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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 AL-1 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 [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE 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 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| 07CHENGDU100 | LOCAL RELIGIOUS FIGURES ON ISLAMIC RESURGENCE IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Summary: During a series of informal discussions in southern Yunnan Province along China's borders with Vietnam and Laos, local Muslim leaders described with pride the resurgence of Islam in their communities. A recently-completed mosque and religious training school in Najiaying has attr [...] | 2007-04-12 06:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF CH |
| 07CHENGDU14 | ON THE ROAD THROUGH SICHUAN'S ABA PREFECTURE [...] (C) Summary. During a recent unofficial visit by Congenoff to Sichuan's Aba Prefecture (an ethnic Tibetan area),head monks at two temples complained of heavy-handed oversight by the Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB),and police and military presences were heavy. Although the prefecture seat of [...] | 2007-01-11 08:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM SCUL SENV CH |
| 07CHENGDU203 | PRESENTING CHENGDU'S COLORFUL FIRST PAKISTANI CONSUL [...] (C) Summary: Recently arrived to assume his duties in Chengdu, Pakistan's first consul general to southwest China may have been picked for his current assignment due to his experience in Burma and military background. The JF-17 fighter aircraft jointly developed and produced by China and Paki [...] | 2007-08-03 01:01:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MASS PK CH |
| 07CHENGDU206 | VIOLENCE FLARES ANOTHER YEAR AT LOCAL TIBETAN FESTIVAL [...] (C) Summary. Protests and arrests again marked the opening of a popular festival in Litang in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture, with tensions between ethnic Tibetans and Han Chinese reportedly high. Travelers, local contacts, and the media also report sporadic violent incidents in other ar [...] | 2007-08-03 06:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU290 | ALONG THE CHINA-BURMA BORDER: WWII, DRUGS, HIV, AND JADE [...] (C) Summary: Common ethnic linkages, villages that hug or even straddle the border, a visa-free regime for local residents, spotty security controls, and corruption appear to facilitate a wide-open atmosphere in areas along China's border with Burma. One stretch of road outside the Chinese po [...] | 2007-12-12 09:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV SOCI SNAR CH |
| 07CHENGDU35 | CHONGQING ATTORNEY'S FIGHT FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent discussion with us on the challenges he faces trying to advocate for the rights of migrant workers, former People's Liberation Army soldier and Chongqing attorney Zhou Litai stressed that economic and political realities are putting the viability of his law firm [...] | 2007-02-02 07:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM CH |
| 07CHENNAI143 | TAMIL TIGERS' ARMS SMUGGLING ON THE UPSWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Smuggling of arms and bomb-making materials by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam between the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka appears to be on the rise. Indian authorities seized three vessels last week carrying arms and bomb-making material. Most troublingly, one [...] | 2007-02-22 11:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN CE |
| 07CHENNAI198 | LTTE SMUGGLING AND ONGOING FISHERIES DISPUTE RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent upswing in smuggling by Tamil Tigers has combined with an ongoing fisheries dispute to mobilize anti-Sri Lanka sentiment in Tamil Nadu. Possibly in an effort to tamp down on smuggling by the Tigers, the Sri Lankan Navy has allegedly fired on Indian fishing vessels re [...] | 2007-03-15 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIS IN CE |
| 07CHENNAI412 | SUSPECTED CHIKUNGUNYA INFECTION HAUNTS KERALA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The southern Indian state of Kerala has been gripped by an outbreak of suspected chikungunya infection - a debilitating but non-fatal mosquito-borne viral illness that is not transmitted from human-to-human. With media reports of thousands of people hospitalized in Kerala, nea [...] | 2007-06-18 10:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI TBIO PGOV CASC IN |
