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08CARACAS1633	STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS: WINNERS AND LOSERS [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez emerges as both a loser and winner from the November 23 state and local elections. He must contend with more opposition governors in key states, as well as opposition mayors in important cities. Several opposition parties can point to somewhat encouraging elect [...]	2008-11-28 19:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE

08CARACAS1635	OPPOSITION GOVERNOR PROFILES [...] (C) Summary: The opposition won five of 22 governorships in the November 23 state and local elections and will govern approximately 40 percent of Venezuelans. Four of the five opposition governors are political veterans with extensive administrative experience. Morel Rodriguez, the re-e [...]	2008-12-01 21:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV VE KDEM
08CARACAS1640	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE: GLOBOVISION ON THE HOOK [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is hardening its position against the remaining independent media outlets following the November 23 state and local elections. The government's telecommunication's agency (Conatel) is investigating Globovision, the cri [...]	2008-12-02 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
08CARACAS1670	CHAVEZ STEERING AN EVEN MORE AUTHORITARIAN COURSE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez usually calibrates his efforts to concentrate power based on public opinion. But after losing the constitutional referendum in December 2007 and ceding more ground to the opposition in the November 23 state and local elections, the Venezuelan president appears to [...]	2008-12-05 19:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
08CARACAS172	BRV WARNS GLOBOVISION OF POSSIBLE SANCTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) harassment of Globovision, Venezuela's only independent all-news television network, is intensifying. The BRV appears to be laying the groundwork for the network's possible closure in the near future. Citing "public pressure," the BR [...]	2008-02-12 23:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL VE
08CARACAS267	GOVERNMENT MAY MAKE 400 INELIGIBLE FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. The Venezuelan Comptroller's Office provided the National Electoral Commission (CNE) February 25 with a list of 400 Venezuelans that it has sanctioned and believes to be ineligible to run for elected office. There is a disagreement within the CNE whether these persons are automa [...]	2008-02-28 19:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
08CARACAS304	DEMARCHE ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S ADOPTION OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-05 19:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
08CARACAS435	CODEL WYDEN'S MARCH 26-28 VISIT TO VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary: On his March 26-28 visit to Caracas, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) discussed the political situation in Venezuela with interlocutors from the political, business, media, and NGO communities. He also conducted internal meetings with Embassy personnel, took a driving tour of a poor ne [...]	2008-03-28 19:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON VE
08CARACAS453	SIP MEETING BEMOANS MEDIA FREEDOM IN VENEZUELA; [...] (C) Summary. During its mid-year conference held in Caracas, the Inter-American Press Association (SIP) criticized the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) systematic harassment of the independent media and commented on the state of the press in several Latin American countries. The BR [...]	2008-04-02 17:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SCUL VE
08CARACAS840	PSUV GOVERNOR STRIPPED OF TITLE AND DECLARED [...] (SBU) The Supreme Court (TSJ) opened an investigation into corruption charges against Yaracuy Governor Carlos Gutierrez in late May and subsequently stripped him of his charge. The TSJ also declared the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) governor ineligible to run for re-election in th [...]	2008-06-13 13:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL VE
08CARACAS856	STUDENTS MARCH IN SUPPORT OF BLACKLISTED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Student leaders and opposition-oriented citizen groups led a small demonstration to the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) on June 13 to protest the Comptroller's administrative ruling making 400 persons ineligible to run for office in the November gubernato [...]	2008-06-16 21:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SCUL VE
08CARACAS86	BRV CONSUMED WITH NORMALIZING VENEZUELAN FOOD [...] (C) Summary: During January 21 - 22, a somewhat manic Chavez announced a laundry list of agricultural and food distribution "reforms," including increasing the controlled price of milk, closing the Colombian border to food smugglers, threatening to expropriate land and facilities from milk pro [...]	2008-01-23 22:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAGR VE
08CARACAS930	STRUCTURED NOTES REDUX: NEW RESOLUTION ROILS [...] (C) Summary: A Ministry of Finance (MoF) resolution ordering Venezuelan banks to divest themselves of "structured notes" issued by foreign investment banks has roiled the local banking sector. Local banks hold an estimated USD 5 billion worth of these instruments, which are bolivar-denomina [...]	2008-07-03 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN VE
08CARACAS949	STUDENTS UNITE AROUND INELIGIBLE CANDIDATES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In recent weeks the student movement has taken up the cause of the ineligible candidates ("inhabilitados") in an effort to garner increased national and international attention to the issue. The move has also helped re-energize the disjointed student movement whose leaders have [...]	2008-07-09 14:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL VE
08CARACAS989	SUPREME COURT LEAK QUESTIONS BRV DISQUALIFICATION [...] (C) Summary. A draft ruling by Supreme Court (TSJ) Justice Pedro Rondon Haaz calls the disqualification of close to 300 candidates for Venezuela's gubernatorial and mayoral elections by Comptroller General Clodosbaldo Russian unconstitutional. TSJ President Luisa Estella Morales told the lo [...]	2008-07-17 21:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
08CASABLANCA224	SCANDAL AT THE CASABLANCA STOCK EXCHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Morocco Council for the Code of Ethics in Securities Markets, (CDVM) moved decisively the week of 17 November to address a simmering scandal at the Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE),recommending to the Minister of Finance that the Exchange,s entire leadership be dismissed for [...]	2008-11-26 17:06:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINT MO PGOV
08CHENGDU56	SOUTHWEST CHINA: "PATRIOTIC EDUCATION" FOR TIBETANS -- [...] (C) Summary: Well prior to the recent outbreak of unrest, a "Patriotic Education Campaign" launched by the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP) in western Sichuan Province following a series of security incidents during the summer of 2007 provoked considerable resentment among the area's [...]	2008-03-27 07:29:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CH
08CHENGDU61	SOUTHWEST CHINA: TRYING TO CONTROL FOREIGN NGOS IN A [...] (C) Summary: While it remains unclear what impact recent unrest in Tibetan areas of China will have on the work of foreign non-governmental organizations operating in the region, according to a limited-distribution government document obtained by the Consulate, Ganzi Prefecture in western Sich [...]	2008-04-02 02:43:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CH
08CHIANGMAI10	STAFFDEL YEO FOCUSES ON REFUGEES, IDPS AND BURMESE POLITICAL [...] (C) In meetings with Staffdel Yeo, some politically active Burmese exile groups requested stronger U.S. sanctions against Burma, claimed to play a significant role in organizing recent protests inside Burma, and asked for U.S. support for a constitution they drafted as an alternative to the Bu [...]	2008-01-14 09:00:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM PGOV SOCI TH BM
08CHIANGMAI136	ANALYTICAL EXILES FAVOR LIMITED U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH BURMESE [...] (C) In a subtle shift, influential Burmese political pundits based in northern Thailand have begun advocating limited U.S. engagement with the Burmese regime over the past few months, likely spurred on by the acceleration of Burma's sham roadmap and the regime's bungled response to Cyclone Nar [...]	2008-09-04 09:05:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM TH
08CHIANGMAI24	RECENTLY ARRIVED BURMESE MONKS TELL THEIR STORY [...] (C) The demonstrations in Burma in August and September 2007 were spontaneous and organized mainly from inside the country, according to several participants who recently migrated to Thailand. Many monks were detained and sent to labor camps, they told StaffDel Yeo and visiting Rangoon PolOff [...]	2008-02-08 09:41:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM BM TH
08CHISINAU39	MOLDOVA 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Embassy Chisinau submits the 2008 Investment Climate Statement in response to reftel. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. Moldova continues to take steps toward developing a stronger economy, reforming a cumbersome regulatory framework, combating corruption a [...]	2008-01-15 12:34:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR MD
08CHISINAU637	MOLDOVA RECEIVES TALKING POINTS ON DESIGNATION OF NAMES [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-18 13:16:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PREL CVIS KVPR MD
08COLOMBO153	SRI LANKA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROPOSALS FOR [...] Post, following G/TIP instructions in reftel, solicited anti-trafficking project proposals from local and regional organizations and received three proposals. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) proposal includes improving the GSL's capacity to prosecute trafficking crimes and to [...]	2008-02-11 10:12:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB PHUM PREL SMIG KCRM CE
08COLOMBO281	SRI LANKA: CITIBANK BLOCKS SRI LANKAN AIRLINE [...] (SBU) Summary: Citibank Sri Lanka has blocked a $250,000 transaction between Sri Lankan Airlines and Iranian Bank Melli, in accordance with Executive Order 13382 sanctions against Bank Melli. The blocked transaction was intended to pay for routine civil aviation overflight fees due to the gov [...]	2008-03-19 01:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN KNNP CE IR
08COLOMBO313	UNSCR 1803: SRI LANKA REVIEWING "LINE BY LINE" [...] (C) Summary: Sri Lanka's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Central Bank both responded to post's demarches on UN Security Council Resolution 1803 with assurances that Sri Lanka would meet its international obligations with respect to sanctions against Iran. The MFA acting Director General for U [...]	2008-03-27 10:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KNNP UNSC IAEA IR CE
08COLOMBO335	SRI LANKAN AIRLINES APPLICATION TO OFAC TO RELEASE [...] (C) Summary and recommendation: Sri Lankan Airlines has submitted a license application to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) requesting release of a Pounds Sterling 125,124.70 payment that Citibank's Sri Lanka branch blocked in accordance with Executive Order 13382 because the r [...]	2008-04-01 12:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KNNP KTFN IR CE
08COLOMBO394	SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR PDAS CAMP'S VISIT TO [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: Your visit comes at a time when our relations with Sri Lanka are beginning to show signs of strain from the increasing pressure we have applied on key issues, particularly human rights and military cooperation. Nonetheless, we continue to have access at the highest levels [...]	2008-04-17 11:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
08COLOMBO503	SRI LANKA: IRAN REFINERY OFFER GOING AHEAD, BUT IN WHOSE [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Iran's offer of concessionary financing for a major expansion of Sri Lanka's sole oil refinery was firmed up with the late April visit of President Ahmadinejad to Sri Lanka. Iran has promised to lend Sri Lanka 70% of the estimated $1.2 billion project cost, at a conc [...]	2008-05-27 04:16:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ENRG PREL CE IR CH
08COLOMBO620	SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR DAS FEIGENBAUM'S VISIT [...] (C) Sri Lanka: Your visit comes at a time when our relations with Sri Lanka are showing signs of strain from the increasing pressure we have applied on key issues, particularly human rights. Nonetheless, we continue to have access at the highest levels of the GSL and to play an important [...]	2008-06-25 13:18:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE MV
08CONAKRY814	MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CNDD - COMMENTS FROM [...] SUMMARY. Alpha Conde, leader of the Rally for the Guinean People (RPG) political party said he is willing to work with the CNDD as long as it moves to hold legislative and presidential elections by the end of 2009. Comparing Lansana Conte to Mugabe, Conde explained why a coup d'etat was the [...]	2008-12-31 15:48:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
08COPENHAGEN430	DANES ON NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 13:21:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD BM EUN DA
08COPENHAGEN436	TFGG01: DENMARK FIRM ON RUSSIA, CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (U) Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller warned publicly August 13 that Denmark will have to "reconsider" its relationship with Russia if Russian forces are in violation of the agreed cease-fire. Moeller, speaking after the GAERC EU foreign ministers meeting that day, acknowledged that Ge [...]	2008-08-14 14:14:00	Embassy Copenhagen	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS PHUM OSCE UN GG RS DA
08COPENHAGEN595	DENMARK: LEVERAGING FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN INTO [...] (S) We discussed reftel points with Danish Government officials on November 4 and November 12, stressing the importance that Denmark adopt at least one of the preventive measures set forth in reftel to address risks posed by Iran. According to Nikolaj Harris, Head of Section of the Danish Fore [...]	2008-11-13 08:47:00	Embassy Copenhagen	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL EFIN DA
08COPENHAGEN613	DENMARK: REVOCATION OF IRAN U-TURN GENERAL LICENSE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 15:23:00	Embassy Copenhagen	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL EFIN DA
08COTONOU196	BENIN: CRISIS IN MICROCREDIT SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Benin (GOB) dismissed the Director General of PADME, a microcredit institution, for mismanagement disclosed by a report from the Financial Audit Office (IGF). The Director General (DG) and the employees of PADME denied all allegations of mismanagement and malfeasa [...]	2008-04-08 06:12:00	Embassy Cotonou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN
08DAKAR1095	SENEGAL: DEMARCHE REGARDING WADE'S COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary: Under instruction from Senegal's President Wade and in the presence of his Mauritanian counterpart, Foreign Minister Gadio publicly reiterated on September 17 Senegal's support of the AU position condemning the use of coup d'etat. The Foreign Minister had briefed Wade on the ref [...]	2008-09-19 13:19:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MR SG
08DAKAR117	SENEGAL: A CONTROVERSIAL RETURN TO BICAMERALISM [...] (SBU) Summary: Senegal's return to bicameralism, following a February 2007 amendment to the Constitution, was widely perceived as a huge waste of funds and driven by a desire to create privileges for a growing political class rather than strengthening the country's democratic architecture. Th [...]	2008-01-29 16:42:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG
08DAKAR125	RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO [...] (SBU) This cable is largely derived from the initial report by an interagency Financial System Assessment Team (FSAT),which conducted an onsite visit to Senegal November 5-9, 2007. The team met with a wide array of government and private sector entities in Senegal and came away with a nuance [...]	2008-02-04 08:59:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER KCRM PREL SNAR PGOV SG
08DAKAR52	2008 GUINEA-BISSAU INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL CRIME AND MONEY [...] This cable is Part Two of the 2007-2008 National Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),Financial Crimes and Money Laundering report for Guinea-Bissau. Included is a narrative overview (paras 2-11). Para 12 contains responses keyed to the numbered questions beginning with Reftel paragrap [...]	2008-01-14 10:47:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR PU
08DAMASCUS126	CONVERTING DESIGNATIONS UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER [...] (S) Summary: The February 13 White House announcement of amended Executive Order 13338 (E.O. 13460) provides a powerful tool to target corrupt regime insiders, play on widespread public recognition of and opposition to corruption in Syria, and potentially increase pressure on Bashar from the [...]	2008-02-21 17:39:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	EFIN ETTC PGOV PREL PTER SY
08DAMASCUS142	REACTIONS TO MAKHLUF DESIGNATION [...] (S) Summary: The February 22 designation of Rami Makhluf pursuant to E.O. 13460 generated considerable discussion, but Syrian media coverage has been minimal. Makhluf's defiant announcement on BBC Arabic radio that the designation was tantamount to a medal of honor was as close to an official [...]	2008-02-26 16:33:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	ECON EFIN EINV KCOR PGOV SY LE
08DAMASCUS146	CORRECTED COPY: REACTIONS TO MAKHLUF [...] (S) Summary: The February 21 designation of Rami Makhluf pursuant to E.O. 13460 generated considerable discussion, but Syrian media coverage has been minimal. Makhluf's defiant announcement on BBC Arabic radio that the designation was tantamount to a medal of honor was as close to an official react [...]	2008-02-28 13:07:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	ECON EFIN EINV KCOR PGOV SY LE
08DAMASCUS177	REVERBERATIONS CONTINUE FROM MAKHLUF DESIGNATION [...] (C) The continuing fallout from the designation of Rami Makhluf, President Asad's first cousin, has exposed nascent fissures in the Syrian business community. A senior Alawite told us he had already sold his own shares in Gulfsands and intends to completely divest from Cham Holding in order to [...]	2008-03-13 17:36:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN KCOR PGOV SY
08DAMASCUS199	SYRIAN BUSINESSMEN AND E.O. 13460: A STRATEGY TO [...] (S) Post proposes an operational strategy to use E.O. 13460 to expose and exploit Bashar al-Asad's domestic economic vulnerabilities (ref A). These include the growing influence of a Syrian business class resentful of increased regime extortion despite Bashar's promised economic reforms, the [...]	2008-03-20 11:25:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	EFIN EINV ETRD ETTC KCOR PGOV SY LE
08DAMASCUS226	PRIVATE SECTOR EAGER TO ENGAGE VISITING [...] (C) From March 25-27, Post hosted Mr. Chuck Mills, CEO of Salera Capital, as a visiting State Department speaker. Despite lacking official approval from the Ministry of Culture, audiences from all strata of the Syrian private sector turned out for Embassy-scheduled events. While younger audie [...]	2008-04-03 15:30:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PPD SY KCOR
08DAMASCUS311	RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] (SBU) This cable responds to ref A. Although rising food prices do not portend an economic catastrophe in Syria, they are contributing to substantial economic and political pressure on the Asad regime. In the midst of a three-year drought, Syria's 2008 domestic wheat production is projected [...]	2008-05-05 14:25:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINF PGOV SY
08DAMASCUS349	CORRECTED COPY: MFA ADVISOR: SARG HIGH POLICY [...] (S) Summary: On May 14, Orient Center Director and MFA advisor Samir al-Taqi (protect strictly) provided a readout of a May 12 SARG High Policy Council that suggested deep divisions between those favoring supporting Syria's allies in Lebanon and those more concerned about fostering a viable [...]	2008-05-15 13:37:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PGOV PREL SY IS TU
08DAMASCUS420	SYRIA'S LACK OF ENGAGEMENT ON IRAQ: POSSIBLE [...] (C) Summary: With Syria's recent effort to gain credit for the Doha Agreement and publicly announcing indirect negotiations with Israel, it hopes for engagement with the West and a loosening of its international isolation. Still, the SARG has yet to make any substantial concessions on the key [...]	2008-06-12 16:40:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY LE
08DAMASCUS438	THE IMPACT OF U.S. SANCTIONS ON CIVIL AVIATION IN [...] (C) Syrian Arab Airlines' ability to sustain operations has degraded in recent years and is estimated to be currently operating just six of at least 15 aircraft in its fleet. The SARG amended its aviation laws in 2005 to allow private airlines to enter the market, but as is often the case in [...]	2008-06-18 15:04:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ETRD PGOV PTER SY
08DAMASCUS46	SYRIA: 2007 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Russell Comeau is the Embassy POC. Address: 6110 Damascus Place, Dulles, VA 20189. Unclassified e-mail: ComeauR@State.gov. Tel: ( 963-11) 3391-3785. 2. (SBU) Syria was designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1979. Since then it has continued political support to Palestinia [...]	2008-01-22 12:33:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC PGOV SY
08DAMASCUS477	FOLEY MEETINGS WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In June 23-26 meetings with UNHCR, IOM, WFP, UNICEF, donor country representatives, and other organizations workings on Iraqi refugee assistance and resettlement issues in Syria, Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, Ambassador James Foley heard: (1) Iraqis in Syria continu [...]	2008-07-06 16:02:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SY
08DAMASCUS497	FRENCH-SYRIAN ECONOMIC INITIATIVES STRUGGLE TO [...] (C) As Bashar prepares to visit Paris on July 12-14, French and Syrian officials are discussing potential economic initiatives to flesh out the political agenda of a new phase in bilateral relations. The French Embassy confirmed that the GOF has invited a Syrian business delegation to Paris l [...]	2008-07-10 15:37:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ETRD PGOV PTER SY FR
08DAMASCUS559	SUPPORTING SYRIA'S EMERGING PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (C) After 45 years of Baathist socialism, private enterprise is gaining momentum in Syria. Over the past 18 months, the SARG has enacted six major economic reforms that were long advocated by international consultants but bitterly resisted by Baath Party apparatchiks. Encouraged by the refor [...]	2008-08-07 16:16:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD ETTC KCOR PGOV SY
08DAMASCUS599	MAKHLOUF AIRLINE TO PURCHASE BOMBARDIER AIRCRAFT [...] (C) Reliable media sources are reporting that the first private Syrian airline is in negotiations to purchase Bombardier passenger aircraft from the Canadian manufacturer. The airline, known as Cham Pearl, is principally backed by President Asad's cousin (and Specially Designated National) Ra [...]	2008-08-20 14:53:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR EFIN ETRD PGOV SY
08DAMASCUS646	SARKOZY'S VISIT YIELDS VICTORY FOR FRENCH OIL [...] (C) The most significant economic development resulting from French President Nicholas Sarkozy's visit to Damascus was the signing of an MOU with the SARG that would position the French petroleum company Total to take the lead on any potential projects linking Syria's petroleum infrastructure [...]	2008-09-15 15:12:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV FR SY
08DAMASCUS661	SYRIAN AIR TO SELL ALL BOEING AIRCRAFT [...] (C) Syrian Air executives report that the airline's management intends to sell its two Boeing 747s and six Boeing 727s rather than attempt to overhaul them. They reported that the one remaining operational Boeing aircraft in the Syrian Air fleet, a 747, will be grounded on October 1, 2008, an [...]	2008-09-18 15:05:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV FR SY
08DAMASCUS70	MAXIMIZING THE IMPACT OF RAMI'S DESIGNATION [...] (S/NF) As Washington moves towards designating Rami Makhlouf, Embassy Damascus recommends that the Department's roll-out strategy focus on linking his corrupt activities to consequences suffered by the Syrian people (see para 11). In some of the largest economic sectors -- electricity, petrol [...]	2008-01-31 10:27:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	ECON EINV EPET ETTC PGOV PINR KCOR SY
08DAMASCUS727	PART I OF A SERIES: IRANIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN [...] (SBU) This is the first cable in a three-part series examining Iranian economic activity in Syria. Iranian-Syrian economic cooperation is overstated by both the SARG and Iranian government in an attempt to create the public perception that a mutually beneficial economic relationship has resu [...]	2008-10-16 16:19:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET ETRD PGOV IR SY
08DAMASCUS742	PART III OF A SERIES: IRANIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN [...] (C) This is the third and final cable in a three-part series examining Iranian economic activity in Syria. The greatest interaction between the Syrian and Iranian private sectors results from Syria's historical importance in Shi'ism. Iranian religious pilgrims represent the largest single bl [...]	2008-10-27 11:19:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN EPET ETRD PGOV IR SY
08DAMASCUS842	SYRIAN DISSIDENT TAKES DIM VIEW OF ORGANIZED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Civil society activist and economist XXXXXXXXXXXX, released from prison on XXXXXXXXXXXX, met with us recently to share his bleak assessment of pro-democracy and human rights movements in Syria. His appraisals differ from other civil society leaders (refs A-C),especially regarding [...]	2008-11-25 15:01:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KPAO KDEM SY
08DAMASCUS896	SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR SPECTER'S DEC. 29-31 VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Damascus looks forward to your visit. You will find President Asad and his regime more confident and self-assured since your meetings in December 2007. In the last year, Syria has successfully maintained and even deepened relationships with Iran, Hizballah, Hamas, an [...]	2008-12-18 16:45:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV LE IR FR IZ SY
08DAMASCUS906	SYRIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Russell Comeau is the Embassy POC. Address: 6110 Damascus Place, Dulles, VA 20189. Unclassified e-mail: ComeauR@State.gov. Tel: ( 963) 11-3391-3785. 2. (SBU) Designated in 1979 as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Syria in 2008 continued political support to Palestinian terrorist gro [...]	2008-12-23 12:10:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC
08DAMASCUS908	SYRIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Russell Comeau is the Embassy POC. Address: 6110 Damascus Place, Dulles, VA 20189. Unclassified e-mail: ComeauR@State.gov. Tel: ( 963) 11-3391-3785. 2. (SBU) Designated in 1979 as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Syria in 2008 continued political support to Palestinian terrorist gro [...]	2008-12-29 04:30:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC
08DHAKA1146	INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION (IIRO) [...] (C) Recent press accounts suggested that Islami Bank of Bangladesh had recently released money frozen for two years belonging to the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO). Sister organizations of the IIRO have ties to al- Qaida and have been listed as terrorist-affiliated by the Un [...]	2008-11-03 11:06:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PINR PREL PTER KTFN BG UN
08DILI134	DEMARCHE TO TIMOR-LESTE ON IRAN SANCTIONS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 01:24:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR TT
08DILI201	TIMOR-LESTE: PROPOSED AMNESTY STIRS CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Begin Summary. Following his commutation in May of the sentences of 94 criminals including former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato, Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta proposed on June 30 a law that would extend amnesty to figures implicated by the UN's Commission of Inquiry (COI) in ac [...]	2008-08-12 06:38:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS TT
08DILI289	STATEMENT BY TIMOR-LESTE PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA ON U.S. [...] On November 4, the Office of Timor-Leste President Ramos-Horta released the following statement on the U.S. Presidential elections. 2. Begin text: President of the Republic and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Josi Ramos-Horta, congratulated today the president-elect of the United States, B [...]	2008-11-09 04:56:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL TT
08DILI294	TIMOR-LESTE: COURT OF APPEALS FINDS BUDGET ALLOCATION [...] (U) Summary. Timor-Leste's Court of Appeals ruled on October 27 that the Government's allocation of monies from the Petroleum Fund into a newly-created Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF) violates the Constitution's provisions against secret budgets. The Court also found that any transfers from [...]	2008-11-19 08:57:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN ECON TT
08DILI41	TIMOR-LESTE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] Summary. Child labor in Timor-Leste is pervasive but difficult to quantify. Hard data is largely unavailable. All stakeholders agree that it is a problem, but the GOTL, preoccupied with the fundamental tasks of preserving public order, has not yet had sufficient means, capacity, or stabilit [...]	2008-02-12 04:33:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI TT
08DJIBOUTI1003	GODJ IMPATIENT FOR UNSCR ON BORDER DISPUTE WITH [...] (C) Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Youssouf appealed to the Ambassador Dec. 14 for the USG to support rapid consideration and adoption of a French-drafted UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) on the Djibouti-Eritrea border dispute. The draft UNSCR would establish a deadline for Eritre [...]	2008-12-15 08:07:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	DJ ER PBTS PREL SF
08DJIBOUTI1032	DJIBOUTI: SENATOR FEINGOLD DISCUSSES REGION, [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a December 18-21 CODEL in Djibouti, Senator Feingold discussed Djibouti, Somalia, and regional concerns with top GODJ and Somalia officials. In meetings with President Guelleh, Foreign Minister Youssouf, and members of Djibouti's civil society, the Senator focused on the s [...]	2008-12-23 12:47:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PGOV PREL PHSA PTER PHUM EAID ECON KCOR
08DJIBOUTI236	FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) The following is Embassy Djibouti's response to reftel questions on fiscal transparency in Djibouti. 2. (SBU) The Government of Djibouti is showing increasing commitment to transparency and accountability but needs capacity building and continued support from the IMF and other internatio [...]	2008-03-13 13:32:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PREL DJ
08DJIBOUTI356	BORREL CASE: DJIBOUTI ACCUSES FRENCH NATIONALS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ten days after a French court convicted two senior Djiboutian officials on charges of witness subornation (reftel) in connection with investigations into the 1995 death of French magistrate Bernard Borrel in Djibouti, a Djiboutian court issued international arrest warrants for f [...]	2008-04-13 16:30:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS KPAO KCRM DJ FR
08DJIBOUTI638	DJIBOUTI-ERITREA: SEPARATE UN AND ACP [...] (C) SUMMARY. In response to Djibouti's appeal to the international community, the United Nations Secretariat and the Brussels-based African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) have dispatched separate fact-finding missions to examine ways to reduce tensions with Eritrea, follow [...]	2008-08-03 17:53:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF MOPS KPKO ER DJ ET
08DJIBOUTI882	DJIBOUTI: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS, HIGHLIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador presented his credentials to President Guelleh on November 10. In their formal remarks and informal post-ceremony conversation, both President Guelleh and the Ambassador evoked the strong U.S.-Djibouti partnership, especially noting USAID's successful programs in health [...]	2008-11-10 15:19:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCOM SO ER DJ
08DJIBOUTI89	DJIBOUTI: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] SUMMARY: Foreign direct investment in Djibouti in 2007 is five times as large as it was in 2003. Djibouti's economy is service-based, with the country's seaport accounting for the bulk of economic activity. Almost all food and many other goods are imported from Ethiopia, the Arabian Gulf, or [...]	2008-01-31 06:18:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV
08DJIBOUTI893	DJIBOUTI GETS READY FOR JAN 1 VAT TAX [...] (U) SUMMARY. After several years of discussion, the GODJ will implement a 7% value added tax (VAT) beginning in January 2009. During the first implementation phase, only Djibouti's largest companies--those with an annual turnover of almost half a million dollars--will be required to charge VAT [...]	2008-11-16 14:07:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD ODIP DJ
08DJIBOUTI937	SCENESETTER: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DJIBOUTI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post warmly welcomes the visit of General Ward. Since your last visit in September 2008, Djibouti continues efforts in international fora to condemn Eritrea for its June 2008 border incursion. At the same time, Djibouti continues to play a significant role hosting and supportin [...]	2008-11-20 16:02:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS DJ SO ER
08DOHA155	SCENESETTER FOR U/S LEVEY'S FEBRUARY 24-25 VISIT [...] (S/NF) Your February 24-25 visit to Qatar should advance our engagement with the GOQ on CT cooperation and counter-terrorist finance, and continue our on-going discussions with the Qataris on the need for vigilance against money-laundering and Iranian exploitation of the international banking [...]	2008-02-21 12:19:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PTER KTFN QA IR
08DOHA212	QATAR: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNSC RESOLUTION 1803 [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche and copies of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1803 and P5 1 Foreign Ministers, statements March 6 to MFA, providing Qatar with information concerning obligations imposed on member states by UNSCR 1803, especially as it relates to the expansion of [...]	2008-03-13 05:24:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP MNUC IR QA
08DOHA239	SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR'S APRIL 8-9 VISIT TO [...] (S) Director Mueller: Embassy Doha welcomes your April 8-9 visit to Qatar. Your visit is formally hosted by the Director of Qatar State Security (QSS),Nasir Al-Ali, and his deputy Mohamad Al-Misnad. During your last visit here, in December 2004, you met with Minister of State for Internal [...]	2008-03-26 12:37:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM QA
08DOHA24	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY BODMAN'S JANUARY 21-22 [...] (C) Embassy Doha welcomes your January 21-22 visit to Qatar. You last met with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah Al-Attiyah in Rome in November 2007. Prior to that, he visited you in Washington in May 2007, and you saw him in Doha in April 2006 and November 200 [...]	2008-01-09 13:11:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	ENRG PREL QA
08DOHA241	SCENESETTER FOR NEA ASSISTANT SECRETARY WELCH'S [...] (C) Ambassador Welch, Embassy Doha welcomes your visit to Qatar. We have requested meetings for you with the Heir Apparent, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, who has overall responsibility for security issues in Qatar; Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani (H [...]	2008-03-28 11:21:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KWBG QA
08DOHA254	MFA OFFICIAL SAYS QATAR WILL IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1803 [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief and Econoff delivered Ref A and Ref B demarches April 2 to Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Sowaidi, Acting Director of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Noting that the international community recognizes the risks of doing business with Iran, Econoff emphasized that [...]	2008-04-03 05:31:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL PGOV PARM KNNP MNUC
08DOHA390	SCENESETTER FOR DHS SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF'S [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, Qatar is emerging as a major transit point for people and cargo in a volatile part of the world, creating new challenges for our counter proliferation, counterterrorism, and law enforcement efforts. Your visit to Qatar will help us solidify our relationships and deepen our [...]	2008-05-19 08:18:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC OTRA QA
08DOHA460	QATARI PRIVATE COMPANIES CONTINUE ABUSING LOW-PAID [...] (SBU) Summary: Over 400 Nepalese laborers were detained May 29 by the Qatari Ministry of Interior's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over a labor dispute with their employer, Trace Electronics. Despite legal protections for foreign workers, this incident demonstrates that private compa [...]	2008-06-26 09:51:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM QA
08DOHA505	QATAR CONTINUES BALANCING ACT WITH IRAN'S BANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Qatar's Deputy Central Bank Governor Sheikh Fahad Bin Faisal Al Thani told Charge the early June opening of a second Bank Saderat branch in Doha was the result of last-minute Iranian action on an old license. He asserted that the Central Bank is watching Iranian activity closely [...]	2008-07-15 06:40:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTFN KNNP INRB PARM MNUC ECON EFIN IR QA
08DOHA605	TOTAL DROPS IRAN LNG PROJECT BECAUSE OF SANCTIONS, [...] (C) Total-Qatar's Marketing Manager, Jean-Francois Hery (protect),told Econoff August 18 that Total's July decision to pull out of a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Iran's South Pars field was due not only to political uncertainty (as reported in press) but also because sanction [...]	2008-08-24 12:59:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EINV EPET QA IR
08DOHA791	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR MARK LAGON'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Doha welcomes your visit to Qatar. We have requested meetings with Minister of State for Interior Affairs Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al Thani, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Dr. Sultan Bin Hassan al-Dhabit al-Dousari, Minister of State for International Cooperation and Confer [...]	2008-11-06 14:25:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KTIP ELAB QA
08DOHA811	QATAR'S ENERGY MINISTER CONFIRMS POSSIBLE JOINT [...] (C) Drawing on Ref A, Ambassador met November 18 with Minister of Energy and Industry and Qatar Petroleum (QP) Chairman Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah to express strong U.S. concerns about development of a gas cartel and talks on a possible Qatar-Iran-Russia joint venture on LNG. Also attendin [...]	2008-11-18 14:33:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ETTC PREL QA IR RU
08DOHA94	SCENESETTER FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S FEBRUARY [...] (S) Mr. Attorney General: Embassy Doha welcomes your February 13-14 visit to Qatar. Your Qatari counterpart, Ali bin Fetais Al-Marri, met three times with your predecessor, in both Doha and Washington, and is extremely pleased at the prospect of your visit so soon after assuming office. This [...]	2008-02-04 13:30:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM QA
08DUBAI148	IRANIAN TRADE AND TRAVEL TO UAE INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT [...] (C) Summary. During an April 6 visit by Steven Bondy, EEB's Director of Terrorism Finance and Economic Sanctions Policy, Hamad Buamim, Director General of the Dubai Chamber (DC),formerly known as the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, DC Advisor Abdullah Sharafi and JAFZA (the free zone s [...]	2008-04-16 07:03:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL ETRD PGOV AE IR
08DUBAI289	UAE ANNOUNCES DIRECT DEPOSIT SYSTEM FOR PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (U) Summary: The UAE Ministry of Labor (MOL) and the UAE Central Bank announced in early June the formation a direct deposit system for wages of all employees working for private sector companies. The long-anticipated scheme, expected to be operational within months, will allow employees to ma [...]	2008-07-22 09:32:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB AE
08DUBAI441	AA/S MCNERNEY'S MEETINGS WITH THE AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney visited Dubai on October 16 to discuss counter proliferation cooperation and export control issues related to Iran (see septel for meeting with MG Mohammed Al Qemzi). McNerney discusse [...]	2008-11-25 15:25:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IR ENRG ETTC ECON KNNP KCEM KOMC AE
08DUBAI442	AA/S MCNERNEY'S MEETINGS WITH MAJOR GENERAL MOHAMMED AL [...] (S) Summary: On October 16, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney visited Dubai to discuss export control issues related to Iran with government officials and the private sector (see septel for other meetings). McNerney met with [...]	2008-11-25 15:26:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PREL IR ENRG ETTC ECON KNNP KCEM KOMC AE
08DUBAI443	AA/S MCNERNEY'S MEETINGS WITH THE AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney visited Dubai on October 16 to discuss counter proliferation cooperation and export control issues related to Iran (see septel for meeting with MG Mohammed Al Qemzi). McNerney discusse [...]	2008-11-25 15:27:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IR ENRG ETTC ECON KNNP KCEM KOMC AE
08DUBAI444	AA/S MCNERNEY'S MEETINGS WITH THE AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney visited Dubai on October 16 to discuss counter proliferation cooperation and export control issues related to Iran (see septel for meeting with MG Mohammed Al Qemzi). McNerney discusse [...]	2008-11-25 15:28:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IR ENRG ETTC ECON KNNP KCEM KOMC AE
08DUBAI445	AA/S MCNERNEY'S MEETINGS WITH THE AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney visited Dubai on October 16 to discuss counter proliferation cooperation and export control issues related to Iran (see septel for meeting with MG Mohammed Al Qemzi). McNerney discusse [...]	2008-11-25 15:29:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IR ENRG ETTC ECON KNNP KCEM KOMC AE

08DUBLIN109	VISA WAIVER PROGRAM NEGOTIATIONS AND THE EU - THE [...] (U) On March 4, Cons Chief met with Irish Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Ray Bassett and Joe Hackett of SIPDIS the Irish Passport Office to deliver the demarche mentioned in reftel. Bassett was pleased to receive the information presented in the demarche and stated that he believe [...]	2008-03-05 11:02:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	CMGT CVIS EUN KJUS KPAO PGOV PREL PTER EI
08DUBLIN116	IRISH VIEWS ON MARCH 10-11 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) POLOFF delivered demarche (Ref A) on March 6, 2008 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Ireland has recognized Kosovo's independence. The Irish Foreign Minister has publicly called for an end to violence in the Middle East. Ireland has not been requ [...]	2008-03-07 13:35:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EI
08DUBLIN150	IRELAND RESPONSE TO BURMA DEMARCHE [...] (C) Ireland believes that renewing the EU's Common Position on Burma, due in April, and a strong response from the upcoming GAERC, will be the most effective ways to publicly highlight the flaws in Burma's proposed constitution and referendum, according to Conleth Brady, Deputy Director, Asia [...]	2008-03-20 16:04:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EI BM
08DUBLIN216	IRISH VIEWS OF THE APRIL 28-29 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) POLOFF delivered Ref A demarche on March 24 ,2008 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Ireland would support stronger action in Iran, though it recognizes that other EU nations may be less willing to do so. It is fully committed to Kosovo's indepen [...]	2008-04-25 11:12:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PREL PGOV EI
08DUBLIN289	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL LEAHY TO IRELAND [...] (U) CODEL Leahy will arrive against a backdrop of a new Irish Government led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen, the continuing successful peace process in Northern Ireland, a slowing, but still world-class economic growth -- the "Celtic Tiger" -- and an Ireland that is increasingly engaged in for [...]	2008-05-21 15:56:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR MOPPS MARR EI
08DUBLIN329	IRISH DIRECTOR OF MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS DISCUSSES [...] (C) POLOFF reviewed affairs in Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon on June 5, 2008 with Michael Gaffey, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland is considering the invitation to the Friends of Iraq conference in Abu Dhabi and intends to continue providing s [...]	2008-06-09 08:51:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM KNNP UNSC IAEA MARR MOPS PINR
08DUBLIN48	IRISH VIEWS ON THE JANUARY 28-29 EU FOREIGN [...] (C) POLOFF delivered the January GAERC demarche on January 24 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Ireland is likely to recognize Kosovo's independence quickly, and is generally sympathetic to U.S. views on the Middle East, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sudan, DRC, [...]	2008-01-25 13:26:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PGOV PHUM PREL KV IR IZ IS SU EI
08DUBLIN516	IRISH VIEWS ON THE SEPTEMBER 15-16 FOREIGN [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on September 11, 2008 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Kelly indicated that Ireland agrees with the U.S. position on Zimbabwe and fully supports international action to suppress piracy off the coast of Somalia. H [...]	2008-09-12 08:17:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS EI
08DUBLIN560	IRISH VIEWS ON THE OCTOBER 13 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) POLOFF delivered demarche (Ref A) on October 9 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland will support continued EU sanctions in Zimbabwe until a genuine power sharing government is formed. It is encouraged by the progress it sees in Georgia and believes [...]	2008-10-10 08:14:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV EI
08DUBLIN609	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL LEAHY TO IRELAND [...] (U) Embassy Dublin welcomes Senator Leahy to Ireland. The Senator will arrive against a backdrop of an Irish Government led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen that is facing economic woes and uncertain relations with the European Union following its rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum i [...]	2008-11-06 18:38:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR SENV MOPPS MARR
08DUBLIN616	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (U) Welcome to Ireland. We look forward to your visit. You will arrive against a backdrop of an Irish Government led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen that is facing economic woes and uncertain relations with the European Union following its rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum in June [...]	2008-11-12 16:53:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR SENV MOPPS MARR
08DUBLIN707	IRELAND/CUBA: UPCOMING MINISTERIAL VISIT AND [...] (C) Summary. Ireland's Foreign Minister publicly announced plans for an official visit to Cuba in mid-February, a first for any Irish Minister. He also signaled Ireland's willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees as part of an EU response to any plan to close Guantanamo proposed by the inco [...]	2008-12-30 07:29:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PTER CU EI MX
08DUBLIN85	IRISH VIEWS ON THE FEBRUARY 18-19 EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: POLOFF delivered February GAERC demarche talking points on February 14 to Claire Buckley, Deputy European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland will recognize Kosovo fairly quickly and will strive for EU solidarity in responding to Kosovo's declaration of independ [...]	2008-02-15 11:54:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PGOV PREL PHUM EI
08DUSSELDORF21	REGIONAL CHAMBER OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO PUSH BACK ON IRAN [...] (SBU) As part of the Mission's ongoing dialogue with the German business community on Iran-related issues, EMIN, CG and Pol/Econoff met with a senior Duesseldorf Chamber of Commerce (IHK) official on April 17, who expressed "fear" that the German government and the Federal Agency of Economics [...]	2008-04-23 14:11:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PTER PGOV KNNP ETTC MNUC PREL IR GM
08DUSSELDORF7	GERMAN BANKING REGULATORY FEUD RESOLVED [...] (U) On February 5, the two chief German banking regulatory bodies ended a long-standing feud over who will have ultimate oversight in the German banking sector. In a much anticipated decision, the Bundesbank in Frankfurt ceded most regulatory authority (banking supervision, sanctions, etc) to [...]	2008-02-06 18:12:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV GM
08EFTOBUENOSAIRES648	ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 21-22 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already positive bilateral relationsh [...]	2008-05-15 18:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR
08FRANKFURT636	Views from Frankfurt on German Banking Regulation and [...] SUMMARY. Following months of global financial turmoil, German banking regulators have taken steps to harmonize and standardize their practices. At the same time, Germany's Finance Minister has become more vocal in criticizing the current regulatory system, calling for higher capital requirem [...]	2008-03-04 14:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FREETOWN138	FREETOWN MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 2008 [...] Summary: Embassy Freetown's outreach in Freetown included articles surrounding the commemoration of Black History Month, including a discussion hosted by Ambassador Perry and film showings at the Kissy and Fourah Bay College Libraries. Ambassador Perry also opened a seminar on resources managem [...]	2008-03-25 14:06:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO SL
08FREETOWN232	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR [...] (SBU) On May 15 Ambassador spoke with Sierra Leone's Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Vandi Minah to present the U.S. 60 day report on Iran Sanctions, per UNSC 1803. Ambassador stressed the need to ensure robust international implementation and highlight the continued IAEA reports of Iran's fai [...]	2008-05-16 13:22:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR SL
08GABORONE1029	BOTSWANA DEFLECTS ZIMBABWE, SEEKS SOUTH AFRICA AND [...] (C) Botswana's frustration over the political impasse in Zimbabwe is growing, and GOB MFA Permanent Secretary Outlule called in Ambassador Nolan and representatives of the UK, French, and EU Missions here late Friday afternoon November 21 for an update and to elicit our latest thinking on the w [...]	2008-11-24 04:53:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BC ZI
08GABORONE946	BOTSWANA: SADC MUST TAKE A TOUGHER LINE ON ZIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Nolan and Botswana's Foreign Minister Phandu Skelemani discussed Zimbabwe at length during their initial meeting at the Minister's office on October 27. The GOB is doubtful that any real progress will be made during the October 27 SADC troika meeting in Harare. The ne [...]	2008-10-28 07:39:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ZI BC
