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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG 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| 08JERUSALEM2248 | PA COMPLAINS IDF KILLING OF PIJ ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary. According to PA National Security Forces (NSF) staff, an undercover IDF squad shot and killed a PIJ militant December 16 without giving the PA notice of the operation. According to Jenin Governor Qaddura Musa and NSF staff, the militant had been in voluntary PA custody for seve [...] | 2008-12-16 16:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG IS PGOV PTER ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2252 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/17): RUMORS OF A "MILITARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 11:17:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2258 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/18): "ACTION - NOT JUST LIP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 10:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2261 | GAZA: QASSAMS POUND NEGEV; ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE KILLS [...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other militants in Gaza fired 27 Qassam rockets and four mortars into Israel December 17-18. One Qassam struck Sderot and injured three Israelis, according to local press. According to Gaza contacts, Israeli airstrikes hit near Jabaliya Re [...] | 2008-12-18 15:30:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG IS PTER PHUM ECON PREF |
| 08JERUSALEM2266 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/19): THE TRUCE ENDS, WHAT [...] Al Quds, in its main editorial entitled: "Iran ... a reconsideration of several stands is required" remarks that "It is time for the Arabs and Palestinians, with all their factions and movements, to realize that Iran has its own interests, including a special interest in avoiding an attack on i [...] | 2008-12-19 07:54:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2274 | NEW "HAMAS BANK" TO OPEN IN GAZA DECEMBER 28 [...] (C) Summary: Hamas has announced the "licensing" of a new bank, the Islamic National Bank (INB),in the Gaza Strip. Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) Governor Jihad al-Wazir considers the bank an illegal entity, and said the PMA will launch a public campaign against it. He said Hamas is cap [...] | 2008-12-19 13:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID KWBG PTER PGOV PINR IS QA |
| 08JERUSALEM2275 | SOME POSITIVE CHANGES TO NABLUS ACCESS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the GOI's announcement of eased access and movement restrictions for the Eid al-Adha holiday (reftel),Nablus businessmen say the most important change has been that permits are no longer required for private vehicles and pedestrians to enter Nablus via Beit Iba and Huwa [...] | 2008-12-19 16:30:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PGOV KWBG ETRD IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2278 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/22): OBSTACLES TO PEACE [...] The main editorial in Al Quds, "Prisoners once again," opines: "It is time for the Palestinian side to reject the Israeli position that deals with prisoners of freedom as criminal prisoners...it is time for European mediators, who always demand the release of [abducted Israeli soldier Gilad] Sh [...] | 2008-12-22 09:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2284 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/23): BRIEF TRUCE IN GAZA [...] Mohamad Al Mubarak opines in Al Quds under the title "Will Rumsfeld escape or disappear?": "It is regrettable that the courts have so far not considered the war crimes committed by Rumsfeld, which led to the killing and displacement of millions of innocents and violated international laws and n [...] | 2008-12-23 09:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2285 | PA REPORTS MORE JENIN-AREA INCURSIONS [...] (SBU) The IDF conducted 11 separate raids and patrols in Area A in Jenin Governorate from December 18-22, searching five houses and detaining two Palestinians, according to PA National Security Forces (NSF) and District Coordinating Office (DCO) contacts. The IDF operated in central Jenin tw [...] | 2008-12-23 15:29:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG IS PGOV PTER ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2289 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/24): REPORTS ON ABBAS' [...] Al Quds editorial "The complicated crisis in Gaza" opines: "The worst scenario that could happen [in Gaza], is the use of military force, especially the Israeli one, in an attempt to topple the Hamas movement, because such an attempt is a definite prescription for bloodshed, extreme loss of li [...] | 2008-12-24 11:36:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2293 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/29): "Massacre" in Gaza [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 09:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2294 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/29): "Massacre" in Gaza [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 10:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2295 | GAZA UPDATE DECEMBER 29, 1400 LOCAL: AIRSTRIKES [...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and Palestinian rocket fire continue as of 1400 local on December 29. Palestinian medical, UN and NGO staff report at least 280 Palestinian deaths and 700 injuries since the airstrikes began on December 27. One Israeli was killed in a rocket strik [...] | 2008-12-29 12:28:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG IS PTER MOPS ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2299 | GAZA UPDATE DECEMBER 29, 1800 LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Airstrikes and rocket fire continue in the Gaza Strip as of 1800 local on December 29. Gaza medical, UN and NGO sources report at least 308 Palestinian deaths since December 27, and at least 900 Palestinians in Gaza have been treated in hospitals for injuries due to IAF fire. [...] | 2008-12-29 16:11:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG IS PTER MOPS ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2300 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE -- DECEMBER 29 [...] (SBU) Summary: An estimated 55 truckloads of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing on December 29, according to UN contacts. 21 truckloads entered on December 28. Food levels remain critically low, and no fuel has entered Gaza since December 26. End Summary. [...] | 2008-12-29 16:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2301 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/30): Calls for national unity [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-30 09:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2309 | GAZA UPDATE DECEMBER 30, 1300 LOCAL: 2 ISRAELIS, [...] (SBU) Summary. From 1800 local o December 29 to 1300 on December 30, rockets kiled two Israelis and injured at least nine others and Israeli airstrikes killed at least 16 more alestinians. Palestinian medical, UN and NGO staffreport at least 358 Palestinian deaths and 1070 njuries requiring [...] | 2008-12-30 11:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG IS PTER MOPS ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2314 | SENIOR IDF, PASF COMMANDERS MEET TO DISCUSS WEST BANK SECURITY SITUATION [...] (S) PA security chiefs met with top IDF and COGAT officers late December 29 at Bet El (outside Ramallah) to discuss the West Bank security situation in light of Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip. PA security chiefs told ConGenOffs that the PA urged the IDF to avoid Palestinian demonstrations and [...] | 2008-12-30 15:28:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | SECRET | KWBG IS PGOV PTER ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2315 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE -- DECEMBER 30 [...] (SBU) Summary: An estimated 100 truckloads of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza via Kerem Shalom crossing and five truckloads entered through Rafah on December 30, according to PA Crossing Authority contacts. The Gaza power plant was forced to shut down its only functioning turbine around 0 [...] | 2008-12-30 16:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2316 | GAZA UPDATE DECEMBER 30, 1800 LOCAL: FEWER [...] (SBU) Summary. From 1300 to 1800 local on December 30, 17 Palestinians were injured in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, and at least 10 more rockets hit Israel. At least 360 Palestinians have been killed and 1100 injured in airstrikes through 1800 on December 30. Clashes broke out in [...] | 2008-12-30 16:45:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG IS PTER MOPS ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2318 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/31): "Gaza is dying...what are [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 08:54:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2320 | GAZA UPDATE DECEMBER 31, 1300 LOCAL: DECREASED [...] (SBU) Summary. From 1800 December 30 through 1300 on December 31, two Palestinians were killed and at least 12 were injured in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, and at least 40 more rockets hit Israel (including several long-range rockets). At least 364 Palestinians have been killed and [...] | 2008-12-31 12:06:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG IS PTER MOPS ASEC |
| 08JERUSALEM2322 | HAMAS ALLEGEDLY EXECUTES SEVEN FATAH PRISONERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Fatah contacts told PolFSN on December 30 that, in the wake of IAF bombings on December 28, Hamas executed seven Fatah members who had been held prisoner at al-Saraya prison in Gaza City. Three additional Fatah members are reportedly missing. Local human rights organizations [...] | 2008-12-31 13:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM2323 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE -- DECEMBER 31 [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 90 truckloads of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza via Kerem Shalom crossing on December 31. The Gaza power plant is shut down, and Nahal Oz remained closed for fuel imports. Karni crossing also remains closed. Donor organizations continue to stress the need t [...] | 2008-12-31 15:29:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS |
| 08JERUSALEM243 | PA SECURITY SAYS HAMAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DIMONA [...] (S) PA police chief Kamal al-Shaykh and Hazem Attallah (PM Salam Fayyad's military secretary) told PolOff on February 6-7 that Hamas was responsible for the February 4 suicide bombing in Dimona and that the blast is part of a Hamas strategy to sow instability and undermine peace efforts. Att [...] | 2008-02-08 12:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | SECRET | KWBG PTER IS PINS |
| 08JERUSALEM244 | MILITANTS BREAK OUT OF PA PRISON IN NABLUS, ONE [...] (C) General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) contacts report that one prisoner (Muhammad Abu Ramih, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades) remains at large after five al-Aqsa and PIJ fugitives broke out of Junayd Prison in Nablus on February 7. 15 fugitives in the PA prison have been on a hunger strike for two [...] | 2008-02-08 15:32:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PTER IS PREL |
| 08JERUSALEM275 | PA COMPLAINS ABOUT ISRAELI RAIDS ON WEST BANK [...] (SBU) In the early hours of February 12, Israeli security forces raided the offices and homes of fourteen money changers in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, and Hebron, and seized NIS 3 million in cash (equal to USD 830,000),along with computer equipment, documents, [...] | 2008-02-13 16:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KFTN KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM292 | SILWAN RESIDENTS PROTEST ON-GOING TUNNEL [...] (C) Summary. Ongoing excavations of an ancient tunnel in Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood have angered local residents, who say the digging is damaging their homes and disrupting their lives. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) Coordinator Meir Margalit told PolOff the excavat [...] | 2008-02-15 11:43:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM299 | WEST BANK/GAZA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 14:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KPAL KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC |
| 08JERUSALEM300 | RESIDENTS OF ISSAWIYA AND 'ANATA CRITICIZE LAND [...] (C) Summary. Members of the Issawiya and 'Anata Committees for the Defense of Land and Property and 'Anata's mayor told PolOff on February 14 that the Israeli Civil Administration expropriated 1500 dunums (roughly 375 acres) for roads through the E-1 area connecting Ma'ale Adumim to Almon an [...] | 2008-02-15 15:12:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM302 | NSU BELIEVES EASTERN RING ROAD WILL ISOLATE EAST [...] (C) Summary. Negotiations Support Unit (NSU) legal advisor Fuad Hallak told PolOff that the 60-day public review period for the southern portion of the Jerusalem Eastern Ring Road began on January 1 and that Palestinians plan to oppose the expropriation of their land for use in the road. NSU [...] | 2008-02-15 15:26:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM304 | STATUS OF EAST JERUSALEM BUILDING ANNOUNCEMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of numerous press announcements of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, this telegram details these announcements since the Annapolis meetings and plots each proposal's location on the approval timeline (as "Construction Imminent," "In Approval Process," or "Not Submi [...] | 2008-02-15 15:45:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM316 | CLOSURE OF EAST JERUSALEM INSTITUTIONS RENEWED [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli MoI in early February renewed closure orders against eight Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem. PA Advisor on Jerusalem Affairs Hatem Abd al-Qader has told the press that the Orient House reopened, but privately admitted that his comments were designed to bri [...] | 2008-02-20 16:02:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM332 | VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS IN GAZA; [...] (SBU) Summary. In the second major attack on Gaza's Christian institutions in a week, armed militants forced their way into the Lighthouse Baptist School in central Gaza City on February 21, beat one of the guards and vandalized some classrooms. On February 15, gunmen detonated explosives a [...] | 2008-02-22 15:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PTER IS PHUM PGOV |
| 08JERUSALEM347 | MASKIYYOT: ADDITIONAL POST ANNAPOLIS SETTLEMENT [...] (S/NF) Summary. On February 21, PolOff traveled to the Northern Jordan Valley and confirmed six new caravans at the Nahal pre-military academy settlement of Maskiyyot. Settlers told PolOff that they had moved into the caravans one month before. The six new caravans, inhabited by settler ev [...] | 2008-02-26 14:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | SECRET//NOFORN | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM348 | FIVE PARTIAL DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM ON [...] (C) According to Jerusalem Municipality advisor Elad Halevy, the Jerusalem Municipality executed five demolitions of parts of homes in Palestinian East Jerusalem on February 25. Halevy said that in all five cases the construction was done without permits. He added that the builders did not [...] | 2008-02-26 15:51:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM349 | GAZA HARVEST YIELDS LITTLE EXPORT REVENUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Gaza strawberry and carnation export revenues were low this season in comparison to recent years, due to restricted access through crossing points and shipping procedures that reportedly resulted in damaged products and reduced values in European markets. Export earnings for [...] | 2008-02-26 16:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PHUM |
| 08JERUSALEM350 | ABU MAZEN'S ECONOMIC ADVISOR ON OPIC, TELECOM, [...] (C) Summary: PA Presidential Economic Advisor Mohammad Mustafa told the Consul General that local banks have begun issuing loans backed by a loan guarantee facility established by OPIC last year. There have been signs of progress in the effort to secure Israeli release of frequencies for the [...] | 2008-02-26 16:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET EINV ECPS KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM357 | 27 NEW CARAVANS EXPAND THE FOOTPRINT OF ELI [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: PolOff visited Eli settlement February 26 and saw ongoing construction of 27 new caravans at the settlement's westernmost edge. Mayor Eli Shtul told PolOff that the caravans will share infrastructure with 17 existing permanent structures called Neve Shir built in 1991. These [...] | 2008-02-27 16:15:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | SECRET//NOFORN | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM362 | IDF OPERATION IN NABLUS ON FEBRUARY 27 [...] (C) Summary. PA security sources reported February 27 that an undercover IDF unit opened fire at five Palestinians in Nablus. Four were arrested and one died of his wounds. According to PA security sources, three were al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades activists whom the PA had sought to include in th [...] | 2008-02-28 12:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL PTER PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM364 | GAZA: LOW FUEL SUPPLIES LIMIT WATER AND POWER [...] (C) Summary: Nahal Oz fuel transfer station was open for limited shipments on February 28. Gaza fuel importers claim that gasoline and diesel fuel imports currently meet just 20 percent of Gaza's needs. Most Gazan homes receive water from the mains for just six to ten hours each week. Local [...] | 2008-02-28 13:21:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
| 08JERUSALEM365 | ISRAELI ACTION AGAINST WEST BANK CHARITIES [...] (C) Summary. Israeli security forces raided the offices of three charities in Jenin February 19, according to press reports, destroying property and confiscating equipment and other contents. The IDF carried out similar actions February 26 against two charities in Hebron. In both Jenin and [...] | 2008-02-28 13:22:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KFTN PGOV KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM367 | E-1 UPDATE FOR LATE FEBRUARY 2008 [...] (C) Summary. PolOffs observed February 27 that the police station in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim is nearing completion, and a policeman at the site said the police headquarters will move in the next two weeks. Infrastructure appears ready to support the police station. P [...] | 2008-02-28 15:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM425 | TERRORIST ATTACK IN JERUSALEM KILLS EIGHT [...] (C) Summary. A terrorist attack at Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav yeshiva on March 6 left eight students dead and seven wounded. One of the dead was an Amcit, as was one of the wounded. Israeli security has confirmed that the attack was carried out by Ala'a Abu Dhaim from the East Jerusalem neig [...] | 2008-03-07 16:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM468 | PA REPORTS CLEARANCE REVENUES CONTINUE TO BE HELD [...] (C) Summary. The GOI recently delivered on a commitment to transfer clearance revenues early each month in order to facilitate Palestinian Authority (PA) payment of public employee salaries, according to a PA Ministry of Finance official. The amount transferred, however, has not significantl [...] | 2008-03-14 16:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM471 | EAST BARTA'A VILLAGE: "TRAPPED IN THE SEAM ZONE" [...] (C) Summary. East Barta'a mayor Ghassan Kabaha told Poloffs February 26 that his village of 4,000 is "trapped in the seam zone," between the separation barrier and the Green Line. Kabaha said most of the village's residents do not have permission to enter Israel and must cross through the s [...] | 2008-03-18 07:45:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM503 | EGYPT-GAZA POWER IMPROVEMENTS POSSIBLE, BUT MAJOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian Energy Authority (PEA) Chairman Omar Kattaneh confirmed press reports that tenders would be offered for construction of high-voltage lines to increase the ability of Egypt to provide the Gaza Strip with power. The project aims to boost Gaza's supply of electricity [...] | 2008-03-24 15:46:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG KWBG PHUM EG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM511 | PA HOLDING THE BUDGET LINE, BUT DECLINE IN DOLLAR [...] (SBU) Summary. The IMF reports that the PA's total financing needs for 2008 are now forecast at more than USD 2.1 billion (up from 1.8 billion in December). The IMF notes that donor contributions to date (including USG assistance) have been sufficient to sustain PA operations, but at current [...] | 2008-03-25 13:29:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS KPAL |
| 08JERUSALEM530 | YATIR OUTPOST NOT REMOVED DESPITE CLAIMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On a March 25 visit to the southern West Bank settlement of Yatir, PolOff observed that the four caravans at the Yatir South outpost, which the GOI claimed (reftel) were removed remain in place and inhabited. Yatir settlers told PolOff that they know the GOI is discussing the [...] | 2008-03-26 16:02:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM542 | E-1 UPDATE: POLICE STATION NEARLY COMPLETE, [...] (C) Summary. Press reported on March 27 that the Israeli police station in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim will open Monday, March 31. During a March 24 visit to E-1, PolOffs observed minimal work on the building and on the road, both of which appear nearly complete. PolOff [...] | 2008-03-27 14:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM544 | 31 FATAH-LINKED FUGITIVES GRANTED AMNESTY FOR [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Minister of Interior (MoI) Raji al-Najmi told ConGen Pol Specialist on March 26 that the GOI ISA (Shin Bet) agreed to remove 31 Fatah-linked fugitives from Israeli wanted lists as part of the disarmament/amnesty deal. Al-Najmi said the ISA told him that 5 other fugitives [...] | 2008-03-27 15:56:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PTER IS PREL PGOV |
| 08JERUSALEM547 | FOUR NEW CARAVANS AT TENE OMRIM SETTLEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff visited the settlement of Tene Omrim near Hebron on March 26 and confirmed March 26 press reports that four new caravans were installed for families evacuated from Gush Katif. The caravans expand the footprint some fifty feet. Peace Now Settlement Watch Director told P [...] | 2008-03-27 16:49:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM554 | RESPONSE ON FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN THE PALESTINIAN [...] (U) The Palestinian Authority (PA) under Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Salam Fayyad is committed to fiscal transparency and has instituted a number of reforms since taking office in July 2007. 2. (U) On March 26, Fayyad relaunched the Ministry of Finance website (www.pmof.ps) to se [...] | 2008-03-28 10:26:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KWBG PREL KPAL EFIN |
| 08JERUSALEM565 | REMOVAL OF 47 ROADBLOCKS; PALESTINIANS DISMISS [...] (SBU) Summary: According to the PA office of Civil Affairs, the GOI Civil Administration informed the PA that 47 obstacles in the West Bank (mostly dirt mounds blocking local road access onto highways) have been or will be removed. PA contacts say the list includes the Taybeh checkpoint betw [...] | 2008-04-01 15:35:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PREL PHUM ECON IS |
| 08JERUSALEM567 | HAMAS SECURITY FORAY INTO AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY IN [...] (SBU) Summary. University contacts report that Hamas Executive Force gunmen and pro-Hamas students forcibly entered of al-Azhar University in Gaza City on March 31, occupying the campus and assaulting several students and staff before leaving later the same day. University administrators had [...] | 2008-04-01 16:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KWBG IS PGOV |
| 08JERUSALEM578 | FAYYAD ON TARQUMIYA INDUSTRIAL PARK [...] (C) PM Fayyad's views on the Tarqumiya Industrial Park, as expressed in several conversations with the Consul General and LTG Fraser, differ from those reported reftel. Fayyad told the Consul General and LTG Fraser on March 29 that he "does not care" whether the proposed Turkish industrial par [...] | 2008-04-03 13:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV KPAL KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM581 | REMOVAL OF TWO OUTPOSTS: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local press reported on April 3 that the GOI removed settlers from the Harhivi and Shevut Ami outposts. According to lawyer Michal Sfard who represents the Palestinian owner of the land at Shevut Ami, four teenage girls were removed from the one-room structure, allowing Israel [...] | 2008-04-03 15:02:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM586 | SECOND PALESTINIAN MOBILE PHONE PROVIDER STILL [...] (C/NF) Summary: The CEO of the second mobile telephone operator in the West Bank reported on April 3 that he is still waiting for the GOI to provide the necessary frequency spectrum to allow him to begin operations. He complained that the GOI proposals on the table would cripple his ability [...] | 2008-04-04 13:29:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECPS ECON BEXP EINV KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM587 | WEST BANK ATTORNEYS ON JUDICIAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary. West Bank attorneys and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate Bjorn Rahm told Poloff that reform of the Palestinian judicial sector must tackle case backlog, train judges, and improve court administration and services to the public. Attorney Loubna Katbeh tol [...] | 2008-04-04 13:41:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM593 | MAZMURIYA CHECKPOINT CLOSED TO ALL BUT SETTLERS [...] (C) Summary. According to B'Tselem and Palestinians from the Jerusalem villages of Sur Baher and Um Tuba, use of Mazmuriya checkpoint near Bethlehem has been restricted to settlers since March 20. All Arabs, including Jerusalem ID holders, West Bankers with permits, and Arab Israelis, have [...] | 2008-04-07 08:30:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM600 | UNRWA PROPOSES COMPROMISE ON WEST BANK PROTESTERS' [...] (SBU) Summary. Protests continue in all 19 West Bank Palestinian refugee camps over dissatisfaction with UNRWA assistance. UNRWA Acting Director for West Bank Operations Sami Mshasha told RefCoord April 3 that UNRWA has proposed a compromise to the camp committees to allow food distribution [...] | 2008-04-08 12:44:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV IS |
| 08JERUSALEM615 | PA EMPLOYS REGULATIONS AND THE COURTS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Fatah-led public employee unions staged a strike on April 7 and called for partial strikes for the remainder of the week. President Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued a decree allowing any party affected by public sector strikes to take those responsible to court. The PA cabinet has file [...] | 2008-04-08 15:04:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB KPAL KWBG |
| 08JERUSALEM626 | PA BOOTS MILITANT ZUBAYDAH OUT OF JENIN SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Jenin PLC contacts report that PA President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) ordered al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant Zakariya Zubaydah's expulsion from the Jenin Muqata'a (security headquarters) on April 8 in response to a press interview in which Zubaydah called the PA's leadership " [...] | 2008-04-10 13:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PTER IS PGOV |
| 08JERUSALEM641 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/14): OLMERT: CHECKPOINTS ARE [...] Independent Al-Quds opens its editorial page with, "Boycotting Carter and opening doors for Livni!" (04/14): "On her way to Qatar to address the Democracy Forum held in Doha, Israeli Foreign Minister Livni called upon Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel in order to encourage Pale [...] | 2008-04-14 10:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM647 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/15): PALESTINIAN GRATITUDE TO [...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed entitled, "Egypt's security, its control and authority over its territory is a red line [non-negotiable] for Palestinians" by Palestinian National Council Member Hatem Abu Shaban (4/15): Lately, we have been hearing strange noises from Palestinian groups c [...] | 2008-04-15 10:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM651 | MEVO HORON OUTPOST REMOVED [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff visited the Mevo Horon Agricultural Farm Outpost April 15 and observed the removal of caravans from the site. Settlers at the scene told PolOff that they agreed with the MOD to evacuate the outpost in exchange for building permits for permanent homes in Mevo Horon settle [...] | 2008-04-15 14:32:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM652 | GAZA: LIMITED FUEL SHIPMENTS TO RESUME 4/16 [...] (SBU) Summary: According to PA contacts, the GOI will allow shipments of industrial fuel for the power plant and cooking gas into Gaza on April 16 via the Nahal Oz fuel transfer station. Nahal Oz has been closed since April 10, following a terrorist attack that killed two Israelis. Gaza fu [...] | 2008-04-15 14:34:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR KWBG PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM653 | ABBAS CHAIRS PA'S WEEKLY CABINET MEETING IN PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary. President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) chaired the PA's weekly Cabinet session April 14 in a public show of support for PM Salam Fayyad's government. Local press gave the Cabinet session favorable coverage emphasizing the theme of Palestinian unity. End summary. Abbas Chairs Cab [...] | 2008-04-15 15:36:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG IS ECON EFIN ELAB |
| 08JERUSALEM654 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/16): NO IMPACT EXPECTED FROM [...] Independent Al-Quds opens its editorial page with, "Abbas's tour and international efforts" (04/16): "the tour which President Abbas started [April 15] after meeting with Israeli Premier Olmert to discuss vital issues, will include Jordan, Moscow and Washington. The most important issues to di [...] | 2008-04-16 08:22:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM657 | PA STRIKE ENDS; FAYYAD PLEASED WITH OUTCOME [...] (C) Summary: The Palestinian Authority (PA) came to an agreement with its employees' unions on April 14 to end months of labor disputes that had resulted in intermittent public sector strikes. The two sides agreed that the strikes would end in exchange for a promise to pay salary arrears wit [...] | 2008-04-16 14:54:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB KPAL KWBG |
| 08JERUSALEM674 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/17): THE IMPORTANCE OF [...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Talal Okal entitled, "There is only one exit... (04/17): "It is clear to everyone that the situation in Gaza is miserable. It has spiraled down into the heart of catastrophe where life has become unbearable... two years have passed si [...] | 2008-04-17 09:49:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM678 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/18): NO MILITARY SOLUTION TO [...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by Dr. Naji Sharab, a political science teacher in Gaza, entitled, "What does the world expect from Palestinians? (04/18):"... the Palestinian question is the only one that enjoys the support of international declarations about its rights, including the righ [...] | 2008-04-18 10:13:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM682 | GAZA: DESPITE HAMAS ATTACKS, SOME CROSSINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Hamas terrorist attacks on the Kerem Shalom and Nahal Oz facilities, both remained open on April 17 for limited shipments of fuel and humanitarian goods. WHO sources report that, despite Hamas claims to the contrary, Gaza hospitals have a sufficient supply of anestheti [...] | 2008-04-18 11:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWBG PHUM PTER KPAL ETRD IS |
| 08JERUSALEM685 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/21): ISRAELI INITIATIVES IN [...] Independent Al-Quds, in its daily editorial entitled, "The truce... the ball is in the Israeli court," opined : "It is very clear from the statement of Hamas leader Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar that Hamas is more likely going to positively interact with the Egyptian suggestions for reaching a truce wi [...] | 2008-04-21 11:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM689 | SETTLERS CONFIRM PLAN TO BUILD NEW UNITS IN ELKANA [...] (SBU) Responding to press reports of new construction planned in Elkana and Ariel, YESHA contacts said the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) approved tenders on April 17 for 52 units in Elkana and 48 in Ariel. These contacts said the Elkana development involves converting 52 "cubiot" caravans [...] | 2008-04-21 12:17:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PREL PBTS IS |
| 08JERUSALEM694 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/22): DOUBTS ABOUT [...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by PLO executive committee member Tayseer Khaled entitled: "Annapolis conference launched problematic negotiations and ongoing settlements" that read in part: "... While it is true that Annapolis brought the two sides, Palestinians and Israelis, back to nego [...] | 2008-04-22 08:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM699 | CEC CHAIRMAN: CEC PREPARED FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Hanna Nasir told international donors from the Election Reform Support Group (ERSG) that the CEC is prepared to hold presidential and legislative elections with 60 days notice, but will need a rapid, major cash infusion when elections ar [...] | 2008-04-22 12:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM701 | SMALL TOWN POLICING IN THE WEST BANK [...] (SBU) Summary. Outside the West Bank's large cities, most towns/villages have minimal law enforcement or court infrastructure, due largely to IDF-imposed restrictions and PA budget shortfalls. Criminal justice and property dispute resolution have devolved to family/clan leaders in the absen [...] | 2008-04-22 13:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM702 | GAZA: FOOD AND FUEL UPDATE, APRIL 22 [...] (C) Summary: Gaza-based contacts report that Sufa crossing was open on April 22, while Kerem Shalom crossing and Nahal Oz fuel station remain closed due to the recent terror attacks. Gaza power plant managers reported that they may be forced to stop operations on April 23 if no additional f [...] | 2008-04-22 13:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWBG PHUM PTER KPAL ETRD IS |
| 08JERUSALEM713 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/24): ABBAS DEMANDS THAT USG [...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by regular columnist Talal Okal entitled "There is only one way out" (4/24): "The outcome of the visit of former US president [Carter] does not deserve the media uproar that it created regarding its possible effects and consequences ... Carter asked Hamas t [...] | 2008-04-24 09:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM716 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/25): POTENTIAL FOR PALESTINIAN [...] Al-Quds carried an op-ed by Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zahri entitled "The American role in the Palestinian-Palestinian talks" (4/25) that stated: "Ending the Palestinian internal conflict is a dream for each and every honest Palestinian and Arab. Therefore it is not strange to see ongoing cal [...] | 2008-04-25 07:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM721 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/28): "WHAT IF BUSH LEAVES [...] Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Jawad Al-Bashiti entitled, "What if Bush leaves and takes with him the promise and vision and the map?" (4/28): "...President Bush did not show President Abbas anything during their latest meeting at the White House that gives Abbas optimism about [...] | 2008-04-28 10:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM722 | E-1 MOVE APPEARS IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary. Ha'aretz reported April 28 that Israeli police will soon complete the move from Ras al-Amud to the newly built police station in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim. The move will allow the right-wing Israeli group Ateret Cohanim to take over the former police prop [...] | 2008-04-28 14:56:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM725 | PA FISCAL UPDATE: WESTERN DONORS CARRYING THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Though donors have provided more budget support than expected to date in 2008, absent new pledges the PA faces a significant financing shortfall later this year. The IMF expects the PA will fall USD 400 million short of its 2008 budget requirements, a gap that will increase to c [...] | 2008-04-29 08:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS KPAL |
| 08JERUSALEM726 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/29): VIOLENCE IN GAZA AND [...] In its main editorial entitled, "Why are women and children being killed?", independent Al-Quds opined (4/29): "The Palestinian public may have its own criticisms of Hamas, but the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and West Bank alike make one wonder about the Israeli logic. Israel not [...] | 2008-04-29 09:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM733 | PA SECURITY CHIEFS, IDF COMMANDERS COORDINATE [...] (C) Summary. Following an April 28 meeting with senior IDF officers in Bet El, PA security forces (PASF) commanders report progress in coordination for security operations in Jenin, shortening deployment clearance times, and reopening police stations in Area B. They report IDF criticism of t [...] | 2008-04-30 08:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM734 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/30): "DISAPPOINTMENT AND [...] Official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida carries an op-ed entitled, "Resistance and the Evolution of Peace ideas" (4/30): "... lately, [there has been] disappointment and pessimism expressed over the outcomes of the meeting between [Palestinian] President Abbas and the President of the U.S. George Bus [...] | 2008-04-30 10:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM736 | E-1 POLICE STATION SET TO OPEN THIS WEEKEND [...] (C) Israeli National Police contacts informed ConGen RSO April 29 that they have the final permit necessary to occupy the newly built E-1 police station. A security guard at the Ras al-Amud police station told PolOff April 30 that the traffic division is scheduled to open May 1 at E-1 and all [...] | 2008-04-30 14:29:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM737 | GAZA: FUEL AND FOOD UPDATE, 4/30 [...] (SBU) Summary: Sufa crossing was open on April 28-30 to roughly 50 trucks/day of humanitarian and food shipments, while Kerem Shalom crossing has been closed since April 17. Nahal Oz fuel transfer station has been closed to diesel and gasoline shipments since April 10. The Gaza power plant [...] | 2008-04-30 14:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR KWBG PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM739 | MEDIA ANALYSIS: Palestinian Media Downplays Role of [...] SUMMARY: Reporting on Palestinian-Israeli violence in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian media typically relegates any provocative action by Palestinian militant factions to the background, focusing instead on Israeli actions and Palestinian deaths and injuries. The resulting coverage downplays I [...] | 2008-04-30 15:04:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO KINR |
| 08JERUSALEM740 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/01): PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF [...] Independent Al-Quds ran its daily editorial entitled "Which map?!" (5/01): "Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni... presented the Palestinian negotiation team... an Israeli vision of a final JERUSALEM 00000740 002 OF 002 agreement [as] a serious, official position presented through the [...] | 2008-05-01 08:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM747 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/02): IN PRAISE OF FAYYAD'S [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Palestinian workers on their day" (5/02): "It is important during the celebration of international workers' day to recommit to the importance of development projects for industry, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure that allow our peo [...] | 2008-05-02 09:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM751 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/05): [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "What is wanted is core Israeli changes on the ground" (5/05): "Once again, Secretary Rice returned to the region and we heard her say... [the] SIPDIS exact same comments that we heard her say during her many previous visits. She talke [...] | 2008-05-05 10:59:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM753 | PA OPERATION BEGINS IN JENIN: PASF WELCOMED BY [...] (C) Summary. A 485-man force of Presidential Guards (PG),National Security Forces (NSF) and police entered Jenin early May 2. PM Salam Fayyad visited Jenin May 4 with the NSF and police commanders and directed local security officers to be "firm in enforcing the law without discrimination. [...] | 2008-05-05 14:35:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM754 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/06): GUESSING AT WHAT PROGRESS [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Negotiations... lost time" (5/06): "After meeting with Abu Mazen [Abbas] and heads of the Palestinian and Israeli negotiation teams, Secretary Rice extended her visit to the region in order to continue talks with the Israeli side. We hav [...] | 2008-05-06 09:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM756 | E-1 MOVE NEARLY COMPLETE, PLANS FOR RAS AL-AMUD [...] (C) Summary. PolOff observed a nearly empty police station at Ras al-Amud May 6 and learned from an Israeli guard at the site that the one remaining office will move to E-1 in late May, allowing the police to turn the site over to settlement sponsor Irving Moscowitz. Construction continues [...] | 2008-05-06 15:11:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM757 | JENIN: PASF EXCHANGE FIRE WITH GUNMEN IN QABATIYA, [...] (C) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) clashed with gunmen in Qabatiya on May 6, with a bystander killed and two PIJ activists injured in separate exchanges of gunfire. Security contacts report that a PASF patrol was attacked with a pipe bomb and pelted with stones. West Bank National Secur [...] | 2008-05-06 15:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM759 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/07): PREDICTING THE NEXT 60 [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "They are ignoring our catastrophe" (5/07): "... upon the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel, we should remember that negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis have reached a dead end. This is because of extensive settle [...] | 2008-05-07 07:29:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM764 | JENIN: QABATIYA REMAINS TENSE; IDF INCURSION ENDS [...] (C) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) maintain checkpoints in and around Qabatiya as of 1300 local May 7 amidst tensions over the May 6 shooting of bystander Mu'min Kmayl and PASF arrest of two PIJ activists. West Bank National Security Forces (NSF) commander MG Ali told local press he est [...] | 2008-05-07 11:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM768 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/09): CALLS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Total support for the security forces"(5/08): "We all know that Palestinian security forces have started a gradual deployment to several West Bank cities that faces great difficulty. We also know that Israeli forces act... as though the [...] | 2008-05-09 09:52:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM775 | E-1 AND RAS AL-AMUD UPDATE FROM 9 MAY [...] (C) Summary. During a May 9 visit, PolOffs observed that the move to the E-1 police station is nearly complete and the new station appears fully functional. A security guard at the Ras al-Amud property told PolOffs that university students plan to use the former police station as a dormitory [...] | 2008-05-09 13:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 08JERUSALEM777 | JENIN OPERATION: TENSE CALM IN QABATIYA; PA [...] (C) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) officers report successes May 8-9 in seizing contraband and closing outstanding criminal cases and warrants. PASF patrolled in several villages south and east of Jenin with minor opposition from gunmen and stone-throwers, and carried out a raid on a Ha [...] | 2008-05-09 13:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM789 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/12): LEBANON - IRANIAN EFFORTS [...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Faisal Abu-Khadra entitled, "Sixty years after the catastrophe... Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are at a stand-still" (5/12): "Almost fifteen years have passed since the Palestinian-Israeli agreement [Oslo] and Israel is still the on [...] | 2008-05-12 09:43:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM791 | JENIN: PA ARRESTS PIJ MILITANT AND CRIMINALS, IDF [...] (SBU) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) conducted patrols in Jenin and 32 nearby villages May 10-12, arresting a senior leader of the PIJ military wing and 11 wanted criminals. According to PA security commanders, the IDF entered Jenin and nearby Area A towns late May 11/early May 12, unsu [...] | 2008-05-12 12:54:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM793 | SETTLERS CELEBRATE ISRAEL'S - AND THEIR OWN - [...] (C) SUMMARY: Settlers demonstrated at three West Bank locations - Homesh and Sanur, both evacuated in 2005 and Migron outpost - on May 8, the 60th anniversary of Israeli independence. Press reported 10,000 demonstrators at Homesh, 150 at Sanur, and 2,000 at Migron. Settlers now maintain a 2 [...] | 2008-05-12 14:04:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM810 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/13): BUSH WILL FIND THE REGION [...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by Tayseer Khaled, member of the PLO Executive Committee and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine entitled, "The commemoration of the catastrophe is the wrong time to visit" (5/13): "President Bush is on his way to the region, which is exper [...] | 2008-05-13 09:08:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM817 | JENIN: PA ARRESTS TWO PIJ MILITANTS; NEW IDF [...] (SBU) PA General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) officers arrested PIJ militants Ra'ad Abu al-Rub and Yusif Kmayl in Jenin May 12, according to a PIJ spokesman, who said another militant, Ala'a Abu al-Rub, escaped a PA arrest attempt in Qabatiya also May 12. National Security Forces (NSF) contacts [...] | 2008-05-13 13:27:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM820 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/14): CONTRASTING ISRAELI [...] Independent Al-Quds ran its daily editorial entitled "We suggest that Bush visit a refugee camp" (5/14): "Bush will arrive in Israel today to participate in the celebration of its founding... Other leaders and European presidents will follow him to the same JERUSALEM 00000820 002 OF 002 [...] | 2008-05-14 08:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM835 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/15): "SETTLEMENTS: THE NEW [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by columnist Sulaiman Al-Wari entitled, "Settlements are the new Palestinian catastrophe" (5/15): "On the sixtieth anniversary of the catastrophe, Israel remains the only occupying country [power] in this modern time. It has not assumed its responsibilit [...] | 2008-05-15 11:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM840 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/16): IGNORING THE NAKBA [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Bias even towards the significance of the catastrophe" (5/16): "... while Israeli and international media are full of news about the JERUSALEM 00000840 002 OF 002 Israeli celebration of its 60th independence anniversary, the Pale [...] | 2008-05-16 10:22:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM845 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/19): PALESTINIANS: BUSH [...] Independent Al-Quds carried its daily editorial entitled "Important dots above many words!" (5/19): "...The American President repeated in his speech [May 18], in Sharm Al-Sheikh that a solution is possible before the end of the year. He called upon Israel to ease the suffering of Palestinians [...] | 2008-05-19 08:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM852 | JENIN: PASF CONCENTRATES ON TUBAS AREA; MULTIPLE [...] (SBU) National Security Forces (NSF) commanders report detaining 31 criminal suspects and seizing 21 stolen/unregistered vehicles in Tubas and nearby villages May 17-19. Security contacts report that PIJ spokesman Abd al-Fatah Khzaymiah turned himself over to the PA General Intelligence (Muk [...] | 2008-05-19 14:13:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG IS PGOV PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM857 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/20): CRITICISM OF BUSH KNESSET [...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial entitled, "Bush made the life of moderate Arabs difficult... even impossible" (5/20): "May God help the moderate Arabs who were frustrated by Bush's speech before the Israeli Knesset that ignored the suffering of Palestinians and the peace process, as wel [...] | 2008-05-20 09:50:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM865 | JENIN: VILLAGE PATROLS AND ARRESTS CONTINUE [...] (SBU) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) continue patrols in Jenin area villages as of 1400 local on May 20. PA security commanders plan new patrols and raids across the Jenin Governorate in coming days. PIJ suspects remain in custody, but have not been formally charged. End summary. PAS [...] | 2008-05-20 14:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG IS PGOV PINS PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM868 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF PA SECURITY [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF) to a USG-funded training course in the U.S.: Name, Date/Place of Birth, Service (Presidential [...] | 2008-05-21 08:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ASEC IS KPAL |
