laws on money laundering and anti-terrorist finance, which [...]
2007-12-05 14:09:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID PBTS AJ
07BAKU14642007-2008 INSCR FOR AZERBAIJAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-11 06:22:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL EAID AJ
07BAKU1506AZERBAIJAN: DRAFT 2008 EPC AGENDA AND DELIVERABLES
[...] (SBU) Embassy passes to Washington colleagues initial thoughts for the 2008 EPC agenda items and potential deliverables and welcomes Washington's comments, edits and additions. We note that in this early draft of possible deliverables, many of the proposed action items are for the Government [...]
2007-12-18 10:00:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EAID PREL ENRG KCOR AJ
07BAKU235PRESIDENT ALIYEV MEETS US EPC DELEGATION, WELCOMES
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 6 meeting with members of the US Economic Partnership Commission (EPC) delegation, President Aliyev said that he welcomes the new EPC structure because it presents a new opportunity to address a broad range of economic and commercial issues. Aliyev underscored [...]
2007-02-22 14:13:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PREL PGOV AJ
07BAKU269AZERBAIJAN: EPC NEXT STEPS AND FOLLOW-UP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on the successful February 7 inaugural Economic Partnership Commission meeting, Embassy provides the following ideas for next steps to build upon the positive momentum created from elevating the U.S.-AJ bilateral economic dialogue. The Government of Azerbaijan (GOA [...]
2007-03-05 13:01:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL EAID EAGR AJ
07BAKU274IMF CONSULTATIONS REVEAL GROWING INFLATION AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The IMF briefed the international community February 27 on its recently concluded Article IV consultations with the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ). In an upbeat session, lead IMF economist Vitali Kramarenko noted that initial estimates for inflation in 2007 were close to 20 perc [...]
2007-03-06 12:38:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID PREL AJ
07BAKU291AZERBAIJAN: A/S SULLIVAN LEADS SUCCESSFUL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Sharifov and Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Assistant Secretary Daniel Sullivan opened the inaugural U.S.-Azerbaijan Economic Partnership Commission February 7, elevating the bilateral economic dialogue and leading a constructive dialogue focusing upon Az [...]
2007-03-09 14:42:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EAID PREL AJ
07BAKU319AZERBAIJAN MOVING FORWARD ON WTO ACCESSION
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Economic Development Babayev told the Ambassador he had convinced Prime Minister Rasizade and the Cabinet of Ministers of the merits of trade liberalization and secured agreement to accelerate WTO accession efforts. As a first step, the GOAJ will elevate its existin [...]
2007-03-16 12:52:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PREL PGOV AJ
07BAKU439UN SECGEN REPRESENTATIVE UPBEAT ON GOAJ'S
[...] (C) Summary: On April 5, UN Secretary General Representative Walter Kalin briefed the diplomatic corps at the end of his fact-finding mission on IDP conditions in Azerbaijan. Kalin was impressed by the GOAJ's efforts to address its IDP problem, especially its construction of suitable permane [...]
2007-04-16 11:55:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM EAID AJ
07BAKU446AZERBAIJANI FINANCE MINISTER ON EPC, CO-FINANCING,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Derse called on Finance Minister Sharifov April 14 to discuss next steps for the Economic Partnership Commission, including the creation of the Co-Financing Working Group and a proposed June DVC with A/S Sullivan. Sharifov said that upon receipt of the U.S. Proposal fo [...]
2007-04-17 11:32:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID EPET ENRG AJ
07BAKU47AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES EU ACTION PLAN WITH PETER
[...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative Peter Semneby told the Ambassador on December 15 that he was in Baku to take stock of the EU's relationship with Azerbaijan, support the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) peace process, and express concern over recent media and human rights problems. The Ambassador [...]
2007-01-10 14:26:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PBTS KDEM PHUM EAID ENRG AJ
07BAKU476AZERBAIJAN: TECHNICAL SUPPORT STRATEGY AND PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Democratic and economic reform is essential to Azerbaijan's long-term stability and prosperity. Azerbaijan's WTO accession process is a vital instrument of reform efforts, as it will put in place the legal, regulatory and institutional framework necessary for Azerbaijan to emerge as a ru [...]
2007-04-20 11:08:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID USTR PREL AJ
07BAKU477AZERBAIJAN CREATES NEW SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Azerbaijani President Aliyev signed a decree March 6 creating Special Economic Zones (SEZ). The decree aims to create favorable conditions for Azerbaijan's economic development, streamline more investments in high-priority sectors, create new jobs, apply modern management practi [...]
2007-04-20 11:50:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID ETRD ENRG EPET AJ
07BAKU657EEB/CBA SPECIAL REPRESENTIVE MERMOUD DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prior to co-leading the U.S. agricultural delegation to the U.S.-Azerbaijan Agrobusiness Forum, EEB/CBA Special Representative Mermoud met with local business and government officials to discuss the development of non-energy sectors, including agriculture and high-tech. Mermoud v [...]
2007-05-30 08:30:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL EAID EAGR AJ
07BAKU68 COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD DOUGLAS MENARCHIK, ACTING E&E
[...] EMBASSY BAKU GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID ACTING EUROPE AND EURASIA BUREAU ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, EDWARD DOUGLAS MENARCHIK TO TRAVEL BAKU, AZERBAIJAN O/A FEBRUARY 6 THROUGH FEBRUARY 10, 2007. THE PURPOSE OF THE TRAVEL IS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP COMMISSION MEETINGS IN [...]
2007-01-29 11:15:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OTRA US AJ
07BAKU725 A SNAPSHOT OF BAKU'S IDP COMMUNITIES
[...] (SBU) Over the next few months, the Embassy plans to take a closer at Azerbaijan's internally displaced persons (IDP) population, estimated at roughly 675,000 persons. The GOAJ has pledged to close all existing tent camps by the end of 2007, but hundreds of thousands of IDPs still live in very [...]
2007-06-11 08:20:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PBTS PHUM PGOV EAID AM AJ
07BAKU89AZERBAIJAN: PUBLIC REACTION TO RECENT PRICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The social and economic effects of the recent surprise increases for fuel prices and utilities tariffs (ref) continue to resonate throughout Azerbaijan. Despite calls for public protests by opposition political parties and local newspapers, there have been no organized demonstra [...]
2007-01-19 05:54:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON AMGT EAID EFIN ETRD EPET ENRG AFIN AJ
07BAMAKO1223"WAHHABIS" AND ISLAM IN MALI
[...] Summary: Some external observers have become increasingly concerned over a segment of Malian Muslims frequently described as "Wahhabi" (ref A),fearing that those so labeled are likely to advance a radical agenda. This concern stems from confusion, rooted in expedient if inaccurate labels d [...]