08GABORONE992	GOB TO RESPECT DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA [...] (SBU) PolOff met with the Director of the Department of Multilateral Affairs in Botswana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mmamosadinyana Punkie Josephine Molefe November 12. PolOff discussed the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee approval to add three Gulf- [...]	2008-11-13 13:32:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC BA QT BC
08GENEVA526	ACTING A/S BRIAN HOOK MEETS A RANGE OF OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On a June 26-27 visit to Geneva, Acting A/S Brian Hook met with officials from a range of international organizations. With the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Hook brainstormed about innovative fundraising for international organizations. Officials from the O [...]	2008-07-10 12:22:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNHRC
08GENEVA722	COMMUNICATION FROM SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE [...] Mission has received a communication from the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. This communication is number 48 on the Geneva 2008 Communications Log. The letter is dated 21 August, 2008. 2. Begin text of letter: Excellency, I have the honour to address yo [...]	2008-08-25 16:19:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
08GENEVA921	WHO: SECOND SESSION OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL [...] Summary. INB2 met October 20-25, 2008, in Geneva to develop a protocol under the FCTC to combat illicit trade in tobacco products. It was attended by representatives of 133 Parties to the FCTC, as well as 16 State non-Parties (including the United States),two intergovernmental organization [...]	2008-11-04 15:52:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL PGOV SOCI WHO
08GUANGZHOU489	Guangdong Labor Law Guidelines - Good News and Bad for U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: There's good news and bad news for U.S. firms in Guangdong's new implementation guidelines for the Labor Contract Law and Labor Mediation and Arbitration Law, according to HR executives at U.S. companies with major operations in the province. On the plus side, the guidelines [...]	2008-08-13 08:14:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV CH
08GUATEMALA1163	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RULE OF LAW WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) 2007 presidential runner-up General Otto Perez Molina told the Ambassador September 4 that he is concerned about Guatemala's deteriorating security situation and the GOG's apparent inability to follow through on institutional reforms. The state is institutionally unprepared to confront r [...]	2008-09-16 17:26:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR KCRM PINR GT
08GUATEMALA1229	GUATEMALA PASSES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT [...] Summary: After ten years of advocacy and three bills before Congress, the Guatemalan Congress unanimously passed the Free Access to Public Information Law on September 23. The law requires all public and private entities that receive public funds to respond to citizen requests for information [...]	2008-09-30 23:22:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KCRM KDEM KJUS SOCI MCC GT
08GUATEMALA1281	PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS ANTICIPATES FAILURE OF TAX [...] (C) Summary. President of Congress Crespo told the Ambassador October 3 that he believed Congress would approve neither the GOG's tax reform package nor the pending Arms and Ammunition Bill. Crespo supported President Colom's request for a substantial national budget increase to address det [...]	2008-10-15 14:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EFIN KCRM GT
08GUATEMALA242	G-TIP DISCUSSES HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN GUATEMALA [...] (U) Summary: G-TIP Western Hemisphere Reports Officer Barbara Fleck visited Guatemala February 13-15 during a week-long regional trip. Fleck met with government officials and civil society leaders to discuss anti-trafficking efforts and the congressionally mandated Trafficking in Persons (TIP [...]	2008-02-27 19:56:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM KCRM KFRD KWMN PREF SMIG PGOV GT
08GUATEMALA256	PRESIDENT COLOM ORDERS DECLASSIFICATION OF MILITARY ARCHIVES [...] Summary: On February 25, in commemoration of Guatemala's National Day of Dignity of Victims, President Colom announced that the government will declassify, and open to the public, military archives that contain information on human rights violations committed during the country's internal conf [...]	2008-02-29 01:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS PHUM KDEM KCRM MOPS MARR PGOV ESOCI GT
08GUATEMALA313	CICIG AGREES TO INVESTIGATE MURDERS OF WOMEN IN [...] Summary: On March 6, at the request of the Guatemalan government, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) agreed to investigate murders of women. During the official signing ceremony, attended by the Ambassador and other members of the diplomatic community, Presiden [...]	2008-03-11 18:21:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV SOCI GT
08GUATEMALA327	GUATEMALA'S INPUT FOR 2008 TIP REPORT (APRIL 2007 [...] Post submits the following information (keyed to ref A) on anti-trafficking efforts undertaken by the Guatemalan government between April 2007 and March 2008 in the areas of prevention, protection and assistance to trafficked victims, and investigation and prosecution of traffickers. While ch [...]	2008-03-13 22:37:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GT
08GUATEMALA54	GUATEMALA'S CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-18 23:16:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID PGOV GT
08HANOI1184	USAID-SUPPORTED WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent USAID-supported workshop on the prevention of wildlife trafficking detailed the massive scope of the problem but a lack of enthusiasm from Vietnamese attendees showed that signatures on international conventions and the passage of wildlife protection laws will not be eno [...]	2008-10-16 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV SOCI EAGR VM
08HANOI1211	SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-VIETNAM POLICY PLANNING TALKS [...] (C) Dr. Gordon: Your visit to Hanoi for the inaugural round of U.S.-Vietnam Policy Planning Discussions comes at an opportune moment. Our bilateral relationship with Vietnam is arguably at its highest point since relations were normalized in 1995. Propelled by a series of senior bilateral vis [...]	2008-10-27 06:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OTRA VM
08HANOI1266	VIETNAM RESISTS CALL FOR ASEAN MEMBERS TO PRESSURE BURMA [...] (SBU) In a November 17 conversation with MFA DDG for Asian Affairs Ta Duy Chinh, DPolCouns expressed U.S. indignation at the Burmese regime's recent convictions of lawyers and democracy activists, the continuing house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, and the junta's refusal to engage in genuine pol [...]	2008-11-17 07:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV UNSC BM VM
08HANOI1357	SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR WEBB'S DECEMBER VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Senator Webb: Your December 22-January 2 visit to Vietnam comes at an opportune moment. Our bilateral relationship with Vietnam is arguably at its highest point since relations were normalized in 1995. Propelled by a series of senior bilateral visits, the United States and Vietnam have [...]	2008-12-15 09:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM
08HANOI1390	Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Hue [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The DCM marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by meeting with the Archbishop of Hue, as well as dissident priests from the banned political movement Bloc 8406 and leaders of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. The Archbishop stressed the [...]	2008-12-19 10:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
08HANOI338	VIETNAM ON THE UNSC: CONSULTATION PAYS OFF [...] (C) Summary: While Vietnam does not have an immediate stake in the majority of Security Council matters, the GVN takes its engagement with the world community, and particularly its membership on the Security Council, seriously. Although lacking experience in such fora, the GVN wants and expec [...]	2008-03-25 05:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC VM
08HANOI531	GVN URGES DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION IN DEALING WITH [...] (C) On May 7, poloff discussed reftel points about the constitutional referendum in Burma with MFA Asia II Department Section Chief Ta Duy Chinh. Chinh welcomed the opportunity to hear U.S. views on the issue of "achieving reconciliation in Burma." He said the GVN supports genuine dialogue i [...]	2008-05-07 08:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM VM
08HANOI592	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH VICE FOREIGN MINISTER ON PRIME [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-20 10:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL CM VM
08HANOI711	PETROVIETNAM STILL NEGOTIATING DETAILS OF IRAN INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) On June 10, poloff discussed Ref B points about reports of PetroVietnam's investment in Iran's energy sector with MFA West Asia and Africa Department specialist Nguyen Quynh Phuong. Ms. Phuong said the two sides are still negotiating details of the investment. She characterized the agree [...]	2008-06-13 08:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EPET ETTC IR PREL VM
08HANOI762	VIETNAM: DEMARCHE TO ENCOURAGE SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-30 09:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC VM
08HARARE1013	ZIM NOTES 11-7-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - SADC Extraordinary Summit on Deck... - Mugabe Congratulates Obama... - Global Fund "diversion" goes public... - Cholera Outbreak Continues... - Civil Service Corruption Rampant... - WOZA Women Released on Bail... - Visiting American Surgi [...]	2008-11-10 13:20:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE1061	GONO ATTEMPTS TO DEFUSE PROTESTS OVER CASH LIMITS [...] (SBU) Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono announced in late November that the central bank raised the individual and corporate cash withdrawal limits from Z$500,000 and Z$1 million a day to Z$100 million and Z$50 million respectively once a week. The changes will be effective December 4 and ar [...]	2008-12-03 05:58:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE1073	NELSON CHAMISA ON MDC'S NEXT STEPS [...] (C) MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa met with Emboffs and Washington TDYers on December 4 to discuss MDC positions and next steps. According to Chamisa, MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai's continued absence from Zimbabwe is creating a leadership vacuum that limits the MDC's effectiveness in n [...]	2008-12-04 15:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE1117	MDC MAPS STRATEGY [...] (C) Polecon chief met separately with MDC negotiators Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma and talked by phone with Tsvangirai advisor Strive Masiyiwa on December 12 about MDC strategy. The MDC, which held a strategy meeting in Gaborone this week, will continue to engage in negotiations with ZANU-P [...]	2008-12-12 10:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE1122	ZIM NOTES 12-12-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - PF-ZAPU Revitalizing Party... - MDC Holds Strategy Meeting... - Manyika's Death an Accident?... - ZANU-PF Conference Delayed... - Mugabe Says Cholera Stopped... - Zimbabwe to be Discussed at UNSC... - EU Adds 11 Names to Sanctions List. [...]	2008-12-16 08:12:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE1136	ZIM NOTES 12-19-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- This is the last edition of Zim Notes in 2008. We will resume publication on January 2. Topics of the week: - Constitutional Amendment 19 Gazetted... - Allegations of MDC Paramilitary Camps in Botswana Refuted... - PF ZAPU Reemerges... - New Attorney General Ap [...]	2008-12-19 11:02:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE134	Zim Notes 2-08-2008 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2008-02-15 10:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE138	MONETARY POLICY STATEMENT PROVIDES RELIEF TO [...] (SBU) Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gono provided relief to the banking sector in his Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) of January 31, 2008, resolving a looming liquidity crisis, but he failed to introduce any further reforms to stabilize the deteriorating economy. Blaming "sanctions [...]	2008-02-20 11:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE140	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUGABE [...] (C) In a February 18 meeting with Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, the Ambassador emphasized that U.S. policy toward Zimbabwe remained constant, but that the U.S. would look favorably upon opening a dialogue with Mugabe. A positive sign would be assurances of free and fair elections. Mug [...]	2008-02-20 14:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE144	Zim Notes 02-22-2008 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2008-02-22 09:43:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE184	Zim Notes, March 7, 2008 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2008-03-07 10:33:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE231	DISILLUSIONED CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER SEEKS OUT [...] (C) The Ambassador met March 24 with Manatsa Mutasa, a member of the Central Committee from Manicaland. Immensely disillusioned with ruling party corruption and no longer supporting ZANU-PF candidates in the election, he told the Ambassador that Morgan Tsvangirai had enough countrywide suppor [...]	2008-03-27 09:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE274	IN THE ABSENCE OF RESULTS, RUMORS: THE STATE MEDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Four days after Zimbabwe's national election, presidential and senate results have yet to be announced, but rumors abound. The government-run newspaper, The Herald, dedicated much of its April 2 issue to post)election propaganda. In what appears to be an attempt to manage expec [...]	2008-04-03 16:22:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
08HARARE310	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GENERAL SOLOMON MUJURU [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on April 10, General Solomon Mujuru gave no hint of his commonly-known differences with President Robert Mugabe, and little indication that Mugabe would consider stepping down. He acknowledged that sanctions (understood to be targeted and intern [...]	2008-04-10 11:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
08HARARE324	PUBLIC BLAMES ZANU-PF AND SANCTIONS FOR DIRE STATE [...] (U) The presentation on April 8, 2007 of the results of round two of the Mass Public Opinion Institute's (MPOI) national survey on "The Zimbabwe Economy and People's Survival Strategies," carried out in December 2007, revealed greater pessimism over the state of the economy and personal levels [...]	2008-04-11 11:45:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE329	TREVOR NCUBE ON THE ZIMBABWEAN CRISIS [...] (C) ZANU-PF had placed itself in a difficult position, newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube, an ally of Simba Makoni, told the Ambassador on April 14. The only way it can win a runoff election is through fear and violence, but a victory under these circumstances will not be accepted by SADC. SAD [...]	2008-04-15 15:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
08HARARE345	ZIM NOTES April 17, 2008 [...] SUMMARY ------------- Topics of the week: - Still No Election Results, Court Rebuffs Opposition Demand - Post-Election Violence Spreads, One Confirmed Death - Scores of Opposition Arrested - An Analytic Note On Violence - Opposition "Stay-In" a Flop - UN Security Council Deliberates Over Z [...]	2008-04-17 15:43:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE363	SURVIVOR ZIMBABWE: HOW BUSINESS COPES [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-23 14:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE367	ZIMBABWE STATE OF PLAY--NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE [...] (C) The exuberance that greeted election returns over three weeks ago has given way to despair and fear among many in the wake of a seemingly interminable delay in announcement of election results and ZANU-PF orchestrated and pervasive violence. While regional and international focus has been [...]	2008-04-24 12:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
08HARARE416	LIBERALIZED FOREX TRADING, PLUS MORE PATCHES FROM [...] (SBU) Against the background of an ever worsening economic crisis, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gono announced his Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the first quarter of 2008 on April 30. The objectives of the MPS are noble, but the measures are more of the same, with the exceptio [...]	2008-05-09 10:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
08HARARE45	AMBASSADOR TAKES POLITICAL PULSE IN BULAWAYO [...] (C) On his first trip to Bulawayo (Zimbabwe's second largest city),the Ambassador met with leading opposition political figures and civil society leaders to gauge attitudes toward upcoming elections. They uniformly told him that an MDC victory in March was highly unlikely. Paul Themba Nyat [...]	2008-01-23 13:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE519	UN ENVOY BRIEFS DIPLOMATS ON ZIMBABWE VISIT [...] (C) Haile Menkerios, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, briefed western diplomats, including the Ambassador, June 17 on his mission to Zimbabwe, and specifically on a meeting earlier in the day with President Robert Mugabe. Menkerios said he came away from the [...]	2008-06-19 13:36:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE601	ZIM NOTES 7-3-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - Mugabe won... - State of Negotiations... - African Media Experts Slam Media Environment... - Lead Complainants in SADC Tribunal Farm Case Abducted, Beaten... - USAP Students Earn Over US$5 Million in Scholarships... - Inflation Soars... - Supply [...]	2008-07-08 08:24:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE604	UK COMPANY SUSPENDS HARD CURRENCY DELIVERIES TO [...] (C) U.K.-based Travelex suspended its supply of foreign currency to Western Union Zimbabwe in late June, apparently fearful of being tarred with sustaining the Mugabe regime. Consequently, Zimbabwe's major money transfer company has capped cash disbursements while it scrambles for alternate su [...]	2008-07-10 12:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE607	ZANU-PF--MDC PREPARATION FOR NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai briefed diplomats from the U.S., UK, Sweden, and Australia July 12 on the ZANU-PF--MDC negotiation process. He said representatives from his faction (MDC-T),the MDC Mutambara faction (MDC-M) and ZANU-PF had concluded a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for ne [...]	2008-07-14 10:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE623	ZIM NOTES 7-18-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the Week: - MOU on Hold - UN Briefs Donors on Re-Opening NGO Operations, Return of IDPs - Zim Delegation Walks out of SADC Tribunal Hearing - EU to Widen Sanctions - South Africa Continues Deporting Zimbabweans - ZBC Bans Politically Incorrect Programs - [...]	2008-07-21 15:41:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE624	AN MOU, BUT LITTLE REASON FOR OPTIMISM [...] (C) Summary: Significant buzz surrounded the signing of an MOU today in Harare as a framework for negotiations. Previewing the actual negotiations, however, MDC Mutambara (MDC-M) negotiator Welshman Ncube sounded a pessimistic note in a conversation with pol/econ chief on July 18. Echoing M [...]	2008-07-21 16:18:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE625	AN MOU, BUT LITTLE REASON FOR OPTIMISM [...] (C) Summary: Significant buzz surrounded the signing of an MOU today in Harare as a framework for negotiations. Previewing the actual negotiations, however, MDC Mutambara (MDC-M) negotiator Welshman Ncube sounded a pessimistic note in a conversation with pol/econ chief on July 18. Echoing M [...]	2008-07-21 16:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE628	TSVANGIRAI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SHARING POWER DURING A [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 22 MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai briefed Charge on his July 21 meetings with Mugabe, Mbeki and Mutambara. Tsvangirai said he and Mugabe met one-on-one for 90 minutes, agreeing to a transition of no more than two years during which each would hold a position of equal weight [...]	2008-07-22 15:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE636	CIVIL SOCIETY SKEPTICAL OF MOU AND TALKS [...] (C) While leaders of Zimbabwe's vibrant civil society welcome political dialogue, they are deeply skeptical about the prospect of a future under a government of national unity (GNU). In recent months, civil society has backed the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) very openly. However, r [...]	2008-07-25 12:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM KDEM ZI
08HARARE637	ZIM NOTES 7-25-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - MOU Signed, Talks Started... - Over a Quarter of MDC MPs Targeted... - EU Expands Sanctions List... - SADC Tribunal Rules Against Zimbabwe on Land... - State Media Tone Down Rhetoric... - Zim Journalist Wins CNN Award... - Holding Mugabe Accou [...]	2008-07-28 06:16:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE651	NEGOTIATIONS STILL ON TRACK [...] (C) MDC negotiator Elton Mangoma told us August 1 that negotiations will resume in Pretoria on August 3. Mangoma was optimistic that sticking points--balance of power between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, and duration of the new government--would be worked out and that a signing ceremony would take [...]	2008-08-01 11:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
08HARARE654	ZIM NOTES AUGUST 1, 2008 [...] SUMMARY ------------- Topics of the week: - Negotiations to Resume - Violence Continues - U.S. Expands Financial Sanctions - Newspapers Reduce Print Run - Wildlife Poached - Stop-Gap Measures in Latest Monetary Statement - Technical Glitches in Broadcast of Gono's Statement - Busines [...]	2008-08-01 12:32:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON EAGR EFIN EMIN ZI
08HARARE741	MDC TAKES LEAD ROLE IN PARLIAMENT, EVEN AS 5 MPS [...] (C) President Robert Mugabe convened Parliament today. The MDC, which had earlier indicated it would not attend in order to avoid recognition of Mugabe, was in attendance. The decision came after a heated discussion. According to Nelson Chamisa, MDC spokesperson, the MDC ultimately concluded [...]	2008-08-26 15:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM KDEM ZI
08HARARE747	THE ZIMBABWE CRISIS: NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Tendai Biti, MDC Tsvangirai (MDC-T) secretary-general, believes that the MDC-T's gameplan on negotiations and the way forward includes renewed international outreach beyond SADC. Biti said the MDC-T's success in naming a speaker of the Assembly confounded Mbeki and ZANU-PF plans. MDC Mu [...]	2008-08-28 10:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
08HARARE793	OUTLINES OF A DEAL [...] (C) An upbeat Morgan Tsvangirai told the Ambassador early this morning that he thought a breakthrough in ZANU-PF--MDC negotiations had been achieved last night. On the contentious issue of allocation of executive authority, Tsvangirai said he had presented a proposal to Zimbabwean president [...]	2008-09-10 08:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE828	AN IMPERFECT DEAL BUT THE ONLY ONE ON OFFER [...] (C) Summary: On September 11 Mbeki announced a deal was reached in Zimbabwean power-sharing negotiations. On Septeptember 12 Tsvangirai briefed Ambassador and UK Ambassador Pocock on the deal. Tsvangirai was extremely confident that his chairmanship of a newly-created Council of Ministers w [...]	2008-09-12 10:28:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE832	ZIM NOTES 9-12-08 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - Mugabe and Tsvangirai Reach Deal... - Last Two MDC MPs Released on Bail... - USG-Funded NGOs Resuming Field Operations... - Canada Imposes Sanctions on Zimbabwe... - Cholera Outbreak in Crowded Township... - Reserve Bank Allows Some Formal Doll [...]	2008-09-15 14:18:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE833	MUGABE SPEECH DAMPENS EXCITEMENT OF SIGNING [...] (SBU) President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai delivered contrasting speeches following today's signing of a power-sharing accord between ZANU-PF and the two MDC opposition factions. Tsvangirai stressed the need for governmental unity and immediate food and medical assistance to Zimbabw [...]	2008-09-15 15:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE840	BITI PESSIMISTIC, BUT NOT WITHOUT HOPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 17 meeting with Ambassador, MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti said that the Zimbabwean power sharing agreement is a reasonably good document on paper, but will only succeed in creating a better future if ZANU-PF exhibits good will. He is pessimistic on this fro [...]	2008-09-17 13:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE85	AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH GOZ MINISTER AND MUGABE [...] (C) The Ambassador met January 28 with Nicholas Goche, the Minister of Public Service, Labor, and Social Welfare. Goche is also one of the ZANU-PF negotiators in the SADC mediation process. He promised the Ambassador he would attempt to facilitate a one-on-one meeting between the Ambassador [...]	2008-01-31 11:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE88	RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR GONO ON MUGABE, ELECTIONS, [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador at the Reserve Bank on January 30, Governor Gideon Gono told the Ambassador that President Robert Mugabe was old and not well. Nevertheless, Mugabe was reluctant to step down because of internal problems within ZANU-PF and lack of an identifiable successor [...]	2008-01-31 13:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE881	ZIM NOTES 9-26-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - Mugabe UNGA Speech Hits Familiar Themes - Mbeki Resignation Causing ZANU-PF Concern - Welshman Ncube Discusses Negotiation Impasse - Donors Discuss Re-Engagement - Violence Continues - Teachers Still on Strike, Union Leader Released - Minister [...]	2008-09-29 09:20:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE92	Zim Notes February 1, 2008 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2008-02-01 08:12:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE933	PARLIAMENT'S HANDS TIED AS MPS AWAIT AGREEMENT [...] (C) The speaker of the Zimbabwean House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo, met with polecon chief and poloff on October 17 to discuss the current state of affairs and legislative agenda in Parliament. Parliament is awaiting the outcome of the ministerial negotiations between ZANU-PF and the two MDC [...]	2008-10-17 11:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE937	ZIM NOTES 10-17-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - Talks Stall... - Parliament Opens, Talks Continue... - Masvingo Governor Blocks Humanitarian Aid... - 2 Protests; 13 Arrests; over 29 Injured... - Poor Water Management... - Zims Continue to go South... - Check Rate Replaces Transfer Rate And [...]	2008-10-20 08:00:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE955	TSVANGIRAI UPDATES OECD HEADS OF MISSION ON [...] (SBU) MDC leader and prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai updated heads of OECD missions on October 22 and stated that no progress had been made towards concluding negotiations between ZANU-PF and the MDC on a power-sharing government. While disappointed that Mugabe was not negotiating [...]	2008-10-23 09:50:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE960	PLANNING FOR FAILURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: While planning for reengagement with a reformist government, the USG should also plan a response to failure of political dialog. Efforts will be needed to force the Mugabe regime to accept internationally supervised elections; regional organizations will be required to show grea [...]	2008-10-23 15:36:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM ASEC ZI
08HARARE963	ZIM NOTES 10-24-2008 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - Deadlocked, But SADC-Hosted Talks to Resume... - No Progress Says Tsvangirai... - Lack of Passport Paper to Blame... - Botswana Calls for New Elections... - Zimbabwean Elephants Get a Reprieve... - Zimbabwean Journalist Wins German Award. [...]	2008-10-27 08:32:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HARARE965	ZIMBABWE: ECONOMIC MINISTER PAINTS HIMSELF AS [...] (C) ZANU-PF Minister of Economic Development Sylvester Nguni in a meeting with emboffs on October 20 saw no evidence of policy shifts in ZANU-PF and suggested that the ruling party would eventually surrender economic policy to MDC in a face-saving move out of desperation. He asked for rapid d [...]	2008-10-27 15:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
08HARARE974	TSVANGIRAI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON SADC TROIKA [...] (C) In an October 28 meeting with the Ambassador, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai briefed on the SADC Troika meeting which concluded in Harare in the early morning hours of the 28th. Tsvangirai expressed disappointment that SADC did not understand that the issue is not about allocation of minis [...]	2008-10-28 16:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
08HARARE981	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH RBZ BOARD MEMBER [...] (C) The Ambassador met October 29 with Lovemore Chihota, a successful Zimbabwean businessman, war veteran, and current member (and former chairman) of the board of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). Chihota painted himself as a political moderate, constantly referring to President Mugabe as [...]	2008-10-29 14:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM KDEM EAID ZI
08HAVANA158	HAVANA RESPONSE TO STATE 10743 [...] (C) Following responses to questions posed in Reftel, para 4: -- A. The Pol/Econ Section handles energy matters. -- B. The employees dealing with energy matters are: One Pol/Econ Officer who is responsible for the complete Econ-ESTH portfolio; and one Local Contract National (LCN) ded [...]	2008-02-15 16:58:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PINR PREL CU
08HAVANA183	CUBA: RAUL CASTRO TAKES CHARGE IN HIS OWN WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cuba's National Assembly convened on February 24 to elect the country's ruling Council of State. Raul Castro was voted president and announced plans to streamline GOC institutions and undertake some economic reforms. He also said he intends to consult Fidel Castro on important [...]	2008-02-25 03:08:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU
08HAVANA377	CONGRESS OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS DEBATES CHANGES IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 14:19:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV SCUL
08HAVANA434	GOC TIGHTENS THE SCREWS ON OPPOSITION ACTIVITY [...] (C) In REF A, we commented that we believed that the May 19-21 media campaign centering on USINT's relations with various dissidents was directed primarily at the dissidents. Events in the succeeding days seem to support that thesis as the GOC has ignored our statement that they should make a [...]	2008-06-06 19:28:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CU

08HAVANA461	FAMILIES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS GRATEFUL FOR [...] (C) Summary: On June 15 to celebrate Father's Day, COM held a day of recreation for over a hundred relatives, children and supporters of Cuba's political prisoners. The families were very grateful because Father's Day is a traditionally important event in Cuba. Many of the family members [...]	2008-06-17 20:29:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
08HAVANA469	REACTION IN CUBA TO EU DECISION TO LIFT [...] (C) Civil society members, reaction to the EU decision to drop its already suspended sanctions on Cuba was predictably negative. Though some had continued to hope for a miracle, most had no realistic expectation that the EU would react any other way. Key dissident leaders including Marta Be [...]	2008-06-21 17:02:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU EU PGOV PREL
08HAVANA493	CUBAN DISSIDENTS FACE PROSECUTION [...] (C) Summary: Led by Jorge Luis Garcia Perez ("Antunez"),on June 20 six protesters delivered a letter of protest against the maltreatment of a prisoner to the Provincial Office of the Ministry of the Interior in the city of Matanzas. As they were sitting on a bench, they were accosted by m [...]	2008-06-25 18:52:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
08HAVANA494	FIDEL CASTRO LASHES OUT AT EU DECISION ON CUBA [...] (SBU) While opposition members continue to express disappointment with the EU decision on Cuba sanctions, and fear that it presages another crackdown on their activity, former President Fidel Castro appears to be beside himself with anger over the EU decision. 2. (SBU) Fidel wrote at leas [...]	2008-06-25 20:14:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CU EU
08HAVANA518	GOC ROUNDS UP DISSIDENTS IN ADVANCE OF USINT 4TH [...] (C) SUMMARY: As feared following yesterday's attack on USINT activities by MINREX (Reftel),the GOC has begun to threaten, harass, and detain dissidents who planned to attend the 4th of July reception tomorrow. USINT has gotten the names of 7 individuals who have been detained, others are re [...]	2008-07-03 21:59:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CU
08HAVANA521	USINT HOSTS SUCCESSFUL 4TH OF JULY EVENT IN SPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In spite of an unprecedented effort to reduce attendance by the GOC, USINT hosted a successful 4th of July reception that attracted 626 guests from civil society, the press, religious organizations and the diplomatic corps. Many civil society members from outside Havana were pre [...]	2008-07-07 13:20:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CU
08HAVANA756	NEXT STEPS IN THE EU-CUBA POLITICAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) EC representative Javier Nino Perez told COM on September 15 that the GOC had accepted the EU request for a political dialogue following the EU's removal of sanctions on Cuba in June. The GOC response reportedly was contained in a diplomatic note filled with verbiage regarding intrusion i [...]	2008-09-15 20:46:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PREL EU CU
08HELSINKI180	FINNISH COMMENTS ON THE APRIL 28-29 GAERC [...] (U) Poloffs delivered GAERC talking points to Finnish MFA European Correspondent Leena-Kaisa Mikkola April 22. 2. (SBU) WESTERN BALKANS: The GoF agrees that the US and the EU should work collaboratively to urge the UNSG to show leadership in ensuring a smooth transition from UNMIK to a new [...]	2008-04-24 07:20:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EUN FI
08HELSINKI226	FINNISH COMMENTS ON THE MAY 26-27 GAERC [...] (U) PolChief and PolOff delivered the Department's GAERC talking points to Finnish European Correspondent Leena-Kaisa Mikkola May 20. 2. (SBU) IRAN: Mikkola acknowledged that the EU has still been unable to reach consensus on implementation of UNSCR 1803. However, she noted that the EU did [...]	2008-05-22 13:25:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EUN FI LE IR GG SY
08HELSINKI324	FINNISH COMMENTS ON GAERC JULY 22-23 [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 07:46:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EUN PGOV FI IR SO SU ZI UP CD
08HELSINKI406	FINLAND: COMMENTS ON GYMNICH SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff delivered points from reftels to Markku Lampinen, Deputy Director Deputy European Correspondent, Unit for European Common Foreign and Security Policy on September 3. Lampinen stated that the extraordinary European Council (EC) meeting on Monday (September 1) left less fo [...]	2008-09-04 13:43:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN PREL PGOV GG PHUM RU FI
08HELSINKI415	FINDLAND COMMENTS ON SEPTEMBER 15-16 FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-12 14:26:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EUN PGOV FISO SO ZI UP
08HELSINKI463	FINNISH COMMENTS ON OCTOBER 13 GAERC [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 10:32:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZI UZ BO GG RS FI
08HELSINKI541	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO FINLAND, [...] (C) SUMMARY. You will arrive in Finland as the Finns enjoy considerable international acclaim for their efforts in international crisis management, not only as a result of their effective Chairmanship of the OSCE, but also for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to former President Martti Ahtis [...]	2008-11-25 15:05:00	Embassy Helsinki	SECRET	FI MARR PGOV PREL
08HOCHIMINHCITY801	HCMC TRANSPORTATION OFFICIAL AT THE HEART OF NEW PMU [...] (C) Summary: Two recent corruption cases share one thing in common--an influential HCMC official with sterling ties to the Politburo who allegedly demanded bribes to clear the way for two major infrastructure projects. The official at the heart of these cases is Huynh Ngoc Sy, Deputy Director [...]	2008-09-03 09:07:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PHUM VM
08HONGKONG1044	EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 01:42:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED	BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK
08HONGKONG1276	INFLATION, BDA POSE PROBLEMS FOR MACAU MONETARY [...] (C) Summary: Inflation and the future of Banco Delta Asia (BDA) are the Macau Monetary Authority's (AMCM) most pressing problems. BDA's anti-money laundering (AML) regime has regressed since AMCM was forced to return management control of the bank in September 2007. Controlling shareholder [...]	2008-07-14 11:02:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON MO NK CH
08HONGKONG1775	HONG KONG SEEKS TO MODERNIZE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE [...] (C) Summary: The HKG recently closed its written public comment period on several proposals to modernize and strengthen Hong Kong's Copyright Ordinance (CO). The proposed amendments largely concern the digital transmission of copyrighted materials, especially via the Internet. Many Internet [...]	2008-09-24 09:04:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH
08HONGKONG259	PRC CENTRAL GOVERNMENT COMFORTABLE WITH U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Commissioner to Macau Wan Yongxiang told Consul General Cunningham on January 30 that Beijing was comfortable with the rapid rise of U.S. and other foreign investment in Macau's gaming and tourism industry and, despite some stresses as Macau society [...]	2008-02-12 08:21:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM CACS CH MC MG HK
08HONGKONG459	BDA - MACAU'S DISGRACED BANK LACKS COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: In the course of a March 3-7 Government Accountability Office (GAO) visit, Hong Kong and Macau government officials and private sector players criticized section 311 of the Patriot Act as a blunt and unwieldy tool and the U.S. handling of the Banco Delta Asia (BDA) case as non-t [...]	2008-03-12 09:28:00	Consulate Hong Kong	SECRET	ECON EFIN PREL KJUS MC
08IRANRPODUBAI15	IRANIAN MAJLES--POST ELECTIONS ANALYSIS [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-19 15:37:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	IR PGOV PREL
08IRANRPODUBAI20	EYEING 2009: AHMADINEJAD PRESSES AHEAD WITH ECONOMIC [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-17 12:36:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON IR
08IRANRPODUBAI27	US-BASED IRANIAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST DISCUSSES IRGC, SUPREME [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 13:41:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	IR PGOV PREL PHUM
08IRANRPODUBAI7	EBRAHIM YAZDI ON US POLICY AND IRAN'S FUTURE [...] (S//NF) Summary: Former foreign minister and leader of Freedom Party of Iran Dr. Ebrahim Yazdi (please protect) discussed his views of US policies on Iran with IRPoff Feb 20 when he came to Dubai to collect his US visa. Yazdi expressed his view that US policy on Iran is flawed and unclear, arg [...]	2008-02-28 14:33:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	IR PGOV
08ISLAMABAD105	PAKISTAN: REFOCUSING SECURITY ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is an action request - see Paras 3 and 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Over the past year, militant extremists in Pakistan have sharply increased attacks, both in tribal areas along the Pak-Afghan border and into settled areas. While these attacks do not represent a medium-term threat to Pakis [...]	2008-01-08 09:54:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD1073	IMET: RECAPTURING PAKISTAN'S LOST GENERATION [...] (U) This is an action request, please see Paras 2 and 9. 2. (U) SUMMARY. Post welcomes Department's proposal to expand IMET funding for Pakistan (reftel) and intends to focus additional funding on those Pakistani military officers, now at mid and senior ranks, who were unable to participat [...]	2008-03-10 15:27:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS MARR PK
08ISLAMABAD1130	UNSCR 1803: PAKISTAN OPPOSES IRAN SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-13 13:20:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR KNNP MNUC PARM PK
08ISLAMABAD134	GOP APPROVES SIGNING OF IRAN-PAKISTAN PIPELINE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para five. Pakistan approves signing of Iran-Pakistan pipeline --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (SBU) The GOP approved the gas sale purchase agreement with Iran on January 8, which paves the way for signing the Iran-Pak [...]	2008-01-09 14:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD137	GOP APPROVES SIGNING OF IRAN-PAKISTAN PIPELINE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para five. Pakistan approves signing of Iran-Pakistan pipeline --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (SBU) The GOP approved the gas sale purchase agreement with Iran on January 8, which paves the way for signing the Iran-Pakis [...]	2008-01-10 01:29:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD139	GOP APPROVES SIGNING OF IRAN-PAKISTAN PIPELINE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para five. Pakistan approves signing of Iran-Pakistan pipeline --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (SBU) The GOP approved the gas sale purchase agreement with Iran on January 8, which paves the way for signing the Iran-Pakis [...]	2008-01-10 01:30:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD1497	BOUCHER'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER QURESHI [...] (C) During a March 28 meeting with Assistant Secretary or South and Central Asian Affairs Boucher, Foreign Minister-designate Shah Mehmood Qureshi confirmed that the new government wanted to work with the U.S. to combat extremism, increase trade and extend cooperation with India and Afghanistan. [...]	2008-04-08 09:24:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD1699	NO ACTION BUT MORE RHETORIC ON PAKISTAN IRAN PIPELINE DEAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para eleven. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Following a brief state visit from Iranian President Mahmound Ahmadinejad on April 28, local media reports that the path has been cleared for Pakistan and Iran to sign the much touted natural gas pipeline deal. While [...]	2008-04-29 12:20:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD1747	DRL ASSISTANT SECRETARY KRAMER'S CALL ON FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. On April 21, DRL Assistant Secretary Kramer urged a conservative Foreign Secretary Khan to be proactive in supporting human rights initiatives at the UN and encouraged higher levels of commitment with Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENA). Khan suggested that co [...]	2008-05-05 11:27:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD1825	LIFE AT NDU: TRAINING PAKISTAN'S NEXT GENERATION OF MILITARY LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan's National Defense University's curriculum is designed to foster national pride, but many of its students and instructors have an anti-American bias. Their attitudes demonstrate why we should continue our efforts to increase IMET opportunities, especially those aimed at the ge [...]	2008-05-12 12:36:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD2095	PAKISTAN: RESPONSE TO PRE-NOTIFICATION OF TRUST ALTERNATIVE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-11 11:32:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	KTFN PREL PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD2337	CODEL GREEN DISCUSSES MADRASSAS, EXTREMISM WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In a July 4 meeting with President Musharraf, CODEL Green discussed extremism in Pakistan and their support for madrassa reform. The CODEL cited a specific case of two young U.S. citizens apparently being held against their will in a Karachi madrassa; the Embassy is facilitating [...]	2008-07-09 11:13:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD2405	SAUDI ARABIA AGREES TO DEFER PAKISTAN'S OIL PAYMENTS BUT [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Pakistan is once again asking for assistance from Saudi Arabia to bail out the country's faltering economy by providing deferred oil payment concession. Details on the size and duration of this concession are still being finalized with Saudi authorities and are not publicly avai [...]	2008-07-16 00:49:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	ENGY EFIN ECON EINV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD288	STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN: ECONOMIC OUTLOOK LESS THAN ROSY [...] (C) Summary: In its January 5, 2008 first quarterly report, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reduced its June 30, 2007 - July 1, 2008 (FY08) growth rate target range to 6.6-7.0 percent from 7.0-7.4 percent due to deterioration in the investment climate resulting from increased domestic insta [...]	2008-01-18 12:14:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3231	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 09, 2008 [...] "Military Seeks Politicians' Support to Fight Militants; Opposition Dissatisfied" "Dawn" (10/09) "The military took elected representatives of the nation into confidence on Wednesday about the worsening situation in FATA, NWFP and Balochistan and the U.S.-led 'war on terror' during a joint [...]	2008-10-09 10:08:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3493	PAKISTAN'S APPEAL FOR WHEAT THROUGH THE GSM 102 PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Pakistan (GOP) faces a wheat shortage of 1.75 million tons, valued at approximately USD 450 million. Post recommends approval of a USD 450 million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) GSM-102 credit guarantee program for Pakistan in FY 2009 to support sales o [...]	2008-11-05 13:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EAGR PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3606	GOP'S PLAN FOR THE BENAZIR INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAM [...] Summary. Details of the GOP plan to create a social welfare type program, the Benazir Income Support Program, were presented to diplomatic representatives. Through the program the GOP will disburse Rs. 2000 (USD 24.39 at R82 per USD) every other month to over 3 million families that have a mo [...]	2008-11-17 06:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3811	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 06-09, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-11 11:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3822	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 12, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-12 09:49:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISTANBUL104	TURKEY-IRAN BUSINESS COUNCIL PREPARES FOR MARCH 11 [...] (S/NOFORN) Summary: An official from Turkey's "Foreign Economic Relations Board" (DEIK) shared with us the proposed schedule, agenda, and participants list for the March 11, 2008 meetings in Iran of the "7th Turkey-Iran Joint Business Council." Turkey's 60-person delegation will be led by Tu [...]	2008-03-03 13:23:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV IR TU
08ISTANBUL146	THE ECO BANK AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) bank officials told us March 20 that the ECO bank, established by Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan under ECO auspices, has 480 million dollars (300 million SDR) in funds, seeks to fund projects in ECO countries that promote intra-ECO trade and dev [...]	2008-03-24 12:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN ETRD OIC TU IR
08ISTANBUL152	MARCH 11 TURKEY-IRAN BUSINESS COUNCIL MEETING: [...] (C) Summary: A Consulate Istanbul contact who works for Turkey's Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) shared with us internal DEIK reports summarizing the March 11 Turkey-Iran "Joint Business Council" meeting in Iran. According to those reports and our contact's impressions of the meeting [...]	2008-03-27 15:44:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV IR TU
08ISTANBUL287	THE IRANIAN MFA'S THINK-TANK DIRECTOR ON IRAN AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: Dr. Rasoul Mousavi, the director of the Iranian MFA's think-tank, claimed at a conference on Asian security held in Istanbul on May 21 that Iran stands ready to help resolve outstanding regional security challenges; has the most to lose from continued instability and [...]	2008-05-29 04:27:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR TU
08ISTANBUL310	AN IRANIAN ANALYST LOOKS AT US-IRAN RELATIONS [...] (S/NOFORN) Summary and comment: A prominent Tehran-based political and economic analyst spoke with Consulate Istanbul's Iran Watcher June 6 about the prospects for US-Iran relations, Iran's nuclear program and the P5 1 offer, and Iran's compelling need for US energy investment and technology [...]	2008-06-13 10:32:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINS IR
08ISTANBUL320	IRAN/ENERGY: THE IRANIAN DEPUTY OIL MINISTER'S [...] (C) Summary and comment: Iran's Deputy Oil Minister responsible for natural gas, Seyed Reza Kasaezadeh Mahabadi, gave a detailed overview of Iran's current and future natural gas capacities, plans, and needs at the May 30 "8th International Energy Arena" hosted by a consortium of Turkish pub [...]	2008-06-16 13:20:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL PGOV ECON IR TU
08ISTANBUL361	IRAN/P5+1 OFFER: LOCAL EXPERTS PESSIMISTIC, [...] (C) Summary: In discussions with several well-informed contacts over the past two weeks regarding the updated P5 1 offer to Iran and the regime's likely response, Consulate Istanbul "Iran Watcher" was told that the regime would most likely claim to be responding to the offer in good faith -- [...]	2008-07-03 12:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KNNP EU IR TU
08ISTANBUL438	AHMADINEJAD IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Iranian President Ahmadinejad led an Iranian delegation to Istanbul August 14-15 for a bilateral "working visit." Five agreements -- on security cooperation, the environment, transportation, tourism, and archives -- were signed, but observers said these were not likely to conta [...]	2008-08-15 17:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KNNP TU IR
08ISTANBUL439	AHMADINEJAD IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Iranian President Ahmadinejad led an Iranian delegation to Istanbul August 14-15 for a bilateral "working visit." Five agreements -- on security cooperation, the environment, transportation, tourism, and archives -- were signed, but observers said these were not likely to conta [...]	2008-08-16 08:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KNNP TU IR
08ISTANBUL440	AHMADINEJAD IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Iranian President Ahmadinejad led an Iranian delegation to Istanbul August 14-15 for a bilateral "working visit." Five agreements -- on security cooperation, the environment, transportation, tourism, and archives -- were signed, but observers said these were not likely to conta [...]	2008-08-16 08:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KNNP TU IR
08ISTANBUL466	IRAN'S "BRAIN DRAIN": A SNAPSHOT FROM SHARIF [...] (C) Summary and comment: We spoke recently with several students from Iran's prestigious Sharif University of Technology who are headed to the U.S. for graduate/PhD studies. The students shared their views on Sharif's academic competitiveness and student body; described their reliance on th [...]	2008-08-27 13:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM IR TU