| 08JERUSALEM869 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/21): "THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION: [...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial entitled, "The Torah speech of Bush at the Knesset and the secularism of the American State," by Muhammad Shaker Abdullah (5/21): "The United States was established... by groups who were escaping religious persecution in Europe in the seventeenth century. [...] | 2008-05-21 10:32:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM889 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/22): "PALESTINE INVESTMENT [...] In its main editorial, independent daily Al-Quds opined under the title, "Investment Conference... between reality and expectation" (05/22): "There is no doubt that having the Palestinian Investment Conference happen is a success in itself, and that is not a stretch of the truth or exaggerati [...] | 2008-05-22 09:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM90 | RAS AL AMUD: ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION COMMENCES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff confirmed January 16 that construction has begun on 60 new housing units in the "Maale Zeitim" enclave in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al Amud. An advisor to the Jerusalem Mayor said construction permits were issued "months ago", but thought the timing of the [...] | 2008-01-17 10:08:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM901 | REPORT ON SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel, Post is supporting democracy and human rights activists in the West Bank and Gaza and expansion of personal freedoms through regular meetings with human rights activists and organizations, programmatic support to Palestinian civil society, and a concerted media cam [...] | 2008-05-22 13:49:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM907 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/23): "UNLIKELY BUT NECESSARY [...] Regular columnist of independent Al-Ayyam, Mohammed Yaghi, argues under the headline, "Quick Notes on an Unsuccessful Policy" (05/23/08); "This [Bush] Administration is completely different from all of its predecessors. It has considerably damaged the international standing of the United Stat [...] | 2008-05-23 10:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM909 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/27): The Peace Process - a [...] Under the headline, "Carter's Statements" (05/27),the daily editorial in the independent Al-Quds opined, "Former U.S. President JERUSALEM 00000909 002 OF 002 Jimmy Carter will be remembered in history as the Godfather of the first Arab-Israeli peace process, for which he won a Nobel Pea [...] | 2008-05-27 10:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM910 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/28): THE FAILURE OF FATAH's [...] Veteran columnist Hani Habib opines in independent Al-Ayyam under the title, "Revolutionary Council... and Fayyad's Government" (05/28): "The 25th Fatah [party] convention that just concluded could have been the most important and critical convention of all, since it was held in troubled times [...] | 2008-05-28 08:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM911 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/29): WAITING ON AMERICAN AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-29 11:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM915 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/30): WHO WILL BE THE NEXT US [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 11:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM917 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT AND PMA GOVERNOR [...] (C) On May 22, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert M. Kimmitt and Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) Governor Jihad al-Wazir met on the sidelines of the Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem where they discussed recent developments in the banking sector in the West Bank and Gaza. Kimmitt [...] | 2008-05-30 15:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KFTN KWBG IS |
| 08JERUSALEM923 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/05): ISRAELI AND US ELECTIONS [...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Talal Okal entitled, "After Barak... Olmert loses his chance" (6/02): "...Olmert cannot go to Washington and ask for its support in the middle of his current crisis unless he achieves some progress in his meeting with Palestinian A [...] | 2008-06-02 10:56:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM925 | ASIRA AL-QABALIYA RESIDENTS FEAR SETTLER ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary. PolOffs spoke with residents of the village of Asira al-Qabaliya, southwest of Nablus, May 27 to confirm reports of attacks by settlers from nearby Yitzhar. A village council employee said attacks increased in the past two months. He said the IDF intervened to stop an attack fo [...] | 2008-06-02 13:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PBTS PHUM IS PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM926 | UN REPORTS DETAIL DEMOLITIONS IN AREA C AND AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a study released May 27, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) reported that the GOI demolished more Palestinian structures for lack of permits in West Bank C Areas in the first quarter of 2008 than in all of 2007. The study cites a 94 percent [...] | 2008-06-02 13:52:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM928 | 884 PLANNED HOUSING UNITS ANNOUNCED IN EAST [...] (C) In coordination with the Israeli holiday marking Jerusalem's reunification, Minister of Construction and Housing Zeev Boim announced tenders for 884 units in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Pisgat Zeev (763 units) and Har Homa/Jebel Abu Ghneim (121 units) on June 1. Potential contrac [...] | 2008-06-02 15:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM932 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/03): PALESTINIAN PESSIMISM IN [...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Muhannid Abd-Alhamid entitled, "Do we have other options?" (6/03): "After the American and Israeli performance, who dares be optimistic about reaching a political solution that will end the Israeli occupation and bring international [...] | 2008-06-03 11:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM938 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/04): A CALL FOR A ONE-STATE [...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Hani Habib, entitled "Routine or rescue?" (6/04): "As always, when [Palestinian] President Abbas meets with [Israeli Premier] Olmert, we hear, read and see comments, criticism and repeated statements that contain nothing new... End [...] | 2008-06-04 10:59:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM945 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/05): 41ST ANNIVERSARY OF 1967 [...] Veteran columnist Talal 'Ukal comments in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Not Much Time Is Left," (6/5): "It is safe to say that [Israeli Prime Minister] Olmert has achieved the goals of his [Washington] visit. I I think those goals can be summarized in the following two points: The [...] | 2008-06-05 11:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM977 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/06): UNITY TALKS CANNOT [...] Veteran columnist Mohammad Yaghi comments in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Dialogue is primarily about the political agenda" (6/6): "President Abbas' invitation to start a national dialogue and end the state of division is very timely. There is a belief in Ramallah that Israel is [...] | 2008-06-06 11:51:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM978 | MIXED ASSESSMENTS ON ABBAS' CALL FOR "NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. President Abbas' office announced on June 5 the formation of a committee composed of PLO Executive Committee members to prepare for "comprehensive national dialogue with Hamas to implement the Yemeni Initiative." Fatah PLC bloc leader Azzam al-Ahmad said most ExComm members favo [...] | 2008-06-06 13:54:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM98 | E-1 UPDATE FROM MID-JANUARY: POLICE STATION READY [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOffs observed January 17 that the final touches are being put on the police station at E-1 and the road leading to it. PolOffs also observed land immediately northwest of the police station continues to be cleared and graded, and a bridge now directly connects Maale Adumim w [...] | 2008-01-18 10:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS |
| 08JERUSALEM983 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/10): DIALOGUE - ONLY WAY OUT [...] Ali Abu Hilal, member of the Palestinian National Council, commented in independent Al-Quds under the headline, "In Order to End Internal Division and Achieve National Unity," (6/10): "It is important to point out that real national unity... is one that is based on a shared Qatform of policy an [...] | 2008-06-10 09:57:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM986 | PA RECEIVES REVENUE TRANSFER; PAYS CIVIL SERVANTS [...] (SBU) Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Finance officials confirm receipt on June 10 of 180 million NIS (USD 55 million) in tax clearance revenue from the GOI, the transfer of which had been delayed for nearly a week (reftel). Following receipt of the revenue transfer, the PA paid civil [...] | 2008-06-10 14:34:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON KWBG IS KPAL |
| 08JERUSALEM987 | PA SAYS ARAB LEAGUE TO FACILITATE FATAH-HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. Fatah leaders report that the Arab League will facilitate PLO-Hamas "comprehensive national dialogue" as requested by President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Al-Ayyam Chief Editor Akram Haniyah told the Consul General that Abbas announced his initiative to preempt others in the Arab [...] | 2008-06-10 14:38:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS PTER |
| 08JERUSALEM993 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/11): POSITIVE REACTION TO [...] Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Hamada Faranah entitled, "Abu Mazen [Abbas] will stay his course" (6/11): "...The power of Abu Mazen lies in the clarity of his positions regarding what he considers to be in the true interest of his people. Therefore, he did not hesitate to state [...] | 2008-06-11 09:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JERUSALEM996 | E-1 AND RAS AL-AMUD UPDATE [...] (C) Danny Poleg, spokesman for the West Bank police headquarters in E-1, told PolOff June 11 that the police completed their move into the E-1 facility, which serves as their new headquarters for the West Bank. Poleg said he did not know if the police still have minor offices at Ras al-Amud. [...] | 2008-06-11 15:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PBTS IS |
| 08JERUSALEM998 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/12): THE DIFFICULTY OF [...] Al-Ayyam independent daily carries an op-ed by columnist Talal Okal entitled, "We need a change in thinking" (6/12): "In the midst of current events related to the Palestinian situation and its relation to the external world and the Israeli policy of aggression, and the severe consequences of c [...] | 2008-06-12 06:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08JOHANNESBURG180 | EASING OF SOUTH AFRICAN BLANK-PASSPORT-PAGE REQUIREMENT FOR [...] Summary: South African Home Affairs authorities have agreed that arriving U.S. citizens who have no blank pages marked "Visas" in their passports, as is normally required for entry into South Africa, may be processed for admission on available pages marked "Endorsements" or "Amendments and En [...] | 2008-11-03 16:14:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS CASC CMGT PREL PGOV SF |
| 08JOHANNESBURG192 | SOUTH AFRICA: NOVEMBER 2008 LABOR NOTES [...] This is the November, 2008 issue of the U.S. Consulate Johannesburg's Regional Labor Office monthly notes. Topics in this issue are as follows: - Skills shortage one cause of concern for South African water quality - South African Airways staff opposed to outsourcing - Poor management hin [...] | 2008-12-04 13:56:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ELAB ETRD SF EIND ECON EFIN EMIN ELTN |
| 08JOHANNESBURG34 | SOUTH AFRICA: GAUTENG PREMIER SHILOWA REPORTS ON THE STATE [...] Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa addressed the provincial legislature on February 18, outlining achievements of the past year and setting priorities for 2008. As in previous years, Shilowa's main emphasis on was on service delivery achievements, poverty alleviation, and measure taken to prom [...] | 2008-02-20 12:37:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EINV ELAB SF |
| 08JOHANNESBURG41 | SOUTH AFRICA: FEBRUARY LABOR NOTES [...] Summary: Finance Minister Trevor Manuel announced in his February 20 budget speech that the amount of the child support grant would be increased to R220 per month and that eligibility would be extended up to age 15. The Treasury also plans to combine all social insurance into one mega-fund. [...] | 2008-03-03 15:07:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PHUM SF |
| 08JOHANNESBURG57 | SOUTH AFRICA: APRIL LABOR NOTES [...] South Africa's statistical agency, Stats SA, reports that unemployment dropped to 23 percent as of September 2007, though the number of discouraged workers also increased. Labor federation COSATU threatened strike action over proposed 53 percent increases in electricity tariffs, and suggested [...] | 2008-04-02 10:22:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ENRG SF |
| 08KABUL1008 | ETHNIC DISPUTE PROMPTS PROTRACTED PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) Summary: Angry non-Pashtun MPs walked out of the National Assembly's lower house April 12, protesting the centuries old seasonal Pashtun Kochi migration though the Hazarajat and the nomads' 10 reserved parliamentary seats. The lower house has not made quorum since, stalling consideration [...] | 2008-04-24 12:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL102 | AF: Afghanistan Energy Projects: Year-End Update [...] (SBU) The following is a short update on the current status of some of the most high-profile USG energy projects in Afghanistan: 2. (SBU) 100 MW KABUL POWER PLANT "GEN SETS" - Despite earlier problems with squatters on the project site, site clearing is underway. Topographical and aerial su [...] | 2008-01-09 02:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH |
| 08KABUL1027 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON U.S. CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) On April 22 the Ambassador informed Foreign Minister Spanta of his deep concern over the government's decision to ban the broadcast of certain Indian soap operas. The Ambassador underlined the issue was the action by Minister of Information and Culture (MOIC) Khoram to curtail media free [...] | 2008-04-25 05:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AFIN |
| 08KABUL1028 | Jalozai Refugees Returning . . . For Now [...] (SBU) Summary. 1,135 families (6,474 individuals) have returned to Afghanistan from the Jalozai refugee camp in Pakistan since March 1, 2008. Due to adverse conditions in Afghanistan, some returnees may try to go back to Pakistan very soon. 2. (U) Almost two-thirds of Jalozai residents w [...] | 2008-04-25 05:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PGOV PREL PK AF |
| 08KABUL1030 | AFGHAN POLICE: FDD UPDATE FROM ZABUL PROVINCE [...] (SBU) The Focused District Development (FDD) program to reform Afghan police at the local level has yielded positive results in the southern province of Zabul. Elite, national units provided an effective backstop as local units were rotated out for training. The highway was cleared of over 20 [...] | 2008-04-26 11:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS MARR AF |
| 08KABUL1035 | GOVERNANCE DEFICIT AGGRAVATES URBAN KABUL'S PROBLEMS [...] (U) Summary: Kabul remains unable to deliver effectively basic municipal services such as electricity, clean water, sewage treatment, and trash collection to its rapidly growing population. Deficits in services delivery are aggravated by poor governance and an inefficient government structure. [...] | 2008-04-27 07:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON AF |
| 08KABUL1064 | FOREIGN MINISTER SPANTA ON PAKISTAN, IRAN, AND [...] (C) Foreign Minister Spanta told the Ambassador on April 22 that he would use his meetings in Islamabad the following day to underline Afghanistan's support for Pakistan's new government and explore opportunities for concrete projects (dealing especially with trade and economic cooperation) to [...] | 2008-04-29 12:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECON IR PK AF |
| 08KABUL1067 | APRIL 27TH ATTACK ON VICTORY DAY CEREMONY [...] (C/REL ISAF) SUMMARY: Afghan authorities believe that at least three and possibly as many as seven individuals carried out the April 27 attack against the Victory Day ceremony presided over by President Karzai and attended by IRoA senior officials, politicians and other Afghan VIPs from acro [...] | 2008-04-30 03:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AF |
| 08KABUL1114 | SPANTA'S APRIL 22-23 COUNTERPARTS TRIP TO ISLAMABAD [...] (SBU) Summary. The MFA's Pakistan desk said Foreign Minister Spanta made his April 22-23 trip to Islamabad to "open a new chapter in relations with the GoP." Spanta invited his Pakistani counterpart, Foreign Minister Qureshi, to Kabul. Spanta pressed Qureshi to name representatives to a Peac [...] | 2008-05-06 07:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER PK AF |
| 08KABUL1214 | AFGHAN ATTENDANCE AT UNESCO CONFERENCE: YOUTH AT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (U) The Afghan Ministry of Education nominated Kabul University Acting Chancellor Professor Mokamel Alkozai to participate in the UNESCO conference in Bahrain June 15-17: Youth at the Crossroads - A Future without Violent Radicalization (R [...] | 2008-05-18 12:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC PREL SOCI UNESCO AF |
| 08KABUL1223 | UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR TAKES AIM AT THE COALITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, concluded a 12-day fact-finding visit to Afghanistan May 15. The main themes of his preliminary report are: increasing the transparency of international military forces' investigations of co [...] | 2008-05-19 14:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL AF |
| 08KABUL1256 | PAKTIA PROVINCE: IMPROVING SECURITY SITUATION, MAJOR [...] (SBU) From January through the end of May 2008, the security situation in most of Paktia province has been relatively calm, with the possible exception of the Zadran Arc districts of Gerdai Serai, Shwak, and Wasi Zadran on the border with Khost province, and Zurmat district bordering Ghazni, Lo [...] | 2008-05-22 07:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL1263 | NANGARHAR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE PERSONALITIES [...] (SBU) Nangarhar's political scene is dominated by a handful of individuals. Personal loyalty and tribal affiliations are often more important that competence or qualifications in determining who has influence in the province. Gul Agha Sherzai - Governor --------------------------- 2. (SBU [...] | 2008-05-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL1275 | PRT LASHKAR GAH, HELMAND PROVINCE: GOVERNOR MANGAL TAKES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Governor Mangal's first two months in Helmand have been productive, building solid support for his administration. His public outreach efforts are excellent, and he continues to meet regularly with residents of Lashkar Gah and the tribal and civil leadership of Helmand. Mangal [...] | 2008-05-26 05:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL130 | PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS SEEKS DEAL [...] (C) A senior Presidential advisor confirmed that the government supports a consolidated election calendar, with presidential, parliamentary, provincial council and possibly district council elections held during a window in the fall of 2009. He reported that behind the scenes negotiations are [...] | 2008-01-14 12:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL131 | BAGHLAN GOVERNORSHIP LATEST VICTIM OF NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) The government announced on January 9 the removal of Baghlan governor Mohammad Alam Ishaqzai, who had been suspended pending the results of the investigation into the November 6 Baghlan bombing, and his replacement with new-comer Abdul Jabar Haqbin. The government also confirmed publicl [...] | 2008-01-15 02:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV PINR AF |
| 08KABUL1314 | SRSG EIDE'S MAY 19-21 MEETINGS IN TEHRAN [...] (C) Summary: During UN Special Representative Kai Eide's mid-May visit to Tehran, senior Iranian government interlocutors denied supporting Afghan insurgents and reiterated their opposition to reconciliation with the Taliban. Ahmadinejad's main concerns are establishment of a timetable for th [...] | 2008-05-31 12:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR AF |
| 08KABUL1339 | AY QANOOM: IS THE AFGHAN-TAJIK BORDER CROSSING POINT [...] (SBU) Summary: Ay Qanoom is one of five official border crossings between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The Northern Alliance established a ferry service there in 2001 to import supplies to fight the Taliban; however, the rationale for its existence has since disappeared, especially given the op [...] | 2008-06-03 06:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD EFIN PREL AF TI |
| 08KABUL1393 | THANK YOU [...] We thank Embassy New Delhi's Political Section for allowing our senior political FSN, Kanishka Bakshi, to look over the shoulders of his Indian colleagues for a week a the end of May. Though that week was an especially busy one in India, the section's officers and FSNs still made time to intro [...] | 2008-06-09 14:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER AF |
| 08KABUL143 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER'S [...] (C) Your visit to Kabul takes place as parliament reconvenes to work on the election calendar and law and to reconsider the media law which President Karzai recently sent to parliament with questions. You will see Karzai's new governance initiatives beginning to show results. Your visit pre [...] | 2008-01-15 14:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON PTER SNAR KPAO PREF EAID AF |
| 08KABUL1448 | PRT TARIN KOWT - CHORA RESIDENTS TURN OUT TO ELECT [...] (SBU) Summary: Rozi Khan won an election for Chora's district administrator with 30 percent of the total 2600 ballots cast. Six candidates, representing four of the tribes in the district, vied to replace the interim district administrator, an Afghan Army officer. Normally, the Independent [...] | 2008-06-12 12:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL146 | PAKTIA PROVINCE: DETERIORATING SECURITY, LIMITED [...] (SBU) Summary: The security sitQion in Paktia province deteriorated over the past year with significant Anti-Coalition Militia (ACM) presence. The agriculture-based economy is hampered by a lack of resources, including modern technology and power. Governor Rahmat is unpopular and most provinci [...] | 2008-01-16 06:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL1481 | AF: UPDATE ON USG ENERGY PROJECTS [...] (SBU) The following cable provides an update on USG energy sector projects in Afghanistan. 2. (SBU) KABUL 100 MW GENERATOR SETS (GENSETS) - Work on the site continues apace and the contractor appears to be on schedule. Arrangements for the transportation of the generator sets themselves to [...] | 2008-06-16 13:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL1482 | KARZAI THREATENS PAKISTAN AND MEANS IT [...] (C//REL UK, CAN) Summary: A Palace advisor implied Karzai would not retract his June 16 threat to strike at insurgents harboring in Afghanistan. The MFA said Karzai had not directed his threat against Pakistan's sovereignty or territorial integrity, but against the Inter-Services Intelligence [...] | 2008-06-16 15:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PTER PREL PK AF |
| 08KABUL1493 | Afghanistan's Refugee Absorption Reaches Saturation [...] (SBU) Summary: Since January 1 of this year, 143,737 Afghan refugees - the vast majority from Pakistan - have repatriated to Afghanistan with assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). While the numbers are relatively low compared to recent years, Afghanistan' [...] | 2008-06-19 06:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PGOV PREL PK IR AF |
| 08KABUL1507 | PRT MEHTAR LAM: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND PLANNED DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) Summary: Governance in Laghman is improving as the Provincial Council (PC) takes on a more assertive role. The coordinated development strategy in "Laghman Forward" should improve the agricultural sector. The warmer weather has brought an upswing in insurgent activity compared to the quie [...] | 2008-06-22 05:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ECON AF |
| 08KABUL1552 | PRT ASADABAD: GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Governor Wahidi extended good governance and implemented an aggressive development strategy despite ongoing insurgent activity in Kunar over the past six months. Governance is improved; development is increasing; and security is improving slightly. The threat of improvised ex [...] | 2008-06-24 06:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL PTER AF |
| 08KABUL156 | Iran Suspends Deportations In Face Of Strong Afghan [...] (SBU) Iran has suspended its deportation of Afghans after the Afghan government protested in the media and summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires twice to demand a halt to the mid-winter expulsions. In the first two weeks of January, Iran deported more than 9,000 Afghans, who were forced over [...] | 2008-01-17 02:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM IR AF |
| 08KABUL1575 | PANJSHIR PROVINCE: GOOD SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE; [...] (SBU) Summary: Panjshir remains one of Afghanistan's safest provinces. The Governor speaks out strongly against corruption and has taken action to avoid even the hint of impropriety, but the Provincial Council is largely in the Governor's shadow. Development and reconstruction is ongoing wit [...] | 2008-06-24 12:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER AF |
| 08KABUL1603 | Refugee Admissions Referral: Azizi, Mehria [...] (SBU) Embassy Kabul refers Azizi, Mehria Farzhad, one of Afghanistan's first female camerawomen and filmmakers, and her family to the U.S. refugee admissions program (USRAP). Below is biographic information for the principal applicant and her dependents, a description of her persecution claim, [...] | 2008-06-29 12:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL1644 | AF: Uzbek power situation not as bleak, other PPA's on [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Economy Jalil Shams told donors the Uzbeks have begun manufacturing components needed for the Afghan-Uzbek power line. He believes the project will be completed by October 2008. Shams revealed a "backup" plan to import an extra 43 MW of Uzbek power to Kabul along a [...] | 2008-07-02 11:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL1707 | KABUL - SVBIED ATTACK ON INDIAN EMBASSY [...] (SBU) At approximately 0830 HRS local time on Monday, July 7, 2008, a suicide vehicle-borne IED exploded outside the front gate of the Indian Embassy in Kabul. LEGATT and RSO personnel from the U.S. Embassy responded to the scene to assist Afghan and Coalition officials on-site with the post b [...] | 2008-07-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC AF |
| 08KABUL1709 | AFGHANISTAN - JCMB VIII welcomes SRSG Kai Eide, [...] Summary. On July 6, the eighth meeting of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB-VIII) welcomed the co-chairmanship of Kai Eide, the newly-arrived Special Representative of the UN Secretary General. Minister of Finance (MOF) Ahady announced the Government of the Islamic Republic of [...] | 2008-07-08 09:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL PHUM ENRG EAIR AF |
| 08KABUL175 | PRT NANGARHAR: GOVERNOR SHERZAI: JUMP ON THE PEACE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nangarhar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai led a "Peace Caravan" of approximately 300 government and traditional leaders from four eastern Afghan provinces (Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman) to meet with President Karzai on January 13 in Kabul. His goal was to show support for the [...] | 2008-01-22 02:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS AF |
| 08KABUL1770 | AFGHAN UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] The GIRoA will issue a Universal Periodic Report (UPR) on its human rights record at the request of the UN's Human Rights Council (UNHCR). The government is open to including a modestly robust criticism of the its recent track record on human rights, especially in relation to treatment of pri [...] | 2008-07-15 06:52:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL1782 | JOWZJAN - JUNE 2008 SIX MONTH UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Security in the northern province of Jowzjan has improved over the past six months, at least partly due to efforts of the new governor, Hashem Zari. Some districts bordering Tajikistan remain insecure because of smuggling and other insurgency-related criminal activity. Dostum's [...] | 2008-07-17 06:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ECON AF |
| 08KABUL18 | MUSA QALA RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE PLANNING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GIRoA, the U.S., and the UK are cooperating on post-operation development in the recently liberated district of Musa Qala. UK Military Stabilization Team (MST) Officers in Musa Qala are implementing a joint UK and Afghan stabilization plan but need USAID support for the eff [...] | 2008-01-02 05:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL1816 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL REED TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Afghanistan remains a complex counterinsurgency environment, in which maintaining strong U.S. support for the Afghan government and robust U.S. leadership of international community assistance efforts is critical to ensuring that momentum for victory remains with us. Press reporting em [...] | 2008-07-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AF |
| 08KABUL1817 | Iran: Another Wave of Deportations? [...] (SBU) Summary: Per a July 12 letter from the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MORR) office in Tehran, Iran will start deporting 85,000 Afghans at the beginning of the Persian month of Asad (July 22). Iran has already deported over 166,000 Afghans since January 1, 2008, mostly yo [...] | 2008-07-19 12:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM IR AF |
| 08KABUL1821 | JOWZJAN - JUNE 2008 SIX MONTH UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Security in the northern province of Jowzjan has improved over the past six months, at least partly due to efforts of the new governor, Hashem Zari. Some districts bordering Tajikistan remain insecure because of smuggling and other insurgency-related criminal activity. Dostum's [...] | 2008-07-20 10:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ECON AF |
| 08KABUL1828 | NURISTAN: NEW GOVERNOR, FRESH PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Hazrat Din became Governor of Nuristan on July 5, replacing Tamim Nuristani. His priorities start with popular engagement and good governance, and he intends to establish representative district councils - shuras - for consultations on whom to nominate as district administrator [...] | 2008-07-21 08:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL1892 | BAMYAN PROVINCE: IMPROVING GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Bamyan Governor Sarabi appears to be growing weary of the jockeying over her post and may be open to changing jobs. The Provincial Development Council has proven itself capable of producing a coordinated development strategy. PRT Bamyan is considering improving several districts [...] | 2008-07-23 05:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ECON AF |
| 08KABUL1898 | CODEL REED'S JULY 20 DISCUSSIONS WITH KARZAI [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the CODEL,s July 20 office call and subsequent working lunch with President Karzai, Senator Obama reaffirmed both major American political parties, long-term commitment to Afghanistan. He emphasized the Afghan leadership,s obligation to demonstrate determination in fighti [...] | 2008-07-24 02:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR MOPS AFIN IR PK |
| 08KABUL19 | MUSA QALA RECONSTRUCTION PLANNING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GIRoA, the U.S., and the UK are cooperating on post-operation development in the recently liberated district of Musa Qala. UK Military Stabilization Team (MST) Officers in Musa Qala are implementing a joint UK and Afghan stabilization plan but need USAID support for the eff [...] | 2008-01-02 05:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL1924 | FOREIGN PRESSURE BACKFIRES ON KAMBAKHSH APPEAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. European governments are rethinking their strategy of pressuring President Karzai directly in support of Sayad Parwez Kambakhsh, who is appealing his death sentence for distributing literature found by a local court to be offensive to Islam (ref A). With many observers pessimi [...] | 2008-07-26 07:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AF EU |
| 08KABUL1948 | HAZARA-KUCHI DISPUTE GOES NATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Karzai's effort to make peace between Hazaras and Kuchis engaged in a dispute over grazing lands is not meeting with early success. The largely Pashtun Kuchi nomads say they are considering temporarily pulling back from disputed grazing lands in central Afghanistan at [...] | 2008-07-28 10:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL1973 | ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORT GAINING TRACTION [...] (U) President Karzai and his team have taken several positive steps to combat corruption in the wake of the Paris Donors Conference, including publishing a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy and establishing a wholly new watch-dog office against future corruption. Encouragingly, a June [...] | 2008-07-31 04:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL1992 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL REID TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Afghanistan remains a complex counterinsurgency environment, in which maintaining strong U.S. support for the Afghan government and robust U.S. leadership of international community assistance efforts is critical to ensuring that momentum for victory remains with us. Press reporting em [...] | 2008-08-03 11:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AFIN OREP |
| 08KABUL2066 | Afghan President's Incoming Senior Economic Advisor [...] [U] Not for Internet distribution. 2. [SBU] Summary. Officers of the Economic Section met July 28 with Omar Zakhilwal, currently CEO of the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency, who is slated to become Afghan President Hamid Karzai's senior economic advisor, to replace Ishaq Nadiri. L [...] | 2008-08-05 12:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL PHUM ENRG EAIR AF |
| 08KABUL207 | LOCAL COURT SENTENCES JOURNALIST TO DEATH; CASE [...] (SBU) On January 22 in a closed session, the Balkh provincial court sentenced 23-year old journalism student and reporter for the daily Jahan-e-Naw (New World) paper Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing an article that judges said violated the tenets of Islam. Kambaksh had been ar [...] | 2008-01-24 11:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPOL PHUM KIRF AF |
| 08KABUL2109 | Chairman of Economic Committee of Afghanistan's Parliament [...] Not for Internet Distribution. 2. [SBU] Summary. Officers of the Economic Section met July 30 with Mohammad Daoud Sultanzoi, Chairman of the Economic Committee of Afghanistan's Parliament. Sultanzoi, who emigrated from Afghanistan to the United States and worked for 22 years as a United [...] | 2008-08-10 10:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL PHUM ENRG EAIR AF |
| 08KABUL2121 | WHO WILL BE A KUCHI VOTER? [...] (SBU) As reported REF A and REF B, debate in various committees of the National Assembly on a new electoral law continues to focus on the question of Kuchi representation. The 2005 electoral law designated 10 of the 249 seats in the lower house of the National Assembly as "Kuchi" seats. Thes [...] | 2008-08-11 11:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2127 | Afghanistan: Refugee, Internally Displaced, Deportee, and [...] (SBU) Summary: Continued security concerns in rural Afghanistan, notably in Helmand Province, have prompted an increase in internally displaced persons (IDPs) seeking a safe haven in Kabul city. Press reports indicate that families who had taken temporary shelter around Lashkar Gah and Kandah [...] | 2008-08-13 01:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PHUM PREF PGOV PREL PK AF |
| 08KABUL2129 | SHARANA PRT SIX MONTH UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Paktika experienced a difficult spring; violence was up and the government did not uniformly provide services. The long term outlook, however, remains positive, led by economic expansion. Anti-government activities, particularly indirect attacks and IED events increased. Seve [...] | 2008-08-13 07:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON AF |
| 08KABUL2146 | NGO SECURITY IN LIGHT OF ATTACK ON IRC STAFF [...] (U) On August 13, masked gunmen killed four employees of the International Rescue Committee: three female ex-patriates, including one American, and their male Afghan driver. Another Afghan colleague was injured but survived. According to the media, IRC, and UN contacts, the IRC group was trav [...] | 2008-08-14 13:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER AF |
| 08KABUL217 | SENIOR CLERICS URGE KARZAI TO CRACK DOWN ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The High Ulema Council of Afghanistan met with President Karzai to express concern over proselytizing in Afghanistan and issued a public statement urging the government to crack down on missionary activity. The council has also asserted themselves regarding media content and s [...] | 2008-01-27 09:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KPOL PREL PHUM KIRF AF |
| 08KABUL2245 | PARLIAMENT'S ABSENTEE MP PROBLEM [...] (SBU) Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of the National Assembly) has failed to make quorum on more than half of its business days since its new legislative session began July 22. Moreover, members lose quorum before they finish the day's business on many other occasions. The poor atte [...] | 2008-08-23 05:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2310 | PARTIES MUM FOR NOW ON PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Political maneuverings for next year's presidential elections are well underway, but most of the major political parties are holding their cards close and have told us they are unlikely to publicly commit to a candidate for some time. Although President Karzai declared hi [...] | 2008-08-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2356 | AMBASSADOR AND FM SPANTA PLEDGE COOPERATION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 15:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2357 | NGO RESOLVE IN WAKE OF KILLINGS BUT VIOLENT [...] (C) Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are showing resolve in the face of the recent killings of aid workers, but the violence is continuing. Even at the memorial service for the three female expatriate International Rescue Committee (IRC) staffers and their Afghan driver, the IRC Country [...] | 2008-08-28 17:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER AF |
| 08KABUL2387 | PREPARATIONS FOR PHASE 1 VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) Provincial staff of the Independent Elections Commission (IEC) are making tentative progress in preparing for the October 6 start date for Phase 1 voter registration, according to the reports of PRT field officers in Kapisa, Bamiyan, Panjshir, and Parwan. Kapisa, Bamiyan, and Parwan h [...] | 2008-09-02 12:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2402 | PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT REGARDING THE GOA'S SHINDAND [...] (U) The following is Embassy's translation of the Office of the President's August 31st statement detailing the results of a GOA investigation of the Shindand operation. 2. (U) Begin text: Nimatullah Shahrani, the Minister for Hajj and Endowment Affairs was assigned as the head of the del [...] | 2008-09-03 06:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL241 | FRENCH ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN: WINDOW FOR HIGH LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French Charge has suggested that, if FM Kouchner returns to Afghanistan before the March NATO Foreign Ministerial, he should meet with high-level Americans and travel to Kandahar to see how other Allies are managing in the South. Paris is thinking about an expanded French rol [...] | 2008-01-29 12:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PREL FR AF |
| 08KABUL243 | CABINET PASSES ELECTION LAW TO PARLIAMENT WITHOUT [...] (SBU) The draft election law forwarded by the Cabinet to the Parliament on January 23 is essentially the same as the existing election law, retaining the single nontransferable voting (SNTV) system used in the 2005 parliamentary elections and incorporating no element of proportional representat [...] | 2008-01-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2449 | SUBJECT: URUZGAN STRONGMAN ACCEPTS KABUL OFFER TO [...] (C) Summary: Former Provincial highway police (then known as Kandak Amniat-e Uruzgan (KAU)) commander Matiullah Khan said in an August 23 meeting that he accepted the recent offer by Karzai and Ministry of the Interior (MOI) head Moqbel to lead a police patrol kandak responsible for highway s [...] | 2008-09-09 04:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL |
| 08KABUL2458 | MFA CHIEF OF STAFF: SMART ADVOCATE FOR AFGHAN WOMEN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 14:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV GWI AF DRL |
| 08KABUL2467 | QANOONI: MOVING FORWARD FROM SHINDAND [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 7, Ambassador and Wolesi Jirga (WJ) Speaker Qanooni discussed how the US should engage the GIRoA in the aftermath of the Shindand operation. Qanooni stressed his confidence in the good intentions of the US in Afghanistan and his belief that US military support is ess [...] | 2008-09-11 12:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2478 | PARLIAMENT OVERRIDES KARZAI'S VETO AND ENACTS [...] (U) Summary: The Wolesi Jirga (WJ, Lower House of the National Assembly) approved the media law with a two thirds majority, overcoming President Karzai,s December 2007 veto. Journalists and NGOs reacted positively to the new law, with many speaking favorably of the provisions establishing Radio [...] | 2008-09-14 03:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL252 | PRT KHOST: MADRASSA STUDENTS -- "THE REAL TALIBAN" [...] SUMMARY: Madrassa students and mullahs in Khost have welcomed initial GIRoA efforts to reinforce and better fund balanced religious education in Afghanistan. Hundreds of students and mullahs have stressed to the PRT that the longstanding gap between religious students ) who call themselves t [...] | 2008-01-31 05:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS AF |
| 08KABUL2546 | AFGHANISTAN: UPDATE ON USG AND OTHER ENERGY PROJECTS - [...] (SBU) Summary. Over the past six weeks, long and meandering negotiations on Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Afghanistan's neighbors have been successfully concluded, and positive developments with regard to Kajaki, the 100MW GENSET plant, and related distribution systems have occurred. Cu [...] | 2008-09-17 11:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2562 | TALIBAN-STYLE MORALITY BILL UNLIKELY TO SEE ACTION [...] SUMMARY. Media reports citing a Taliban-style morality law drafted by some National Assembly MPs likely overstate the proposal's support in the Lower House. The proposal gained notoriety in the media last week, as elements of the bill banning make-up, loud music, and dancing on television r [...] | 2008-09-18 11:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL2575 | IEC SCRAMBLING TOWARDS VOTER REGISTRATION OPENING [...] (SBU) Summary. Two weeks before the first phase of voter registration opens on October 6 in 14 provinces, the Independent Elections Commission (IEC) is scrambling. Its field operations are up and running but hobbled by the still slow delivery of key equipment and supplies in some areas, incl [...] | 2008-09-21 06:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV MASS AF |
| 08KABUL2628 | The Late Nuristan Governor's Unfinished Agenda [...] Nuristan Governor Hazrat Din was killed in a car accident on September 5, only two months after he assumed office (see reftel A). Days before his death, Hazrat Din told the PRT's Integrated Command Group (PICG) that security in the eastern districts of Nuristan was his chief concern. He wanted [...] | 2008-09-27 05:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2633 | IEC: IMAGE AND PUBLIC OUTREACH NEED IMPROVEMENT [...] (C NF) A senior strategic communications expert with experience in advising heads of state visited Afghanistan September 14 to 26 to consult with the Independent Elections Commission (IEC) on ways to improve the IEC's public image, media operations, and voter outreach. Hosted by UNDP/ELECT, [...] | 2008-09-28 07:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2641 | URUZGAN GOVERNOR HEADED DOWN PATH OF POLITICAL DEMISE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of his one-year anniversary in office, Uruzgan Governor Hamdam conveyed his growing concern that he will not survive a full term. Hamdam's low profile in the province and his inability to check the influence of local power brokers and rebellious ministry directors are [...] | 2008-09-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2645 | UPDATE ON KIDNAPPED AMCIT ALFRED GEISER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 20 August 2008, AMCIT Alfred GEISER and local national (LN) and partner Abdul SHAKOR were abducted by armed gunman in the Deh-Pak Village in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Over the past five weeks, RSO Personnel Recovery Center (PRCC) and LEGATT have coordinated efforts to [...] | 2008-09-29 06:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC PTER AF |
| 08KABUL266 | NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/PORTAL DETECTION AT [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via a U.S. contractor circulating a routine host gov [...] | 2008-02-02 13:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR AF |
| 08KABUL2708 | Initial Phase of Voter Registration Faces Tenuous Security [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the commencement of voter registration just one day away - Oct.6, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) is struggling to address a number of issues that illustrate the fragile and fluid security situation that could undermine the registration process in some areas. The [...] | 2008-10-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL PTER MASS AF |
| 08KABUL2714 | KARZAI'S INEFFECTIVE PARLIAMENTARY OUTREACH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Last month's overrides of presidential vetoes highlight President Karzai's difficult relationship with the National Assembly's Lower House. Several factors contribute to Karzai's poor track record in achieving his legislative goals, including his refusal to form a political par [...] | 2008-10-06 12:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM AF |
| 08KABUL2722 | AFGHANISTAN: PHASE ONE OF VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Phase one of the Voter Registration (VR) process began on 10/6 with the opening of VR stations scheduled in the 14 provinces of the Phase one region. VR successfully opened in 12 of the 14 provinces with only Nurestan and Ghazni experiencing some logistical and bureaucratic prob [...] | 2008-10-07 14:44:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM AF |
| 08KABUL2741 | JUNBESH LEADER CONFIRMS TURKISH PLAN FOR DOSTUM,S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Junbesh Party president Said Noorullah confirmed to PRT Officer that a deal is in the works between President Karzai and Turkish authorities to remove former Junbesh leader and ex-commander General Abdul Rashid Dostum from the Afghan political scene by sending him to Turkey prior [...] | 2008-10-11 12:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2746 | U.S., U.K., FRENCH AND GERMAN AMBASSADORS DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 9, French Ambassador Jean de Ponton d'Amecourt met with U.S., British and German Ambassadors to discuss his October 6 briefing by President Karzai on the recent reconciliation meetings in Saudi Arabia. The Ambassadors agreed that the publicity and lack of clarity surro [...] | 2008-10-12 12:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AF |
| 08KABUL2752 | Zabul Justice System Shows New Signs of Life [...] (SBU) Summary. In an August 6 public sentencing hearing attended by over 200 local and provincial officials and tribal elders, the invigorated Zabul Court of Appeals handed down five death and fourteen life sentences to a group charged with murdering ten people and wounding six more in Shajoy [...] | 2008-10-13 11:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2756 | KARZAI SHUFFLES KEY CABINET POSITIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Karzai announced a long-anticipated Cabinet shuffle Oct. 11, making six key changes in his government. Reactions to these changes ranged from cautious optimism from the international community to healthy skepticism from opposition political leaders. State-owned media [...] | 2008-10-14 02:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM AF |
| 08KABUL2779 | Kunar Preparing for Influx of Refugees from Bajaur [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Kabul/Embassy Islamabad cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: An estimated 180 Afghan families living in Pakistan have fled into Afghanistan's Kunar province after Bajaur Agency issued an October 3 order directing all Afghans to leave within three days. Kunar Province's Dep [...] | 2008-10-17 03:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF ETRD EFIN AF PK TI |
| 08KABUL2780 | DUTCH PREPARE FOR CIVILIAN COMMAND OF URUZGAN PRT AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Dutch civilian staff embedded in the Task Force Uruzgan (TFU) and PRT was recently expanded to twelve officials in an effort to ensure civilian control over governance and development issues, and greater involvement in security matters. As of July 26, the senior Dutch civil [...] | 2008-10-18 08:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF TI |
| 08KABUL2782 | QAYUM KARZAI AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS SAUDI [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 13, Abdul Qayum Karzai described to the Ambassador the potential Saudi reconciliation process. He and Abdullah Anas developed the current initiative a year ago and secured Taliban engagement through Anas' connection to Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif (former Taliban Ambassador to P [...] | 2008-10-18 10:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2783 | MORE ACTION, LESS TALK NEEDED FROM URUZGAN [...] (C) Summary: The PRT conveyed to Uruzgan Governor Hamdam in explicit terms that his position as governor remained extremely tenuous, given his weak standing among key tribal elders on security and corruption issues, former governor Jan Mohammad Khan,s (JMK) renewed efforts to return to his old [...] | 2008-10-18 11:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2796 | WESTERN AFGHANISTAN WOMEN TRY OUT SHURAS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Life in Western Afghanistan remains difficult for women, particularly in rural and insecure areas. NGOs and government agencies report that families continue to force women and girls into marriages and to otherwise subject them to physical and emotional abuse. Women and girls co [...] | 2008-10-19 14:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPOL PREL PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL2797 | AFGHAN OFFICIALS AIR CONCERNS TO SIGAR ON USAGE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Arnold Fields heard two common themes during meetings with the GIRoA Auditor General and senior Afghan MOD and MOI officials: A) that there is insufficient coordination between Afghanistan and the Donor Community, inc [...] | 2008-10-20 02:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KWAC AF |
| 08KABUL28 | Afghanistan Aids Pakistanis Fleeing Kurram Violence [...] (U) Afghan media reported January 2 that President Karzai had ordered an inter-ministerial humanitarian needs assessment in anticipation of more Pakistani refugees fleeing Sunni-Shia fighting in Kurram Agency. The Minister of Refugees and Repatriation is leading an assessment team to the Terza [...] | 2008-01-03 03:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM PK AF |
| 08KABUL2810 | 3RD AFGHANISTAN TIFA TALKS POSITIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 8, U.S. and Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) delegations led by USTR Assistant Secretary for South Asia Michael Delaney and Minister of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) Mohammed Amin Farhang met in Kabul for the third round of Trade and Investment [...] | 2008-10-21 06:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV EAID AF PK |