2007-10-22 16:19:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDKISL EAID SOCI PHUM IFR PTER PINR PGOV ML
07BAMAKO1367AMBASSADOR DANILOVICH'S VISIT TO MALI: MCC SCORECARD,
[...] Summary: During his recent visit to Mali, MCC CEO Ambassador Danilovich discussed the MCC's Scorecard with Malian Prime Minister Modibo Sidibe November 14. MCC officials held a series of follow-on meetings with Malians to develop plans to address issues raised by the scorecard. Danilovich a [...]
2007-11-29 16:47:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA ML
07BAMAKO676PRESIDENT TOURE'S INAUGURATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-19 07:54:00Embassy BamakoCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID PGOV PTER ML
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN108BRUNEI: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON US INITIATIVES IN
[...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel points and proposals on March 22 to Sharifa Amalina Murad, Assistant Director of the ASEAN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Sharifa welcomed receiving the proposals in advance but had no initial comment. 2. (SBU) Sharifa and MOFAT Deputy [...]
2007-03-22 07:46:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR EAID PARM BX
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN206HEART OF BORNEO: BRUNEI WILL OFFER TO HOST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Brunei (GOB) intends to push for a quick decision on establishment of a professional secretariat to help implement the Heart of Borneo (HOB) SIPDIS tropical forest conservation initiative when it meets with Malaysia and Indonesia at the forthcoming HOB trilat [...]
2007-07-17 09:05:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanCONFIDENTIALEAID BX ID MY SENV
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN227HEART OF BORNEO TRILAT STARTS TO COORDINATE RAIN FOREST
[...] (SBU) The Government of Brunei hosted a trilateral Heart of Borneo (HoB) meeting at which Indonesian and Malaysian representatives agreed to an 11 point action plan (ref A) to begin stitching together national plans into a coherent strategy for conserving Borneo's remaining primary rain forest. [...]
2007-07-30 07:16:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID PREL BX
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN228HEART OF BORNEO TRILAT STARTS TO COORDINATE RAIN FOREST
[...] (SBU) The Government of Brunei hosted a trilateral Heart of Borneo (HoB) meeting at which Indonesian and Malaysian representatives agreed to an 11 point action plan (ref A) to begin stitching together national plans into a coherent strategy for conserving Borneo's remaining primary rain forest. [...]
2007-07-30 07:28:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID PREL BX
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN351HEART OF BORNEO: BRUNEIAN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
[...] Brunei has completed its draft Project Implementation Framework (PIF) for the Heart of Borneo (HOB) forest conservation initiative, meant to serve as a national roadmap for HOB implementation. It recommends expanding the HOB zone to 74 percent of Brunei's land area, divided into forest prese [...]
2007-12-12 07:28:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID PREL BX
07BANGKOK1774RTG RESPONSE TO U.S. INITIATIVES IN THE ASEAN
[...] (U) We delivered reftel points and printed proposals to Jitvipa Benjasil, First Secretary in the ASEAN Secreariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 23. Jitvipa said that they would take the initiatives under consideration and discuss them with other ASEAN colleagues. No further sub [...]
2007-03-26 08:46:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM EAID ARF TH
07BANGKOK1977BEACH WATER QUALITY AND TOURISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
[...] Summary: The University of California and the Universiti Sains Malaysia organized a workshop March 27-29 in Penang, Malaysia, to examine beach water quality and tourism in Southeast Asia. The conference concluded that monitoring and disseminating information on local beach water quality is es [...]
2007-04-05 02:23:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO EIND EAID
07BANGKOK3439MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS IN THAILAND: GLOBAL RISKS
[...] Collaborative efforts between the CDC and the Thai Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) have improved the accuracy of testing and reporting of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Thailand. As a result, health authorities here better understand the prevalence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively dru [...]
2007-06-21 08:51:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV PHUM PREL TH
07BANGKOK4172THAILAND'S RESPONSE TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] Summary: Thailand is vulnerable to the risks posed by global climate change and is taking initial steps to respond to those risks. The Royal Thai Government (RTG) participates in international fora on climate change and is signatory to several international agreements, including the United N [...]
2007-08-02 01:12:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PGOV PREL SOCI EAID TH
07BANGKOK5966THAILAND PROPOSALS FOR EAP WOMEN'S ISSUES FUND COMPETITION
[...] As requested in reftel, post supports the following proposals for the EAP/RSP Women's Issues Fund (WIF) Small Grants Competition. The information provided is as submitted by the organization. Proposals are listed in order of post's preference: PROPOSAL ONE ------------ a) Name of applica [...]
2007-11-28 11:29:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KWMN KPAO KCRM TH
07BANGUI112CAR PRESS CLIPPINGS MAY 28-JUNE 1
[...] (U) Arrival of Sudanese Refugees in northern CAR: The news was first announced early in the week by the spokesman for the President, Mr. Cyriaque Gonda, who gave the figure of more than 1,000 persons, some of them armed, who arrived in the city of Sam Ouandja, in the northeastern Vakaga prefec [...]
2007-06-01 17:03:00Embassy BanguiUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS PGOV EAID EFIN CT
07BANJUL100THE GAMBIA: GOTG DEFENDS ITS RECORD FOLLOWING MCA
[...] (SBU) On February 23, the Embassy received a letter, dated February 13, addressed to Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Danilovich from the Gambian President's senior adviser, Secretary General Elizabeth Harding. In the letter, Ms. Harding asserts that the GOTG is "perplexed" over the M [...]
2007-02-26 16:48:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL KMCA PGOV EAID PHUM GA
07BANJUL101THE GAMBIA: BACK ON TRACK WITH IMF
[...] (U) We note, per the IMF's press release, the IMF Executive Board's February 21 approval of a three-year, dols 21 million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for The Gambia. According to the IMF's announcement, the Executive Board also approved additional interim assistance of dols 0 [...]
2007-02-27 11:55:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ETRD EFIN PREL IMF GA
07BANJUL147THE GAMBIA: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FINANCE
[...] (C) Finance and Economy Minister Bala Gaye and Central Bank Governor Jatta were predictably upbeat on the GOTG's success in getting back on track with the IMF and were optimistic that The Gambia would perform satisfactorily under the new PRGF so as to qualify for debt relief as early as mid-20 [...]
2007-03-20 08:48:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALECON EAID ETRD EFIN PREL KMCA PTER IMF GA
07BANJUL232THE GAMBIA: INVITATION TO AGOA FORUM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-03 12:48:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV EFIN EAID GA
07BANJUL614GOTG ANNOUNCES 2008 DRAFT BUDGET
[...] (SBU) The budget figures for the 2008 fiscal year and 2007 year-end estimates released on December 3 indicate that the GOTG's new revenue collection systems are working. The budget numbers reflect, at least on paper, the government's focus of the current IMF Poverty Reduction and Strategy Pa [...]