08ISTANBUL468	ISTANBUL BRANCH OF NATIONALIST ACTION PARTY LOOKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ihsan Barutcu, Istanbul chair of the National Action Party (MHP),along with his deputy -- Nazme Celenk, and Mithat Melen, MHP MP from Istanbul, all welcomed greater cooperation with the United States in recent conversations with us. All three MHP officials stated Turkey must [...]	2008-08-28 08:58:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
08ISTANBUL539	EXPANDED IRAQI ENERGY WORKING GROUP CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Expanded Energy Working Group (WG) meeting on October 11 to assist with Iraq's reconstruction brought pledges and suggestions on how to best help the country become energy self-sufficient along with developing its energy export sector. The first half of the meeting followed [...]	2008-10-22 12:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG IR IZ JO PGOV PREL RS SY TU
08ISTANBUL540	IRANIAN AND AFGHAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY: A SNAPSHOT [...] (C) Summary: We met October 8-10 with UNHCR, provincial, municipal, and police officials, an NGO, and Iranian Baha'i families in Van province in southeast Turkey, to look at conditions facing Iranian refugees. Van hosts between 1700 and 2100 registered refugees, mostly Iranian and Afghan. So [...]	2008-10-23 05:17:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PINS PREL IT TU
08ISTANBUL557	IRANIAN TOURISM: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEVERAGE? [...] (C) Summary: Iran is making a strong diplomatic push to promote tourism cooperation with Turkey and "friendly" organizations like the D8 and the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO). Iran sees tourism and related investment as a way to ease its isolation and boost economic growth, and th [...]	2008-11-03 14:18:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ECON EINV CVIS SCUL SOCI TU IR
08ISTANBUL56	TURKEY-IRAN BUSINESS COUNCIL SEEKS EXPANDED TRADE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey-Iran Business Council Chairman Ali Osman Ulusoy on January 23 called for expanded commercial ties between Turkey and Iran, arguing such ties promote economic reform inside Iran. Last month he chaired a meeting in Istanbul with the President of the Iranian Chamber of Comm [...]	2008-02-01 08:01:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL IR TU
08ISTANBUL560	IRAN EXPERTS REACT TO US ELECTIONS WITH SURPRISE, [...] (S) Summary: Our contacts in Turkey and in Iran who follow US-Iran relations closely, including think tank experts, correspondents, and businessmen, have expressed a range of reactions regarding the implications for US-Iran relations to the election of Barack Obama. Their views ran the gamu [...]	2008-11-05 13:01:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PREL PGOV IR US TU
08ISTANBUL67	TURKEY'S NEXT ECHR JUDGE DISCUSSES HEADSCARF, [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's newly-elected European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judge Professor Isil Karakas stressed to us the importance of precedent in juridical analysis of the controversial headscarf issue, now approaching full boil in public debates. She expected proposed Consti [...]	2008-02-07 08:17:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF TU
08ISTANBUL85	THE D8 AND IRAN: EVEN WORSE THAN "BUSINESS AS [...] (C) Summary: A tour d,horizon with the Secretary General of the "D8 Developing Countries" revealed an organization trying to find its niche in a crowded arena of multilateral economic organizations. The Secretary General has high hopes of using the D8 to foster "growth and developing across t [...]	2008-02-15 15:36:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PINR ECON IR TU OIC
08JAKARTA1030	SCENESETTER FOR CHAIRMAN MULLEN'S VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral Mullen's May 28-30 visit to Jakarta builds on solid progress in our bilateral military-military relationship over the past two years. Democratic reforms have made Indonesia a different country from Suharto's military-dominated fiefdom. Dramatic TNI reform since 1998 ha [...]	2008-05-27 07:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV ID
08JAKARTA1107	ADMIRAL MULLEN'S MEETINGS WITH THE GOI: BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with GOI leaders during his visit to Jakarta, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen emphasized the U.S. commitment to bilateral military cooperation with Indonesia and pledged to continue building the GOI's defense capabilities at Indonesia's pace. His [...]	2008-06-06 03:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS ID BM
08JAKARTA1131	Aceh Update on Budget, Elections, and Law Enforcement [...] (SBU) Summary. The Aceh yearly budget for 2008 was passed by the provincial legislature on May 30, narrowly avoiding costly sanctions for late submission threatened by the central government. Less progress has been made in passing the provincial political party law, where additional delays ma [...]	2008-06-10 07:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ECON SOCI ID
08JAKARTA1143	SECT MEMBERS ALLOWED TO WORSHIP DESPITE EDICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Yusuf Kalla made a public assurance on June 10 that the Islamic sect Ahmadiyah will be free to worship in the privacy of their mosques, despite the June 9 joint decree outlawing Ahmadis from religious activities (reftel). A senior Justice Ministry official public [...]	2008-06-11 09:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PINS ID
08JAKARTA1190	TERRORIST FINANCE -- RAJAH SOLAIMAN MOVEMENT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Mission presented reftel points to Fikry Cassidy, Deputy Director for International Security at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on June 18. Poloff stressed the importance of the UN Security Cou [...]	2008-06-18 09:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER EFIN KTFN ID
08JAKARTA1234	TERRORIST FINANCE -- RENEWING MANDATE OF 1267 [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Drawing on reftel points, poloff urged Indonesian support for the draft resolution related to UNSCR 1267 concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban. In comments echoed by other GOI officials, Mission [...]	2008-06-25 02:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER EFIN UNSC ID
08JAKARTA1270	ZIMBABWE -- URGENT DEMARCHE RE DRAFT UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission reviewed latest points re Zimbabwe with the GOI, underscoring deep international concern about the sham election held there recently. Pol/C noted that the USG wanted to work with Indonesia on a draft UNSC resolution that would address the situation, and call for an asset [...]	2008-06-30 06:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI ID
08JAKARTA1272	TERRORIST FINANCE -- ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR 1267 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pol/C met with GOI contact, urging that Indonesia join the U.S. in publicly welcoming on June 30 the follow-on resolution to UNSCR 1735 related to Al-Qaida and the Taliban. Pol/C urged that the GOI join the USG in strongly supporting the resolution in public. Pol/C noted that [...]	2008-06-30 07:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EFIN UNSC ID
08JAKARTA1286	POINTS FOR THE PRESIDENT'S POSSIBLE MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission understands that President Bush may have a short meeting with Indonesian President Yudhoyono on the margins of the upcoming G-8 Summit. We recommend that the President raise the troubled state of health cooperation as the most pressing issue to advance our bilateral rel [...]	2008-07-01 09:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TBIO MARR ID
08JAKARTA1303	ZIMBABWE -- REVIEWING DRAFT RESOLUTION WITH GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 7, Pol/C touched base again with the Indonesian Foreign Ministry re Zimbabwe and the need for a robust UNSC resolution. Contact noted that the GOI "condemned the Zimbabwean government's actions," but was not "very comfortable" with the draft resolution, which it conside [...]	2008-07-07 06:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI ID
08JAKARTA1311	DEFMIN REVIEWS MIL-TO-POLICE TRAINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 2, the Ambassador asked Indonesian DefMin Sudarsono to reconsider the Defense Ministry's request that U.S. military forces cease providing counternarcotics training to the Indonesian police. Sudarsono said he would review the matter. The two also discussed U.S. assistan [...]	2008-07-08 04:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KNAR PGOV ID
08JAKARTA1336	AA/S MCNERNEY ADVANCES NONPROLIFERATION AGENDA IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a June 25-27 visit to Jakarta, AA/S McNerney discussed U.S. nonproliferation priorities with Indonesian counterparts. Discussions covered the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT),including the recent NPT PrepCom meeting, the reduction of U.S. nuclear arsenals and U.S. initiativ [...]	2008-07-11 08:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP TRGY ID IR
08JAKARTA1384	ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM -- POINTS FOR POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: If the Secretary meets Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda on the margins of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Singapore, we suggest that she urge the GOI to carry out the recommendations of the report of the Indonesia-Timor-Leste Commission on Truth and Friendship. We [...]	2008-07-18 08:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID
08JAKARTA1396	SE Asian Hot Topics at Regional AML-CFT Meetings [...] (SBU) The annual meetings of the regional Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG),held in Bali July 7 to 11, helped highlight the challenges facing Southeast Asian countries and clarify many acute training needs. The APG discussed and adopted three joint Mutual Evaluation Reports (MERs) [...]	2008-07-21 09:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL KCRM KTFN KCOR ID MY
08JAKARTA1421	INDONESIA: IMPLEMENTING LANDMARK WASTE MANAGEMENT LAW A [...] (U) Summary. Prior to hosting the Ninth Conference of Parties (COP9) of the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes in June 2008, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) passed a landmark Waste Management Law (WML). Previously, a plethora of disparate local government regulations (PERDA) regulated wa [...]	2008-07-24 03:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ENRG ETRD KGHG SENV PGOV ID
08JAKARTA1536	INDONESIAN MILITARY RECEIVES SIX RUSSIAN MI-17 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian military recently received six new lift helicopters from Russia. The helicopters can be used for disaster relief or for military operations. The deal is based on a contract signed in 2005 and uses Indonesian credits from 2003 before U.S. sanctions were lifted. [...]	2008-08-12 09:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EIND ID RU
08JAKARTA17	CORRUPTION UPDATE -- FORMER ENVOY CONVICTED OF [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. It is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In the latest corruption news: the former Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia was convicted and sentenced to prison for overcharging visa applicants; the A [...]	2008-01-03 10:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA ID
08JAKARTA1711	DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING PREVENTING [...] (S) Summary: Indonesian government interlocutors confirmed that Bank Melli had inquired about the rules for establishing operations in Indonesia, but had not submitted any application to open a branch, subsidiary or to form a joint bank with Bank Panin or any other Indonesian financial instit [...]	2008-09-10 08:58:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	ECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER PINR IR ID
08JAKARTA1803	UNGA: ADVANCING USG PRIORITIES WITH INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Possible upcoming meetings for senior USG officials with FM Wirajuda or Secretary General Imron Cotan (the number-three official in the Department of Foreign Affairs) on the margins of the UN General Assembly are a key opportunity to advance USG priorities with Indonesia. We su [...]	2008-09-23 06:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD MARR ID BM IR
08JAKARTA1948	ASEAN CHARTER RATIFIED BY INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Parliament ratified the ASEAN Charter on October 21. The move was expected and came after the committee dealing with foreign affairs recommended that Parliament in full plenary pass the Charter. We understand that the legislation contains non-binding "policy dir [...]	2008-10-22 06:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEAN ID BM
08JAKARTA2006	DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES--INDONESIAN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified--Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission has conveyed reftel information to the Indonesian government. The Department of Foreign Affairs said it would make the requisite checks in order to ensure that Indonesian firms were not [...]	2008-10-30 10:45:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER EFIN UNSC ID BA QT
08JAKARTA2059	CHIEFS OF DEFENSE CONFERENCE IN BALI -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral Keating's participation in the Chiefs of Defense (CHOD) Conference in Bali (November 11-14) offers an opportunity to consolidate the mil-mil relationship with Indonesia. On the margins of this multilateral event, Admiral Keating will meet with Defense Minister Sudarsono [...]	2008-11-06 11:13:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS PGOV ID
08JAKARTA2107	GOI PREPARATIONS FOR 2009 ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Preparations for Indonesia's legislative and presidential elections in 2009 are well underway. Solid organizational progress has been made in what is an immense undertaking slated to involve approximately 175 million voters in this, the world's third largest democracy. 2. [...]	2008-11-17 08:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
08JAKARTA218	SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 17-21 CODEL PRICE VISIT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy Jakarta welcomes you to Indonesia, one of the world's most dramatic democratic success stories. Your visit comes on the heels of former president Suharto's passing, an event which serv [...]	2008-02-04 08:28:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OVIP ID
08JAKARTA2221	IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- URGING INDONESIA TO RAMP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Together with European counterparts, Mission delivered reftel message regarding Iran's nuclear program to key Indonesian officials. Emboffs and counterparts underscored the need for increased vigilance in implementing UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions regarding Iran's nucl [...]	2008-12-10 09:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP EFIN MNUC ID IR
08JAKARTA2251	INDONESIA 2008-2009 INCSR PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING AND [...] The following information was previously relayed via unclassified e-mail with tracked changes from the 2007-2008 INCSR (ref A),as requested by ref B. 2. As noted in ref A, report provided the USD equivalent figures reflecting an exchange rate of IDR 12,000/USD. The rupiah has been extre [...]	2008-12-15 02:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR ID
08JAKARTA265	SECRETARY GENERAL SURIN ON BURMA, CHINA'S ROLE, AND U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary General Surin believes that China gains a heftier -- undeserved -- stature in ASEAN every time U.S. leaders are absent from an ASEAN Summit or high-level meeting, to our detriment. He notes the U.K. has decided to sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation; it is no [...]	2008-02-08 02:57:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEAN EAID KDEM KHIV PGOV PREL ID BM CH
08JAKARTA294	BURMA -- NEW INDONESIAN APPROACH SLOWLY TAKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new Indonesian approach regarding Burma is slowly taking shape. Senior GOI officials say they are developing a comprehensive strategy which will address a wide range of concerns re Burma, including the need for a democratic transition, human rights and national integrity. As [...]	2008-02-13 09:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA325	DEFENSE COOPERATION -- ENHANCING INDONESIA'S AIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Air Force Deputy U/S Lemkin told the Indonesian DefMin on February 15 that the U.S. was prepared to help Indonesia develop its air capabilities by broadening bilateral cooperation through sales and upgrades of F-16s and further training and exercise opportunities. Sudarsono [...]	2008-02-19 10:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR ID
08JAKARTA346	VISIT OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TO JAKARTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary Gates' February 25 visit comes at a most opportune time. Our military-to-military relationship with Indonesia has made solid progress during the past two years and now is the time to move forward. Indonesia needs to decide whether it is ready to take that step, and ne [...]	2008-02-22 06:28:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS PGOV ID
08JAKARTA350	Indonesian National Police Discipline Statistics 2007 [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During 2007 the Indonesian National Police (INP) investigated 19,459 police officers for violations of the INP Code of Discipline and Code of Ethics a 323% increase over 2006 discipline cases. [...]	2008-02-22 07:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER SNAR ID
08JAKARTA371	INDONESIA SHOULD REMAIN ON WATCH LIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Indonesia remain on the Special 301 intellectual property rights (IPR) Watch List for 2008. Although problems persist, Indonesia has continued to make limited improvements in the enforcement and protection of IPR since its upgrade to the Special 301 Watch L [...]	2008-02-25 09:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR BEXP EINV ECON ID
08JAKARTA372	CODEL PRICE WORKS TO STRENGTHEN INDONESIAN [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (U) SUMMARY: From February 17-21, CODEL Price visited Indonesia as part of the legislative strengthening program of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC). CODEL Price toured Aceh, met with President Yudhoyono, and held [...]	2008-02-25 09:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OVIP EAID KDEM BM ID
08JAKARTA373	BURMA -- GAMBARI OUTLINES STRATEGY AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a discussion hosted by Ambassador Hume on February 22, UN Special Envoy for Burma Ibrahim Gambari said he would press the regime to include the democratic opposition in the upcoming referendum. Indonesian interlocutors outlined their plans for enhanced regional efforts that [...]	2008-02-25 10:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM UN
08JAKARTA415	INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia took a major step forward in fighting trafficking in persons (TIP) in April 2007 with the signing into law by President Yudhoyono of a tough, comprehensive Law on the Eradication of the Criminal Act of Trafficking in Persons. Police and prosecutors began using the n [...]	2008-02-29 08:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF ELAB EAID ID
08JAKARTA452	BURMA -- USG-SPONSORED CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE IN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An intensive USG-sponsored conference on "The Role of ASEAN Civil Society in Supporting Human Rights and Democracy in Burma" will take place in Jakarta March 6-7. Over 20 regional experts will [...]	2008-03-05 10:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID BM ID
08JAKARTA462	IRAN -- PRESSING INDONESIA ON YUDHOYONO'S TRIP [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador Hume in a March 6 meeting with Ambassador Alwi Shihab urged that President Yudhoyono use his upcoming trip to Tehran to press Iran to meet its nonproliferation obligations. He also urged Indonesia to support Kosovo at the upcoming OIC Summit. Shihab explained that al [...]	2008-03-06 09:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PREL PARM KNNP UNSC ID IR
08JAKARTA481	BURMA -- JAKARTA CONFERENCE ISSUES ROBUST [...] (C) SUMMARY: A regional USG-funded civil society conference on Burma concluded March 7 in Jakarta with a declaration calling on ASEAN to reject the regime's May referendum unless there was genuine dialogue and popular involvement. With participation by regional experts--including a monk who [...]	2008-03-10 10:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID BM ID

08JAKARTA505	IRAN -- PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO HIGHLIGHTS TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono visited Tehran from March 10-12. While there, he highlighted bilateral economic cooperation and downplayed the controversy over Iran's nuclear program. Although he signed some deals in the economic area, the nuclear controversy was never far from the surfac [...]	2008-03-12 09:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINS ID IR
08JAKARTA595	IN WAKE OF BRIBERY SCANDAL, ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Attorney General Supandji has demoted a top deputy and a senior prosecutor in an attempt to limit the damage to his department from a recent bribery scandal. The two men were questioned at length by the Corruption Eradication Commission, but have not been named suspects in the [...]	2008-03-25 07:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCOR ID
08JAKARTA600	UNSCR 1803/IRAN -- GOI PLEDGES FULL COOPERATION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission reviewed points with the GOI regarding the implementation of UNSCR 1803 and attendant Iran sanctions (reftels). Indonesian officials stated that, although Indonesia had abstained on UNSCR 1803, Indonesia would fully implement its provisions. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Reg [...]	2008-03-26 04:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETTC ID IR
08JAKARTA618	A/S O'BRIEN'S VISIT TO JAKARTA [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-27 08:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PREL PTER EFIN ECON ID
08JAKARTA626	SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MANPADS -- INDONESIAN HAS [...] (U) We conveyed to Indonesian counterparts on March 25 reftel announcement of the appointment of the Special Envoy for MANPADS Threat Reduction. We noted that the creation of this position underscored the importance that the United States attached to the effective control of such weapons. It [...]	2008-03-28 10:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM PTER MASS ID
08JAKARTA717	INDONESIAN LEGISLATURE PASSES FREEDOM OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After years of discussion and debate, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) has passed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). President Yudhoyono is expected to sign it. Observers say the long-awaited bill will stimulate transparency and accountability at all levels of g [...]	2008-04-09 08:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS ID
08JAKARTA729	A/S O'BRIEN EMPHASIZES IRAN, ASSET FREEZING IN [...] (C) Summary: Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorism Financing and Financial Crimes O'Brien visited Indonesia April 2-3 to urge Indonesian government officials, regulatory agencies and private sector to be vigilant about Iran's outreach plans in the region and to more vigorously enforce ass [...]	2008-04-10 06:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	KTFN EFIN PTER PGOV ID
08JAKARTA749	ADMIRAL KEATING'S MEETINGS WITH KEY GOI OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: USPACOM Commander Admiral Keating met President Yudhoyono and key defense officials on April 10-11 in Jakarta. He stressed support for Indonesia's progress on military reform, the desire to expand cooperation further, and Indonesia's strategic importance. GOI officials express [...]	2008-04-15 08:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS PGOV ID XB
08JAKARTA889	POOR HEALTH RESULTS FROM 2007 DEMOGRAPHIC HEALTH SURVEY [...] (SBU) Summary. Preliminary Demographic Health Survey (DHS) results provide evidence of poor performance of the recently decentralized health system in Indonesia and slowed progress toward Millennium Development Goals (MDG). There is no evidence of continued reduction of child death risk over [...]	2008-05-05 10:03:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KLFU AMGT PGOV ID
08JAKARTA947	TERRORISM FINANCE / UNSCR 1267 LISTING [...] (C) On May 13, poloff discussed the proposed listing of three individuals under UNSCR 1267 (reftel) with Aris Munandar, Deputy Director for Terrorism at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Poloff provided information on the three individuals and USG intention to designate them under [...]	2008-05-13 08:50:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN ID
08JEDDAH361	SAUDI FM AND NSC HEAD DISCUSS INTEL COOPERATION, [...] (S) SUMMARY. During a Congressional Staff Del meeting with both Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and Head of the National Security Council Prince Bandar bin Sultan on Aug. 20, both princes presented their broad views on successful USG-Saudi intelligence cooperation; distress over C [...]	2008-08-25 14:37:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EU GB IAEA IR IS IZ MNUC PK SA
08JEDDAH501	GTIP AMBASSADOR LAGON VISITS SAUDI ARABIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Lagon, Director of GTIP, visited Riyadh and met with officials from the government's Human Rights Commission, Ministries of Labor and Interior, a government-run shelter, a meeting of labor sending-country diplomats, and a shelter run by the Filipino embassy. A comprehen [...]	2008-12-01 05:16:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SA
08JERUSALEM125	PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS TELL CODEL VOINOVICH PA IS [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator George Voinovich (R-OH),accompanied by Representatives Phil Gingrey (R-OH),Rob Bishop (R-UT),Steve Pearce (R-NM),and Michael Turner (R-OH),met separately on January 6 with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Foreign Minister Riad Maliki. Maliki [...]	2008-01-24 14:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON IS KWBG
08JERUSALEM1322	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/22): WESTERN DECLARATIONS THAT [...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Brown's Visit and his Positive Declarations" (7/22): "During his visit to the Palestinian lands and Israel, British Premier Gordon Brown showed positive understanding of the situation and peace demands. He talked frankly and clearly regarding the [...]	2008-07-22 10:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1658	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/08): INTERNAL DIVISION COLORS [...] Independent Al-Quds editorialized in "We are not in Need of More Division," (9/8): "Once again, division in the Palestinian arena has resurfaced in the expression of political positions related to the teachers' strike in the Gaza Strip. This is, of course, not a political issue because the te [...]	2008-09-08 10:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1685	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/10): ALTERNATIVES TO THE [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by daily columnist Dr. Hasan Abdullah entitled, "The success of Cairo talks Could save our communal ship from sinking" (9/10): "[C]airo talks must lead to an agreement...the agreement should pave the way for presidential and legislative Palestinian electio [...]	2008-09-10 10:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2008	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/10): PALESTINIAN FAMILY [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-10 09:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2029	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/13): UNITY - "BEFORE IT IS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 11:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08KAMPALA1267	NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (August 1-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to soci [...]	2008-09-09 13:06:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
08KARACHI586	RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN SINDH AND BALOCHISTAN PROVINCES [...] (C) Summary: With the exception of the Ahmadi sect, most religious minorities in Sindh and Balochistan find the provincial governments supportive - to varying degrees - and do not report official discrimination. Urban communities tend to be more tolerant of religious minorities than rural [...]	2008-10-28 10:26:00	Consulate Karachi	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PGOV PK
08KATHMANDU1200	NEPAL: DRAFT 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Nepal is not a regional financial center and there are no indications that the country is used as an international money laundering center. In January 2008, the Government of Nepal (GON) for the first time passed legislation on anti-money laundering. There were no prosecutions or even arres [...]	2008-11-14 16:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR NP
08KATHMANDU535	DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1803 (IRAN SANCTIONS) DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 03:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR NP
08KATHMANDU743	NEPAL/TERRORISM FINANCE: NEW FINANCIAL INFORMATION [...] (SBU) On June 26, K. B. Manandhar, the Acting Governor of Nepal's central bank, the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB),told Emboffs that the NRB's Financial Information Unit (FIU) would be the focal point for engaging with post on terrorism finance issues. The Government of Nepal in April 2008 first s [...]	2008-07-01 02:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL EFIN KTFN NP
08KHARTOUM1034	THE NEW NORTH/SOUTH WAR? IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SPLM and the NCP are mired in an economic standoff grounded in competing interpretations of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. It is the latest chapter in the two parties' complex and often dysfunctional relationship, and a further blow to hopes that unity can be made attra [...]	2008-07-10 12:35:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINS EFIN EAID SOCI KDEM SU
08KHARTOUM1092	ICC INDICTMENT CHANGES THE DYNAMIC IN DARFUR; [...] (C) Since Abuja and the signing of the still-born DPA in 2006, Darfur experts have been puzzling for two years on how to change the dynamic in Darfur in order to enable a political process to gain traction. There was hope following UNSCR 1769 that deployment of UNAMID would improve the securi [...]	2008-07-21 07:47:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1171	Sudanese Banking Sector: Bad Loans Persist, but Foreign [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 17 July, local daily "Al-Rayaam" ran a story outlining problems of embezzlement and bad debts in the Sudanese banking sector, where an estimated 22% of all loans are deemed to be non-performing. Despite successive economic reforms over the past two decades, the volume of non [...]	2008-08-04 08:10:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN SU
08KHARTOUM118	MFA WARNS CDA OF POSSIBLE HARSH COUNTERMEASURES ON EMBASSY [...] (SBU) A grim-faced Americas Department Office Director Abdel Basit Sanusi called CDA Fernandez in on January 26 to warn of the possibility of a series of Sudanese counter-measures against the US Embassy (and the CDA) in response to what the Sudanese see as a series of recent provocations by the [...]	2008-01-27 11:16:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1198	ANALYSIS OF SUDAN'S NEW ELECTION LAW REVEALS WELTER OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An analysis of Sudan's new election law reveals that the legislation contains many loose ends, some of which may be able to be repaired by the country's Ministry of Justice. However, the legislation's biggest shortcoming is probably the ambitious timeline it sets for the count [...]	2008-08-06 13:43:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM1238	SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: On 14 August Special Envoy for Sudan Richard Williamson met with Dr. Awad Ahmed Aljaz, the Minister of Finance and close confidante of President Bashir. Aljaz dismissed SE Williamson,s concerns about oil revenue sharing as unfounded and asserted that all the real problems in Sudan [...]	2008-08-15 12:01:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1278	EASTERN FRONT: AMNA DIRAR DISCUSSES LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: On August 20 polchief and poloff met with Dr. Amna Dirar, Presidential Advisor and Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Front. Dirar stated that she and other members of the Eastern Front had voted to suspend Chairman Musa Mohamed Ahmed because his decision to organize a conference for t [...]	2008-08-21 13:11:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1298	NCP EAGER FOR CONTINUED BILATERAL TALKS, FLEXIBLE [...] (C) During meetings with A/CDA Asquino and polchief August 25, two senior NCP regime insiders expressed a strong desire to resume bilateral discussions with the US. MFA U/S (and senior NCP official) Mutriff Siddiq told us that while the NCP would like another round of bilateral talks soon, th [...]	2008-08-26 12:45:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1310	BASHIR OFFERS SCOLDING AND CALL FOR UNITY IN JUBA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In marked contrast with his recent tour of Darfur, and indicative of still-strained relations between the NCP and SPLM, President Bashir's visit to Juba - his first appearance in the South in more than two years and only his second visit to the seat of the GOSS Presidency since t [...]	2008-08-28 15:53:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINS KDEM EAID SOCI SU
08KHARTOUM1374	BASHIR TELLS FM "I HAVE DECIDED TO FIGHT ICC TO [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese President Al-Bashir told FM Alor on September 8 that he intends to confront rather than challenge the international community on the International Criminal Court (ICC). He also expressed displeasure with Alor and decided that VP Taha should make his case at UNGA. Deng Alor [...]	2008-09-08 16:11:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1376	GOS CLAIMS IT ACTED IN NORTH DARFUR TO SECURE HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) According to MFA Under Secretary Mutriff Siddiq, who holds the MFA's Darfur portfolio, the September 6 and 7 fighting between GoS and rebel forces in North Darfur was a direct result of UNAMID and WFP's requests for the GoS to clear feeder roads of bandits in the area of Birmaza. Accordi [...]	2008-09-09 04:51:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1416	LEADING BUSINESSMAN ON SUDAN'S AGRICULTURE SECTOR, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation, Sudanese business magnate Osama Daoud outlined a project to gradually develop as much as 1.26 million acres in northern Sudan for agricultural production. Daoud sees Sudan,s agricultural potential as immense, but says that it currently has far to [...]	2008-09-18 06:31:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR EINV EAID PGOV PREL SU
08KHARTOUM1557	TWO YEARS LATER, ESPA STILL FAILS TO PRODUCE CHANGE ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 13-16, poloff traveled to Kassala and Port Sudan to discuss implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) with local government officials, UN representatives and members of the Beja Congress in a visit tightly controlled by local authorities. While a handf [...]	2008-10-21 11:34:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1584	U/S KENNEDY MEETING WITH MFA U/S MUTRIF SIDDIQ [...] (C) Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy met October 26 with MFA Undersecretary Mutrif Siddiq. U/S Kennedy thanked Siddiq for his assistance in clearing the NEC containers, and for expediting the issuance of non-diplomatic license plates for US Embassy vehicles following the assassin [...]	2008-10-28 06:03:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1682	A/S FRAZER'S MEETINGS WITH NCP OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a round-table meeting followed by a dinner at the CDA's residence, several leading members of the National Congress Party told A/S Frazer that the GNU has made significant progress in implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and pointed to Abyei as the only par [...]	2008-11-18 07:46:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1694	UNAMID DEPLOYMENT AND PEACE PROCESS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: UNAMID will meet sixty-percent deployment by the end of 2008, but will not have increased its operational capacity even with the additional troops, until they can be deployed to the field. Eighty-percent deployment by March 31 is not possible, and UNAMID has backed away from prese [...]	2008-11-23 12:38:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1765	CITIBANK AND GOSS: OPTIMISM ON ALL SIDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a three-day visit to South Sudan, officials from Citibank Kenya conducted a series of productive meetings with senior Government of South Sudan (GoSS) officials in an effort to develop a relationship between the Bank of South Sudan (BoSS) and Citibank. As Citibank officials [...]	2008-12-07 13:59:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM183	KHARTOUM SECURITY MILESTONES - JUNE 2007 TO [...] (SBU) This cable provides a summary of security-related actions and events affecting the US Mission in Sudan during a specific timeframe. It gathers references to numerous cables and messages on various related issues including OBO issues, EAC actions, Sudanese Government actions, terrorism, RS [...]	2008-02-06 05:55:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ABLD AMGT ASEC PREL PTER US SU
08KHARTOUM219	WEST DARFUR: JEM VOWS TO PROTECT ITS AREAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader told FieldOff on February 10 that the Government of Sudan (GoS) had miscalculated in its February 8-9 attacks on the JEM-controlled West Darfur towns of Silea, Sirba and Abu Siruj. &JEM will come back to defend its areas,8 he vowed, [...]	2008-02-12 14:54:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM227	UK AND NORWAY SEE OIL-REVENUE SHARING AS KEY TO MOVING CPA [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 11, U.S., UK and Norwegian emboffs met to discuss a UK proposal to encourage a long-term North-South agreement on oil-revenue sharing. The UK plans two meetings to develop this idea, in Khartoum and in London. Emboffs explained that the U.S. is not able to partici [...]	2008-02-14 07:01:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG SU
08KHARTOUM262	GOSS OFFICIAL DISCUSSES OIL PIPELINES, WAR AND PEACE WITH [...] (SBU) (Summary) Consul General Juba met on February 20 with George Achor, Undersecretary in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, to discuss the GoSS desire to attract American business interests to South Sudan, especially for the construction of a new oil pipeline to the south. The discussion [...]	2008-02-23 14:21:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM277	S/E WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SUDAN'S FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a February 25 meeting with S/E Williamson, Foreign Minister Deng Alor said Sudan is ready for a dialogue and hopes the U.S. can assist it in reaching a number of mutual objectives; including implementing CPA, ending the Darfur conflict, and normalizing Sudan,s relations with [...]	2008-02-26 15:56:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU
08KHARTOUM278	S/E WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: On February 25, S/E Williamson told Presidential Advisor Nafie that any chance to move beyond U.S. and Sudan mutual distrust will come from committing to a matrix of specific and verifiable actions that both sides can take and for which each can hold the other accountable. He p [...]	2008-02-26 17:24:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU
08KHARTOUM280	S/E WILLIAMSON CLARIFIES FACTS OF UNAMID [...] (C) In a February 25 meeting with Chinese Envoy Liu Guijin in Khartoum, S/E Williamson reported that he had asked Khartoum to take practical steps to facilitate the deployment of UNAMID and "get more boots on the ground" in Darfur. He urged China to convey to Khartoum the importance of expedi [...]	2008-02-26 18:08:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SU CH
08KHARTOUM297	S/E WILLIAMSON'S SECOND MEETING WITH NAFIE ALI [...] (C) President Bush has an "intense interest" in alleviating humanitarian suffering and bringing stability to Sudan, S/E Williamson told Presidential Assistant Nafie Ali Nafie and other senior Sudanese officials on February 29. He informed Nafie that the U.S. has decided to respond to Presiden [...]	2008-02-29 16:33:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAO PTER SU CD
08KHARTOUM301	MEDIA REACTION: SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The media reaction to Special Envoy Williamson's visit to Sudan was a rollercoaster ride, swinging wildly up and down but ultimately ending up where it began. Mirroring the GOS's hopes for the trip, the press coverage began as cautiously optimistic. After the first day's impromp [...]	2008-03-02 12:45:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO OIIP SU
08KHARTOUM31	BANK OF SUDAN ANNOUNCES CONVERSION TO EURO CITING U.S. [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS) announced on January 7 that it converted its reserves to the euro and other currencies, and that it will no longer use the U.S. dollar for financial transactions. The CBOS named U.S. sanctions as one of the primary reasons for this change. Leadin [...]	2008-01-09 08:45:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EFQ EAID SOCI AU UNSC SU ECON KPKO
08KHARTOUM310	S/E WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH RIEK MACHAR [...] (SBU) In a meeting with Special Envoy Williamson, Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar briefed the Special Envoy on GOSS efforts to improve stability and security in the South in the face of continued tensions along the North/South border and despite continued threats [...]	2008-03-03 10:22:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UN SU CD
08KHARTOUM332	"PRESIDENT AL-BASHIR IS A TABULA RASA" SAYS [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Advisor Dr. Mansur Khalid warns that the National Congress Party is now divided in contending fiefdoms jockeying for power and canceling each other out, under the distracted supervision of A disengaged President Al-Bashir. Meanwhile, the SPLM uneasily monitors a disloy [...]	2008-03-06 12:57:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SU
08KHARTOUM338	THE NATIONAL CONGRESS PARTY - SUDAN'S BRUTAL [...] (C) Summary: After almost 20 years in power, the ruling National Congress Party has reach a level of cynical (and often brutal) pragmatism making it fully capable of making and keeping arrangements with the West on Darfur and on the CPA, as long as its core interest of remaining in power in Kh [...]	2008-03-09 07:01:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL SU
08KHARTOUM355	NCP DELIBERATES ON U.S. NON-PAPER [...] C) Summary: In responding to an U.S. non-paper on changed Sudanese behavior which could lead to the possibility of improving U.S-Sudan relations, the NCP is likely to propose confidence-building measures regarding the Sudanese and U.S. Embassies. However the NCP's primary objective is to get o [...]	2008-03-11 06:50:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU
08KHARTOUM367	POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES IN SUDAN'S OIL INDUSTRY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with econoff the week of March 9, oil industry insiders, former government officials, and petroleum experts appeared positive about the political and economic prospects of the Sudanese oil industry: the Norwegian Petroleum Envoy to Sudan stated that he is " [...]	2008-03-12 12:15:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EFIN ENRG EPET SU
08KHARTOUM374	PARASTATALS - THE REGIME,S GRAY COMPANIES WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sudanese businessmen, former government officials, and American consultants in Sudan separately told econoff that the Sudanese economy is dominated by parastatal companies connected to the Northern ruling elite. One contact, a National Congress Party adherent, ex-manager of th [...]	2008-03-13 13:53:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN EPET PHUM PREL SU
08KHARTOUM391	GOSS LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE REQUESTING INDIVIDUAL [...] The text of the enclosed document was recently passed to poloff in Juba, though the letter is not dated. Original will be passed to Jason Small when he visits Juba next week. 2. Begin text: Government of Southern Sudan, (GOSS) Office of the President H.E. Dr. Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Se [...]	2008-03-16 15:42:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SU
08KHARTOUM41	AL-SAMANI: NEW EMBASSY COMPOUND POLITICAL ISSUE, NOT SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In a sometimes tense meting with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Linda Greenfield-Thomas on January 12, State Minister for Foreign Affairs al-Samani al-Wasila maintained that construction on the new embassy compound (NEC) had been blocked in response to political, bila [...]	2008-01-13 16:01:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF SU AU PGOV UN
08KHARTOUM428	LIAR'S POKER: SUDANESE "CALL AND RAISE" ON USG [...] (C) Summary: Sudan's formal response to a USG non-paper raises the hope of progress on some humanitarian and UNAMID deployment issues, considerable flexibility on CPA-related items and also presents unrealistic, maximalist recommendations towards normalizing relations with the United States an [...]	2008-03-23 15:43:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ABLD SU
08KHARTOUM461	EASING "IMPOSSIBLE LIFE" FOR SUDANESE DIPLOMATS IN [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry's key administrator confirmed that Sudan is willing to allow NEC construction to resume and containers shipped in reciprocity to "easing up on pressure on Sudan's diplomatic missions" in the U.S., as promised recently by President Al-Bashir. This mea [...]	2008-03-30 13:36:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	SU ABLD AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL
08KHARTOUM464	NORTH DARFUR'S ECONOMY - UNAMID GIVES A BOOST TO A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Secretary General of North Darfur's Chamber of Commerce, Rashid Mekki, told econoff on March 26 that the presence of UNAMID has given a small boost to the region's struggling economy, particularly the construction, real-estate (with land prices increasing twenty times in f [...]	2008-03-30 13:56:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO ECON AU EFIN SU
08KHARTOUM506	LITTLE PROGRESS ON DEMOBILIZATION AND DISARMAMENT [...] (C) Summary: State Minister of International Cooperation (and SPLM member) Elias Wakoson told CDA Fernandez that Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) efforts have fallen short due to the availability of arms and the lack of dispute resolution alternatives. He said the lack of D [...]	2008-04-04 11:39:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM52	FINANCE MINISTER REFUSES TO RELEASE NEC CONTAINERS [...] (C) Summary: GOS Finance Minister Zubair Ahmed Al-Hassan told visiting PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield that he will not authorize the release of the containers for the New Embassy Compound unless the Embassy pays the customs duties and demurrage fees, due to the deteriorating relationship between [...]	2008-01-15 12:15:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM563	FM DENG ALOR ON ROME, ABYEI, AND "COLD" RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Sudan is likely to make some concessions on UNAMID deployment at the bilateral talks in Rome, such as agreement on the Thai and Nepalese troop contributions, FM Deng Alor advised CDA Fernandez in a meeting April 10. However Alor cautioned that the ruling National Congress Party (N [...]	2008-04-11 11:10:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM616	ROME TALKS - INITIAL NCP PERCEPTIONS [...] (C) "The Rome talks were useful and even though we didn't get much out of them, we're looking at the bigger picture," NCP negotiator Yahia Bebiker, who was present in Rome, told CDA Fernandez April 21. Bebiker said the NCP viewed the talks as a "good start" as long as the two sides begin to c [...]	2008-04-21 13:26:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM620	GOSS OFFICIALS COMPLAIN OF LACK OF OIL REVENUE TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Organized by the US Embassy in its role as Coordinator, the AEC's Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG) traveled to the South Sudanese capital of Juba April 16 for a field visit. The purpose of the trip, besides the symbolism of holding a session in Juba, was to gather information [...]	2008-04-21 16:03:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM639	SUDAN HEALTH MINISTRY REQUESTS SANCTIONS WAIVER ON CANCER [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Post has been contacted by the Sudanese Ministry of Health (via Sudanese Foreign Ministry),in a note dated 4/13/2008, with a request for assistance in permitting importation of radioisotopes and related equipment for cancer ther [...]	2008-04-24 13:56:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFPC PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM646	SUDAN AGREES TO RELEASE NEC CONTAINERS, PROMISES [...] (C) Summary: Sudan agreed to release long-delayed NEC containers beginning the morning of April 29 with all in country released by the end of the week. The Sudanese are also clearing up any remaining UNAMID shipment backlog in anticipation of a continuing dialogue with the US, the MFA's Under [...]	2008-04-28 08:46:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	SU ASEC ABLD AMGT PGOV PREL
08KHARTOUM71	SUDAN HOSTS ARAB WOMEN'S UNION CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan Women's General Union (SWGU) hosted in Khartoum January 8-10 the fourth annual conference of the Arab Women's General Union (AWGU). Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir addressed delegates at the opening session, promising that the Government of Sudan (GOS) will see [...]	2008-01-18 10:33:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM74	ISMAIL: CHADIAN MILITARY ESCALATION RISKS PUSHING [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Mustafa Othman Ismail warned of growing Sudanese exasperation at what they see as Chadian military escalation on the Darfur border. He also expressed Sudanese frustration at obstacles to Sudanese diplomats performing their work in the U.S. and warned of possible counte [...]	2008-01-20 10:47:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL AU UN CD SU
08KHARTOUM760	SUDANESE WILLING TO RESTRAIN THEMSELVES, FOLLOW [...] (C) Summary: Senior Assistant to President Al-Bashir, Dr. Nafie says that Sudan will not retaliate militarily against Chad for the Chadian-supported JEM rebel attack on Omdurman but will rather seek to isolate JEM and have it be condemned internationally. He admitted that Chadian rebels could u [...]	2008-05-18 14:32:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREF PREL PTER CD SU
08KHARTOUM778	GOS WILL NEGOTIATE WITH CHAD, SEEK TO ISOLATE AND [...] (C) Sudan will not support Chadian rebels in another bid to unseat President Deby, but rather will seek multilateral sanctions against Khalil Ibrahim and JEM and will participate in the African Union mediation between Sudan and Chad, MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq told CDA May 20. Siddiq said that to t [...]	2008-05-20 13:54:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM782	HEAVY FIGHTING IN ABYEI MAY 20 EVENTIALLY DIES DOWN, CALLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Heavy fighting took place in Abyei May 20 between SAF and SPLM forces. Each side accuses the other of an unprovoked attack. A tense calm returned later in the day, with both sides back in their original positions. SPLM officials complained that President Kiir is under intense pre [...]	2008-05-21 08:08:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID MOPS KPKO SU
08KHARTOUM787	SPLM ANGER FOLLOWING MAY 20 BATTLE IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SPLM remains divided over Kiir's decision to limit SPLA forces from Abyei, and senior leadership, including Foreign Minister Deng Alor, are among a faction favoring a more aggressive response. Outrage over SAF conduct intensified following May 19 SAF interference with the r [...]	2008-05-21 13:47:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU
08KHARTOUM80	EL FASHER ARABS DEFENSIVE ABOUT MUSA HILAL APPOINTMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with FieldOff, representatives of two Arab tribes in El Fasher were defensive about President Bashir's appointment of former janjaweed militia leader Sheikh Musa Hilal to the post of Advisor to the Minister of Federal Rule. The Arab reps dismissed the pos [...]	2008-01-21 13:40:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM891	EL FASHER CULTURAL CENTER AMBITIOUS, UNDERFUNDED [...] SUMMARY. Situated on the outskirts of the bustling central market, the El Fasher Cultural Center includes a theater, music room and public library. The Center, managed under the watchful eye of General Manager Ibrahim Abbakr has eight departments - art and painting, folklore, music and bands, [...]	2008-06-15 12:12:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL SOCI SU
08KHARTOUM894	RULING PARTY STILL POSITIVE ON US-SUDAN RELATIONS [...] (C) MFA U/S and National Congress Party (NCP) insider Mutriff Siddiq told CDA Fernandez June 15 that Sudan remains positive about the prospects for improved US-Sudan relations despite SE Williamson's departure from Khartoum without reaching an agreement. Siddiq said the GOS plans to follow th [...]	2008-06-15 15:09:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM90	SUDAN: NARROW WINDOW FOR ACHIEVING U.S. OBJECTIVES [...] (C) After seven years of intense diplomatic focus, U.S. efforts to secure a peaceful, stable, and transformed Sudan have accomplished much - ended the bloodiest and longest running civil war on the continent, saved several million Darfuri Sudanese who rely on US humanitarian assistance, pushed [...]	2008-01-22 15:03:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO PTER UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM936	EMBASSY KHARTOUM RESPONSE ON ABYEI NEXT STEPS [...] (U) This message responds to reftel request for post views on next steps to support implementation of the Abyei Roadmap. Responses are keyed to the questions posed in para. 12 of reftel. Provision of U.S. Legal Advisor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (SBU) Post strongly supports the pr [...]	2008-06-24 12:12:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PGOV PREL EAID SOCI UNSC AU SU
08KHARTOUM965	DARFUR: PAE WILL STOP WORK JULY 14, BUT A 45-60 DAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting PAE President John Moore, resident Project Director Bruce Smart, and Support Manager Claire Sanford told CDA Fernandez June 29 that PAE will stop work on all projects July 14 ("the date for no more shovels in the ground") but that UNAMID and PAE have discussed a 45- to 6 [...]	2008-07-01 05:22:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KIGALI138	RWANDA ON PROPOSED TERMINATION OF RWANDA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-27 15:16:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ETTC RW
08KIGALI558	CHEVRON PULLS OUT OF RWANDA [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Chevron closed shop in Rwanda. Citing extensive fraud in its Rwandan operations (including in the alleged fueling of MONUC aircraft that had not been in Kigali),and friction with the Government of Rwanda (GOR) on compliance with U.S. sanctions against fueling aircraft [...]	2008-08-13 14:41:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	BEXP BTIO ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RW
08KIGALI560	RWANDA - DEMARCHE ON EASTERN CONGO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosemary Museminali dismissed concerns about the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (ref A). In particular, she rejected any notion that the Government of Rwanda (GOR) continued to support Laurent Nkunda and the CNDP and allowed them [...]	2008-08-14 15:56:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF RW
08KIGALI710	RWANDAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONVOKES DIP CORPS ON DRC [...] (C) Summary. In remarks to the local diplomatic corps on October 7, Foreign Minister Museminali and Great Lakes Envoy Richard Sezibera condemned the continuing "co-location" and joint operations of the FDLR and FARDC, called for renewed application of the various peace agreements and Securi [...]	2008-10-07 17:01:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MOPS KPKO PHUM RW CG
08KIGALI859	SUCCESSFUL JMG AND TRIPARTITE MEETINGS IN KIGALI [...] (SBU) Summary. The Rwandan government hosted successful Joint Monitoring Group - Envoys Level (JMG-EV) and Tripartite Plus Joint Commission meetings in Kigali from December 8-10. Participating governments and international organizations praised the recent progress and positive momentum of [...]	2008-12-18 09:33:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS RW
08KIGALI864	RWANDA ON MAURITANIA AND AFRICAN UNION [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 12:21:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM RW
08KINSHASA282	Demarche delivered: UNSC Resolution 1803 on Iran [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche March 20 to Ambassador Oscar Matondo, Director of International Organizations at the DRC Foreign Ministry. 2. Matondo stated that the DRC enjoys good relations with Iran, but is also a member of the UN and recognizes its responsibility to comply with Securit [...]	2008-03-21 11:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MNUC PARM KNNP IR CG
08KINSHASA36	Joint Monitoring Task Force (JMG-TF) [...] Reftels are reports on prior meetings of the JMG-TF. 2. Following are highlights of the Task Force Meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group held in Goma on January 4, 2008. Goma Report January 11, 2008: Task Force of the Joint Monitoring Group 3. Summary: At the meeting of the Task For [...]	2008-01-14 14:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA373	GOMA NOTES: 04/12/08 - NORTH KIVU "GOMA" SPOILERS [...] (SBU) Summary: For the last few weeks, there has been ferment within and among the North Kivu armed groups, particularly among those best known for close ties to the FDLR. This message is based on reports of conversations between a MONUC military officer and some of these groups, and a talk b [...]	2008-04-23 15:31:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG UN
08KINSHASA383	AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON GAINS CONGOLESE SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with senior officials from the Congolese Government (GDRC),MONUC, NGOs and the diplomatic community during his April 9-12 visit to Kinshasa. He emphasized that his meetings were part of a broader Great Lakes visit [...]	2008-04-29 06:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KPKO KJUS SOCI PINR CG RW UN
08KINSHASA448	NKUNDA PUSHES FOR ACTION ON AMANI, NAIROBI [...] (SBU) Summary: At a meeting in Kitchanga (Masisi Territory) on May 17, Laurent Nkunda told U.S. Goma Rep and Facilitation members that he wants to be fully involved in the success of the Amani Program, that the Kinshasa government is moving too slowly on amnesty legislation and financial supp [...]	2008-05-19 18:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG BE
08KINSHASA61	PROPOSAL FOR JOINT PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Kinshasa hereby requests a feasibility study on the potential use in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of non-lethal, Psychological Operations (PSYOP) as a means to influence negative forces and asks that a PSYOP assessment team (POAT) be dispatched to the DRC as quick [...]	2008-01-22 16:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINR PINS PREL KPKO CG
08KINSHASA702	Goma Round-Up August 26 -- Plenary of [...] (SBU) Summary: After five hours of meetings with the facilitation team, CNDP agreed to go forward with the concept of a working group on disengagement. Prior to the August 26 plenary of the Joint Commission, the team met Malu Malu and Etumba, who bought off on the plan and pushed it through [...]	2008-08-27 13:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
08KINSHASA705	Goma Round-Up August 26 -- Plenary of [...] (SBU) Summary: After five hours of meetings with the facilitation team, CNDP agreed to go forward with the concept of a working group on disengagement. Prior to the August 26 plenary of the Joint Commission, the team met Malu Malu and Etumba, who bought off on the plan and pushed it through [...]	2008-08-27 16:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
08KINSHASA758	Chairman's summary of September 1, 2008 Special [...] Introduction Representatives of the signatories of the Nairobi Communique of 9 November 2007 met on 1 September 2008 in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to assess progress made in the implementation of the Communique. This was the fifth meeting at Special Envoy level [...]	2008-09-13 14:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA775	Government approves, begins implementation of [...] (SBU) Summary: MONUC, with support from the international facilitation (U.S., EU),unveiled September 18 to the GDRC a North Kivu disengagement plan which the government has accepted and begun to implement. The plan calls for withdrawal from forward positions occupied August 28-29. Implemen [...]	2008-09-19 14:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO PHUM PREF CG
08KINSHASA949	UN TEAM CRITICIZES RWANDA FOR CNDP LINKS, DRC FOR [...] (C) Summary: Two members of the UN Group of Experts for the DRC (UNSC 1807) detailed on October 27 to Poloffs what they claimed was very strong evidence of Rwandan support for the CNDP, as well as extensive FARDC-FDLR military and commercial collaboration. The UN team is focusing on several [...]	2008-10-30 09:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EMIN MOPS PHUM CG
08KINSHASA973	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS CRISIS PLAN TO DEAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Assembly adopted on October 28 a non-binding plan for the DRC to deal with the crisis in eastern DRC. (Note: An unofficial embassy translation of the plan begins at para. 9. End note.) The plan proposes alternatives for political, military, and diplomatic dialo [...]	2008-11-05 17:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
08KUALALUMPUR1045	IRAN-MALAYSIA TIES REFLECTED IN LATEST BILAT TALKS [...] (C) Malaysia and Iran held their Seventh Joint Commission meeting in Putrajaya, November 10-11. Trade and investment issues dominated the talks, which were conducted at the foreign minister level. Results from the Commission meeting appeared modest, according to press reports. Malaysian For [...]	2008-11-28 07:13:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC ECON IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR1056	GOM QUESTIONS DESIGNATION OF MALAYSIAN DOCTOR AS [...] (C) Malaysian Foreign Ministry Senior Under Secretary (Americas, EU) Zainuddin Yahya called in Polcouns for a November 28 meeting and raised questions concerning press reports that the U.S. had imposed sanctions on a Malaysian doctor, Mahmood Awang Kechik, who served as a physician for Zimbab [...]	2008-12-02 09:01:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ZI MY

08KUALALUMPUR1078	AMBASSADOR KEITH JOINS EU ENVOYS IN DELIVERING [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Keith joined chiefs of mission from France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom in delivering ref A and B demarches concerning Iran sanctions and financial pressure on Iran to Malaysian Foreign Ministry Deputy Secretary General (Multilateral) Kamal Yan bin Yahya on [...]	2008-12-11 08:04:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC EFIN KNNP GM IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR1099	CUBA: MALAYSIA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (C) Summary: Based on the information available to post, it appears no Malaysian entities would be subject to Title III sanctions against persons trafficking in confiscated properties in Cuba. Per Ref A request, this message provides post's analysis of Malaysian policies and actions with re [...]	2008-12-18 08:51:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU MY
08KUALALUMPUR1105	IRAN: AMBASSADOR URGES MALAYSIA TO HIGHLIGHT INT'L [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with Malaysian Foreign Ministry Secretary General Rastam Mohd Isa on December 19 and urged Malaysia to use Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's December 21-24 visit to Teheran (ref C) to reinforce the necessity of Iran addressing the international community's concerns over [...]	2008-12-19 09:57:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC ETTC KNNP IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR1127	PM ABDULLAH GOES TO IRAN, ANNOUNCES GO-AHEAD FOR [...] (SBU) Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi conducted a four-day visit to Iran December 21-24. The public reporting of the visit exclusively highlighted and at times exaggerated Malaysia-Iran trade and economic partnerships. The PM and his entourage, which included a number of cabinet mini [...]	2008-12-31 08:35:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM EFIN ECON ETRD ENRG ETTC MUNC KNNP
08KUALALUMPUR150	MALAYSIA QUESTIONS IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1803, [...] (C) The Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Under Secretary for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Bala Chandran Tharman stated, in reaction to reftel demarche presented by polchief March 5, that Malaysia of course would respect UN Security Council Resolution 1803 on Iran's nuclear program just as Mal [...]	2008-03-05 10:15:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP MNUC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR213	Malaysia Scenesetter for A/S O'Brien: Financial Controls [...] SUMMARY: Prime Minister Abdullah's ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition retained power in the March 8 election, but suffered a major setback in the face of unprecedented opposition gains. Malaysia remains an important partner for the U.S. with strong trade and investment ties and close mili [...]	2008-03-26 23:56:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ECON EFIN KNNP MNUC PARM UNSC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR269	MALAYSIA STUDYING IRAN PARTICIPATION AT ARMS SHOW [...] (C) Polchief on April 15 delivered reftel demarche, aimed at urging Malaysia to respect UNSC sanctions on Iran by preventing Iranian exhibitors from participating in the Defense Services Asia (DSA) exhibition, to Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Bala Chandran. Bala heads the disarmament/nonp [...]	2008-04-16 10:00:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR273	TREASURY DEPARTMENT ENGAGES MALAYSIANS ON IRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: During meetings on March 31 and April 1, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Patrick O'Brien impressed upon his Malaysian counterparts at the Central Bank, the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, charities regulators, and private banks [...]	2008-04-17 09:19:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM UNSC
08KUALALUMPUR274	MALAYSIA DEFENSE MINISTRY: IRAN WILL NOT [...] (C) Late on April 17 Malaysian Defense Ministry Under Secretary for Policy Ismail Ahmad informed U.S. DATT that the SIPDIS Defense Ministry had rescinded permission for Iranian entities to participate in the Defense Services Asia (DSA) military sales exhibition, April 20-24 in Kuala Lumpur [...]	2008-04-17 12:23:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR302	IRAN BLOCKED, AGAIN, FROM MALAYSIA ARMS SHOW [...] (C) Malaysia on April 22 blocked Iran from participating in the Defense Services Asia (DSA) military sales exhibition. This followed a week of decisions in favor of Iran and reversals, and continuous interventions by the Embassy and our UK and French counterparts. The Malaysians reached a c [...]	2008-04-22 11:19:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR337	ANWAR IBRAHIM CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT FOR EJECTING [...] (SBU) De facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim used a public speaking engagement on April 27 and his personal internet blog to criticize the Malaysian government for bowing to U.S. pressure and ejecting Iranian entities from the Defense Services Asia (DSA) military sales exhibition, held in K [...]	2008-04-30 11:43:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV ETTC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR366	: SCENESETTER FOR VADM CROWDER,S VISIT TO [...] (C) Malaysia is important to us because it is an economically successful, stable, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one quarter [...]	2008-05-12 00:42:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	SECRET	MCAP MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER OVIP MY
08KUALALUMPUR367	SCENESETTER FOR VADM CROWDER'S VISIT TO MALAYSIA [...] (C) Malaysia is important to us because it is an economically successful, stable, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one quarter [...]	2008-05-12 05:55:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	SECRET	MCAP MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER OVIP MY
08KUALALUMPUR375	IRAN SANCTIONS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 08:59:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR417	CUBA: TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT, SUSPENSION [...] (C) Summary: Based on the information available to post, it appears no Malaysian entities would be subject to Title III sanctions against persons trafficking in confiscated properties in Cuba. Per Ref A request, this message provides post's analysis of Malaysian policies and actions with re [...]	2008-05-23 04:10:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC ETRD PREL CU MY
08KUALALUMPUR42	IRAN SANCTIONS ACT: MALAYSIA RECEIVES USG MESSAGE [...] (C) Political Section Chief on January 15 delivered ref A demarche, concerning the Malaysian group SKS's reported $16 billion agreement to develop Iran's Golshan and Ferdows gas fields, to the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Under Secretary for Disarmament Bala Chandran Tharman, who also is actin [...]	2008-01-15 08:35:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC EPET ENRG IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR436	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GATES' MEETING WITH [...] (C) I welcome your planned meeting with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak in Singapore. Najib remains at the center of Malaysia's leadership crisis, but thus far has refrained from challenging the politically wounded Prime Minister Abdullah. Najib conveys a [...]	2008-05-28 08:02:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	SECRET	MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY
08KUALALUMPUR615	Malaysia Scenesetter for DOE DAS Secretary Ed McGinnis and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Kuala Lumpur looks forward to your July 21-23 visit as an opportunity to advance important and continuing discussions with the government of Malaysia (GOM) on nuclear energy and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). The visit will allow you to explore Malaysia's [...]	2008-07-14 09:20:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR MY
08KUALALUMPUR884	GLOBAL HAWK, MALAYSIA AND NONPROLIFERATION GOALS [...] (S) Summary: The potential U.S. sale of the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to Singapore via a possible exception or unilateral reclassification within the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) would -- absent MTCR consensus -- negatively affect our engagement in Malaysia on the [...]	2008-10-07 09:05:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	SECRET	PREL PARM MASS MY
08KUALALUMPUR953	MALAYSIA BRIEFED ON "MAYROW" INDICTMENT, INDICTEE [...] (SBU) DCM, accompanied by Polcouns, called on Malaysian Foreign Ministry Senior Under Secretary for the Americas Zainuddin Yahya on September 24, and presented ref A non-paper regarding the indictment of four Malaysian entities for conspiracy to export prohibited items to Iran. DCM highlight [...]	2008-10-30 02:40:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PARM KNNP IR MY
08KUWAIT126	KUWAIT DECRIES GAZA SITUATION, SENDS RED CRESCENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to the January 23 breaching of the border at Rafah, Kuwaiti MPs, governmental bodies, and human rights organizations have united in criticism of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. This follows a January 22 Parliamentary declaration condemning Israeli actions in Gaza [...]	2008-01-31 14:25:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PGOV PHUM KU
08KUWAIT128	TERROR FINANCE: DESIGNEES CONTINUE TO RANT WITH SOME SUPPORT FROM PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: The reaction by the Kuwaiti media and GOK to the January 16 UN Security Council designation of three Kuwaitis -- Hamed Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalahmah and Mubarak Al-Bathali-- as terrorist facilitators and inciters has remained relatively subdued with the exception of defiant statements from [...]	2008-01-31 14:46:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT218	TERROR FINANCE: MFA ON GOK [...] (C) On February 13 A/Polcouns and Econoff called on Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination to discuss the implementation of Kuwait's obligations to freeze the assets of three recently Kuwaiti terrorist financiers under UNSCR 1267. This discussion was prompted [...]	2008-02-24 13:32:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT227	TERROR FINANCE: MFA ON GOK [...] (C) On February 13 A/Polcouns and Econoff called on Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination to discuss the implementation of Kuwait's obligations to freeze the assets of three recently Kuwaiti terrorist financiers under UNSCR 1267. This discussion was prompted [...]	2008-02-28 09:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT246	KUWAIT SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 10 GULF SECURITY [...] (S/NF) Summary: The third round of the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) will convene on March 10, capping a banner year for high-level visits to Kuwait, to include POTUS' visit in January. The GOK has expressed commitment to the GSD, but it will need to address shortcomings in a number of areas d [...]	2008-03-06 03:40:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR PARM KU
08KUWAIT604	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S MAY 31-JUNE 1 [...] (C) Secretary Paulson, Embassy Kuwait welcomes you, Mrs. Paulson, and the members of your delegation to Kuwait. While we have requested meetings with the Amir and senior Kuwaiti leadership, we are able at this time to confirm only the Central Bank Governor, Kuwait Investment Authority Managin [...]	2008-05-27 09:16:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN PREL PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT79	GOK APPEALS TO STOP DESIGNATION OF KUWAITI [...] (C) Director of the MFA Americas Desk Ambassador Ali Hussain Al-Sammak sought an urgent meeting with CDA on January 17 to request, on instruction from the Kuwait FM, that the U.S. use "its good offices" to end the initiative to designate three Kuwaiti terrorist financiers (Hamid Al-Ali, Jaber [...]	2008-01-17 17:27:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
08KUWAIT837	KUWAIT: "WE'VE DONE OUR PART; BALL IS NOW IN IRAQI COURT" [...] (C) Former NEA DAS and newly minted Senior Advisor on Southern Iraq Affairs Gordon Gray met with GOK officials July 22 to discuss Iraq and how to facilitate progress on some of the outstanding issues between Kuwait and Iraq. In direct correlation to Kuwait's proximity to Iran, Kuwaiti paranoi [...]	2008-07-24 11:19:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KCRS PBTS PINR KU
08KUWAIT865	DR. MOHAMMED ON VARIOUS AND SUNDRY: PA FUNDS, [...] (C) Ambassador requested a meeting with Deputy PM and FM Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah to review a number of issues prior to both taking summer holidays. During an hour long exchange August 3, the following topics were addressed: -- PA Funding: Ambassador stressed the urgency of the situation a [...]	2008-08-04 16:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PHUM PGOV PTER KPAL KU BG
08KUWAIT910	GOK OFFICIALS TELL CODEL BARDALLO "THE SURGE HAS [...] (C) In an August 13 meeting, Kuwait's Acting Prime Minister and Defense Minister told CODEL Bordallo that Kuwait is committed to a close, long-term defense relationship with the U.S. and prepared to host U.S. troops indefinitely. Nevertheless, there is frustration over long delays in purchasin [...]	2008-08-21 06:01:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS OREP KU
08KUWAIT915	KUWAIT SUPPORTIVE ON DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN [...] (C) POLCOUNS, in an August 20 introductory call on Mansour Al-Otaibi, Director of MFA's International Organizations Department, informed Al-Otaibi of USG actions described reftel to designate an additional five Iranian entities under E.O. 13382 and urged Al-Otaibi to press the GOK to freeze the [...]	2008-08-21 17:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IR KU
08KUWAIT97	TERROR FINANCE: LIMITED MEDIA REACTION SO FAR TO [...] (SBU) Initial Kuwaiti media reaction to the January 16 decision by the UN Security Council to designate three Kuwaitis -- Hamed Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalahmah, and Mubarak Al-Bathali -- as terrorist facilitators and inciters has been subdued. There has been little reaction by the local press with [...]	2008-01-24 15:59:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
08KUWAIT98	KUWAIT MFA U/S ON IRAQ, GTMO, 1267 DESIGNEES [...] (C) On January 21, MFA U/S Al-Jarallah told CDA that Kuwait is ready to invest in Iraq, but delays in funding are caused by the Iraqi failure to get project proposals to relevant GOK officials. Recent high-level Iraqi visits to Kuwait have increased bilateral cooperation, and there are now s [...]	2008-01-24 16:20:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KU IR IZ KDRG PINR PTER ETRD
08KYIV101	UKRAINE: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, PART [...] Ref A contained part one of the 2008 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Part two of the ICS continues below. Begin Text of Part II: A.7. Protection of Property Rights MORTGAGES During the last few years, Ukraine's policymakers have launched several initiatives to develo [...]	2008-01-17 07:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
08KYIV2530	WAY FORWARD ON THE SEPARATIST REGIONS OF GEORGIA [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladymir Khandogiy on December 29. Khandogiy thanked the Ambassador for the consultation. He noted that Ukraine's position on Abkhazia and South Ossetian "independence" has been clear: Ukraine categorically opposes reco [...]	2008-12-30 14:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS GG UP
08LAGOS398	NIGERIA SURPRISES WITH MODEL PROGRAM FOR SEA [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-08 07:16:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON NOAA EFIS SENV NI
08LAGOS474	THE VIEW FROM NIGERIA ON THE NIE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Nigeria presents a picture of a country on a downward spiral with gradually worsening economic, political and social conditions which, over the next five years, should produce increased political instability, civil [...]	2008-11-21 16:15:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON NI
08LAGOS507	NIGERIA: WITHOUT GON ENFORCEMENT, IMPOVERISHED [...] (C) Summary: Environmental lawyer Simon Amadoubogha told PolOffs on November 18 that Nigerian states lack the capacity to enforce existing environmental legislation and all cases involving international oil companies are tried in Federal Courts, making it difficult for affected communities to b [...]	2008-12-22 12:24:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PREL PGOV EPET NI
08LAPAZ120	THE ELECTORAL COURT UNDER THREAT: AN INSIDER'S VIEW [...] (C) Former National Electoral Court (CNE) President Salvador Romero, whose term ended on January 7, discussed his views on the court, its accomplishments, and challenges facing the institution with Emboffs this past week. Mr. Romero called the firing of three of the court's key division dir [...]	2008-01-16 22:12:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BL
08LAPAZ1850	MFA REFUSES TO ACCEPT IRAN DEMARCHE [...] (C) PolOff attempted to provide reftel demarches August 25, but was cut off by Director of Bilateral Affairs Jean Paul Guevara, who refused to accept the demarche or non-paper. Instead, Guevara insisted the reftel information be relayed by formal diplomatic note. Embassy La Paz Diplomatic No [...]	2008-08-29 21:19:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC EFIN IR GM BL
08LAPAZ194	BOLIVIA: MINISTER SAYS USG SUPPORTS DOMESTIC SPYING [...] (C) Summary: After a January 24 statement in which Police Commander Miguel Vasquez acknowledged that the police intelligence unit has been spying on politicians (mostly opposition) and journalists, the media have added a number of possible spying targets (the Catholic church, foreign embassie [...]	2008-01-28 21:59:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL PINR BL
08LAPAZ1995	BOLIVIA: REACTION TO "DECERTIFICATION" [...] (C) The Charge notifified VFM Hugo Fernandez (FM Choquehuanca was not available) at 1600 that President Bush had found that Bolivia had failed demonstrably to cooperate in accordance with its bilateral and international obligations. The Charge explained the reasons for the decision: inadeq [...]	2008-09-16 23:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SNAR
08LAPAZ2055	LIBYA PRESSES EVO TO JOIN SOUTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE [...] (S) Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs contact provided PolOff an English-language copy of a Libyan-draft treaty for a South Atlantic Treaty Organization targeted at South American and African nations. The draft agreement appears to combine elements of a free-trade agreement with NATO-like [...]	2008-09-22 21:38:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINR ECIN EMIN EAGR EIND MARR
08LAPAZ2392	BOLIVIA'S NEW CONSTITUTION: MAS WINS [...] (C) Summary: On October 21, President Evo Morales announced that his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party and the opposition had reached a compromise to update the text of the MAS draft constitution, which will go to a national referendum on January 25. Some of Evo's hard-core MAS supporters [...]	2008-11-07 13:30:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	BL ECON ENVR KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM PINR
08LAPAZ2581	"LITERACY ACCOMPLISHED:" LIBERTAD ACT AND [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the questions in reftel A and reflect new developments since reftel B. 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No, the Bolivian government continues to see Cuba as a vi [...]	2008-12-16 15:36:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAIR ETRD KDEM BL CU
08LAPAZ647	ATTACKS AGAINST FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Attacks against the press are frequent in Bolivia, but the number and severity of these attacks has risen over the past two years. The Superintendent of Telecommunications issued and then retracted after a public outcry a policy stating that published or transmitted information, even if [...]	2008-03-24 21:06:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL BL
08LILONGWE360	MALAWI: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN 1267 SANCTIONS COMMITTEE'S [...] (SBU) On June 18, emboffs delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Paul Chiunguzeni, Director of Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chiunguzeni informed emboffs that he would give the nine names to Malawi's National Counterrorism Committee. EASTHAM [...]	2008-06-19 07:40:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PREL CVIS KVPR MI
08LILONGWE449	DEMARCHE: ZIMBABWE TALKS [...] (SBU) Charge Sullivan presented points in reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Mumba July 29. Sullivan urged that when consulted by President Mbeki concerning his mediation efforts, the GOM advocate for a negotiated solution that reflected the will of the Zimbabwean people as expres [...]	2008-07-30 14:40:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SADC ZI MI
08LIMA1335	C-AL8-01467 ANDEAN-EU TRADE DEAL STALLED [...] (C/NF) Senior Peruvian Trade Ministry officials are pessimistic that the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) will reach agreement on its communication to the European Union (EU),due August 14-15, on the proposed mechanisms for continuing EU-CAN trade agreement discussions. The EU is only will [...]	2008-08-12 21:00:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD PREL PINR ECIN PE
08LIMA297	PERU: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (U) Summary. Post concurs with industry recommendations that Peru remain on USTR's Special 301 Watch List for 2008. Peru continues to face high levels of patent, copyright and trademark infringements in all sectors. Challenges include adequate funding, increasing inspections, strengthening [...]	2008-02-20 18:32:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ECON ETRD USTR PE
08LIMA394	TELECOM REGULATOR SANCTIONS THREE MOBILE OPERATORS [...] OSIPTEL, the Peruvian telecommunications regulatory agency, announced today that three mobile phone operators will be sanctioned for deficiencies in service experienced before and after the magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Peru on August 15, 2007. The three companies include Telefonica Mo [...]	2008-03-04 21:06:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECPS ECON EFIN EAID USTR PE
08LIMA417	DESIGNING AN ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY [...] (SBU) Instructed by President Garcia, a commission of experts presented draft legislation on March 3 establishing an Environment Ministry in Peru and outlining its structure and responsibilities. After discussion and tweaking by the Council of Ministers, the GOP plans on creating the Ministry [...]	2008-03-07 16:55:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON ETRD ENRG EMIN PGOV USTR PE
08LIMA826	PERU RESPONSE: ACTION REQUEST ON U.S. 60-DAY [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 13:00:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY PE
08LIMA876	PERU CREATES ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY, NAMES ENVIRONMENTALIST [...] (U) The Government of Peru officially announced the creation of the Ministry of Environment and named the first Minister, ecologist Antonio Brack. The new Ministry will incorporate most of the existing environmental agencies and technical experts under one roof, and strengthen the government's [...]	2008-05-19 14:48:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV ETRD EINV EAID ECON USTR EXIM PE
08LISBON1078	BURMA: APRIL GAERC CONCLUSIONS ACCURATELY [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-02 17:16:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM
08LISBON1236	PORTUGAL SPRING REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) Portuguese MFA's Officer Director for Latin America Joao Batista confirmed that Portugal's relationship with Cuba remained unchanged. He responded to reftel questions with updated information for the Title III Suspension of Libertad Act report. 2. (C) The Portuguese hold firmly to the [...]	2008-05-23 17:18:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL PO
08LISBON1397	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE JUNE 16-17 [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Portuguese MFA's Deputy EU Correspondent outlined internal EU disagreements on how best to proceed on Zimbabwe, Cuba, and the Olympics, but underscored that the group was largely united on Iran, the Middle East Peace Process, Democratic Republic of Congo (DROC) and Georgia. [...]	2008-06-16 14:23:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR IZ IS SY PHUM PREL PGOV PO
08LISBON1725	PORTUGAL TO FOLLOW THE PACK AT JULY FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Portuguese MFA Officer Pedro Almeida predicted that, after last month's busy Lisbon Treaty debate, this GAERC agenda would be non-controversial and cover the usual business. He told us that Portugal would support EU consensus on Iran, Somalia, Chad, and Zimbabwe, despite some res [...]	2008-07-18 10:45:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PHUM PREL PGOV PO
08LISBON1975	PORTUGAL DEFERS TO EU ON STRONGER BURMA SANCTIONS [...] (U) Portugal continues to support the EU consensus regarding sanctions against Burma, according to Joao Terenas of the MFA's Asia Office. Terenas thanked us for the briefing on stronger U.S. sanctions but declined to comment on the prospects for stronger EU sanctions pending further discussio [...]	2008-08-08 17:09:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD BM PO
08LISBON1976	PORTUGUESE FM AMADO EXPLAINS STANCE ON KOSOVO, [...] (C) In a cordial, one-on-one dinner with the Ambassador on August 7, FM Luis Amado confided that domestic political considerations and the Portuguese-Serbian relationship had delayed Portugal's recognition of Kosovo thus far. Nevertheless, he told the Ambassador that the GOP would recognize Ko [...]	2008-08-08 17:20:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ETRD MARR PO
08LISBON221	PORTUGUESE VIEWPOINTS IN ADVANCE OF JANUARY 28-29 [...] (U) Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded to the reftel points with Portugal's views in advance of the GAERC meeting on January 28 and 29. She offered frank insights into the internal EU discussions on Kosovo, Iran, Kenya, and on the new practice of "restricted sessions." 2. [...]	2008-01-25 17:41:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PO EUN
08LISBON2300	SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO PORTUGAL, SEPTEMBER [...] (SBU) Madam Secretary: Your visit is scheduled to coincide with two important Portuguese foreign policy moments ) recognition of Kosovo and Portugal leading discussion on the EU's trans-Atlantic policy. This is an opportune moment to stress that the US and EU generally share goals and to call for [...]	2008-08-29 14:21:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	OTRA PREL PO
08LISBON238	IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI'S VISIT TO LISBON [...] (C) According to an MFA diplomatic advisor, during a one-day visit to Lisbon by Iranian FM Mottaki on January 23, FM Amado urged his counterpart to take steps to restore the international community's trust and to act responsibly as a key player in the Middle East, and he publicly welcomed the [...]	2008-01-28 17:25:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PO IR
08LISBON2388	PORTUGAL FOCUSES ON TRANS-ATLANTIC AGENDA AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Portugal is expected to remain in the background on most of the Gymnich discussions this week including Russia and Georgia, the Middle East, and EU Security Strategy, but will take the lead on the Trans-Atlantic presentation. Portuguese FM Amado will prompt the EU ministers [...]	2008-09-05 08:54:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	GG PREL PGOV PHUM
08LISBON251	PORTUGUESE MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR, AMBASSADOR [...] (C) During a friendly, one-hour courtesy call at the Foreign Ministry on January 29, MFA political director Bramao Ramos told the Ambassador the EU is about two weeks away from agreement on a public statement to be issued in response to a Kosovo declaration of independence. The statement is [...]	2008-01-29 17:54:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET PINR PO IR
08LISBON2514	PORTUGAL CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC AT SEPTEMBER 15-16 [...] (SBU) Summary: Portugal has no plans to present or direct discussion at the September 15-16 GAERC meeting. MFA officials expressed cautious optimism about political developments in Zimbabwe and Belarus. They told us that the GOP fully supports EU efforts to stabilize the Somali coast and Geo [...]	2008-09-12 17:28:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	YI TU GG RS PHUM PREL PGOV PO EUN
08LISBON2588	PORTUGUESE DEMARCHED ON OFAC NARCOTICS KINGPIN ACT [...] (U) Pol-Econ Officer informed Portuguese MFA America's Director Helena Coutinho and EU Deputy Correspondent Florbela Cardy of the Kingpin designation on Venezuelan officials on September 12 per reftel request. Neither offered a response specifically to the notification, but MFA officials have [...]	2008-09-18 11:24:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	LE KTFN KCRM PTER PINR EFIN SNAR PREL PO
08LISBON2667	PORTUGAL INFORMED OF DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL- [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-27 13:56:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR PO
08LISBON2754	PORTUGAL: IMPROVING EU BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-05 10:30:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM EU PO
08LISBON427	PORTUGUESE POSITIONS IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 18-19 [...] (U) Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha stressed that the February GAERC would be focused heavily on how to coordinate a unified response to a Kosovar coordinated declaration of independence (CDI). In addition, she responded to reftel points on the Middle East, Chad, Kenya, and Myanmar [...]	2008-02-19 12:19:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV EUN PO
08LISBON492	POSSIBLE PORTUGUESE-IRANIAN GAS AGREEMENT ON THE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Luis Amado confirmed during a January 23 press conference that Portugal's largest energy company, Galp Energia, and Iran's National Oil Company, NIOC, are in negotiations over a natural gas exploration and production project in Iran. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and [...]	2008-02-26 17:58:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON TRGY PO IR RS AG
08LISBON594	PORTUGUESE VIEWS ON THE MARCH GAERC [...] (SBU) Assistant EU Correspondent Pedro Severo de Almeida responded to the reftel points with Portugal's views in advance of March's GAERC meeting. He confirmed that the ministers planned to discuss the Balkans, Middle East Peace Process, Zimbabwe, Georgia, and Iran. He also noted the possibil [...]	2008-03-10 12:47:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AF IR GG IS PREL PGOV PO
08LJUBLJANA114	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 10-11 GAERC [...] (C) In their March 5 meeting, European Correspondent Aljaz Arih told ADCM that the Foreign Ministers would issue Council conclusions on Bosnia and Herzogovina, the Stability Pact/Regional Cooperation Council (RCC),Afghanistan, Pakistan, the WTO, and Zimbabwe. He noted that other than the Cou [...]	2008-03-06 11:49:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV ZL PK AF ZI IR GG IS SY LE SI
08LJUBLJANA116	DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES HOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 15, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erica Barks-Ruggles and Director of Office of Human Rights, Humanitarian and Social Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations, Doug Rohn held bilateral and U.S.-EU consultations wi [...]	2008-03-07 07:20:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA127	SLOVENIA AGREES WITH U.S. VIEWS ON BURMA [...] (SBU) On March 18, Emboff met with Matjaz Marko from the Asia and Pacific Division at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver reftel talking points urging Slovenia to make clear to the Burmese regime that the planned May referendum on the regime's draft constitution should adhere [...]	2008-03-18 15:14:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM SI
08LJUBLJANA137	SLOVENIA TO WAIT AND SEE ON BELARUS [...] (C) On March 25, ADCM met with COEST Chair Darja Bavdaz Kuret to stress the importance of U.S.-EU unity in dealing with Belarus (reftel),highlighting that a public statement would be very helpful as a follow-on to the French demarche made in Minsk last week. Bavdaz Kuret said that the French [...]	2008-03-25 15:54:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BO EU SI
08LJUBLJANA146	SLOVENIAN EU PRESIDENCY AT THE HALFWAY POINT [...] (C) Slovenia has made the most of its limited resources during the first three months of its EU presidency by focusing on what it knows best and turning to outside sources for assistance in other areas. Slovenia appears more amenable than many previous small-country presidencies to seek guid [...]	2008-03-28 15:53:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL CVIS PGOV EUN ASEC OVIP SI
08LJUBLJANA185	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF APRIL 28-29 GAERC [...] (C) On April 24, A/DCM delivered the April 28-29 GAERC points to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih said that the GAERC would issue conclusions on Burma, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and the Western Balkans. He noted that Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and China/Tibet/Olympics were not on the agenda. [...]	2008-04-24 13:23:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV ZL PK AF ZI IR GG IS SI
08LJUBLJANA215	SLOVENIA: NO OBJECTION TO UNSCR 1267 TERRORISM [...] (C) On May 13, EmbOff informed Andrej Slapnicar, MFA Security Policy official and EU COTER Chair, of the U.S. intention to request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the names of three individuals (Bahrainis 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jaffar 'Ali, Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd al-Khaliq, and Qat [...]	2008-05-15 16:04:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL BA QA SI
08LJUBLJANA223	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF MAY 26-27 JUMBO GAERC [...] (C) On May 21, A/DCM delivered the May 26-27 GAERC points to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih said that the "jumbo" GAERC, which would include Development and Defense Ministers, would issue conclusions on Lebanon, the Middle East Peace Process, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, the Western B [...]	2008-05-21 18:09:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV ZL PK AF ZI IR GG IS SY LE
08LJUBLJANA23	EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS TROIKA MEETING FINDS COMMON [...] (C) At the January 11 U.S. - EU Troika meeting, A/S Fried and EU Presidency, Council, and Commission representatives generally found common ground on Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Burma. On Iran, the EU advised that even a weak UNSCR would help pave the way for stronger EU sanctions. The [...]	2008-01-18 08:09:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV IR IS BM SY ECON ENRG SI
08LJUBLJANA238	AMBASSADOR GHAFARI PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, four days after arriving in Ljubljana, Yousif B. Ghafari presented his credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia to President Turk. At a follow-on courtesy call the President and the Ambassador agreed on the need for greater U.S. business activity in Sloveni [...]	2008-05-30 15:03:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN PGOV ECON EINV SI
08LJUBLJANA255	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF JUNE 16-17 GAERC [...] (C) On June 12, Pol/Econ Chief delivered the June 16-17 GAERC points to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih said the GAERC, which had a very long agenda, would issue conclusions on Cuba, the Western Balkans, Somalia, Sudan, DRoC, and Central Asia (without a discussion). The FMs would sen [...]	2008-06-12 12:01:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN PGOV PHUM ZL ZK IR IZ IS SY LE CU
08LJUBLJANA27	TERRORISM FINANCE: LET OPERATIVES [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-18 14:22:00	Embassy Ljubljana	SECRET	EFIN PTER PREL ETTC SI
08LJUBLJANA298	SLOVENIA EU PRESIDENCY WELCOMES US ACTIONS ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-01 09:00:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KN KNNP EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA32	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF JANUARY 28 GAERC [...] (C) In their January 24 meeting, Deputy European Correspondent Aljaz Arih explained to ADCM that now that Slovenia had the Presidency, it would not express strong positions on the issues. Instead, Slovenia's main task was to organize the GAERCs and put all the issues together. He said, howev [...]	2008-01-24 16:03:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN IR IS SY SI PGOV PK KE
08LJUBLJANA323	SLOVENIAN RESPONSE FOR JULY 22-23 GAERC [...] (SBU) On July 17, Emboffs met with Aljaz Arih, Head of the CFSP Unit at the MFA, to deliver reftel points in advance of the July 22 - 23 for the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting. IRAN ---- 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Emboff urged the Government of Slovenia (GOS),[...]	2008-07-18 15:35:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL EUN IR SO SU CD ZI UP
08LJUBLJANA33	SLOVENIA SUPPORTS FURTHER PRESSURE ON BURMA BUT [...] (C) On January 23, Emboff met with Ambassador Janez Premoze, Chairman of the EU's Asia-Oceania Working Party (COASI),to urge Slovenia and the EU to adopt a ban on the import of gems and hardwood originating in Burma (per reftel A) and to review any plans by Slovenian or EU companies to invest [...]	2008-01-25 13:03:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EPET EUN BM SI
08LJUBLJANA345	SLOVENIA NOT IN FAVOR OF NEW EU BURMA SANCTIONS [...] (C) On August 5, emboffs met with Jasna Lhotka, Minister Plenipotentiary at the MFA's Asia, Africa and the Pacific Division, to notify Slovenia of the new U.S. sanctions on Burma and to seek Slovene views on the prospects for further tightening of EU sanctions targeting the Burma regime. Lhot [...]	2008-08-05 14:51:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD BM SI
08LJUBLJANA353	SLOVENIA ON MAINTAINING TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON THE [...] (C) On August 6, Emboff met with Leon Marc, head of the MFA's Division for Southeast Europe, to urge the Government of Slovenia (GOS) not to prematurely lift the EU travel restrictions on the Karadzic family and to coordinate with the USG and the OHR in Bosnia on any changes to the sanctions a [...]	2008-08-07 12:58:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KAWC ICTY BK EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA413	SLOVENIA PREDICTS "BORING" SEPTEMBER 15-16 GAERC [...] (C) On September 11, Emboff delivered our points in advance of the September 15-16 GAERC meeting (reftel) to MFA European Correspondent Aljaz Arih, who commented that this would be a "pretty boring GAERC." Arih said there would be Council Conclusions on Somalia, which would be the GAERC's mos [...]	2008-09-11 14:07:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN PGOV PHUM ZL ZI SOCI YI TU GG RS
08LJUBLJANA454	SLOVENIA FOCUSED ON RUSSIA'S NEIGHBOURS AT OCTOBER [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 3. Summary ------- 2. (C) On October 9 Emboff delivered our points in advance of the October 13 GAERC meeting (ref A) to MFA European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih indicated that the FMs' discussions of Georgia at the GAERC would be linked t [...]	2008-10-09 12:49:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI UZ BO GG RS SI EUN PHUM
08LJUBLJANA549	SLOVENIA: COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM 2008 [...] (U) In 2007 Slovenia enacted a new Act on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, which became applicable in January 2008. During Slovenia's Presidency of the EU Council, Slovenia chaired an EU troika meeting with the United States on the external aspects of fighting aga [...]	2008-12-12 13:37:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM SI
08LJUBLJANA561	SLOVENIA HESITANT ON BURMA SANCTIONS, BUT WILL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-23 16:00:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BM SI
08LJUBLJANA66	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 18 GAERC [...] (C) In their February 13 meeting, European Union Division Director/Deputy Political Director Matej Marn told A/DCM that the February 18 GAERC would focus on Kosovo, which would be the first item on the external relations agenda. He hoped that the debate on other topics would be short. He expe [...]	2008-02-13 16:33:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN IR IS PGOV AADP
08LJUBLJANA81	SLOVENIA - 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - [...] (SBU) Slovenian legislation on intellectual property rights (IPR) and data protection is fully aligned with EU legislation, TRIPS, WIPO, and other ratified international treaties. In practice, U.S. pharmaceutical companies have access to the Slovene market. Recent efforts by the Government o [...]	2008-02-21 13:24:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR SI
08LONDON1116	UK REACTION TO IRAN SANCTIONS DEMARCHES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY The UK is actively considering its options in its efforts to contain Iranian nuclear proliferation, and appreciates the information we provided on Banks Melli, Saderat and Mellat, according to Patrick Guthrie, Head of the Financial Sanctions Unit of HM Treasury, and his Deputy, P [...]	2008-04-18 15:42:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN KNNP IR UK
08LONDON1170	COURT KNOCKS DOWN TERRORIST ASSET-FREEZING POWERS: [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A UK court ruled on April 24 that the UK had illegally frozen the assets of five individuals accused of terrorism finance. The ruling found fault with the fact that the UK did not engage in parliamentary debate in its implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions on Al-Qae [...]	2008-04-25 11:56:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON KTFN UK