| 08KABUL2827 | MINERALS ABOUND IN AFGHANISTAN, AN UPDATE ON THE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. A viable engine of economic growth, the mineral sector in Afghanistan is striving for advancement step by step. At times, Afghanistan's steps are firm, promoting modernization, other times they are wobbly or haphazard, resulting in retraction. In recent months, Afghanistan rec [...] | 2008-10-22 08:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID EINV PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2832 | ELECTION POLITICS AT PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Daoud Ali Najafi, Chief Technical Officer at the Independent Election Commission (IEC),appeared before the leadership of the legislature on October 19 to calm the recent controversy there over the fall 2009 time frame for presidential and provincial council elections. The recent fla [...] | 2008-10-22 13:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2833 | IC REVIEWS INTERIM APPROACH TO KAMBAKHSH CASE [...] (C) Afghan and international media widely reported that the Kabul appellate court on October 21 sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambakhsh to 20 years of imprisonment, vice an earlier sentence of death, for distributing literature found by a local court to be offensive to Islam (REF A.) On the margin [...] | 2008-10-23 04:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL2837 | THREE CHANGES IN CABINET FORESHADOW MORE TO COME [...] (C) SUMMARY. The National Assembly's Lower House overwhelmingly approved three of four nominees involved in President Karzai's much-anticipated Cabinet shuffle this week, moving forward on what many in the international community are hoping is a renewed focus fighting corruption and improvi [...] | 2008-10-24 01:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2838 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In October 15-16 meetings with visiting DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, representatives from the Afghan Independent Electoral Commission (IEC),NATO, UNDP, the National Democratic Institute (NDI),the International Republican Institute (IRI),and the International Foundation for Elec [...] | 2008-10-25 08:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2840 | PARWAN PROVINCE: GOVERNANCE, ELECTIONS, SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary. Parwan, one of two provinces that form the northern gateway to Kabul, is relatively free of violence and poppy but remains woefully lacking in development and economic growth due to a lack of human capacity. Governor Taqwa prioritizes development efforts in Charikar, the prov [...] | 2008-10-25 10:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2850 | THE PARTY YOU ARE TRYING TO REACH IS UNAVAILABLE - [...] SUMMARY: On October 21, Ghazni,s cell phone network shut down in response to Taliban threats. As of October 25 the phones remain nonfunctional despite Ghazni Governor Mohammad Usman Usmani,s jailing of two local phone company executives and his promises to have the networks up and running aga [...] | 2008-10-26 11:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER AF |
| 08KABUL2851 | NURISTAN:INSECURITY IN NEIGHBORING DISTRICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bargi Matal,s district administrator, Mohammed Ishmael, and local leaders described security in their district as stable, and identified security in neighboring Kamdish district as their principal concern. The chief request from Ishmael and Bargi Matal elders was for the PRT to [...] | 2008-10-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2856 | DOSTUM RECONCILES WITH RIVAL, TIPS HAT TO KARZAI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum apparently reconciled with adversary Akbar Bai Oct. 26, opening the door for his return to public life and jeopardizing efforts to reform his Junbesh-e-Milli party and lock the notorious Uzbek warlord out of Afghan politics. After several months of hous [...] | 2008-10-27 08:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2896 | AGAINST THE ODDS, VOTER REGISTRATION UNDERWAY IN [...] (SBU) Delayed in starting and still struggling across difficult terrain, Nuristan's voter registration process is nonetheless underway and going better than many observers expected. ------------------ FROM HERE TO THERE ------------------ 2. (SBU) Splayed across the jagged teeth of [...] | 2008-10-29 12:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2897 | POLL SHOWS VOTERS UPBEAT ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The Asia Foundation on October 28 published its fourth annual nationwide survey of Afghan public opinion. Media coverage has focused on the finding that security is the main reason for greater overall pessimism among Afghans; while a plurality of 38 percent of believe the country is mov [...] | 2008-10-29 12:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2903 | GHAZNI GOVERNOR ON OCTOBER 25 KILLING OF CONTRACT [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Mohammad Usmani, the Governor of troubled Ghazni province, is struggling to manage fallout from an October 25 incident in Qarabagh district. Allegedly, U.S. forces accidentally killed 22 Afghans, at least nine of whom were private security employees on duty at two long-establ [...] | 2008-10-30 12:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF |
| 08KABUL2914 | ELECTION SECURITY COOPERATION IMPROVING [...] (SBU) Summary: Cooperation on voter registration security among the Independent Election Commission (IEC),the Ministry of Interior (MOI),and the Ministry of Defense (MOD) is much improved over its early stumbles (REF A) and the fractious planning of the late summer (REF B.) The security fo [...] | 2008-11-02 07:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2937 | IDLG GOVERNOR'S ADVISORS PROGRAM IN URUZGAN: A WORK IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) dispatched nine advisors to Uruzgan Province in a direct response to Governor Hamdam's call for help as he undertook to coordinate the work of insubordinate and unqualified department directors. The advisors are part of an [...] | 2008-11-05 09:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF |
| 08KABUL2938 | Indian and Pakistani Consulates Update [...] (SBU) Summary: Indian and Pakistani Consulates watch each others' activities carefully in Herat, while reaching out to Heratis in the medical area, in particular. The Indian Consul follows closely the progress of construction of the Indian-funded, 200-240 million dollar, 42-megawatt Salma dam [...] | 2008-11-05 09:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF TI |
| 08KABUL2939 | FIRST PHASE OF VOTER REGISTRATION WRAPS UP WELL [...] (SBU) Phase 1 of the voter registration update for the 14 central highland provinces reached its official end date on November 5 with 828,708 voters -- and counting -- added to the rolls (REF A). Nuristan province and selected districts in Ghazni, Wardak, and Logar will remain open until mid [...] | 2008-11-05 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2942 | PHASE 2 VOTER REGISTRATION OFF TO A GOOD START [...] (SBU) Phase 2 voter registration for the eight northern provinces and Paktya and Kabul provinces began November 5. The Independent Elections Commission (IEC) reported that 322 of the 326 Phase 2 sites are open. Delays in delivery of supplies prevented four sites in remote areas of Badghis p [...] | 2008-11-06 10:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2943 | FM SPANTA: EIDE THREAT TO RESIGN, KIDNAPPED AFGHAN [...] (C) FM Spanta told the Ambassador at their 11/5 meeting that: (1) Kai Eide told the Afghan UN Perm Rep that he was considering resigning in frustration. The Ambassador and Spanta are urging Eide not to do so. (2) Spanta sought U.S. help in finding the Afghan diplomat kidnapped in Pakistan. S [...] | 2008-11-06 11:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL2963 | AFGHANS NERVOUSLY EYE RECONCILIATION TALKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Afghan political leaders and ordinary citizens are following reports of reconciliation talks with Taliban representatives with great interest and, in many cases, significant trepidation. A number of individuals who assume USG involvement, have approached us at many levels to [...] | 2008-11-09 04:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV AF SA |
| 08KABUL2968 | HOW PAKISTAN'S ECONOMIC TROUBLES AFFECT AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Afghan exporters are complaining about the impact of depreciation of the Pakistani rupee on their bottom lines. Meanwhile, Afghan importers are taking advantage of the same situation, reportedly stocking up on imported goods to sell later if/when domestic prices rise. Pakistan' [...] | 2008-11-09 09:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AF PK |
| 08KABUL297 | UPDATE: NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT AT KABUL, [...] This to update the Department on Post's alert of February 2 regarding the report by the Afghan National Police Coordination Center (NPCC) of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) seizure of two bottles of uranium. Following further inspection of the bottle, an NDS liaison officer [...] | 2008-02-05 08:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR AF |
| 08KABUL2972 | HEZB-E-ISLAMI ON VOTER REGISTRATION, IRAN CONCERNS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan is continuing to organize a nation-wide political movement and distance itself from its origins as a mujahideen military force under the leadership of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The party has organized members in half of the country's provinces, but recent [...] | 2008-11-11 02:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | KDEM PGOV PTER AF IR |
| 08KABUL2977 | AFGHAN MINISTER OF TRANSPORT SACKED AMID ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (SBU) In a November 10 cabinet meeting, President Karzai abruptly dismissed Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) Hamidullah Qaderi on the charge that Qaderi had mishandled preparations for 2008 Hajj travel. Hajj flights from Afghan cities were to begin November 8. However, the Sa [...] | 2008-11-11 04:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PREL PGOV PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL2978 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES: U.S. COMMITTED TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: In October 15-16 meetings with visiting DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, representatives from media outlets, Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA),Parliament, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC),Equal Access, Afghan Landmine Survivors' Organization (ALSO),and The As [...] | 2008-11-11 14:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KPAO AFIN |
| 08KABUL2980 | ATIQULLAH LUDIN APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF LOGAR [...] (U) On October 23 former Mujahedin commander LTG Atiqullah Ludin took up his duties as the new governor of Logar Province just south of Kabul. He replaced Abdullah Wardak, who was killed in an insurgent attack on September 13. In his initial address to Logar residents and officials, Ludin [...] | 2008-11-12 11:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08KABUL2981 | ZARAR LEAVES MIXED LEGACY AT MOI; ATMAR GETS OFF [...] (C) Summary. In the cabinet reshuffle of October 11, President Karzai replaced Minister of Interior Moqbal Zarar with Minister of Education Mohammad Hanif Atmar. While Zarar was a willing partner with the U.S. and succeeded in making (largely unacknowledged) initial organizational changes and [...] | 2008-11-12 12:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | AFIN PGOV PREL PTER |
| 08KABUL2986 | RC South: Dutch PRT Overview [...] (U) Summary. Dutch Embassy representatives gave ISAF's PRT Working Group Secretariat an overview of the Dutch Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Uruzgan province. The Dutch Embassy is unsure of the effects of its expiring mandate to lead the PRT, noting that its PRT will become civilian [...] | 2008-11-13 03:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF TI |
| 08KABUL3007 | IEC LEADERSHIP'S POLITICAL TO-DO LIST [...] (SBU) Summary: The technical experts of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) have flagged five thorny issues for decision by their superiors. Chief Technical Officer Daoud Ali Najafi has asked the seven Commissioners, led by Dr. Azizullah Lodin (REF A) to issue guidance on: selecting an [...] | 2008-11-17 04:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3009 | IEC LEADERSHIP'S POLITICAL TO-DO LIST [...] (SBU) Summary: The technical experts of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) have flagged five thorny issues for decision by their superiors. Chief Technical Officer Daoud Ali Najafi has asked the seven Commissioners, led by Dr. Azizullah Lodin (REF A) to issue guidance on: selecting an [...] | 2008-11-17 04:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3011 | KAM AIR OWNER CITES KIDNAPPINGS, TAX BURDEN AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 22 meeting with Econoff, the president of Kam Air, Afghanistan's most successful private airline, Mr. Zamarai Kamgar lamented the worsening security climate in Kabul for businessmen, noting the increase in kidnappings of close relatives of high-profile figures. Kam [...] | 2008-11-17 10:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD AF |
| 08KABUL3013 | KARZAI BUOYANT AFTER INTER-FAITH DIALOGUE SESSION; [...] (S) Although light in substance, Karzai was pleased with his 11/13 trilateral meeting with King Abdullah and President Zardari, on the margins of the Saudi-sponsored Interfaith Dialogue at UNGA. Karzai welcomed King Abdullah,s concern about the situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and his [...] | 2008-11-18 06:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER AF |
| 08KABUL3019 | AFGHANISTAN'S HAJ FLIGHT WOES PERSIST [...] (SBU) The difficulties in airlifting Afghan Haj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia that led to the dismissal of the last Transport Minister (reftel) are continuing. More than a week after Haj flights were to have begun, only about 900 of the 30,000 Afghans who have paid to make the Haj have actually tak [...] | 2008-11-18 14:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON AF |
| 08KABUL3020 | LEARNING LESSONS, LOOKING AHEAD ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: As noted reftel, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Afghan security forces continue to improve their cooperation on voter registration security. In the wake of an attack on completed voter registration materials in Wardak province, representatives from the IEC, [...] | 2008-11-19 06:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3026 | URUZGAN GOVERNOR PROMISES TO TAKE ON THRIVING POPPY [...] (SBU) Summary: Uruzgan Governor Hamdam has vowed to reduce poppy cultivation in his province by 25 percent this season. Hamdam told the Deputy Minister of Counter Narcotics he planned to create a comprehensive CN strategy with goals in public awareness, alternative livelihood and eradication [...] | 2008-11-20 13:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR AF |
| 08KABUL3027 | DECLINING SECURITY MIGHT SPELL THE END TO HERAT GOVERNOR'S [...] (U) Summary: Following two years of declining security and repeated kidnappings in and around the city of Herat, Governor Anwari's days may be numbered. Responding to citizens' demands and after the President's receipt of a report from a high-level investigating delegation from Kabul, the Min [...] | 2008-11-20 13:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF |
| 08KABUL3028 | DOSTUM'S VOTER REGISTRATION APPEAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Junbesh party founder General Abdul Rashid Dostum has appealed to all Afghans to register to vote in the 2009 elections. In particular, he calls upon mullahs to encourage women to vote and asks businessmen to provide transportation to voter registration centers for people living [...] | 2008-11-20 13:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF |
| 08KABUL303 | UZBEK WARLORD DOSTUM TANGLES WITH POLICE, SNUBS [...] (C) Armed supporters of Uzbek strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum abducted political rival Akbar Bay and brutally beat him at Dostum's Kabul residence on February 2. The standoff that ensued between Dostum's supporters and police sent to the scene ended with with Bay's release and a police withdraw [...] | 2008-02-06 05:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3036 | DISCUSSIONS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LAW AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Afghan officials appear eager to implement the country's new anti-trafficking law, but the level of conceptual clarity on the definition of trafficking differed among government officials. Judicial delay, corruption, and weak coordination remain obstacles to effectively punishing [...] | 2008-11-24 10:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KTIP AF |
| 08KABUL3062 | VIEW FROM THE NORTH: KUNDUZ WOMEN NAVIGATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Women in Kunduz Province face problems common throughout the country including illiteracy and violence. However, many Kunduz women are free to work, are much less covered in public than in other areas of the country, and express satisfaction with the Afghan government. The are [...] | 2008-11-24 12:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPOL PREL PHUM AF KTIP |
| 08KABUL3085 | AFGHANISTAN: UPDATE ON ENERGY PROJECTS - FUEL SHORTAGE AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Lackluster progress and recent setbacks in the energy sector underscore the difficulties of working in Afghanistan. In particular, critical lack of Afghan government planning and possible corruption, combined with very limited discretionary resources and competing demands, have [...] | 2008-11-30 13:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3086 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN JOINT ECONOMIC COMMISSION MEETING, [...] (SBU) Summary. The Joint Economic Commission (JEC) focused on the many trade, trucking, and transit issues that bedevil the Pak-Afghan bilateral economic relationship. The two sides agreed to set up three new working groups to deal with these irritants. One aims to negotiate a new Afghanista [...] | 2008-11-30 13:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ETRA PREL ECIN EAID AF PK |
| 08KABUL3088 | AFGHANISTAN: AMBASSADOR WOOD'S MEETING WITH THE AFGHAN [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wood met November 23 with leaders of the Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) for the first time since its reorganization. He underscored the central role Afghanistan's private sector must play in long-term, sustainable development and urged ACCI to become a [...] | 2008-12-01 04:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND AF |
| 08KABUL3089 | ATMAR LEADS DONORS TO FUNDING DECISIONS ON ANP [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 18, in Minister Atmar's first LOTFA Steering Committee meeting, he steered the group to decisions to fund an increase to ANP salaries, initiate a pilot project to test incentive pay in targeted medium- and high-threat ANP districts, reach a settlement on how to handl [...] | 2008-12-01 05:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS AFIN AF |
| 08KABUL3096 | CROSS-BORDER CALL FOR HELP -- KURRAM AGENCY PASHTUNS AND THEIR AFGHAN BROTHERS SEEK ASSISTANCE FROM THE AMBASSADOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 06:45:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
| 08KABUL310 | EMBASSY ACTION ON KAMBAKHSH DEATH SENTENCE CASE [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Kabul has met with the brother of Sayad Parwez Kambakhsh, whose death sentence for distributing literature found by alocal court to be offensive to Islam is on appal (Ref). The Ambassador has communicated to senior Afghan officials U.S. concerns about the constitutionalit [...] | 2008-02-06 09:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL3106 | OLD AND NEW RUB TOGETHER IN VOTER REGISTRATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The dry, spare southeastern province of Paktya, bordering on Pakistan, retains a solid social framework of Pashtun tribes and traditional values. Its inhabitants are also eager to win their fair share of political representation and development dollars in the new order. As t [...] | 2008-12-03 03:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL316 | PAKTIKA PROVINCE: ISOLATION AND POOR SECURITY MAKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Paktika Province is widely perceived as an undeveloped and insecure Afghan hinterland. This perception is largely accurate, though centers of development and governance are emerging in key populated centers. The key challenge for Paktika is the near total absence of trained pr [...] | 2008-02-07 06:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS AF |
| 08KABUL3174 | NOT AFRAID: AFGHAN WOMEN LEADERS, ROLE MODELS, AND [...] (U) An impressive sampling of Afghan women leaders attended a December 4 human rights and gender violence seminar, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Interior and the US Embassy. International media coverage focused on quotes about increasing threats to women in public life. The participan [...] | 2008-12-08 07:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3175 | NATO SECGEN VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN, NOVEMBER 26 - [...] (SBU) Summary: NATO Secretary General (SYG) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer followed a shortened schedule during his November 26-27 visit to Afghanistan but achieved his substantive purposes. He met with President Karzai and other senior Afghan leaders, UNAMA head Kai Eide, and a visiting UN Security [...] | 2008-12-08 09:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV NATO AF |
| 08KABUL3176 | SCENESETTER FOR DECEMBER 10-11, 2008 VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Kabul warmly welcomes your visit to Afghanistan. The overall state of the security situation here is more nuanced than the negative drumbeat coming from the media. Steady advances in success by Coalition and Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) do not grab the headlines that a spectac [...] | 2008-12-09 03:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER AFIN |
| 08KABUL3183 | AFGHANISTAN: WHAT'S REQUIRED TO MAKE ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOOD [...] (SBU) Alternative livelihood programs are a key item in the counter-narcotics toolbox, but no one would contend that they are easy or always successful. Even in purely economic terms, poppy has some advantages that licit alternative crops do not enjoy. This message analyzes those advantages a [...] | 2008-12-09 13:19:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL ECON ETRD KCRM EAID EINV AF |
| 08KABUL3187 | AFGHAN LEADERS TELL AMB. KHALILZAD THEY ARE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. USUN Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad met with a broad array of Afghan political leaders, civil society activists, and government officials on the margins of his participation in a UN Security Council fact-finding mission to Afghanistan Nov. 24-27. He heard a common theme of growing pess [...] | 2008-12-10 11:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PREL AF |
| 08KABUL3190 | UNDERSTANDING IRREGULARITIES IN VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) By December 13, 24 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces will have completed the voter registration update exercise. To date, observed irregularities and partisan quibbles alike revolve around the politically-sensitive question of Pashtun participation. This dynamic makes Phases 3 and 4, in t [...] | 2008-12-11 08:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3194 | Integrated Civilian-Military Action Group Established at [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Kabul has established an Integrated Civilian-Military Action Group (ICMAG) to begin a rigorous, systematic effort to better align the respective actions of USG agencies across the civilian and military lines of operation. This decision builds on efforts over the last y [...] | 2008-12-12 04:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF MOPS KDEM PINS KCRS |
| 08KABUL3195 | Integrated Civilian-Military Action Group Established at [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Kabul has established an Integrated Civilian-Military Action Group (ICMAG) to begin a rigorous, systematic effort to better align the respective actions of USG agencies across the civilian and military lines of operation. This decision builds on efforts over the last y [...] | 2008-12-12 04:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF MOPS KDEM PINS KCRS |
| 08KABUL3197 | THE ELECTORAL PROCESS FOR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL [...] (SBU) On voting day in 2009, Afghans will choose not only a new president but new members of their provincial councils. At the same polling place, with the same voter registration card, Afghans will cast a separate ballot for between 9 and 24 provincial council representatives, according to [...] | 2008-12-14 04:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3198 | KARZAI URGES DEPUTY SECRETARY TO SUPPORT ZARDARI, [...] (C). In his 12/10 meeting with the Deputy Secretary, President Karzai urged the United States to give Pakistani President Zardari more political and economic backing to strengthen his hand in reforming the Pakistani military and intelligence services. Karzai welcomed the upcoming increase in [...] | 2008-12-14 06:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR ECON AF |
| 08KABUL3206 | JCMB-X ACCOMPLISHES LITTLE [...] (SBU) Summary. JCMB-X succeeded mainly in referring several agenda items to subsidiary bodies for further review. Members agreed to pass to a working group a UK-designed proposal to replace the Counter-Narcotics Trust Fund with a body that looks to Post too much like the CNTF. The Internatio [...] | 2008-12-14 12:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR AF |
| 08KABUL3207 | JCMB-X ACCOMPLISHES LITTLE [...] (SBU) Summary. JCMB-X succeeded mainly in referring several agenda items to subsidiary bodies for further review. Members agreed to pass to a working group a UK-designed proposal to replace the Counter-Narcotics Trust Fund with a body that looks to Post too much like the CNTF. The Internatio [...] | 2008-12-14 12:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR AF |
| 08KABUL3215 | PHASE 3 VOTER REGISTRATION TAKES UP THE CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) The Independent Elections Commission (IEC) reports that on December 13, the first day of Phase 3 voter registration, 123 of 124 planned voter registration sites opened. Some 7,000 Afghans in Farah, Zabul, Paktika, Khost, Nangarhar, and Laghman provinces signed up to vote, with turnout [...] | 2008-12-15 11:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3222 | AFGHANISTAN - ADDITIONAL FOOD AID NEEDED [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Recommendation. Total food aid from international donors, combined with the Afghan government's wheat purchases, adds up to only one-quarter of Afghanistan's wheat production shortfall estimated at 2.5 million metric tons this year. Commercial imports and smuggling wi [...] | 2008-12-16 08:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PGOV WFP AF |
| 08KABUL3227 | COURAGEOUS AFGHAN WOMEN LAWYERS, JUDGES, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The turnout of approximately 250 female lawyers, judges, and law professors from Kabul and from several northern provinces to a USAID- and INL-funded women's legal leadership workshop in Kabul from December 15-17 overwhelmed organizers. Over the course of the three days, the Afg [...] | 2008-12-18 11:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPOL PREL PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL323 | PRT LAGHMAN: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAMS PREVENT [...] (S) Summary. Neighborhood watch programs proved successful in countering a spike in the use of IEDs in Laghman province. IED attacks rose sharply in Laghman province in 2007, resulting in a six-fold increase in casualties to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Insurgents used better equi [...] | 2008-02-07 13:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL MOPS AF |
| 08KABUL3240 | PRT KUNDUZ - KUNDUZ CITY'S INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since 2001, a number of informal settlements have sprung up around the Kunduz City's old urban core. Made up of returnees, internally displaced persons (IDP) and people simply attracted to the opportunities in the big city, these settlements vary in the level of amenities and or [...] | 2008-12-23 03:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID AF |
| 08KABUL325 | Logar Province: Chromite Smuggling Undermines Afghan [...] (SBU) Summary: Logar Province's Governor, Provincial Council (PC),and Members of Parliament (MPs) decried the widespread smuggling of chromite (a mineral used in the manufacture of steel and chemicals) by Pakistani smuggling mafias. The officials have repeatedly raised the issue with Minister [...] | 2008-02-09 10:19:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR ECON EINV EMIN PK AF |
| 08KABUL3277 | AFGHANISTAN: IMF MISSION GIVES DOWNBEAT ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) An IMF staff mission has conducted the fifth review of Afghan performance under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Fund (PRGF) program and found shortcomings. Their overall message was that GIRoA performance under the program, especially its fiscal aspects, is slipping and political-leve [...] | 2008-12-23 12:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID IMF PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3296 | TWO ELECTION WORKERS SUPERFICIALLY WOUNDED IN [...] (SBU) As reported in international media, a suicide bomber on December 28 detonated an explosives-packed vehicle at an Afghan security forces checkpoint outside the district center in Manduzai district in Khost province. Press reports indicate police stopped the bomber before he reached his [...] | 2008-12-28 14:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL3325 | MOI ATMAR - IMAGE VERSUS REALITY IN A MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary. President Karzai appointed Mohammad Hanif Atmar as Minister of Interior (MOI) in mid-October. He charged Atmar with showing progress on a very narrow range of political goals within a tight timeframe. That narrow list of security priorities has now multiplied as Atmar realizes [...] | 2008-12-30 03:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AFIN AF |
| 08KABUL3333 | BIOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND INFO ON GOVERNOR USMANI [...] Dr. Mohammad Usman Usmani was sworn in as Governor of Ghazni on May 31, 2008. A Durrani Pashtun of the Alokozai sub-tribe, he was born in Daman District of Kandahar province in 1968. Usmani is a medical doctor and a 1999 graduate of Kandahar University. He joined Mir Wais Hospital in 2000 [...] | 2008-12-30 06:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR AF |
| 08KABUL350 | THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT DEBATE ELECTION [...] (SBU) The law and calendar for the 2009/10 elections have erupted onto the top tier of the Afghan political agenda in the past week following debates in both houses of parliament and a flurry of meetings involving the three branches of government. President Karzai privately convened influentia [...] | 2008-02-12 13:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL388 | AF - Request for input for New Required Reports to Congress [...] (U) The following is Embassy Kabul's response to Reftel, which requests input for 2 new reports to Congress on energy. Paragraph 2 offers a brief overview of the energy situation in Afghanistan and U.S. objectives. Paragraphs 3,4,5 and 6 contain the Embassy's responses to questions A, B, C an [...] | 2008-02-18 06:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL398 | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS AND THE FUTURE OF [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development's (MRRD) National Solidarity Program (NSP) is an Afghan success story, fostering local development through Community Development Councils (CDCs),including in some of the most insecure parts of the country. The Ministry proposed trans [...] | 2008-02-18 13:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL409 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL BIDEN TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Last year produced solid gains on the battlefield against the insurgency, on the economy, on local governance and on reinvigorated army and police train and equip programs. These gains reflect a surge in U.S. assistance in FY 2007 (more than in FY 2002-2006 combined) as well as a more [...] | 2008-02-19 09:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AF |
| 08KABUL450 | PRT LASHKAR GAH, HELMAND PROVINCE: MUSA QALA RECONSTRUCTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reconstruction efforts continue in Musa Qala (MQ). The District Governor, Mullah Salam, continues to work well with the stabilization team and is conducting Shuras outside the District Center (DC) in an effort to overcome continued Taliban intimidation of rural citizenry. Resid [...] | 2008-02-24 10:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL461 | AFGHANISTAN - JCMB VII DISCUSSES AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY AND [...] SUMMARY: Convened in Tokyo, Japan, the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) held its second session at the Political Directors' level (JCMB-PD) on February 5, and its seventh regular session (JCMB-VII) on February 6, 2008. The Political Directors considered a discussion paper that [...] | 2008-02-25 05:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID OTRA SNAR PREL AF |
| 08KABUL464 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL [...] As reported Ref (B),seven attendees from Afghanistan will attend WIREC. The Afghan delegation will be headed by the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Washington D.C., the Honorable Said Tayab Jawad. Ambassador Jawad will be accompanied by six officials resident in Kabul, [...] | 2008-02-25 06:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY |
| 08KABUL467 | KUNDUZ PROVINCIAL SECURITY: IMPROVING COORDINATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: PRT Kunduz has successfully instituted several coordination mechanisms for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and ISAF in the province. The measures have improved cooperation within the ANSF, as well as between ANSF and ISAF. The successful re-launch of Kunduz's Joint P [...] | 2008-02-25 11:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL48 | MEDIA LAW REJECTION PROVOKES INTERNATIONAL'S [...] (SBU) Summary: President Karzai's surprise December 26 decision to return the media law bill to Parliament's Lower House for further consideration has provoked a sharp reaction from civil liberties monitors at several missions here. They interpret Karzai's action as a challenge to media free [...] | 2008-01-05 08:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM EU AF |
| 08KABUL491 | DOSTUM IMPEDES UZBEK EFFORTS AT JUNBESH PARTY [...] (C) Afghanistan's Uzbek community is ready for change, but their traditional protector, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, is standing in the way. The larger political background to the ongoing crisis following the February 2-3 abduction of Akbar Bay (ref B) is that Dostum is loosing support. The [...] | 2008-02-27 08:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL497 | KARZAI-DOSTUM STANDOFF CONTINUES; KARZAI MESSAGE [...] (C) Attorney General Sabit announced on February 18 that the government had suspended General Abdul Rashid Dostum from his government post and threatened to arrest him if he refused to cooperate with the investigation into the beating and abduction of Akbar Bay on February 2-3 (reftel). Neith [...] | 2008-02-27 11:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL568 | Afghan Refugee Camp Closures in Pakistan: Scenarios and [...] (SBU) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is developing a contingency plan for Pakistan's refugee camp closures and foresees three possible scenarios involving the return of 130,000, 266,000 or 400,000 refugees, respectively. NGOs are hesitant to commit resources until th [...] | 2008-03-05 10:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL578 | AF: Update on USG Energy Projects. [...] (U) The following cable provides a current status update on USG energy sector projects in Afghanistan. 2. (U) KABUL 100 MW GENERATOR SETS (GENSETS) - Delivery of the first six (of total 18) generators for the project is expected in May 2008. While progress is on track with manufacturing, w [...] | 2008-03-06 07:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL599 | POLITICIZED PARLIAMENT FACES CHALLENGING 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Afghan Parliament considered more legislation in 2007 (ref A) than in its inaugural session. It is increasingly seen by Afghans as a vehicle to take their concerns to the government. Lower House Speaker (and presidential aspirant) Qanooni's willingness to use his position [...] | 2008-03-09 09:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL613 | THE DISBANDMENT OF ILLEGAL ARMED GROUPS (DIAG) IN [...] (C) The Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) for the Stabilization of Afghanistan program, now in its third year of implementation, is showing modest success, has the continued attention of President Karzai, and will soon shift into a phase of significantly greater Afghan ownership. DIA [...] | 2008-03-10 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MOPS PARM PGOV PTER AF |
| 08KABUL615 | AFGHANISTAN'S TIP SOLICITATIONS FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY 2008 [...] Post has received four proposals and submits summary information below. 2. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) requests USD 234,014 for a "Prevention of Human Trafficking in Vulnerable Provinces" project to last 12 months. Recognizing that one of the major reasons for the p [...] | 2008-03-11 05:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AF |
| 08KABUL620 | AFGHANS, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MARK WOMEN'S DAY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-11 13:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL PHUM AF |
| 08KABUL667 | HAZARAS DIVIDED BY KARZAI, UNITED FRONT POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: The once united Hazara ethnic group has politically splintered since the fall of the Taliban; its fragments are being divided between Karzai and the opposition United Front. Powerful Hazara leaders' connections to Iran, or lack thereof, sometimes dictate their affiliation with [...] | 2008-03-16 16:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IR PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL71 | 2007 IN REVIEW [...] (SBU) 2007 was a year of important progress, but also continued challenge. The good news was on the battlefield, the economy, and strengthened local and national institutions. The bad news was increased terrorism, increased drug cultivation, and corruption. Afghanistan already is seeing leade [...] | 2008-01-07 08:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID SNAR ECON KPAO PREF AF |
| 08KABUL734 | AFGHANISTAN'S 2008 TIP QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, or children? Provide, where possible, numbers or estimates for each group; how they were trafficked, to where, and for what purpose. Does the trafficking occur within the country's [...] | 2008-03-24 05:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF AF |
| 08KABUL757 | AFGHANISTAN-TAJIKISTAN BRIDGE IMPROVES TRADE AND RELATIONS [...] (U) This report has been co-drafted with U.S. Embassy Dushanbe. 2. (SBU) Summary: Afghan and Tajikistani officials have agreed on several steps to improve operations at the Afghanistan-Tajikistan Bridge. Afghan vehicle traffic to Tajikistan has increased seven-fold and border tax revenue te [...] | 2008-03-25 13:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID AF TI |
| 08KABUL770 | AFGHANISTAN'S 2008 TIP QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, or children? Provide, where possible, numbers or estimates for each group; how they were trafficked, to where, and for what purpose. Does the trafficking occur within the country's [...] | 2008-03-26 13:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF AF |
| 08KABUL814 | AF: Japanese Interested in Funding Training of Afghan [...] (SBU) On March 30 the Charge, accompanied by EconCouns, reviewed with visiting Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Ken Sasae and Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan Hideo Sato Japan's plans for assistance to Afghanistan. Sasae reaffirmed Japan's commitment to completing its portion of the Kandah [...] | 2008-04-01 10:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PGOV AF FR |
| 08KABUL829 | AFGHAN SOCIAL OUTREACH PROGRAM GAINS MOMENTUM AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SUPPORT FOR THE AFGHANISTAN SOCIAL OUTREACH PROGRAM (ASOP),UNVEILED BY THE INDEPENDENT DIRECTORATE FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE (IDLG) ON FEBRUARY 14 (REFTEL),IS GAINING MOMENTUM. IDLG ACKNOWLEDGES THE PROGRAM IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND HAS WELCOMED COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM T [...] | 2008-04-03 05:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL85 | Afghanistan Assists Pakistani Refugees [...] (U) The Afghan government and international community - through the auspices of the Afghan Red Crescent and an Afghan government interagency disaster management committee - are providing food, tents, blankets, fuel, cash, and other humanitarian assistance to the families crossing the border to [...] | 2008-01-08 03:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM PK AF |
| 08KABUL871 | DOSTUM AFFAIR BECOMES EMBROILED IN ELECTION [...] (SBU) Election politics provides the context for the President Karzai, General Dostum, Akbar Bay, and Attorney General Saabit's ongoing maneuvering to resolve the legal tangle resulting from Dostum's February 2 abduction and beating of Turkmen community leader Bay (ref). Bay continues to dema [...] | 2008-04-08 15:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL877 | POLITICAL AGREEMENT REACHED ON SEPARATE ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary. The prolonged political debate between Parliament and the Palace ended this week with an agreement to hold separate Presidential (in 2009) and Parliamentary (in 2010) elections using a Single Non- Transferable Voting (SNTV) system for the parliamentary elections. President Kar [...] | 2008-04-10 13:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL878 | RABBANI REBUFFS TALIBAN OVERTURES, HIS GOALS ARE [...] (C) Summary: The opposition United Front assures us that its leader Burhanuddin Rabbani recently rejected Taliban overtures inviting a military alliance against the Karzai government. The Taliban overtures follow the United Front's increasingly vocal criticism of the Karzai government, Rabba [...] | 2008-04-10 15:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER AF |
| 08KABUL95 | IRAN THREATENS UNREGISTERED AFGHANS WITH [...] (C) On January 2, Iran launched the latest salvo in its scare campaign against unregistered Afghans in Iran by warning that these illegal migrants would be arrested and put into prison camps for up to five years. Iran issued this threat after Afghans ignored the recently-announced "No-Go Area [...] | 2008-01-08 11:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PREF IR AF |
| 08KABUL97 | IRAN THREATENS UNREGISTERED AFGHANS WITH [...] (C) On January 2, Iran launched the latest salvo in its scare campaign against unregistered Afghans in Iran by warning that these illegal migrants would be arrested and put into prison camps for up to five years. Iran issued this threat after Afghans ignored the recently-announced "No-Go Area [...] | 2008-01-08 11:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PREF IR AF |
| 08KABUL980 | PRT ASADABAD: KUNAR POLICE FRUSTRATED AS FIGHTING SEASON [...] (SBU) Summary: Frustration among provincial police chiefs boiled over at an eastern region governors' conference in late March, as Kunar Brigadier Abdul Jalal declared that he was under-staffed and under-resourced. Jalal also asserted that the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has yet to release a no [...] | 2008-04-22 10:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF |
| 08KABUL984 | AF: UPDATE ON USG ENERGY PROJECTS [...] (U) The following cable provides a current status update on USG energy sector projects in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRoA). 2. (U) KABUL 100 MW GENERATOR SETS (GENSETS) - The IRoA transferred another USD 10 million to the U.S. Treasury, completing the Afghan Government's USD 20 mi [...] | 2008-04-22 13:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
| 08KAMPALA1090 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (JULY 12-31, 2008) [...] (U) 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 social [...] | 2008-08-05 13:26:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1100 | MORE OIL FINDS IN WESTERN UGANDA [...] Tullow Oil, one of four oil exploration companies operating in western Uganda, has uncovered a large field of oil and gas deposits in exploration Block Two, which runs along the upper half of Lake Albert (refs A and B). Ministry of Energy Petroleum Exploration and Production Department (PEPD) [...] | 2008-08-08 07:25:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EAID PGOV UG |
| 08KAMPALA1129 | NORTHERN UGANDA: KONY TO MEET DELEGATION AUGUST 20 [...] (SBU) Summary: Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) delegation leader Dr. David Matsanga claims that Joseph Kony is committed to meeting with his delegation on August 20/21. Matsanga reportedly told Kony that he needed to show up in order to put the onus on the Government of Uganda to provide answer [...] | 2008-08-14 11:25:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UG SU CG CT |
| 08KAMPALA1163 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA DELEGATION MEETING DATE SLIPS [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Special Envoy Joachim Chissano remains optimistic, despite the uncertainties, that Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony will show up for a meeting with his own LRA delegation on August 24. Chissano requested a date change from August 20/21 so that he could attend. [...] | 2008-08-20 08:25:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS CG UG SU |
| 08KAMPALA1188 | URANIUM FOR SALE IN KAMPALA, UGANDA [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via walk in interview. Information concerning this [...] | 2008-08-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PTER UG |
| 08KAMPALA1220 | UGANDAN SECURITY MINISTER IMPLICATED IN LAND [...] (SBU) Summary: A scandal involving Uganda's National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has generated heated hearings in Parliament and exposed what appears to be another case of high-level Ugandan government corruption. The scandal centers on land NSSF purchased in early 2008 without proper attent [...] | 2008-09-03 11:35:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCOR UG |
| 08KAMPALA1228 | NORTHERN UGANDA: KONY REQUESTS ANOTHER MEETING WITH LRA [...] (SBU) Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony has requested that UN officials make arrangements for another meeting with his negotiators to discuss the Final Peace Agreement (FPA). UN Special Envoy for LRA-Affected Areas Joachim Chissano's Office in Kampala is making arrangements for [...] | 2008-09-04 13:31:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 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 |
| 08KAMPALA1331 | RUMBLE IN MENGO: UGANDAN PRESIDENT AND BUGANDA KINGDOM [...] (SBU) Summary: Conflict continues between President Museveni and the Buganda Kingdom over historic grievances and the proposed amendments to the 1998 Land Act (widely referred to as the Land Bill amendments). Most of the sparring has taken place in the public arena, where the lack of a commun [...] | 2008-09-18 08:40:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM UG |
| 08KAMPALA1359 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA LEADER ELUSIVE, ATTACKS IN DRC [...] (SBU) Summary: Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony did not show up for another meeting that he requested with northern Ugandan religious and traditional leaders on September 17. The Ugandan Government was not surprised at the turn of events. Given that Kony often reaches out to [...] | 2008-09-29 15:24:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 08KAMPALA1367 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2008) [...] (U) 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 social [...] | 2008-10-06 12:52:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1376 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2008) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide informati -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PEACE AND RECONCILIATION PROCESSES -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (SBU) Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony again failed 3. (SBU) Northern traditional and religi [...] | 2008-10-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1391 | UGANDA: 2008 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] Country: Uganda 2. Current AGOA Status: Eligible 3. Country Background Summary: After two decades of broad-based economic growth and political stability, Uganda is now confronting a range of economic and governance challenges as it tries to sustain and deepen economic growth and deve [...] | 2008-10-16 13:53:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | AGOA ETRD PGOV KCOR EINV ECON UG |
| 08KAMPALA1449 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (October 1-31, 2008) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2008-11-04 10:18:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1469 | NORTHERN UGANDA: WHITHER THE PEACE PROCESS? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chief Mediator of the Juba Peace Process, Government of Southern Sudan Vice President Riek Machar, held a stakeholders' conference in Kampala on November 5 aimed at creating a roadmap for the stalled process between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Ugan [...] | 2008-11-10 05:50:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS CG UG SU |
| 08KAMPALA1484 | UGANDAN PRESIDENT INTERVENES IN NSSF SCANDAL TO [...] (SBU) Summary. President Museveni stepped in to spare the ruling party from protracted and bitter infighting in the ongoing scandal involving the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). In doing so, Museveni cleared the Ministers of Finance and Security of any wrongdoing after a parliamentary [...] | 2008-11-12 13:51:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KDEM UG |
| 08KAMPALA1524 | RESPECTED EDITOR RESIGNS; GIVES VIEWS ON UGANDAN MEDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Editor-in-Chief of Uganda's New Vision newspaper, Els De Temmerman, resigned on October 24 over a lack of editorial independence. The Belgian national said that Robert Kabushenga, the paper's Chief Executive Officer (CEO),forced her to keep President Museveni in the headl [...] | 2008-11-20 06:47:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM UG |
| 08KAMPALA1545 | NORTHERN UGANDA: RUMORS OF NINE-MONTH EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary: Ugandan Government and United Nations officials believe that Government of Southern Sudan Mediator Riek Machar is behind persistent rumors that U.N. Special Envoy Chissano's mandate will be extended for another nine months. Chissano told President Museveni that he did not belie [...] | 2008-11-25 11:54:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CG UG SU |
| 08KAMPALA1552 | NORTHERN UGANDA: KONY FAILS TO SIGN PEACE [...] (C) Summary: Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony told a delegation of LRA negotiators, northern elders, and parliamentarians that he will not sign the Final Peace Agreement (FPA) until the International Criminal Court (ICC) lifts the warrants against the LRA leadership. Kony also [...] | 2008-12-01 13:59:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1553 | UGANDA RESPONSE TO PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) Econoff shared reftel talking points with Isaac Sebulime, Director of the Multilateral Organizations and Treaties Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sebulime said he would confer with other government ministries before commenting substantively on the proposal. Post plans to fol [...] | 2008-12-02 06:06:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV UG |
| 08KAMPALA1558 | NORTHERN UGANDA: GOU PULLS OUT OF JUBA PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Juba Peace Process has ended after Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony refused to sign the Final Peace Agreement (FPA) on November 30. On December 1, Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Mediator Riek Machar, UN Special Envoy for LRA-Affected Areas Joachim Chissa [...] | 2008-12-02 13:07:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS CG UG SU |