2007-12-13 16:04:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV KMCA IMF GA
07BASRAH10POLITICIAN EVADES ASSASSINATION AFTER REO MEETING
[...] (S/REL MNF-I) Provincial Council First Deputy Chairman Nasay'eif Jasem (aka Nussaif Jasim Ali) reportedly was the target of an assassination attempt following our January 24 meeting. The attack occurred up the road from the Basrah Palace Compound (BPC) minutes after the meeting. Jasem was tra [...]
2007-01-25 17:19:00REO BasrahSECRETPTER EAID IZ IR ECON EINV
07BASRAH101MAFIA-STYLE NETWORKS STIFLE RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Basrah's infrastructure remains decrepit four and a half years after Coalition forces liberated the province. Mafia-style networks comprised of public officials and their associated political parties, militias, and corrupt contractors exploit weak governmental institutions and unde [...]
2007-10-30 17:42:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV KCOR IZ
07BASRAH112PRINCE OF THE MARSHES GIVES TOUR DE HORIZON
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The famed Abu Hatem, (aka "Prince of the Marshes") visited the Regional Embassy Office on November 16. Having closely dealt with USG agencies in Iraq for several years, he observed the need to improve interagency coordination and expand our contacts in the rural areas. He opined [...]
2007-11-20 17:23:00REO BasrahSECRETPREL PINR EAID IR IZ
07BASRAH117BASRAH DEVELOPMENT FORUM HIGHLIGHTS POLITICAL CONSENSUS FOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The "Third Basrah Development Forum" on December 12 was a resounding success. PM Maliki's presence on the dais next to Basrah Governor Wa'eli was a public announcement that the central and provincial governments are working together to solve Basrah Province's security and developm [...]
2007-12-16 11:36:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV IZ
07BASRAH16EMPOWERING THE WOMEN OF SOUTHEAST IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-23 18:33:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN EAID PHUM PREL IZ
07BASRAH54PRT BASRAH: LESSONS LEARNED: JUNE 2006 - JUNE 2007
[...] The Basrah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) is a multinational PRT under British direction. This cable records the observations and lessons learned by the U.S. deputy team leader, James Donegan, during his deployment period, June 2006 to June 2007. It is being recorded in this informal, [...]
2007-06-22 17:30:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV IZ UK
07BASRAH57SADRIST LEADER REACHES OUT TO U.S.
[...] (S/NF) Summary and Introduction: A senior cleric of the Office of Martyr Sadr (OMS) organization, Sheikh Mohammed Daoud-al-Basyri, held secret talks with the director of the Office of Provincial Affairs and the director of the Basrah Regional Embassy Office (REO) at the Basrah Air Station June [...]
2007-06-28 05:23:00REO BasrahSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER OEXC SCUL EAID IR IZ
07BASRAH6REO BASRAH CHALLENGES LOCAL MEDIA
[...] Summary. The Regional Embassy Office (REO) in Basrah hosted a luncheon on January 3 for four journalists from Basrah and Maysan provinces. The journalists focused on the security situation and expressed a desire to maintain frequent contact. The REO director stated that he wants to build a l [...]
2007-01-10 16:32:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO IZ PGOV MOPS EAID ENRG
07BASRAH82ELECTRICITY ISSUES IN BASRAH
[...] (SBU) Summary: REO Discussions with a wide range of contacts revealed an intermittent supply of 8 to 9 hours of grid electricity per day for Basrah, with ever rising demand. Single family or neighborhood for-profit generators are common, as is theft from grid lines. The lack of consumer billin [...]
2007-09-08 14:51:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EAID ECON PGOV IZ
07BASRAH94PRT/USACE WORKSHOP GETS PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND GOVERNATE
[...] (U) Summary: In an August 31 - September 5 conference at the Dubai School of Government, the Basrah PRT and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers introduced best practices by successful UAE and Jordanian municipal services providers to Basrah municipal service directorate (sewage, water and electricity) [...]
2007-10-13 09:59:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PREL IZ
07BASRAH95PROMOTING GRASS ROOTS EFFORTS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE
[...] (SBU) Over the past two months, militia attacks against Coalition personnel in Basrah have significantly subsided, but the absence of anti-Coalition violence has not resulted in tranquility for the citizens of Basrah. Shi'a militias and criminal gangs continue to terrorize Basrawis through a c [...]
2007-10-13 13:03:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER EAID KWMN IZ
07BEIJING1094FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: OECD VISITOR ON CHINA'S LIMITED
[...] (SBU) China has a growing but still limited willingness to discuss its emerging role as a donor, to be transparent about its programs, and to coordinate development assistance issues with other countries, according to Richard Manning, Chair of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC),[...]
2007-02-15 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID CH XA XB XC XD XE XF DAC
07BEIJING1484AFM CUI TIANKAI ATTEMPTS TO BROKER BETTER TIES
[...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan February 6-9 in an effort to broker better relations between the two countries in light of recent tensions, according to an MFA official. While in Afghanistan, Cui negotiated an agreement to improve the security s [...]
2007-03-07 06:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID AF PK CH
07BEIJING1505LABRANG MONASTERY: CENTER OF BUDDHIST SCHOLARSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province is one of the six major Glug monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Historiclly, it maintained relationships with over 130 branch monasteries, and today still draws monks from around China. The monastery is home to 2,000 registered and 1,500 "unregi [...]
2007-03-07 09:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID SOCI SCUL CH
07BEIJING1753ADB's NGO PROJECT GETTING HIGH MARKS IN JIANGXI
[...] (SBU) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its Chinese Government partners launched the second phase of the NGO-Government Partnerships in Village-Level Poverty Alleviation project on January 19. The pilot project, based in Jiangxi Province, was inaugurated in December 2005 (see reftel). Gov [...]
2007-03-15 07:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV SOCI CH
07BEIJING2283 ILO SEEKS DONOR FUNDING FOR CHINA MINE SAFETY
[...] Summary: The International Labor Organization (ILO) and China's State Administration for Work Safety (SAWS) seek US$1.9 million in funding for a three year project on improving occupational safety and health in China's coal mines. The project would use a tripartite approach to review mine saf [...]
2007-04-06 09:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EMIN EAID CH
07BEIJING2802PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER AZIZ'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (C) Prime Minister Aziz's April 16-20 visit to China focused on promoting economic cooperation, stated MFA Asia Department Director for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Zhang Yiming. China and Pakistan signed several agreements that were "firsts" for China including the China-Pakistan Joi [...]
2007-04-26 08:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID AF PK CH
07BEIJING3587CHINESE OPEN DOOR ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCE...MAYBE
[...] (SBU) In a possible indication of greater openness to talking about development finance, officials from China's foreign aid bureaucracy told a visiting Treasury official that they look forward to more exchanges on the topic. Long reluctant to discuss foreign aid-related issues (see reftels),t [...]
2007-05-29 09:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID CH
07BEIJING429Embassy Visit to Mine Safety Program Site
[...] (SBU) Summary. The United States Department of Labor's (USDOL) program on Mine Safety and Health in China is proceeding well. Both the State Administration for Work Safety (SAWS) and the Yangquan Coal Group (YCG),the project's industrial partner, report that the project has opened their ey [...]