08LONDON1172	UK EXPECTS THE BALKANS TO DOMINATE APRIL GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The UK expects the Balkans to be the key discussion item at the April 27-28 GAERC; the UK is still pushing to have a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SSA) with Bosnia signed at this GAERC, but expects it will slip to the May GAERC. According to Martin Shearman, EU Corres [...]	2008-04-25 14:05:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN ZL PK ZI IR IS CH BM UK
08LONDON1204	IRAN: UK PUSHES BACK ESTIMATED DATE OF EU'S [...] (C) Summary. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told Embassy there is "an eighty percent chance" the EU will vote to designate Bank Melli and 34 other persons and entities at the "next available" EU-level ministerial meeting. FCO was optimistic a text on designations will be f [...]	2008-04-29 15:40:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK

08LONDON1223	VIGILANCE REGARDING BANK SADERAT'S BRANCH IN ATHENS [...] (S/NF) We delivered reftel points on April 28 to HM Treasury's Patrick Guthrie, head of Financial Sanctions Unit, who said he would share within HMT and with the Financial Services Authority (banking regulator.) Guthrie appreciated receiving the information and agreed Greece had a lax enforce [...]	2008-05-01 11:41:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON KNNP MNUC IR UK
08LONDON130	TERRORIST FINANCE: UK AGREES TO UN DESIGNATION OF [...] (S) The UK agrees to support U.S. designation of Badran Turki Hishan Al Mazidih and members of his network, the five individuals in Ref A, according to Giles Cutler, 1267 Committee expert, International Organizations Department, Foreign Office. However, they have not yet decided whether to co [...]	2008-01-15 15:18:00	Embassy London	SECRET	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC IZ SY UK
08LONDON1328	ACTION REQUEST ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 17:01:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY UNSC UK
08LONDON1352	IRANIAN BANKING IN LONDON: UK PLANS AND CONCERNS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-14 15:16:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON1452	IRAN: FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS UK TO LEAD FINANCIAL [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Milliband is "very aware" of the centrality of financial measures, both multilateral and bilateral, to the creation of effective pressure on Tehran, and has told the FCO that HMG will be "at the forefront" of international financial efforts against Iran and will push its EU pa [...]	2008-05-23 13:58:00	Embassy London	SECRET	ECON ETTC KNNP PARM PGOV PHUM PREL IR PK UK
08LONDON1505	SUDAN: UK SUPPORTS DESIGNATION OF REFTEL [...] (C) HMG supports sanctioning all four individuals in reftel A, FCO Sudan Unit Senior Political Officer Rachel Edis said May 30. If other UNSC members oppose the entire list, however, sanctioning Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim and Doussa Deby would be the preferred o [...]	2008-05-30 16:24:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU UK
08LONDON1535	INTERNATIONAL SECURITY DISCUSSIONS WITH HMG [...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO and Treasury officials said that HMG was taking steps to restrict Iranian banking activity in the UK but is restricted by the legal tools available to it. FCO PolDir Mark Lyall Grant, FCO Director General for Defense and Intelligence Mariot Leslie, and HMT International and [...]	2008-06-03 16:21:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM MARR PREL IR SY UK
08LONDON1553	UK FEELS U.S. PAIN BUT OFFERS LITTLE LOVE ON [...] (C) The UK does not itself strongly object to the proposed U.S. language on Cuba and Venezuela in the U.S.-EU Summit document, but is bowing to the "significant" opposition of other EU Members and will not break rank on including U.S. language. Polcounselor delivered ref message on June 3 to [...]	2008-06-04 16:06:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EUN UK
08LONDON1586	U/S JEFFERY AND A/S Oâ€™BRIEN PRESS UK ON IRANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: State Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and Treasury Assistant Secretary Patrick O'Brien met with UK banking regulators on May 15 to urge increased scrutiny and tougher actions against Iranian banks operating in London. O'Brien and State Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia McNerney also d [...]	2008-06-09 10:58:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN KTFN ECON IR UK
08LONDON1595	IRAN: UK EXPECTS A FOURTH UNSCR WILL BE NECESSARY [...] (C) Summary: FCO working level contacts in informal conversations argue the likelihood that Iran will not respond in a useful fashion to Javer Solana's scheduled offer June 14 on behalf of the P5 1 will make a fourth UNSC resolution on Iran necessary. FCO contacts argue that whether a fourth [...]	2008-06-10 11:48:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MNUC KNNP UN IR UK
08LONDON1597	(S) UK MEASURES TO STEM BANK MELLI'S ASSET FLIGHT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-10 15:26:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN IR KTFN MNUC UK
08LONDON1620	USUN AMB KHALILZAD REVIEWS IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (S) SUMMARY: Amb Khalilzad told UK national security advisor McDonald that he was realistic about the difficulties of completing a SOFA and strategic framework agreement with Iraq by July, but saw some progress on the ground. In Afghanistan, he believed the SGSR needed to fill key slots and [...]	2008-06-12 16:40:00	Embassy London	SECRET	PREL PGOV AF IZ IR
08LONDON1643	UK AND UGANDA: NEXT STEPS ON THE LRA [...] (S) The UK Government has adopted a "harder edge" policy to "isolate and marginalize" the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the face of LRA leader Kony's continued refusal to sign the Final Peace Agreement (FPA),according to FCO Northern Uganda Desk Officer Sheena Lavery. With the Juba Peace P [...]	2008-06-17 15:37:00	Embassy London	SECRET	PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC SU UG UK
08LONDON1645	IRAN: FCO READOUT ON SOLANA IN TEHRAN AND PM [...] (S/NF) Summary: Although Iran did not provide an immediate response to the P5 1 refreshed offer, Iran NSC Secretary Jalili unexpectedly agreed to "study the offer carefully," and also agreed it is now up to Iran, rather than the P5 1, to respond (ref a). A reference by Prime Minister Gordon [...]	2008-06-17 16:41:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ECON EFIN KTFN MNUC PINS IR UK
08LONDON1745	ZIMBABWE: UK SUPPORTS UNSC CHAPTER VII RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-01 11:47:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK
08LONDON1758	ZIMBABWE: UK CONTINUES TO SUPPORT U.S. DRAFT UNSC [...] (C) HMG continues to support the current U.S. draft UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe, according to FCO Zimbabwe Desk Officer Jason Moore. Moore reported that in a July 2 ministerial meeting FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown said the UK should continue to pursue sanctions, though a prematu [...]	2008-07-02 12:56:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK
08LONDON1823	ZIMBABWE: UK OPTIMISTIC ON UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (C) Per reftel, the Charge spoke on July 9 with FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown, who was optimistic there would be sufficient votes to pass the current UNSC draft resolution on Zimbabwe. Malloch-Brown suggested progress had been made with Moscow and Beijing in New York and at the G-8 Su [...]	2008-07-09 16:04:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC ZI UK
08LONDON1853	ZIMBABWE: UK LOOKS FOR WAY FORWARD, TURNS TO EU [...] (C/NF) The Foreign Office continues to treat the situation in Zimbabwe as a crisis. After the July 11 defeat of the U.S. draft UNSCR on Zimbabwe, FCO Zimbabwe Team Leader Ben Llewellyn-Jones said July 14 HMG will "give Zimbabwe a break in the Security Council for a little while," especially since [...]	2008-07-15 11:02:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM UNSC KDEM ZI ZU UK
08LONDON196	FOLLOW-UP: BANK MELLI ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE A [...] (S/NF) HM Treasury appreciates the information contained in reftel and promised to look into evidence of any Bank Melli activity in London and possible measures the UK could take to disrupt the Turkish transaction, according to Patrick Guthrie, Head of Financial Sanctions Unit, HMT. However, [...]	2008-01-22 15:52:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP MNUC EFIN ETTC
08LONDON1972	SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT'S NUCLEAR ENERGY SUPPLY [...] (C) Summary. On July 22, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Special Assistant Marc Humphrey traveled to London to meet with Simon Manley (Director for Defense and Strategic Threats at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO). The purpose of this meeting w [...]	2008-07-30 12:41:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC IAEA FR UK
08LONDON2055	UK PLEASED WITH FIRST MONTH OF FRENCH PRESIDENCY; [...] (C) Summary. France has "listened to" London during the first month of the French Presidency of the EU, especially on issues of current importance to the UK such as Zimbabwe and Iran, and the FCO tells us HMG is optimistic about prospects for the remainder of the Presidency. Despite initial concer [...]	2008-08-06 15:27:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV EUN ETRD IR UP FR UK
08LONDON2070	UK DOESN'T EXPECT STRONG NEW BURMA SANCTIONS FROM [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-08 09:26:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ETRD UK BM
08LONDON2101	IRANIAN PUGWASH PARTICIPANTS CLAIM TEHRAN [...] (S) Summary: Iranian government advisers at the most recent "Pugwash" Conference on Iran reportedly argued during the August 2-3 seminar that: -- Iran wants direct flights to the United States addressed before any talks on a U.S. interest section in Tehran; -- sanctions do not affect Iran's le [...]	2008-08-12 18:01:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PINS PREL AG IR IS IZ LE UK
08LONDON2186	IRAN: CHINESE EMBASSY ASKS WHETHER GEORGIA CRISIS AFFECTS P5+1'S IRAN POSTURE REF: BEIJING 3034 [...] (C) Summary: Chinese Embassy counterparts asked informally whether the Georgia crisis means in U.S. eyes a suspension or slowdown in multilateral efforts on Iran nuclear. London Iran Watcher (Poloff) said this is not the case; international equities on Iran are too urgent and well-defined, and Iran [...]	2008-08-22 16:31:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PINS PREL PTER CH IR UK
08LONDON2196	DRC SANCTIONS: UK APPRECIATES INFORMATION, KEEN TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-27 13:22:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC ZF CG RW UK
08LONDON2283	IRAN: UK'S INFORMAL COMMENTS ON EU DYNAMICS AND IRAN SANCTIONS PROSPECTS REF: A. SECSTATE 95257 B. SEPT 2 LONDON EMAIL (GAYLE) TO NEA/IR [...] (C) Summary: Recent Embassy conversations on Iran with regular Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) contacts suggest the UK's approach on Iran nuclear policy will continue to be tough-minded and practical, favoring direct engagement if feasible, but not optimistic on prospects either for broad EU [...]	2008-09-09 16:06:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNNP IR UK
08LONDON2589	SOMALIA: UK SUPPORTS USG COMPROMISE LANGUAGE IN SANCTIONS UNSC RESOLUTION REF: STATE 108662 [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 12:40:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC XW SO UK
08LONDON2600	IRAN: UK CURRENT POSTURE -- FCO FORMAL AND INFORMAL VIEWS [...] (S) Please see Department information request at paragraph4. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Foreign and Commonwealth Office working contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) October 14 that: -- Foreign Secretary Miliband pressed his Chinese counterpart to have China re-engage in the P5 1, with little resul [...]	2008-10-14 19:04:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	CJAN PINS PREL PTER GE FR IT IR UK
08LONDON2651	USDP EDELMANâ€™S OCTOBER 15 MEETINGS IN LONDON [...] (S/NF) Summary. The UK is pessimistic about Pakistan, especially in light of President Zardari's poor leadership and the bad economy, although they praise efforts by Pakistani President Zardari to cooperate with Afghan President Karzai, UK senior officials at the Ministry of Defense (MOD),Foreign [...]	2008-10-21 17:03:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR UK ECON KNNP MOPS PTER AF FR
08LONDON2691	IRAN: SAFAVI CLAIMS KHAMENEI WILL HOLD HARD LINE, [...] (S/NF) Summary: Senior Iranian cleric and IRGC figure Salman Safavi told a private dinner, attended by Embassy London Iran watcher (Poloff),that Supreme Leader Khamenei will ease or harden the tone of Iran's nuclear policies based on who wins the U.S. presidential election. Safavi gave no s [...]	2008-10-24 18:14:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	KPRP PGOV PHUM PREL IS IA IR LE UK
08LONDON272	IRAN: UK SAYS EU DESIRE FOR THIRD UNSCR MEANS NO [...] (C) Summary: The UK expects no new EU steps on autonomous measures against Iran before a March 10-11 GAERC ministerial, due to the desire of most EU governments to have the legal and political cover of an approved third UN Security Council Resolution in place before any further EU action, ac [...]	2008-01-29 18:44:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON2778	IRANIAN IMPORTERS/EXPORTERS: HAVING MORE PROBLEMS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iranian importers and exporters are encountering ever-greater problems, in all regions including China, in obtaining trade financing due to USG-led international financial measures, according to statements by an Iran banking contact to Embassy London Iran Watcher (poloff). End su [...]	2008-11-03 15:59:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	CJAN ECON EFIN PINS PREL PTER KFIN IR UK
08LONDON2798	(C) UK'S POTENTIAL NEW FINANCIAL TOOL AGAINST IRAN Classified By: KATHLEEN DOHERTY, ECON COUNSELOR FOR REASONS 1.4 B & D [...] (C/NF) Summary. The British government amended the Counter-Terrorism Bill (CT Bill) on November 3, which would potentially give HMG stronger financial powers against Iran and other rogue nations. If approved by Parliament, HM Treasury would obtain power to impose measures on private entities doing [...]	2008-11-04 16:59:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON2976	DRC:UK SUPPORTS EITI INCLUSION IN MONUC MANDATE, EXTENDED ARMS EMBARGO, FDLR SANCTIONS IMPOSITION SOONEST [...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK supports inclusion of an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) paragraph in the MONUC renewal mandate, continuation of the arms embargo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 12 months, and imposition of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) [...]	2008-12-01 11:24:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EMIN UNSC KPKO PARM CG RW UK
08LONDON305	IRAN: NAMES PROPOSED BY UK AND FRANCE FOR EU ASSET [...] (C/NF) Providing further details of UK efforts to obtain autonomous EU sanctions against Iran (see ref),the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on January 30 gave London Iran Watcher (Poloff) a list of 18 entities and 14 individuals that the FCO says the UK and France have jointly proposed to EU [...]	2008-01-31 17:07:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPRP PGOV ETTC IR UK
08LONDON3110	IRAN: FCO QUIETLY URGES PRESSURE ON GERMANS FOR EU [...] (S/NF) Summary: Germany has deep political reservations over bank designations proposed against Iran under the EU's Common Policy, and is making legal and intelligence arguments within E4 against UK and French proposals to designate several Iranian banks, according to a UK Foreign and Commonweal [...]	2008-12-12 18:03:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN ENRG IR KTFN MNUC PTER UK
08LONDON3186	IRAQ PETROLEUM CONFERENCE 2008: DIALOGUE, [...] (SBU) Summary. Iraq Petroleum 2008, held in London December 1-2, 2009, was a good opportunity for Iraqi officials, representatives from international companies, and participants from other governments to discuss the current situation in Iraq's petroleum sector, focusing particularly on inves [...]	2008-12-19 17:27:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET EINV ECON IZ UK
08LONDON592	UK TO DESIGNATE THREE MEMBERS OF LIBYAN ISLAMIC [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-26 17:08:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	KTFN EFIN PTER LY UK
08LONDON630	IRAN NUCLEAR: UK COMMONS REPORT WILL CALL FOR DROPPING SUSPENSION; FCO DISCOUNTS REPORT'S IMPACT REF: A. LONDON 4204 B. EMBASSY DAILY OF JANUARY 31 C. 2008 D. GAYLE-NEA/IR FEBRUARY 29 E-MAIL [...] (C) The UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on March 2 will urge a major change in HMG and collective western policy on Iran's nuclear program, most notably the dropping of the suspension requirement before there can be direct talks on nuclear issues with Tehran. According to an excerpt f [...]	2008-02-29 16:29:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON639	UK LABOUR SPRING CONFERENCE: GOOD INTENTIONS BUT [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Labour Party Spring Conference, held February 27 - March 2 in Birmingham, was characterized by low energy, poor attendance, and a lack of charismatic leadership, despite serving as a kick-off to the party's campaign for the May 1 local elections in England and Wales. In his Marc [...]	2008-03-03 17:06:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON694	UK MEASURES ON IRAN: HMG STILL LAYING GROUNDWORK [...] (C) On immediate EU sanctions steps in follow-up to passage of UNSCR 1803, FCO working level contacts on March 7 advised London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that "nothing substantive will happen on the EU track" at the GAERC session Monday March 10: "there will be no Iran conclusions." According to [...]	2008-03-10 13:02:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK
08LONDON781	DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT AND PERMANENT UNDER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Ambassador Tuttle met Peter Ricketts, UK Permanent Under Secretary (PUS) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on March 10. Both sides agreed on the need to plan for the one-year review conference for the International Compact wi [...]	2008-03-17 10:20:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ECON EFIN
08LONDON801	DEPSEC TREASURY DISCUSES IRAN SANCTIONS, U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a March 10 meeting with Conservative Party leader David Cameron, Deputy Secretary Kimmitt told him that the Iranian financial sector was feeling the effects of Western sanctions and the EU-3 remain unified on tightening the ability of Iranian banks to do business, although [...]	2008-03-18 13:01:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN IR IZ UK
08LONDON803	DEPSEC TREASURY DISCUSSES FINANCIAL MARKETS, IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt outlined on March 10 to Yvette Cooper, British Treasury Deputy Secretary-equivalent, USG efforts to stimulate the U.S. SIPDIS economy and address problems in the U.S. housing market. Cooper described efforts to revitalize the securitization [...]	2008-03-18 15:24:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN ECON PGOV UK
08LONDON823	HMG AGREES WITH BURMA DEMARCHE ON REFERENDUM -- [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel to Nick Alexander, head of Burma policy in the Foreign Office on March 19. Alexander said the UK is in complete agreement with points contained in reftel, underscoring HMG agreement that the Burmese "roadmap" as currently constituted is faulty. He shared UK talkin [...]	2008-03-19 18:01:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM EU UN UK
08LONDON878	BROWN MEETS MCCAIN: DISCUSS IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND [...] (C/NF) Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown met Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham in London March 20. Brown used the meeting to present his big ideas about reforming the international financial institutions (IFIS) and increasing assistance to Africa as a means to preven [...]	2008-03-27 09:06:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM EFIN EAID UNSC IZ AF IS
08LONDON966	HMG ON HOW TO MOVE THE EU ON BURMA, SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] 4 (b,d) Â [...]	2008-04-03 14:19:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC EFIN ETTC EU BM UK
08LONDON989	REQUEST FOR IDENTIFIER AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION [...] (S) London Iran Watcher (Poloff) delivered reftel demarche April 3 to Foreign and Commercial Office Iran Coordination Group Sanctions Implementation Officer Neil Kernohan. Poloff explained absolute need of U.S. financial institutions for identifier information for 1803 implementation to be e [...]	2008-04-07 14:43:00	Embassy London	SECRET	EFIN KNNP PARM PREL MNUC PTER KTFN IR UK
08LUANDA593	GRA HOPES FOR NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT IN PRETORIA TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 4th meeting with Ambassador Mozena, Angolan Foreign Minister Joao Miranda expressed hope that the ongoing negotiations between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC parties would result in a power-sharing agreement. Absent such an agreement, Zimbabwe could ex [...]	2008-08-04 18:27:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI AO
08LUANDA666	"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL VI [...] (U) In This Issue: - UNITA President Give Police Generally High Marks - All Hands on Deck: MPLA and UNITA Recall Staff - Catholic Church Scolds UNITA-Supporting Priest - Beauty Queen Relinquishes Crown to Support the FpD - High-Tech System Helps Voters Identify Polling Stations [...]	2008-08-22 15:59:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUSAKA463	CONSULTATIONS WITH MWANAWASA ON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with President Mwanawasa, A/S Frazer and NSC Senior Director Pittman called upon the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to increase its pressure on President Mugabe, offer its protection to Tsvangirai, and send a delegation of senior statesmen to SIPDIS [...]	2008-04-27 13:14:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI ZA
08LUSAKA486	ZAMBIA: NEXT STEPS ON ZIMBABWE CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. President Mwanawasa remains committed to addressing the crisis in Zimbabwe, but lacks wide support from other SADC leaders. He has expressed an intent to send a small delegation of SADC leaders to meet with Mugabe as well as an interest in helping mediate a solution involving a [...]	2008-05-02 12:16:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SADC AU ZI ZA
08LUSAKA525	ZAMBIAN MEDIA COVERS RICE-MWANAWASA CONVERSATION [...] (U) On May 11, the state-owned Sunday Times of Zambia provided front-page coverage of Secretary Rice's phone conversations with President Mwanawasa and other African leaders to encourage broader regional efforts to resolve the Zimbabwe electoral crisis. The front-page article, entitled "Rice [...]	2008-05-13 14:43:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SADC ZA ZI
08LUXEMBOURG74	AMBASSADOR WAGNER WARNS BANKERS ABOUT THE RISKS OF DOING [...] (U) During a March 14 speech to the International Bankers Club of Luxembourg, the Ambassador discussed the USG position and policy on Iran sanctions. She reviewed the operations of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and emphasized the reputational risk of doing b [...]	2008-03-20 15:25:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN PREL ECON IR LU
08MADRID104	TERRORIST FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-01 18:04:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL IZ SY SP
08MADRID1064	DEMARCHES ON UNSCR RESOLUTIONS ON IRAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-08 12:16:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	ECON EFIN ETRD PARM KNNP EWWT EUN PREL MNUC
08MADRID1081	SPANISH VIEWS ON OCTOBER GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Maria Luisa Benitez Donoso on October 10. Donoso said that Georgia will dominate the GAERC agenda, with some discussion on Belarus, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan and Moldova. //GEORGIA// 2. (C) Donoso said that Spa [...]	2008-10-10 16:02:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SP USEU
08MADRID1142	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON NOVEMBER GYMNICH AND JUMBO GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Maria Luisa Benitez Donoso on October 29. Regarding the agenda, Benitez said that given the Jumbo GAERC includes defense and development issues in addition to external relations, and that the Congo will likely be [...]	2008-11-03 08:03:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP EUN ETRD RS IS AF PK SY LE
08MADRID1150	SPAIN: UPDATE ON INTERNET PIRACY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Since being placed on the Special 301 Watch List six months ago, the GOS has focused on encouraging negotiations between the Internet Service Provider (ISP) association and the Anti-Piracy Coalition of copyright holders and their representatives. The parties are trying to agree on a fo [...]	2008-11-04 07:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECPS KCRM SP
08MADRID1212	CODEL SIRES VISIT TO MADRID, NOVEMBER 13-14, 2008 [...] (U) Summary: Codel Sires (Representatives Albio Sires, Lynn Woolsey, Phil Gingrey, Ron Klein, and Laura Richardson) visited Madrid November 13-14 to discuss rail transportation security, counter-terrorism, and bilateral relations. They met with Minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, M [...]	2008-11-18 08:10:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL SP
08MADRID1262	SPAIN: MFA ADDRESSES HOST OF NON-PROLIFERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. POLCOUNS and POLOFF on November 28 met Spanish MFA officials for a wide-ranging discussion on non-proliferation issues. Gonzalo de Salazar, the MFA's Sub-DG for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, and Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament discusse [...]	2008-12-02 12:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER SP SY IAEA IR VE
08MADRID1299	SPAIN/CUBA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel A, paragraph 5 and updates information reported in reftels B and C. 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Spain played a leadership role in [...]	2008-12-11 12:21:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL SP CU
08MADRID1318	SPAIN: GOVERNMENT HOSTS IPR CONFERENCE, LAUNCHES [...] In late November, the GOS hosted its second annual International Conference on Digital Content (FICOD),which included as a separate event an International Conference on Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment. The IPR Conference brought Spanish government officials together with co [...]	2008-12-16 13:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KCRM KIPR SP
08MADRID174	SPAIN WILL OPPOSE KOSOVO RECOGNITION AT GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish Political Director Rafael Dezcallar and Director General for North America and Europe Pepe Pons told DCM separately that Spain would oppose any EU consensus statement on Kosovo recognition in Brussels February 18. Separately, Spanish Deputy DG for ESDP Carlos Fernandez-Arias to [...]	2008-02-15 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL EUN SP KV IS
08MADRID211	SPECIAL 301 SPAIN RECOMMENDATION [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. It is not repeat not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy requests Washington agencies to consider an out-of-cycle review for Spain in October 2008. On March 9, parliamentary elections will be held in Spain and a new government [...]	2008-02-25 17:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR SP
08MADRID281	SPANISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 10 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered GAERC demarche points to Spanish MFA Deputy Political Director for ESDP Carlos Fernandez-Arias on March 6. Fernandez-Arias said that the GAERC would be somewhat light this month. Javier Solana will brief on the Middle East and the EU will go forward with new I [...]	2008-03-07 17:44:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN ZL ZI IR GG IS SY LE
08MADRID289	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, discussed Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Afghanistan, and sovereign wealth funds with Spanish National Security Adviser Carles Casajuana in a March 6 meeting. Casajuana expressed pleasure that bilateral relations had evolved positively in recent [...]	2008-03-10 13:59:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV AF CU IR IZ KV SP
08MADRID34	SPAIN: POTENTIAL ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF EXPANDED [...] (C) SUMMARY. During Libyan leader Qadhafi's first official visit to Spain, December 15-18, MOUs were concluded on defense, economic cooperation and investment. Negotiations are still underway on a double taxation treaty. Qadhafi's visit began with a private two-day visit to Andalucia, foll [...]	2008-01-14 15:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD LY SP
08MADRID465	POST PRESSES GOS ON IRAN FINANCIAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador pressed the head of Spain's Export Credit Insurance Company (CESCE) on 4/21/08 to limit export credit guarantees to Iran. Separately, EconOff met on 4/21/08 with a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official to discuss Spain's views on Iran sanctions. The MFA offici [...]	2008-04-24 12:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KNNP PREL PGOV MNUC IR SP
08MADRID469	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL UPDATE APRIL 21 - 25 [...] ELAB: Unemployment increases one full point to 9.6% 2. EFIN: IMF says no more room for additional fiscal stimulus 3. EFIN: Banks returning to capital markets 4. EFIN: 198 suspected of tax evasion via Liechtenstein 5. EINV/ECPS: "Everyone expects the Spanish telecoms acquisition" 6. EAIR: [...]	2008-04-25 15:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BTIO EAIR ECON ECPS EFIN EINV ELAB KNNP SENV
08MADRID477	AMBASSADOR RAISES IPR, IRAN CONCERNS WITH NEW [...] (C) Summary: On April 24, Ambassador Aguirre informed new GOS trade minister Sebastian of Spain,s placement on the Special 301 Watch List. Sebastian expressed disappointment but vowed to work with the USG and set as a goal getting Spain off the Watch List by 2009. The Ambassador reviewed US [...]	2008-04-29 08:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KIPR KNNP IR SP
08MADRID48	TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON LET-4 [...] (S) On January 16, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Laura Martinez, Area Specialist within MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism. Econoff advised Martinez of U.S. plans to request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the "LET 4" operatives to the list of terrorist entities. Martinez [...]	2008-01-17 17:57:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC SP
08MADRID486	FINANCE VICE MINISTER LETTER ON IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) As a followup to visiting Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt's meeting with Spanish Secretary of State (vice minister) for Economy David Vegara on March 6 (reftel),the Ambassador wrote Vegara a letter about Spanish transactions with Iranian banks. Vegara has responded with the following l [...]	2008-04-29 17:46:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN SP IR
08MADRID503	FINCEN DIRECTOR, SPANISH OFFICIALS DISCUSS MONEY [...] (U) This cable has been cleared by FinCEN Director Jim Freis. 2. (C/NF) Summary. During a visit to Madrid April 23-24, Department of Treasury FinCEN Director Jim Freis met with Spanish government officials involved in anti-money laundering and counter terrorism finance (AML-CTF) activitie [...]	2008-05-09 07:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SP ECON EFIN KTFN
08MADRID540	ACTION REQUEST ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO THE UN [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche on 5/12/08 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Subdirector General for Bilateral Economic Relations with Developing Countries Alejandro Alvargonzalez San Martin. Alvargonzalez told EconOff on 5/14/08 that he did not know when Spain would submit its UNSCR [...]	2008-05-14 15:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EFIN KNNP AORC ETRD TRGY UNSC SP IR
08MADRID598	SPAIN REITERATES COMMITMENT TO UNSC SANCTIONS [...] (U) UNVIE Ambassador Gregory Schulte visited Madrid May 19-21 to raise the awareness of GOS officials and the public regarding the threat posed by the ongoing Iranian nuclear weapons program. Schulte briefed MFA Political Director Rafael Dezcallar, MFA Director General for the Middle East [...]	2008-05-29 09:53:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PINR IR SP
08MADRID643	TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION DELIVERED TO [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel pre-notification on June 6 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate of Counter-Terrorism officer Ivo Pascual. Pascual expressed appreciation for the information and advance notice concerning the USG's intention to submit to the UNSCR 1267 committee a list of [...]	2008-06-09 16:20:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	AINR ECON EFIN PINR PREL PTER SP KTFN PK
08MADRID670	SPANISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF JUNE GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered GAERC demarche points to Spanish MFA Deputy Political Director Carlos Fernandez-Arias on June 12. Fernandez-Arias said that the GAERC would address the Western Balkans, Iran, Lebanon, MEPP, Cuba, Somalia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, but not Iraq, Chad, Belarus, Georgia or [...]	2008-06-13 11:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN SP
08MADRID679	IRAN SANCTIONS - SPAIN WILL VOTE IN FAVOR OF BANK [...] (C) Following up on information contained in ref e-mail, EconOff spoke on 6/18/08 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Subdirector General for Bilateral Relations with Developing Countries Alejandro Alvargonzalez San Martin about Iran sanctions. Alvargonzalez indicated that Spain would vote in fa [...]	2008-06-19 10:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN AORC ETRD EINV TRGY KNNP UNSC SP IR
08MADRID685	JUNE 8-11 VISIT TO SPAIN OF COMMANDER, U.S. AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: General William E. "Kip" Ward, Commander U.S. Africa Command, visited Spain June 8-11 for meetings with Spanish officials regarding AFRICOM. The primary purpose of the visit was to meet with Spanish leaders to discuss AFRICOM as well as listen and learn from their experiences on the co [...]	2008-06-20 06:26:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF SP
08MADRID725	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON SHAPING POST-CYCLONE ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) On July 2, 2008, Poloff discussed reftel with Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Pacific, Southeast Asia and Philippines, Jose Luis Garcia Galan. Poloff stressed the importance of continued international insistence on access, transparency and accountability of humanitarian assis [...]	2008-07-03 10:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SP EAID PHUM BM
08MADRID741	DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION'S JULY 3, 2008, MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Chief of Mission Llorens met July 3 with Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Policy Angel Lossada. They discussed Lossada's visit to Washington, our concern over the tone of some recent public remarks by GOS and Socialist Party officials, the Global Initiative to Comba [...]	2008-07-07 11:21:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM NATO KV AF IR SP
08MADRID75	SPAIN'S REPSOL NOT INTERESTED IN INVESTING IN BURMA [...] (U) EconOff spoke on 1/24/08 with Repsol's (Repsol is a multi-billion-dollar Spanish private oil & gas exploration and development company) Director of Institutional Relations, Tomas Garcia, regarding possible Repsol interest in investing in Burma. Garcia told EconOff that Repsol had and has n [...]	2008-01-25 17:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET PHUM BMGT SP
08MADRID757	TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. Your presence provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce our message on Iran financial sanctions with both government and private sector representatives. (Note: Your schedule has been sent via e-mail to staff.) You will also have an oppo [...]	2008-07-10 09:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETC ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL PARM
08MADRID792	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON JULY GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered GAERC demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy Political Director Carlos Fernandez-Arias on July 18. Fernandez-Arias said that the July GAERC will be relatively light and primarily address Somalia, Sudan/Darfur, Zimbabwe, Serbia and the Middle East Peace Process. END SUMM [...]	2008-07-18 14:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN SP
08MADRID794	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SECOND VICE PRESIDENT AND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Second Vice President and Finance Minister Pedro Solbes on 7/17/08. The minister acknowledged the serious economic difficulties that Spain was facing. He said that he would review the issue of granting the same tax benefits to religious denominations such as the Mor [...]	2008-07-18 15:47:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PTER SP
08MADRID836	IRAN FOCUS OF TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY TRIP [...] (C) Summary: Treasury Under Secretary Stuart A. Levey, accompanied by Chief of Staff Christy Clark and Policy Advisor DeAnna Fernandez, traveled to Madrid, Spain July 15-17, 2008 to press for Spanish support for implementation of UNSCR 1803 per the EU-3 1 proposal and to provide information on the [...]	2008-07-28 16:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PTER IR SP
08MADRID86	TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on January 28 to Ivo Pascual Herrera at MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism. Econoff informed Pascual that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee had approved the designation of the three reftel Kuwait-based terrorist facilitators, and that the U.S. had sim [...]	2008-01-28 17:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC KU SP
08MADRID881	SPAIN RESPONDS TO NEW U.S. SANCTIONS ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-08 15:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV BM SP
08MADRID982	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON EVE OF SEPTEMBER GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered GAERC demarche (reftel a) to Spanish MFA Assistant Deputy Political Director Maria Luisa Benitez-Donoso on September 12. Benitez-Donoso said that the September GAERC will address Zimbabwe, Somalia, Serbia, Belarus and Georgia. Turkey is not on the current agenda. [...]	2008-09-15 05:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SP EUN
08MADRID983	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON EVE OF SEPTEMBER GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered GAERC demarche (reftel a) to Spanish MFA Assistant Deputy Political Director Maria Luisa Benitez-Donoso on September 12. Benitez-Donoso said that the September GAERC will address Zimbabwe, Somalia, Serbia, Belarus and Georgia. Turkey is not on the current agenda. [...]	2008-09-15 05:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SP EUN
08MANAGUA394	VISAS DONKEY: REQUEST FOR CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under section 212 (f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, proclamation 7750, suspending the entry into the United States and revoking the visa presently held by Jose Manuel Martinez Sevilla, born in Nicaragua [...]	2008-04-04 16:18:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PREL PGOV KCOR KCRM EFIN NU
08MANAGUA509	IMPLEMENTING UNSCR'S IRAN SANCTIONS: MANAGUA [...] (U) On April 11, we met with the Foreign Ministry's (MINREX) Director for North America, Rene Morales, and Nelly Beteta, Director for Africa and the Middle East, to deliver points and non-papers as instructed per reftels. Beteta indicated that the Government of Nicaragua supported Iran's peac [...]	2008-04-25 23:21:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP IR NU
08MANAGUA573	THE ORTEGA ADMINISTRATION AT 15 MONTHS: SLIPPING [...] (S/NF) Summary and Background: Fifteen months into his second administration, Ortega continues to skillfully use his political pact with former President and convicted felon, Arnoldo Aleman to keep pro-democracy forces divided, vulnerable to coercion, and unable to mount sustained opposition [...]	2008-05-08 17:38:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV EAID ECON PTER PREL NU
08MANAMA127	U/S LEVEY ENGAGES GOB OFFICIALS ON TERRORISM, IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION FINANCE REF: 07 MANAMA 1089 MANAMA 00000127 001.6 OF 002 Classified By: Ambassador Adam Ereli, reasons 1.4(b) and (d). ------- SUMMARY ------- [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-03 12:50:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER EFIN ECON IR BA
08MANAMA138	REISSUE - U/S LEVEY ENGAGES GOB OFFICIALS ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 16:15:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER EFIN ECON IR BA
08MANAMA195	U/S LEVEY PROMOTES CHARITIES CONFERENCE, WARNS BANKERS ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Treasury U/S Levey reiterated to banks the risks of engaging in transactions with Iranian financial institutions. U/S Levey said he expected the imminent U.S. designation of Future Bank. He told the Minister of Social Development about the importance of fund-raising oversight, and supp [...]	2008-03-24 14:37:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EFIN IR BA
08MANAMA528	BAHRAINâ€™S RELATIONS WITH IRANREF: A. 07 MANAMA 1045 B. 07 MANAMA 1070 C. 07 MANAMA 1016 D. MANAMA 22 E. MANAMA 220 F. MANAMA 430 G. MANAMA 442 [...] (C) Summary: The Sunni ruling family of tiny, Shi'a-majority Bahrain have long recognized that they needed outsiders -- first the British, then the United States -- to protect them from predatory neighbors, Iran foremost among them. Both Shahs and Ayatollahs have asserted claims to sovereignty over [...]	2008-08-05 13:58:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PGOV KISL KNNP PTER EFIN IR BA
08MANAMA555	BAHRAIN WATCHING FOR IRANIAN PROLIFERATION-RELATED [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-20 13:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KNNP IR BA
08MANILA1123	PHILIPPINES ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT 60-DAY REPORT [...] Per reftel request, poloff on May 9 met with the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to stress the importance of timely submission of a 60-day report on steps the Philippines has taken to implement UNSCR 1803. Poloff informed Director for Security and Legal Matters Leah Ruiz of th [...]	2008-05-09 09:06:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PREL IR MNUC RP UNSC

08MANILA1795	THE NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Thirty-nine years after its founding as the armed wing of the Philippine Communist Party, the New People's Army (NPA) has lost much of its ability to conduct sustained military operations but remains capable of sporadically disrupting public security and business operations in cer [...]	2008-07-29 07:51:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER RP
08MANILA2049	RAJAH SOLAIMAN MOVEMENT TERRORIST DEPORTED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr., a key leader of the Philippine terrorist group Rajah Solaiman Movement, was deported to Manila on August 30, after he was arrested on July 24 in Bahrain. The deportation was an important success for Philippine officials, who worked through the U [...]	2008-09-03 08:43:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CT PGOV PREL PTER RP
08MANILA2546	2008 GLOBAL FORUM ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: The Global Forum on Migration and Development held in Manila October 27-30 was a major international undertaking for the Philippines and was attended by government delegations from 164 nations and 220 delegates from civil society groups. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo delivered [...]	2008-11-12 09:21:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL RP SMIG
08MANILA2762	PHILIPPINES: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] SUMMARY: The Philippines remains a key partner of the United States in our bilateral and multilateral counterterrorism efforts. As in recent years, during 2008, terrorist groups active in the Philippines included the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG),Jemaah Islamiyah (JI),the New People's Army (NPA) [...]	2008-12-22 08:33:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC RP
08MAPUTO781	GRM CONDEMNS MAURITANIA COUP, STILL SILENT ON [...] (U) On August 11, the Government of Mozambique (GRM) unilaterally condemned the coup d'etat in Mauritania, calling it a violation of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the principles of the African Union. The statement issued by the GRM Ministry of Foreign Affairs off [...]	2008-08-15 09:42:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MZ ZI
08MAPUTO929	QUIET DIPLOMACY 'SUCCESS' IN ZIMBABWE LAUDED, YET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mozambique's public reaction to the Zimbabwean power-sharing agreement remains positive, with the Government of Mozambique (GRM) taking credit via its efforts in the SADC Troika and the two countries' historically strong relationship. The crisis in Zimbabwe has done economic d [...]	2008-10-01 15:23:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI MZ
08MAPUTO932	QUIET DIPLOMACY 'SUCCESS' IN ZIMBABWE LAUDED, YET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mozambique's public reaction to the Zimbabwean power-sharing agreement remains positive, with the Government of Mozambique (GRM) taking credit via its efforts in the SADC Troika and the two countries' historically strong relationship. The crisis in Zimbabwe has done economic d [...]	2008-10-02 08:11:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI MZ
08MEXICO142	FDI IN MEXICO: 2007 GREAT, WHAT ABOUT 2008? [...] Summary: FDI inflows to Mexico for the first three quarters of 2007 topped USD 18 billion and are expected to reach USD 23 billion for CY2007. At the same time, Mexico fell three slots in investment confidence as other countries surpassed it in investment attractiveness. CY2008 will likely se [...]	2008-01-18 19:24:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON PGOV MX
08MEXICO1533	MEXICO IPR UPDATE - APRIL 2008 [...] (U) This cable reports on Mexican reaction to the Special 301 2008 report on Mexico and the following recent IPR-related developments in Mexico: the "International Forum on IPR and the Judiciary" event held in Cancun in February and the establishment of a specialized IPR tribunal to review adm [...]	2008-05-20 20:57:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON MX
08MEXICO1649	U.S-MEXICO TALKS ON IAEA, DOMESTIC NUCLEAR ISSUE [...] (SBU) Summary. Mexican Foreign Ministry officials meeting with the U.S. Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Greg Schulte conveyed general support for U.S. views on challenges facing the IAEA. Mexico shares our concern about Iran's nuclear activities [...]	2008-05-29 21:06:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PARM ENRG TRGY IAEA UN IR MX
08MEXICO3102	CUBAN-MEXICAN MOU ON MIGRATION: GOOD NEWS, BAD [...] (C) Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque will sign an MOU with Mexico today that could have Cuba taking back significantly greater numbers of the illegal Cubans detained en route to the U.S. each year by Mexican immigration authorities. He will also extend an invitation to President Cald [...]	2008-10-20 17:22:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF KMIG KCRM CU MX
08MEXICO3210	MEXICAN CONGRESS APPROVES TEPID ENERGY REFORM PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following seven months of often acrimonious debate, the Mexican Congress on October 28 approved a modest energy reform package - focused almost exclusively on oil - which will give greater financial autonomy and more decision making power to the state owned oil company Pemex. [...]	2008-10-29 23:24:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON PGOV MX
08MEXICO3743	MEXICO: TAKING STOCK OF LEGISLATIVE SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Congress' work this session fell short of its 75 point security pact promises, but the legislation that did pass represents important steps forward in judicial and security reform and restructuring. The path to approving the legislation was not without some debate and concessio [...]	2008-12-18 23:06:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO3800	MEXICO'S PRD MODERATES CLOSE RANKS AT EXPENSE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The new moderate leadership of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD),on the heels of its victory in the internal elections (reftel),closed ranks in recent weeks at the expense of small parties and former party standard bearer Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). At its las [...]	2008-12-30 13:41:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR MX
08MEXICO543	MEXICO CITY'S RESPONSE TO INQUIRY ON FISCAL [...] (U) This cable is Mexico City's response to reftel regarding fiscal tranparency in countries receiving USG assistance monies. 2. (SBU) Mexico has made strides in improving the transparency of its federal budget in recent years, but significant shortcomings remain. Mexico publishes its fed [...]	2008-02-25 21:49:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV MX
08MINSK132	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - February 22, 2008 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Small Businessmen Fined and Jailed (para. 2) - Opposition Youth Expelled From University (para. 3) - Malady Front Activists Briefly Detained (para. 4) - Opposition Fac [...]	2008-02-22 12:26:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
08MINSK139	IRINA KOZULINA DIES, FUNERAL AWAITS HUSBAND'S [...] (C) Irina Kozulina, wife of political prisoner and former presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, died February 23 from breast cancer. Kozulin's daughters have officially requested his release to participate in the funeral, tentatively scheduled for February 26. The family reportedly will [...]	2008-02-25 10:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR BO
08MINSK143	KOZULIN URGES CONTINUED PRESSURE ON REGIME [...] (C) Political prisoner Aleksandr Kozulin was released on a three-day furlough February 26 to attend his wife's funeral. Kozulin met Ambassador just hours after his release and expressed his thanks to her and the people of the United States for their efforts on his behalf. Kozulin said that h [...]	2008-02-27 14:37:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR BO
08MINSK165	UNSCR 1803/IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BELARUS [...] (C) DCM delivered a copy of UNSCR 1803 (with annexes) along with reftel points March 7 to Andrey Rzheusskiy and Ilona Yurevich, Counselors of the MFA's North America Department. 2. (C) While Rzheusskiy offered no substantive comment on the resolution, he did raise a February 29 interview [...]	2008-03-07 16:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PARM MNUC KNNP IR BO
08MINSK168	REGIME REPEATS "SUGGESTION" THAT AMBASSADOR [...] (C) DCM was summoned Saturday March 8 to meet with MFA Americas Department Director Vadim Lazerko and North America Head Sergey Sergeyev. Lazerko provided a diplomatic note (e-mailed to EUR/UMB) which repeated the key points made verbally by Deputy Foreign Minister Gaysyonok March 7 (ref A),[...]	2008-03-10 15:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ODIP OFDP BO
08MINSK174	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TEMPORARY DEPARTURE WITH [...] (C) Ambassador met March 12 with leaders of the Belarusian opposition to inform them of her impending departure for consultations in Washington. She reassured them that U.S. policy would remain firm: the release of all political prisoners is a precondition for any bilateral dialogue on impro [...]	2008-03-13 08:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BO
08MINSK184	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - March 14, 2008 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Grodno Activists Campaign for "European Belarus" (para. 2) - Protestant Pastor Fined (para. 3) - Former Prisoner to Monitor Judicial Abuses (para. 4) - Independent Jou [...]	2008-03-14 12:16:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