| 08KAMPALA1561 | NORTHERN UGANDA: UN ENVOY ADVOCATES CHANGING THE [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Envoy for LRA-Affected Areas Joachim Chissano told the diplomatic corps on December 2 that Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony will not sign the Final Peace Agreement (FPA) unless the peace process dynamic changes. Chissano said that without military press [...] | 2008-12-03 11:43:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1567 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (NOVEMBER 1-30, 2008) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social s [...] | 2008-12-05 05:09:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1579 | NORTHERN UGANDA: KONY LIVING IN A FOOL'S PARADISE [...] (C) Summary: Government of Uganda (GOU) lead negotiator Ruhukana Rugunda described Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony as "living in a fool's paradise" after hearing the details of Kony's meeting with a delegation of northern elders on November 29. The meeting was the first time [...] | 2008-12-10 14:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1600 | EAC CONVENES TO DISCUSS UGANDAN MILITARY ACTIONS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On December 15, 2008 the DCM convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) attended by the RSO, RAO, CON, DAO, PD, MGT, Peace Corps, CDC, CLO, and USAID. The EAC discussion was centered on the recent Government of Uganda (GoU) military actions against the Lord's Resistance Army [...] | 2008-12-15 14:19:00 | Embassy Kampala | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC UG |
| 08KAMPALA1611 | UGANDA'S POPULATION BOOM JEOPARDIZES DEVELOPMENT GAINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Two new demographic studies in Uganda show that the country has one of the highest population growth rates in the world, creating a demographic time bomb which threatens to undermine Uganda's recent economic gains and political stability. According to one study, Uganda's popula [...] | 2008-12-17 12:33:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PINS PGOV PREL UG |
| 08KAMPALA1613 | CONTENTIOUS UGANDAN BY-ELECTION AND ITS LESSONS FOR 2011 [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 4, Uganda conducted another controversial by-election in Wakiso District to replace a ruling party parliamentarian (reftels). With increasing opposition inroads in the district, the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party pulled out heavy hitters, such as F [...] | 2008-12-18 06:11:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF KDEM ASEC EAID UG |
| 08KAMPALA1619 | NORTHERN UGANDA: JOINT REGIONAL MILITARY [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 14, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),and southern Sudan launched joint military operations against Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) camps in eastern DRC. Ugandan Defense spokesmen said airstrikes hit five LRA camps. Operations are continuing. Cooperatio [...] | 2008-12-19 04:57:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA1640 | UGANDA NAMES NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Internal Affairs Ruhukana Rugunda was named as Uganda's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN PermRep) on December 12. Highly accessible to U.S. diplomats, Rugunda had previously served as Uganda's Foreign Minister, is at ease with foreign interlocu [...] | 2008-12-23 07:10:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UG |
| 08KAMPALA19 | UGANDA'S BORDER FEELS IMPACT OF KENYA'S UNREST [...] Summary: EconOff traveled to Malaba, Tororo District and to Busia, Busia District on January 3 to monitor border developments and to potentially assist Amcits seeking shelter in Uganda. Immigration and customs officers reported no violent disturbances along the border, but noted that hundred [...] | 2008-01-07 04:11:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM PREL UG |
| 08KAMPALA197 | NORTHERN UGANDA: U.N. ENOVY ON RESUMPTION OF TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: U.N. Special Envoy for LRA-Affected Areas Joachim Chissano visited Kampala from January 25-27 to meet with President Museveni on the resumption of talks in Juba. He also pushed to secure a letter from Museveni to Congolese President Kabila reflecting a change in the January 31 [...] | 2008-02-01 08:24:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS CG UG SU |
| 08KAMPALA203 | NORTHERN UGANDA: JUBA PEACE TALKS RESUME, LRA [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 30, the Lord's Resistance Army's (LRA) negotiating team agreed to renew the Cessation of Hostilities for another month and developed a timetable for considering each of the remaining sections of the agreement. In the days prior to the resumption of the talks, a var [...] | 2008-02-01 09:53:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA235 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (January 1-31, 2008) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social s [...] | 2008-02-06 10:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA266 | NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/PORTAL DETECTION IN [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via walk in interview. Information concerning this [...] | 2008-02-12 10:44:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PTER KCOR UG |
| 08KAMPALA284 | NORTHERN UGANDA: GOVERNMENT VIEWS ON PROGRESS AT [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Uganda appears to be taking steps to increase pressure on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Southern Sudan mediator, Riek Machar. The GOU's lead negotiator, Minister of Internal Affairs Ruhakana Rugunda informed donors on February 13 that [...] | 2008-02-15 09:41:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU |
| 08KAMPALA351 | UGANDA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2008 [...] (U) Embassy POC for Trafficking In Persons (TIP) issues is Political/Economic Chief Kathleen FitzGibbon, Tel: 256-41-306-214, Mobile: 256-772-220-030, Fax: 256-41-345-144. To prepare this report, P/E Chief Kathleen FitzGibbon (FS-02) spent 30 hours and political assistant Gracie Jaasi spent 1 [...] | 2008-03-04 11:03:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB UG |
| 08KAMPALA36 | UGANDA: Local resources meet the needs of Kenyan [...] (SBU) On January 7, 2008, Refugee Assistant spoke with Ugandan Red Cross officer, Will Obeka and to GoU Refugee Officer David Kazungu regarding the influx of Kenyans into Uganda. The Uganda Red Cross led the national response to the current influx of Kenyan refugees in Uganda's Malaba, Musafa [...] | 2008-01-08 10:44:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PINS UG |
| 08KAMPALA360 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (FEBRUARY 1-29, 2008) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social s [...] | 2008-03-05 07:32:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA393 | UGANDA: LAKE SECURITY MEASURES LACKING IN OIL RICH REGION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Browning and Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Rear Admiral Greene traveled to Lake Albert in western Uganda on March 4 to follow up on a request from the Ugandan military to help increase its lake security capabilities. Lake Albert is divided in [...] | 2008-03-13 06:22:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET MARR ENRG EAID PGOV UG |
| 08KAMPALA410 | UGANDAN OFFICIALS NOT SURPRISED BY KONY'S MOVEMENT [...] (S) Summary: Ugandan Government officials state that Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony's movement into Central African Republic (CAR) came as no surprise. They have been pointing to LRA movements on the ground, away from the direction of the Rikwangba assembly site, as evidence [...] | 2008-03-17 14:16:00 | Embassy Kampala | SECRET | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA413 | SNAPSHOT OF LOCAL PERCEPTIONS ON OIL FINDS IN UGANDA [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Browning and Command Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Rear Admiral Greene met with western Ugandan politicians to discuss the effects of continued oil exploration in the area. The local leaders expressed a variety of needs, from clean water to education, most o [...] | 2008-03-19 03:48:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EAID PGOV UG |
| 08KAMPALA481 | U.N. ENVOY CHISSANO ON UGANDA-LRA PEACE DEAL [...] (C) Summary: U.N. Special Envoy Joachim Chissano shared his views on the Juba peace process and potential military operations against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) with Ambassador Browning on April 4. Chissano has requested that LRA leader Joseph Kony designate another individual to sign [...] | 2008-04-07 11:15:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA483 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA PEACE PROCESS UNCERTAINTIES [...] (S) Summary: Potential changes in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) negotiating team could delay or jeopardize the signing of the Final Peace Agreement (FPA),currently set for April 10 and 14. Splits along ethnic and regional lines within the LRA delegation are now out in the open. Several [...] | 2008-04-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Kampala | SECRET | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA513 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA SIGNING UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Post provides the following update on the signing of the Final Peace Agreament (FPA) to augment information from ConGen Juba. The Lord's Resistance Army's (LRA) lead negotiator "resigned" on April 10. Two escapees from the LRA camp reached the MONUC base at Dungu, Democratic R [...] | 2008-04-12 05:44:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA521 | NORTHERN UGANDA: KONY DANCES AWAY AGAIN FROM PEACE [...] (SBU) Summary: For the Government of Uganda, Kony's rejection of peace was disappointing, but not unexpected. President Museveni will meet with his Southern Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir on April 14 to determine the way forward. International criticism of Kony's movements, kidnappings, an [...] | 2008-04-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA552 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (March 1-April 18, 2008) [...] (U) 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 social [...] | 2008-04-22 07:20:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA555 | NORTHERN UGANDA: ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MEET KONY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) negotiators and northern elders will attempt to meet with LRA leader Joseph Kony on May 10. According to the LRA delegation's reported new leader, James Obita, large crowds and likely international pressure scared Kony off on April 10. The LRA [...] | 2008-04-22 12:44:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU CG CT |
| 08KAMPALA58 | UPDF ACTIVITY IN KENYA HIGHLY UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU has strongly rejected press reports and Orange Democratic Movement allegations that Ugandan forces are active in Kenya. The US Mission in Uganda has seen no evidence of any GOU involvement in western Kenya; to the contrary, the GOU appears to be treating border issues [...] | 2008-01-15 12:25:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PGOV UG |
| 08KAMPALA602 | GOU WELCOMES GREATER USG ENGAGEMENT ON SMALL ARMS [...] (U) Summary: Illicit small arms/light weapons (SA/LW) proliferation in Uganda stems from numerous post-independence conflicts, regional arms trafficking, leakage from state-owned stockpiles, and to a lesser degree from illicit manufacturing. In response, the GOU, with UNDP and donor assistanc [...] | 2008-04-30 12:26:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV PHUM KDEM UG |
| 08KAMPALA610 | MCC MEETING ON PROGRESS OF THRESHOLD COUNTRY PLAN IN [...] (U) Summary: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Vice President Maureen Harrington told senior Ugandan officials on April 17 that progress on the Threshold Country Plan (TCP),improved indicators for political rights, and stabilization of anti-corruption indicators would be needed for Ugand [...] | 2008-05-06 11:52:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM UG |
| 08KAMPALA613 | UGANDAN JOURNALISTS THREATENED WITH SEDITION CHARGES [...] (SBU) Summary: Three journalists from The Independent magazine, including the Managing Editor Andrew Mwenda, were detained over "publication of seditious stories" on April 26. Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) interrogated the journalists for three hours and later r [...] | 2008-05-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM UG |
| 08KAMPALA647 | KONY FAILS TO MEET NORTHERN UGANDAN LEADERS [...] (SBU) Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony failed to meet with his negotiating team and northern Ugandan religious leaders and elders at Rikwangba, which had been set originally for May 10. Kony did not show up on May 10 reportedly due to the LRA's own internal meetings in Garamba [...] | 2008-05-14 12:32:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU CG CT |
| 08KAMPALA674 | UGANDA: MUSEVENI AND KABILA DEFUSE BORDER TENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila met in Tanzania to discuss border issues after Congolese military units moved a border demarcation four kilometers into an agreed-upon no-man's zone on the Ugandan border. The growing bord [...] | 2008-05-21 09:43:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS ASEC PINS PGOV PTER PREL CG UG |
| 08KAMPALA727 | Uganda: UNHCR Preparing for Congolese Returns to DRC [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 29, 2008, RefCoord met with acting UNHCR country Representative, Montserrat Vihe, in Kampala. Vihe said that the Government of the DRC had invited the Government of Uganda to attend tripartite discussions in Kinshasa in the coming weeks. The GoU, in anticipation of the [...] | 2008-06-04 12:52:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PINS UG CG |
| 08KAMPALA735 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (MAY 3-30, 2008) [...] (U) 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 social se [...] | 2008-06-05 11:46:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
| 08KAMPALA97 | MUSEVENI STEPS INTO KENYAN POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (C) Citing his capacities as Chairman of the East Africa Community, and Commonwealth Chairman in Office, President Museveni traveled to Kenya on January 22 to attempt discussions with Kenyan factions on the political problems resulting from the December 2007 elections. XXXXXXXXXXXX told Pol/Econ [...] | 2008-01-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KE UG |
| 08KARACHI220 | SINDH -- MQM LEADER SAYS PARTY LEFT OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: On March 14, Farooq Sattar, Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader, told the Consul General that his party has not been approached to participate as a coalition partner in either the national or Sindh provincial governments. He was not in favor of a blanket restoration of the j [...] | 2008-03-17 14:38:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
| 08KARACHI423 | KARACHI - SEVEN BOMB BLASTS ROCK CITY [...] (C) Two people were killed and 65 others wounded, nine seriously, by seven bomb blasts that rocked predominantly Pashtun sections of western Karachi within a one hour span on the night of July 7, according to police and other sources. The neighborhoods, located 15 to 25 kilometers north of th [...] | 2008-07-09 08:35:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
| 08KARACHI451 | KARACHI - TRANSPORTERS GO ON STIKE DEMANDING RATE [...] (C) Summary: Members of KarachiQs mass transportation union, the Karachi Transport Ittahad (KTI),went on strike on July 22 to demand provincial government approval of a fare increase to compensate for a sharp increase in fuel costs. The strike ended the same day after meetings between KTI [...] | 2008-07-26 13:49:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI ECON ENGY PGOV PK |
| 08KARACHI467 | QUETTA - GIRLS, SCHOOL BURNED [...] (U) An August 4 report in the Dawn newspaper pointed to &suspected Taliban militants8 as responsible for the destruction of a private girls, school in a Quetta suburb. The article, accompanied by a photograph of a destroyed computer laboratory, said that attackers had used petroleum to ignit [...] | 2008-08-08 06:17:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI PK |
| 08KARACHI477 | SINDH - MQM TELLS KARACHI RESIDENTS TO ARM AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 8, Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain advised residents of two upscale Karachi communities to arm themselves against an impending takeover by Taliban forces. MQM critics accused Hussain of trying to exacerbate an ethnic dispute with the city's Pashtu [...] | 2008-08-13 08:33:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
| 08KARACHI483 | SINDH - GUNFIRE HITS MOTORCADE OF NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: A motorcade carrying National Assembly Member (MNA) Haider Abbas Rizvi, a member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) political party, and his family was struck by gunfire on August 17. Neither Rizvi nor any of his family members were hurt, but a police officer escorting the [...] | 2008-08-20 05:53:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
| 08KARACHI484 | SINDH - GUNFIRE HITS MOTORCADE OF NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: A motorcade carrying National Assembly Member (MNA) Haider Abbas Rizvi, a member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) political party, and his family was struck by gunfire on August 17. Neither Rizvi nor any of his family members were hurt, but a police officer escorting the [...] | 2008-08-20 06:46:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
| 08KARACHI490 | U.S.- SUPPLIED MILITARY VEHICLES DAMAGED IN KARACHI [...] (C) Summary: On August 24, one of two light military vehicles, loaded on a flat-bed truck and destined for a military post in Afghanisan, was damaged when unidentified attackers shot at several trucks in a truck staging area near Karachi Port. The likely motive for the attack is a transporta [...] | 2008-08-25 10:36:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ELTN ETRD PGOV PREL PTER PK |
| 08KARACHI495 | BALOCHISTAN - GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION THEN [...] (C) Summary: A protocol official with Balochistan's provincial government and the Governor's Public Relations Officer both confirmed on August 21 that Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfigar Ali Magsi submitted his resignation on August 20 to Acting Pakistan President Mohammedmian Soomro. Then, [...] | 2008-08-27 02:53:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
| 08KARACHI497 | SINDH - KARACHI TRANSPORTERS STRIKE EXPOSES [...] (S) Noor Khan Niazi, newly elected President of the Karachi Goods Transport Ittehad (KGTI),told EconOff on August 26 that his union had reached an agreement with the GOP and called off a long-haul truckers strike that had threatened to stall USG goods shipments to Afghanistan (reftel A). A [...] | 2008-08-27 08:54:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET | PGOV ELAB ELTN ETRD PTER PK |
| 08KARACHI501 | SINDH - KARACHI STOCK EXCHANGE HITS 33 MONTH LOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Share values on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) plunged to a 33-month low by the end of trading on August 27, to close at 9,144.93, down 285.36 points for the day. Despite media reports of civil unrest outside the exchange, police and KSE officials confirmed there was no vio [...] | 2008-08-28 14:27:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PK |
| 08KARACHI519 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S MEETING WITH THE CHIEF MINISTER OF [...] (U) Summary: Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael Leavitt on August 20 met Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Chief Minister, Sindh Province, and selected senior provincial officials. The Secretary discussed the resurgence of polio in Sindh province and steps the provincial government neede [...] | 2008-09-10 06:14:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAID PGOV PK SOCI KOCI |
| 08KARACHI548 | KARACHI EAC MEETING 09/30/2008 [...] (C) The Karachi Emergency Action Committee met on 09/30/2008 to discuss the ramifications to Post security of the threat information connected with the anticipated visit of SecState to Pakistan. Consul General Kay Anske chaired the meeting. In attendance were RSO, RAO, MGT, CON, OBO and MSG. [...] | 2008-09-30 09:20:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET//NOFORN | AMGT ASEC PGOV PTER PK |
| 08KARACHI583 | KARACHI PRISON VISIT: JONATHAN (AZAM) CHAMAN [...] (SBU) On October 15, 2008, Consular Officer (ConOff) visited American citizen Jonathan Chaman (DPOB: 6 December 1973, Pakistan) in Central Prison Karachi. Mr. Chaman told ConOff that his treatment is good and had improved since the visit by the Consul General in July 2008 (reftel). He made [...] | 2008-10-27 08:14:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC |
| 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 |
| 08KARACHI589 | BALOCHISTAN - DEADLY EARTHQUAKE STRIKES RURAL AREAS [...] (SBU) Summary: A series of earthquakes struck districts in northern Balochistan on the morning of October 29. While very little concrete information is available at this point, media reports indicate that at least 160 have been left dead while District officials estimate some 300 to be inju [...] | 2008-10-29 17:00:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV PK |
| 08KARACHI600 | SINDH - DESPITE GOP CLAIM POWER OUTAGES CONTINUE IN [...] (SBU) Summary. An official with the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) disagreed with a GOP statement that the frequent power outages had ended on November 1. Members of Karachi's major trade associations agreed with his assessment, but expected the frequency of the outages to decrease - [...] | 2008-11-10 11:49:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV ECON PK |
| 08KARACHI627 | ETHNIC VIOLENCE SHAKES KARACHI [...] (C) Summary: Up to 50 people have been killed in violent ethnic riots between Pashtuns and Mohajirs since November 27. While the specific action that sparked sporadic attacks is unclear, the ruling Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) movement has been warning for months of the increased 'taliba [...] | 2008-12-03 14:10:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI PK |
| 08KARACHI653 | PROCTOR AND GAMBLE GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Patterson traveled to PakistanQs largest city, Karachi, to attend the groundbreaking of a new Proctor and Gamble (P&G) factory in Port Qasim with Karachi Consul General on December 18. P&G will hire 700 new employees to work in the plant and estimates it may help [...] | 2008-12-24 08:01:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV SOCI PK |
| 08KARACHI654 | KARACHI NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCK BY "OIL RAIN" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Eastern Karachi area of Korangi experienced what residents are calling "oil rain" on Wednesday night, December 17. A pipeline carrying crude oil that passes through the neighborhood from the nearby Port of Karachi was damaged by maintenance workers from Sui Southern Gas [...] | 2008-12-24 10:32:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV SOCI PK |
| 08KARACHI91 | PASHTUN POLITICAL LEADER KILLED IN KARACHI [...] (C) Summary: On February 6, gunmen killed the Sindh Deputy President of the Awami National Party (ANP),Fazlur Rehman Akakhel. Almost immediately after, Pashtuns in Karachi took to the streets, creating mayhem in certain neighborhoods and traffic jams everywhere. In a separate incident, t [...] | 2008-02-07 09:19:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
| 08KATHMANDU1008 | NEPAL: FINANCIAL INFORMATION UNIT EAGER TO BECOME [...] (C) On August 27 and September 5, Hari Kumar Nepal, one of only two personnel assigned to Nepal's new Financial Information Unit (FIU),explained the progress the FIU has made in drafting guidelines and the challenges it would have to tackle to become a functional entity in anti-money launder [...] | 2008-09-09 10:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EFIN KTFN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1016 | NEPAL: PM DAHAL AFFIRMS DESIRE TO WORK WITH U.S. [...] (C) On September 9, in her first meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Dahal since he took office, the Ambassador reviewed a range of bilateral issues between the United States and Nepal and sought his support. These ran the spectrum from stopping human rights violations by the Maoists' Young Co [...] | 2008-09-11 12:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PREF ECON EAID ENRG SNAR |
| 08KATHMANDU1048 | SCENESETTER AND TALKING POINTS FOR MEETING WITH [...] (C) During your meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Dahal on the margins of the 63rd UN General Assembly, you should raise the following issues: (1) Government of Nepal (GON) plans; (2) progress in the peace process and UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) operations; (3) reining in the Maoist Young Com [...] | 2008-09-19 09:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ECON EINV MARR PREF KSEC |
| 08KATHMANDU1049 | 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: UPDATE FOR NEPAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 09:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1068 | NEPAL'S PRIORITIES FOR 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) On September 19, Rudra Nepal, Joint Secretary for UN and International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),told Emboffs that the priorities for the Government of Nepal (GON) at the 63rd UN General Assembly included landlocked least-developed countries, food security, t [...] | 2008-09-23 10:39:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER OVIP KSEP UNGA CH IN RS GG |
| 08KATHMANDU1079 | NEPAL: CONGRESS STILL AT LOOSE ENDS, UML FACING [...] (C) Former Prime Minister G.P. Koirala revealed to the Ambassador September 15 that the Nepali Congress (NC) might choose someone else to lead the party in the parliament. Subsequent meetings with senior NC leaders, including the party spokesman and the Prime Minister's daughter, gave Emboffs [...] | 2008-09-26 10:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EINV KDEM IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU111 | NEPAL: CA ELECTION UPDATE: 73 DAYS TO GO [...] (C) Less than eleven weeks before the Constituent Assembly election scheduled for April 10, the Election Commission continues its preparations. Meanwhile, the Government of Nepal (GON) has given sitting Members of Parliament a distinct advantage. The Six-Party Alliance and the Maoists are pr [...] | 2008-01-28 13:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EAID PTER IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1154 | ODC SEMINAR DISCUSSES EX-COMBATANT INTEGRATION [...] (C) On 19 October, 2008, the Office of Defense Cooperation hosted a seminar involving a core group which has addressed security sector issues over the course of multiple, iterative events. Participants included representatives from a local think tank, the Nepal Army, Armed Police, Civil Police [...] | 2008-10-27 10:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NP PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 08KATHMANDU1162 | NEPAL: TALKS WITH ARMED GROUPS IN TERAI UNLIKELY [...] (C) As of November 3, the Government of Nepal (GON) has made limited progress on peace negotiations between a three-member team of cabinet ministers and a collection of armed groups from the Terai. Prospects for a successful outcome are unpromising. The armed groups have struggled to form a [...] | 2008-11-03 10:00:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1178 | NEPAL: DRAFT 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Although Nepal is neither a significant producer of nor a major transit route for narcotic drugs, hashish, heroin and domestically produced cannabis are trafficked to and through Nepal every year. Nepal's Narcotics Drug Control Law Enforcement Unit (NDCLEU) reports that more Nepalese citizens [...] | 2008-11-10 04:19:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1189 | CLAD SCENESETTER [...] (C) U.S. Mission Kathmandu warmly welcomes you to Nepal. In April, Nepalis elected a long awaited Constituent Assembly. In May the Assembly completed the country,s two-year-long evolution from a kingdom to a republic by abolishing the monarchy. Since August, the former Maoist insurgents have [...] | 2008-11-12 10:39:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NP PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 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 |
| 08KATHMANDU122 | G/TIP INCLE AND ESF FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR NEPAL [...] Embassy Kathmandu is pleased to propose the following three projects, in rank order, for consideration for INCLE and ESF funding (Reftel). Post will forward via email the full proposals for the projects listed in the cable to GTIP Funding Opportunities@state.gov. END SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION [...] | 2008-01-29 12:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN EAID IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1224 | NEPAL: NO URGENCY TO RESOLVE ARMY COMMITTEE OR [...] (C) Ambassador Powell, British Ambassador Hall and French Charge Romicanu's joint expressions of the international community's concerns about the stalemate regarding the Army Integration Special Committee and lack of discussion about a possible extension and revision of UNMIN's mandate were not [...] | 2008-11-20 10:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU123 | TIBETAN REFUGEES IN NEPAL: ANOTHER CASE OF NEAR [...] (SBU) Nineteen Tibetan refugees who were arrested by Nepali officials on January 15 and threatened with refoulement are now at the Tibetan Refugee Reception Center in Kathmandu. United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials agreed this was a serious near-abrogation of the gent [...] | 2008-01-29 12:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL NP CH |
| 08KATHMANDU1238 | NEPAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 08:30:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1243 | NEPAL: LABOR WOES FOR COLGATE-PALMOLIVE [...] (C) After over a decade of operations in Nepal, Colgate-Palmolive announced at its Hetauda factory on November 21 that it had sold its entire interest in the Nepal operation to a private company. The agreement included the express understanding that all employees of the company would continue [...] | 2008-11-28 09:55:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ELAB NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1245 | NEPAL: POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS A FAMILY AND FRIENDS [...] (SBU) Political appointments that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and its coalition partners have made to offices in the Government of Nepal (GON) have frequently been based on party and family connections rather than the expertise of the candidates. This follows the standard set by ev [...] | 2008-11-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1251 | NEPAL'S WATER AGREEMENTS WITH INDIA [...] Nepal has bilateral water agreements with India that cover three of the four major trans-boundary rivers. The complex, politically charged agreements are a source of concern and resentment among Nepalis and the recent Koshi River floods have led to calls to renegotiate them. Although Nepal is [...] | 2008-12-01 10:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID ENRG XD NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1254 | PM PLANS TO REQUEST UNMIN EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary. UN Special Representative Ian Martin briefed local P-5 representatives December 1 that PM Dahal intends to request soon an extension of the current UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) mandate, which expires on January 23. It was unclear whether or not the opposition Nepali Congress w [...] | 2008-12-02 08:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1264 | AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 4 MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: In a brief meeting with Ambassador on December 4, Prime Minister Dahal confirmed that a request for a six-month UNMIN mandate extension would be lodged "tomorrow or the next day," despite the lack of consultation with opposition Nepali Congress leaders. Dahal also promised to [...] | 2008-12-04 09:57:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1265 | MAOIST-LED GOVERNMENT AFTER 100 DAYS: NEW NEPAL [...] (C) With few exceptions, Nepal's Maoist-led government has done little in the roughly 100 days since the coalition's formation in August to transform Nepal. From the cabinet, to foreign policy, the peace process, human rights and law and order, the Terai and the economy, the government's recor [...] | 2008-12-05 08:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID ECON ELAB IN CH NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1273 | MAOIST SPOKESMAN SAYS INFORMATION ON U.S. EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: Maoist leadership will soon disclose details and information regarding the 2001 and 2002 killings of two Nepali security employees of the U.S. Mission, according to former PLA Deputy Commander Barshaman Pun (aka "Ananta"). Pun has been given the responsibility to make the disc [...] | 2008-12-11 07:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL NP |
| 08KATHMANDU128 | NEPAL: BORDER ISSUES WITH EQUIPMENT FOR UNAMID [...] (C) Most of the Contingent-Owned Equipment (COE) to support the Nepal Police's deployment to the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) cleared Indian customs on January 17. The COE had been delayed at the Indo-Nepal border in Birgunj as described in reftel talking points. An Office of [...] | 2008-01-30 10:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV UNSC SU IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1287 | NEPAL REQUESTS SIX-MONTH EXTENSION FOR UNMIN [...] (C) According to the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN),on December 12, 2008, the Permanent Representative of Nepal to the UN, Madhu Raman Acharya, formally requested an additional six-month extension of UNMIN's mandate when the current mandate expires on January 23, 2009. The operative [...] | 2008-12-16 08:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN MARR NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1288 | NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HARMONIZATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-16 08:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA NP |
| 08KATHMANDU1304 | NEPAL: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] While Nepal experienced no significant acts of international terrorism in 2008, several incidents of politically-motivated violence occurred across the country. Nepalese voters elected the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) -- a designated group on the Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL) -- to lead [...] | 2008-12-23 01:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC EFIN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU141 | NEPAL: NO TECHNICAL EXPERTS FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 11:29:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PTER PREL KGIC NP |
| 08KATHMANDU145 | NEPAL: MFA CONFIRMS NO CHANGE IN POLICY ON TIBETAN [...] (C) The Under Secretary for UN Affairs at the Foreign Ministry confirmed to the Political/Economic Chief February 1 that the Government of Nepal has not changed its policy on Tibetan refugees. The reported threat in mid-January by Nepali officials of refoulement to China for 19 refugees (reft [...] | 2008-02-01 12:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL CH NP |
| 08KATHMANDU148 | NEPAL: END USE MONITORING REPORT FOR CY2007 [...] Procedures Post inquired about the status of equipment INL-funded programs have provided to Nepal's law enforcement agencies in the past five years (since 2002). Emboffs visited Nepal Police headquarters, the Central Police Laboratory at the police academy, and the headquarters of the Nepa [...] | 2008-02-04 10:36:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU152 | NEPAL CA ELECTION: 66 DAYS TO GO [...] (C) The seven Six-Party Alliance and Maoist joint election meetings concluded amidst violence on January 30. The Election Commission has approved the registration of 13 new political parties and is continuing apace with preparations for April 10 Constituent Assembly polls. While the Maoists [...] | 2008-02-04 11:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER EAID KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU181 | NEPAL: CA ELECTION UPDATE: 59 DAYS TO GO [...] (U) Constituent Assembly election preparations continued as the Election Commission, the police and the political parties worked to finalize the roles they would play. The Maoist Young Communist League (YCL) attacked a senior Nepali Congress leader, and Prime Minister Koirala responded by or [...] | 2008-02-11 12:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU198 | NEPAL'S CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION: 51 DAYS [...] (C) On the eve of the first of two dates for filing candidate lists for Nepal's April 10 Constituent Assembly election, there is speculation in Kathmandu that the Interim Government will request that the Election Commission (EC) postpone the filing date. The EC is moving forward with election [...] | 2008-02-19 11:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU200 | NEPAL: WHAT DO THE MADHESIS WANT? [...] (C) According to the leaders of the United Democratic Madhesi Front, what Nepal's Madhesis want can be summed up in the Front's six demands from February 8. Those demands include a constitutional guarantee of a single Madhesi state with the right to self-determination. The reality is both mo [...] | 2008-02-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU213 | NEPAL: ELECTION FILING DEADLINE EXTENDED BUT NO [...] (C) The first deadline for filing proportional representation (PR) candidate lists for the Constituent Assembly (CA) election passed on February 20 with submissions by 37 political parties. The three agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) parties decided not to file. At the request [...] | 2008-02-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU217 | NEPAL ELECTION UPDATE: MADHESIS REJECT GOVERNMENT [...] (C) A deal between the Government of Nepal (GON) and the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) foundered in the early hours of February 25 over the Madhesi demand that the GON enshrine a Madhesi state in the Interim Constitution. UDMF leaders, including one who was flown in from th [...] | 2008-02-25 13:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU223 | NEPAL: POST INPUT FOR ENERGY REPORT TO CONGRESS [...] Nepal is neither a major producer nor consumer of energy. USAID's New Delhi-based regional program, South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/E),administers the bulk of Post's energy initiatives via technical assistance to Nepal in electricity market development, cross border power tr [...] | 2008-02-25 18:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV APER ABUD EAID NP |
| 08KATHMANDU243 | NEPAL: MADHESIS STRIKE DEAL WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) On February 28, Prime Minister Koirala ended two weeks of on and off negotiations with the three leaders of the United Democratic Madhesi Front by signing an 8-point deal intended to bring agitating Madhesis on board for the Constituent Assembly election. Celebrations ensued across the [...] | 2008-02-29 12:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU252 | NEPAL: COUNTDOWN CONTINUES: 38 DAYS UNTIL CA [...] (C) The three United Democratic Madhesi Front parties filed proportional representation (PR) candidate lists on March 2 for the April 10 Constituent Assembly election. Thirteen other parties also submitted candidate lists. This brought the number of participating parties to 55 and the total [...] | 2008-03-03 12:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU274 | NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: MOMENTUM BUILDING WITH 31 [...] (C) Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) chief MK Nepal told the Ambassador March 10 that he expected the UML to win a plurality of the Constituent Assembly's 240 first-past-the-post (FPTP) seats. He thought the UML should get the Prime Minister position. Meanwhile, on M [...] | 2008-03-10 12:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU29 | NEPAL: FIFTH MAOIST MINISTER CREATES WAVES BEFORE [...] (U) Matrika Yadav, the newly reappointed Minister for Forests and Soil Conservation, was sworn in on January 2 after first refusing to take the oath of office in Nepali. Yadav -- who was out of Kathmandu when the other Maoist ministers were sworn in on December 31 (reftel) -- demanded the oat [...] | 2008-01-08 08:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR NP |
| 08KATHMANDU297 | CONGRESSIONALLY-MANDATED REPORT ON FISCAL [...] As requested reftel, post is providing an updated fiscal transparency and accountability report. Nepal's Budget Is Public ------------------------ 2. (U) Nepalese law requires that the Government of Nepal (GON) publish its annual budget. The budget is first presented to the Parliament f [...] | 2008-03-14 11:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL NP |
| 08KATHMANDU305 | CRACKDOWN ON TIBETAN PROTESTERS IN NEPAL CONTINUES [...] (C) Approximately 100 Tibetan refugees gathered the morning of March 17 in front of United Nations (UN) House in Lalitpur, Kathmandu's twin city, to protest peacefully the recent reports of killings in Tibet. According to eyewitness accounts police baton-charged the protesters at 11 a.m. and [...] | 2008-03-17 11:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF CH NP |
| 08KATHMANDU308 | NEPAL: WORLD BANK PLANS PAYMENTS TO MAOIST [...] (C) On March 12, the World Bank Country Director for Nepal, Susan Goldmark, briefed the Ambassador on the World Bank's proposal to provide approximately USD 40 million in International Development Association (IDA) funding to the Government of Nepal (GON) for payments to Maoist combatants and [...] | 2008-03-18 12:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU309 | CA ELECTION UPDATE: 23 DAYS TO GO [...] (U) With only 23 days to go until Nepal's April 10 Constituent Assembly election, the candidate list is not yet final, but the Election Commission has released what is likely to be very close to the authoritative list. Those who object to the published proportional representation candidate l [...] | 2008-03-18 12:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU313 | 2008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 12:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 08KATHMANDU321 | NEPAL: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CY2007 END-USE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-19 10:03:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NP |
| 08KATHMANDU324 | FOREIGN SECRETARY ADMITS NEPAL UNDER PRESSURE FROM [...] (SBU) On March 19 Deputy Chief of Mission Randy Berry raised U.S. concerns with Foreign Secretary Gyan Chandra Acharya regarding the Government of Nepal's recent crackdown on peaceful protests by Tibetans. While under pressure from China, the Government of Nepal (GON) confirmed minimal force [...] | 2008-03-19 11:36:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF CH IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU341 | NEPAL: 16 DAYS UNTIL CA ELECTION [...] (SBU) With 16 days until the April 10 Constituent Assembly election, there are widespread reports, including notably by the UN Mission in Nepal, of increasing electoral violence. In the past week, Madhesi militants allegedly killed a candidate from a minor, left party in the mid-western Tera [...] | 2008-03-25 09:39:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU374 | NEPAL: CAREENING TOWARD ELECTION IN NINE DAYS [...] (SBU) Nine days before the April 10 Constituent Assembly election, the Election Commission is on track with its preparations. Meanwhile, the legal system established for resolving electoral disputes does not inspire confidence, according to a key Embassy contact. Poll-related violence, pri [...] | 2008-04-01 10:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM EAID NP |
| 08KATHMANDU388 | NEPAL: REMOTE MID-WESTERN DISTRICT ACTIVELY [...] (C) During a three-day, mid-March visit to the remote hill district of Jumla in Nepal's mid-western region, Emboff found officials, parties, non-governmental organizations, and the general public actively engaged in efforts to prepare for the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) election. Offic [...] | 2008-04-07 04:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU389 | NEPAL: CY2007 END-USE MONITORING REPORT COMPLETED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 09:03:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NP |
| 08KATHMANDU391 | NEPAL: INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS PREPARE FOR A WILD [...] (SBU) An estimated 745 international observers from 28 missions, including large delegations from the European Union, Carter Center, and the Asian Network for Free Elections, are taking position across Nepal to observe the April 10 Constituent Assembly election. Most of the international obs [...] | 2008-04-07 11:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU395 | NEPAL: CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION TWO DAYS AWAY [...] (SBU) With Nepal's Constituent Assembly election only two days away, formal campaigning has ceased, but the parties are continuing to jockey for position, and isolated clashes continue. On April 4, the Election Commission released the final, slightly smaller, lists of proportional representat [...] | 2008-04-08 11:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU396 | EMBASSY KATHMANDU TO OPEN ELECTION OPERATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-09 08:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU398 | NEPAL: PREDICTING THE ELECTION OUTCOME ISN'T EASY [...] (C) The center-left Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) is likely to the biggest winner of Nepal's April 10 Constituent Assembly election. However, not even the UML expects it will win a majority of the Assembly's 601 seats. Prime Minister G.P. Koirala's center-right Nepa [...] | 2008-04-09 12:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU400 | NEPAL: ELECTION SITREP ONE [...] POLLING BEGAN AS SCHEDULED WITH NO MAJOR INCIDENTS OF FRAUD OR VIOLENCE DURING INITIAL STAGES. ALL U.S. MISSION OBSERVER PERSONNEL ARE SAFE AND ACCOUNTED FOR. A Surprisingly Smooth Start --------------------------- 2. U.S. MISSION OBSERVERS AND MEDIA REPORTED THAT POLLING FOR NEPAL'S C [...] | 2008-04-10 07:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU401 | NEPAL: ELECTION SITREP TWO [...] (U) OVERALL, POLLING CONTINUED WITH SPORADIC (BUT NO MAJOR) INCIDENCES OF FRAUD OR VIOLENCE. SEVERAL OF OUR MISSION OBSERVERS HAVE REPORTED AS OF 1600 THAT 50-70% OF REGISTERED VOTERS HAD ALREADY TURNED OUT AT THE POLLING STATIONS THEY VISITED. NONETHELESS, CERTAIN ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND INTIMI [...] | 2008-04-10 11:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU402 | NEPAL: ELECTION SITREP THREE [...] (U) SINCE OUR LAST SITREP (B),TWO ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT VIOLENCE HAVE OCCURRED. THE ELECTION COMMISSION HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE AT 1830 AND ANNOUNCED THAT VOTER TURNOUT IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE BEEN 60% AND THE ELECTION WAS, OVERALL, SATISFACTORY, SUCCESSFUL, AND MOSTLY PEACEFUL. ALL [...] | 2008-04-10 14:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU404 | NEPAL: ELECTION SITREP FOUR [...] (U) SINCE OUR LAST SITREP (REF C),BALLOT COUNTING BEGAN THIS MORNING ACROSS NEPAL. FOUR ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT VIOLENCE HAVE OCCURRED. ALL U.S. MISSION OBSERVER PERSONNEL ARE SAFE AND ACCOUNTED FOR. BALLOT COUNTING BEGINS ---------------------- 2. (U) BALLOT COUNTING BEGAN T [...] | 2008-04-11 09:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU407 | NEPAL: ELECTION SITREP FIVE [...] (U) SINCE OUR LAST SITREP (REF D),BALLOT COUNTING CONTINUED ACROSS NEPAL THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT VIOLENCE HAVE OCCURRED. ALL U.S. MISSION OBSERVER PERSONNEL ARE SAFE AND ACCOUNTED FOR. BALLOT COUNTING CONTINUES ------------------------- 2. (U) BALLOT COUNTING C [...] | 2008-04-11 13:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU417 | NEPAL'S CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION: MAOISTS [...] (SBU) The Maoists continue to build a strong lead in day four of counting results from the April 10 Constituent Assembly election. Ninety-eight locations in 21 constituencies will repoll, potentially affecting still unknown proportional representation results. At least one observer and clos [...] | 2008-04-14 11:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU454 | NEPAL: MAOIST VIOLENCE DECREASING BUT STILL A [...] (SBU) Post's Regional Security Office and a domestic observer group reported numerous incidents of pre-election violence, at least half of which were instigated by the Maoists. Although election day was largely peaceful, four people were killed, eight abducted, and 112 injured on election da [...] | 2008-04-22 09:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU463 | NEPAL: MAOISTS PARTNER WITH BUSINESS COMMUNITY [...] (C) Over the last year, growing insecurity, labor problems and an uncertain political future led many investors in Nepal to hedge their bets. Over NRs 40 billion (USD 635 million) is thought to have been transferred out of the country over the last six months. With the news of the Maoist-le [...] | 2008-04-25 08:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ELAB EAID PGOV PTER SCUL IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU479 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] Nepal's population is particularly vulnerable to food insecurity and the rising cost of food equates to increased hunger in Nepal. Over the last few decades Nepal has become a food deficit country. Yields per hectare have not kept pace with the population growth. In fact, Nepal has the low [...] | 2008-05-01 05:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PREF IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU489 | NEPAL: PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA TRYING TO BALANCE [...] (C) As instructed (reftel),the Ambassador used a May 1 meeting with Prime Minister Koirala to express official U.S. concern about the treatment of Tibetans by Nepali authorities. She urged the Prime Minister to ensure the right to peaceful protest was maintained. Foreign Secretary Acharya r [...] | 2008-05-01 11:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM CH IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU514 | REPORT ON OUTREACH TO DISSIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS FOR [...] Since arriving at post in August 2007 Ambassador Powell has held at least ten meetings with Tibetans living in Nepal. Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey also held two meetings with Tibetans during her visit to Nepal in November 2007. 2. The Ambassad [...] | 2008-05-06 10:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PREF CH NP |
| 08KATHMANDU531 | NEPAL'S OIL CRISIS DEEPENS [...] (SBU) Nearly a month after the Constituent Assembly Election, Nepal is again facing major fuel shortages and the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC),Nepal's sole source of petroleum products, is again seeking payment. On April 28, the Nepal Oil Corporation was only able to make a partial payment; [...] | 2008-05-09 10:30:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ENRG ECON ETRD EFIN EPET 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 |
| 08KATHMANDU557 | NEPAL: KHANAL ELECTED UML GENERAL SECRETARY [...] (C) On May 15, the Central Committee of Nepal's third-largest party, the center-left Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML),unanimously elected Foreign Department chief Jhalanath Khanal as General Secretary. Khanal, who had previously served in the party's top job from 1982- [...] | 2008-05-19 03:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU563 | NEPAL SCENESETTER FOR SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) You are arriving in Kathmandu during a historic transition. Nepal will likely complete its two-year long evolution from a kingdom to a republic within days of your arrival, but many other central issues remain unresolved. The Maoists won the largest share of the April 10 Constituent Assem [...] | 2008-05-21 12:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ECON EAID PREF KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU579 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PM KOIRALA [...] (C) Summary: In a presentation that seemed to defy political or logistical realities, Prime Minister Koirala assured Ambassador on May 23 that all outstanding issues relating to the imminent sitting of the Constituent Assembly and formation of a new Nepali government would be solved through [...] | 2008-05-23 07:33:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL NP |