| 07CHENNAI605 | RELIGIOUS MONKEY BUSINESS ROILS INDIAN WATERS, POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political tempers have flared in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu as a canal project off the state's coast has turned into an unlikely source of political and religious controversy. The long-proposed Sethusamudram project will dredge a passage through the Palk Strait be [...] | 2007-09-28 09:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI654 | TRICKLE OF SRI LANKAN REFUGEES TO INDIA COULD BECOME FLOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The flow of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has steadily declined to less than 200 a month. But the situation could quickly reverse itself: our contacts say that up to 50,000 refugees could arrive in India within a few months if war breaks out [...] | 2007-10-26 03:26:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI83 | ANDHRA PRADESH: MAOIST REVERSES ... BUT WILL THEY LAST? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With effect from mid-January 2007, The Communist Party of India Maoist (CPI-Maoist),also known as Naxalites, says it has suspended major activities in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The move comes after several months of Maoist setbacks in the state, including killings of several party l [...] | 2007-02-01 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
| 07CHIANGMAI101 | ANOTHER SHAN REFUGEE SETTLEMENT CAUGHT IN NO-MAN'S LAND [...] (U) Human rights organizations have protested that a Royal Thai Army unit last month forced villagers fleeing unrest in Shan State to move from a settlement within sight of the Thai border to a location further inside Burma. Several Shan NGOs based in northern Thailand wrote to Thai Prime Minis [...] | 2007-06-06 09:18:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PINS PGOV TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI114 | PROXY POLITICS AT PLAY IN CHIANG MAI MAYORAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: Although seven candidates are on the ballot for Chiang Mai's mayoral election on Sunday, the ostensibly non-partisan race is boiling down to how well Thai Rak Thai (TRT) proxies will do against opposition from the military and other anti-Thaksin elements. The outcome and contro [...] | 2007-06-21 07:57:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI124 | ARREST OF ANTI-COUP ACTIVISTS RAISES PROFILE OF POLITICAL [...] (U) The July 6 arrest in Chiang Rai of an anti-coup activist provided pro-democracy campaigners new fuel to attack the Council for National Security (CNS) and the continued use of martial law in 35 provinces. 2. (U) Sombat Boonngarm-anong, a member of the Democratic Alliance Against Dict [...] | 2007-07-10 09:21:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM OEXC TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI126 | THAI RAK THAI TESTS STRENGTH IN THE NORTH [...] Summary. A July 11 rally in Lamphun province against the draft constitution appeared aimed at testing the popularity of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party in provincial areas. With over 50 TRT former Members of Parliament in attendance, the party als [...] | 2007-07-12 10:52:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI143 | GOVERNOR'S PROMOTION SENDS INTERESTING SIGNALS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Chiang Mai Governor Vichai Srikwan's recent promotion to head an important election administration body has caught many observers by surprise. Some of Vichai's Interior Ministry colleagues are reportedly grumbling that he is a bit junior for the job. They, and the press, attribute his [...] | 2007-08-31 03:05:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI151 | NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES: NEW ARRIVALS OUTSTRIP RESETTLEMENT [...] (C) Over 1,400 North Korean refugees are expected to cross into Thailand during 2007, according to projections by officials in Northern Thailand. This flow is outstripping the pace of resettlement of the refugees in South Korea and elsewhere, and worsening crowding conditions in Thailand's im [...] | 2007-09-14 07:49:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL KN KS CH TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI156 | NORTHERN THAI ACTIVISTS PREDICT CRACKDOWN IN BURMA [...] (C) A violent government crackdown against ongoing protests in Burma is the likeliest scenario seen by northern Thai-based activists and NGOs who met with CG and visiting Thailand Desk Officer September 25. As a first step, they anticipate the GOB will attempt to cut off protestors' communica [...] | 2007-09-26 11:40:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM MARR MOPS TH BM CH IN |
| 07CHIANGMAI157 | BURMESE ARMY MUTINIES REPORTED [...] (C) Three Burmese Army divisions have reportedly refused to carry out orders from army central command to fire on demonstrators, according to several northern Thailand-based sources. These units are: -- the 33rd Division, based in Meiktila (near Mandalay); -- the Mandalay Division comman [...] | 2007-09-28 10:03:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM MARR MOPS TH BM LA |
| 07CHIANGMAI169 | BURMA ACTIVISTS CITE NEED TO "CREATE SPACE" FOR [...] (C) The outside world needs to create space for pro-democracy forces inside Burma to recover and rise up again, visiting DCM was told by Chiang Mai-based Burma activists. Specifically, high-level personal diplomacy must maintain pressure on regime leaders to ease the brutal crackdown, and con [...] | 2007-10-19 11:59:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR ECON BM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI173 | THAI ARMY PROVIDES GLIMPSE ACROSS BURMESE BORDER [...] (C) A recent visit with a Thai military unit on the Burmese border showed business as usual. An uneasy truce holds among Burmese troops and two armed ethnic groups in the area. Thai drug interdiction efforts there have reportedly had success locally, but have only diverted the Burma-based tr [...] | 2007-10-26 09:58:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PREF BM TH SNAR |