08MINSK190	KEEPING EMBASSY MINSK IN OPERATION: POST'S CURRENT [...] (U) This message has been reviewed by the full country team and cleared by section chiefs and agency heads (Charge, A/DCM, CONS, PAO, A/POL/ECON, MGT, RSO, DATT, RAO, AID) and is submitted in advance of the interagency meeting to discuss the subject issue at 10:00 local time in Washington on M [...]	2008-03-17 09:56:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL AMGT ASEC ODIP APER CMGT BO
08MINSK191	MFA DEMANDS EMBASSY MINSK CUT STAFF TO 17 [...] (C) MFA America's Department Director Vadim Lazerko called in Charge March 17 to repeat the Ministry's request that the Embassy cut its staff to seventeen, the number of diplomats and staff at Belarus' Embassy in Washington and New York Consulate General. Lazerko said the Embassy had until 3 [...]	2008-03-17 17:08:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ODIP AMGT CMGT PINR BO
08MINSK199	CHARGE DEMARCHES MFA ON STAFFING DEMANDS, CONSULAR [...] (C) Charge delivered ref A points March 20 to MFA A/S- equivalent Americas Department Director Vadim Lazerko. Noting that the USG is considering its response to the GOB's request to for the U.S. Embassy in Minsk to reduce its staff, Charge challenged the request as being inconsistent with the [...]	2008-03-20 17:42:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ODIP CASC OFDP PHUM AMGT BO
08MINSK203	REGIME DEMAND FOR STAFF REDUCTION: FRENCH DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Charge met March 21 with French Ambassador Mireille Musso, currently representing the Slovenian EU Presidency in Minsk, to discuss her March 19 demarche to Foreign Minister Sergey Martynov on the continued demand of the Belarusian regime (ref A) for the U.S. Embassy to significantly redu [...]	2008-03-21 14:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ODIP AMGT BO
08MINSK208	CHARGE DELIVERS RESPONSE ON STAFF CUTS TO MFA [...] (C) Charge delivered ref A points and the ref B list of 17 U.S. diplomatic staff to remain in Belarus to MFA A/S-equivalent Americas Department Director Amb. Vadim Lazerko March 24. Charge noted that the USG's decision to accede to Belarusian demands to cut staff was made reluctantly and he [...]	2008-03-25 07:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ODIP CASC OFDP PHUM AMGT CMGT BO
08MINSK23	2008 Investment Climate Statement for Belarus [...] Per reftel, the follow is the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for Belarus: Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ The government of Belarus officially welcomes foreign investment, which is seen as a source of new production technologies, jobs and hard currency. T [...]	2008-01-15 15:04:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KTDB OPIC USTR BO
08MINSK236	BELARUS DEMANDS EMBASSY CUT STAFF TO FIVE [...] (C) As expected (refs A, B),Belarusian A/S-equivalent MFA Americas Department Director Vadim Lazerko presented Charge with a diplomatic note announcing that Belarus would reduce its diplomatic presence in Washington and New York to six (Ambassador plus five),and demanding that the U.S. redu [...]	2008-03-31 17:56:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT BO CMGT OFDP PGOV PINR PREL
08MINSK3	LUKASHENKO NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS - 2007 A BAD YEAR, [...] (SBU) Lukashenko's 2007 New Year's Eve address -- by far his most widely viewed speech each year -- stressed his perennial themes of security and economic development despite threats from abroad. In contrast with last year, however, Lukashenko presented threats to Belarus as originating almos [...]	2008-01-02 15:12:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BO
08MINSK61	AMBASSADOR BRIEFS OPPOSITION ON RELEASE OF [...] (SBU) Participants: Belarusian Opposition --------------------- --Yuriy Gubarevich, Deputy Chair, For Freedom Movement (FF) --Sergey Kalyakin, Chair, Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC) --Viktor Korniyenko, Deputy Chair, For Freedom Movement (FF) --Anatoliy Lebedko, Chair, United Civic [...]	2008-01-29 16:42:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO BO
08MONROVIA154	LIBERIA: PESTS and AGOA: SPS STRUCTURE ESSENTIAL FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOL is counting on agricultural exports, including timber projects, to jump-start the economic recovery. In meetings with GOL officials, USDA and APHIS regional representatives made it clear that an effective and internationally recognized sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) s [...]	2008-02-28 10:24:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ECON ETRD LI
08MONROVIA252	LIBERIA: INITIAL TIMBER CONTRACTS MARK MILESTONE BUT RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Liberia has marked another step towards the resumption of legal commercial logging by awarding new timber concessions for the first time since United Nations timber sanctions were imposed in 2003. The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) held a bid opening ceremony February 29 t [...]	2008-04-02 14:12:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PGOV EINV SENV LI
08MONROVIA32	LIBERIA: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] SUMMARY: There is growing investor interest in Liberia, particularly in agriculture, construction, the extractive industries and tourism. UN sanctions on timber exports were lifted in 2006 and on diamonds in early 2007 as Liberia became compliant with the Kimberly Process. The removal of san [...]	2008-01-14 13:02:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTBD OPIC USTR PGOV LI
08MONROVIA325	LIBERIA: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Over 60% of Liberians are estimated to live below the poverty line and price increases hit hard. Liberia is heavily reliant on imported food, of which rice is the most important. Imported rice supplies over half of domestic consumption and prices at the retail level are up as [...]	2008-05-01 11:01:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL ECON LI
08MONROVIA772	LIBERIA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW 2009 [...] (U) COUNTRY BACKGROUND SUMMARY: Liberia has a government that was democratically elected in multi-party elections in October/November 2005. The government has moved to exert its authority throughout the country but security still depends on the 12,000-strong UNMIL deployment. The first 2,000 [...]	2008-10-06 08:00:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD LI
08MONROVIA793	SCENESETTER FOR LIBERIA FOREST INITIATIVE RETREAT [...] SUMMARY: In the next few months, the GOL intends to award the last timber concessions on some of the largest tracts of the nation's forests for a generation. The revenue and employment these long-term timber concessions will provide is urgently needed. Regrettably, resumption of commercial ti [...]	2008-10-10 11:09:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PGOV EINV EAID SENV LI
08MONTEVIDEO587	SCENESETTER FOR TRIP TO URUGUAY OF DASD STEPHEN JOHNSON AND [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. SUMMARY - - - - 2. (SBU) Your visit comes at a time of strong and growing engagement between the U.S. and Uruguay's left-leaning Frente Amplio (FA) coalition government. Our areas of focus include trade, [...]	2008-10-23 09:28:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL ECON UY
08MONTEVIDEO709	EDUCATION REFORM LEGISLATION DIVIDES FRENTE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The governing Frente Amplio party (FA; "Broad Front") proposed legislation to restructure Uruguay's public education system at all levels, seeking to fulfill its campaign promise to modernize the system and make it more accountable. The bill was approved in the Chamber of Deputi [...]	2008-12-19 17:50:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI ELAB UY
08MOSCOW1001	MFA COOL TO OUR CONCERNS ABOUT GAZPROM INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) On April 10, per ref A, we raised USG concerns about potential Gazprom investment in Iran's petroleum sector to MFA Iran Desk Director Maxim Baranov. We noted that such investment runs counter to the international effort to bring Iran into compliance with UNSC resolutions and that it cou [...]	2008-04-11 13:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL ETTC IR RS
08MOSCOW1003	DEMARCHE ON SUPPORTING PRST ON BURMA DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-11 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PHUM BM
08MOSCOW1005	GOR AT A LOSS AT GEORGIA'S REACTION TO THE JUSTICE [...] (C) MFA Fourth CIS Deputy Director Aleksey Pavlovskiy told us April 11 that the GOR was surprised at the GOG's "hysterical reaction" to the Russian Justice Ministry's letter to the GOG regarding the 35 Russian citizens detained in Abkhazia. According to Pavlovskiy, faced with a concrete case [...]	2008-04-11 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1033	RUSSIAN DFM DENISOV ON GEORGIA-ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 15 meeting with First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Denisov, the Ambassador expressed strong concern over Russian actions towards Abkhazia and South Ossetia, including reports of the opening of "offices" in the two territories. Denisov said Russia did not seek a re [...]	2008-04-15 15:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1055	PUTIN'S "INSTRUCTIONS" ON ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. Russia's new move on Abkhazia and South Ossetia was announced on April 16, not as a presidential decree but as instructions by Putin to the Russian government to protect the rights of residents of the two republics (including Russian passport holders) and to establish economic a [...]	2008-04-16 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1073	RUSSIA UNMOVED BY CONCERNS OVER PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In April 18 conversations with First Deputy Foreign Minister Denisov and Presidential Foreign Policy Adviser Prikhodko, the Ambassador conveyed reftel concerns and urged Russia to repeal its Presidential Instructions and engage directly with Georgia to reduce tensions. Denisov p [...]	2008-04-18 10:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1161	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: A [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, A Level Aerosystems, Izhevsk, Russia. The company is liste [...]	2008-04-25 11:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW1285	RUSSIA CONTINUES TO OVERPLAY HAND WITH GEORGIA: [...] (C) Summary: In the May 6 wake of FM Lavrov's "extreme concern" over Georgian military intentions, Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin warned the Ambassador that Saakashvili was unstable; while Russia did not seek conflict, if Georgia was intent on provoking hostilities, Russia would respond. R [...]	2008-05-07 15:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR RS
08MOSCOW1298	RUSSIA'S CALCULUS ON ABKHAZIA AND HOW TO CHANGE IT [...] (C) Summary: Abkhaz saber rattling, Tbilisi's war rhetoric, and the reinforcement of Georgia's lingering separatist problems - these are the hallmarks of Russia's policy of keeping Saakashvili's government off-balance and undermining European confidence that Georgia can be a reliable partner [...]	2008-05-08 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR RS
08MOSCOW1335	RUSSIA REACTS TO DAS BRYZA'S STATEMENTS [...] (C) Russian officials continue to respond sharply to public statements by DAS Bryza in Tbilisi and Sukhumi on responsibility for the increased tensions between Georgia and Abkhazia. On May 13, MFA Fourth CIS Department Deputy Director Dmitriy Tarabrin told us that the GOR was "surprised" th [...]	2008-05-13 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1404	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: "ZERO RESULT" YAKOBASHVILI VISIT, [...] (C) Summary: Russian officials told us that Georgian Reintegration Minister Yakobashvili's May 16-17 trip to Moscow yielded nothing "positive or substantive." Although DFM Karasin and other GOR officials discussed with Yakobashvili the key issues related to the separatist conflicts, the MFA [...]	2008-05-20 03:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1406	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: "ZERO RESULT" YAKOBASHVILI VISIT, [...] (C) Summary: Russian officials told us that Georgian Reintegration Minister Yakobashvili's May 16-17 trip to Moscow yielded nothing "positive or substantive." Although DFM Karasin and other GOR officials discussed with Yakobashvili the key issues related to the separatist conflicts, the MFA [...]	2008-05-20 03:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1407	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: "ZERO RESULT" YAKOBASHVILI VISIT, [...] (C) Summary: Russian officials told us that Georgian Reintegration Minister Yakobashvili's May 16-17 trip to Moscow yielded nothing "positive or substantive." Although DFM Karasin and other GOR officials discussed with Yakobashvili the key issues related to the separatist conflicts, the MFA [...]	2008-05-20 03:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1408	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: "ZERO RESULT" YAKOBASHVILI VISIT, [...] (C) Summary: Russian officials told us that Georgian Reintegration Minister Yakobashvili's May 16-17 trip to Moscow yielded nothing "positive or substantive." Although DFM Karasin and other GOR officials discussed with Yakobashvili the key issues related to the separatist conflicts, the MFA [...]	2008-05-20 03:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1444	RUSSIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-22 13:55:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KTFN EFIN PTER PINR RS
08MOSCOW1503	INSIDE THE FEDERAL SERVICE FOR MILITARY-TECHNICAL [...] (C) Summary: On May 22, officials from the Federal Service For Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) explained how their organization coordinates Russian military-technical cooperation with over 20 GOR entities and works with 84 countries. The FSVTS manages RosOboronExport (ROE),issues expor [...]	2008-05-28 13:56:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL RS MASS
08MOSCOW1533	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUDAN - SEEK SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-30 13:16:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU RS
08MOSCOW1599	PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV'S VISIT TO CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary. President Medvedev's visit to China on May 23-24 is seen as confirmation of Russia's desire to project a new foreign policy focus towards other major partners, such as China. At the same time, Putin's visit to Paris (septel) and Medvedev's upcoming trip to Berlin ensure that Russ [...]	2008-06-05 11:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PGOV PINS PREL PROP
08MOSCOW1647	SCENESETTER FOR COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-10 11:20:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR MARR ECON RS
08MOSCOW1673	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUDAN/CHAD - URGE SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-11 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU RS
08MOSCOW1679	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUDAN/CHAD - URGE SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-11 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU RS
08MOSCOW1688	REP. ROHRABACHER MEETS WITH ROSATOM'S KIRIYENKO [...] (SBU) Rosatom Director General Sergey Kiriyenko welcomed Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's strong support for the U.S.-Russia 123 Agreement during a June 3 meeting at Rosatom. Congressman Rohrabacher highlighted the potential for bilateral collaboration in the development of a high temperature g [...]	2008-06-13 12:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP OREP PREL RS
08MOSCOW1709	TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-16 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BA EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER QA UNSC KTFN
08MOSCOW1710	GOR TO SUPPORT DESIGNATION OF FOUR LET OPERATIVES [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-16 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN UNSC
08MOSCOW1772	U/S BURNS'S MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Summary. Prior to the CTWG Core Group consultations, on June 19, U/S Burns met with Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin and covered Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova and Nagorno-Karabakh. Karasin described to U/S Burns Russia's reaction to the increasing distance between Russia and Ukraine [...]	2008-06-20 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON GG UP MD RS
08MOSCOW1774	SECURITY COUNCIL'S NAZAROV HOLDS FIRM ON IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: In a June 19 meeting with NSC Senior Director for Russia Mary Warlick, EUR/DAS David Merkel and EUR/RUS Office Director Ian Kelly, Russian Federation Security Council Deputy Secretary Vladimir Nazarov repeated the now well worn list of grievances against U.S. policy on Iran and [...]	2008-06-20 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR GG IR RS
08MOSCOW1775	INSIDER VIEWS OF TNK-BP DISPUTE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-20 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW1776	PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT TAKES TOUGH LINE ON TNK-BP [...] (C) In a June 18 meeting Presidential Assistant and G8 Sherpa Arkady Dvorkovich told NSC Senior Russia Director Warlick, EUR/DAS Merkel and EUR/RUS Director Kelly that both sides in the TNK-BP dispute were at fault and that the GOR would not intervene. He agreed that a negotiated outcome that [...]	2008-06-20 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV PREL RS EINV
08MOSCOW1777	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Technological Institute of Applied Microelectronics, Novoi [...]	2008-06-20 15:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW184	RUSSIA INTERESTED IN LIBYA'S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Lavrov's recent visit to Libya is part of a concerted GOR effort to improve relations with Tripoli and win contracts as Libya develops economically. The GOR is particularly interested in Libyan hydrocarbon resources, infrastructure projects, and possible constru [...]	2008-01-25 13:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON LY RS
08MOSCOW1865	SIXTEENTH SESSION OF U.S-RUSSIA WORKING GROUP ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-02 10:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF IZ RS
08MOSCOW1875	SIXTEENTH SESSION OF U.S-RUSSIA WORKING GROUP ON [...] (C) Summary. The Sixteenth Session of the U.S. - Russia Working Group on Counterterrorism (CTWG) met in Moscow on June 19-20. U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs William Burns and Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak, co-Chairs of the CTWG, led the interagency delegations (delegatio [...]	2008-07-03 08:00:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF IZ RS
08MOSCOW192	RUSSIA-GEORGIA RELATIONS: A SMALL THAW? [...] (C) Summary. Amid abundant press coverage of FM Lavrov's attendance at Saakashvili's January 20 inauguration in Tbilisi, the MFA January 21 issued a terse statement reporting that Lavrov had met with the Georgian president, opposition leaders and the Catholic Patriarch during his visit. GOR [...]	2008-01-25 16:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1928	RUSSIAN POSITIONS ON ZIMBABWE, KOSOVO, BURMA AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC BM KV ZI RS
08MOSCOW1965	RUSSIA REQUESTS DELAY IN VOTE ON UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA International Organizations Director Gennadiy Gatilov and Counselor Vitaliy Liplinskiy July 9. They expressed concern at the information that the U.S. intended to seek a vote on the resolution on July 9, noting that Russian UN Ambassador Churkin had re [...]	2008-07-09 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ZI RS
08MOSCOW1975	RUSSIA THREATENS TECHNICAL VETO ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) MFA Director for International Organizations Gennadiy Gatilov told us July 10 that Russia would most likely use a technical veto citing lack of instructions if the U.S. called for a vote on the Zimbabwe resolution today. He reiterated the GOR's request to delay the vote until tomorrow, so a [...]	2008-07-10 12:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ZI RS
08MOSCOW1996	RUSSIA WILL VETO UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) Summary. MFA Director of International Organizations Gennadiy Gatilov (the senior-most available officer in the MFA),told us July 11 that if the current U.S. draft UN Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe were put to a vote "with the current language," Russia would veto. When asked if [...]	2008-07-11 14:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ZI RS
08MOSCOW2033	MOSCOW VIEWS ON KOREA [...] (C) Summary. The GOR expressed satisfaction with the latest round of Six-Party meetings, with chief negotiator Aleksey Borodavkin confirming Russia's continued commitment to its Six-Party obligations. Most analysts thought that the success of the process depended on the U.S., the only Six-Pa [...]	2008-07-16 18:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KN KS JA RS
08MOSCOW2118	MEDVEDEV DENIES RENEGING ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary. President Medvedev vehemently denied July 22 that he committed to agree on UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions on Zimbabwe at the G8 meeting in Japan. While acknowledging concerns about the situation in Zimbabwe, Medvedev maintained that he had insisted that all mention of the [...]	2008-07-23 15:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC ZI RS
08MOSCOW2179	RUSSIA: NO CONTRACT YET ON ZIMBABWEAN BANK NOTES [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche July 28 to MFA Zimbabwe desk Andrei Stolyarov. He said that at this time he was not aware of any request by the GOZ to obtain bank note paper from the Russian State Mint, and would take into account US concerns if the GOZ did approach Russia on this issue. He [...]	2008-07-29 11:07:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PGOV SADC ASEC EFIN ECON ZI RS
08MOSCOW2414	TFGG01: RUSSIA DEFIANT [...] (C) Summary. Russian officials August 13 and 14 continued a defiant line, with Medvedev insisting that Russia would support an international agreement that recognized the rights of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. FM Lavrov questioned Georgia's territorial integrity and said Washington would need to cho [...]	2008-08-14 15:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR GG RS
08MOSCOW2497	TFGG01: Russian media focuses on American hostility toward [...] (SBU) Summary: In the week since the signing of the six-point agreement, the Russian media concentrated largely on the conflict's aftermath, U.S. antagonism towards Russia, the division in Europe over how to deal with Moscow, and continued Western media bias. Outrageous characterizations of Sa [...]	2008-08-21 11:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PBTS PINR PINS PNAT PREL GG RS
08MOSCOW2602	PRESSURING RUSSIA ECONOMICALLY: DIFFICULT CHOICES [...] (C) As Washington contemplates next steps toward Russia in the aftermath of the conflict with Georgia, including possible economic punishment, the Mission would like to share its perspective. First, the U.S.-Russia economic relationship has been growing fast in recent years and was showing g [...]	2008-08-29 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL RS
08MOSCOW2615	AFTER THE WAR WITH GEORGIA: RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC [...] (C) That Russia is "back," at least economically, has been an insistent theme of the Kremlin the last few years. Russia's economic recovery from the depths of its financial crash in 1998 is indeed impressive. High growth, burgeoning international reserves, and rising living standards were the resul [...]	2008-09-02 11:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV ETRD EINV RS
08MOSCOW2670	RUSSIA POCKETS EU COUNCIL STATEMENT ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Russian officials and observers pocketed the September 1 EU statement as a mild rebuke for Russian aggression in Georgia, with Putin and Medvedev praising Europe's "reasonable approach." While Sarkozy reportedly delivered tough messages to Medvedev on September 3, EU commission [...]	2008-09-05 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV XG GG RS
08MOSCOW2701	NEW SARKOZY-MEDVEDEV AGREEMENT: QUESTIONS REMAIN [...] (S/NF) Summary: While achieving some key concessions from Russia on next steps in the Georgia conflict, the Sarkozy-Medvedev agreement from September 8 still leaves open questions about the nature and size of Russian troops, role of EU observers, and the format of October security talks. After [...]	2008-09-09 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW2790	IEEPA SANCTIONS: POSSIBLE RUSSIAN RESPONSES [...] (C) At a meeting with Russian businessmen September 15, President Medvedev said any Western sanctions would be met with a "symmetrical" response. U.S. sanctions, even targeted IEEPA sanctions, are likely to be met with Russian counter-measures. There are indications, here at least, that the [...]	2008-09-16 15:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW2808	RUSSIA-CHINA STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PAYING REAL [...] (C) Summary. The Russian government continues to claim publicly a diplomatic victory over what it declares as tacit Chinese support on Georgia despite Beijing's traditional emphasis on national sovereignty and territorial integrity. This is the latest example of successful coordination betwe [...]	2008-09-18 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD RS CH GG
08MOSCOW2837	RABBIS SHAYEVICH AND GOLDSCHMIDT CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met separately with xxxxx during the week of September 15. xxxxx probed for potential U.S. sanctions against investors in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and flagged concern over Iran's nuclear program. Both xxxxx agreed that manifestations of anti-Semitism in Russia had fal [...]	2008-09-22 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
08MOSCOW2843	RUSSIA FIGHTS BACK AGAINST ISOLATION [...] (C) Summary. While reactions to the Secretary's September 18 speech have been fairly muted, with the exception of the customary harangue from the MFA, the Russian leadership is at pains to show that Russia is not isolated following the events in Georgia. Moscow is seeking to push back on clai [...]	2008-09-23 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO GG UP XH RS
08MOSCOW2905	MFA: UNSC RESOLUTION DEMONSTRATED UNITY ON IRAN [...] (C) MFA Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs Iran specialist Alexander Trofimov told us on September 30 that the passage of UNSCR 1835 demonstrated P5 1 unity on Iran and should dispel fears that tension over Georgia has diminished the ability of the U.S. and Russia to cooperate on [...]	2008-10-01 11:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR UNSC IAEA IR RS
08MOSCOW3059	HFAC CHAIRMAN BERMAN MEETS FM LAVROV: U.S., IRAN, [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 14 meeting with HFAC Chairman Berman and the Ambassador, FM Lavrov argued against holding U.S.-Russian relations hostage to ideology and politics, reaffirming the Sochi Declaration commitments. He pushed hard for continued diplomacy with Iran, criticizing unila [...]	2008-10-16 07:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KNDP PTER OREP RS GG IZ IR
08MOSCOW3064	RUSSIAN ANALYSTS URGE U.S. NOT TO LET GEORGIA [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 13 roundtable attended by HFAC Chairman Howard Berman and HFAC staff, analysts argued that Russians perceived NATO expansion as more of a threat than a nuclear Iran, which was not viewed by the political leadership as a "vital issue" for Russia. They warned a [...]	2008-10-16 10:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OREP IR IS RS
08MOSCOW3078	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NOTIFICATION OF SANCTIONS [...] (S) In the absence of MFA North America Director Igor Neverov, we conveyed ref A demarche to MFA North America Deputy Director Oleg Burmistrov on October 17. Burmistrov offered little substantive comment, except to acknowledge our previous demarches on the issue stretching back to November 2 [...]	2008-10-17 12:09:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3127	HFAC CHAIRMAN BERMAN MEETS DUMA IRC CHAIRMAN KOSACHEV: [...] (SBU) Summary: Duma International Relations Committee Chair Kosachev told House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Berman October 14 that the difficult state of U.S.-Russian relations was due to Russia's "disappointment" over European security structures following the end of the Cold War. He [...]	2008-10-23 13:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KNDP NATO MARR PARM OREP GG IR RS
08MOSCOW3153	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DFM RYABKOV: POST-START, [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the Ambassador October 24 the GOR had begun studying the post-START Treaty text delivered that morning. But the need to translate the text and the fact that Russia had not received the missile defense (MD) documents meant November 6 wo [...]	2008-10-27 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP MARR IR RS
08MOSCOW3219	DFM SALTANOV ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, LIBYA, [...] (C) Summary. During an October 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov provided a positive assessment of the Egyptian-brokered Palestinian talks and indicated GOR hopes for concrete progress at the November 9 meeting between the factions in Cairo. Calling [...]	2008-11-03 04:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS IS LY SO
08MOSCOW3220	STRONG CRITICISM FOR U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. Russian officials have denounced the U.S. decision to renew sanctions against Rosoboronexport (ROE) and its subsidiaries under the terms of the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act (reftel). Arguing that ROE's activity with Iran was fully compliant with international [...]	2008-11-03 04:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3271	RUSSIA LOSES NO MATTER HOW THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: Russia will lose no matter how the Iranian nuclear controversy is resolved, according to analysts who argue that Russia faces either the prospect of a nuclear Iran causing instability in the Middle East, or a negotiated settlement that will lead Iran to "drop" Russia in favor of [...]	2008-11-10 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG MARR MNUC IR RS
08MOSCOW3352	UNDERSECRETARY BURNS' LUNCH WITH DFM RYABKOV: [...] (S) Summary. DFM Ryabkov November 12 reiterated FM Lavrov's message to U/S Burns and the Ambassador that Russia saw the Sochi Strategic Declaration as the basis for future U.S.-Russian relations, and Medvedev's state of the union address had not been intended as a deliberate slap at President [...]	2008-11-19 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR KNNP KACT MNUC EFIN AF GG AM
08MOSCOW3372	MFA ON AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AF IR PK RS

08MOSCOW3476	KEEPING A WARY EYE ON THE STREETS: THE CRISIS [...] (C) Government statements and measures to contain the effects of the economic crisis are beginning to reflect official concern that a prolonged economic downturn could lead to social unrest as was the case in 1998. Senior analysts at two of Russia's leading research institutes claim that a sh [...]	2008-12-03 06:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ELAB SOCI RS
08MOSCOW353	DFM KARASIN ON UKRAINE, GEORGIA, TRANSNISTRIA, [...] (C) Summary. In a February 8 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Karasin strongly cautioned against the Ukrainian government's push for NATO membership, underlining that a decision by the Alliance would be met with counter measures that would test our strategic relationship. Karasin urged the [...]	2008-02-08 16:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG UP MD AM BO RS
08MOSCOW3572	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ARVEKA UAB, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Arveka UAB, L. Stuokos Guceviciaus 9-6, Vilnius, Lithuania. [...]	2008-12-10 08:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3708	SENATOR LUGAR: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR U.S. RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Lugar heard a mixed, but mostly positive, message on Russian receptivity towards rebuilding U.S.-Russian relations, with a range of officials and respected observers calling for a return to the official diplomatic architecture that once governed bilateral dialogue. Th [...]	2008-12-22 06:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EFIN MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS IR AF
08MOSCOW3728	DFM Ryabkov meets Codel Tauscher: Iran, Missile Defense, [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting the Codel Tauscher delegation on December 16, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed that Russia wanted improved relations with the U.S., even as he acknowledged the "negative mindset" of the Russian public and the damage that issues like NATO enlargement had p [...]	2008-12-23 12:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3775	Medvedev's Anti-Corruption Package: Two Views [...] (SBU) Summary: Transparency International Director Yelena Panfilova praised President Medvedev's anti-corruption bill that was signed into law on December 25 as an "extremely valuable" first step, while recognizing the deep flaws in its content and how it was promulgated. Arguing that waiti [...]	2008-12-31 11:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR SOCI EAID RS
08MOSCOW3778	KOSACHEV MEETS CODEL TAUSCHER: MORE DIALOGUE NEEDED [...] (SBU) Summary: Duma International Relations Committee Chair Konstantin Kosachev told CODEL Tauscher on December 16 that parliamentary dialogue between the U.S. and Russia needed to be revitalized. He suggested that the Duma International Relations and Defense Committees should meet with the H [...]	2008-12-31 12:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW392	RUSSIA ON UNSC DISCUSSIONS ON CHAD, KENYA, [...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us that it would send four helicopters and 200 personnel to Chad, and was concerned over growing tensions on the Ethiopia/Eritrea border, but would take a "wait and see" approach to further UNSC involvement in conflicts in Kenya. The GOR believed that international [...]	2008-02-13 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ZF XW RS
08MOSCOW396	INSIDE ROSOBORONEXPORT [...] (C) Summary: On February 7, officials at RosoboronExport (ROE),the Russian government's monopoly arms exporter, made it clear how little control the company has over decisions regarding Russia's military sales. Most of the decisions affecting the company, including what products and to which [...]	2008-02-14 07:16:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	EIND ETRD PGOV PREL RS MASS
08MOSCOW445	KOSOVO: RUSSIA REACTS PREDICTABLY, STOPS SHORT OF [...] (C) Summary: Russia responded quickly and negatively to Kosovo's declaration of independence, with the Kremlin and MFA labeling it illegal, illegitimate, and destabilizing. While the joint Duma/Federation Council statement is not expected until later today, both chairs of the international [...]	2008-02-18 14:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS KV
08MOSCOW561	CIS INFORMAL SUMMIT: MEDVEDEV AND KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary. The uncertainty of Kosovo and the lure of meeting heir apparent Dmitriy Medvedev brought all 12 CIS leaders to Moscow for the February 21-22 CIS Informal Summit. While the MFA pitched a new seriousness in its approach to the CIS, Putin used the summit to introduce Medvedev and [...]	2008-02-29 07:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS
08MOSCOW591	RUSSIAN COMMENTS ON USG VIEWS ON IAEA REPORT AND [...] (S) On February 27 we delivered reftel non-paper (Ref B) regarding U.S. views of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessments of Iran's activities to Alexander Trifimov of the MFA Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs. 2. (S) Trifimov contended that Iran had been relati [...]	2008-03-03 07:57:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA UNGA PREL IR RS
08MOSCOW617	UNMEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-05 04:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO
08MOSCOW655	GOR PULLOUT FROM CIS SANCTIONS AGAINST ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary: In a March 6 statement, the MFA announced that the GOR would no longer honor the CIS sanctions against Abkhazia. The statement justified the move by detailing the changed situation in Abkhazia since signing of the sanctions agreement in 1996. Consequently, the sanctions regime [...]	2008-03-07 12:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW701	GOR DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN ABKHAZIA MILITARY [...] (C) All MFA Georgia handlers expressed surprise at the GOG's allegation that the GOR was providing military assistance to Abkhazia (ref B). MFA CIS Fourth Department Deputy Director Aleksey Pavlovskiy told us March 12 that he was hearing such news for the first time from us. Pavlovskiy went [...]	2008-03-13 12:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW725	DFM KARASIN ON NATO MAP, BELARUS, GEORGIA, [...] Summary: In a March 14 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Karasin went to great lengths to emphasize the "disastrous consequences" of a NATO MAP offer for Georgia and Ukraine in Bucharest, warning (somewhat theatrically) that the U.S. and NATO had to choose between "peace and stability and anoth [...]	2008-03-15 09:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW74	RUSSIA REPORT FOR FINANCIAL CRIMES PORTION OF 2007-2008 [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. The tracked changes version of this report will be sent to individuals specified in reftel. Post's point of contact for this report is Economic Officer Clayton Hays (hayscp@state.gov). 2. (SBU) Russia's financial system does not attract a s [...]	2008-01-14 12:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR RS
08MOSCOW744	LAVROV LINKS TIBET UNREST TO KOSOVO [...] Foreign Minister Lavrov linked the recent unrest in Tibet to Kosovo, telling the press that the violence in Lhasa had not occurred "by chance." In an interview published March 18 in Rossiskaya Gazeta, Lavrov used Tibet to demonstrate how Kosovo's independence had "already reverberated" among [...]	2008-03-18 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL CH RS
08MOSCOW748	ACTING U/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Summary: In a lively and wide-ranging March 17 meeting with Acting U/S Fried, DFM Karasin underscored the depth of Russian opposition to the "explosive Kosovo precedent" and NATO MAP for Ukraine and Georgia. Karasin claimed that public opinion in Russia toward the U.S. had sharpened and [...]	2008-03-18 16:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW759	ACTING U/S FRIED'S MARCH 17 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary. Meeting on the margins of the 2 2 in Moscow March 17, Acting Undersecretary for Political Affairs Daniel Fried and Russian Director for Security and Disarmament Anatoliy Antonov led delegations in a long discussion of outstanding issues on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) [...]	2008-03-19 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCFE NATO MARR RS
08MOSCOW817	MOSCOW UNDERSTANDS IRANIAN AMBITIONS, SAY RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a recent round of meetings, prominent Russian analysts argued that Russia's long history of dealing with Iran and its willing understanding of Iran's ambitions to be a great power in the Middle East and wider Islamic world are two important factors in appreciating the GOR appr [...]	2008-03-25 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ETRD IR RS
08MOSCOW859	RUSSIAN DEPUTY SECURITY COUNCIL NAZAROV ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 meeting with SFRC Staff Member Puneet Talwar and DCM, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Nazarov praised P5 1 unity on Iran, but argued that SIPDIS a lack of a roadmap, the failure to lay out positive inducements for Iranian action, over-reliance on sanct [...]	2008-03-28 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNDP RS IR
08MOSCOW883	GOR REACTION TO LUKASHENKO: U.S. REDUCTION "UNWISE" [...] (C) MFA Second CIS Department Director Viktor Sorokin told us March 31 that the GOB did not consult with the GOR about its move and PM Zubkov, during his March 21 visit to Minsk, was briefed on the developments after the fact and was "asked to understand" the GOB's action. Sorokin maintained [...]	2008-03-31 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
08MOSCOW957	RUSSIAN EXPERTS SAY U.S. MUST REMAIN IN IRAQ AND [...] (C) Prominent Russian analysts told Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq, Ambassador Satterfield, SIPDIS and Ambassador Burns, during an April 3 gathering, that preventing the fragmentation and radicalization of Iraq was a key Russian concern, and urged that direct, long- [...]	2008-04-08 07:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IZ RS
08MUNICH53	ARMS CONTROL PANEL IGNORES REAL ISSUES AT MUNICH SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 44th annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, with this year's theme "The World in Disarray - Shifting Powers - Lack of Strategies?" took place February 8-10, 2008 at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Germany (see reftels). The second panel on February 9, "From Cooper [...]	2008-02-12 09:00:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM NATO GM MARR
08MUNICH70	FRIENDS OF BELARUS MEETING ON THE MARGINS OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania organized a meeting of the Friends of Belarus on the margins of the February 8-10 Munich Security Conference. The meeting was characterized by agreement that the U.S. and EU should maintain pressure on Belarus for the release of political prisoners, and by a commitmen [...]	2008-02-14 11:55:00	Consulate Munich	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PARM PREL GM BO
08MUSCAT102	SCENESETTER FOR AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF T. [...] (C) General Moseley: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. We have asked for meetings with the Commander of the Royal Air Force of Oman and Mohammed al-Rasbi, Under Secretary for Defense Affairs (Deputy Minister equivalent). Al-Rasbi has been actively engaged in the Share [...]	2008-02-06 08:38:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
08MUSCAT121	SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM [...] (C) Admiral Fallon: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. We have asked for a meeting with Sultan Qaboos, who will appreciate hearing your perspective on events in the region. General Moseley visits the week prior to your arrival and will meet with the Commander of the Roy [...]	2008-02-10 14:28:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
08MUSCAT181	OMANI VIEWS ON LATEST IAEA BRIEFING ON IRAN [...] (S) On March 2, the Ambassador conveyed U.S. views on the IAEA Secretariat's February 25 briefing on Iran, as described reftel, to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi. The Ambassador also left reftel non-paper with the Minister. Bin Alawi listened closely, but did not ad [...]	2008-03-02 13:20:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA IR MU
08MUSCAT197	UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1803: OMANI RESPONSE [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief relayed reftel points on March 5 to Humaid al-Ma'ani, Office Director for Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. A copy of UN Security Council Resolution 1803 (including annexes) and the P5 plus 1 Ministers' Statement was delivered to th [...]	2008-03-05 14:33:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC IR MU
08MUSCAT198	SCENESETTER FOR VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Mr. Vice President: Embassy Muscat and my wife and I warmly welcome you and Mrs. Cheney back to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the Middle East -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- Oman remains a strong and trusted U.S. ally. The Sultan will be please [...]	2008-03-05 15:53:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PHUM PGOV PREL PTER KDEM KNNP KWMN MASS
08MUSCAT237	SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE SECRETARY GATES' VISIT TO [...] (C) Secretary Gates: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- the Sultanate remains a strong and trusted U.S. partner. We have requested an audience with Sultan Qaboos bin Sa [...]	2008-03-26 13:29:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PGOV PREL PTER KNNP MASS MNUC MOPS ECON
08MUSCAT273	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL SCHWARTZ'S VISIT TO OMAN [...] (C) General Schwartz: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- the Sultanate remains a strong and trusted U.S. partner. We have requested meetings with Air Vice Marshal Yahya [...]	2008-04-09 12:38:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PARM PGOV PREL PTER KNNP MASS MNUC MOPS ECON
08MUSCAT3	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE'S VISIT TO OMAN [...] (SBU) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to Oman. We look forward to your arrival on January 7 to tour the Port of Salalah and discuss international trade security in the context of our overall bilateral relationship with Oman. In order to fulfill the objectives of y [...]	2008-01-02 12:57:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PREL PTER MU
08MUSCAT36	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER REVIEWS PEACE PROCESS, IRAN [...] (SBU) In a January 8 meeting with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation, Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs praised close U.S.-Oman ties and the two countries' "strategic" relationship. He applauded President Bush's renewed push to help create a Palestinian state, but feared [...]	2008-01-14 13:55:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL IR MU
08MUSCAT361	SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALGOUE [...] (U) In preparation for the next round of the U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue in Washington, D.C., Embassy Muscat provides the following updated information on the main subject areas scheduled for discussion. The final composition of the Omani delegation for the GSD has yet to be determined, [...]	2008-05-14 11:05:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER MASS MNUC MOPS KNNP MU
08MUSCAT445	SIGNS OF POSSIBLE CHANGE IN OMAN-IRAN RELATIONSHIP [...] (S/NF) While maintaining close, cordial relations with Tehran has long been a priority for the Omani government, Oman has traditionally kept its neighbor to the north at arm's length, resulting in a relationship that is largely non-substantive. Bilateral economic ties remain limited and Oman [...]	2008-06-15 13:41:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IR MU
08MUSCAT47	OMANI FOREIGN POLICY AS REFLECTED IN THE SPEECHES [...] (C) Summary: In addition to being the longest-serving head of state in the GCC, Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id is also one of the most consistent Arab leaders with respect to his stated views on foreign policy. An examination of the relatively limited number of public speeches he has given since ta [...]	2008-01-20 13:24:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL MU
08MUSCAT556	SCENESETTER FOR VICE ADMIIRAL GORTNEY'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Vice Admiral Gortney: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region ) the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" ) the Sultanate remains a strong and trusted U.S. partner. Yet, while we enjoy close relations with Oman, we [...]	2008-08-04 04:52:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER MASS MNUC MOPS KNNP MU
08MUSCAT565	OMAN REMAINS WARY OF IRANIAN EXPANSIONISM [...] (S/NF) Minister of the Royal Office and head of the Office of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Ali bin Majid al-Ma'amari, reviewed Oman's view on Iran from a security perspective, highlighting Omani awareness of Iran's deceptive tactics and expansionist ideologic [...]	2008-08-07 07:43:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM IR MU
08MUSCAT662	OMANIS PUBLICLY CONFIRM OMAN-IRAN GAS DEAL [...] (U) A number of internet news and business sites have recently published a Reuters report dated September 11 on an Oman-Iran plan to develop Iran's off-shore Kish gas field in the Arabian Gulf. Quoting a "project official" at Oman's Ministry of Oil & Gas who "declined to be named," the Reuter [...]	2008-09-15 14:16:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV ENRG EPET IR MU
08MUSCAT728	UNDERSTANDING AND MOVING ON FROM OMAN'S HARSH [...] (C) There are likely several reasons behind Oman's hypersensitivity and reaction to its Tier 3 ranking in the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report: its unspoken past involvement in the slave trade, its strong desire to protect and shape its national image, and its devotion to the principl [...]	2008-10-16 14:19:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PREL SMIG MASS ECON ETRD ELAB MU
08MUSCAT729	SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Mr. Deputy Secretary: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region (the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" ),the Sultanate remains a trusted U.S. partner. This year marks the 175th anniversary of the U.S.-Oman "Treaty [...]	2008-10-16 14:24:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PREL PTER ECON ENRG ETRD KNNP KPAL KTIP SMIG
08MUSCAT774	DISCOURAGING OMANI GAS DEALS WITH IRAN [...] (C) The DCM delivered ref A demarche on November 5 to Mohammed al-Hassan, Political Affairs Director for the Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, Yusef bin Alawi. In particular, the DCM emphasized that a major energy deal with the regime in Tehran would undermine attempts by the P5 plus [...]	2008-11-12 12:49:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET ETTC IR MU
08MUSCAT776	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] (C) As one of our oldest friends in the region (the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic"),the Sultanate remains a trusted U.S. partner. This year marks the 175th anniversary of the U.S.-Oman "Treaty of Amity and Commerce," second oldest in the Middle East and North Africa. [...]	2008-11-12 13:47:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER MASS MNUC MOPS KNNP MU
08MUSCAT797	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS' VISIT TO OMAN [...] (C) General Petraeus: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. One of our oldest and most dependable friends in the region, Oman remains a valued ally. This year marks the 175th anniversary of the U.S.-Oman "Treaty of Amity and Commerce," second oldest in the Middle East and North [...]	2008-11-19 14:28:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PARM PREL PTER MASS MNUC MOPS KNNP IR IZ PK
08MUSCAT812	BACKGROUND ON OMAN FOR CENTCOM ASSESSMENT TEAM [...] (C) One of our oldest and most dependable friends in the region, Oman remains a valued ally. This year marks the 175th anniversary of the U.S.-Oman "Treaty of Amity and Commerce," second oldest in the Middle East and North Africa. In 2009, we will begin negotiations on renewal of our bilate [...]	2008-11-24 14:01:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PGOV PREL PTER ECON EFIN ETRD MASS MOPS
08NAIROBI1049	AMERICAN BUSINESS INTEREST IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) This cable responds to reftel request to gauge sentiment in the Kenya-based U.S. business community with regard to doing business in Southern Sudan and likely participation in a suggested USG-organized trade mission to Juba. In Kenya, the response of U.S. companies is mixed: Most are ke [...]	2008-04-21 13:53:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN BEXP ETRD EINV SU KE
08NAIROBI1223	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 60-DAY REPORT TO UN SECURITY [...] Post delivered ref demarche to Ambassador Michael Kinyanjui, Head of the International Organizations and Conferences Division at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 12. Kinyanjui stated that he would refer the matter. RANNEBERGER [...]	2008-05-12 08:32:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY UNSC
08NAIROBI1449	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR SMALL ARMS FOREIGN [...] The Government of Kenya has been a close partner for the U.S. in many areas, including in military cooperation. They have provided important support in the Global War on Terror in spite of the risk they face, and it is in our interest to help them modernize their military forces to better prov [...]	2008-06-12 14:56:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MASS PARM PREL KE XW
08NAIROBI1612	Somalia - TFG Will Co-Sponsor UNSCR Listing of al-Shabaab [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-01 14:10:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO
08NAIROBI2247	AFRICANS TO PUSH FOR ARMS TRADE TREATY [...] Representatives from 20 African governments attended a conference in Nairobi September 3-4 to discuss the need for an international arms trade treaty. While acknowledging the need for implementation of a number of existing regional agreements, participants broadly agreed that an international [...]	2008-09-23 13:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM ETRD ETTC MASS PREL KE
08NAIROBI2256	AFRICANS TO PUSH FOR ARMS TRADE TREATY [...] Representatives from 20 African governments attended a conference in Nairobi 3-4 September to discuss the need for an international arms trade treaty. While acknowledging the need for implementation of a number of existing regional agreements, participants broadly agreed that an international [...]	2008-09-25 09:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS KE
08NAIROBI238	EC AMBASSADOR MICHEL'S VISIT [...] (C) EC Commissioner Louis Michel made a one-day visit January 19 to press for a political solution to the electoral crisis. According to the French Ambassador (who is representing the EU presidency in the absence of Slovenia),Michel had consulted with Kofi Annan before visiting in order to e [...]	2008-01-22 17:14:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE FR SI
08NAIROBI240	KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS - THE ROLE OF THE [...] (U) With the election crisis taking an ever greater toll on business interests (see reftel),the business community has become increasingly engaged in lobbying for a political solution. While it is hard to determine precisely what impact this will have, the voice of the business community is [...]	2008-01-22 19:28:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2553	SOMALIA - Business and Investment Council Shares U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 26 the chairman and members of the Djibouti-based Somali Business and Investment Council (SBIC) told us that key business leaders are ready to support the peace process in Somalia and begin a new chapter in relations with the U.S. Government. The businessmen welcome [...]	2008-11-05 11:20:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID SO
08NAIROBI2807	SOMALIA - PRESIDENT CONTINUES EFFORTS TO OUST PRIME [...] (U) Continuing his effort to oust Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein "Nur Adde," on December 16 President Abdullahi Yusuf nominated Mohammed Mahmud Guled "Gamadheere" prime minister. On December 15 Yusuf tried to sack the prime minister, but was rebuffed by the parliament in the form of a stro [...]	2008-12-16 15:57:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI PINR SO
08NAIROBI2879	SOMALIA - TFG PRESIDENT RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary: Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf ended months-long stand-off with the Prime Minister and, probably, closed the final chapter on his almost forty years in Somali politics by resigning on December 29. With Yusuf's resignation, Parliament Speaker Shei [...]	2008-12-29 11:53:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR MARR SO ET
08NAIROBI999	CABINET DEAL REACHED [...] (C) Summary. Intervention by the Secretary and strong support from A/S Frazer were decisive in persuading President Kibaki and Prime Minister-designate Odinga to reach agreement on the cabinet, which was announced April 13. Kibaki and Odinga both saw the U.S. as the only party who could work [...]	2008-04-15 12:25:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAPLES38	ORGANIZED CRIME III: CONFRONTING ORGANIZED CRIME IN [...] (C) Summary: This is the third of a three-part series (see reftels A-B for parts I and II); this message offers views on how to combat organized crime in Italy. The USG has a significant stake in the fight against organized crime in Italy. The Italian crime syndicates help support terrorist groups [...]	2008-06-06 17:20:00	Consulate Naples	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM ECON SNAR KCOR IT
08NDJAMENA573	CHAD - TWO KEY ELECTION-RELATED LAWS PASSED BY [...] (SBU) The process leading up to future elections is proceeding in a typically desultory, Chadian fashion, but it is indeed proceeding. Only one of the seven draft laws sent by the Comite de Suivi to the Government is still stuck in the GOC apparatus, and it is one that the opposition does not [...]	2008-12-11 07:07:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR CD
08NEWDELHI1224	UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY ENGAGES INDIA'S SPECIAL ENVOY [...] SUMMARY: In a bilateral meeting on the margins of the Global Issues Forum held April 24, 2008 in New Delhi, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky led a delegation consisting of OES Assistant Secretary Claudia McMurray and Dr. Robert Dixon, NSC-CEQ Senior Coordinato [...]	2008-05-05 12:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI1475	CODEL FEINGOLD DISCUSSES PAKISTAN, NUCLEAR DEAL, [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy to the Prime Minister Shyam Saran told Senator Russ Feingold May 29 that India hoped to use its relative economic prosperity to promote the integration of South Asia. Saran expressed hope that the Indian government would soon submit the safeguards agreement to the I [...]	2008-05-30 11:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
08NEWDELHI1489	NARAYANAN URGES BETTER BILATERAL UNDERSTANDING ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-02 10:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL PTER KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
08NEWDELHI1562	INDIA URGED TO PRESS BURMA ON ALLOWING AID TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/PolCouns urged MEA Director (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma) I.M. Pandey on June 6 to press Burma harder to allow international aid supplies and workers to reach victims of Cyclone Nargis. Pandey cited India's difficulties in getting aid into Burma, noting that direct access [...]	2008-06-06 12:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID BM IN
08NEWDELHI2141	INDIAN VIEWS ON NAM MINISTERIAL DECLARATION ON [...] (C) Summary. According to the UK High Commission in Delhi, the Indian government is claiming credit for helping to secure a much improved NAM declaration on Iran's nuclear program from the Tehran ministerial conference. Indian officials also report pressure from Iran's Sunni neighbors, who c [...]	2008-08-06 06:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PARM TRGY KNNP IR IN
08NEWDELHI2264	PM'S INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS: INDIA'S MOMENT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: While giving prominent attention to issues that most directly involve U.S. interests -- U.S.-India Civil Nuclear initiative, Jammu and Kashmir, terrorism and regional security -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's traditional Independence Day address on August 15 focused primaril [...]	2008-08-21 12:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY
08NEWDELHI2266	INDIA SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER [...] (SBU) On behalf of Ambassador Mulford, we welcome your upcoming visit and offer this snapshot of the bilateral relationship. Coming only days after the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary in Vienna, your visit gives us a chance to gauge where we stand in the NSG process and discuss next s [...]	2008-08-21 13:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS OREP KSTC KOMC IN IR PARM PK
08NEWDELHI2367	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MONTEK SINGH AHLUWALIA [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on September 2 to discuss upcoming high level bilateral meetings, including the President-Prime Minister meeting on September 25 and the CEO Forum scheduled for October 14. In addition, the Ambassador [...]	2008-09-04 00:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAGR ECON EDU EINV ENRG ETRD ETTC IN KNNP
08NEWDELHI2558	REES DELIVERS UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 5, visiting Special Representative for Social Issues Grover Joseph Rees delivered reftel points to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (UN - Economic and Social) Manjeev Singh Puri. Puri took all points on board; periodically rejoined by undersc [...]	2008-09-22 14:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UN IN
08NEWDELHI2606	INDIA SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Madame Secretary, we welcome your upcoming visit and offer this overview of the bilateral relationship. Coming only hours after hoped-for congressional approval of the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement, your visit gives us a chance to mark this milestone in the relationship while pus [...]	2008-09-30 07:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM ECON PGOV PTER EAID IN
08NEWDELHI2629	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL, IRAN: [...] "NUCLEAR AGREEMENT: WHAT TO LOSE, WHAT TO GAIN?" editorial in the September 30 right-of-center Urdu daily "MUNSIF", Hyderabad: "As desired by Manmohan Singh, the final seal on the Indo-U.S. Nuclear Agreement is just a matter of formality now. Very soon, the agreement would see the light of day [...]	2008-10-01 11:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN SIPDIS
08NEWDELHI2641	WITH THE UPCOMING LAUNCH OF "CHANDRAYAAN I" MOON MISSION, [...] (U) Summary. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is poised to take on many ambitious projects with the aim of establishing broader international collaborations, developing novel technologies to meet social and economic development needs, and attracting and harnessing India's young ta [...]	2008-10-03 10:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG TRGY SENV KGHG TSPL TNGD EIND KSCA ECON
08NEWDELHI2643	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL, GLOBAL [...] "INDIA DID IT" editorial in October 3 Kolkata Bengali independent ANANDABAZAR PATRIKA. "... As if ridiculing those of his allies...who regard the agreement as America's imperialist design, Manmohan Singh signed a nuclear deal with the French President... That Manmohan could come back with a d [...]	2008-10-03 12:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
08NEWDELHI2665	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL, INDIA- [...] "AFTER THE NUCLEAR DEAL," editorial in the October 5 centrist DAINIK BHASKAR Hindi daily: "The US-India civil nuclear agreement has ensured that India's emergence as a global power has now been formally certified. The U.S.- India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Ac [...]	2008-10-07 09:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
08NEWDELHI2671	U.S. TREASURY AND GOI DISCUSS PROLIFERATION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 9-11, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorism Finance and Financial Crimes Patrick O'Brien met with GOI and banking officials in Delhi and Mumbai to discuss the following: (a) international efforts to counter the illicit financial and commercial activities of Iran [...]	2008-10-07 13:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	KTFN ECON EFIN PREL PINR PTER IR IN
08NEWDELHI270	DAS FEIGENBAUM MEETS BRAJESH MISHRA AND M.K. [...] (U) Summary: Two of Delhi's top foreign policy experts, former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra and former Foreign Secretary M.K. Rasgotra, told visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that the civil nuclear initiative is may yet move through the governing coalition bu [...]	2008-01-28 06:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PTER TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY
08NEWDELHI2735	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 13 to October 17, 2008, including the following: -- Chidambaram Still Eager for Reforms as Parliament Opens -- Industrial Production Index Drops, Other Data Positive -- Eastern India Feeling Pinc [...]	2008-10-17 11:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAIR ECON ECPS EFIN EINV ENRG EPET ETRD BEXP
08NEWDELHI2764	FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV VISIT TO INDIA REAFFIRMS [...] (C) Summary. During his October 20 visit to New Delhi, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: -- brought a message that Russia's relations with India remain a priority for Moscow; -- announced Russia will assist India in building four additional nuclear reactors at the Kudankulam power project; [...]	2008-10-21 13:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PREL RU IN
08NEWDELHI2825	INDIA AND DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-31 10:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN ECON IN
08NEWDELHI2849	MEDIA REACTION: ECONOMIC CRISIS, U.S. [...] "U.S. PREDICTION," editorial in the November 4 RASHTRIYA SAHARA Hindi daily: "Western countries, which dominate the world, have started showing signs of collapsing. According to the U.S. intelligence report if the current trend continues, China will emerge as the world's largest economy and to [...]	2008-11-05 11:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
08NEWDELHI2983	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ELECTIONS/OBAMA PRESIDENCY, [...] "HOW BENEFICIAL IS THE OBAMA WIN TO THE ISLAMIC WORLD?" editorial in the November 24, 2008, Mumbai edition of right-of-center Marathi daily SAAMNA. "The world knows that neither the U.S. Presidential elections nor the elections to the House of Representatives make any difference to the U.S. p [...]	2008-11-24 10:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
08NEWDELHI2995	INDIA'S ECONOMY: INVESTMENT COULD BE HARDEST HIT, [...] (SBU) Summary. As economists the world over grapple with the specter of a significant global slowdown, several groups in India have downgraded their GDP growth projections for the current and next fiscal years, mainly on the expectation that slower world growth will cut export demand. However [...]	2008-11-25 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IN
08NEWDELHI3035	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION (CONTINUED): MUMBAI [...] "GO TO THE SOURCE," editorial in the December 1 centrist English Daily THE TIMES OF INDIA (Circulation: 2.1 million). "It's also time for New Delhi to work together with the US, the UK and other concerned governments to evolve a common approach towards Pakistan, which is the world's central t [...]	2008-12-02 01:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
08NEWDELHI3127	INDIA SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR KERRY [...] (C) Senator Kerry, as you know your visit comes at a time of new tensions between India and Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks. The U.S. has encouraged the GOI to pursue a measured action. Both Secretary Rice and Deputy Secretary Negroponte have traveled to the region to meet with leaders in [...]	2008-12-11 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KMDR KPAO ECON PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC
08NEWDELHI3165	PM SINGH TELLS CODEL KERRY RE PAKISTAN: ENOUGH IS [...] (C) Summary: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Senator Kerry in a December 15 meeting that India had exercised tremendous restraint in responding to the Mumbai terror attacks but that India had reached its limit. He called on the U.S. to make clear to Pakistan that it must take ser [...]	2008-12-16 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PTER SENV AF PK IN
08NEWDELHI3175	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA/PAKISTAN RELATIONS, IRAQ, [...] "PAKISTAN'S STALEMATE" editorial in the December 17, 2008, Mumbai edition of centrist Marathi daily LOKMAT. "For the first time in recent history, the international community has taken strong open cognizance of the presence of terrorist outfits in Pakistan. In this context, the Mumbai terror [...]	2008-12-17 12:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
08NEWDELHI3204	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, [...] "PAKISTAN UP TO ITS GAMES," op-ed article in the December 21 right-of-center DAINIK JAGRAN Hindi daily by strategic columnist K. Subrahmanyam: "With its statements, Pakistan is trying hard to provoke India to take military action. Its objective is to blackmail the U.S. Pakistan wants to use it [...]	2008-12-22 10:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
08NEWDELHI353	GAMBARI TELLS INDIA TO USE ITS INFLUENCE ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary. UN Special Envoy for Burma Ibrahim Gambari's late January visit to India delivered the message that India should use its influence to do more to help the democratization and reconciliation process in Burma. Gambari told British and Canadian missions privately that India reiterate [...]	2008-02-04 12:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BM IN
08NEWDELHI558	SENATORS' NUCLEAR DEADLINE BRINGS (MOSTLY) [...] (SBU) Summary: The setting of a June deadline by Senators Kerry, Biden and Hagel during their February 20 visit to Delhi has sparked a tepid reaction from the Congress Party and, strangely, the Communists, while media supporters have used the opportunity to remind the Indian government of its [...]	2008-02-22 08:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
08NEWDELHI691	INDIA WELCOMES UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1803 [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Ambassador Mulford delivered reftel demarche to Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon. Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar and Joint Secretary T.C.A. Raghavan in separate March [...]	2008-03-05 11:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IR IN
08NEWDELHI7	CODEL VOINOVICH MEETING WITH PM SINGH [...] (C) Summary. In a December 29 meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Codel Voinovich (consisting of Senator Voinovich, and Congressmen Turner, Gingrey, Pearce and Bishop) expressed appreciation for the Prime Minister's leadership in bringing U.S.-India relations to new heights. Senator V [...]	2008-01-02 12:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KNNP SOCI IN
08NIAMEY1135	NIGER: POL/ECON UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 15 - 30, 2008 [...] The following is an Embassy Niger compilation of political and economic highlights for the second half of November 2008 not otherwise covered in mission reporting. This report covers the following issues: -- Travel Warning Extended for the North -- Prison Letter from Former PM Hama Amadou [...]	2008-12-03 16:44:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL EAGR EAID NG
08NIAMEY453	GON closes second radio station [...] (U) Summary: On April 22, 2008, the Conseil Superieur de la Communication (CSC),Niger's media regulatory body, ordered the indefinite closure of Agadez-based radio station Sahara FM. In its official report, the CSC indicates that this decision was made "without ruling out possible criminal cha [...]	2008-04-29 15:03:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG
08NIAMEY639	Private Television Station Warned [...] On June 26 the private radio and television station Dounia broadcast footage of a demonstration which occurred at Niger's High Court of Justice as police forces took former Prime Minister Hama Amadou from the courthouse to prison (Reftel). The video showed police using teargas and batons to dis [...]	2008-06-30 13:42:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG
08NICOSIA173	CYPRUS VOWS FULL COOPERATION ON UN'S LATEST IRAN [...] (SBU) Polchief on March 5 delivered Ref A non-paper and P5 1 statement to MFA Multilateral Affairs chief George Kasoulides, emphasizing that the latest UN Security Council resolution condemning Iran's nuclear program merited a robust and immediate Cypriot implementation. Kasoulides welcomed [...]	2008-03-06 11:32:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM CY
08NICOSIA210	CYPRUS AGREES BELARUS MUST FREE KAZULIN, VOTES TO [...] Per reftel, PolOff demarched Alkis Ieromanachou, First Secretary, Department of Bilateral Relations with Member SIPDIS States of the EU and Neighboring Countries, Cypriot MFA, on March 26. Ieromanachou declared solidarity with the U.S. position that Belarus must free Kazulin and other poli [...]	2008-03-28 13:58:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL CY
08NICOSIA298	CYPRIOT RESPONSE FORTHCOMING ON IRAN SANCTIONS / [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 15:05:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY CY
08NICOSIA433	CYPRUS NON-COMMITTAL OVER U.S.-EU SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-06 13:05:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM CY
08NICOSIA461	CYPRUS SUPPORTS SUBSTANCE OF P5+1 PACKAGE, BUT MAY [...] (C) Ambassador on June 19 delivered reftel points and contents of P5 1 Iran Package to Cypriot MFA Political Director (P equivalent) Euripides Evriviades. Ambassador emphasized the package's generous and wide-ranging nature, building as it did on an already-robust 2006 offer. Should Iran's [...]	2008-06-20 14:12:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM CY

08NICOSIA499	CYPRUS: IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1803 [...] (C) Per reftel, on July 1 Post delivered demarche on UNSCR sanctions against Iran Shipping Lines to Alexandros Zenon, Permananet Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We also sent copies to Makis Constantinides, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications; Christos Patsalides, Permanen [...]	2008-07-02 13:51:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EWWT PARM PINR PREL KNNP CY
08NICOSIA516	UN MISSION IN CYPRUS EFFECTIVELY COMBATS TIP AND [...] (U) Per Ref A instructions, the below updates Ref B January 2008 report. 2. (U) Ms. Kyoko Shiotani, Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP),confirmed on July 3 that Ms. Maria Wilkins, UNFICYP Civil Affairs Officer, serves as UNFICYP's appointed "gen [...]	2008-07-09 13:51:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO KCRM KWMN PREL PHUM CY
08NICOSIA645	CYPRUS SUPPORTS NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] Per reftel, PolOff demarched First Secretary Nikos Panayi, Cypriot MFA Burma Desk Officer, on August 5 regarding the new Burma sanctions. In a moment of unguarded candor, Panayi acknowledged that Burma is not "of high interest" to Cyprus because the GOC does not have high stakes in the region. [...]	2008-08-05 14:11:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ETRD BM CY
08NICOSIA68	CYPRUS SUPPORTS BANNING IMPORTS OF BURMESE GEMS [...] Per reftel, PolOff demarched Republic of Cyprus MFA Asia Desk Officer Nikos Panayi on January 25. Panayi responded that the European Union had a "high interest" in the situation in Burma, as demonstrated by the November 2007 appointment of Italian MP Piero Fassino as EU Special Envoy to Burm [...]	2008-01-28 15:18:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD PHUM BU CY
08NICOSIA731	CYPRUS: FM KYPRIANOU DESIRES CLOSE U.S.-ROC [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Nothing should divide us" asserted Republic of Cyprus Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou at Ambassador Urbancic's September 10 introductory call. The United States and Cyprus shared numerous interests, Kyprianou continued, and could cooperate in spheres ranging from science and [...]	2008-09-12 15:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU GE
08NICOSIA859	CYPRIOT STANCE AT UPCOMING GAERC/GYMNICH [...] (C) On October 30, Poloffs delivered Reftel demarche on upcoming Gymnich and GAERC meetings to MFA European Union desk officer Nikos Panayiotou. Turning first to the Gymnich meeting and its focus on transatlantic relations, Panayiotou stressed that Cyprus and the broader EU understood the nec [...]	2008-10-31 14:21:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD
08NOUAKCHOTT421	SITREP 6: COUP IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Ambassador received a message from Presidential protocol the afternoon of August 9, inviting him to meet with individually with General Aziz. Once US and EU Ambassadors determined that General Aziz preferred meeting with us individually rather than to receive the joint demarche, the ambas [...]	2008-08-11 09:47:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ASEC CASC EAID MR
08NOUAKCHOTT439	SITREP 10 - VISIT OF U.S. ENVOYS TO MAURITANIA [...] (C) General Aziz, accompanied by his Director of Cabinet, Cheyakh Ould Ely, and Presidential Diplomatic and Security Advisor, Ould Michel, received visiting AF DAS Todd Moss and DoD Principal Director for African Affairs, Michael Dumont as well as Ambassador and DATT. DAS Moss underscored that [...]	2008-08-17 16:41:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT478	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH JUNTA'S "FOREIGN [...] (C) Ambassador met on September 2 with the junta's "Foreign Minister," Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou at the latter's request. Noting the historically good relations between the United States and Mauritania, Ould Mohamedou hoped that these could continue even under the current "difficult circu [...]	2008-09-04 12:45:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CPAS MR
08NOUAKCHOTT488	INSPECTOR GENERAL SEES MILITARY CORRUPTION AS [...] (C) DCM met September 8 with Mauritanian National Inspector General Mohamed Abba Ould Sidi Ould Jeilany at the IG's request. A clearly disgusted Jeilany (strictly protect) told DCM that he was convinced the generals had gone after President Abdallahi because they were afraid they would be pro [...]	2008-09-09 16:04:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MR
08NOUAKCHOTT514	FRENCH AND ALGERIAN TAKES ON AU COMMISSIONER [...] (C) The African Union's Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra made his third visit to Nouakchott September 14 and 15. Following his meeting with representatives of the international community (Ref A),Lamamra met with General Aziz. Ambassador met on September 16 with French Ambass [...]	2008-09-17 13:09:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT515	MAURITANIAN COUP: IFI'S FIRM, SPANISH IFFY [...] (C) During a regular meeting on September 16 of the ad hoc local coordinating group composed of representatives of the EU, UN, US, World Bank and IMF, attendees had a readout on the just concluded visit of AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra (Ref). UN Resident Coordinator Mar [...]	2008-09-17 14:21:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT558	EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS PLANNED OCTOBER 5 PROTESTS [...] (U) On October 5, 2008, the Charge convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting to discuss protests in Nouakchott planned for the afternoon (4:00 pm) of the 5th by the anti-coup National Front for the Preservation of Democracy (FNDD). 2. (C) Charge Meetings with Opposition: Charge [...]	2008-10-05 13:42:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC CASC MR
08NOUAKCHOTT582	MORE POLITICAL MOMENTUM [...] (C) Summary: The French share Mission view that slow movement towards a political resolution is underway. General Aziz, while ever stubborn on key points, has shown most flexibility to date in meeting with the French Ambassador. The EU Article 96 process is key leverage while the Mauritania [...]	2008-10-09 19:41:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT590	OTHER MAURITANIAN VOICES [...] (C) Charge met October 14 with President of the Senate Ba Mamadou who would constitutionally be designated interim president under the proposal put forward by President of the National Assembly Messaoud Ould Boulkheir whereby President Abdallahi would return to office only to resign. Ba said [...]	2008-10-14 18:54:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT616	REMINISCING WITH ABDALLAHI'S MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with two Abdallahi Ministers, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock through all three Addallahi governments Correa Issagha and Minister of Economy and Finance during the first two governments Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz, for their political assessment. Both were co [...]	2008-10-22 18:55:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT620	REMINISCING WITH ABDALLAHI'S MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with two Abdallahi Ministers, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock through all three Addallahi governments Correa Issagha and Minister of Economy and Finance during the first two governments Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz, for their political assessment. Both were co [...]	2008-10-22 18:55:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT624	FOLLOW-UP MEDIA REVIEW: 3 MONTHS POST-COUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three months into what initially appeared a quickly consummated coup, Mauritanian media leaders see the country either no closer to finding a solution to the August 6th coup d'etat or on the brink of another one, depending upon who you talk to. The PAO sat down with media who in [...]	2008-10-23 13:36:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT627	DIPLOMATIC DISCORD ON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: The first "UNDP Group" meeting following the failure of the October 20 Paris talks highlighted substantial difference between Western missions on the way forward -- centered primarily on the definition of what a "return to constitutional order" means in practical terms. European [...]	2008-10-26 19:30:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU MR
08NOUAKCHOTT636	MEETING WITH AHMED OULD DADDAH'S VICE-PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. On October 29, AID Rep met with opposition parliamentarian and RFD Vice-President Dr. Hamidou Kane to discuss Mauritania's current political situation. The meeting was at Kane's request. Immediately after the August 6 coup, Kane expressed his ardent support for the junta's "rec [...]	2008-10-31 12:25:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MR
08NOUAKCHOTT639	EXPANDING MINING OPERATIONS THREATENED BY THE COUP [...] (C) Summary: EconOff recently visited SNIM's iron ore mining operations in northern Mauritania. After many years of low prices for iron ore, higher prices in recent years have led SNIM to develop new projects to increase production. SNIM has two projects that it is developing on its own as w [...]	2008-11-03 10:27:00	Embassy Nouakchott	SECRET	ECON EFIN PGOV PTER EMIN MR
08NOUAKCHOTT654	MEETING WITH FORMER ECON MINISTER VEZZAZ -- [...] (C) MCC Scorecard A Validation Of Abdallahi Policies: Charge met November 5 with former Minister of Economy and Finance (and current FNDD economic director) Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz who had been the Mission's principal ministerial counterpart in the development of Mauritania's MCC Thres [...]	2008-11-06 13:34:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KMCA MR
08NOUAKCHOTT659	MEETING WITH THE REGIME'S "FOREIGN MINISTER" [...] (C) Summary: Regime "Foreign Minister" Ould Mohamedou claims the High State Council wants to find a solution that will restore constitutionality and maintain stability. The Regime will "put something concrete on the table" at the November 10 African Union meeting in Addis Ababa. The regime [...]	2008-11-09 18:59:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT702	EUROPEANS HOPE AU TRIP WILL PRESSURE ABDALLAHI TO [...] (C) Summary: Strong divisions remain between U.S. and European views of the way forward following the November 21 Addis Ababa meeting. The Europeans believe the high level AU/UN/EU/Arab League/OIC/Francophonie visit of December 5-7 needs to seek negotiation and encourage realism by President [...]	2008-11-26 19:10:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT706	ABDALLAHI UNIMPRESSED WITH FRENCH SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi's advisors claim the special French delegation headed by Elysee Africa Director Romain Serman offered no concrete proposals but suggested the need for a concession by President Abdallahi. Abdallahi held firm to his position of no negations while the military [...]	2008-11-30 17:19:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT716	SPEAKER VISIT FURTHERS QUIET DIPLOMACY [...] IIP Speaker Mohammed Bashar Arafat visited Nouakchott from November 23 until November 26 2008. During this time, he gave presentations on Islam In America to two universities in Nouakchott, the University of Nouakchott (11/24) and the Islamic Institute, ISERI (11/25) reaching over 600 students [...]	2008-12-04 12:16:00	Embassy Nouakchott	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL KMDR PREL MR PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG
08NOUAKCHOTT717	MEETING WITH COL. VALL - "BETTER OFF WITH [...] (C) Summary -- While still looking for a quick transition to new elections, Vall is taking a tougher line on Aziz seeing the current efforts to attack political enemies leading inevitably to a counter-coup with all its inherent risks for civil war. Vall believes serious targeted sanctions mi [...]	2008-12-04 13:24:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT723	MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI -- A VERY LONG [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi has restated his absolute rejection of negotiations with the Mauritanian military but expressed a realistic view of American capacity to bring others around to the U.S. policy approach -- a "standard" for others to compare themselves to. Abdallahi also recog [...]	2008-12-10 19:16:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT730	ABDALLAHI'S CHIEF OF STAFF DOUBTS RELEASE [...] (C) Charge met December 13 with President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi at Ould Hammoudi's request. Ould Hammoudi said the President had asked him to pass on his disappointment with the AU-led Brussels meeting on the 12th even though he was not surprised by the result [...]	2008-12-14 11:24:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT740	AHMED OULD DADDAH SEES POLITICAL LETHARGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leader of the Opposition Ahmed Ould Daddah continues to try to stake out a middle option between the military and President Abdallahi. Ould Daddah sees little chance of political movement in the near future but sees the economic cards stacked against General Aziz. While disag [...]	2008-12-17 15:15:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MR
08NOUAKCHOTT741	AHMED OULD DADDAH SEES POLITICAL LETHARGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leader of the Opposition Ahmed Ould Daddah continues to try to stake out a middle option between the military and President Abdallahi. Ould Daddah sees little chance of political movement in the near future but sees the economic cards stacked against General Aziz. While disag [...]	2008-12-17 15:15:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MR
08NOUAKCHOTT745	FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON CURRENT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador sees no movement towards a resolution with General Aziz proceeding with a transparently manipulated "democratic transition" and President Abdallahi offering no political alternative. With no prospects for an early resolution, the French are re-engaging on [...]	2008-12-18 13:24:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR MR
08NOUAKCHOTT758	PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI RELEASED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE [...] (C) According to President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi, eight military vehicles arrived at President Abdallahi's house in Lemden at 01:00 local on December 21 with troops demanding that President Abdallahi be woken immediately. While still in his bedclothes, the P [...]	2008-12-21 11:43:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AU
08NOUAKCHOTT775	REGIME'S "NATIONAL DIALOGUE" BEGINS [...] (C) Summary: The long-awaited National Dialogue on Democracy (Etats Generaux de la Democratie) started December 27 to a full house. President Abdallahi's FNDD party has boycotted the meeting as have several key elements of civil society. Official opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah's RFD pa [...]	2008-12-30 18:35:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
08OSLO217	NORWAY INTERESTED IN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN [...] (C) During the visit of Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry to Oslo, 11 April, Senior Norwegian MFA officials, including Deputy Director Generals Petter Willie and Johan Vibe, discussed the idea of opening an internet cafe to support dissident access to information. Although they curren [...]	2008-04-18 14:02:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PHUM PREL NO CU
08OSLO385	NORWEGIANS CONSIDER IRAN SANCTIONS "HIGH PRIORITY" [...] (C) Poloff met with Martin Sorby, Deputy Director General of the Legal Affairs Division of the MFA, and Jo Hovik, his deputy, to deliver reftel demarche. Sorby pronounced the information "highly useful," and said that it will be transmitted to the relevant authorities in the Norwegian governm [...]	2008-07-10 06:31:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD PARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN
08OSLO428	NORWAY: STATOILHYDRO AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-01 12:48:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PGOV SENV IR NO
08OSLO483	NORWAY CAUTIOUS ON UNSC SANCTIONS COMMITTEE IRAN [...] (S) Poloff met with Erling Skjoensberg, senior advisor in the MFA department for disarmament and nonproliferation, who, along with Kaare Aas (current Ambassador to Afghanistan, but former security policy department head) will make decisions regarding reftel's subject matter for the GON. 2. [...]	2008-08-28 15:23:00	Embassy Oslo	SECRET	KNNP MNUC IR PARM IAEA TRGY UNSC PREL
08OSLO513	NORWAY, RUSSIA AND GEORGIA; OPPORTUNITY TO [...] (C) Summary. The GON is coming to terms with the changing nature of the West's relations with Russia after Georgia. Publicly, the GON has been critical of Russia's (and Georgia's) actions while stressing the need to continue close and productive bilateral relations with Russia. Privately, of [...]	2008-09-16 09:42:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET MARR PREL RS NO
08OSLO549	(S) NORWAY REBUFFS USG ON IRISL FREIGHT FORWARDER [...] (S) In responding to reftel points, XXXXXXXXXXXX, after discussing NorwayÂ´s overall compliance with all UN Iran sanctions, stated that there is "no legal foundation" under Norwegian law to give any kind of mandatory order to companies not on the UN Security Council lists associated with resoluti [...]	2008-10-09 13:43:00	Embassy Oslo	SECRET	ECON EFIN ETRD PARM KNNP EUN EWWT PREL NO
08OSLO561	ASSISTANT SECRETARY SULLIVAN IN OSLO: IRAN, EITI, [...] (C) Summary. EEB Assistant Secretary Dan Sullivan's recent Oslo visit stressed US views on Iranian investments, focused on EITI's achievements, and reviewed the current US financial state in meetings with StatoilHydro executives, regional managers of the Extractive Industries Transparency I [...]	2008-10-15 08:51:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG EINV NO
08OTTAWA106	CANADA ENCOURAGING COUNTRIES TO BAN BURMESE IMPORTS [...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for the Southeast Asia and Pacific Division Evelyne Coulombe told PolOff that Canada is taking every opportunity to encourage other governments to impose import bans on Burma. Coulombe said that the DFAIT Sout [...]	2008-01-22 21:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD PHUM BM CA
08OTTAWA1123	CANADA'S PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada remains a strong partner in promoting and defending human rights globally. Thanks to its "principle-based" approach, the Conservative Party believes that "Canada's voice is being heard" once again. Canada has awarded honorary citizenship to the Dalai Lama and Aung San [...]	2008-08-22 13:50:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM CH IS BM CA
08OTTAWA1199	CANADA SUPPORTS US GOALS FOR UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (C) Canada supports broadly U.S. goals for the UNGA Third Committee, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade human rights desk officer Cyndy Nelson. Nelson said however she could only offer a preliminary assessment, as Canada is in the middle of an election campaign. [...]	2008-09-12 19:59:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV UN CA
08OTTAWA1421	CANADA FULLY SUPPORTS AND HAS ALREADY IMPLEMENTED [...] (S) Summary. Robert Sample, Senior Project Leader, Financial Crimes, Finance Canada, said that Canada's current regulations regarding financial institutions' (FI's) transactions with Iranian entities are in line with USG and FATF recommendations and are quite onerous on Canadian institutions. [...]	2008-11-06 21:17:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL EFIN CA
08OTTAWA1424	OTTAWA HOSTS LIKE-MINDED COUNTRIES INFORMAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada hosted an informal meeting of like-minded countries on Zimbabwe in Ottawa on October 30. Delegates agreed that MDC and ZANU-PF are in the midst of a power struggle to which there is no easy solution in sight. Several countries expressed concern at the Like-Minded Group,s [...]	2008-11-07 16:37:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM EAID ZI CA
08OTTAWA1446	CANADA REITERATES DESIRE FOR G7 COORDINATION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-17 16:35:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PARM PREL KNNP CA
08OTTAWA1522	CANADA TO ATTEND ROME MEETING ON NATIONAL MEASURES [...] (U) Canada will send Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Acting Division Director for Gulf and Mahgreb Relations Jeffrey McLaren and DFAIT non-proliferation senior advisor Ryan Hewer to the Rome meeting on implementation of national measures on Iran, according to DFAI [...]	2008-12-04 21:32:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC ETTC IR CA
08OTTAWA1552	US-EU-CANADA TRILATERAL MEETINGS ON IRAN AND US-EU [...] (C) Summary: On December 8, the United States, European Union, and Canada held their regularly scheduled trilateral discussion on Iran at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa. Later in the day, U.S. and EU representatives met at the French Emba [...]	2008-12-12 21:40:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN UN XG XF IR CA
08OTTAWA298	CANADA SEES LIMITED OPTIONS ON NEVSUN MINING [...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Eastern and Southern Africa Division Director Lisa Stadelbauer, DFAIT will further consider the Nevsun mining venture in Eritrea, but the Canadian government is very limited in what action it could take. Stadelbaue [...]	2008-02-27 20:35:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ER CA
08OTTAWA496	CANADA: IMPLEMENTING THE TRAVEL BAN AND TRAVEL [...] This is an action request - see para 4. 2. (C) According to Shawn Caza, Deputy Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (Nuclear) Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada has fully followed the UN guidance for the implementation of UNSCRs 1737, [...]	2008-04-10 21:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP IR UNSC CA
08OTTAWA621	CANADA CONTINUES PRESSURE ON BURMA; SENDS CYCLONE [...] (C) Summary: Canada shares U.S. concern about the imposition on the Burmese people of a non-representative constitution, and has been publicly pressuring Burma to bring an end to the country's environment of fear and repression. On May 5, Foreign Minister Bernier conferred honorary Canadian c [...]	2008-05-06 19:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM CA
08OTTAWA633	CANADA AND UPCOMING UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-07 20:17:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET	CA EFIN KTFN KU PINR PREL PTER
08OTTAWA640	MISSION CANADA OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Canada personnel regularly engage democracy activists, notably from Burma, Somalia, Sudan, and Belarus,. Our outreach has helped to empower groups whose links to their home country can make a difference on the margins in the development of democracy and stability. On [...]	2008-05-08 21:32:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM PREL CA
08OTTAWA654	CANADA'S 60-DAY REPORT TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 19:35:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KNNP AORC ETRD TRGY UNSC IR CA
08OTTAWA94	CANADIAN FISHERIES LEGISLATION -- THIRD TIME CHARM? [...] Summary: On November 29th, 2006, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Loyola Hearn introduced a new bill to Parliament to modernize Canada's 139-year-old Fisheries Act. While there is unanimous agreement that the Act must be updated, there are differences among stakeholders regarding changes that [...]	2008-01-17 20:15:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS SENV PREL CA
08OUAGADOUGOU1045	BURKINA FASO: 2008-09 INSCR PART II MONEY LAUNDERING AND [...] Per reftel request, below is Part Two of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report concerning Money Laundering and Financial Crimes, submitted in narrative form. Embassy Ouagadougou will forward a copy of the most recently published submission via unclassified email to the addressees [...]	2008-12-02 14:23:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR UV
08OUAGADOUGOU603	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGENT REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON UNSC [...] (C) On July 3, PolOff presented reftel demarche to MOFA Director for International Organizations Dieudonne Sougouri. Referring to meetings held at the recent African Union (AU) Summit in Egypt, Sougouri said that the GOBF, along with other African nations condemned the actions of President Mug [...]	2008-07-07 08:11:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UV
08OUAGADOUGOU886	BURKINA FASO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 15:31:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR UV
08PANAMA125	PANAMA: SUPPORT LEBANON NOW DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-11 18:58:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY PM
08PANAMA195	PANAMA: ETHIOPIA-ERITREA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-05 17:02:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC PM
08PANAMA386	PANAMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 60-DAY REPORT ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 16:48:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EIND AORC TRGY UNSC IR PM
08PANAMA419	GOP COOPERATES ON UN 1267 SANCTION COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-22 19:54:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET	KTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL PM
08PANAMA529	PANAMA: "SANCTION" MAY BE NECESSARY IN ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-30 15:56:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI PM
08PANAMA581	PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON NAM CONFERENCE DELIVERED [...] (C) POL had delivered Reftel demarche to MFA political advisor Janio Tunon on July 16 to discuss Panama's position in the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Conference scheduled for July 29-30. POL underscored that Panama held a unique position as a NAM representative and UNSC member. PO [...]	2008-07-17 16:45:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IR KNNP MNUC TRGY IAEA PERL UR PM
08PARAMARIBO234	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN [...] (U) Per reftel, EconOff delivered demarche to Rosita Hubard, head of the International Organizations section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Suriname. Hubard had no immediate reaction. 2. (U) Post will report any substantive response from the Government of Suriname. [...]	2008-06-02 19:41:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR NS
08PARIS1005	SUDAN/CHAD: FRENCH WILL CONSIDER SANCTIONING FOUR [...] (C) GOF MFA Sudan desk officer Frederic Bouvier on May 28 said that the French would seriously consider joining us in seeking sanctions against the four individuals named in reftel. He said that the GOF would have to study reftel demarche before coming to a decision but he indicated that, a [...]	2008-05-28 11:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU FR
08PARIS1038	UNMEE, CHAD/SUDAN, DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: MFA DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF/C/E DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said that she understood that Belgium would draft a letter on behalf of the UNSC to be sent to Eritrea and Ethiopia to determine their views on UNMEE's future, which could indicate a preferred course of action should one or both reject co [...]	2008-06-02 14:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER ET
08PARIS1086	USDP DISCUSSES LEBANON, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND [...] (S) Summary. On May 29, Eric Edelman, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, met with French interlocutors including Gerard Araud, Political Director at the MFA, Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD and Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor at the Elysee, to discus [...]	2008-06-09 07:52:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL MOPS MCAP AF LE PK IR SY FR
08PARIS1100	FRANCE AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON RWANDAN FDLR [...] (S) MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on June 9 told AF/C Director Wycoff that France agreed with the USG approach to Rwandan FDLR sanctions as expressed reftel (other aspects of the discussion reported separately). Chevallier said that seven of the eight names on the U.S. list [...]	2008-06-10 12:21:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC XA FR
08PARIS1101	AL-SHABAAB: FRANCE OPEN TO SANCTIONS BUT NEEDS TO [...] (S) MFA Somalia Desk Officer Thierry Caboche on June 10 said, in response to reftel, that France would study further our case for imposing UN sanctions on the al-Shabaab organization based in Somalia. (NOTE: DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal our normal interlocutor on such an issue, is out of t [...]	2008-06-11 06:04:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO BG FR
08PARIS1104	SUDAN/CHAD: FRANCE STILL OPPOSED TO USG APPROACH [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidential AF-advisor Romain Serman on June 9, 10, and 11 reiterated France's opposition to the USG position on sanctioning four individuals in connection with Sudan and Chad, particularly with respect to Daoussa Deby Itno, indicating that sanctioning Daoussa was a vir [...]	2008-06-11 11:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CD FR
08PARIS1130	FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE: CUBA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA [...] (C) Summary. On June 13, MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona said Cuba will be the primary focus of the June GAERC. Carmona said that the COREPER meeting ran late into the evening of June 12 and that some of the resulting agenda items were a surprise; he commented that the S [...]	2008-06-13 16:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EUN ZI SO IR IZ IS CU FR
08PARIS1131	PREVENTING ASSET FLIGHT FROM BANK MELLI IN THE EU3 [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-13 16:18:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	KNNP EFIN ETTC PARM PTER FR
08PARIS1132	FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE: CUBA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA [...] (C) Summary. On June 13, MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona said Cuba will be the primary focus of the June GAERC. Carmona said that the COREPER meeting ran late into the evening of June 12 and that some of the resulting agenda items were a surprise; he commented that the S [...]	2008-06-13 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL EUN FR ZI IR IZ IS CU
08PARIS1138	ENERGY SECURITY: FRANCE WANTS EU ENGAGEMENT WITH CASPIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Steven Mann, Coordinator for Central Asian Energy Issues met May 29 with GOF officials, who outlined French plans to promote energy security during its upcoming presidency of the EU Council. Specific ideas included greater political engagement with Caspian countries, [...]	2008-06-16 14:13:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ZK PREL FR
08PARIS1169	NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF IRAN AT THE FRENCH [...] (SBU) NEA A/S Welch held extensive bilateral consultations on key NEA issues with French MFA counterparts in Paris on June 12. This cable focuses on Iran; other topics reported septel (notal). Participants included: USG --- --NEA A/S David Welch --Deputy Legal Adviser Jonathan Schwar [...]	2008-06-20 12:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETTC MNUC KNNP EUN FR IR IZ
08PARIS1200	POLDIR PROPOSES FURTHER TARGETED IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 23, Political Director Gerard Araud summoned DCM to talk about Iran. He said his guess was that little would change in the coming months so the question was how to avoid the extremes of acquiescing or resorting to military force. He advocated a two-pronged approach invo [...]	2008-06-25 13:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC PREL KNNP MNUC EFIN PGOV PHUM IR FR