2007-01-19 04:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EAID EMIN PHUM PGOV CH
07BEIJING5176INFORMAL FOREIGN AID DISCUSSIONS CONTINUE
[...] (SBU) A Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) official responsible for foreign aid told a visiting USAID official that the Chinese Government would welcome efforts by the United States to cooperate with China on economic development initiatives. The August 2 meeting followed a positive exchange with a [...]
2007-08-08 09:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID CH
07BEIJING5943DPRK TO STAFFDEL: WE WANT TO DEEPEN RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: DPRK officials lamented the technical difficulty of the denuclearization process and indicated a desire to continue deepening relations with the United States during StaffDel Baron's visit to Pyongyang August 28 to September 1. The DPRK officials expressed frustration that the U [...]
2007-09-11 07:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC EAID KN KS CH
07BEIJING6159SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: CHINESE AID TO
[...] (C) Summary: China's aid policy toward Zimbabwe has not changed, and the current spate of reports regarding Chinese aid to Zimbabwe are all the result of a misunderstanding, MFA Zimbabwe Desk Officer Wang Xiao told PolOff September 19. The rumors re-ignited following a September 18 press conf [...]
2007-09-19 11:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH ZI XA
07BEIJING6394DEMARCHE ON REDUCTION OF IRAQI DEBT DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-28 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EFIN IZ CH
07BEIJING7363U.S.-CHINA POLICY PLANNING TALKS: REGIONAL
[...] (C) During the U.S.-China Policy Planning dialogue in Beijing in November, both sides agreed that the Six-Party Talks and APEC represent important parts of the existing East Asian regional architecture, and China and the United States have common interests in those institutions. The post-Six- [...]
2007-12-05 11:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EAID APEC SENV KN JP RU TW CH
07BEIJING7364U.S.-CHINA POLICY PLANNING TALKS: AFRICA, ENERGY
[...] (C) During the U.S.-China Policy Planning dialogue in Beijing in November, MFA Director General for Policy Planning Ma Zhaoxu said the United States and China have common concerns on African development issues. He expressed hope for the region and noted the importance of China as a model and [...]
2007-12-05 12:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD EAID APEC SENV CH XA
07BEIJING7405PRC/MEPP: CHINA TO ATTEND PARIS CONFERENCE, LIKELY
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points urging China to attend the donors' conference in support of the Palestinians to be held in Paris December 17 to MFA West Asian and North African Affairs Department Levant Division Deputy Director Xu Chen. 2. (C) Xu said that China will attend the conference [...]
2007-12-07 08:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PTER MEPP CH FR IS
07BEIRUT108LEBANON: PM SINIORA EXPECTS STRIKE ACTIVITY;
[...] (C) Prime Minister Siniora interpreted Friday night's televised interview by Hizballah's Hassan Nasrallah as a clear indication that the anti-government March 8th coalition is not yet ready to negotiate a resolution to the current impasse. Siniora believes the disappointing turnouts of the [...]
2007-01-22 06:13:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER EAID SY LE IS
07BEIRUT110SCENESETTER FOR PARIS III
[...] (S) On the surface (and this is what we recommend emphasizing in our public messages),the January 25 Paris III conference is about Lebanon's proposed reform program and the financial assistance Lebanon needs to get through 2007 and move toward more sustainable debt levels. Lebanese from ac [...]
2007-01-22 10:51:00Embassy BeirutSECRETEFIN PREL EAID PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY
07BEIRUT145CHATAH GRATEFUL TO USG FOR PARIS III SUCCESS
[...] (C) Mohamed Chatah, Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Siniora, gushed exuberantly about U.S. leadership in achieving a successful Paris III conference. He expressed delight as well with the CEO Partnership event, saying that the GOL would now hire someone to serve as permanent liaison with t [...]
2007-01-29 06:21:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN EAID LE SY
07BEIRUT16FINANCE MINISTER AZOUR'S WISHFUL THINKING FOR
[...] (S) In a January 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Finance Jihad Azour was less alarmist than Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh (reftel) regarding Lebanon's financial situation in 2007. But, like Salameh, Azour counted on a successful Paris III conference as the essential element i [...]
2007-01-03 15:08:00Embassy BeirutSECRETECON EFIN EAID PREL LE
07BEIRUT1604LEBANON: LEBANESE RESIDENTS NEAR NAHR-AL BARID
[...] (C) Summary: DCM and Emboffs met with mayors of municipalities located near the Nahr-Al Barid Palestinian refugee camp (NAB) during a trip to Tripoli October 9. The mayors praised the USG for its assistance to the local areas that were negatively affected by the 15-week battle at the camp, ad [...]
2007-10-14 10:43:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PGOV PREF PREL PTER
07BEIRUT1944LEBANON: NGO HEAD SAYS HIZBALLAH FAVORS SHIA IN
[...] (SBU) Dr. Abbas Yaghi, a Shia local community leader from the north Bekaa region and Shia rival of Hizballah, described to Emboffs what he sees as Hizballah's favoritism towards the Shia in south Lebanon, to the detriment to those Shia living in the north Bekaa. Yaghi noted the vast difference [...]
2007-12-11 15:37:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON LE PGOV PREL SY
07BEIRUT2008LEBANON: HOW TO HELP LEBANON FINANCIALLY NOW
[...] (C) According to Finance Minister Jihad Azour, Lebanon's deficit situation is under control because tax revenues are up, but that the GOL faces problems paying its foreign currency debt in the first quarter of 2008. Contriubuting to Lebanon's first quarter debt crunch are the problems of red [...]
2007-12-31 16:02:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN EINV LE PGOV PREL PTER
07BEIRUT42SINIORA PINS GOL SURVIVAL ON GENEROUS PARIS III
[...] (S) In a 90-minute meeting with the Ambassador on 1/8, PM Fouad Siniora -- in crisis mode and interrupted frequently by security officers working to counter Tuesday's anticipated opposition escalation -- said that Lebanon's political and financial stability depends on a successful Paris III [...]
2007-01-08 17:53:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPREL EFIN EAID ECON LE
07BEIRUT514LEBANON: GOL REACTION TO USG PROPOSAL FOR CASH
[...] (C) The GOL has reviewed U.S. proposals for conditionality on the USD 250 million cash transfer discussed at the Paris III Donors' Conference for Lebanon. The GOL response does not contain any surprises, and has the Lebanese most concerned about an increase in the gasoline tax. Arab donors h [...]
2007-04-13 13:05:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN LE
07BEIRUT540LEBANON: MINISTERIAL DELEGATION TO ICI MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-18 13:34:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PREL PTER EAID EFIN UN GCC IZ LE
07BEIRUT756LEBANON: PARLIAMENTARIANS STRESS COOPERATION, AID
[...] (U) On May 28, the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) Legislative Strengthening Program brought together members of the U.S. House of Representativs and leading members of the Lebanese Parliament. The U.S. delegation held three sessions with the following groups of Lebanese MPs: M [...]