| 08KATHMANDU583 | NEPAL: PM KOIRALA EXPECTS A POLITICAL DEAL BEFORE [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala told visiting South and Central Asia Deputy Assistant Secretary Feigenbaum and the Ambassador May 25 that he expected the major political parties would reach a deal before the Constituent Assembly meets on May 28 which would lay the groundwork for formation of a new [...] | 2008-05-27 10:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU585 | NEPAL: OHCHR AND UNHCR SEE GRAVE PROBLEMS BENEATH [...] (C) On May 25, the Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal told South and Central Asia Deputy Assistant Secretary Feigenbaum that Nepal's recent election and its human rights stance in international circles had created a misleading picture of the country's human rights [...] | 2008-05-27 11:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PTER KDEM BT CH NP |
| 08KATHMANDU586 | NEPAL: MAJOR PARTIES DENY INTENT TO BLOCK [...] (C) In separate meetings on May 25 and 26 with South and Central Asia Deputy Assistant Secretary Feigenbaum, senior leaders of the second, third and fourth-largest parties in the Constituent Assembly (CA) disavowed the intent to deny the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) the right to f [...] | 2008-05-27 11:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU593 | NEPAL: CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY MEMBERS SWORN IN [...] (U) Beginning at 2:00 p.m. local time, on May 27, 567 persons elected in Nepal's historic April 10 election were sworn in as members of what will be a 601-member Constituent Assembly (CA). The ceremony, took place in Kathmandu's Birendra International Conference Center (BICC),which will be t [...] | 2008-05-27 11:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU595 | NEPAL: CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF APPEARS MORE PRAGMATIC [...] (C) South and Central Asia Deputy Assistant Secretary Feigenbaum and Ambassador Powell met with Nepal's Chief of Army Staff, General Rookmangud Katawal, on Monday, May 26. Discussion focused on the ongoing political process, security preparations for the 28 May Constituent Assembly meeting and [...] | 2008-05-27 11:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU596 | DAS FEIGENBAUM MEETING WITH CPN-M LEADER DAHAL [...] (C) Summary: Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist (CPN-M) Chairman Pushpa Dahal vowed full commitment to Nepal's ongoing peace process, multiparty democracy, integration/rehabilitation of the People's Liberation Army (PLA),and transformation of the Young Communist League (YCL) into a mainstream [...] | 2008-05-27 12:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU602 | NEPAL: STILL ON THE BRINK OF A REPUBLIC [...] (C) As of close of business on May 28, the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly (CA),which is supposed to declare Nepal a republic per the Interim Constitution, had not yet taken place. All 25 parliamentary parties reportedly reached agreement on May 27 on the creation of a presidency [...] | 2008-05-28 11:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU630 | NEPAL: CONSTITUTION AMENDED TO CREATE PRESIDENCY [...] (C) In the early hours of May 29, after abolishing the monarchy, Nepal's Constituent Assembly adopted a set of amendments to the Interim Constitution to create a President as head of state. It also established a Vice President. The President will have a range of powers that are not merely ce [...] | 2008-06-03 08:47:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU637 | NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAEA REPORT ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 09:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA IR NP |
| 08KATHMANDU659 | NEPAL: MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS RELEASE OF 2008 TIP [...] (U) In meetings on June 4 with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MWCSW),Emboff delivered the full text of the Nepal chapter of the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, recognizing the new law that criminalizes all forms of traf [...] | 2008-06-10 09:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG NP |
| 08KATHMANDU669 | NEPAL RESTRICTS WHEAT EXPORTS TO PROTECT CONSUMERS [...] (U) In June 4 meetings with the Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Supplies and the Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Emboffs urged the Government of Nepal (GON) to remove the existing export ban on wheat and rice. A representative from the World Bank joined in the meeting with [...] | 2008-06-11 07:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON EAID TBIO IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU679 | NEPAL: STEEP HIKES IN PRICES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS [...] (U) On June 9, the Government of Nepal (GON) directed the state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) to raise the price of petroleum products; including petrol, diesel, kerosene and cooking gas. (NOTE: The price of aviation fuel was already increased twice in the last two months, first on May 13 [...] | 2008-06-13 10:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON ETRD PGOV KDEM IN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU689 | NEPAL: AGREEMENT ON NEW MAOIST-LED GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Two months after the April 10 Constituent Assembly election, the expected formation of a new Maoist-led government is still proving elusive. Although his Nepali Congress (NC) placed a distant second to the Maoists in the April 10 Constituent Assembly election (CA),Prime Minister G.P. Koi [...] | 2008-06-18 12:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU7 | NEPAL: CONSTITUTION AMENDED: NEPAL TO BE A [...] (C) On December 28, Nepal's Interim Parliament amended the Interim Constitution to declare that Nepal will be a federal republic, with implementation at the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA). The set of amendments, the third since the Interim Constitution was adopted in January 20 [...] | 2008-01-02 12:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU704 | NEPAL: 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] Post's submission of its 2008 "Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims" follows: Begin Text. NEPAL The United States Government is aware of two (2) claims of United States citizens that may be outstanding against the Government of Nepal (GON). Â [...] | 2008-06-20 10:30:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV NP |
| 08KATHMANDU705 | NEPAL: PARTIES MAKE PROGRESS, BUT NO NEW [...] (C) Senior political leaders told the Ambassador June 19 that the three major parties were close to a deal to break the deadlock over appointment of the President and vote in a new Maoist-led government. At close of business on June 20, however, Nepali Congress reservations to ending Prime Mi [...] | 2008-06-20 10:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU728 | NEPAL: MAOIST-LED GOVERNMENT COULD BE DAYS AWAY [...] (C) Maoist chairman Pushpa Dahal (aka Prachanda) told Carter Center senior adviser Peter Burleigh the morning of June 26 that he expected to be Prime Minister in "three or four days," and that Prime Minister Koirala (Nepali Congress) would announce his resignation within a matter of hours, whi [...] | 2008-06-26 11:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER NP |
| 08KATHMANDU740 | WOMEN MAKE IMPORTANT STRIDES IN NEPAL'S CA ELECTION [...] (U) Nepali women made important strides in April's Constituent Assembly (CA) election, capturing 33 percent of the seats in the 601-member Assembly. Much of the increase in female representation can be attributed to the quota which required parties to fill half of the seats they won through [...] | 2008-06-30 07:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KWMN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU742 | NEPAL: MADHESI ISSUES HOLDING UP CONSTITUENT [...] (C) Since June 26, protests by the main Madhesi parties inside the Constituent Assembly have prevented the Assembly from doing any business. The Madhesi parties, with the Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) leading the charge, are insisting that the Interim Constitution must be amended to pr [...] | 2008-06-30 11:28:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER NP |
| 08KATHMANDU781 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH SENIOR NEPALI POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Twelve weeks following Nepal's historic polls, political leaders remain locked in contentious negotiations to open the door to the formation of a new government. Ambassador urged senior Nepali leaders on July 2 & 3 to make the hard decisions and compromises necessary to move f [...] | 2008-07-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL NP |
| 08KATHMANDU820 | NEPAL'S CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTS RAM BARAN [...] (SBU) On July 21, the Constituent Assembly elected Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, the most senior Madhesi in the Nepali Congress party, to be Nepal's first president. Yadav defeated Ram Raja Prasad Singh, a fellow Madhesi and the candidate of the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist, by 26 votes in a sec [...] | 2008-07-21 11:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU83 | NEPAL: PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA EXPANDS CABINET [...] (C) On January 10, Prime Minister G.P. Koirala expanded his cabinet by eight ministers drawn from the Nepali Congress Party (NC),the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML),and the Maoists. Koirala appointed his controversial daughter Sujata as Minister Without Portfolio. [...] | 2008-01-18 12:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR NP |
| 08KATHMANDU848 | IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MESA SEAT: NEPAL UNLIKELY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 10:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PREL KNNP AORC IAEA KZ SY NP |
| 08KATHMANDU87 | NEPAL ELECTION: 79 DAYS TO GO [...] (C) With just over 11 weeks to go until Nepal's rescheduled Constituent Assembly election, the Election Commission has announced the electoral schedule and is moving ahead in reviving the election machinery. But the parties have yet to move into high gear. Many continue to doubt that the ele [...] | 2008-01-22 12:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EAID NP |
| 08KATHMANDU918 | NEPAL: MAOIST CHAIRMAN PUSHPA DAHAL IS NEW PRIME [...] (SBU) The Constituent Assembly has elected Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal to be the new Prime Minister of Nepal by an overwhelming majority of 464 to 113. The major parties, with the exception of the Nepali Congress, have created an alliance but have yet to make firm decisions regarding [...] | 2008-08-15 13:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU952 | SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL ANAND WOOLFORK NEPAL VISIT [...] (SBU) Your visit to Nepal comes four months after the interim government held national elections. Election results confirmed the Maoists as the largest party, and also saw new Terai-based parties receive significant representation. The Constituent Assembly relatively quickly declared Nepal a [...] | 2008-08-22 08:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 08KATHMANDU972 | NEPAL: MAOIST CADRES ALLEGEDLY TORTURE VICTIMS AT [...] (C) Cadres affiliated with the Maoists' youth wing over the past four or five months have allegedly tortured hundreds of current and recovering drug users in a "rehabilitation center" in Balaju on the northern outskirts of Kathmandu. Ekta Mahat (protect),a young former drug user and now an a [...] | 2008-08-28 07:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR KHIV UN NP |
| 08KATHMANDU982 | NEPAL: PM EXPANDS CABINET, APPOINTS CONTROVERSIAL [...] (SBU) On August 31, Prime Minister Pushpa Dahal swore 15 ministers into his cabinet, bringing the total number to 24. The six Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) ministers agreed to take their oaths of office after the PM conceded on a protocol demand and allowed a contro [...] | 2008-09-03 05:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM NP |
| 08KHARTOUM100 | USAID-FUNDED TRANSITION PARTNER ACCUSED OF VIOLATING [...] (SBU) Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI),a USAID assistance partner, will close out its program in Sudan on January 31, 2008. After a week of negotiations with the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Affairs Commission (HAC) over disposition of assets, DAI was told by HAC that i [...] | 2008-01-24 09:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1009 | RIZEIGAT ARAB LEADER ON DARFUR CIVIL SOCIETY, OBSTREPEROUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met July 6 with Waleed Maddibo Mousa, prominent Darfur Rizeigat Arab and civil society leader and organizer of the annual equestrian festival in Ed-Daien, South Darfur. Maddibo used the festival to create a "clandestine dialogue" among Darfuris, and believes the late-nigh [...] | 2008-07-08 07:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM101 | MINAWI OUTLINES OBJECTIVES FOR U.S. TRIP, BRIEFS [...] (S) Senior Assistant to the President and Chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi is enthusiastic about a visit to Washington in the near future and has requested that the trip focus on four themes: concrete support for the military wing of the SLM and broadening the persp [...] | 2008-01-24 09:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV SU CD LY |
| 08KHARTOUM1010 | SAF WITHDRAWAL FROM ABYEI AND UNMIS PATROLLING SUSPENDED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 7, GNU and GoSS VPs Taha and Machar signed the Protocol for the Arbitration of the Abyei boundary dispute. Simultaneously, a shooting incident involving SPLA, SAF, and UNMIS personnel in Agok led to the serious wounding of two individuals and a halt to the withdrawal of [...] | 2008-07-08 07:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1012 | WORRIED GOSS INTENDS TO DISCUSS MILITARY PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: GOSS Minister for Presidential Affairs Luka Biong Deng told CDA Fernandez July 8 that he will travel to Washington next week to discuss military planning with US officials, following up on the Defense White Paper that the US had pushed the GOSS to prepare (ref b). Biong Deng said [...] | 2008-07-08 10:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1025 | BLOODY ATTACK ON UNAMID PATROL AT SHANGIL TOBAYA, [...] (SBU) According to reports from UNAMID, on July 8 at approximately 1530 armed fighters attacked a UNAMID joint patrol in a "forested and mountainous" area 65 kilometers south of Dare Salam, 6 kilometers from Gusajamatta, in North Darfur. The UNAMID joint military observer and police team from [...] | 2008-07-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1027 | CENSUS DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN MARS AFTERMATH OF SUDAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent stories in the Sudanese press purporting to present "preliminary census results" are a fabrication, with no basis in fact. Post has confirmed with the local UNFP office, heavily involved in the entire census process, that scanning of the raw census data has not even begun [...] | 2008-07-09 15:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1028 | UN CONDUCTS DIRECT TALKS WITH KONY ON LRA PEACE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-09 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1038 | CHADIAN REBELS SEEK NEGOTIATIONS WHILE WAITING FOR [...] (C) Chadian rebels are allegedly as strong and united as ever, but don't plan a major strike on Ndjamena until the next dry season, according to UFDD spokesman Mukhtar Yaya. In a meeting with polchief July 9 in Khartoum, Yaya claimed the UFDD is in control of two small towns in the northeast of [...] | 2008-07-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1043 | MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...] | 2008-07-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1044 | MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...] | 2008-07-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1045 | MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...] | 2008-07-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1051 | SPLM/GOSS PLOT AND PLAN FOR WORST-CASE GNU [...] (C) SUMMARY: The specter of an ICC indictment of President Bashir seems to have sent SPLM leadership circles in Juba into overdrive, spinning predictions of, and planning for, unrest and government reprisals. According to SPLM contacts, National Intelligence Security Services Chief Salah Ghosh [...] | 2008-07-13 13:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1052 | UN PREPARES FOR THE WORST IN DARFUR [...] (S/NF) The UN is preparing for the worst in Darfur and has drawn up evacuation plans for all of UNAMID, should that be required based on the actions Khartoum takes in response to the ICC indictments. Special assistants to JSR Adada and SRSG Qazi told polchief July 12 that JSR Adada and FC Agwa [...] | 2008-07-13 14:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1054 | SUDAN EAC AND UPDATED TRIPWIRES [...] (SBU) Embassy Khartoum's Emergency Action Committee convened on July 13 to review post operations, tripwires, and security considerations for Monday, July 14, when the ICC intends to announce indictments against Government of Sudan officials. In attendance were the CDA, A/DCM, RSO, MGT, CONS, [...] | 2008-07-13 15:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT APER SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1057 | SPLM - APRIL SHOWERS BRING JULY RESHUFFLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ministerial absenteeism rates have soared in Juba as talk of a comprehensive reshuffle of SPLM ministers and commissioners in both Khartoum and Juba gains increasing credibility. Reportedly, presumptive candidate lists were frozen in mid-June as Vice President Riek Machar object [...] | 2008-07-14 10:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM106 | HAC PROMISES TO COOPERATE ON DAI ISSUE [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez met January 24 with Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Haroun Ron and Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Hassabo Abdel Rahman for the second time this week to attempt to resolve the issue of USAID-funded transition partner Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI). Post is concerne [...] | 2008-01-25 08:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1065 | DISAPPOINTED GNU INTENDS TO ENGAGE WITH ICC, WANTS [...] (C) Summary: The NCP plans to work with the SPLM to confront the ICC on legal grounds while simultaneously announcing a political initiative to solve the Darfur crisis, possibly naming FVP Salva Kiir to a committee that will develop and pursue the strategy. President Bashir is also sending FM [...] | 2008-07-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1067 | JEM AND SLA/U SHOW INCREASED COOPERATION IN GENEVA [...] (SBU) Summary: Europe-based representatives of SLA/Unity and JEM met in Geneva last week at meetings hosted by the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue ostensibly to discuss greater security for humanitarian operations in Darfur, but the workshop served as a springboard for mutual recognition and s [...] | 2008-07-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM107 | DDDC CONSULTATIONS ONGOING, BUT UNCOORDINATED [...] (SBU) Meeting with poloffs on January 23, Darfur-Darfur Dialogue and Consultation (DDDC) chair Abdul Mohamed painted a somber picture of the clumsy integration of UNAMID, the DDDC and the Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST). According to Mohamed, no communications or administrative structure ha [...] | 2008-01-25 08:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1071 | UN DDR PROGRAM CITES POSSIBLE OBSTACLES [...] (SBU) Program Manager of the UN Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (IDDR) program Basil Massey told poloff on July 9 that signing of the June 25 UN-GOS IDDR agreement in Geneva (ref A) capped a six-month long effort to move the DDR program forward. Massey said that at the [...] | 2008-07-16 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1072 | UNAMID RECEIVES "FULL COOPERATION" FROM GOS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMID Joint Special Representative Rodolphe Adada told CDA Fernandez that the GOS has been providing and pledged to continue to provide full cooperation on UNAMID deployment, despite the recent ICC indictment of President Bashir. With regard to the July 8 attack on UNAMID forces i [...] | 2008-07-16 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1076 | UNAMID PEACEKEEPER KILLED BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS IN WEST [...] (SBU) The joint African Union-United Nations force in Darfur (UNAMID) reported that one of its peacekeepers was killed at approximately 1600 on July 16 in the remote area of Forobaranga in West Darfur, near the Chadian border. UNAMID has yet to release an official report, but UN Department of S [...] | 2008-07-17 08:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1081 | GOSS MINISTER BENJAMIN ON ABYEI AND THE ICC [...] (SBU) Summary: GOSS Minister for Regional Cooperation Barnabas Benjamin indicated he is hopeful that GOSS President Salva Kiir will successfully negotiate with VP Taha July 17 a solution to the Administrator and Deputy Administrator for Abyei. As Kiir himself told the CDA, he hoped to get an a [...] | 2008-07-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1083 | SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRENDS IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (U) SUMMARY. The growth of the international community in and around El Fasher over the past several years has had many socio-economic consequences, both intended and unintended. In general, the international presence has been both a blessing and a curse: there are more jobs, but filling them [...] | 2008-07-18 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1084 | CORRECTED COPY - SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRENDS IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (U) SUMMARY. The growth of the international community in and around El Fasher over the past several years has had many socio-economic consequences, both intended and unintended. In general, the international presence has been both a blessing and a curse: there are more jobs, but filling them [...] | 2008-07-18 08:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1085 | REMAINDER OF CHINESE ENGINEERING CONTINGENT ARRIVES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Completing a slow process which began in mid-November 2007, the remainder of the 315-troop Chinese engineering unit arrived as anticipated on July 17 for their deployment in Nyala. The Chinese Embassy reported that UNAMID continues to experience logistical problems in delivering [...] | 2008-07-18 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1090 | SUDANESE HARDLINER: "WE NEED AMERICA'S HELP IN UN [...] (C) Summary: National Congress Party (NCP) hardliner Ali Karti said that Sudan feels let down by the United States not taking steps to prevent an ICC announcement of war crimes against President Al-Bashir, but seeks urgent American engagement on Darfur. Sudan is willing to entertain "any con [...] | 2008-07-20 12:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1093 | DARFUR REBEL MOVEMENTS HINT AT COOPERATION WHILE MINNAWI [...] (SBU) Summary: Confidants of Minni Minawi report he has no immediate plans to return soon from Darfur. Meanwhile political representatives of JEM, SLA/MM, SLA/U and SLA/AW all hint at a new, grass-roots political initiative among Darfur rebel groups. JEM reports cooperation with SLA/AW, SLA/Un [...] | 2008-07-21 09:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1098 | ARAB LEAGUE NEGOTIATES FOUR-POINT PLAN WITH GOS ON [...] (C) In response to the ICC indictment of President Bashir, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa negotiated a four-point plan with GOS officials July 21 in Khartoum, according to AU Ambassador to Sudan Dr. Salah Halima and UNMIS polchief Muin Shreim. Halima told polchief and Shreim he is "o [...] | 2008-07-22 11:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM11 | AEC COORDINATORS MEET TO PLAN WORK IN THE NEW YEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AEC working group coordinators met January 3 at the behest of the Acting AEC Chairman (the Norwegian Ambassador) in advance of the first AEC plenary session for 2008. The Norwegian Ambassador said the NCP and the SPLM had agreed to brief the Commission on terms of the agreemen [...] | 2008-01-03 14:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM110 | GOS SQUEEZE ON NON-SIGNATORIES IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the December 30 arrest of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) representative GEN Mohamed Bashir in El Fasher, the Government of Sudan (GoS) finally released Bashir but has ordered all non-signatory representatives to the ceasefire commission to leave El Fasher. As the [...] | 2008-01-25 10:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM1108 | RIZEIGAT ARAB CONCERNED ABOUT ETHNIC POLARIZATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 21 poloffs met with Waleed Madibbo Mousa, a prominent Darfur Rizeigat Arab intellectual and civil society leader who recently organized the equestrian festival in Ed-Daien, South Darfur (Reftel). Madibbo expressed grave concern over the deepening ethnic divide in Darfur, [...] | 2008-07-23 15:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NOTAG SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1109 | PROMINENT RIGHTS LAWYER PREDICTS BASHIR WILL GIVE UP HAROUN [...] (SBU) Summary: At the urging of the Arab League, the GOS has backed off from grand demonstrations and alarming public statements regarding the recent ICC indictment, according to famed Sudanese human rights lawyer and MP Salih Mahmoud Osman. Osman predicts that the GOS intends to surrender Ahm [...] | 2008-07-24 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM111 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT: SOME PROGRESS BUT WELL BEHIND SCHEDULE [...] (SBU) Egyptian political officer Tamer Azzam told poloff January 24 that Egyptian troops for three separate UNAMID deployments are poised to arrive in February and should complete their deployment by the end of April. Azzam said that the Egyptian contingent's equipment had arrived at Port Suda [...] | 2008-01-25 10:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1117 | PRESIDENT BASHIR DANCES THROUGH DARFUR TO A [...] (SBU) Summary: President Al-Bashir used a whirlwind visit to the capitals of Darfur's three states July 23-24 to highlight a total rejection of possible ICC indictments against him. He also offered his most inclusive and personal vision ever of a peaceful and united Darfur while freely admitti [...] | 2008-07-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1118 | RESPONSE CABLE: DEMARCHE TO GOSS ON SPLM PARTY [...] (C) CG Juba spoke with SPLM SG Pagan Amum regarding the proposed SPLM party leadership strategy session in Washington the week of August 18. Amum plans to present two proposals to SPLM Chairman Kiir and told us he should have a decision by the week of July 27. The first proposal would be for [...] | 2008-07-27 13:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1119 | SPLA PURCHASES RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS AND BEGINS PILOT [...] (SBU) The newly-established Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Air Force is awaiting the delivery of ten Mi-17 helicopters that are being manufactured by the Russian Kazan Helicopter Plant. In preparation of this equipment's arrival, SPLA troops are undergoing air maintenance, repair, and fl [...] | 2008-07-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM112 | DARFUR: THE PEACE PROCESS ON THE EVE OF THE AU [...] (C) Fifteen months after the Addis Ababa agreement of November 2006, the Darfur peace process has not advanced. Disarray within and among the rebel movements has confounded UN and AU mediators, alleviated any pressure on Khartoum to make political concessions, and stalled negotiations. No via [...] | 2008-01-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1121 | UNMIS REGIONAL COORDINATOR ON THE SITUATION IN ABYEI AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 25 meeting with ConGen Juba, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan David Gressley reported that over a thousand SAF have now withdrawn from Abyei, leaving only approximately 100 in Abyei town who are expected to leave on the 26th or 27th of July. Gressley plann [...] | 2008-07-27 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1130 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: ATTACK ON SLM/MM, URF DISSOLUTION, AND JEM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 28, Minni Minnawi and two other SLM/MM leaders confirmed reports that a Government of Sudan (GoS) security force attacked and killed four SLM policemen on July 26 in North Darfur. SLM/MM leaders described the event as an "intentional attack" on their movement coinciding [...] | 2008-07-29 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1133 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ISMAIL REFLECTS ON BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 29 meeting with CDA Fernandez, a sarcastic Sudanese Presidential Advisor and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mustafa Othman Ismail expressed his frustration with the failed U.S.-Sudanese bilateral discussions, claiming that S/E Williamson was ordered to end the nego [...] | 2008-07-29 13:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1134 | SPLM POLITICAL BUREAU CONSIDERS ELECTIONS AND ICC [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last three days ConGen Juba has held separate discussions with four members of the SPLM Political Bureau (PB) that met in Juba over the July 26 and 27 weekend and two other senior members of the GOSS. Despite press reports that GOSS President Salva Kiir has announced th [...] | 2008-07-29 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1137 | UNAMID'S REPORTED FAILURE TO MOVE 3000 CONTAINERS [...] (SBU) UNAMID has over 3000 containers in Port Sudan and El Obeid, Kordofan waiting for transportation to Nyala, Darfur, according to a UNAMID administrative officer. At least half of these are in El Obeid. According to the officer and to other sources in the NGO and diplomatic community in Kh [...] | 2008-07-30 14:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM114 | NCP NAMES A NEW BUREAU OF STATISTICS CHIEF THREE MONTHS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-27 05:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1149 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID and Egyptian embassy sources told us that half of the anticipated 335 Egyptian engineers arrived July 24 and fully expect the remainder within the coming month. In addition, Egyptian advance teams arrived to prepare for the arrival of the 850-troop Egyptian infantry battal [...] | 2008-07-31 14:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1150 | SUDAN'S PUBLIC ORDER COURTS - ENFORCING MORALITY WITH A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: First instituted by former President Nimeiri in 1983 as part of an Islamicizing trend, Sudan's Public Order Courts have continued to serve as the state mechanism for morality enforcement since the National Islamic Front's rise to power in 1989. Today the court still issues pun [...] | 2008-07-31 15:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1152 | RIVAL FACTION DEVELOPING IN SLM/MM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior leaders within the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) appear ready to break off from Minnawi and form their own parallel movement, according to senior SLM/MM loyalists in two separate meetings with poloff on July 31. These leaders, including the Deputy C [...] | 2008-08-01 09:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1164 | SUDAN COMPLAINS ABOUT USUN VOTE, COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge Fernandez to formally complain about remarks made at USUN on July 31 which seem to imply that the United States is supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) bringing war crimes and genocide charges against President Al-Bashir. [...] | 2008-08-03 12:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1173 | Unrestrained Bashir Defies ICC Before Friendly Audience [...] Summary: Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir's defiant speech against the International Criminal Court (ICC) received widespread and prominent coverage in the local press on August 4. Papers from across the political spectrum carried reports of the speech on the front page, complete with photos [...] | 2008-08-04 13:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO OIIP 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1184 | BASHIR OFFERS FEW DETAILS ON DARFUR INITIATIVE TO JEM AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite showing a renewed interest in Darfur, Sudanese President Bashir has so far offered few concrete or specific ideas for solving the region's problems, say contacts from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM). [...] | 2008-08-05 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1185 | AEC PLENARY OF AUGUST 5, 2008: MEMBERS STRESS NEED TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: At the 34th Plenary Session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held August 5, 2008, members unanimously stressed the need for the two CPA partners to finally agree on an interim administration for the Abyei area to build on the momentum of progress made on security [...] | 2008-08-05 14:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1186 | AU URGES INCREASED GOS COOPERATION ON DARFUR, SUSPENSION OF [...] (SBU) The head of the AU Liaison Office in Khartoum, Ambassador Mahmoud Kane, told poloff on August 5 that AU Commission Chairman Ping's August 3 visit to Sudan was part of the AU's continuing efforts to urge Sudan's cooperation on Darfur issues. Seeking to downplay the significance of the eve [...] | 2008-08-06 04:56:00 | 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1200 | THE RISING COST OF LIVING IN KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Summary: An informal survey conducted by Embassy staff showed that the cost of living in Khartoum has increased drastically over the past several months. While Sudan is certainly not immune to international commodity pricing pressures, the high cost of food staples has been compounded by [...] | 2008-08-07 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1203 | FOREIGN MINISTER ALOR URGES P-3 ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: FM Deng Alor requested an urgent meeting with CDA Fernandez August 6 to brief him on the latest developments on the ICC and Abyei. On the ICC, the SPLM has urged President Bashir to "engage with the ICC now" as well as with the P-3 in order to seek a possible deal on deferring th [...] | 2008-08-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1205 | NEWSPAPER HOSTS AN ICC DEBATE: SAME STUFF, DIFFERENT WAY [...] (U) On August 6, the Khartoum-based Sudan Vision newspaper hosted an event regarding the recent actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) entitled "Ocampo's Allegations: International Justice or Colonial Agendas." While the event seemed to promise a forum that would explore multiple pe [...] | 2008-08-08 10:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO KPAO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1208 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH GOSS PRESIDENT SALVA [...] (C) Summary: The formation of the Abyei Interim Administration and the deployment of police to Abyei may allow IDPs to begin to return to the troubled region, once the Chief Administrator indicates that the time is right, GOSS President Salva Kiir told visiting Special Envoy Williamson August [...] | 2008-08-11 06:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1209 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH DAVID GRESSLY, UNMIS REGIONAL [...] (SBU) On August 9, Special Envoy Williamson met with David Gressly, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan, to discuss the situation in Abyei and the ICC indictment. During the meeting in Khartoum, Gressly cited recent successes in the political situation throughout Sudan. However, he e [...] | 2008-08-11 09:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM121 | EL FASHER IDP REP ON HILAL APPOINTMENT AND UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 27 meeting with FieldOff, a representative of Abu Shouk internally displaced persons (IDP) camp gave a local perspective on latest Darfur events, including the appointment of former janjaweed militia leader Sheikh Musa Hilal to the post of Advisor to the Minister of [...] | 2008-01-28 11:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1213 | LRA LEADER KONY CONTACTS CHISSANO [...] (SBU) According to United Nations Mission In Sudan (UNMIS),a representative of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony has been in telephone contact with United Nations Special Envoy Joaquim Chissano and allegedly communicated that Kony will sign a peace agreement on August 15, 2008 at [...] | 2008-08-11 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1215 | SE WILLIAMSON'S VISIT TO ABYEI AND AGOK [...] (C) Summary: SE Williamson visited Abyei and Agok on August 10. UNMIS security, civil affairs, and force protection officers based at UNMIS headquarters in Abyei town who were present during the heavy fighting in mid-May provided an account of events. They suggested that more troops and armo [...] | 2008-08-12 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1225 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: On August 12 White House Special Envoy for Sudan (SE) Richard Williamson met with Presidential Advisor Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail. He was accompanied by the CDA, State/L Christine Sanford, SE Staff Assistants and Poloff (notetaker.) SE Williamson began the meeting by expressing app [...] | 2008-08-14 07:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1229 | KASSALA STATE- HUMANITARIAN COORDINATION AND CONCERNS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Between August 3 and 5, USAID staff visited Kassala State in eastern Sudan. During the trip, the USAID team delivered mosquito nets requested by a local teaching hospital, and met with local implementing partners and UN agencies to discuss aspects of the humanitarian situation in [...] | 2008-08-14 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1230 | JEM ACKNOWLEDGES ATTACK ON UNAMID HELICOPTER BUT SHIFTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 11, JEM fighters on Jebel Moon fired on a UNAMID helicopter which they thought was a GoS aircraft. JEM later released a press statement acknowledging its error, but both in this statement and in a contact with the field commander responsible for the unit, JEM attempte [...] | 2008-08-14 13:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1232 | WHERE OIL AND DARFUR INTERSECT - FIGHTING REPORTED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following reports of fighting in North Darfur, SLA/AW Commander Suleiman Marajan told poloff via satellite phone on August 14 that there was significant fighting between his forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces on August 10 and 11 near Wadi Atrun, an area Marajan claimed oil exp [...] | 2008-08-14 14:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1235 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Special Envoy Williamson and NCP strategist and presidential advisor Dr. Ghazi Salah Eddin sparred over Sudan's progress in implementing the CPA, cooperating on Darfur, and the future of bilateral relations. Ghazi implored SE Williamson to look past the details of visas and containers and [...] | 2008-08-15 08:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1236 | UNAMID PLANS TO ELIMINATE CONTAINER BACKLOG [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID estimates that it requires significantly enhanced cargo-transport capacity if it is to deploy planned, additional military and police personnel before the end of the year. UNAMID's ambitious goals, including additional cargo aircraft and material handling equipment, appe [...] | 2008-08-15 09:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1237 | UN BEGINS TRAINING ABYEI JOINT POLICE OFFICERS [...] (U) On August 11, UNMIS police started training the first of the Abyei Joint Integrated Police Units (JIPU) officers under a Rapid Deployment Package (RDP) approved by GONU Police General Al-A'del Ajab Yagob and GOSS South Sudan Police Service Inspector General of Police Lt. General Makuei Deng [...] | 2008-08-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI UNSC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1241 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: SE Williamson and Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie agreed to consider a resumption in bilateral discussions, possibly with a "re-calibrated" focus. Williamson stated several times during the meeting that President Bush's primary concern in Sudan is humanitarian, stating that " [...] | 2008-08-15 14:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1249 | US SPECIAL ENVOY MEETING WITH THE NGO STEERING COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On August 13, SE Williamson met with the NGO Steering Committee to discuss the Committee's concerns regarding humanitarian aid programs throughout Sudan, particularly in Abyei and Darfur, as well as recent issues including the referral to the ICC for an arrest warrant against President Ba [...] | 2008-08-17 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1250 | SUMMER 2008: TRENDS ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IN SUDAN [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: During July and August, USAID's field officers provided information and analysis on sector trends throughout Sudan. Examining the issues of safety and insecurity, food security, nutrition, health, returns, integration, and political process on a broader scale offers a chance [...] | 2008-08-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1257 | THE EASTERN FRONT: LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS AND [...] (C) On August 17 poloffs met representatives of the Free Lions Organization of Khartoum State to discuss reports that Eastern Front Chairman Musa Mohamed Ahmed had been stripped of his leadership. The representatives denied this was the case, describing instead a leadership squabble in which E [...] | 2008-08-18 15:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1258 | SLA/UNITY: WE WILL SUBMIT TO ICC IF INDICTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 18, leaders of SLA/Unity pledged their cooperation with the International Criminal Court, even if the ICC issues indictments against them or their SLA/Unity brethren. SLA/Unity leaders also separately told poloff via satphones that they support Luis Moreno Ocampo's req [...] | 2008-08-19 07:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1270 | UNAMID NIGHT FLIGHT CLARIFICATION [...] (U) On August 17, the Sudan Tribune online reported that the GoS has permitted UNAMID to conduct night flights in Darfur. The article reports that "eight months after the start of the hybrid mission, the Sudanese government agreed to allow the AU-UN peacekeeping force to fly at night, the head [...] | 2008-08-20 05:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1272 | BEJA CONGRESS DISSIDENTS SLAM BEJA LEADERSHIP, [...] (C) Summary: On August 18 poloff met with two individuals claiming to be part of a Port Sudan-based dissident faction of the Beja Congress that had opposed the signing of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA). They characterized the ESPA as a sham agreement that served only to improve relat [...] | 2008-08-20 08:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1276 | WHILE DARFUR PLANS ABOUND, FOCUS SHOULD BE HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Within the last month, many politicians, opposition political parties, and civil society representatives have announced their proposals for ending the crisis in Darfur (see para 10 for a list of many of these initiatives). On August 19, three different groups and individuals (t [...] | 2008-08-21 07:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM128 | FREED DUP LEADER ALI HASSANEIN: DEMOCRATIZATION AT [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with CDA Fernandez on January 24 for the first time since his New Year's Eve release from prison, fiesty Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Deputy Secretary-General Ali Mahmoud Hassanein called for a SIPDIS democratic process in Sudan in which political parties abandon th [...] | 2008-01-29 12:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU AU PGOV UN |
| 08KHARTOUM1283 | SPLM CONCERNED ABOUT BASHIR'S RHETORIC, REPORT [...] (C) During a meeting with A/CDA Asquino and polchief May 20, GNU State Ministers of Agriculture and Justice expressed their concerns about recent statements by President Bashir during his visit to Turkey. Specifically, they are concerned about Bashir's threat that he would expel UN peacekeeper [...] | 2008-08-22 12:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1284 | DEFENSE LAWYERS, UNMIS SRSG AND OTHERS CRITICIZE GOS TRIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese courts have sentenced fifty people to death for participation in the May 10 JEM attacks. Defense lawyers criticized the proceedings as flawed and unconstitutional, and UNMIS SRSG Ashraf Qazi issued a statement questioning the constitutionality of the courts and proceedin [...] | 2008-08-22 12:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1288 | JUBA JOURNALISTS DISCUSS ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: At ConGen Juba's monthly journalism club gathering 16 media representatives related their pessimism regarding the readiness of civil society to support the highly complex elections in 2009, but agreed that even if the outcome is flawed, the creation of a democratic state is an ev [...] | 2008-08-25 11:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1289 | FIGHTING IN KALMA CAMP, SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) On August 25, USAID staff received reports of fighting and casualties in Kalma internally displaced person (IDP) camp, South Darfur. As of 1100 hours, implementing partners and the UN-African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) reported ongoing fighting, fires, and undetermined casua [...] | 2008-08-25 12:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1292 | GOSS FREEZES MINISTRY SALARIES IN ACCOUNTABILITY MOVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Southern Sudan's three-month old salary freeze levied against civil service employees of the Ministry of Legal Affairs has been indefinitely extended pending turnover of documents clarifying who authorized the multi-year payroll excesses. While the Legal Affai [...] | 2008-08-25 14:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1293 | ABYEI JOINT SECURITY UNITS SEVERELY HAMPERED BY EQUIPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to offers by donor countries to contribute to the newly-formed JIU and JIPU in Abyei, UNMIS has proposed a partnership package, including a donor trust fund, to facilitate donations. However, lack of will and both UN and Sudanese bureaucracy threaten to prevent the [...] | 2008-08-25 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1294 | ABYEI JOINT SECURITY UNITS SEVERELY HAMPERED BY EQUIPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to offers by donor countries to contribute to the newly-formed JIU and JIPU in Abyei, UNMIS has proposed a partnership package, including a donor trust fund, to facilitate donations. However, lack of will and both UN and Sudanese bureaucracy threaten to prevent the [...] | 2008-08-25 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1295 | GOSS FREEZES MINISTRY SALARIES IN ACCOUNTABILITY MOVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Southern Sudan's three-month old salary freeze levied against civil service employees of the Ministry of Legal Affairs has been indefinitely extended pending turnover of documents clarifying who authorized the multi-year payroll excesses. While the Legal Affai [...] | 2008-08-25 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1296 | DDR PROGRESSES: CHANTING HAKAMA WOMEN URGE THEIR MEN TO [...] (U) On August 20, Emboffs traveled to the South Kordofan village of Lagawa, to attend a ceremony sponsored by the UN Demobilization, Disarmament and Re-integration (DDR) Unit, celebrating the final performance of the Lagawa "Hakamat" and the distribution of goats to its members. 2. (U) Th [...] | 2008-08-25 15:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1297 | GOSS VP MACAHR CONTINUED OBJECT OF SUSPICION BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar is the object of continued reports by SPLA intelligence sources accusing him of conspiracies to undermine GOSS President Salva Kiir and assume leadership of Southern Sudan. This deep level of distrust of one of the [...] | 2008-08-26 12:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1300 | UPDATE ON FIGHTING IN KALMA CAMP, SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: On August 25, USAID staff received reports of fighting and casualties in Kalma internally displaced person (IDP) camp, South Darfur (REFTEL). UNAMID stated that armed IDPs had set up human shields and fired first on GOS forces assembled outside the camp, and UNAMID managed [...] | 2008-08-26 15:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1301 | HIGHJACKING OF SUDANESE AIRCRAFT [...] (U) A/CDA was contacted by RSO (on TDY in Darfur) at 20:00 on August 26 and informed of the highjacking of a Sudanese domestic Sun Air Flight enroute from the Darfuri city of Nyala to Khartoum. The plane was diverted to Kufar, Libya where it landed. 2. (U) A/CDA passed this information to [...] | 2008-08-26 19:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC |
| 08KHARTOUM1302 | RIZEIGAT, MISSERIYA TRIBAL FIGHTING IN SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting that began on August 20 between Misseriya and Rizeigat herders resulted in the deaths of more than 60 people in South Darfur. Misseriya elder Kamil Nimir downplayed the violence, characterizing it as a dispute over access to water that spiraled out of control due to th [...] | 2008-08-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1303 | KALMA IDP CAMP UPDATE [...] (SBU) UNAMID sources confirmed that 33 IDPs were killed on August 25, with 31 buried inside the camp following the fighting, and two dying at the hospital in Nyala. The embassy received an unconfirmed report from Fur tribal leaders that of the 33 dead, 11 women were killed, two of whom were pr [...] | 2008-08-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1304 | UPDATE ON HIGHJACKING OF SUDANESE AIRCRAFT TO LIBYA [...] (SBU) As of 1500 local time, media reports indicted that the highjackers had released the reported 95 passengers from Sudanese Sun Air 737 aircraft diverted to Kufra, Libya, (reftel,) but continued to hold the crew hostage. The highjackers were said to be demanding fuel to fly the craft to Eur [...] | 2008-08-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER EAIR SU LY |
| 08KHARTOUM1305 | UPDATE ON HIGHJACKING OF SUDANESE AIRCRAFT TO LIBYA [...] (SBU) As of 1500 local time, media reports indicted that the highjackers had released the reported 95 passengers from Sudanese Sun Air 737 aircraft diverted to Kufra, Libya, (reftel,) but continued to hold the crew hostage. The highjackers were said to be demanding fuel to fly the craft to Eur [...] | 2008-08-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER EAIR SU LY |