08PARIS1201	PARIS CLUB: June 2008 Session, Private Sector Meeting, [...] Summary: At the Paris Club's June 10-12 session, the tour d'horizon addressed Burundi, Central African Republic, Grenada, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Sudan and Togo. Germany requested an informal update on Argentina; Russia sought resolution of its promissory note issue. As for methodological iss [...]	2008-06-25 15:10:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1202	AF/C DIRECTOR WYCOFF'S JUNE 9 PARIS CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In June 9 meetings with AF/C Director Wycoff, French Presidency and MFA officials reiterated French differences with the U.S. on sanctions regarding Chad and Sudan, with the French arguing for pressure on all parties (including sanctions and the threat of sanctions) to encour [...]	2008-06-25 15:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC PTER PINR SU CD CT RW FR
08PARIS1248	UNSC/ZIMBABWE: FRENCH CONTINUE TO AGREE WITH U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-02 14:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1285	SUDAN: FRENCH CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBLE ICC [...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA Sudan Desk Officer Frederic Bouvier on July 7 expressed concern that ICC Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo might soon seek to indict Sudan President Bashir for war crimes, which the French believe could have a negative impact on events in the region. Bouvier said France woul [...]	2008-07-08 17:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINS SU FR
08PARIS1286	ZIMBABWE: FRANCE FAVORS SANCTIONING GIDEON GONO [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-08 17:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS130	PRESIDENT SARKOZY ARTICULATES HIS FRAMEWORK FOR [...] (U) In this annual New Year's message to the Diplomatic Corps on delivered on January 18, President Sarkozy laid out a theoretical justification for recasting France's role on the international scene in the twin challenges before the international community: climate change and the "return of [...]	2008-01-24 16:36:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV FR
08PARIS1304	ZIMBABWE/UNSCR: FRENCH "REASONABLY OPTIMISTIC" OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-10 10:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU UK FR
08PARIS1305	STRONG FRENCH SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL EU SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Government of France (GOF) is pressing EU counterparts to adopt a "Common Position" that transposes UNSCR 1803 in a forward-leaning way, including tougher measures on export credits, dual use exports, financial due diligence, and cargo inspections. The French hope this poli [...]	2008-07-10 12:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN ETTC PARM PINR KNNP IR FR
08PARIS1333	COUNSELOR COHEN ENGAGES FRENCH ON PAKISTAN, [...] (C) Summary. On July 8 and 9, State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen discussed Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine, terrorism, ESDP, and the French Defense White Paper with officials from the French MFA, Elysee, MOD, and Secretariat General of National Defense (SGDN). MFA interloc [...]	2008-07-15 10:13:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	MCAP PGOV PREL EUN AF PA IR IZ FR
08PARIS1351	AMBASSADOR STAPLETON PRESSES FRENCH MFA ON CUBA [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 15:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR PGOV
08PARIS1366	FRANCE/ZIMBABWE: FRENCH TO PROPOSE STRENGTHENING [...] (U) This is an action request (para 4). 2. (C) MFA Zimbabwe Desk Officer Isabelle de Boisgelen said on July 17 that France would propose to EU partners at the July 22-23 GAERC that the EU strengthen existing sanctions against Zimbabwe in the wake of the sham election and the failure to [...]	2008-07-18 13:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL KDEM ZI FR
08PARIS138	FRANCE CONSIDERING WTO IMPLICATIONS BEFORE BANNING [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on January 24 to MFA desk officer Jeremy Petite. Petite responded that France is currently considering WTO implications of a ban and will make a decision in line with EU partners. When questioned about France's willingness to sanction the three Burmese [...]	2008-01-25 15:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PARIS1380	FRENCH VIEWS ON JULY GAERC: UKRAINE, ZIMBABWE, [...] (C) Summary: On July 18, MFA Deputy Office Chief for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona reviewed the agenda items for the July GAERC meeting. Carmona said that the French Presidency had, at FM Kouchner's request, proposed a reduced list of topics, but that other member [...]	2008-07-21 15:25:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV EUN IR SO SU CD IZ UP GG FR
08PARIS139	A/S SILVERBERG REVIEWS UN ISSUES WITH FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/S Kristen Silverberg reviewed international organization issues with French counterpart Sylvie Bermann on January 22 in Paris. Bermann signaled doubt that France would host an International Compact on Iraq, described the aftermath of the NIE on Iran as "disastrous," reiterate [...]	2008-01-25 15:49:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA PHUM KPKO AF ET ER CD
08PARIS1424	FRANCE LOOKS BEYOND 1803 IMPLEMENTATION [...] (S/NF) Summary: The GOF supports using insurance to put further pressure on Iran, including its shipping, and is prepared to meet July 25 in Paris to begin work with a handful of like-minded countries on actions of this sort. Senior officials see as "possible" the adoption of an EU Common Pos [...]	2008-07-24 17:26:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN KNNP PARM EUN IR FR
08PARIS1447	SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT'S NUCLEAR ENERGY SUPPLY [...] (U) Summary. On July 20-21, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Special Assistant Marc Humphrey traveled to Paris for consultations on civil nuclear supply criteria in light of the anticipated expansion in nuclear energy. Meetings were held with officia [...]	2008-07-29 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC IAEA FR
08PARIS1464	EU-SOUTH AFRICA SUMMIT: NO BREAKTHROUGHS [...] (C) SUMMARY: There were no breakthroughs at the July 25 EU-South Africa Summit in Bordeaux. As was expected, the two sides did not reach agreement on an EU-South Africa Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) because of South Africa's insistence that it be accorded certain privileges available [...]	2008-07-31 08:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON PHUM ETRD EUN SF FR
08PARIS147	FRENCH ANTICIPATE MAJOR PUSHBACK ON NEXT UNSCR ON [...] (C) At the end of a late January 25 meeting on Iraq (septel),we informed French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf Franck Gellet that we were mobilizing to begin talking to non-P-5 members of the UNSC on elements for a new UNSCR on Iran. Gellet said he appreciated the informat [...]	2008-01-29 06:20:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP UNSC FR IR
08PARIS15	A/S SILVERBERG'S MEETING WITH FRENCH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Kristen Silverberg met in Paris on December 21 with her French counterpart, Sylvie Bermann. They discussed a range of issues currently before the UN Security Council (UNSC). Bermann pushed for a UNSC endorsemen [...]	2008-01-04 17:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA EUN UNHRC FR
08PARIS1529	FRANCE: MEASURED APPROVAL FOR NEW U.S. BURMA [...] (C) France welcomes new U.S. sanctions on Burma and is open to strengthening existing EU sanctions as long as they do not interfere with provision of humanitarian aid, Burma Desk Officer Jeremie Petit said August 6 in response to reftel points. He added that EU experts are reviewing Europe's [...]	2008-08-07 08:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD FR BM
08PARIS1627	NO SUBSTANTIVE FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-22 17:31:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	EFIN ECON PREL PARM PINR PTER KNNP FR SY IR
08PARIS1650	TREASURY D/S KIMMITT, FRENCH NSA LEVITTE ON IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: On August 29 President Sarkozy,s Diplomatic Advisor Jean-David Levitte and Deputy Advisor for Security Affairs Francois Richier outlined for Treasury D/S Robert Kimmitt GOF thinking on &quick, effective and sharp8 next steps on Iran. The GOF would present its ideas more fully in [...]	2008-08-30 12:48:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	ECON EFIN FR PREL RS IR

08PARIS1671	SUDAN: FRENCH OFFER NO "DEAL" BUT BELIEVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidency official Romain Serman on September 4 said that Sudanese officials seemed to be acknowledging reality and the need for them to change their behavior following consultations in Khartoum that Deputy Diplomatic Advisor Joubert and Serman held on September 2 with [...]	2008-09-04 17:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KAWC SU FR
08PARIS1716	MFA THINKING ON IRAN AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Franck Gellet, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq, Iran, and the Arabian Peninsula, acknowledged progress over the past year in Iraq and said that as a result, France had moved away from its previous idea of convening an international conference to promote Iraqi national reconciliation. [...]	2008-09-12 17:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR IZ IR
08PARIS1718	FRENCH EXPECT A PRODUCTIVE SEPTEMBER GAERC [...] (C) Summary. On September 12, MFA deputy for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona said the September 15-16 GAERC will focus on implementation of next steps on Georgia, including deployment of the EU observer mission by October 1. The GAERC will also decide the mandate and n [...]	2008-09-12 18:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN RS GG ZI SO SR TU FR
08PARIS1721	SOMALIA: UNSC SANCTIONS AND PIRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Somalia desk officer Thierry Caboche said on September 12 that France favored a 12-month time limit to the UNSC Somalia sanctions resolution now under consideration in New York, to allow the Security Council to maintain closer supervision over the sanctions process than wou [...]	2008-09-15 09:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC EUN MOPS SO FR
08PARIS1726	SUDAN/ICC/SANCTIONS: "WE ARE NOT NEGOTIATING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for Sudan Helene Le Gal stressed on September 12 that "we are not negotiating with Sudan" concerning its recent discussion with the Khartoum regime during which the French explained to the Sudanese the things Sudan needed to do to improve its standing in the [...]	2008-09-15 17:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KAWC SU CD FR
08PARIS1751	USDP EDELMAN DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, [...] (C) Summary. On September 12, USDP Edelman and Counselor Eliot Cohen met with Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner; Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy; and Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD, to discuss Afghanistan, P [...]	2008-09-19 09:17:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS NATO AF PA GG RU FR
08PARIS1771	AIRBUSQSYRIA TALKS ON AIRCRAFT LEASE [...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Recent press reporting has speculated on the possible sale or lease of Airbus aircraft to Syria's state carrier. While the GOF has downplayed the reports, speculation has centered on ways in which a deal could be structured to sidestep [...]	2008-09-22 15:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ECON ETRD EAIR PREL FR
08PARIS1853	GENERAL PETRAEUS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, [...] (C) Summary. During a September 25-26 visit to Paris to receive military honors, General David Petraeus met with French interlocutors including DefMin Herve Morin, PM Franois Fillon, Secretary-General of the MFA Gerard Errera (D-equivalent) and President Sarkozy's diplomatic advisor Jean-Dav [...]	2008-10-07 17:31:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS FR AF PA SY LE IR
08PARIS1875	FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: GAERC PREPARATIONS STILL IN [...] (C) Summary. On October 10, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona provided an overview of French expectations for the October GAERC. In addition to Zimbabwe, Georgia, and Belarus, the topics of the U.S. demarche, Uzbekistan and Moldova, wil [...]	2008-10-10 17:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ZI UZ BO GG RS FR EUN
08PARIS1884	AIRBUS ON SYRIA DEAL AND USG EXPORT CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: Airbus confirmed its commitment to acquiring U.S. export licenses, as necessary, for any aircraft sales to Syria. Apart from the proposed sale of 50 aircraft to Syria, Airbus expressed continuing frustration over the complicated U.S. export control and licensing procedures that [...]	2008-10-14 15:24:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ECON ETRD EAIR PREL SY FR
08PARIS1886	CUBA ALSO BLOCKS FRENCH BILATERAL HURRICANE [...] (C) The United States is not the only country or group of countries whose aide has been refused by Havana after a series of deadly hurricanes ravaged the Caribbean nation (ref a),said French MFA desk officer Anne Suard. Suard told poloff on October 14 the Cuban government is still retaliati [...]	2008-10-15 14:05:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL CU FR
08PARIS1908	FRENCH PRESIDENCY REACTS TO GENEVA MEETING ON [...] (C) French presidency adviser for Russia, Central Asia, and the Americas Damien Loras on October 16 provided DCM an update on French thinking about Russia and Georgia following the October 15 meeting in Geneva. He argued that France preferred to regard the Russian withdrawal from areas adja [...]	2008-10-17 12:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EUN FR RS GG
08PARIS1927	FRANCE PREPARES TO ENGAGE NEW US ADMINISTRATION ON [...] (S/NF) Summary/comment: France's foreign policy establishment plans to engage the new U.S. administration as soon as possible (even, perhaps, before the formal inauguration) on a range of Middle East issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Iran, and Syria/Lebanon. In the hope [...]	2008-10-20 16:55:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	FR PREL PGOV MEPP
08PARIS1946	MAURITANIA/FRANCE: "ISOLATE AZIZ, MAKE HIM LEAVE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French are attempting to isolate Mauritania coup leader General Aziz, in order to force his resignation, which would lead to the return of constitutional government, Presidential AF Counselor Romain Serman said on October 22. Serman said that the GOF had had some success in [...]	2008-10-23 13:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINS ETTC MR FR
08PARIS1982	HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT SEPTEMBER VISIT TO FRANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael O. Leavitt traveled to France from September 8, 2008 to September 10, 2008 to promote U.S. interests in the areas of food and drug safety, pandemic influenza preparedness, and the development of medical countermeasures. [...]	2008-10-29 17:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU ECON SENV AMED KSCA
08PARIS1996	FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for Eurasian affairs Alexandre Vulic told us October 24 that, although the recent elections in Belarus did not meet any democratic standards, the EU intends to proceed with small steps to ease Belarus' isolation in response to other gestures Minsk has taken, most [...]	2008-10-30 16:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN EUN FR BO
08PARIS2089	FRENCH REACTION TO NOVEMBER 9 QUARTET MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The November 9 Quartet meeting reaffirmed the international consensus on the need to continue the Annapolis process "exactly as we expected," said French NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli on November 12. Paoli said he was struck by an informal consensus among Arab attendees that H [...]	2008-11-12 17:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR
08PARIS2134	P3 CONSULTATIONS ON NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT IN PARIS [...] (C) Summary. On November 7, Acting U/S John Rood met in Paris with his French and British counterparts Jacques Audibert and Mariot Leslie, respectively, to discuss a broad range of nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament issues. Topics included regional issues (Iran, North Korea, and Syria) [...]	2008-11-21 08:21:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PARM MARR KACT FR UK CH RU KN SY IR
08PARIS2149	FRANCE/ZIMBABWE: MORGAN TSVANGIRAI'S VISIT TO [...] (C) MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe visited France November 17-19, beginning in Strasbourg at the EU meeting on development. He met with FM Kouchner in Strasbourg and traveled in Kouchner's plane to Paris. In Paris on November 18, he met with Claude Gueant (Secretary-General at th [...]	2008-11-24 14:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ZI FR
08PARIS216	LATEST ELYSEE TAKE ON LEBANON [...] (C) French Presidency adviser on NEA affairs Boris Boillon told us February 1 that France has run out of "levers, carrots, and sticks" to use in resolving the continued political impasse in Lebanon. The word from the French embassy in Damascus, he added, was that Syrian President Asad has s [...]	2008-02-06 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY
08PARIS2178	BURMA: FRANCE CONCERNED ABOUT BANK MEASURES IN EU [...] (C) France wants to adjust EU sanctions on Burma to address banking sector concerns but will not accept any weakening of measures against the Junta, MFA DAS- equivalent for Southeast Asia Frederic Laplanche told us December 1 in response to reftel points. With respect to restructuring specif [...]	2008-12-02 12:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EREL ETTC EFIN FR EU MY
08PARIS2253	MAURITANIA/FRANCE: POLITICAL PROCESS AT AN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, said on December 10 that the political process in Mauritania was blocked, with neither Aziz, President Abdallahi, nor opposition leader Amed Ould Daddah willing to compromise to reach a solution. Serman said that internal GOF [...]	2008-12-11 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR KDEM MR FR
08PARIS2317	SANCTIONS ON EU PRODUCTS DUE TO HORMONE-BEEF BAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Embassy Paris recommends modification of proposed list of French exports targeted under revised sanctions. Country Team believes that, to be effective, sanctions need to target major corporate interests with political clout. Sanctions that target artisanal p [...]	2008-12-23 13:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR FR
08PARIS244	FRENCH RESPONSE ON SUPPORTING LEBANON NOW [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-12 07:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR LE SY
08PARIS272	FRANCE EVALUATING EU SANCTIONS ON UZBEKISTAN; FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: France is currently working with its EU partners to review the utility of ongoing EU sanctions on Uzbekistan, MFA officials told us on February 12. The sanctions come up for official review in May 2008. While France does not believe that the Karimov regime has made a radically p [...]	2008-02-15 13:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EU EUN UZ FR
08PARIS360	RECENT FRENCH MFA PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAN/IAEA [...] (SBU) We passed non-paper texts in reftels February 28 and 29 to the relevant French MFA officials in the Strategic Affairs and Middle East/North Africa directorates. Although the MFA has not offered any comments on the non-papers, we would note in the interim that the French have been very [...]	2008-02-29 18:03:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC FR IR
08PARIS555	FRENCH STRESS MARKETS IN DEPSEC KIMMITT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 13, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt met with Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, Elysee diplomatic and economic advisors and private sector bankers to discuss the Transatlantic Economic Council, financial market turmoil, [...]	2008-03-25 11:05:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ETTC PARM IR FR
08PARIS630	FRENCH SUPPORT CONSOLIDATED EU AND MULTILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOF supports the P-3,s ongoing efforts to have a PRST issued on Burma to bring more universal pressure to bear on the regime. It presumes the EU will renew its current bilateral sanctions measures at the upcoming GAERC, and will subsequently consider further measures and/ [...]	2008-04-04 16:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC PHUM MY FR
08PARIS749	CENTRAL ASIA: A/DAS SPRATLEN'S CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In April 4 meetings with French officials responsible for Central Asia, SCA A/DAS Pamela Spratlen was briefed on GOF plans for future engagement in the region, including FM Kouchner's April 10-11 visits to Ashgabat and Dushanbe as well as France's priorities for the region during [...]	2008-04-18 16:25:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZK UZ TI KZ KG TX FR
08PARIS750	AUSTRALIA GROUP: PLENARY MEETING, PARIS, APRIL 14-18, 2008 REF: A. 07 MOSCOW 5535 B. 07 PARIS 2593 Classified By: ESTH/NP COUNSELOR ROBERT W. DRY FOR REASONS 1.4 (B),(D),(E),and (H). -------------------- SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW -------------------- [...] (C) The Australia Group (AG) held its 2008 plenary in Paris from April 14-18. In addition to approving several updates to the AG's Guidelines and control lists, the Group discussed Russia's continued interest in membership. AG members continued to express concern about Russia's implementation of ex [...]	2008-04-18 16:41:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC AS FR RS CBW
08PARIS811	FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE [...] (S/NF) Summary. On April 21, MFA Political Director Gerard Araud presented French views on the top-priority concerns of Iran and the Balkans, while on April 25, MFA Office Director for CFSP Patrick Maisonnave provided the general French reaction to the April GAERC demarche. Araud said that [...]	2008-04-25 17:06:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL EUN PGOV ZL PK ZI IR IZ IS CH BM GG
08PARIS957	YOUR JUNE 14-16 VISIT TO PARIS [...] (C) Mr. President, you will arrive in France as Nicolas Sarkozy begins the second year of a five-year term as President. You will meet a Sarkozy chastened by the experience of a first year marked by a sharp drop in his political stock at home, but during which he nevertheless reclaimed French leade [...]	2008-05-19 14:41:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	ECON FINR KPAL NATO OVIP PGOF PREL PTER SENV
08PARIS976	FOSG PARIS MEETING MAY 2008 [...] (C) Summary: During a May 8 meeting in Paris, the Western Friends of the Secretary General on Georgia (FOSG),consisting of the U.S., UK, France, and Germany, enthusiastically endorsed EUR DAS Matt Bryza's proposal for reviving the Abkhazia peace process. Bryza laid out a new three-pronged ap [...]	2008-05-22 11:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS XH RS GG GM UK ZJ FR
08PARIS993	FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE HIGHLIGHTS ISRAEL-PALESTINE, [...] (C) Summary. On May 20 and 22, PolOff transmitted the U.S. demarche and supplemental points for the May GAERC to MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona. Separately, MFA DAS-equivalents Ludovic Pouille and Franck Gellet provided detailed information regarding French views on Israeli-Pal [...]	2008-05-23 16:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV IR IZ IS LE GG AF CU SO SR
08PARTO100602	(U) SECRETARY RICE'S OCTOBER 4, 2008 CONVERSATION [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State, Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (U) October 4, 2008: 3:30 p.m.; New Delhi, India. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador David Mulford SCA Affairs Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher PA Assi [...]	2008-10-06 03:31:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PTER MASS IN
08PARTO100603	(U) SECRETARY RICE'S OCTOBER 4 2008 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State, Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (U) October 4, 2008: 7:00 p.m.; New Delhi, India. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador David Mulford South and Central Asia Assistant Secretary Richard Bouch [...]	2008-10-06 03:38:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV
08PARTO121901	(C) Secretary Rice's December 16, 2008 Meeting [...] (U) Classified by: Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) December 16, 2008, 0915-1050, UN Headquarters, New York City 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary NEA A/S Welch NEA PDAS Feltman NEA/ARP Office Director Steinfel [...]	2008-12-19 12:15:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL IR EUN XF XG
08PARTO22806	(U) Secretary Rice's February 27, 2008 Working [...] (U) February 27, 2008; 8:00 p.m.; Tokyo, Japan. 2. (U) Participants: United States The Secretary Amb. J. Thomas Schieffer A/S Sean McCormack, PA Lt Gen William Fraser III, Assistant to the Chairman, JCS NSC Senior Director for East Asian Affairs Dennis Wilder Pol/Mil Chief Raymond Gree [...]	2008-02-28 16:34:00	US Delegation, Secretary	SECRET	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL EINV SENV ECON
08PARTO7	(U) Secretary Rice's participation in the June [...] (U) Classified by: Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) June 27, 2008; Kyoto, Japan. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Schieffer U/S Bill Burns A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. William Fraser D [...]	2008-02-28 19:12:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL EAID MOPS JA AU
08PARTO8	(U) Secretary Rice's June 26-27 Participation in [...] (U) Classified by: Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) June 27, 2008 at 18:00, and June 28, 2008 at 09:30; Kyoto, Japan. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary U/S Bill Burns A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. W [...]	2008-07-12 12:10:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PHUM KNNP KWBG
08PARTO91701	SECRETARY RICE'S SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 BREAKFAST WITH [...] (U) Classified by Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d) 2. (U) September 5, 2008, 0900, Lisbon, Portugal. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Thomas Stephenson Assistant Secretary Dan Fried Legal Advisor John Bellinge [...]	2008-09-17 03:34:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PGOV ECON EI KV RU
08PARTO91702	SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PM SOCRATES [...] (U) Classified by Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d) 2. (U) September 4, 2008, 1930, Lisbon, Portugal. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Thomas Stephenson Assistant Secretary Dan Fried Assistant Secretary C. David [...]	2008-09-17 03:45:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PGOV ECON EI KV RU
08PESHAWAR474	SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN KURRAM TO FACE PAKISTAN MILITARY [...] (C) Violence in Kurram Agency has claimed over 700 lives since early August when the latest wave of sectarian fighting escalated. Over 1300 have been killed in the last 17 months of sporadic clashes. The Sunni have historically had a slight upper hand in fighting, first in the April 2007 vio [...]	2008-09-29 05:20:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR477	SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN KURRAM TO FACE PAKISTAN MILITARY [...] (C) Violence in Kurram Agency has claimed over 700 lives since early August when the latest wave of sectarian fighting escalated. Over 1300 have been killed in the last 17 months of sporadic clashes. The Sunni have historically had a slight upper hand in fighting, first in the April 2007 vio [...]	2008-09-29 09:24:00	Consulate Peshawar	SECRET	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PHNOMPENH95	U.S.-CAMBODIA BILATERAL DIALOGUE STRENGTHENS TIES, [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel led U.S. participation in a successful senior-level U.S.-Cambodia bilateral dialogue hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia Ministry of Foreign Affairs January 17. Both sides opened with statements of enthusiasm for strengthening ti [...]	2008-01-22 10:53:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV KJUS PHUM PTER KWMN PREL BM CB
08PODGORICA130	ITALIAN PROSECUTORS QUESTION PM DJUKANOVIC ABOUT '90S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Montenegrin PM Milo Djukanovic voluntarily traveled to Bari, Italy on March 31 for questioning by Italian prosecutors. Djukanovic and another 14 Montenegrins have been under investigation by the Italian authorities since 1999 for "associating with the mafia to profit from cigaret [...]	2008-04-14 15:55:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM MW
08PODGORICA90	KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE HAS MINIMAL ECONOMIC IMPACT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To date Kosovo's independence declaration and Serbia's angry reaction have not resulted in any significant economic consequences for Montenegro, and Montenegrin interlocutors are downplaying the likelihood of Serbian economic sanctions. However, continued regional political ins [...]	2008-03-17 10:35:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL MW
08PORTAUPRINCE897	HAITI: NO MOVEMENT ON 60-DAY REPORT ON IRAN [...] Econoff requested on June 16 an update from Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Director Azad Belfort on the status of Haiti's 60-Day Report required by UNSCR 1803. Belfort said he requested mid-May responses from the Prime Minister's office, the National Palace and the Mi [...]	2008-06-20 12:52:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC HA IR
08PRAGUE162	EU GAERC: CZECH COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboff met with Anna Sykova, Deputy Director of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy prior to the March 10-11 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on Kosovo, Afghanistan, Syria and Zimbabwe. While Sykova [...]	2008-03-07 14:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL AF SY ZI SR
08PRAGUE257	CZECH COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF THE APRIL EU GAERC [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboff met with Katerina Sequensova, Deputy Director of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy prior to the April 29 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on the Balkans, Zimbabwe and Burma. Although Iran h [...]	2008-04-25 15:52:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL
08PRAGUE545	CZECH RESPONSE ON BURMA DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Czech MFA Burma Desk officer, Hana Flanderova, thanked us for our details on the additional U.S. sanctions outlined in the JADE Act of 2008. She commented that the Czech focus is currently on humanitarian assistance in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. The MFA has already provided 10.6M crow [...]	2008-08-15 16:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV BM EZ EUN
08PRAGUE615	CZECHS DISAPPOINTED USG UNGA PRIORITIES DO NOT [...] (C) Summary: Czech Director of Human Rights and Transition Policy Gabriela Dlouha thanked us for sharing USG priorities on country specific resolutions as well as thematic items. She noted that the GOCR welcomed our planned efforts on Iran, Burma, and North Korea, although she registered disap [...]	2008-09-19 07:28:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL UNGA UN EZ EUN
08PRAGUE654	CZECH COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER EU GAERC [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboff met with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy prior to the October 13 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). While the Czechs positively view recent developments in Georgia, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Zimba [...]	2008-10-10 20:06:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL PHUM ZI BO GG
08PRAGUE667	CZECH REPUBLIC: DAS MERKEL DISCUSSES ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (DAS) David Merkel held day-long discussions October 10 in Prague on relations with Russia, energy security, relations with the countries of the former Soviet Union, and Russia,s relations with NATO. He met with MFA Political Director Martin Po [...]	2008-10-20 15:47:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ NATO RU
08PRAGUE788	CODEL TAUSCHER'S DECEMBER 18 MEETINGS IN PRAGUE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a December 18 trip to Prague, Representatives Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) and Doug Lamborn (R-CO) met with Czech FM Schwarzenberg, DFM Pojar and DPM Vondra. Representative Tauscher stressed linking a possible radar site in the Czech Republic to short and medium range missile [...]	2008-12-19 14:10:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP MARR PREL PGOV NATO RS PL EZ
08PRAGUE803	REPRESENTATIVE WEXLER'S MEETINGS IN PRAGUE [...] (C) Summary: During a December 4 trip to Prague, Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL) met with DFM Tomas Pojar, DPM Alexandr Vondra, and opposition MP Jan Hamacek. Pojar and Vondra urged continued Congressional support for missile defense (MD). Representative Wexler expressed appreciation f [...]	2008-12-23 15:03:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV EZ
08PRETORIA1320	INDIAN CONSUL GENERAL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT GROWING ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indian Consul General Navdeep Suri spoke to the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) on June 11 about the increase in economic ties between South Africa and India. Suri described opportunities for the two countries to increase trade and investment including the [...]	2008-06-18 09:02:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD CASC IN SF
08PRETORIA1358	ANC PLANS TO MEDIATE ZIMBABWE CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. PolOff met on 23 June with Mo Shaik, one of ANC President Jacob Zuma's advisors, to discuss the ANC's plans to mediate the Zimbabwe crisis, which essentially rehashes Mbeki's current proposals for a government of national unity. Shaik said in no uncertain terms that the ANC will [...]	2008-06-23 15:59:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SF ZI
08PRETORIA1396	SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL BERMAN'S JULY 1-6 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome the visit of your delegation to South Africa. My staff and I stand ready to do everything we can to make your trip a success. You are visiting South Africa at a particularly interesting time, only seven months after Jacob Zuma defeated incumbent Thabo Mbeki as leader of [...]	2008-06-26 15:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT PREL PGOV SF
08PRETORIA1431	ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND [...] (SBU) Econ OMS Larry Johnson presented reftel demarche to South African Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director UN Security Council Llia du Buisson on July 1, 2008. The South African Government provided no immediate response. 2. (U) AmEmb Pretoria POC is Deputy Econ Counselor Bruce [...]	2008-07-01 13:05:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC SF
08PRETORIA1462	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON ANC PRESIDENT ZUMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a cordial July 2 meeting with the Ambassador, a confident ANC President Jacob Zuma said he shared U.S. concerns about the deteriorating political and economic situation in Zimbabwe, but supported President Mbeki's approach toward the crisis. Like Mbeki, Zuma claimed that [...]	2008-07-07 14:48:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC OVIP SF
08PRETORIA1467	PAHAD OUTLINES SAG CONCERNS ABOUT UNSC ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) At his July 4 public press conference, DepForMin Aziz Pahad expressed opposition to the USG-proposed UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe (refs A & B) and outlined current South African Government (SAG) thinking on Zimbabwe policy. Repeating familiar SAG arguments, Pahad: -- claimed that the "h [...]	2008-07-08 11:13:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ZI SF
08PRETORIA1592	PRESIDENT MBEKI TO CONTINUE AS SOLE MEDIATOR ON [...] (U) On 18 July, President Mbeki briefed AU Chairperson Jean Ping, UN Special Representative Haile Menkerios, and SADC Organ on Defence Politics and Security Special Representative George Chikoti on the SADC-mandated mediation process in Zimbabwe. According to a public statement by the Preside [...]	2008-07-21 14:24:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZI SF
08PRETORIA1595	South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]	2008-07-22 07:44:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
08PRETORIA1618	IRANIAN COMPANY EFFORTS TO PROCURE STEEL FROM [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-24 15:52:00	Embassy Pretoria	SECRET	PARM PREL MTCRE SF IR
08PRETORIA1657	SOUTH AFRICAN PLATINUM COMPANIES' LONG VIEW ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: South African platinum companies take a long-term view on the ore deposits, investments, politics, and economics of Zimbabwe, which hosts the second largest platinum deposit in the world in the "Great Dyke". They are realistic about the challenges and ambiguities of doing busine [...]	2008-07-29 13:12:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN ENRG EINV ETRD EPET PGOV ZI SF
08PRETORIA1661	ZIMBABWE DEMARCHE: AMBASSADOR UNDERSCORES NEED TO [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on the ongoing Zimbabwe political talks to DepForMin Sue van der Merwe on July 28. He underscored that the outcome of any negotiation must respect the will of the Zimbabwean people, which we believe does not include President Mugabe retaining a positio [...]	2008-07-29 14:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZI SF
08PRETORIA1810	CODEL BERMAN CALLS ON OFFICIALS AND VISITS PEPFAR [...] (SBU) Summary. CODEL Berman completed an extensive visit to South Africa, July 1-6, 2008. In Cape Town, the delegation visited the Port of Cape Town to learn about trade and port security issues and met with a major supermarket chain CEO to hear about his pioneering efforts to promote black [...]	2008-08-15 07:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD OVIP SF ZI
08PRETORIA1831	SAG DEFENDS ZIMBABWE POLICY IN CODEL BERMAN MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 3, 2008, DepForMin Aziz Pahad thanked CODEL Berman for visiting South Africa and expressed appreciation for congressional funding to combat HIV/AIDS and support for legislation removing anti-apartheid activists from the U.S. terrorist list. During a lively and at times [...]	2008-08-18 13:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM OVIP SF ZI
08PRETORIA2648	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 5, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 49 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Concern as Chinese Clothing Quotas Expire - Tax Reforms Help South Africa's Rankings in a Global Study - Factories Hit Historic Low [...]	2008-12-05 13:33:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
08PRETORIA271	TELECOMMUNICATION LIBERALIZATION MOVING AT A [...] (SBU) Summary. ICT Officer met with Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) officials to discuss implementation of the Electronic Communications Act (ECA). Market analysis, licensing, and spectrum management were identified as the main focus for implementation. ICASA ex [...]	2008-02-11 05:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ETRD USTR SF
08PRETORIA2718	MAURITANIAN DELEGATION IN SOUTH AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: On December 9, 2008 Deputy Chief of Mission Helen La Lime met with the National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD) delegation from Mauritania led by National Assembly Speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir. Boulkheir explained the urgent need for action against the military junta [...]	2008-12-17 10:04:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MR AU SF
08PRETORIA516	SARKOZY AND MBEKI DISCUSS IRAN, MIDDLE EAST, G-8 [...] (C) During their February 28 meeting in Cape Town, French President Sarkozy and South African President Mbeki discussed the Iranian nuclear issue, the Middle East peace process, the situation in Darfur, and the "democratization" of international institutions, specifically the expansion of the [...]	2008-03-12 14:03:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SF FR
08PRETORIA520	SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL LED BY SENATOR RICHARD [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome the visit of your delegation to South Africa. My staff and I stand ready to do everything we can to make your trip a success. You are visiting South Africa at a particularly interesting time, only a few months after Jacob Zuma defeated incumbent Thabo Mbeki as leader of [...]	2008-03-13 10:55:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON OTRA PGOV PREL SENV SF
08PRETORIA584	SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL LED BY CONGRESSMAN BARNEY [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome the visit of your delegation to South Africa. My staff and I stand ready to do everything we can to make your trip a success. You are visiting South Africa at a particularly interesting time, only a few months after Jacob Zuma defeated incumbent Thabo Mbeki as leader of [...]	2008-03-19 14:46:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON OTRA PGOV PREL SENV SF GH CV
08PRETORIA677	SOUTH AFRICAN BANKS AND THE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (C) Summary: South African banks have implemented extensive money-laundering controls since the Financial Intelligence Centre Act was passed in 2001. The major banks now employ large anti-money-laundering staffs and use sophisticated software to identify suspicious transactions. They also f [...]	2008-04-02 06:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PTER SF
08PRETORIA727	ZUMA ADVISOR APPEARS AT A LOSS REGARDING ZIMBABWE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 7 April Mo Shaik, one of ANC President Jacob Zuma's advisors, met with PolOff to discuss current thinking within the Zuma camp regarding the Zimbabwe crisis. Contrary to media hype surrounding Jacob Zuma's meeting with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai on 7 April, Shaik portrayed th [...]	2008-04-08 12:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SF ZI
08QUITO1042	GOE'S HEIGHTENED RHETORIC RENEWS TENSIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The GOE again directed harsh words against the Colombian government in late October. President Correa threatened to restrict Colombian citizens' entries into Ecuador, file another international lawsuit against Colombia, and reiterated that Bogota was to blame for the lack of bila [...]	2008-11-06 21:53:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS EC PE
08QUITO1162	CORREA'S POLEMICAL VISIT TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: President Rafael Correa's December 5-9 visit to Iran, the first by an Ecuadorian president, resulted in 12 agreements and a $40 million line-of-credit. Our assessment is that GOE actions defy the spirit, but not the letter, of UN Security Council sanction resolutions. During the [...]	2008-12-19 22:21:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MASS EC IR
08QUITO161	ECUADOR 2008 SPECIAL 301 REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary and recommendation. Post concurs with PhRMA recommendation that Ecuador remain on the Special 301 Watch List for 2008. Overall protection for IPR goods has not changed significantly over the past year, although the Ecuadorian Intellectual Property Institute (IEPI) has new, mor [...]	2008-02-21 17:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON EC
08QUITO301	ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE: IRAN, IAEA AND UNSCR [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered points and non-papers for reftels B and C on March 4 and for reftel D on March 10 to the MFA's Directorate General of Multilateral Affairs. Due to extensive travel and other commitments, including an active role in addressing the Ecuador-Colombia crisis at the OAS, MFA [...]	2008-03-28 20:07:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM ECON IAEA NSG EC IR
08QUITO394	ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE: TRAVEL BAN REQUIREMENTS [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered Ref A points on April 30 to Lourdes Puma, MFA Director General of Multilateral Affairs, who had been previously unavailable due to her travel and participation in the EU-Andean Community negotiations. 2. (C) Puma reiterated the position she communicated in response [...]	2008-04-30 22:59:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP IR UNSC EC
08QUITO402	ECUADOR: CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY PICKS UP THE PACE [...] (SBU) Summary: During the last month, the Constituent Assembly managed to approve its first 17 constitutional articles, as well as a committee report on Colombia-Ecuador tensions and the alleged U.S. role in the March 1 attack. While President Correa,s Proud and Sovereign Fatherland movement [...]	2008-05-06 16:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB MARR PTER ECON EC
08QUITO581	ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE: 60 DAY REPORT ON UNSCR [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points on June 27 to Marisol Nieto, MFA Acting Director General of Multilateral Affairs. 2. (C) Nieto reiterated that the GOE's position on Iran is based on "principles" and that the IAEA should have been given additional time to work with Iran before introdu [...]	2008-06-30 21:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC EC
08QUITO777	ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE: IRAN AND THE NAM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A points on July 14 to the MFA's Directorate General of Multilateral Affairs and followed up with Director General of Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on August 8. 2. (C) Puma said that the GOE supported the passage of the Statement on Iran's Nuclear Issue adop [...]	2008-08-22 12:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA PERL UR EC
08RABAT1180	MOROCCO: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) In response to Ref C request, this cable constitutes Embassy Morocco's draft submission for the 2008 Country Reports on Terrorism (see paragraphs below). The report is also being uploaded to Diplopedia. The Embassy Morocco point of contact for this report is David O'Connor (O'ConnorDR [...]	2008-12-22 16:30:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR MO
08RABAT185	NEA A/S WELCH,S MEETINGS WITH KING MOHAMMED VI AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: King Mohammed VI received NEA A/S Welch for an hour on February 25. The wide-ranging exchange of views focused on bilateral cooperation, the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),Iran, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mauritania, Syria, Algeria and Western Sahara. In most respects, the audience mirro [...]	2008-02-28 16:08:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP MO
08RABAT241	MOROCCO VOICES SUPPORT FOR ADOPTION OF UNSC [...] On March 14, POLOFF conveyed to Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of the Security and Disarmament Section Mr. Driss Rushdy reftel points concerning obligations imposed on U.N. member states by the recent adoption of UNSCR 1803, which imposes further sanctions on Iran for its fai [...]	2008-03-14 12:35:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP MNUC IR MO
08RABAT275	MOROCCO'S MARKET WATCHDOG BARES ITS FANGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco's Securities and Exchange Commission, the Conseil Deontologique des Valeurs Mobilieres (CDVM),for the first time in its fifteen-year history moved this month to impose order in Moroccan securities markets by issuing sanctions and warnings to a range of brokers who viola [...]	2008-03-28 17:02:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV MO
08RABAT570	MOROCCO RIOTS: WHAT HAPPENED IN SIDI IFNI? [...] (C) The heavy-handed police breakup of a blockade at the Sidi Ifni port on June 7, and consequent riot, yielded numerous casualties. In contrast to media reports, there were neither fatalities nor rapes, but a consensus of credible independent inquiries confirms there were numerous cases of p [...]	2008-06-20 07:54:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PINS ECON EFIS EAGR MO
08RABAT718	NAM MINISTERIAL: SNOOZING DINOSAUR MUTTERS IN ITS [...] (C/NF) Moroccan MFA Chief of Staff Nasser Bourita (strictly protect) said that Iran "did not get most of what it wanted" on the issue of its nuclear and missile programs during the recent Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial in Tehran. He expressed happiness with the more Morocco-friendly [...]	2008-08-04 11:05:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM KNNP WI ZI AG ZP ZR MO
08RABAT719	NAM MINISTERIAL: SNOOZING DINOSAUR MUTTERS IN ITS [...] (C/NF) Moroccan MFA Chief of Staff Nasser Bourita (strictly protect) said that Iran "did not get most of what it wanted" on the issue of its nuclear and missile programs during the recent Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial in Tehran. He expressed happiness with the more Morocco-friendly [...]	2008-08-04 11:05:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM KNNP WI ZI AG ZP ZR MO
08RANGOON11	AUSTRALIAN COMPANY TO INVEST IN BURMA'S GAS SECTOR [...] (C) Summary. Australian-owned Danford Equities Corporation will become the next foreign company to invest heavily in the Burmese oil and gas sector when it begins exploration of its offshore gas field in 2008. According to Australian Embassy officials, Danford expects to spend up to $40 mil [...]	2008-01-09 10:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON16	QATAR AIR "TO SUSPEND" OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Although Qatar Airways will stop direct flights between Doha and Rangoon on January 20 (Ref A),Qatar Airways Area Director Shahab Attarzadeh emphasized that the airline is not pulling out, but is only "suspending" operations. Since September, Qatar Airways has seen a 70 percen [...]	2008-01-11 04:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	BM EAIR ECON PGOV PREL
08RANGOON162	REGIME CRONIES CONTINUE WHEELING AND DEALING [...] (C) Summary. Regime crony Tay Za continues to do business in Burma and Singapore, as he looks for ways to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Within Burma, Tay Za's Htoo Group of Companies is expanding into new sectors. Tay Za plans to open a new shipping company in 2008, using two bulk freighters [...]	2008-03-03 08:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON167	AIR BAGAN CRASH RAISES SAFETY QUESTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Air Bagan, one of regime crony Tay Za's companies included on the targeted U.S. sanctions list, continues to grapple with technical and safety issues as its planes experience more difficulties, including a crash in Putao, Northern Kachin State, on February 19. Twenty passengers [...]	2008-03-04 09:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR BM
08RANGOON185	GAMBARI'S OUTBRIEF TO THE DIP CORPS: NO GOOD NEWS [...] (C) Summary: Gambari briefed the dip corps before departing Burma, but declined to give a substantive readout of his conversations before he briefed UNSYG Ban Ki Moon in Dhaka. He discussed the conditions of the referendum with the GOB and offered technical assistance and international moni [...]	2008-03-10 10:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON192	AIR BAGAN SAFETY ISSUES UNCOVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-12 09:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR CASC ASEC BM
08RANGOON194	BURMA: GAMBARI TO PROPOSE A "TIME-OUT FOR [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Gambari was unhappy with the short time-frame of his recent visit to Burma, and pushed hard to extend his stay and expand his schedule. The Senior General refused to grant him meetings with any of the regime's senior leadership, but did allow him to meet with Aung [...]	2008-03-13 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON198	GOB ENCOURAGES USE OF SINGAPORE DOLLARS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a change to its banking policy, the Burmese Government now permits private companies with foreign export earnings to open Singapore dollar-denominated bank accounts in three state-owned banks -- Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank, Myanmar Investment and Commercial Bank, and Myanmar E [...]	2008-03-17 01:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL BM

08RANGOON210	BURMA - WHY THE KYAT IS APPRECIATING AGAINST THE DOLLAR [...] (SBU) Summary. The Burmese kyat, traditionally one of the weakest currencies in Southeast Asia, continues to appreciate against the declining U.S. dollar. Since September 2007, the market rate of the kyat has risen by 19 percent. Burmese economists see the kyat's appreciation as primarily du [...]	2008-03-19 09:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM

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