2007-05-29 15:09:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID LE
07BELGRADE100SERBIAN ELECTIONS - ALBANIANS MAKE IT
[...] SUMMARY: The Presevo Valley Albanian coalition received enough votes to get one seat in parliament, according to Serbia's Republican Election Commission (RIK). Local contacts report that USG efforts in particular were "difference makers" in helping get the Albanians into parliament for the f [...]
2007-01-23 16:46:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID PHUM SR MW YI
07BELGRADE236 VINCA NUCLEAR INSTITUTE: CAS STAFFING, VIND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy has been informed by Vinca Nuclear Institute direction that the Department of Energy (DoE)-built Central Alarm Station (CAS) will be staffed in the near future. After the institute and the Ministry of Interior (MUP) reached an agreement on CAS staffing, Vinca identif [...]
2007-02-21 17:16:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PARM EAID OTRA SR
07BELGRADE605RESPONSE TO OSCE PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] (U) After consulting with local OSCE officials in Belgrade, and internally with relevant Mission agencies, post recommends the following projects for funding. The projects selected represent a number of mission and OSCE priorities including democratization, counter-terrorism and the resolut [...]
2007-05-07 16:22:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL
07BELGRADE683CERTIFICATION AND SERBIA'S "NEW" GOVERNMENT
[...] (c) The new government in Serbia does not look appreciably different from the previous one. Tadic's DS now has the potential to play a large role in defense and foreign affairs that could have an impact on moving forward the Euro-Atlantic agenda, but Kostunica still holds many of the reins. [...]
2007-05-17 16:34:00Embassy BelgradeCONFIDENTIALPGOV ICTY PREL EAID SR
07BELGRADE77SOUTHERN SERBIA: AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS USG INVESTMENT AND
[...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador's 1/17 visit to southern Serbia emphasized USG commitment to the region and support for Albanians to participate in Serbian elections. National and local media covered the Ambassador's opening of a USG and GOS funded commercial road and meeting with Albanian leaders run [...]
2007-01-19 16:51:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID PHUM SR MW YI
07BELMOPAN121BELIZE: SUCCESS OF SUPERBOND EXCHANGE OFFER DAMPENS RUMOR
[...] Summary: On January 31, the Government of Belize announced a USD 565 million bond exchange offer (ref A) that has given the government relief from sovereign debt default and has dampened rumors of early general elections. The new 2007/2008 budget is expected on March 2 and will be the first t [...]
2007-02-21 18:08:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL SOCI BH
07BELMOPAN225HIV/AIDS IN BELIZE
[...] Summary: A forum on HIV/AIDS funding addressed an overview of the epidemic in Belize, a critique of the government's response, and an assessment of current challenges. Donor groups agreed to work together to prod the government towards a more effective delivery of HIV/AIDS services. End Sum [...]
2007-03-29 16:02:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI EAID PGOV PREL BH
07BELMOPAN495 CHAVEZ HAS FRIENDS IN BELIZE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Since November 2006 Venezuela has given the Belizean government a US$5 million grant, US$50 million in loans, and US$1.6 million for road construction. Several sources have confirmed that recently an additional US$10 million grant has been promised. The government appears to b [...]
2007-08-06 22:17:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID BH VE
07BELMOPAN526 TFJM01: BELIZE PRELIMINARY DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND
[...] SUMMARY: The GOB is requesting international assistance to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Dean. Prime Minister Musa declared two northern districts disaster areas. Urgent needs include equipment to test the safety of water supplies, bulk food to replenish stockpiles used in the emerge [...]
2007-08-22 21:19:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID MARR PREL AMGT BH
07BELMOPAN594CUBA'S MEDICAL DIPLOMACY IN BELIZE
[...] Summary. Since 1999, Cuba has been sending doctors, nurses, and medical technicians to work free of charge in Belize. Ninety-two Belizean students currently study medicine in Havana on Cuban government scholarships. More than 1,500 patients have traveled from Belize to Cuba for free surgery. [...]
2007-10-04 22:30:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PROP EAID SCUL SOCI BH
07BELMOPAN96 BELIZE: IIP SPEAKER KELLNER JUMPSTARTS EMBASSY'S GOOD
[...] See action request in para 7. ------- Summary ------- 2. During his two-day (January 24-25) visit to Belize, IIP Speaker Ken Kellner met with university students, civic leaders, and government officials to share his experiences as Senior Counsel for the House of Representatives Commit [...]
2007-02-12 19:10:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP EAID PGOV KPAO BH
07BERLIN1007SCENESETTER FOR G-8 AFRICA PARTNERSHIP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Chancellor Merkel will open the Eighth Africa Partnership Forum (APF) in Berlin immediately following the G-8 Finance MinistersQ Meeting in Potsdam May 19-20 and the German-World Bank Forum on May 21. Hosted by the German Development Minister, the APF will set out the key co [...]
2007-05-18 09:17:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ECIN EMIN ETRD PREL GM
07BERLIN1104German Government Welcomes Zoellick
[...] Germany welcomed President Bush's May 30 nomination of Robert Zoellick to be President of the World Bank. On behalf of Chancellor Merkel (CDU),Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul (SPD),praised the choice and described Zoellick as a "good candidate who w [...]
2007-06-01 14:01:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ECIN EMIN ETRD PREL GM
07BERLIN115FOOD SECURITY/HUMANITARIAN ACTIONS COOPERATION
[...] SUMMARY. On January 18, USEU Development Counselor and Embassy Berlin Econoff discussed opportunities for cooperation on development assistance with German officials in light of Germany's concurrent EU/G-8 presidencies. Development Ministry interlocutors expressed interest in U.S. proposals [...]
2007-01-21 10:45:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON GM
07BERLIN215JOINT COORDINATION AND MONITORING BOARD: ENHANCED
[...] At the high-level session of the Afghanistan Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) in Berlin January 30-31, donor Government representatives and Afghan partners renewed their commitment to realize the political vision outlined in the January 2006 Afghanistan Compact. In the opening [...]
2007-02-02 15:32:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL PGOV ENRG AF
07BERLIN38GASTRIGHT DELEGATION DISCUSSIONS IN BERLIN ON
[...] (C) (Summary) In an productive and timely visit, South and Central Asian Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary John Gastright, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Bureau Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Tom Schweich, USAID Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator Mark Ward, and J [...]
2007-01-09 09:41:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPINS PREL SNAR PTER PNAT PGOV EAID ECON ECIN
07BERLIN408AFGHANISTAN: GERMANY INCREASES DEVELOPMENT AID 25%
[...] (SBU) Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul announced on February 27 that Germany would immediately increase reconstruction support by EUR 20 million, bringing Germany's overall bilateral Afghanistan development aid to EUR 100 million annually. The German money will target primary [...]