| 08KHARTOUM1312 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 26 and 27, six senior leaders of UNAMID separately discussed UNAMID deployment issues with poloffs. Most officials dismissed 80% deployment by December 31 as unrealistic, but predicted this goal may be reached by March 2009 if UNAMID completes upgrades to Darfur's air [...] | 2008-08-29 11:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1315 | KALMA CAMP UPDATE, AUGUST 29 [...] (SBU) UNDSS Chief for South Darfur Abdalla Janakat provided additional details on the August 25 attack by GOS police forces on Kalma Camp. He told poloff in Nyala August 28 that 60 GoS vehicles surrounded the camp on the morning of the August 25 attack. He said IDPs likely had intelligence o [...] | 2008-08-29 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1323 | GOVERNANCE CAPACITY IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) was created with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) in 2005. No government of its kind existed before it in Southern Sudan -- the earlier Executive Council that resulted from the 1972 Addis Ababa Accords did not have anyw [...] | 2008-09-01 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1327 | GOSS VICE PRESIDENT MACHAR ON ELECTIONS AND ICC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar maintains that the SPLM has committed itself to elections at all costs, and that the party has refused to allow itself to be held hostage by declining implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The VP claim [...] | 2008-09-01 13:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC PGOV PREL PREF DPKO SOCI UNSC AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1328 | INTERNATIONAL NGOS IN DARFUR FACE "SHRINKING HUMNATITARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior UN humanitarian officials report that, despite improved cooperation with the Khartoum Government, international NGOs (INGOs) in Darfur are facing increased scrutiny and harassment from state authorities, possibly in connection with ICC prosecutor Ocampo's request that [...] | 2008-09-01 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PGOV PREF PHUM ASEC AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1331 | MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...] | 2008-09-02 04:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1332 | MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...] | 2008-09-02 04:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1333 | MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...] | 2008-09-02 04:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1336 | MACHAR EXPECTS SEPTEMBER 6 MEETING WITH LRA [...] (SBU) Summary: In an August 28 meeting with ConGen Juba, GOSS Vice President Riek Machar expressed his confidence that LRA Leader Joseph Kony would meet him in Rikwangba on September 6 to discuss the Juba Peace Agreement. Machar thought it possible Kony would sign the agreement on that day, al [...] | 2008-09-02 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1337 | MORE DETAILS COMING OUT ABOUT KALMA CAMP ATTACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As access improves to Kalma camp, GoS officials, and the Nyala hospital, more details are filtering out about what happened in the August 25 attack. The primary emergency care doctor at Nyala told poloff on August 30 that the injuries sustained by the IDPs were "massive" and i [...] | 2008-09-02 11:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1338 | DEEPENING SPLA PAY ARREARS THREATEN DISCIPINE, MORALE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SPLA morale and discipline are sagging as soldiers face arrears in pay averaging two months, while some troops reportedly have not been paid during the past six months. With 2008 funds already exhausted because of corruption and cost overruns, there seems little prospect for r [...] | 2008-09-02 13:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN PHUM PINS MOPS ASEC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1346 | AEC PLENARY SESSION OF SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 35th plenary session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) was held at AEC headquarters in Khartoum on September 2, 2008. Most of the session was devoted to lengthy reports on the current situation in South Kordofan, and preparations for national elections in 200 [...] | 2008-09-04 05:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1352 | TURF WARS - RIVAL GOS FORCES CREATE A CHAOTIC AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rivalry and competition between government security agencies, paramilitary units, and proxy forces have led to a chaotic, violent, and militarized environment in Darfur, according to multiple and varied sources in North and South Darfur. These contacts (from UNAMID, DPA signato [...] | 2008-09-04 09:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1354 | CHINA COUNSELS SUDANESE ENGAGEMENT, U.S. RESTRAINT [...] (C) Summary: During his recent visit to Sudan, Chinese Special Envoy Zhai Jun strongly counseled the GOS to remain prudent in dealing with the threatened arrest warrant for President Bashir and to continue to engage with the international community, according to Chinese Ambassador Li. Zhai even sug [...] | 2008-09-04 10:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC AU-1 SU CM |
| 08KHARTOUM1363 | UK CONSULTANTS ON DDR: MISTRUST AND INAEDQUATE CAPACITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past two weeks, a team of UK-funded consultants assessed UN, GNU, and GoSS capacity to carry out a mammoth disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program planned to commence in January 2009. They found that while the GoS has sufficient capacity to start [...] | 2008-09-07 06:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1366 | HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 6 and 7, multiple UNAMID, rebel, and civil society leaders separately contacted poloffs and reported intense fighting between rebel and GoS forces near Birmaza, North Darfur. (Note: According to UN maps, Birmaza is located approximately 50 kilometers north of Kutum [...] | 2008-09-07 10:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1367 | BEJA CONGRESS LEADERS SEEK HUMANITARIAN AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 4, Beja Congress Executive Committee members requested USG capacity building and media training support as their organization transitions from an armed opposition movement to a civil political party. They echoed reports of impending famine in the East in the near f [...] | 2008-09-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EAGR KDEM AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1371 | MINNAWI: GOS OPERATIONS IN NORTH DARFUR ARE A [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 7, SLM Chairman and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi told poloff that he considers GoS military operations in North Darfur to be a declaration of war. Minnawi specifically cited combined SAF, Arab militia, and janjaweed deployment surrounding SLM/MM cont [...] | 2008-09-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MOPS KPKO UN AU 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1377 | DARFUR - NGOS AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE [...] (U) Between August 27 and 31, a USAID officer visited El Fasher and Nyala and met with partner organizations to discuss the current challenges facing the humanitarian organizations in Darfur. In the meetings, relief agencies reported a notable and concerning up tick in harassment and bureaucra [...] | 2008-09-09 04:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM138 | DPKO GUEHENNO's VISIT TO KHARTOUM AND ADDIS ABABA [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOS successfully avoided senior-level meetings with DPKO U/S Guehenno during his visit to Sudan and continues to drag its feet on finalizing a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and other UNAMID-related issues. The AU Summit in Addis Ababa provides a good opportunity to press [...] | 2008-01-30 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1383 | PARADOXICAL DARFUR COMPENSATION CHAIRMAN WILL RETURN TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 4 meeting with poloffs, TDRA Compensation Committee Chairman Abulgasim Ahmed Abulgasim said that the many Darfur initiatives and proposals (including his own plan recently rejected by the NCP,) are unable to fundamentally change Darfur (reftel). In a remarkable tur [...] | 2008-09-11 07:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PINR EFIN MOPS KPKO AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1385 | ABYEI ADMINISTRATION TAKING SHAPE, SLOWLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Elements of the new Abyei Administration, notably on the security side, are taking shape, but Abyei Roadmap implementation remains constrained by the lack of a functioning civil administration. The local government should begin receiving oil revenues (calculated by the Finance [...] | 2008-09-11 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1386 | United Nations Africa Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Deployment [...] (SBU) Summary: Self-sufficiency is a key component for Troop-Contributing Country (TCC) deployment success as 3,900 UNAMID-shepherded containers continue to be held up in Port Sudan and El Obeid by both internal factors and by the regime. An emphasis on local procurement could decrease expense [...] | 2008-09-11 14:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1387 | NYALA AND KALMA CAMP UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: CDA Fernandez traveled to Nyala on September 9-10 to meet with officials from the GOS and UNAMID, IDP leaders and humanitarian actors in the wake of the killing of dozens of IDPs in Kalma camp by GOS forces. The unrepentant Wali of South Darfur heaped scorn on the residents of Ka [...] | 2008-09-11 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1388 | FORMER DARFUR CEASEFIRE REPS AFRAID FOR LIVES AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Claiming that the International Criminal Court is using information they collected in their previous duties, ex-representatives of the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) fear GoS reprisal, including detention, unexplained disappearances, and targeted assassinations. Contacts alleged th [...] | 2008-09-12 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO UNSC AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1389 | CHADIAN REBELS CLOSE TO SELECTING SINGLE LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 9, UFDD/F spokesman Mouktar ben Yahya told poloff that the leaders of five Chadian rebel movements are currently meeting in Sudan and will choose a single leader of an allied force this week. Yahya vowed that without progress in the peace process, the rebels would s [...] | 2008-09-12 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM139 | EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE IN UN [...] (SBU) The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) mandates that all civilian employees, military personnel, and UN Volunteers undergo training to recognize, report and prevent sexual exploitation and abuse. According to the UNMIS Chief of Conduct and Discipline Aster Zaoude, all personnel must undergo prev [...] | 2008-01-30 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1390 | INFLUENTIAL NCP STRATEGIST CALLS FOR SERIOUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1391 | JANJAWEED DOMINATE NORTH DARFUR PUNITIVE CAMPAIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Janjaweed and Arab militias have dominated the Birmaza and Deisa attacks in North Darfur, according to multiple contacts. One advisor to infamous janjaweed leader Musa Hilal told locally employed staff that SAF directed Arab militias to intentionally target Zaghawa strongholds i [...] | 2008-09-12 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM14 | MURDER OF SLA/MINAWI CEASEFIRE COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the same day that JEM representative to the Ceasefire Commission GEN Mohammed Basher was arrested along with five other JEM members, an SLA/Minawi representative was killed in Mellit (North Darfur) along with his nephew, who worked for PAE. These two events demonstrate the cha [...] | 2008-01-06 04:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC CD |
| 08KHARTOUM1405 | "FM ALOR WARNS OF POSSIBLE, UNSPECIFIED "SUDANESE [...] (C) Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor told CDA Fernandez on September 15 that, despite his warning last week that Sudan intends to defy the ICC (reftel),the National Congress Party (NCP) of President Bashir is coyly keeping all its options open. Alor said that he had learned that an expensi [...] | 2008-09-15 15:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1406 | SLM/MM ON EAST JEBEL MARRA FIGHTING AND ZAMZAM INCURSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 15, three senior leaders of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) in North Darfur told poloff that SLM/MM "routed" GoS forces in East Jebel Marra on September 14 following combat on September 13 in the same region. SLM/MM leaders also gave a detail [...] | 2008-09-16 06:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1417 | SUDANESE INTEL CHIEF WORRIED ABOUT ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: The GOS will be hard-pressed to control the actions of Islamic radicals in Sudan if the ICC issues an arrest warrant against President Bashir, NISS Chief Salah Ghosh told CDA Fernandez September 17. Ghosh clarified that he did not tell French Presidential Advisor Bruno Joubert th [...] | 2008-09-18 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1419 | PROSECUTION PRESENTS EVIDENCE DURING THIRD SESSION OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 11, U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic, and Public Diplomacy sections attended the third session of the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville [...] | 2008-09-19 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1420 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS EMBASSY SANA'A ATTACK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Khartoum's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on September 18 to review the details of the September 17 terrorist attack on Embassy Sana'a, to evaluate any possible connections to Sudan, and to determine if our security posture can be increased to better defend ag [...] | 2008-09-19 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR PTER AMGT PGOV SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1422 | "THIS TIME, THEY'RE SERIOUS?" - SUDAN MAKES UP [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of his departure for UNGA, Sudanese VP Ali Osman Taha hammered out a reconciliation with disgruntled Darfur rebel leader Minni Minnawi, promising full compliance of the semi-moribund 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement and an end to recent fighting and bombing in Darfur. Taha a [...] | 2008-09-20 09:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1427 | THE NUBA MOUNTAINS: WHERE INSECURITY AND INTEGRATION ARE A [...] (SBU) Poloffs traveled to Kadugli, Southern Kordofan, the heart of the Nuba Mountains, on 13-16 September. Southern Kordofan state, which shares its own CPA protocol with Blue Nile State, faces a number of unique challenges, one being the integration of formerly-controlled SPLA areas into the [...] | 2008-09-21 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1434 | OVERVIEW OF DARFUR REBEL POSITIONS, RELATIVE STRENGTH, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two recent visits to El-Fasher and Nyala, UN security provided an overview of Darfur rebel group's positions, relative strength, and potential for coordination. Sources stated that areas of control are fluid and prone to change, especially following GoS operations in North D [...] | 2008-09-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1435 | LACK OF PEACE DIVIDENDS IN SOUTHERN KORDOFAN LEAVES THE [...] (SBU) During a meeting with poloff in Kadugli on 14 September, Deputy Governor of Southern Kordofan Daniel Kodi (SPLM) expressed frustration with what he perceived as a lack of peace dividends from the CPA and the neglect of Nuban interests by the GoSS and the GNU. Kodi explained the challeng [...] | 2008-09-22 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1438 | WHERE ARE DARFUR'S HIJACKED CARS AND TRUCKS? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's hijacking is a complex phenomenon, according to UNAMID, INGOs, and local contacts based in El-Fasher and Nyala. Most sources placed the majority of the blame on many different rebel movements, with one contact describing a transportation chain through SLM/MM and SLA/Un [...] | 2008-09-23 05:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1439 | CDA DISCUSSES SECURITY FOR HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WFP Deputy Regional Representative Monika Midel emphatically denied that the WFP had sought GoS military action in North Darfur to provide security for humanitarian operations there. She confirmed the existence of black markets in Chad and Darfur where hijacked humanitarian s [...] | 2008-09-23 07:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF EAID ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM1440 | UN OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEMINING PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Mine Action Office (UNMAO) and its contractors expect a 90 per cent success rate in clearing mines and unexploded ordinance (UXOs) in Sudan prior to a mid-2011 program handover to national authorities. Even with the current optimism, UNMAO doesn't realisticall [...] | 2008-09-23 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KHDP KPKO AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1445 | UPDATE ON TAHA-MINNAWI AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 23, Muhammad Tijani, a senior SLM/MM leader and Minnawi confidant, told poloff that "so far" he is satisfied with the GoS's response to the September 19 agreement between Vice President Taha and SLM Chairman Minni Minnawi in El-Fasher (ref A). Muhammad Tijani stat [...] | 2008-09-24 05:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1449 | TDRA OFFICIALS FEAR ZAGHAWA DOMINANCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 23, the leaders of both the Compensation and Land Commissions in the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) told poloff that they fear the Zaghawa tribe's dominance in Darfur and the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM). Head of the Land Commi [...] | 2008-09-25 06:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1451 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID officials still believe that sixty-percent deployment is possible by the end of 2008, and eighty-percent is achievable by the end of March 2009. However, for this to happen, all former AMIS battalions must rotate at full strength and several new battalions have to be will [...] | 2008-09-26 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1455 | THE THREAT TO PEACE IN A FORGOTTEN LAND: [...] (C) A recent visit to the Nuba Mountains revealed growing unease in the area as a result of the proliferation of armed groups. Consisting of the SAF, the Popular Defense Force (PDF),the Central Reserve Police (better known as the janjaweed),SPLA splinter groups led by break-away SPLA fighte [...] | 2008-09-28 10:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1457 | GOS REINFORCES TROOPS AND MILITIA IN DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: The GOS has "heavily reinforced" its positions, troops, and militias in Darfur in recent weeks, according to UNAMID's Joint Mission Analysis Center (JMAC) section chief Colonel Serge Kuhn (French). JMAC also reported that SLM/AW and SLA/U are coordinating and defending each other [...] | 2008-09-28 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1458 | DARFUR'S PROLIFERATING PEACE PROPOSALS - FORM IN [...] (C) Summary: Since the ICC crisis broke, the number of peace proposals and initiatives for solving Darfur have increased as the regime searches for a way out at minimal cost to itself. Observers and participants say that these proposals are long on rhetoric and, so far, short on substance. The [...] | 2008-09-28 14:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1460 | MISSERIYA CONTINUE SEARCH FOR PEACE BENEFITS [...] (SBU) A growing influx of arms into Misseriya areas of Southern Kordofan State and continued feelings of disenfranchisement among Misseriya over perceived losses in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) have contributed to increased tensions in this tense region. There is a crucial need to sh [...] | 2008-09-29 07:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1487 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: SPLM MINISTER RECOUNTS AMBUSH IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLM South Darfur Agriculture Minister Omer Abdel Rahman Adam survived a harrowing ambush attempt, but refused to speculate on the perpetrators. The incident has ignited outrage in Darfur and as well as Juba, where Salva Kiir has ordered the formation of an investigative committe [...] | 2008-10-06 12:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1499 | AEC PLENARY ADDRESSES DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 7, the Assessment and Evaluation Commission's (AEC) monthly plenary session focused on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR). A/CDA Asquino attended the meeting for the U.S. Prior to a lengthy presentation by an UNMIS DDR expert, AEC Chairman Derek Plu [...] | 2008-10-09 10:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM15 | SPLM APPOINTS CHAIRMAN IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) Amidst ongoing border clashes in the Abyei region, the SPLM has appointed Edward Lino as "SPLM Chairman in Abyei area." In his capacity as Chairman of the SPLM, First Vice President of Sudan and President of the Government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir issued an "SPLM Chairman's Decree" o [...] | 2008-01-06 04:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM150 | MINAWI CANCELS CHAD TRIP DUE TO REBEL SURGE ON [...] (SBU) Senior Assistant to the President and Chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi canceled his January 31 trip to N'djamena after Chadian authorities informed him that President Deby and his senior security officials were leaving N'djamena to confront advancing Chadian o [...] | 2008-01-31 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM1506 | SOUTH DARFUR MINISTER RECOUNTS AMBUSH ATTEMPT; EXPRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 7, Omer Abdel Rahman Adam recounted details of the September 30 attack on his vehicle that resulted in the death of his bodyguard. Although reluctant to directly accuse any particular individual or agency, Adam asserted that the attack was a targeted assassination at [...] | 2008-10-10 11:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1507 | OCTOBER 6 ATTACK ON UNAMID CONVOY [...] (SBU) The UNAMID Public Information Office in El Fasher and the UN Department of Security Services (UNDSS) Khartoum, confirmed that on October 6 at 17:00 local time, a UNAMID joint military police security convoy was ambushed by an undetermined number of armed men while on patrol near the town [...] | 2008-10-10 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1509 | SE WILLIAMSON URGES BASSOLE TO BE PROACTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: SE Williamson strongly urged Djibril Bassole to embrace his role as Chief Mediator and become proactive in engaging with key decision-makers in both the NCP and rebel movements, during a meeting in Khartoum October 8. He noted the likelihood for progress in Qatar is small and ask [...] | 2008-10-13 05:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1512 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETINGS WITH SOUTHERN SUDANESE [...] (C) US Special Envoy to Sudan Ambassador Richard Williamson visited the southern Sudanese towns of Rumbek and Juba on 7 October to meet with Government of National Unity (GNU) First Vice President and Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) President Salva Kiir Mayardit, the Sudan Liberation Peopl [...] | 2008-10-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV UNSC KPKO AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1518 | DETENTION OF YOUNG WOMEN IN JUBA FOR WEARING TROUSERS [...] SUMMARY: On October 5, 2008 28 women were arrested and detained by Southern Sudan Police Services (SSPS) officers for wearing short skirts or trousers. The arrests were made under the authority of a Public Order issued by the Juba County Commissioner Albert Pitia Redantore on October 2, 2008. [...] | 2008-10-14 04:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1521 | SUDAN PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE SET TO START OCTOBER 16, [...] (C) The Sudan People's Initiative is scheduled to begin October 16 in Khartoum with speeches by President Bashir and other officials including First Vice President Salva Kiir, who has decided to attend, but will deliver a "tough message" on Darfur. Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader and Da [...] | 2008-10-14 11:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1524 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings from October 11-15, UNAMID officials expressed concern over slow progress on airport upgrades, UNAMID's lack of air assets, and the weak security posture of many of UNAMID's bases. Chief of Staff Almstrom and J5 Colonel Stafford both stated that their focus of late [...] | 2008-10-15 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1528 | MINNAWI ON HIS RETURN TO KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 15, Minnawi met poloff in El-Fasher stating that he will travel to Khartoum for the start of the Sudan People's Initiative, but that he will spend less than 24 hours in the capital and only "inject my own views on the process and the DPA and then return to the field." [...] | 2008-10-16 06:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1533 | CHARGE'S MEETING WITH UNAMID SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to UNAMID Joint Special Representative Adada, relations with the GoS, narrowly-defined, have turned the corner and UNAMID deployment is accelerating, with 14,000 peacekeepers expected to be on the ground by year,s end. He agreed that harassment of humanitarian NGOs in [...] | 2008-10-17 12:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1538 | REPORTS OF ARREST OF WAR CRIMES SUSPECT GREATLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite ongoing high profile pronouncements regarding the alleged arrest of notorious janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb, little actual proof has emerged that Kushayb is in GOS custody. Meeting with polchief, (SPLM) State Minister of Justice Wek Kuol said he had heard Kushayb [...] | 2008-10-19 07:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1544 | SPLA CHIEF OF STAFF ON HIGHJACKED WEAPONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 16, SPLA Chief of Staff Deng described that day,s meeting of the Joint Defense Board and the SPLA/M,s contentious relationship with the SAF and the NCP. He also provided an update on SPLA thinking on the Ukrainian ship seized by Somali pirates with weapons intended fo [...] | 2008-10-19 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1545 | A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NEW SLM FIGHTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 16, a new fighter for the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) described his daily life in the field to poloff. The contact described dire conditions for SLM/MM troops, where fighters are expected to buy their own uniforms (often from UNAMID troops,) m [...] | 2008-10-20 05:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1558 | CHADIAN REBEL REVEALS GOS SUPPORT, RELATIVE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On October 20, Abaker Tolli, a UFDD Khartoum-based representative told poloffs that Sudanese Intelligence summoned the leadership of all major Chadian rebel movements to Khartoum, threatening that the rebels must choose a single leader or the GoS will stop their material support [...] | 2008-10-21 13:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1559 | "THEY WANT TO CANCEL SOMETHING CALLED THE DPA" [...] (C) Summary: Minni Minnawi reported that since returning to Khartoum he has seen no progress on VP Taha's September 2008 commitments to implement the Darfur Peace Agreement's (DPA),and cast the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) as a distraction from the NCP's unfulfilled commitments on the DPA. [...] | 2008-10-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1567 | HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE [...] (U) Summary: On October 21, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the Facilitation of Humanitarian Activities in Darfur met at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs in Khartoum. The meeting was attended by U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto Fernandez [...] | 2008-10-22 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1568 | EASTERN OPPOSITION PARTIES UNPREPARED FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 13-16, poloff traveled to Kassala and Port Sudan to discuss implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (Ref A) and the outlook for elections in the East. Representatives of the Eastern Front, which has weakened steadily since the signing of the ESPA, told polo [...] | 2008-10-22 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1569 | UN/AU OBSERVATIONS AT THE SUDAN PEOPLE'S [...] (C) Summary: Discussions at the Sudan People's Initiative in Kenana were reportedly open, constructive, and sometimes combative, with rifts between NCP officials on display for all to see, JMST Chief of Staff Yasir Sabra told polchief October 21. Presidential Assistant Nafie ali Nafie took a [...] | 2008-10-22 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1577 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite minor setbacks, UNAMID deployment appears to be on track; end of year deployment goals should be met. As of October 22, UNAMID had received more than 50 percent of expected Darfur staffing with a combined total of 13,700 UNAMID military, police and civilian staff. Depl [...] | 2008-10-24 11:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1578 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CONFIRMS INTERIM AGREEMENT ON FOREIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Central Bank of Sudan Governor Sabir Hassan confirmed that there is an interim agreement with the GoSS on the transfer of foreign exchange (FX) held by Bank of Southern Sudan (BOSS),but that the issue "is not resolved." The BoSS is to resume its pre-April transfers of excess [...] | 2008-10-24 11:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1579 | MEDIA REACTION: ICC AND UN PEACEKEEPING IN CAHOOTS [...] (SBU) Summary: This week the pro-government Khartoum newspaper Al-Rai al-Aam printed front-page headlines claiming proof of collusion between International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Miguel Moreno Ocampo and the UN. Citing three-year old reports and statements made in press interviews, th [...] | 2008-10-24 12:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM158 | CHAD-SUDAN BORDER INCIDENTS; HUMANITARIAN AID DISRUPTED [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to Chadian military bombing along the West Darfur border, Sudan has escalated its military response in the area and the Sudanese Minister of Defense visited El Geneina with senior SAF officers January 28. Humanitarian operations outside El Geneina have been interrupt [...] | 2008-02-03 04:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1585 | ABYEI ADMINISTRATION OFF TO A SLOW START DUE TO FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Knee-deep in protocols and barely-functional joint military and police units, the beleaguered town of Abyei has yet to see any of the US$48 million promised to it annually. The Abyei Interim Administrator expects his staff to arrive eager to volunteer their services (without pa [...] | 2008-10-28 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1586 | WEST DARFUR GOVERNOR:THE FUR TRIBE IS FIGHTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, former Darfur rebel and current Governor of West Darfur Abulgasim Imam told CDA Fernandez that the Fur tribe is defending itself against three hostile groups, the Government of Sudan, Arab militias, and the Zaghawa tribe. Imam acknowledged the failure of both the [...] | 2008-10-28 08:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1589 | DARFUR PEACE PROCESS: QATAR AND SUDAN PEOPLE'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27 and 28, CDA Fernandez and polchief met with leaders from the Joint Mediation Support Team, National Congress Party, and other political parties to discuss the Sudan People's Initiative and potential negotiations in Qatar on Darfur. Contacts expressed conflicting m [...] | 2008-10-28 14:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1591 | SUDAN'S "FREEDOM BELLS" MUFFLED BY GOS ON ALL FRONTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese authorities are limiting the reach of Khartoum's newest Arabic-language daily, the independent but SPLM-leaning Ajras al-Hurriya ("Freedom Bells"),through a daily regimen of heavy censorship, excessive taxation and limited distribution. The paper's Nyala correspondent, [...] | 2008-10-29 08:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1593 | CHADIAN REBELS CONTINUE SEARCH FOR A LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, Abaker Tollimi, a UFDD Khartoum-based representative and second in command to Mahamat Nouri confirmed that the Chadian rebel leadership is under tremendous pressure from the Government of Sudan to unite, but internal division, personal ambition and a struggle for [...] | 2008-10-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1597 | SUDAN WILL PROPOSE "REAL DARFUR CEASE-FIRE," [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Government has approved in principle, for the first time, US Embassy travel to rebel-held Jebel Marra. The GOS also will control the Sudan-Chad border between now and January and will not allow Chadian rebel attacks on Chad during that period. The Khartoum regime hop [...] | 2008-10-30 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1602 | SPI WILL BE ONE OF MANY FAILED PEACE INITIATIVES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 29, veteran Darfur administrator and member of the Sudan People's Initiative, Tayyeb Muktar, told CDA Fernandez that the Sudan People's Initiative will likely become just one of many failed Darfur peace initiatives. Muktar also asserted that the once peaceful Fur tri [...] | 2008-10-31 10:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1603 | SPLM/NCP JOINTLY CONFRONT CORRUPTION THROUGH POLITICAL [...] (U) Recent events in Southern Kordofan state serve as a reminder of the divided, partisan nature of the state administration and the continued potential for widespread conflict to erupt. Tensions between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Minister of Finance, who is pursuing financ [...] | 2008-10-31 10:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PREF EAID ASEC KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1604 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID will reach its target of sixty percent deployment by the end of the year, but only by temporarily positioning new troop arrivals in the transit camps within the super camps, rather than at their intended final destinations. The offer to provide US airlift for contingent- [...] | 2008-11-02 05:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1607 | DARFUR PEACE PROCESS UPDATE - BASSOLE AND GOQ APPEAR MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole urged Qatar to focus first on the necessary preparations for negotiations and not on unrealistic dates for negotiations, according to senior representatives from the AU/UN's Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST). JMST contacts emphasized that the fo [...] | 2008-11-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1608 | GOSS MINISTER ACCUSES NCP OF WITHHOLDING OIL [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 31 meeting, GOSS Minister for Presidential Affairs Luka Biong Deng told ConGen Juba that the NCP has reneged on an agreement to settle the hard currency dispute between the GOSS and Khartoum (reftel),and is withholding oil revenue to pressure the GOSS to turn over [...] | 2008-11-03 05:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ASEC KPKO UNSC SU CH CFG |
| 08KHARTOUM1612 | NO PROGRESS IN DPA IMPLEMENTATION IN LAST TWO WEEKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Contacts from the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi told poloffs November 2 that there has been no progress in implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in the last two weeks, and limited overall progress since the September 19 deal between Minnawi and Vice Pre [...] | 2008-11-03 15:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1613 | JEM SENIOR LEADERSHIP ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Members of JEM senior leadership told poloff in meetings in London on October 28-29 that JEM remains open to negotiations. However, they noted JEM is withholding judgment on the Qatar Initiative until it obtains more information about its nature and scope. While predictably skept [...] | 2008-11-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1614 | DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE, OCTOBER 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: With Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) making significant advances in North Darfur, UN security officers based in El Fasher report that humanitarian security has increased slightly in the last month despite last week's killing of a South African UNAMID soldier. There is currently no i [...] | 2008-11-04 13:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1616 | CHADIAN REBELS: SELECTING A LEADER, MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 2, UFDD-F leader Abdoulwahid Aboud Makaye told poloffs that Chadian rebel leadership meeting in Khartoum will soon choose a leader by consensus, random selection, or a complicated multi-staged election. According to Aboud, the Chadian opposition does not fear the Gov [...] | 2008-11-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1617 | CHADIAN REBELS: SELECTING A LEADER, MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 2, UFDD-F leader Abdoulwahid Aboud Makaye told poloffs that Chadian rebel leadership meeting in Khartoum will soon choose a leader by consensus, random selection, or a complicated multi-staged election. According to Aboud, the Chadian opposition does not fear the Gov [...] | 2008-11-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1625 | FURTHER INFORMATION ON MURDER OF CHINESE OIL [...] (C) Summary: According to the head of Sudan's Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID),the murder of five Chinese oil workers in western Kordofan was apparently triggered when the kidnappers spotted a GOS helicopter tracking their movements and panicked. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Ibrahim [...] | 2008-11-07 09:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO UNSC AU SU CH |
| 08KHARTOUM1627 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Pro-government and independent press here featured front-page photos of the president-elect and reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs'(MFA) statement congratulating the United States on Senator Obama's election, with Foreign Minister (FM) Deng Alor hoping for "positive contrib [...] | 2008-11-07 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC MCAP KPAO SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1629 | Media Reaction: Sudanese Journalists Strike Against [...] U) SUMMARY: Sudanese dailies Ajras Al Hurriya and Rai Al Shaab, in a show of solidarity with 46 modern-minded "democratic" columnists, took up a protest on November 4 against increasing censorship by state security organs, which have censored the editorial content of the publications. The dail [...] | 2008-11-08 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC MCAP KPAO OIIP SU |
| 08KHARTOUM163 | SUDAN'S OIL - DEBT, DYSFUNCTION, AND DISTRUST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with econoffs from January 24-31, leading oil experts expressed concern about significant northern oil revenue arrears to the south estimated to be between $150-250 million USD. Contacts were also critical of the dysfunctional institutions managing petrol [...] | 2008-02-03 14:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1633 | CHADIAN REBELS: RFC'S ERDIMI SAYS IT IS HIS TURN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In two separate meetings on November 6 and 7, Timan Erdimi and his Secretary General of the Rally for the Forces of Change (RFC),Mahamat Hanno, both forcefully argued that Erdimi is the best leader for the Chadian rebels. Erdimi bashed rival UFDD leader Mahamat Nouri, and said [...] | 2008-11-09 14:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS ASEC KPKO UN AU SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM1634 | BASHIR LASHES OUT AGAINST WEST IN GEDARIF RALLY [...] (SBU) In a November 6 rally in Gedarif State, President Bashir lashed out against the West and accused it of trying to "destroy" Sudan, according to Sudanese media reports. "Money and power are not in the hands of the U.S, Britain and France," the President was quoted as saying. Using an insult [...] | 2008-11-10 07:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1640 | SALAH GHOSH TO ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH KEY DARFUR [...] (C) National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Chief Salah Ghosh told UN/AU Darfur Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole that he will begin to meet quietly with key Darfur rebels in advance of peace talks in Doha, according to Bassole's senior staff. The first meeting will be with JEM's Khali [...] | 2008-11-10 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1645 | SLM/MM SECRETARY GENERAL ON SPI, QATAR, AND PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 9, Ali Hussein Dausa, the new Secretary General of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM,) told CDA Fernandez of his recent efforts to improve and re-organize the movement. Dausa shared his skepticism about the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) and th [...] | 2008-11-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1646 | URF SEEKS GREATER INPUT IN PEACE PROCESS; EXPLORES [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 29 meeting, United Resistance Front (URF) political commissar Tadjadine Niam told poloff that the Darfur peace process will never gain traction if the international community keeps ignoring the rebel movements. Niam decried the lack of consultation with rebels [...] | 2008-11-10 17:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1649 | SLM/MM AND NCP CLOSER TO AGREEMENT ON DPA FUNDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 11 and 12, senior SLM/Minnawi (SLM/MM) and NCP officials separately told CDA Fernandez and poloffs that both parties are closer to agreement on outstanding DPA financial issues, though each party provided a different portrayal of the specific deal. Atta Al-Manan, a [...] | 2008-11-12 14:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1651 | BASHIR PROMISES CEASE-FIRE, DISARMAMENT, COMPENSATION, [...] (SBU) Summary: At the closing ceremony of the Sudan People's Initiative in Khartoum November 12, President Basher stole the show from the actual SPI document itself by unilaterally promising an "immediate and unconditional" cease-fire, disarmament of militias, compensation for IDPs on an indivi [...] | 2008-11-12 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1654 | PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S VISIT TO KHARTOUM AND JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: Egyptian emboff told poloffs on November 12. that during President Hosni Mubarak's November 10 visit to Khartoum, he offered to invite Khalil Ibrahim to Cairo in an attempt to persuade the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to commit to peace talks in Qatar This offer ha [...] | 2008-11-13 11:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1657 | DENG ALOR ON NCP INTRIGUE, EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor said Egyptian President Mubarak, worried about Sudanese instability, delivered a grim message to President Bashir on November 10 counseling full and rapid compliance with ICC and Darfur issues. Both the Egyptians and Alor see increasing signs of an i [...] | 2008-11-13 14:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM166 | TFCD01: DARFUR REBELS' FATE COULD BE TIED TO DEBY'S [...] (C) The Chadian Embassy in Khartoum and Senior Assistant to the President/Chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi asserted in February 3 conversations with Poloff that a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Antonov bombed areas around Adre, Chad at approximately 1500 hours Sudan lo [...] | 2008-02-03 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM1661 | TDRA COMMISSIONERS AWKWARDLY PLEASED BY SPI AND BASHIR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Land and Compensation Commissioners of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) separately told poloff on November 13 that they were both pleasantly surprised by the results of the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) and President Bashir's speech at the initiative's clo [...] | 2008-11-14 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1662 | IRC AT WITS' END AT REGIME ATTRITION TACTICS [...] (SBU) Summary: While presenting a surface image of humanitarian cooperation, Sudanese authorities have succeeded in constraining IRC operations in Darfur to the point that the organization is tentative about its future in Sudan, IRC staff told CDA. With stay permits granted for only one quarte [...] | 2008-11-14 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1669 | THE CEASEFIRE THAT NEVER WAS - AERIAL BOMBING REPORTED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Multiple contacts from different rebel movements claimed that the Government of Sudan (GoS) bombed areas of North Darfur from November 12-14. UN sources told poloffs that the reports appear credible, though UNAMID has not yet independently verified these claims. If true, thes [...] | 2008-11-16 12:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1670 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff spoke with Commander Victor Luis Hernandez, FPU Advisor/Coordinator for UNAMID, and Col. Nody Stafford, Chief of Military Plans for UNAMID, November 12-13 to discuss UNAMID deployment issues. UNAMID and contingent-owned equipment continues to flow into Darfur, but additio [...] | 2008-11-16 12:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1671 | 37th AEC PLENARY: ELECTIONS, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, AND JOINT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the Assessment and Evaluation Commission's (AEC) 37th plenary session on November 4, parties expressed concern at the slow pace of preparations for the mandated 2009 national elections, especially at the delays in adopting necessary legislation and in naming the National Elec [...] | 2008-11-16 13:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN KDEM KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1672 | DARFUR'S REBELS REJECT THE SPI AND BASHIR'S PROMISES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the November 12 closing session of the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI),Darfur non-signatory rebels uniformly rejected President Omar Al-Bashir's announcement of a unilateral ceasefire and his proposed development package for Darfur. SLA/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) and SLA/Un [...] | 2008-11-16 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1675 | UPDATE ON POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM JEM ATTACK [...] (SBU) Summary: While 42 detainees who participated in the May 10 attack of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on Omdurman wait to see if their death sentences will be commuted, authorities are trying 87 more individuals in five special anti-terrorism courts. Lawyers and UNMIS Human Rights [...] | 2008-11-17 10:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1676 | JOURNALISTS ORGANIZE CENSORSHIP PROTEST, KHARTOUM HAMMERS [...] SUMMARY: On November 17, Sudanese authorities arrested more than 60 protesters (many of them local journalists) outside parliament in Khartoum. The demonstrators were rallying against the systematic censorship that forces papers to consult with government security personnel on the content of [...] | 2008-11-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1683 | A/S FRAZER'S MEETING WITH TOP SPLM OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Top Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials Secretary General Pagan Amum and Deputy Secretary Yasir Arman told Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer on 3 November that they had just returned from a productive visit to Ndjamena to meet with Chadian Presi [...] | 2008-11-18 07:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC SOCI KPKO KDEM AU SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM1689 | LOOKING PAST THE DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) has not lived up to its expectations by a long shot. Despite the latest 11th hour push to implement the agreement, the DPA is so far behind schedule that it may be impossible to revive fully. The DPA has not brought security to Darfur, lead [...] | 2008-11-20 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM169 | SPLM'S DEMOCRACY AND DARFUR PLANS TAKE SHAPE [...] (C) Summary: SPLM leader Yassir Arman reports that the party has received a greenlight from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to intensify its efforts to secure peace in Darfur and improve relations with the United States. He outlined an ambitious program of SPLM political mobilization [...] | 2008-02-04 06:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1690 | LOOKING PAST THE DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) has not lived up to its expectations by a long shot. Despite the latest 11th hour push to implement the agreement, the DPA is so far behind schedule that it may be impossible to revive fully. The DPA has not brought security to Darfur, lead [...] | 2008-11-21 06:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1691 | UPSURGE IN FIGHTING IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (C) Rebel, UNAMID and NGO contacts confirmed fighting in and around Helif, North Darfur between November 18 and 20. SLA/AW commander Suleiman Marajane told emboffs that on November 20 his forces attacked a SAF position in Helif at 7:00 am. (Note: Helif was previously under the control of SLA/ [...] | 2008-11-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1693 | WAU: ALL QUIET IN THE HINTERLANDS, BUT IN NEED OF MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: The capital of Western Bahr al-Ghazal state in South Sudan, Wau is both secure and eager for international assistance. Operating in an ad hoc manner, local police have managed to control tribal conflict and keep down petty crime, but local government incompetence has hindered wo [...] | 2008-11-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM1702 | OIL EXECUTIVES DOUBT MINISTER'S CLAIM OF 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings from November 18-20, oil industry executives told econoff they were doubtful that Sudan could boost oil production from 500,000 to 600,000 barrels per day in 2009, as claimed recently by Minister of Energy and Mining Zubeir Al Hassan. While increasing production in [...] | 2008-11-24 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN ASEC KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1707 | SLM/MM ATTACKS LIKELY PROVOKED GOS BOMBING IN SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 23-24, members of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) ruefully acknowledged that their movement attacked a GoS force on November 19. These sources claimed that the GoS then bombed SLM/MM positions on November 22, destroying stolen SLM/MM assets. U [...] | 2008-11-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1708 | SUPPORTING CIVILIAN SECURITY AND RULE OF LAW IN SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the major portion of the INL bilateral program gets underway in Southern Sudan, the INL officer has made several significant observations over the last two months (outlined in this cable) which will result in adjustments to the INL program. The current fragile condition of th [...] | 2008-11-25 11:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1709 | DEATH SENTENCE APPEALS REFUSED IN FLAWED TRIAL FOR MURDER [...] (SBU) Summary: Nine defendants convicted of murdering a Sudanese journalist in 2006 retain one final appeal before they face execution, according to UNMIS Human Rights and the defendants' lawyer, Kamal Omer. The murder of Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed resulted in a politically-driven investigati [...] | 2008-11-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1713 | FUR MP PESSIMISTIC ABOUT BASHIR'S PROMISES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 22, Abulgasim Seifeldin, an influential SPLM Member of Parliament from South Darfur, told CDA Fernandez that he is very pessimistic about the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) and President Bashir's promises made at the closing ceremony of the SPI. Seifeldin also plead [...] | 2008-11-26 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1714 | ABYEI ADMINISTRATION AFTER TWO WEEKS: SO FAR, SO GOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the UN Head of Office for Abyei, the new Abyei Administration has made a good start since its arrival in the area two weeks ago. The Administration has drafted a budget, but is still not receiving the oil revenues promised in the Roadmap Agreement. It also is pre [...] | 2008-11-26 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID ECON ASEC KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1717 | ARTICLES 17 AND 19 OF THE ROME STATUTE: SUDAN'S LEGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Articles 17 and 19 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) provide room for Sudan to head off impending ICC trials of Sudanese nationals by conducting its own investigations and prosecutions, but legal experts doubt that Sudan possesses adequate laws and an [...] | 2008-11-26 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1726 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT IN GREATER DETAIL [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID climbed to 50.3 percent of its authorized total force strength last week and expects to reach its goal of 60 percent by end of the year, as reported in Ref A. Most troop-contributing countries (TCCs) anticipated to arrive in the coming months have not provided load lists [...] | 2008-12-01 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1735 | NEWSPAPER CENSORSHIP IN KHARTOUM - A CASE STUDY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of the year, censorship of Khartoum-based newspapers has increased dramatically. Below is the account of Suleiman Al-Amin, a popular columnist with "Al-Sudani," a publication that has seen its share of harassment and censorship recently. Al-Amin described [...] | 2008-12-02 10:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1737 | DARFUR CEASEFIRE PLANS HAVE UNAMID FEELING THE HEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 2, Acting UNAMID Political Chief and head of the DDDC Abdul Mohammed and Sudan Scholar Alex DeWaal told CDA Fernandez that UNAMID has been frantically trying to throw together a proposal for a ceasefire commission in the last week. Mohammed promised to deliver UNAMI [...] | 2008-12-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1738 | FREED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST DESCRIBES 'GHOST [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 1 human rights activist Osman Hummida (protect) described to CDA Fernandez the four days of grueling interrogation, physical abuse and psychological torture that he was subjected to at the hands of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). From November 2 [...] | 2008-12-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1745 | SOUTH DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between rebel and government forces in South Darfur had been largely absent for several months until the November 19 SLA/MM and SLA/U attack on a central police convoy and subsequent government bombings, sources told poloffs during a trip to Nyala November 24-26. Meanwh [...] | 2008-12-03 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1751 | "DIVIDING DARFUR'S ARABS FROM GOS WILL DRIVE THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 3, Darfur Arab rebel leader Anwar Khater told CDA Fernandez that Darfur's Arabs have been marginalized, exploited by the Government of Sudan (GoS),and misrepresented by the international press. Khater emphatically stated that with support, Darfur's Arabs are ready [...] | 2008-12-04 09:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1752 | SUDAN - U.N. UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL HOLMES BRIEFS DONOR [...] Summary: On November 29, U.N. Under-Secretary General (U/SYG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes briefed the donor community in Khartoum on his recent trip to Sudan, which included visits to all three Darfur states, the Three Areas, and Southern Sudan, as we [...] | 2008-12-04 12:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1754 | RESPECTED CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER FEARS NCP REVERSION TO [...] (SBU) Summary: NCP members accepted numerous recommendations from civil society leaders at the Sudan People's Initiative, including the formation of a consultative Presidential Council, but have shown no interest in actually carrying them out, the SPI drafting chairman, Khartoum University Prof [...] | 2008-12-04 14:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1758 | SOUTHERN KORDOFAN: MISSERIYA MIGRATION PROCEEDS [...] (SBU) The seasonal migration of the Misseriya Arabs and their cattle through Abyei to South Sudan has begun and is proceeding smoothly, Deputy Nazir of the Misseriya Sadig Babo Nimr told CDA Fernandez December 2. Nimr also reported that the Interim Administration is doing well and that the Mi [...] | 2008-12-05 08:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1766 | CAPITALIZING ON CONCILIATORY NCP POSTURE, SPLM CONTINUES TO [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) for the Northern Sector Yasir Arman told poloffs that the SPLM leadership had a "productive" political bureau meeting in Juba on December 4. Arman made it clear that the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) will reject nati [...] | 2008-12-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1767 | ADMINISTRATOR MAYOK DESCRIBES PROGRESS, PROBLEMS IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a December 6 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Abyei Administrator Arop Mayok described the situation there as "ok, generally." IDPs are returning only slowly, but his Administration is working to reduce Dinka-Misseriya tensions and planning is well underway for this year's m [...] | 2008-12-10 13:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID ECON ASEC KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1768 | JSR ADADA DISCUSSES CEASEFIRE, IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 7, UNAMID's Joint Special Representative Rodolphe Adada said that UNAMID continues to work on its plans for a ceasefire monitoring mechanism and asserted that UNAMID, not the UN/AU Chief Mediator, should take the lead with ceasefire plans. Adada also said that UNAMID needs [...] | 2008-12-11 05:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO UN AU-1 SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1775 | SLM/MM REQUESTS VISIT TO U.S., MEDICAL TREATMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On December 11, SLM/Minnawi (SLM/MM) leaders in Khartoum visited CDA Fernandez requesting U.S. support for a visit to Washington, medical treatment for Minni Minnawi, and discrete funding for a leadership or party conferen [...] | 2008-12-13 09:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ASEC KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1779 | 38th AEC Plenary: Elections, Border Demarcation, and [...] (U) SUMMARY: At its 37th plenary session on December 2, the NCP and SPLM briefed the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) on progress in drafting and adopting key legislation, including new security and media laws, necessary to carry out national elections in 2009. The Power Sharing Work [...] | 2008-12-14 09:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID KDEM KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM178 | TFCD01: FRANCE LIMITS ENGAGEMENT WITH KHARTOUM [...] (C) France has not engaged with the Sudanese Government at any level since the Chadian opposition attempted to overthrow President Deby's regime in recent days, French First Secretary Arnaud Suquet told Poloff on February 4. French SIPDIS Ambassador Christine Robichon has received no instru [...] | 2008-02-05 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SU CD LY FR |