2007-02-28 15:56:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON GM AF
07BERLIN515IRAQ COMPACT UN MEETING: GERMAN RESPONSE
[...] (C) Summary. Post delivered ref demarche to the Chancellery and MFA to urge senior German participation. The German government's initial plan was to have an ambassador-level official from its UN Mission represent Germany at the event. Embassy has reclamaed the German government at senior le [...]
2007-03-14 10:06:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ GM
07BERLIN605SCENESETTER FOR G-8 DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS MEETING,
[...] (SBU) Your visit to Germany, in addition to an occasion to engage G-8 counterparts, is an opportunity to advance our bilateral cooperation on development issues with Germany, the world's fourth largest bilateral aid donor, the largest contributor to EU development aid coffers, and a donor wit [...]
2007-03-23 18:19:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL GM
07BERLIN766GERMAN RESPONSE: FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND IRAQ
[...] (SBU) DCM delivered points in ref to MFA State Secretary Georg Boomgaarden April 12. Global Affairs Officer followed up with MFA Iraq Team Leader Ruediger Lotz April 13. Lotz stated German Foreign Minister Steinmeier would attend the meeting in Sharm El-Sheik. As to German plans for an anno [...]
2007-04-13 16:08:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PGOV PREL IQ GM
07BERN1156NORTHERN UGANDA UPDATE; ACCOUNTABILITY OF JUBA
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the points in reftel on December 19 to Kuno Schlaefli, deputy in the MFA's Office of the Special Envoy for Human Security. Schlaefli thanked poloff for the information. He said he could not yet provide a substantive response, but undertook to discuss the matter with oth [...]
2007-12-21 17:36:00Embassy BernUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM PREL UG SZ
07BISHKEK316GOING FOR THE KYRGYZ GOLD -- WILL USENOV TAKE THE
[...] (C) Summary: First Deputy Prime Minister Usenov has continued to consolidate control over Kyrgyz economic and business activity since the new cabinet was named in February. He led the (successful) campaign against the HIPC initiative, and he has advocated ousting the IMF and the World Bank a [...]
2007-03-23 10:36:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID ECON EFIN PREL KG
07BISHKEK479SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM MEETING WITH KYYRGYZ ADVISOR
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 19 meeting with SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum, recently-nominated Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Islan Ryskulov said he sought improved dialogue and cooperation with the United States. He asked for assistance moving forward on U.S. funding for the Kyrgyz Threshold C [...]
2007-04-24 11:34:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAID KG
07BISHKEK526EMBASSY BISHKEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OSCE EXTRA
[...] Embassy Bishkek would like to endorse the following extrabudgetary proposals: 2. High Priority: -- Preparation of Guidebook for Controlled Deliveries (no project number): The issue of controlled deliveries is a hot topic in Central Asia, and is the most discussed aspect of any regional [...]
2007-05-08 11:55:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL
07BISHKEK527EMBASSY BISHKEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OSCE EXTRA
[...] Embassy Bishkek would like to endorse the following extrabudgetary proposals: 2. High Priority: -- Preparation of Guidebook for Controlled Deliveries (no project number): The issue of controlled deliveries is a hot topic in Central Asia, and is the most discussed aspect of any regional [...]
2007-05-08 12:07:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL
07BISHKEK609KYRGYZ EXPRESS INTEREST IN FIBER OPTICS CONFERENCE
[...] Kyrgyz Minister of Transport and Communications Sulaimanov, Kyrgyz Telecom President Mambetaliev and "Government Communications" State Company Director Beyshekenov all expressed interest in reftel's proposed fiber optics conference. We have also received positive feedback from the Communicat [...]
2007-05-23 12:19:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECIN EFIN ECPS EINV ETRD EAID KG
07BISHKEK724CORRUPTION, ENERGY AND RULE OF LAW HEADLINE KYRGYZ
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Bakiyev and Prime Minister Atambayev emphasized the rule of law, the battle against corruption and enhancing the business environment in a day-long discussion of the Kyrgyz Country Development Strategy (CDS) with the international donor community May 31. Bakiyev also [...]
2007-06-14 03:36:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALEAID ECIN ECON EFIN EINV ENRG PREL PHUM KG
07BOGOTA1401COLOMBIAN MILITARY CIVIL AFFAIRS UNIT PLANS CHANGES
[...] The Colombian military's civil affairs unit works to win the hearts and minds of civilian populations. A new commander hopes to increase its effectiveness with fresh ideas and additional resources. End Summary. ------------------------ Winning Hearts and Minds ------------------------ [...]
2007-02-28 21:29:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PGOV PREL MARR EAID PROP CO
07BOGOTA437IS INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT DECREASING IN COLOMBIA?
[...] (U) Summary. The Government of Colombia and a respected Colombian NGO, the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES),are reporting marked decreases (16-30 percent) in the number of new internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the first 9 months of 2006. However, the International [...]
2007-01-22 20:27:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM PREF SNAR SOCI CO
07BOGOTA7575COLOMBIA INTERESTED IN WIREC 2008
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche separately to Minister of Mines and Energy Hernan Martinez and Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Director for Multilateral Economic, Social, and Environmental Issues Maria Alban Duran. Post also presented WIREC 2008 information to officials at the Ministries [...]
2007-10-19 21:40:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EAID EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KSCA EAGR
07BOGOTA7581COLOMBIA BULLISH ON WIREC 2008, REQUESTS SPOT ON
[...] This is an action cable. See para. 4. 2. Post delivered reftel demarche on the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) separately to Minister of Mines and Energy Hernan Martinez, Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Director for Multilateral Economic, Social, and Envir [...]
2007-10-19 22:21:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EAID EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KSCA EAGR
07BOGOTA7842COLOMBIA: DELIVERY OF FY08 MCC SCORECARDS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 14:28:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC CO
07BOGOTA7990AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD'S OCTOBER 25-26 VISIT TO
[...] The Ambassador visited Cartagena, capital of the Department of Bolivar for meetings with government, private sector, educational and religious leaders. His interlocutors underscored that improved security had opened the door for economic growth and expressed interest in deepening the U.S.-Co [...]
2007-11-08 18:42:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAID PGOV ASEC CO
07BOGOTA8092COLOMBIA BIOFUELS UPDATE: PROMISE DESPITE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The opening of Colombia's first biodiesel plant, establishment of a biodiesel free trade zone, and increasing blending mandates reinforce the GOC's commitment to adopt biofuels to diversify energy supplies and promote rural job creation. However, while growers expand palm oil c [...]
2007-11-15 22:07:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EAGR ECON EAID PGOV CO
07BOGOTA8273COLOMBIA'S SMALL FARMERS--COOPERATION AND CREDIT
[...] Historically large agricultural producers in Colombia have benefited from government largesse to the exclusion of small farmers. Despite government institutions intended to help them get loans, small farmers often must turn to the informal lending system where they pay interest rates in exce [...]
2007-11-28 17:53:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD EAID CO
07BOGOTA8534COLOMBIAN FLOWER INDUSTRY MAKES SOCIAL AS WELL AS
[...] Colombia's flower industry contributes USD 1 billion to the economy and directly employs 100,000 workers, the majority of them female heads-of-households. The industry spends millions on social programs for its workers and has developed a certification program that has dramatically improved [...]
2007-12-14 21:16:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ELAB ETRD SENV EAID CO
07BOGOTA8640AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD,S DECEMBER 13 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador visited Barranquilla, capital of Atlantico Department on December 13 for meetings with Governor Carlos Rodado, ranking regional military Commander Colonel Carlos Bueno, and public outreach audiences. Rodado expressed his support for the U.S.-Colombian Trade Pro [...]
2007-12-21 21:20:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV MARR CO
07BRASILIA1025 BRAZIL'S ACRE STATE: GROUND ZERO FOR SOUTH AMERICAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. One of President Lula's key objectives is the construction of an all-weather highway linking Brazil to the Pacific Ocean, and within a few years this dream will become reality. The GOB has paved route BR 364/317 to the Peruvian border and paving of this highway on the Peruvia [...]
2007-06-06 13:41:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN PGOV SENV EAID PHUM ETRD SNAR BR PE
07BRASILIA1067 BRAZIL'S RONDONIA STATE CONFRONTS THE PROBLEMS OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. Located in center-west Brazil, the state of Rondonia forms part of the country's frontier with Bolivia. Sparsely populated until the 1980s, Brazil's military government during its reign paved highway BR 364 to the state's capital, Porto Velho, to encourage (for national securit [...]
2007-06-11 19:15:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN PGOV SENV EAID PHUM ETRD BR PE
07BRASILIA1185SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 96
[...] The following is the ninety-sixth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...]
2007-06-22 19:56:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA1425INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY
[...] Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil was the site of a weeklong conference of 250 community forest entrepreneurs and policy makers from Africa, Asia, Central and South America, July 15-23, 2007. Participants debated the challenges confronted by inhabitants of tropical forests on three continents: la [...]
2007-07-26 18:08:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA1463SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 98
[...] The following is the ninety-eighth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...]
2007-08-01 14:13:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA1581SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF U/S REUBEN JEFFERY,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a June setback to the Doha Round discussions, in which talks between the U.S., the EU, Brazil, and India stalled over disagreements concerning tariff cuts for goods and services and over agricultural subsidies. The Brazilian delegation, led by F [...]
2007-08-16 16:04:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ETRD OTRA OVIP PGOV PREL BR
07BRASILIA1772INL SUPPORT IN 2007 IS YIELDING RESULTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite a dramatic reduction in NAS Brasilia external activities since June 2006, while an internal re-organization and new overall program strategy were being developed, INL authorized the continued support of several projects. In cooperation with other USG agencies at post, N [...]
2007-09-17 16:21:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA1774SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 99
[...] The following is the ninety-nine in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views express [...]
2007-09-17 19:20:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA1803EPA TRAININGS STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN
[...] (U) Summary: Using funds from OES, three trainings on environmental law enforcement were carried out by EPA experts in August 2007 in Medellin (Colombia),Lima (Peru),and Georgetown (Guyana). With support from the Regional Environmental HUB Office, ECON Offices in each respective country, and [...]
2007-09-21 10:09:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA1893NAS BRASILIA REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS-supported activities during September -- though still limited in size and scope -- continued to produce results. In particular, two key NAS and DEA-supported operations carried out by the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF) resulted in several arrests and the seizure of signific [...]
2007-10-03 19:08:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA1907BRAZILIANS "DARE" TO STRENGTHEN DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION
[...] (U) The Brazilian National Anti-drug Secretariat (SENAD) and the National Public Safety Secretariat (SENASP) convened a national conference on September 27-28 to re-assess the U.S.-based Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (D.A.R.E.),or PROERD as it is known in Brazil. The federal govern [...]
2007-10-04 20:18:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA2044BRAZIL: INTERESTED IN THE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Drawing on REFS, ESTH Counselor Driscoll had a series of conversations in mid- and late-October with Brazilian Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Chief of the Division of Division for New and Renewa [...]
2007-10-29 09:39:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG BR
07BRASILIA2068SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101
[...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...]
2007-10-30 19:27:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA2069SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101
[...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...]
2007-10-31 09:54:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA2091DRAFT 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] Following is a draft of Part I of the Brazil chapter of the 2007 INCSR. As requested in reftel B, the money laundering portion of the INCSR will be submitted separately. BRAZIL ---------- I. SUMMARY ---------- 2. Brazil is a major transit country for illicit drugs shipped to Euro [...]
2007-11-06 09:25:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA2158MINI-DUBLIN GROUP MEETING IN BRASILIA -- NOVEMBER 2007
[...] SUMMARY: On November 19, 2007, under the chairmanship of the Government of Spain, the Mini-Dublin Group convened at the Spanish Embassy to discuss counter narcotics assistance and cooperation between member countries and the Government of Brazil (GoB). This was the first time the group had g [...]
2007-11-21 14:54:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA2184SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 102
[...] The following is the one hundred second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...]
2007-11-27 11:09:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA2244NAS BRAZIL ACTIVITY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thanks to ongoing NAS support, the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF),with operational assistance from DEA Brazil, culminated operation "Fenix" an investigation that made significant progress toward dismantling a major drug trafficking organization run by Luis Fernando da Costa, a [...]
2007-12-10 13:06:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA2321SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 104
[...] The following is the one-hundred-fourth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...]
2007-12-26 14:11:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA298 Brazil: US Mission's 4th Quarter 2006 Corporate Social
[...] Summary. (U) Since October 2006, when Ambassador launched the US Embassy's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative, USAID, FCS, Embassy and Consulate Sao Paulo have worked exhaustively with our 31 corporate partners (firms such as Microsoft, GE, IBM, and GM) to follow-up on this issue [...]
2007-02-18 18:16:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON SENV BR
07BRASILIA315 ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY
[...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...]
2007-02-23 14:47:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA316 ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY
[...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...]
2007-02-23 14:47:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA510SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 91
[...] The following is the ninety-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...]
2007-03-26 19:56:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA580SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 92
[...] The following is the ninety-second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...]
2007-04-03 15:25:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA617FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES
[...] (SBU) Summary. Internationally, in recent years there has been an emphasis on directing foreign assistance to lower-income developing countries where the levels of poverty are generally more acute. However, this approach may result in insufficient support to the development and poverty eradic [...]
2007-04-09 21:00:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL BR
07BRASILIA71BRAZIL HOSTS THE I SOUTH AMERICAN FISHERS FORUM ON SOLVING
[...] On December 12-14, an OES-sponsored workshop with the slogan "Catch Fish Not Birds" brought together 50 experts from across the world to take a look at the potential to reduce seabird bycatch throughout the South American long-line fishery via the adoption of mitigation measures in South Americ [...]