| 08KHARTOUM1786 | ONE DEAD IN ABYEI AFTER JIU AND JIPU CLASH, SITUATION NOW [...] (U) Over the course of two days, clashes between security forces in Abyei town are reported to have left one soldier dead, and nine individuals wounded. The first incident at 12:30PM on December 12 reportedly began with a dispute between a Southern Joint Integrated Police Unit (JIPU) policema [...] | 2008-12-14 13:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ASEC KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM179 | TFCD01: SUDANESE DYNAMICS AS CHAD SITUATION UNFOLDS [...] (C) Reiterating its support for the government of Chadian President Idris Deby, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Khalil Ibrahim has vowed to "repel any attack" by Khartoum-backed Chadian rebel movements, JEM representatives told Field Poloff on February 4. While refusing to discl [...] | 2008-02-05 11:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD LY |
| 08KHARTOUM1790 | SENATE STAFFDEL'S MEETING WITH MFA U/S MUTRIFF [...] (C) Summary: The situation in Abyei is under control following intervention by a GNU (NCP/SPLM) delegation to the town on December 13, MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq told a visiting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staffdel December 14. However, the regime remains concerned about a possible JEM incu [...] | 2008-12-15 13:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1792 | GOSS VIEWS ON ABYEI VIOLENCE, CONCERNS OF SPILLOVER ALONG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a December 13 meeting with the Juba diplomatic corps, select Abyei Commissioners and GOSS Ministers placed responsibility for the December 12 gun battle in Abyei town (ref. A) on the Government of National Unity's (GNU) rejection of international assistance for the Abyei [...] | 2008-12-16 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS EAID ASEC KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1793 | JEM SPOKESMAN SAYS RUMORS OF ATTACK ARE GOS "SMOKESCREEN" [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 11-12, UNAMID sources told poloff they had received unconfirmed reports from the GOS that a large column of JEM vehicles had been observed crossing Chad border into Sudan. However, they were unclear whether this alleged mobilization signified preparation for new attac [...] | 2008-12-16 13:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1810 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In discussions on December 14-15, UNAMID officials told poloff that the mission is still on target to meet its goal of 60 percent deployment by the end of December 2008. They also remain hopeful that 80 percent deployment is possible by March 2009, though it appears that this tar [...] | 2008-12-17 15:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1817 | CONTINUED REPORTS OF REGIME LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: The SPLM leaderhip continues to report that the NCP is considering replacing President Bashir with a suitable military figure with Islamist credentials, and that Bashir would be content to leave power and live in exile in Saudi Arabia. The SPLM believes that the leading candidate [...] | 2008-12-18 11:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1818 | WILL UNAMID REACH SIXTY-PERCENT BY DECEMBER 31? [...] (SBU) An Reuters article picked up by international media on December 17 reported that UNAMID will fail to meet its target deployment goal of sixty-percent by the end of 2008. UNAMID refuted this and told Embassy Khartoum on December 18 that UNAMID fully anticipates meeting or surpassing the 6 [...] | 2008-12-18 15:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1819 | MINAWI CONTEMPLATES VISIT TO WASHINGTON: ASKS FOR [...] (C) During a meeting with a visiting Senate Staffdel December 16, SLM leader, DPA signatory and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minawi said he is considering a visit to Washington "soon after the New Year." Minawi asked for guidance on what dates would be best and asked which officials he [...] | 2008-12-18 16:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1820 | WILL UNAMID REACH SIXTY-PERCENT BY DECEMBER 31? [...] (SBU) An Reuters article picked up by international media on December 17 reported that UNAMID will fail to meet its target deployment goal of sixty-percent by the end of 2008. UNAMID refuted this and told Embassy Khartoum on December 18 that UNAMID fully anticipates meeting or surpassing the 6 [...] | 2008-12-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1825 | CHADIAN REBELS - LEADERSHIP, GOS INFLUENCE, AND [...] (C) The following is a response to SECSTATE 129300. CHADIAN OPPOSITION: SUSTAINABLE COALITION OR FLAWED? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (C) "IS THE FINAL LEADERSHIP BODY OF THE UNITED CHADIAN REBEL FRONT (THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENTS, PARLIAMENT, MINISTERS) [...] | 2008-12-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1828 | SUDAN: 2008 Country Report on Terrorism [...] (SBU) Sudan remains a cooperative partner in the Global War on Terror (GWOT),and the outlook for continued cooperation is positive. During the past year, the Sudanese government continued to pursue terrorist operations directly involving threats to U.S. interests and personnel in Sudan. Suda [...] | 2008-12-22 13:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS AEMR SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1829 | DARFUR REBEL UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's rebels remain fundamentally divided according to what their leaders told poloff during a December 14-18 visit to Ndjamena, Chad. The rebel leaders claim that JEM, while rich in vehicles and equipment, lacks fighters and the popular support of the people of Darfur. A [...] | 2008-12-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CD SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1836 | APPOINTMENT OF NHIAL DENG NHIAL AS MINISTER FOR SPLA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Presidential advisors assert that Nhial Deng Nhial's performance during and after Ali Osman Taha's December 16th visit to Juba (reftel) gave an 11th hour boost to his selection by GOSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit to be Minister for SPLA Affairs. They add he was chosen over Jon [...] | 2008-12-23 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1840 | SENATE STAFFDEL VISIT TO JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with a Senate staff delegation from December 17-19, senior SPLM officials urged deeper USG strategic coordination with their own party, as well as proactive engagement with the NCP, to produce a favorable outcome should there be an arrest warrant issued by the ICC ag [...] | 2008-12-28 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU EAID |
| 08KHARTOUM1841 | MFA PLEDGES SUPPORT TO US CEASEFIRE MECHANISM, [...] (C) A/CDA Asquino provided additional information on December 23 to MFA U/S Mutrif Siddiq regarding the US proposal to support a ceasefire monitoring mechanism within UNAMID, as requested in reftel. Siddiq reported that his government had made a decision to accept the US proposal to support t [...] | 2008-12-28 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1842 | MINOR DEMONSTRATIONS AT EMBASSY KHARTOUM RELATED TO ISRAELI [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 27-28, several waves of demonstrators gathered outside the Embassy Khartoum Chancery to exhibit solidarity with the cause of Palestinians following Israeli air strikes in Gaza. The demonstrations remained peaceful but were marked by anti-American slogans including "Do [...] | 2008-12-28 14:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM1848 | MINNAWI'S POSITION ON THE DPA EVOLVES [...] (C) Summary: In a December 28 meeting with poloffs, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Arko Minnawi stated that he has chosen not to travel to Washington in January because he anticipates significant political and/or military developments in Sudan and Darfur in the coming weeks. He acknow [...] | 2008-12-29 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM189 | TFCD01: CHADIAN DIPLOMAT: HAVING TIPPED ITS HAND, [...] (C) A cabal of the National Congress Party's (NCP) most powerful officials is committed to the overthrow of the Chadian Government, and Sudan continues to reinforce the Chadian opposition in an attempt to unseat Deby's regime, the external security chief at the Chadian Embassy in Khartoum, Moh [...] | 2008-02-07 05:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM191 | AEC PLENARY EXPOSES WEAKENED COMMISSION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 6, the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 28th plenary session, a meeting consumed with deliberating the terms of reference (TORs) for the mid-term evaluation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). The SPLM supported the use of outside consultant [...] | 2008-02-07 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM193 | CORRECTED COPY: AEC PLENARY EXPOSES WEAKENED COMMISSION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 5, the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 28th plenary session, a meeting consumed with debating the terms of reference (TORs) for the mid-term evaluation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). The SPLM supported the use of outside consultants to [...] | 2008-02-07 12:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM194 | CHADIAN EMBASSY IN KHARTOUM REPORTS FRESH TROOPS AND [...] (SBU) On February 7, Embassy Khartoum received a letter from the Chadian Embassy claiming that the Sudanese government had dispatched forty-eight armed vehicles carrying Chadian rebels and members of the Sudanese Armed Forces across the border into Chad. The convoy is said to have left at five [...] | 2008-02-07 12:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM199 | PARTICIPATION IN CENSUS MONITORING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 12:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM2 | AMIS TRANSFERS AUTHORITY TO UNAMID [...] (U) Under clear blue sunny skies with drums beating and bugles blowing, Joint Special Representative (JSR) Rodolphe Adada presided over the transfer of authority from AMIS to UNAMID at 1200 on December 31, 2007, at UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher, North Darfur. The Wali (Governor) of North Da [...] | 2008-01-02 07:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM202 | COMMUNIST PARTY SUSPENDS TALKS WITH NCP [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) announced January 14 the suspension of its coalition-building talks with the National Congress Party (NCP) following the murder of a student at Al-Gazeera University. The SCP claims that radical Islamist students associated with the ruling NCP w [...] | 2008-02-10 13:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO KDEM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM204 | UNHCR HIGHLIGHTS PLIGHT OF "PROTRACTED" REFUGEES IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) Summary: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Assistant Secretary General for Protection Erika Feller told the diplomatic community on February 7 that the purpose of her visit to eastern Sudan was to highlight the problem of "protracted" refugees. The Geneva-based Feller [...] | 2008-02-10 13:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM216 | TENY COMMENTS ON NCP-SPLM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AEC, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a February 11 meeting with econoffs, Angelina Teny, State Minister at the Ministry of Energy and Mining and wife of GoSS Vice President Riek Machar, outlined the SPLM's priorities for the next round of discussions at the joint NCP-SPLM political executive committee, naming [...] | 2008-02-12 12:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM230 | Investment Minister Manibe on PEC, AEC and CPA Issues [...] (SBU) Summary: GNU Minister of Investment and SPLM insider Kosti Manibe thinks that NCP-SPLM disagreements over the Elections Law and the census will be resolved, but argued that the AEC needs to take a more proactive role in resolving such issues. He outlined SPLM reservations (which the GN [...] | 2008-02-14 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EINV KDEM PINR SU |
| 08KHARTOUM231 | CENSUS: HOME-STRETCH LOOKING BETTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bashir issued a February 11 presidential decree reiterating that Sudan's inaugural nation-wide census will be conducted April 15-30. The following day's meeting of the Census Technical Working Group (TWG) left donors, the CBS, and the Southern Sudan Commission for the [...] | 2008-02-14 15:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM239 | MORE BLUSTER FROM PARTY LEADER NAFIE [...] (C) Addressing a massive rally February 18 in Sodiri, on the Kordofan/Darfur border, Presidential Advisor and National Congress Party leader Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie lashed out at the US administration and said that Secretary Rice should "lick her elbow" (do the impossible) if she believes that Suda [...] | 2008-02-19 13:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SU AU PGOV UN |
| 08KHARTOUM241 | PRESIDENT BASHIR RESHUFFLES CABINET: ALI MARDI OUT, AL-JAZ [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 14, President Bashir shifted more than a quarter of ministerial positions in the cabinet of the Government of National Unity (GNU). In particular, local observers believe that Awad Al-Jaz' shift from Energy to Finance Ministry will strengthen both his own influence [...] | 2008-02-19 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM249 | MGCD01: UFDD/F'S ABOUD REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Please see action request para. 6. 2. (C) The United Force for Democracy and Development-Fondamentale (UFDD/F) is seeking a peaceful, democratic transition in N'djamena, a man claiming to be UFDD/F President Abdelwahid Aboud told Poloff during a February 20 phone call. Five minutes int [...] | 2008-02-21 07:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM25 | ELECTORAL LAW MAY NOT BE ENACTED UNTIL APRIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The draft electoral law for 2009 national and state elections is still being debated in the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC). Although the current session of the National Assembly has been extended through 16 January, the Assembly will be tied up with other busi [...] | 2008-01-08 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM251 | UNAMID: "BALL IS IN OUR COURT" [...] (SBU) Summary: Fifty days after transition, UNAMID top officials briefed the diplomatic community on progress and challenges. UN/AU Special Representative Adada noted that a political solution is needed to resolve the Darfur situation and, while UNAMID is not a panacea, the changing political [...] | 2008-02-21 10:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM256 | ABYEI TENSIONS RISE WHILE COMPROMISE IS SOUGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: According to a Misseriya SPLM MP the threat of ethnic conflict in Sudan's Abyei region has subsided, but a key GoSS Minister paints a much darker picture. On February 18, Mohammed Gour dismissed self-proclaimed "governor" al-Ansari as a tool of the NISS with no significant foll [...] | 2008-02-21 16:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM258 | FEBRUARY 17 ABORTED WEALTH-SHARING WORKING GROUP PLANNING [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the February 17 meeting of the Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG),the SPLM representative admitted he was neither prepared, nor qualified to speak on behalf of his party. The NCP accused the AEC secretariat of failing to deliver a document outlining the structure of the mid [...] | 2008-02-21 16:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS ECON EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM259 | JUBA PEACE TALKS DEADLOCKED OVER POWER SHARING [...] (SBU) The Juba Peace Talks between the Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) resumed on January 30. If an agreement is signed in the next week as hoped for, it is an historical step that will bring an end to a conflict that has lasted more than 20 years, resulted in extensiv [...] | 2008-02-22 10:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV SU UG |
| 08KHARTOUM260 | JUBA PEACE TALKS DEADLOCKED BROKEN [...] (SBU) With negotiations deadlocked over issues of power sharing and integration of former LRA combatants into the Ugandan army, a walkout-out by the LRA delegations on February 21 seemed to signal a possible end to the Juba Peace Talks that had resumed on January 30. However, shuttle diplomacy [...] | 2008-02-22 12:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV SU UG |
| 08KHARTOUM267 | DARFUR ARAB WARLORD BARGAINS WITH KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Arab militia leader Mohammed Hamdan (aka Hamati) has been negotiating with the Sudanese Government on his return to an alliance with Khartoum in recent weeks, according to two UN sources and an independent NGO with strong ties to Darfur's rebel movements. Hamdan defected from the Governm [...] | 2008-02-24 09:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM269 | WEST DARFUR: SAF AND JEM CLASHES WORSEN ALREADY FRAGILE [...] (SBU) Summary: Since December 2007, renewed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in areas north of El Geneina, West Darfur, have increased insecurity, limited humanitarian access to the area, and displaced at least 56,000 residents, accord [...] | 2008-02-25 09:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM27 | SPLM INSIDER SAMSON KWAJE ON CENSUS, CABINET RESHUFFLE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Consul General and visiting polchief met with Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Agriculture Minister Samson Kwaje January 7. Kwaje is considered a close advisor of GoSS President and GNU First Vice President Salva Kiir (background and bio notes are included at the end of this [...] | 2008-01-08 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM273 | MGCD01: ERDIMI REQUESTS U.S. MEDIATION WITH DEBY [...] (C) In a February 23 meeting with Poloff in Khartoum, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi reported that he had spoken to Timan Erdimi, president of the Rally of Forces for Change (RFC) and a fellow Zaghawa, on February 22. Erdimi stated th [...] | 2008-02-25 11:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM274 | UNAMID UNWILLING TO STOP WEST DARFUR CONFLICT BUT WILLING [...] (SBU) Summary: The UNAMID military component continues to monitor, despite limited access and visibility, recent fighting in West Darfur and movements of SAF troop concentrations in the region. The military Chief of Staff expects an escalation in hostilities in West Darfur, with operations pos [...] | 2008-02-25 15:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
| 08KHARTOUM275 | JEM LEADER COMMENTS ON DOWNED HELICOPTER AND SAF MOVEMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 25, Dr. Tahir Adam, the Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Justice Equality Movement (JEM),told econoff by satellite phone t$`estroyed by JEM within one week. SAF, however, publicly denied losing any aircraft to rebel fire. Adam also gave information regardi [...] | 2008-02-26 11:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR MCAP MOPS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM276 | PAGAN AMUN TO S/E WILLIAMSON: "IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. GNU Minister for Cabinet Affairs and SPLM leader Pagan Amun warned S/E Williamson that if Abyei is not solved, Sudan could return to war. He described the NCP's non-implementation of the Abyei Protocol as the most "serious and challenging" remaining obstacle to the North-South pea [...] | 2008-02-26 15:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU 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 |
| 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM281 | S/E WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH ABYEI ADMINISTRATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his November 26 meeting with Special Envoy Williamson, SPLM-appointed Abyei administrator and Darfur Task Force member, Edward Lino, stated that Abyei, though currently stable, was near explosion only days ago. According to Lino, the National Congress Party has attempted to d [...] | 2008-02-26 18:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM284 | MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: CG Christopher Datta met with Minister of Information and Broadcasting Gabriel Chang on the morning of February 25 to discuss the developing media in South Sudan. Starting with almost nothing, Chang outlined an ambitious agenda for the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) to reach [...] | 2008-02-27 08:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM285 | MEDIA DEVELOMENTS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: CG Christopher Datta met with Minister of Information and Broadcasting Gabriel Chang on the morning of February 25 to discuss the developing media in South Sudan. Starting with almost nothing, Chang outlined an ambitious agenda for the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) to reach [...] | 2008-02-27 16:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM286 | MEDIA DEVELOMENTS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: CG Christopher Datta met with Minister of Information and Broadcasting Gabriel Chang on the morning of February 25 to discuss the developing media in South Sudan. Starting with almost nothing, Chang outlined an ambitious agenda for the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) to reach [...] | 2008-02-28 04:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM288 | GoSS Minister on Census, Elections, Darfur and Chad, and [...] (SBU) Summary: Juba CG Christopher Datta met with Government of South Sudan (GoSS) Minister of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development Michael Makuei Lueth on February 27 to discuss Makuei's involvement on the NCP/SPLM Executive Committee of the CPA and on the state of the Southern Sudan L [...] | 2008-02-28 05:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL CD SU |
| 08KHARTOUM290 | Minawi to S/E Williamson: Weak and Isolated, SLM Still [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While the lack of DPA implementation has left the SLM weak and isolated, it continues to strive toward transforming the movement from a fighting force to a political party, Senior Assistant to the President and SLM leader Minni Minawi told S/E Williamson in Khartoum. He suggest [...] | 2008-02-28 06:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR MCAP MOPS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM293 | SUDAN REACTS TO REPUBLICATION OF DANISH CARTOONS WITH MASS [...] (SBU) Summary: Addressing a mass rally in Khartoum organized by government-affiliated Islamic organizations, President Bashir denounced cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that were recently republished in Danish newspapers. An embargo on Danish trade and travel has been reported in the p [...] | 2008-02-28 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL PGOV PREL ETRD EAID SOCI ASEC SU DA |
| 08KHARTOUM296 | POTENTIAL ABYEI BORDER MOVES NORTH WITH SOME MAJOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 15:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
| 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM298 | Abyei Conflict Contained for Now, But Problem Unresolved [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLM-appointed Abyei administrator Edward Lino says that conflict in Abyei has been "contained," in what he calls a defeat for NCP hardliners. The NCP and SPLM, however, appear to have been unable to conclude an agreement on joint administration. According to Foreign Minister [...] | 2008-03-02 05:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM308 | VIOLENCE FLARES AGAIN ALONG 1956 BORDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Violence has erupted again along the Kiir River in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, where supposedly non-Misseriya Northern Popular Defense Forces have reportedly launched simultaneous attacks against three separate SPLA positions. Although calm returned after five hours of fightin [...] | 2008-03-03 07:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS KDEM 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM311 | MINAWI: ERDIMI REJECTS KHARTOUM'S PUSH FOR RENEWED OFFENSIVE [...] (C) POLOFF DELIVERED REQUESTED DEMARCHE TO SENIOR ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SUDAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT (SLM) CHAIRMAN MINNI MINAWI ON MARCH 1 (REF. A). MINAWI REPORTED THAT HE LAST SPOKE TO RALLY OF FORCES FOR CHANGE (RFC) PRESIDENT TIMAN ERDIMI ON FEBRUARY 29. ERDIMI TOLD HIM THAT NATI [...] | 2008-03-03 12:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USDELFESTTWO SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM313 | ABYEI'S MISSERIYA LEADERS TELL THEIR SIDE OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 3, eight hereditary leaders of the Oulad Kamal branch of the Misseriya Arab tribe of Kordofan told CDA Fernandez that they would appreciate urgent U.S. mediation for Abyei, that their tribe is not a "puppet of the NCP," and that the SPLA needs to immediately withdraw sou [...] | 2008-03-03 14:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM314 | SUDANESE FONMIN ON SPECIAL ENVOY NON-PAPER AND CONGRESSMAN [...] (SBU) FOREIGN MINISTER DENG ALOR TOLD CONGEN JUBA STAFF ON MARCH 1 THAT PRESIDENT BASHIR'S MEETING WITH SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON WENT "EXTREMELY WELL," AND THAT ALOR EXPECTED POSITIVE FORWARD MOVEMENT. ALOR CLAIMED THAT BASHIR HAD NOTED IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING THAT "ONLY A MAD MAN DEFIES THE [...] | 2008-03-03 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM MARR SU |
| 08KHARTOUM318 | "DARFUR PARTNERS GROUP" DISCUSS SUDAN CONSORTIUM, [...] (C) At a recent meeting of the Darfur Partners Group in Khartoum, Western Ambassadors discussed the possibility of adding sessions on Darfur and the Sudan-Chad conflict to the agenda for the Sudan Consortium tentatively scheduled for April in Paris. The UN/AU mediation team provided an update [...] | 2008-03-04 05:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KPKO UN AU SU CD FR |
| 08KHARTOUM319 | HOW TO RESTRUCTURE A CEASEFIRE COMMISSION WITHOUT AN [...] (SBU) This cable provides an update on the most recent activities of the UNAMID Ceasefire Commission (CFC),impediments to its functioning and an analysis of measures the CFC Secretariat can take now to enhance its effectiveness if and when a genuine ceasefire takes hold in Darfur. The USG sho [...] | 2008-03-04 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
| 08KHARTOUM322 | NORTH KORDOFAN STRESSED BY NEIGHBORING DARFUR CONFLICT [...] (U) SUMMARY: According to numerous Sudanese contacts on a recent trip to the North Kordofan cities of El-Obeid and An-Nahud, the Darfur conflict clearly is stressing the neighboring state's economy and infrastructure. Although North Kordofan shares many of the same factors that bred violence [...] | 2008-03-04 13:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF ECON EAID SOCI MOPS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM324 | LRA PEACE TALKS CONCLUDE, AWAIT SIGNING OF FINAL AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) signed agreements on the two outstanding agenda items: the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration and the Implementing Commitments and Mechanisms. The Government of Southern Sudan mediator, Vice President Ri [...] | 2008-03-04 14:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF UG CG SU |
| 08KHARTOUM328 | SPLM MP ON POSSIBLE ABYEI AGREEMENT, BORDER CLASH [...] (SBU) Summary: According to ethnic-Misseriya SPLM MP Mohamed Gour, the most recent armed clash in the Abyei region was the result of growing friction between poorly disciplined local SPLA units and young Misseriya herdsmen. He confirmed that the SPLM and NCP have reached agreement on a joint [...] | 2008-03-05 14:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SOCI MOPS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM329 | HEADING INTO 2009, NCP LOOKS STRONG IN NORTH KORDOFAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Once an Umma Party stronghold, the National Congress Party (NCP) now appears well placed in North Kordofan heading into the 2009 national elections. On February 21, the NCP won University of North Kordofan student elections in a campaign supported by a visit of Presidential Ass [...] | 2008-03-05 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EAID SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM33 | SUDAN ARMY ATTACKS UNAMID CONVOY [...] (SBU) On January 8, UNAMID claimed that Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attacked a UNAMID 29-truck convoy on January 7 at approximately 2200 near Tine, West Darfur located 125 kilometers north of Geneina. UNAMID spokesmen Nourreddine Mezni told poloff on January 9 that Joint Special Representative [...] | 2008-01-09 12:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM333 | UNMAMID CIVIL AFFAIRS ATTEMPTING TO LAY GRASSROOTS [...] (SBU) UNAMID Head of Civil Affairs provided an overview of incipient efforts to strengthen civil society in North Darfur and its influence in an eventual peace process. UNAMID will hold a broad civil society workshop on land issues in mid-March, the first in a series that will focus on various [...] | 2008-03-06 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
| 08KHARTOUM340 | SLM/ABDUL WAHID TO LAUNCH OFFICE IN ISRAEL [...] (U) Summary: Abdul Wahid Al Nur has announced that the SLM will open an office in Tel Aviv and praised the Israeli government for giving refuge to Darfur to protect them from genocide. While NCP officials and much of the Sudanese media condemned Al Nur's statements, reaction in Darfur is larg [...] | 2008-03-09 12:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF SU |
| 08KHARTOUM345 | A SNAPSHOT OF SOUTH SUDAN'S CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Southern Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission will roll out its inaugural anti-corruption strategy with USG assistance in late March, 18 months after the Commission's establishment. Anecdotal evidence suggests that GOSS corruption will continue to seriously embarrass the SPLM as [...] | 2008-03-10 07:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM346 | AS UN REACHES JEBEL MOON, SPLINTER EMERGES WITHIN JEM [...] (SBU) After an earlier dispute between the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) over access to Jebel Moon, West Darfur, a UN team reached the area for a brief yet inconclusive visit to assess the humanitarian situation. UN sources report that the [...] | 2008-03-10 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM347 | UMMA PARTY OFFICIAL DENIES AGREEMENT WITH NCP [...] (SBU) On March 6 Emboffs met with Dr. Mariam Al Sadig Al Mahdi, Secretary for Foreign Relations, National Umma Party (and daughter SIPDIS of Umma leader and former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi). Emboff's asked Dr. Al Mahdi about press reports suggesting that Umma and the National Congre [...] | 2008-03-10 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM348 | UMMA PARTY OFFICIAL DENIES AGREEMENT WITH NCP [...] (SBU) On March 6 Emboffs met with Dr. Mariam Al Sadig Al Mahdi, Secretary for Foreign Relations, National Umma Party (and daughter SIPDIS of Umma leader and former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi). Emboff's asked Dr. Al Mahdi about press reports suggesting that Umma and the National Congre [...] | 2008-03-10 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM35 | SUDAN-CHAD TENSIONS FLARE [...] (SBU) Media and the UN reported that Chadian air force planes attacked Chadian rebel camps in Sudan near the villages of Goker and Wadi Radi 35 kilometers south of Geneina in West Darfur state on January 7. This follows Chadian President Deby's statement January 5 that Chad will pursue Chadi [...] | 2008-01-10 08:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM351 | FRANCE, EUFOR ISSUE CONFLICTING STATEMENTS ON FALLEN [...] (SBU) The European Union repatriated the body ofQoldier from the EU peacekeeping force in Chad, EUFOR, on March 7, as French President Sarkozy and EUFOR commander Patrick Nash issued conflicting statements on the events leading to the soldier's death. While Nash apologized to Sudan for his pea [...] | 2008-03-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC AU SU CD EU |
| 08KHARTOUM352 | AEC PLENARY: CONCERN ON ABYEI YIELDS VERIFICATION TEAM [...] (U) Summary: Newly-appointed AEC Chair Ambassador (Sir) Derek Plumbly chaired his first plenary meeting March 4. The most significant agenda item was a discussion of drafting procedures for the AEC's Mid Term Evaluation (MTE) as mandated by the Comprehensive Peace Accord. The meeting also ad [...] | 2008-03-10 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM353 | TRANSPARENCY AND ABYEI OIL ARE TOP AEC WEALTH SHARING [...] (U) Summary: The Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG) coordinated by the US Embassy met March 5 to identify concerns to be addressed in the AEC's Mid Term Evaluation (MTE). The AEC Chairman must present the MTE to President Al-Bashir on or before July 8 according to a "Terms of Reference" doc [...] | 2008-03-10 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM354 | SUDAN CONSORTIUM PLANNING [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) Deputy SRSG Amira Haq and World Bank Country Manager Asif Faiz asked CDA Fernandez March 9 for U.S. assistance with the agenda and venue of the Sudan Consortium, due to take place in Paris May 6-8. According to Haq these [...] | 2008-03-10 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM357 | LIBYA OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS TO RESOLVE DARFUR, CHAD [...] (SBU) The Libyan Government remains open to U.S. ideas for advancing the Darfur peace process and resolving the Sudan-Chad conflict, Libyan Consul General in El Fasher Naji Yousef told Poloff on March 10, 2008. While Tripoli continues to try to broker a peace settlement between the Darfur rebe [...] | 2008-03-11 07:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU LY CD |
| 08KHARTOUM36 | FIRST AEC PLENARY OF 2008 UPBEAT [...] (U) SUMMARY: A briefing by the NCP and the SPLM on their recent political deal drew a large turnout to the first AEC Plenary session of 2008 on January 8. However the parties provided only vague details of their agreement. The international coordinators and other observers will have to wait [...] | 2008-01-10 09:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM362 | SUDAN WELL-EQUIPPED AND READY TO SUPPORT THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: The GoS told USG officials on 4-5 March that it is well-equipped and prepared to support the transfer of further Guantanamo (GTMO) detainees to Sudan, to include those individuals who are of higher threat to national security than those previously transferred. The National Intelli [...] | 2008-03-11 12:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PHUM PINR PTER PREL 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM368 | ABEL ALIER SUSPICIOUS OF NORTHERN POLITICIANS, BUT ALSO [...] (SBU) Too many agreements have been dishonored, and northern political parties are eager to open the CPA and block agreement on Abyei, according to former Vice President and current co-chairman of the National Constitutional Review Commission Abel Alier. CDA Fernandez met with the elder states [...] | 2008-03-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM369 | AL BASHIR ENDORSES BETTER RELATIONS WITH U.S., BLAMES CHAD [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Omar Al Bashir told reporters March 11 that Sudan needs better relations with the United States. In his remarks, he also criticized Chad, saying the country had not respected peace agreements with Sudan and that yet another peace agreement, negotiated by Senegal Preside [...] | 2008-03-13 08:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM381 | UNIVERSITY POLITICS: NCP DOMINANCE, ISLAMIST CHALLENGES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In four separate meetings the week of March 9, student political party leaders told emboffs that the National Congress Party is the most organized and successful political party in Sudan's universities. Many opposition contacts cautioned that this NCP dominance is due not to [...] | 2008-03-15 11:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM383 | LAND TENSIONS THREATEN SOUTHERN STABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Conflict in Sudan has been fueled in many cases by competition over land and other natural resources. Currently, there are no consistent land policies and laws to govern how land is to be allocated and used in Southern Sudan. The control of land is linked to historical "injustic [...] | 2008-03-15 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM385 | NEW CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE BREWING IN WEST DARFUR [...] (C) A new attempt to overthrow Chadian President Idriss Deby's government is brewing in West Darfur, UN officials, humanitarian workers, and Chadian rebel commanders told Poloffs in El Geneina between March 11 and 13. Though predictions on the start date for the next attempt to topple Deby's [...] | 2008-03-16 10:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD FR |
| 08KHARTOUM386 | DESPITE DAKAR ACCORD, SPLM AND SLM BRACE FOR [...] (C) Recounting his efforts to press a diffident President Bashir to support the recent Dakar accord with Chad--including a mechanism to monitor violations--Foreign Minister Deng Alor remains concerned that Khartoum will continue to pursue regime change in N'djamena, he told Senior Assistant to [...] | 2008-03-16 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU CD UG |
| 08KHARTOUM388 | VIEWS ON MARCH 1 BORDER SKIRMISHES FROM SOUTH OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Discussions with senior UN and UNMIS officials in Juba and Aweil, in addition to follow-on discussions with various elements of the SPLA, place March 1 skirmishes not in the disputed region of Abyei but south of the Kiir River near Rumaker, Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. UNMIS off [...] | 2008-03-16 15:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS MARR MPOS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM39 | LOOKING AHEAD ON THE SUDAN AEC [...] (C) Norway's Ambassador to Khartoum, in his capacity as Interim AEC (Assessment and Evaluation Commission) Chairman called AEC working group chairs (US, UK, Norway, Italy, Netherlands) together to survey the way ahead for the Commission over the next few months. UK Ambassador reported on the [...] | 2008-01-11 11:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM392 | DARFUR - UNOFFICIAL SETTLEMENTS NEAR SEKELE PRESENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: New settlements near Sekele (near Nyala, South Darfur) originated in October 2007 as a result of GNU HAC efforts to relocate IDPs who fled Kalma camp following inter-tribal violence in that camp. While the GNU HAC completed the resettlement process, approximately 500 additional fa [...] | 2008-03-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM393 | AEC CHAIRMAN REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE WITH STAFFING FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Steering Committee of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) met March 16 to review a draft outline for the Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) of the CPA. The MTE is due to be delivered to the Sudanese Presidency by July 9, requiring a robust series of meetings by the AEC's fo [...] | 2008-03-17 05:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM397 | CHAD: RFC'S ERDIMI PLANS LAND GRAB WHILE OTHER [...] (C) As other Chadian rebel factions conspire to topple President Idriss Deby, RFC leader Timan Erdimi plans to "occupy" as much territory as possible and then negotiate with a transitional government to achieve his political objectives, he told Poloff in Khartoum on March 15. Explaining that r [...] | 2008-03-17 06:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU CD FR |
| 08KHARTOUM408 | UNAMID ON POLITICAL AND SECURITY DYNAMICS IN WEST [...] (C) Instability is still prevalent in the corridor north of El Geneina, where fighting over the last month displaced thousands and has left the civilians who remain in the area vulnerable to looting and violence at the hands of Arab militias, the Sudanese military, and the Central Reserve Poli [...] | 2008-03-18 09:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM410 | THERE ARE NEITHER MODERATES NOR HARDLINERS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The NCP regime is unified and well organized despite its corruption, and the popular characterizations of regime "hardliners" versus "moderates" are overplayed, according to opposition observers who have known individuals in the NCP regime for decades. These opposition members als [...] | 2008-03-18 13:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM411 | FISCAL MONITORING CHAIRMAN REPORTS PROGRESS WITH GNU AND [...] (U) In contrast to his October 24, 2007 briefing for the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) (reftel),Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC) Chairman Mohammed Osman Ibrahim told Poloff on March 13 that he is now optimistic on cooperation with the Ministry of [...] | 2008-03-19 04:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM420 | DONORS MEET WITH SRSG QAZI IN PREPARATION FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to donor's concerns about UN slowness on the Sudanese 2009 elections, SRSG Ashraf Qazi and the Electoral Donors met Tuesday, March 18, to share dates, assumptions and concerns. SRSG Qazi recognized that, as UNMIS works to build Sudan's electoral capacities, key legisl [...] | 2008-03-21 08:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM421 | UNAMID WILL BRING SECURITY BUT NOT A PEACE DEAL, SAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur needs security before traditional leaders can play any role in tribal reconciliation, an indigenous NGO leader and Darfur expert told emboff in two separate meetings in El-Fasher on March 19. Contacts emphasized that the Government of Sudan's recent push for tribal rec [...] | 2008-03-21 08:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM425 | BASHIR TELLS ADVISOR THAT THE DAKAR AGREEMENT IS [...] (C) Senior Presidential Advisor Minni Minawi told poloff March 22 that President Bashir had rejected Minawi's proposal to travel to Ndjamena in order to encourage negotiations between President Deby and Chadian rebel Timane Erdimi. Minawi had hoped that his own direct appeals to President Deby [...] | 2008-03-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM427 | USG ELECTIONS STRATEGY IN SUDAN [...] (C) Free and fair elections in Sudan are a top foreign policy objective for the USG, and it is therefore critical early on to define a policy framework and begin planning in earnest now for the 2009 Sudanese elections. Despite the constant demands for our attention from Darfur and the North-S [...] | 2008-03-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM429 | LRA PEACE TALKS TO RESUME IN JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: Peace talks between the LRA and Government of Uganda will resume in Juba on Monday, March 24. Lead negotiator Riek Machar expects a final implementation agreement to be initialed no later than March 25, and he hopes for a final signing ceremony in Juba on Friday, April 4. End [...] | 2008-03-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU UG SU |
| 08KHARTOUM430 | GOSS REGIONAL COOPERATION MINISTER ON IRAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Southern Sudan Minister for Regional Cooperation discussed the SPLM,s concern over a recently revealed &defense pact8 between Tehran and Khartoum, continued SAF manipulation of the Misseriya Arabs, and outward attempts by the SAF to push a military solution to th [...] | 2008-03-23 15:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINS EAID MARR IR MOPS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM432 | GOSS MINISTER PRESSES FOR U.S. COMMITMENT ON ABYEI DISPUTE [...] (SBU) GOSS Presidential Affairs Minister Luka Biong Deng recently told ConGen Juba PolOff that President Kiir was struck by the frank nature of Kiir's meeting with with Special Envoy Richard S. Williamson. Deng noted that Kiir was "relieved by the clarity of the message." Deng himself was l [...] | 2008-03-24 04:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM435 | FOREIGN MINISTER PROMISES SWIFT ACTION ON [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor agreed to the immediate visa issuance of US Military Observers requested by UNAMID, and promised rapid progress on other visas and on security measures. He also will be raising the issue of NEC containers with President Al-Bashir in the next two days. Al [...] | 2008-03-24 11:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU KPKO ABLD AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