2007-01-12 18:48:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRASILIA800SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTE SENSING CALLS FOR MORE LATIN AMERICA
[...] SUMMARY: The 13th Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing was held from April 23-26 attracting nearly 2,000 participants. While the focus of the event was on increasing regional cooperation on remote sensing technologies through transferring technology, sharing methodologies, and building up r [...]
2007-05-07 17:17:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO TSPA SOCI SENV KSCA EAID XM XS BR
07BRASILIA96SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 87
[...] The following is the eighty-seventh in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views ex [...]
2007-01-18 16:20:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
07BRAZZAVILLE368BRAZZA IN BRIEF SEPTEMBER 7 2007
[...] (U) Frederic Bintsamou, also known as Pastor N'Tumi, announced he will arrive in Brazzaville on September 10th to take his appointed position as a Presidential Adviser on promoting peace in the aftermath of the civil war. Ntumi was appointed by President Sassou-Nguesso in May 2007 to appease t [...]
2007-09-07 17:54:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV PINR EAID PHUM SCUL MARR CF
07BRAZZAVILLE403BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF, OCTOBER 5, 2007
[...] (U) Post celebrated the completion of a high school renovation by the U.S. Navy Seabees Detachment from Sigonella, Sicily. After thanking the Seabees, the Ambassador pointed out that this was the first cooperative effort between members of the U.S. and Congolese Armed Forces and that their suc [...]
2007-10-05 14:07:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM SCUL MARR CF
07BRAZZAVILLE406BRAZZA IN BRIEF FOR OCTOBER 5, 2007
[...] (U) Post celebrated the completion of a high school renovation by the U.S. Navy Seabees Detachment from Sigonella, Sicily. After thanking the Seabees, the Ambassador pointed out that this was the first cooperative effort between members of the U.S. and Congolese Armed Forces and that their suc [...]
2007-10-05 17:05:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM SCUL MARR CF
07BRAZZAVILLE416BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF OCTOBER 12 2007
[...] (U) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil , will arrive in Brazzaville October 15 for one day meeting with GRoC to discuss bilateral agreements and participate in the RoC launch of a campaign to provide immunizations for measles and distribution of bednets for children aged 5 years [...]
2007-10-12 17:10:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR EAID ECON SCUL MARR CF
07BRAZZAVILLE430BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF FOR OCTOBER 26, 2007
[...] (U) President Denis Sassou-Nguesso will deliver 'a message on the state of the nation' to Parliament on October 27, 2007. 2. (U) "A Dream Come True Thanks to Sassou" banners flew over the city of Pointe Noire as President Sassou-Nguesso inaugurated the construction of a major roadway to link [...]
2007-10-26 16:31:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR PHUM SCUL MARR ECON ECIN EAID
07BRAZZAVILLE439BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF, 2 NOVEMBER 2007
[...] (U) The Renaissance Man: President Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaimed in his state of the nation address that the Republic of Congo (RoC) is now in a full renaissance mode. Addressing Parliament on October 27, the President stated "The renaissance of the Congo is a visible, concrete and tangible a [...]
2007-11-02 15:19:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR PGOV EAID PINR PHUM SCUL MARR ECON CF
07BRAZZAVILLE449BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - NOVEMBER 16, 2007
[...] Embassy Brazzaville is an unclassified Post. 2. Representatives of the London Club (LC) announced on November 15 that an agreement has been signed between the Republic of Congo (RoC) and the LC to forgive 77 percent of the US$643.6 million debt owed to LC creditors. Government bonds will be [...]
2007-11-16 11:39:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EFIN EINV ELTN EAID PHUM ENRG CF
07BRAZZAVILLE455BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - NOVEMBER 23, 2007
[...] EmbBrazzaville is an unclassified Post. 2. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso attended the official launch of the multi-national military maneuvers called Barh El Gazel being conducted as part of the peacekeeping operations under the auspices Economic Community of States Central Africa (ECCAS). [...]
2007-11-23 13:45:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID ENRG CF
07BRIDGETOWN1023 COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MANTILLA AND HERRERA O/A AUGUST
[...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to OFDA Washington Information Officer Liza Mantilla and OFDA/Darlington Computer Manager Ricardo Herrera. 2. The purpose of the visit is to pre-deploy before Tropical Storm Dean. 3. Embassy point of contact is James Gogg [...]
2007-08-15 19:53:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB
07BRIDGETOWN1032HURRICANE DEAN: SITREP #1
[...] (U) As of August 16, Tropical Storm Dean intensified to a category two hurricane, moving toward the west at approximately 23 mph, with maximum sustained winds of up to 100 mph. As of 1700 hours, Hurricane Dean was located 210 miles east-northeast of Barbados and approximately 305 miles east o [...]
2007-08-17 13:54:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC EAID XL
07BRIDGETOWN1033HURRICANE DEAN: SITREP #1
[...] (U) As of August 16, Tropical Storm Dean intensified to a category two hurricane, moving toward the west at approximately 23 mph, with maximum sustained winds of up to 100 mph. As of 1700 hours, Hurricane Dean was located 210 miles east-northeast of Barbados and approximately 305 miles east o [...]
2007-08-17 13:55:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC EAID XL
07BRIDGETOWN1052COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ARMBRISTER AND MORRIS TO
[...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OFDA/IRG Consultant Beryl Armbrister and OFDA/IRG Instructor Terry Morris to travel to St. Lucia o/a September 9-15, 2007 to deliver training for instruction course. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions [...]
2007-08-21 14:31:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC OTRA EAID BB XL
07BRIDGETOWN1060DECLARATION OF DISASTER: DOMINICA AND ST. LUCIA
[...] As a result of the passage of Hurricane Dean on August 16/17 the Chief of Mission has determined that the disaster is beyond the capability of the governments of St. Lucia and the Commonwealth of Dominica to respond, is of sufficient magnitude to warrant U.S. government assistance, and is in [...]
2007-08-22 21:25:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC EAID ST DO XL
07BRIDGETOWN1099COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CARLTON DUNCAN TO TRAVEL TO
[...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Carlton Duncan, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, OCOO, OD, CDC, HHS, to travel to Barbados to facilitate an orientation for the HIV Prevention Activity for the Caribbean region, September 05 - September 14, 2007. 2. Understand no Embassy assis [...]
2007-08-30 19:31:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA OTRA CDCC EAID US BB XL
07BRIDGETOWN1121COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ARMBRISTER AND MORRIS TO
[...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OFDA/IRG Consultant Beryl Armbrister and OFDA/IRG Instructor Terry Morris to travel to St. Lucia o/a September 9-15, 2007 to deliver training for instruction course. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, [...]
2007-09-05 16:05:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC OTRA EAID ST XL
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