| 08KHARTOUM437 | UNAMID FORCE COMMANDER'S VISION OF DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A March 24 conversation with UNAMID Force Commander (FC) Martin Luther Agwai revealed the depth of the chasm between the vision on the ground in El Fasher and at UN Headquarters in New York of UNAMID's short-term deployment plan. Like other UNAMID officials (reftel),the FC cit [...] | 2008-03-25 07:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM438 | UNAMID - A VIEW FROM RURAL NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A March 24 visit by emboffs to UNAMID camps in Sector North revealed that UNAMID troops can make a difference on the ground as local populations trust UNAMID with their security concerns. Nonetheless, discussions with UNAMID contacts in Um Kadada and Shangil Tobai also reveale [...] | 2008-03-25 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM442 | BASHIR WILL REPORTEDLY APPROVE NEC CONTAINER [...] (C) Summary: President Al-Bashir told his Foreign Minister on March 25 that he is willing to authorize the release of NEC containers the same day the U.S. Administration "eases up on pressure on Sudan's diplomatic missions in New York and Washington." Alor complained about the lack of SPLM inp [...] | 2008-03-26 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU ABLD AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
| 08KHARTOUM448 | ALLEGED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST LAM AKOL DEBUNKED [...] (SBU) An accidental encounter between cattle-rustlers and a motorcade convoy belonging to former Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol has sparked a press battle of conspiracy theories and alleged assassination plots. Media spin to date has cleaved along "true SPLM" and "former SPLM" lines, wit [...] | 2008-03-26 14:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM452 | JEM'S CHIEF NEGOTIATOR ON THE CENSUS, PEACE PROCESS, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) Chief Negotiator, Ahmed Tougod, told emboff by satellite phone on March 26 that JEM rejects the upcoming census, the AU-UN's approach to the peace process, and bilateral negotiations with the Government of Sudan (GoS). To [...] | 2008-03-27 08:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM453 | REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC: JMST [...] (C) Poloffs met March 25 with the UN Joint Mediation Support Team's (JMST) newly-appointed Chief of Staff Yasir Sabra to discuss the stalled Darfur peace process and JMST plans to restructure its operations and pursue modest "confidence building measures" with the parties in advance of a more [...] | 2008-03-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM454 | UNAMID TRIES HARDER WHILE DARFURIS FUME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: March 25 visits to two UNAMID camps in Darfur revealed that UNAMID troops, while bringing much needed relative security to their immediate areas of control, currently lack the troops and equipment to be in some of the most operationally-important areas. The visits also reveale [...] | 2008-03-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM462 | DARFUR: HAC INTERROGATES AMCIT HUMANITARIAN WORKER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During the week of March 10, a Korean-American employee of the American Jewish World Service, visiting El Fasher, North Darfur, was questioned by officials of the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) for possible links to a Darfur rebel group which has opened an office in Israel an [...] | 2008-03-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASO APER CASC PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM466 | AEC TO URGE SPECIAL SESSION ON ABYEI [...] (C) Newly installed Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) chairman Sir Derek Plumbly met with AEC working group chairs (UK, Norwegian, Italian and Dutch Ambassadors plus CDA Fernandez) on March 30 to discuss a more aggressive AEC stance on political issues and to outline a common agenda fo [...] | 2008-03-31 07:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM469 | JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR JEM IN JEBEL MOUN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate conversations on March 28 and 29, representatives of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) claimed it was business as usual for them in their struggle against the Government of Sudan (GoS) and in their "dedicated quest" toward negotiations. Political leadershi [...] | 2008-03-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM474 | NAFIE COMPLAINS OF PERCEPTION PROBLEM IN DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: The situation in Darfur is better than what is being reported, Presidential Advisor and NCP leader Nafie Ali Nafie told CDA Fernandez during a meeting March 31. Nafie blamed international NGOs for distorting the image of what is happening in Darfur said that if the international c [...] | 2008-04-01 05:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM476 | SPLM EL FASHER REPS GIVE MIXED VIEWS ON DARFUR REBEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate conversations on March 30 and 31, El Fasher representatives of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) gave mixed messages on prospects for unifying Darfur rebels in an as-yet undated second round of talks in Juba. One group, chaired by an Acting Secretary [...] | 2008-04-01 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM477 | DARFUR IDPs PROTEST CENSUS IN ABU SHOUK CAMP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Multiples sources confirmed to emboffs that internally displaced persons in Abu Shouk camp near El-Fasher, North Darfur organized a protest on March 31 in opposition to the upcoming Sudanese census. Although protests are common in Darfur's many IDP camps, this is the first prot [...] | 2008-04-01 09:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM485 | JMST'S SAM IBOK ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 1 AU Chief Mediator of UNAMID,S JMST San Ibok briefed senior UNAMID representatives on the Darfur peace process as part of the two-day "UNAMID Brainstorming on DPA." Ibok highlighted that of the five major rebel movements, only two (SLA-Unity and the URF) have indic [...] | 2008-04-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM486 | UNAMID LEADERSHIP DEBATES DARFUR SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In one of the most inconclusive sessions of the two-day internal UNAMID brainstorming session on the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and Related Issues, UNAMID leadership on March 31 made myriad excuses for UNAMID,s performance to date without highlighting any relative successes o [...] | 2008-04-02 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD PGOV |
| 08KHARTOUM5 | JEM REPRESENTATIVES ARRESTED IN EL FASHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 30 Government of Sudan (GoS) security forces surrounded a house full of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) members in El Fasher and arrested six JEM members, including the JEM Ceasefire Commission (CFC) representative GEN Mohammed Basher Mohammed. The United Nations [...] | 2008-01-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC CD |
| 08KHARTOUM501 | CHADIAN REBELS: WEST CAN FACILITATE DIALOGUE OR [...] (C) One faction 'c2MwCQ$Q outbreak of a renewed offensive to topple him. According to UFDD/F President Abdelwahid Aboud, the three movements in the AN have settled on a joint structure, with Mahamat Nouri as the political chief. He said the recent attack on Ade was the opening salvo of a new c [...] | 2008-04-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD SU |
| 08KHARTOUM503 | GOS FLEXES ITS MUSCLE IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Within the last two weeks, there are indications that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is flexing its muscle in Darfur. Signs of this include: three firefights between Arab militias/janjaweed and SLM-Minnawi members in the center of El-Fasher; several Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) p [...] | 2008-04-03 16:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM507 | ABYEI'S MISERIYYA FEAR AND DISTRUST BOTH THE NCP [...] (C) Summary: The Miseriyya Arabs of Southern Kordofan and Abyei both fear and distrust the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the political struggle on Abyei, worrying that they will pay the ultimate price in a larger struggle. Seeing their way of lif [...] | 2008-04-04 11:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI |
| 08KHARTOUM509 | DUP NEGOTIATES ALLIANCE WITH NCP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloffs spoke April 3 with Tag El-Sir Mohammed Salih, Deputy Secretary General of the Democratic Unionist Party'S (DUP) Mirghani faction. Salih confirmed that elderly DUP leader Mohammed Osman Al-Mirghani will soon return to Khartoum from Cairo despite alleged threats against h [...] | 2008-04-06 05:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
| 08KHARTOUM518 | BALANCING ACT - UNAMID PUBLIC AFFAIRS WALKS TIGHTROPE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 2, Shereen Zorba and Ali Hamati, of UNAMID's Public Information Office in El Fasher, told emboffs that they feel both external pressure from the Government of Sudan (GoS) and a degree of internal marginalization within UNAMID itself. Most notably, Zorba reported that st [...] | 2008-04-06 08:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU KPKO UNSC |
| 08KHARTOUM519 | GOSS MINISTER KWAJE ON ABYEI BORDER COMPROMISE, LRA TALKS, [...] (SBU) Summary: On the evening of April 1, CG Datta was invited to a GoSS dinner in honor of the visiting South African Foreign Minister. At that dinner, Datta had a long discussion with Samson Kwaje, GoSS Minister of Agriculture and prominent player in the SPLM, that touched on an NCP offer on [...] | 2008-04-06 08:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU UG |
| 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM524 | SPLM'S EDWARD LINO IN ABYEI: ESCALATING TENSIONS, [...] (C) Summary: According to SPLM-appointed Abyei Administrator Edward Lino, the NCP is ratcheting-up tension in Abyei by sending SAF and police reinforcements to the region, and by seeking to incite Misseriya herdsmen against the Ngok Dinka. The Misseriya have resisted this ploy and Lino hope [...] | 2008-04-06 11:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID SOCI MOPS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM529 | FM ALOR WARNS "THIS WEEK COULD BE DECISIVE" ON [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor warned that April 2 discussions on Abyei between the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) regressed and the next meeting on April 9 could be decisive. He also warned of SPLM plans to aggressively challenge Northern [...] | 2008-04-07 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM536 | AHMED HAROUN, DENG ALOR, AND PAGAN AMUN NEGOTIATE [...] (C) CDA Fernandez and polchief entered Cabinet Minister Pagan Amun's office April 6 and encountered not only Amun, but also Foreign Minister Deng Alor and State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and ICC indictee Ahmed Haroun huddled over a map of the oil-rich contested Abyei region. Alor and [...] | 2008-04-07 08:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM538 | GOS BORDER INTELLIGENCE FORCE SPARKS GUNFIRE IN EL FASHER [...] (SBU) On April 6 at approximately 1330, United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in El Fasher, North Darfur, warned that "groups of combatants from the GoS Military Camp intend to cause problems in the market area, due to unsatisfactory welfare conditions." A group of Border I [...] | 2008-04-07 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM539 | POSSIBLE "POLIITICAL ASSASSINATION" IN EL-FASHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 4 at approximately 20:00 gunmen allegedly affiliated with the janjaweed Border Intelligence Unit shot and killed Suliman Ishaq Korayna Daoud, a member of the Darfur Forum and leader of the SLA-Peace Wing (former rebel group which threw in its lot with the Khartoum regim [...] | 2008-04-07 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU KPKO UNSC |
| 08KHARTOUM540 | ABYEI: GOSS-SPONSORED RETURNS UPDATE [...] On April 2, USAID staff visited a reception center in Abyei town that had received approximately 3,000 Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS)-sponsored returnees from Khartoum. According to UN Mission in Sudan Return, Reintegration, and Recovery (UNMIS RRR) staff, the returnees arrived with house [...] | 2008-04-07 14:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM541 | "EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF" - A NYALA SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Discussions with United Nations and local representatives in Nyala, South Darfur, reveal a complex picture of security in this Darfur state, where attacks against humanitarians, intertribal fighting and banditry constitute the main threats to stability. END SUMMARY. TARGETED [...] | 2008-04-08 06:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO KSEC SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM543 | UNMIS GRANTED 14-DAY AUTHORITY TO PATROL OUTSIDE OF ABYEI [...] (U) On April 7, UNMIS Force Commander LTG Jasbiri Singh Lidder announced that both Sudan's National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) have granted UNMIS Authority to patrol freely within the Abyei area for 14 days. Previously, UNMIS had been restricted to th [...] | 2008-04-08 14:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM547 | AEC PLENARY: DISAGREEMENT OVER ABYEI AND CENSUS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) met in plenary session April 8. Highlights included disagreement by the two sides over an Administrator for the Abyei area, and over inclusion of questions on ethnicity and religion in the upcoming census. CDA Fernandez briefed on h [...] | 2008-04-09 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM549 | POSSIBLE SPLM-RIZEIGAT ALLIANCE IN SOUTH DARFUR? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings in Nyala with emboffs on November 7, multiple political leaders reported that the Arab (Baggara) Rizeigat tribe had created an alliance with the SPLM. However, on November 7, the Nazir of the Rizeigat denied any association with the SPLM, scoffing at the idea and [...] | 2008-04-10 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM557 | UPDATE ON NORTH DARFUR SECURITY SITUATION [...] (SBU) Following the shooting in El Fasher's market April 6 perpetrated by Arab janjaweed militia (reftel),armed militia members re-entered the market later that same day and engaged GoS forces there while attempting to loot the Bank of Khartoum. Shots were heard again between 0030-0100 April [...] | 2008-04-10 13:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC |
| 08KHARTOUM559 | SUDANESE LEADERS COMPLAIN ABOUT FOREIGN INFLUENCE [...] (SBU) Speaking at a March 31 to April 1 workshop "Foreign Presence and its impact on National Sudanese Security" organized by the National Assembly Committee on security and Defense, National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Chief Salah Abdullah Muhammad, aka Salah Ghosh, called on the [...] | 2008-04-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM564 | MINAWI ON DIVIDED CHADIAN SUPPORT FOR REBELS, [...] (C) In a wide-ranging conversation on April 12, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi discussed the emergence of two competing streams of Chadian support for Darfur's rebel movements--one led by Dausa Deby and focused on recruiting SLM fighters to augment the URF--and another led by I [...] | 2008-04-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM566 | SURPRISE CENSUS DELAY BY SPLM EXPOSES INTERNAL FISSURES [...] (SBU) Just one day after GoSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit publicly supported the upcoming national census and urged all Southern Sudanese to participate in it, the GoSS Council of Ministers, led by Kiir, voted to unilaterally "postpone" the census in Southern Sudan. GoSS officials cited a la [...] | 2008-04-14 04:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM568 | WE NEED A CEASEFIRE COMMISSION, SAYS FRUSTRATED DPA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 9, three members of SLM-Free Will (SLM-FW) informed emboffs about recent Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) bombings in their areas of control in North Darfur, emphasizing that there is no mechanism for them to report these incidents, since the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) remains [...] | 2008-04-14 06:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM569 | NCP ACCUSES SOUTH OF VIOLENCE AGAINST NORTHERNERS [...] (U) On April 8, several newspapers in Northern Sudan published stories highlighting supposed escalating violence against Muslim Northerners living in the South. GNU Vice President Taha's public remarks about the same issue several days earlier were also widely featured in both the local Northe [...] | 2008-04-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KCRM KPKO SU |
| 08KHARTOUM570 | UNAMID POLICE DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) UNAMID Acting Chief of Police Administration Ralf Gehling told poloff April 8 that the second 140-officer UNAMID Formed Police Unit (FPU),from Nepal, is poised to deploy in late April. The Nepalese FPU, the third non-African UNAMID unit after the Chinese engineers and the Bangladeshi F [...] | 2008-04-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM571 | FFAMC CHAIRMAN UPBEAT ON CPA IMPLEMENTATION AT AEC SESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Mohammed Osman Ibrahim, Chairman of the GOS's Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC),spoke to a special plenary session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) April 10, updating a report he presented last October (REFTEL). Most oil re [...] | 2008-04-14 07:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM574 | RARE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOS, SLA/ABDULWAHID AS FIGHTING [...] (SBU) In a departure from the unofficial ceasefire between the Sudanese Government and the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Abdulwahid, three separate confrontations have erupted between their forces in recent days. The first two rebel attacks occurred in East Jebel Marra on April 9 and 11 and [...] | 2008-04-14 10:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM576 | CHAD: UFDD, FSR'S DIFFERING VIEWS ON NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) This message includes an action request. Please see para. 7. --------------------------------------------- ---------- UFDD: Negotiations with Political Opposition, Observers --------------------------------------------- ---------- 2. (C) In separate conversations, representatives fro [...] | 2008-04-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU CD SU LY |
| 08KHARTOUM578 | U.S. AMBASSADORS FUND FOR CT -- PROPOSAL FOR KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Below is Embassy Khartoum's submission for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Counterterrorism. The proposed project would take place at the Spring Youth Center in Omdurman, the historic capital and working-class hub of the Khartoum metropolitan area. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) BACKG [...] | 2008-04-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS AEMR SU |
| 08KHARTOUM582 | MFA OFFICIAL COUNSELS "TANKS MORE LIKELY THAN [...] (C) In the midst of a wide-ranging discussion on violence in Darfur (reftel A) on April 13, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq, a regime insider and former intelligence officer (and also in charge of the UNAMID deployment file for the GOS),asked CDA Fernandez "why aren' [...] | 2008-04-15 10:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
| 08KHARTOUM591 | UNFPA FIELD OFFICER OPTIMISTIC ON CENSUS [...] (SBU) UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Head of Office in Darfur Dr. Ezizgeldi Hellenov told poloff on April 15 that UNFPA will do its best to conduct the census in Darfur. He said that the one-week delay in conducting the census has left his field offices with two problems: first, making sure questi [...] | 2008-04-16 07:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM610 | UNAMID OFFICER ARRESTED IN NYALA FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of the April 13 arrest without warrant of a UNAMID staff officer for alleged sexual misconduct, and subsequent reports that the South Darfur Wali banned UNAMID soldiers from downtown Nyala, UNAMID tempered its reaction to this apparent SOFA violation to emphasize that [...] | 2008-04-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM614 | JMST BRIEFING FOCUSES ON SECURITY AND CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an April 19 briefing to Khartoum's Ambassadors, Salim Ahmed Salim and Jan Eliasson (the African Union and United Nations Special Envoys for Darfur) stated that their most recent visit to Sudan focused on security concerns. According to Salim and Eliasson, consultations wit [...] | 2008-04-21 08:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM624 | ABYEI UPDATE: UNMIS OBSERVERS ACTIVITIES RESTRICTED BEFORE [...] (SBU) The 14-day period during which UNMIS peacekeepers were permitted to patrol outside of the town of Abyei ended on April 21, without being renewed by Sudan's Joint Military Commission (JMC). The JMC did grant UNMIS specific authority to travel from Abyei town to Higlig in order to meet and [...] | 2008-04-23 12:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM63 | PRESIDENCY TO NAME ADMINISTRATORS FOR ABYEI [...] (SBU) Summary: The Presidency may name an interim administration for Abyei soon despite the fact that borders have yet to be defined, according to NCP negotiator Dirdeiry Mohamed Ahmed. Dirdeiry boasted that the SPLM-NCP relationship has "never been better" following the SPLM's rejoining of th [...] | 2008-01-17 06:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM630 | SOUTHERN KORDOFAN - HUMANITARIAN UPDATE [...] (U) Begin Summary: From April 5 to 15, a USAID/OFDA program officer conducted site visits in Kadugli, Abu Gebeha, Talodi, and Kauda areas in Southern Kordofan State. The USAID/OFDA officer monitored USAID/OFDA-funded programs, particularly in the rural health sector, and met with humanitarian [...] | 2008-04-24 08:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM64 | CLASHES CONTINUE IN WEST DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Heavy clashes in West Darfur continued January 13 - 15, with confirmed GOS aerial attacks on JEM rebel positions. There were also additional reports of Chadian aerial incursions into Sudan. End summary. 2. (SBU) During discussions with poloff January 15, UNAMID contacts confi [...] | 2008-01-17 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KSEC SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM643 | GOSS VP MACHAR ON THE LRA AND THE SPLM [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Riek Machar met with Consul General Datta on the morning of April 23 and engaged in a wide ranging discussion that covered fading hopes for a peace agreement with the LRA and the future of the SPLM and the South. Machar [...] | 2008-04-25 11:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM644 | JANJAWEED FIGHTING CONTINUES INSIDE EL FASHER [...] (SBU) In yet another example of the clashes between Government of Sudan (GoS) military forces and unruly janjaweed elements that have been plaguing El Fasher for almost one month, on April 21 at approximately 2300 a truck of GoS Special Forces officers was stopped at a checkpoint in east El Fas [...] | 2008-04-25 11:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC |
| 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM647 | GOSS REGIONAL AFFAIRS UNDERSCRETARY ON SPLM POLITITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. In a wide ranging conversation April 25, the Undersecretary of the GoSS Ministry of Regional Cooperation said that the Council of Minister's vote to delay the census in the South reflected South Sudan's internal ethnic anxieties, that it is unclear whether President Kiir will r [...] | 2008-04-28 12:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI KCRM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM648 | DETERMINED UNHCR ENGAGES EXIGENT GNU [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent meetings between USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) officials and USAID/OFDA partner U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) officials in Khartoum and Nyala reveal that the Government of National Unity (GNU) has methodically challenged UNHCR in it [...] | 2008-04-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM653 | CLASHES CONTINUE ALONG NORTH-SOUTH BORDER, COURT CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. Violent clashes continue to flare along Sudan's north-south boundary, centering on the Abyei region. On April 25, a skirmish between SPLA troops and a pro-NCP tribal force left a reported 20 casualties. On April 28, a murder in the town of Kharsana escalated into a battle tha [...] | 2008-04-29 15:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM654 | WFP TO REDUCE DARFUR FOOD AID RATIONS IN MAY [...] (U) On April 14, the UN World Food Program (WFP) informed key donors that in May it would be forced to nearly halve the general food aid ration distributed in Darfur, due to ongoing banditry against contracted commercial vehicles resulting in decreased commodity dispatches. WFP issued a press [...] | 2008-04-29 16:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM666 | CHAD: ERDIMI BLAMES STALLED TALKS ON CHAD, LIBYA [...] (C) RFC leader Timan Erdimi says that the talks in Tripoli between his movement and Chadian representatives have stalled because of Deby's lack of sincerity to participate in real political dialogue and Libya's pro-Deby bias. Though some RFC representatives remain in Libya to signify Erdimi's [...] | 2008-05-01 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SU CD LY |
| 08KHARTOUM667 | RESPONSE: CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) China's engagement in Sudan centers on the pursuit of its economic interests, particularly oil, and these interests underpin its relationship with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). China's engagement on the political issues related to the conflict in Darfur or tensions between N [...] | 2008-05-01 14:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR SU CH XA XE |
| 08KHARTOUM668 | SUDAN RELEASES NEC CONTAINERS, APPROVES ARMING [...] (C) The GOS has begun releasing long-delayed NEC containers and also approved the US Embassy's request to arm its local guard force, as long as the guards "remain inside Embassy premises," MFA U/S Mutrif Siddiq told CDA Fernandez and polchief April 30 (first containers with in Embassy hands on [...] | 2008-05-01 15:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM67 | KORDOFAN REBEL GROUP MERGES WITH JEM [...] (U) SUMMARY: A new Kordofan rebel group led by a well-known former brigadier general in the Sudanese Armed Forces, Ibrahim Abu Rannat, has recently merged with the Justice and Equality Movement. This unification with "The Sons of Kordofan Alliance" (SKA) supports JEM's goal of spreading the Dar [...] | 2008-01-17 14:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KSEC PHUM ECON SU |
| 08KHARTOUM671 | AEC PLENARY OF MAY 1, 2008 [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 31st ordinary plenary session of the AEC was held May 1, 2008. The two sides (SPLM and NCP) sparred over recent incidents around Abyei, while CDA Fernandez stressed the need to grant UNMIS forces freedom of movement in the Abyei area to reduce tensions (an expression support [...] | 2008-05-02 10:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM672 | INCONSISTENCIES FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE HIS UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai lamented in a May 2 conversation with FieldOff that "inconsistencies are forcing me to change my priorities" with regard to UNAMID deployment, as articulated reftel. The most damaging of these inc [...] | 2008-05-04 04:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM680 | SOUTH DARFUR FIGHTING TAKES NEW TURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A traditional rivalry between two clans in South Darfur erupted in Sheiria, South Darfur, on April 30, with the introduction of mortars into fighting between the sides in an IDP camp. UNAMID leadership acknowledges this is the first time it has heard of use of this type of weapo [...] | 2008-05-05 07:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM683 | INCONSISTENCIES FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE HIS UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai lamented in a May 2 conversation with FieldOff that "inconsistencies are forcing me to change my priorities" with regard to UNAMID deployment, as articulated reftel. The most damaging of these inc [...] | 2008-05-05 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM69 | UNAMID OFFICIAL SAYS GOS NEITHER HELPING NOR HARMING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a January 15 conversation with FieldOff, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Chief of Integrated Support Services (CISS) did not paint a picture of outright Government of Sudan (GoS) obstructionism to UNAMID deployment. Instead, the CISS reported that the G [...] | 2008-01-17 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM691 | GOS BOMBINGS IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The last week of April and first week of May witnessed a spate of Government of Sudan (GoS) bombings in remote parts of North Darfur against rebel positions. Civilians have been the primary victims, sounding alarm bells for the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNA [...] | 2008-05-05 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM704 | IDPS FACE CHALLENGES ON ISSUE OF RETURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The issue of whether to remain in camps or return to their homelands is one that internally displaced persons (IDPs) continue to struggle with as the conflict in Darfur stretches into its fifth year. Fresh displacements highlight the dangers of returning too soon, however even h [...] | 2008-05-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM705 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REFUTES GOS IDP RETURN CLAIMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Recent local radio reports, based on a statement attributed to the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) office in El Fasher, stated that as many as 4000 internally displaced persons in North Darfur were voluntarily returning to their villages. Separately, the North Darfur HAC commis [...] | 2008-05-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM710 | SUDAN WARNS OF JEM RAID ON KHARTOUM, ASKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) In a call to CDA Fernandez late on May 8 and during a hastily convened diplomatic corps briefing on May 9, Sudan warned of an advance of JEM rebel forces deep into Sudanese territory, including a possible attack on a suburb of Khartoum within days. The Government also made a public statem [...] | 2008-05-09 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM713 | CHAD: AWAITING CONTACT FROM DEBY, NOURI sEEKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV SU CD LY SA |
| 08KHARTOUM716 | JEM REBELS ATTACK OMDURMAN, ALMOST REACH KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) JEM rebels attacked the sprawling Khartoum suburb of Omdurman May 10 and advanced within sight of one of the bridges leading to Khartoum. Although Sudanese Government forces prevented the rebels from crossing the Nile into the capital, JEM claims that it will launch another attack on the [...] | 2008-05-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM718 | NCP "AFRAID OF ITSELF" IN JEM INCURSION INTRIGUE [...] (SBU) The day of the JEM attack on Omdurman May 10, on the margins of party discussions in preparation for the second SPLM General Conference, CDA Fernandez caught up with party leaders to discuss fears and intrigue in Khartoum caused by reports of the (then rumored) attack by the Justice and E [...] | 2008-05-12 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM719 | UNAMID POLICE LACK CRITICAL RESOUCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID civilian police (CIVPOL) leadership have identified deficiencies in their programs such as the need for a greater police presence in IDP camps, additional female officers from Police Contributing Countries (PCC),and additional senior police officers with more experience. [...] | 2008-05-12 08:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM721 | SPLA COS ON INTRA-SPLM TENSIONS AND RELATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez and Acting CG met with SPLA Chief of Staff LTG Oyai Deng Ajak on May 9. They discussed recent Misseriya/SPLA tensions within Sudan's oil-field region along the 1956 border, SPLA difficulties integrating a sometimes fickle Misseriya force, and Unity's State Governor Taban De [...] | 2008-05-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM722 | RESPONDING MORE EFFECTIVELY ON SOFA VIOLATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Responding to reports of GOS aerial bombardments in North Darfur (ref A),the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) opened investigations into the attacks on Um Sidir, Shegag Karo and Ein Bissaro. Although these investigations are ongoing, initial reports confirm that the attacks did occur [...] | 2008-05-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO AU SU ASEC CD UNSC |
| 08KHARTOUM724 | SUDAN'S NSC DISCUSSES JEM ATTACK AS ARRESTS [...] (S/NF) In the aftermath of the JEM attack on Omdurman (reftels) Sudan's National Security Council pledged to "react" to Chadian aggression, neutralize the "fifth column" that supported the rebels, and exploit the opportunity to enhance Sudan's international image, Senior Assistant to the Presi [...] | 2008-05-12 12:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM725 | UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Following the bold JEM raid on Omdurman May 10, the situation in Khartoum appears to have normalized as of May 13. There were numerous military police check points in downtown Khartoum May 11 and 12 in neighborhoods with sensitive government buildings and major roads and arteries. The Go [...] | 2008-05-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU AMGT ASEC CASC |
| 08KHARTOUM726 | CHAD: NATIONAL ALLIANCE POSITION UNCHANGED BY [...] (C) The main Chadian rebel factions have not changed their strategy as a result of the Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) May 10 brazen assault on Omdurman, National Alliance (AN) Secretary General Abakar Tolli told Poloff in a May 12 meeting. The AN--composed of the Union des Forces du De [...] | 2008-05-13 12:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD SU |
| 08KHARTOUM727 | SUDANESE MFA BRIEFS KHARTOUM DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 13 at 11:00 A.M. (local time) Mutriff Sadiq, the Undersecretary at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by a Sudanese Army General, briefed Khartoum's Ambassadors on the Justice and Equality Movement's attack on Omdurman, across the Nile from the Sudanese c [...] | 2008-05-13 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM729 | SPLM'S SHIFTING RESPONSE TO JEM ATTACK [...] (SBU) The SPLM's reaction to the May 10 JEM attack on Omdurman has shifted from private glee to deep concern. Any admiration for JEM's ability to achieve what eluded the SPLA during 21 years of war with Northern Sudan Party has been muted by fears of a National Congress Party (NCP) backlash ag [...] | 2008-05-13 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD |
| 08KHARTOUM732 | MAY 14 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND [...] (SBU) There are reports of continued, sporadic firing in Omdurman during the night of May 13-14 and the Nile bridge connecting Omdurman with Khartoum-proper was closed briefly, but Khartoum remains generally calm four days after the May 10 JEM raid. Armed police and SAF continue to patrol the [...] | 2008-05-14 12:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU CD AMGT ASEC CASC |
| 08KHARTOUM737 | HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN SPLA AND SAF IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) Summary: Heavy fighting has broken out and continues between SPLA and SAF forces in the town of Abyei, despite UNMIS efforts to broker a ceasefire. With both the NCP and SPLM distracted by other crises, the UN is concerned that the situation could deteriorate further if the fighting sp [...] | 2008-05-14 16:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
| 08KHARTOUM739 | PAULINO MATIEP ON SPLM POLITICS AND THE SPLA [...] (SBU) Deputy Commander in Chief for the SPLA and ex-SSDF Commander Paulino Matiep claims that his involvement in the SPLM Unity State Congress fallout has been overstated. In a May 13 conversation with Acting CG, the aging Nuer military strategist was emphatic that rumors linking him with GOSS [...] | 2008-05-15 10:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM MARR MOPS SU |
| 08KHARTOUM740 | PAGAN AMUN THREATENS TO LEAVE GNU CABINET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GNU Cabinet Affairs Minister and SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amun cited irreconcilable differences with SPLM Chairman and First Vice President of Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit as his justification for why he intends to leave the Government of National Unity (GNU) and join his wife [...] | 2008-05-15 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM741 | SPLM PROPOSES FM ALOR VISIT PARIS TO DISCUSS JEM/CHAD, SPLA [...] (SBU) GNU Foreign Minister Deng Alor told poloffs in Juba May 14 that President Bashir may send him to Paris possibly as soon as next week to discuss Chad and its support for JEM with the French. Alor asked poloffs to "pass this information to your people in Khartoum and Washington." FM Alor [...] | 2008-05-15 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM745 | ABYEI UPDATE: FIGHTING SUBSIDES, BUT HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between SAF and SPLA (reftel) subsided on May 15 and late in the day the sides agreed to a mutual withdrawal. Casualty numbers from May 13-14 fighting are unknown, but the town reportedly sustained heavy damage and the UN estimates that as many as 30,000 people (virtu [...] | 2008-05-15 17:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
| 08KHARTOUM747 | DRAFT SPLM CONSTITUTION SETS STAGE FOR CONVENTION DYNAMICS [...] (SBU) The SPLM's 119-member Interim National Council (INC) held its final session May 12-13 in a marathon push to finalize transformative foundational documents for the SPLM on the eve of the party's second national convention. Before its dissolution (the INC will be replaced by a 250-member Na [...] | 2008-05-16 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM748 | UNDERCOUNTING, INTIMIDATION MAR DARFUR CENSUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With the census officially completed, international organizations are taking stock of census results. While UNAMID, with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),is preparing a detailed analysis of the exercise and expected results, preliminary observations indica [...] | 2008-05-16 11:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM749 | TAWILA INCIDENT AS UNAMID TEST CASE IN PROTECTION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Violence in Tawila, North Darfur on May 12, threatens to create a humanitarian crisis if left unchecked and unaddressed by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). An interagency UNAMID team plans to travel to the region on May 15 to do an assessment and to m [...] | 2008-05-16 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM762 | MAY 18 ABYEI UPDATE: SPORADIC FIGHTING AMIDST EFFORTS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The situation in Abyei remained quiet as of mid-day May 18, after renewed fighting on May 16-17. SAF remains in the town, despite a UN-brokered mutual withdrawal agreement with the SPLA "police forces," which departed the town May 17. The Ceasefire Joint Monitoring Commission [...] | 2008-05-19 04:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
| 08KHARTOUM763 | DARFUR HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Recent bombings targeting civilians in rebel-held areas of North Darfur have accompanied a deteriorating human rights situation throughout the region. Human rights advocates have also noted an increase in the incidence of rape, as well as domestic violence, often taking place in [...] | 2008-05-19 05:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM764 | MINAWI SAYS KHALIL IBRAHIM STRONGER AFTER OMDURMAN [...] (C) Summary: JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim is stronger as a result of the attack on Omdurman, despite the short-term loss of fighters and vehicles, according to SLM leader and Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi. Minawi believes an attack on Chad is imminent, despite comments from other [...] | 2008-05-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 08KHARTOUM772 | SPLM TAKES THE HIGH ROAD IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SPLM is using the current humanitarian and security crisis in Aryei town"tk highlighd NCQ intrajsigefce"of thQJAbiai kssue"ane pmucD gvrnbu3t$~dg^qsvQh4 eQu)ktfb&'bl$XalQ ibmtneIa.aAa%jQjnQwxo 'cYb@,aQhd]cm"~7Qkdf.oth+,sFQ_px(hV\Q^"G"ldtr ies to respond to the humanitarian cri [...] | 2008-05-19 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SU |
| 08KHARTOUM773 | SPLM NATIONAL CONVENTION: THE ROLLER COASTER CONTINUES [...] (SBU) The SPLM National Convention recessed abruptly on May 17 to allow for a six-hour extraordinary session of the Interim National Council. The future of Dr. Riek Machar - and the embattled GOSS Vice President's legacy of untrustworthiness and brutality within the South - brought decisions o [...] | 2008-05-19 15:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM775 | MFA INFORMS OF SPLA "SURPRISE ATTACK" IN ABYEI, [...] (C) MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq called in CDA Fernandez on May 20 to inform him of military escalation in the contested region of Abyei by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) after a purported compromise had been achieved on May 18. Siddiq said that SPLA units armed with heavy wea [...] | 2008-05-20 10:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM777 | AEC CHAIRMAN TO CONVENE AEC PLENARY IN JUBA TO ADDRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After consulting with AEC Coordinators May 20, AEC Chairman Derek Plumbly said he would convene a special plenary session of the Commission in Juba May 22 to address the recent outbreak of fighting in Abyei. A previously-planned trip by the AEC to the troubled region is not fea [...] | 2008-05-20 13:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM779 | JEM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After days of relative silence, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim contacted FieldOff to accept the Special Envoy's proposal for a meeting in Ndjamena May 29. Khalil made clear that "Darfur is not the goal," but that regime change in Khartoum remains not [...] | 2008-05-20 14:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU CD UNSC |
| 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM783 | ARAB REBEL LEADER PROMISES MORE ATTACKS ON GOS [...] (C) SUMMARY On May 19 and 20, Anwar Ahmed Khater, the leader of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) (and "Darfur's emerging Arab leader" according to one Darfur expert),told poloff that Chadian officials and JEM leaders attempted to recruit his Arab rebel movement prior to JEM's May 10 a [...] | 2008-05-21 11:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
| 08KHARTOUM786 | ABYEI REMAINS QUIET MAY 21, BUT TEMPERS REMAIN RAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Abyei is reported to be relatively quiet but tense on May 21. Based on confirmed information, any of the previously reported accounts from both the SAF and the SPLA on how the most recent fighting started remain plausible. In speeches on May 20 and May 21, GoSS President Kiir [...] | 2008-05-21 13:24:00 | 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM788 | HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FOLLOWING REBEL ACTION IN KHARTOUM [...] (U) Summary: Following last week's armed engagements in Omdurman between JEM and the GOS forces, Sudanese authorities have begun a widespread campaign of random arrests, detainee torture and newspaper censorship. While many have been released, 150 individuals remain under arrest, and one newsp [...] | 2008-05-21 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM789 | WFP REPORTS THAT DARFUR CONVOYS ARE MOVING [...] (SBU) WFP food convoys to Darfur are now moving in greater numbers thanks to a new contract signed with the trucking companies, WFP Representative Kenro Oshidari told polchief May 21. The contract increases substantially the rate provided to the companies, and imposes a penalty for non-deliver [...] | 2008-05-21 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM793 | TDRA IN NEED OF REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) created the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) and the six commissions tasked with implementing the various components of the agreement. In general, the commissions are plagued by poor administration and weak leadership, and characteri [...] | 2008-05-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM796 | MAY 21 ABYEI TIDBITS [...] (SBU) With the exception of sporadic, possibly random, firing, Abyei is reported to have been quiet for the previous 24 hours as of early May 24. Contrary to previous reports (reftel),according to the SPLA the bridge over the Kiir River remains intact, although supposedly two aerial bombs fe [...] | 2008-05-22 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID 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 |
| 08KHARTOUM806 | AEC EXTRAORDINARY PLENARY ADDRESSES ABYEI: SPLM LEADERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held an extraordinary plenary session May 25 to address recent violence in Abyei, a situation that all agreed is a "crisis." Members of the international community joined AEC Chairman Derek Plumbly in pressing the two parties to exer [...] | 2008-05-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM807 | USAID ASSESSMENT OF ABYEI IDPS IN AGOK [...] Begin Summary: On May 24, a USAID team including officers from USAID's Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) and Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) conducted a one-day assessment of the humanitarian situation in and around Agok in southern Abyei Area. The Agok area is curr [...] | 2008-05-27 07:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 08KHARTOUM816 | NORTH DARFUR ATTACKS APPEAR TO TARGET SLA/MM [...] (SBU) A spate of attacks in North Darfur has resulted in the deaths of at least 13 Sudanese Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/MM) rebels in the last week. According to UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS),fighting erupted on May 20 in Kafoud between SLA/MM and SLA/Free Will (SLA/FW),[...] | 2008-05-28 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID MOPS KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM817 | TDRA IN NEED OF REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) created the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) and the six commissions tasked with implementing the various components of the agreement. In general, the commissions are plagued by poor administration and weak leadership, and characteri [...] | 2008-05-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM821 | DARFUR PLANNED COMPENSATION SCHEME FAULTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Compensation is the number one issue raised by virtually every segment of society in Darfur. To implement components of the Agreement dealing with reparations and compensation, the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) established the Darfur Compensation Commission (DCC). Although it w [...] | 2008-06-01 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM822 | AEC VISITS DEVASTATED ABYEI TOWN AND REFUGEES [...] (U) Summary: An Assessment and Evaluation Committee (AEC) delegation visited Abyei and associated refugee sites May 28 to view the effects of recent fighting between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) units in that town. Abyei is now completely under the contro [...] | 2008-06-01 13:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM840 | UNAMID CHIEF OF STAFF LEAVES MISSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After months of uncertainty about his possible PNG-ing, UNAMID Chief of Staff Patrick Davidson-Houston left the Mission on May 27, lamenting that he "left much undone." The majority of UNAMID officials acknowledge that Davidson-Houston's departure is a blow to the Mission, and no [...] | 2008-06-05 09:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU ER ET UNSC |
| 08KHARTOUM842 | S/E WILLIAMSON MEETS WITH NYALA WOMEN AND CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a May 31 meeting, Nyala women and civil society leaders told U.S. Presidential Special Envoy Richard Williamson that delays in implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) were disproportionately impacting women and children. They detailed training they had undertaken in [...] | 2008-06-05 09:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM846 | MEDIA REACTION: WHAT'S NEXT FOR U.S.-SUDAN TALKS? [...] Several local newspaper commentators added their voices to the debate surrounding the U.S. role in trying to help the Sudanese political class resolve the country's internal conflicts - Darfur and the North/South dispute over the oil-rich Abyei region. Meanwhile, the local press increasingly tu [...] | 2008-06-05 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO OIIP SU |
| 08KHARTOUM847 | DARFUR STUDENTS BEATEN AND DORMITORIES DESTROYED FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to eyewitnesses and participants, Sudanese security services violently broke up a Darfuri student protest at Khartoum University on June 5. Security forces beat the protestors with iron bars, threw several Molotov cocktails into the crowd, and fired handguns into the [...] | 2008-06-08 05:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PREF SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM85 | AT LONG LAST CHINESE AND BANGLADESHI UNITS DEPLOY [...] (SBU) Despite a 24-hour delay from their projected January 20 deployment date, the Chinese engineering unit and the Bangladeshi-formed police unit (FPU) of the United Nations Heavy Support Package (HSP) of assistance to the African Union Mission in the Sudan finally left their base in Nyala to [...] | 2008-01-22 09:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM851 | SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH SENIOR SPLM IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy Richard Williamson met with the senior leadership of the SPLM in Khartoum on May 31 to discuss progress on the implementation of the CPA, the crisis in Abyei, and the need for better coordination between the SPLM and the United States in dealing with the National C [...] | 2008-06-08 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM857 | DARFUR ZAGHAWA PREDICT ANOTHER REBEL ATTACK ON KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While El Fasher Zaghawa report that they have not experienced increased harassment or threats against them since the May 10 attack on Omdurman, they claim that Khartoum-based Zaghawa still are targeted for arbitrary abuse. Despite the repercussions, local Zaghawa civilians supp [...] | 2008-06-09 11:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM MOPS KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM859 | NCP AND SPLM SIGN ABYEI ACCORD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of June 8, with great fanfare before an assembled audience of media and diplomatic community representatives, President of the Government of National Unity (GoNU) Omar Bashir and First Vice President Salva Kiir announced the completion of a new road map agreement [...] | 2008-06-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
| 08KHARTOUM86 | OPPOSITION LEADERS IN NORTHERN STATE DISCUSS NEW GOVERNOR, [...] (U) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with econoff on January 17 and 21, leaders of the Kush Movement for Democracy and the Dal Dams Committee criticized Northern State's newly appointed governor. Contacts complained that the new governor is an outsider unfamiliar with northern issues, that he wa [...] | 2008-01-22 09:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
| 08KHARTOUM863 | UNMIS CONSIDERS MANDATE SHIFT IN WAKE OF LRA VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a succession of highly visible, high casualty LRA attacks in Southern Sudan, UN officials are discussing a temporary shift of UNMIS's peacekeeping mandate from Chapter Six to Chapter Seven. UNMIS Sector One officials, sensitive to criticism leveled against their Sector [...] | 2008-06-10 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC SU UG |
| 08KHARTOUM866 | MASS ARRESTS, TORTURE THREATEN DARFURIS IN KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the May 10 JEM attacks on Omdurman, there are reliable reports that the GoS has detained and tortured thousands of Darfuris living in Khartoum. Sudanese civil society is scrambling to document the names of the detainees, and Sudanese opposition has formed the "May 10 [...] | 2008-06-10 14:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
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