| 07CHIANGMAI179 | MAE SOT: REFUGEES BEMOAN BURMESE EXILES; HUMANITARIAN NEEDS [...] (C) Political infighting among the exiles in Thailand came as a surprise to recent arrivals fleeing the violent crackdown in Burma. The number of Burmese crossing into Thailand since the regime cracked down on demonstrations in September remains steady, but several contacts pointed to signs t [...] | 2007-11-14 10:41:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM BM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI182 | THAKSIN LOYALISTS POISED TO RECAPTURE NORTH [...] (SBU) The pro-Thaksin People's Power Party (PPP) is expected to win 55 to 65 of the 77 constituency seats up for grabs in northern Thailand, observers report. This would be less than the 71 constituent seats swept by the former Prime Minister's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party in the 2005 election [...] | 2007-11-15 07:42:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI188 | FREE BURMA RANGERS: PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; NOT [...] (C) The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) provide humanitarian assistance and do not funnel weapons to armed groups that oppose the Burmese regime, FBR contacts told us in separate meetings on November 6 and 7. FBR's main mission is to provide assistance to civilians in conflict areas, they emphasized [...] | 2007-11-26 09:22:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM MOPS BM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI192 | OPPONENTS TAKE AIM AT PRO-THAKSIN FRONT-RUNNER [...] (SBU) Competing political parties are trying to make inroads in northern Thailand, a stronghold of former Prime Minister Thaksin and the pro-Thaksin People's Power Party (PPP). The opposing parties believe PPP, lacking the advantages of incumbency and under close scrutiny by election authorit [...] | 2007-12-04 10:33:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI200 | LOCAL MOI OFFICIAL ADMITS RAIDS IN CHIANG RAI TARGET PPP AND [...] (C) Raids in Chiang Rai Province in October and November by military and police officials targeted "old power" and vote buying, Association of Kamnan (local government leaders) and Village Heads of Northern Thailand President Inwan Bangnguen told Consulate staff on a Dec. 5 trip to Chiang Rai. [...] | 2007-12-18 04:05:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PINS TH LA CH |
| 07CHIANGMAI202 | ELECTION COMMISSIONS: A TALE OF TWO PROVINCES [...] (C) At provincial Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) offices in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai Provinces, we heard two very different assessments of the road ahead leading up to the election on December 23 and its aftermath. While the Chiang Rai ECT's most pressing concern is natural disasters t [...] | 2007-12-21 08:09:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI203 | BURMESE ARMY POSSIBLY PREPARING FOR KAREN STATE OFFENSIVE [...] (C) The Burma Army (BA) is deploying more soldiers than usual to Karen State in possible preparation for a new offensive, according to Free Burma Rangers (FBR) and Karen National Union (KNU) contacts. Normally, the BA maintains a 40-50-battalion strong presence in the area with new units rotat [...] | 2007-12-28 04:46:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PREL PREF BM TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI22 | KNU RIFT WIDENS [...] (U) Summary: A growing split among leaders of the Karen resistance to the Burmese military government has broken into the open in the wake of the Dec. 26 funeral of long-time Karen National Union (KNU) leader Bo Mya. Thai observers are concerned that the dispute will further weaken the KNU [...] | 2007-02-05 10:28:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI33 | AN OVERVIEW OF NORTHERN THAILAND-BASED BURMESE MEDIA [...] SUMMARY. Increasing numbers of Burma-centric media organizations operate out of Chiang Mai, creating a dynamic community of exile journalists that produces a diverse and relatively reliable stream of information for Burma watchers both inside Burma and living abroad. Shut out from Burma by [...] | 2007-02-14 11:26:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECPS KPAO OIIP TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI35 | REQUIEM FOR A GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Dec. 26 funeral of former Karen National Union (KNU) leader Gen. Bo Mya provided a stage for some of the alliances and shifting relationships that characterize the longest-running resistance to the Burmese regime. Attendees included most elements of the Karen resistance [...] | 2007-02-16 10:11:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS TH BM PGOV |
| 07CHIANGMAI4 | PLANS FOR SALWEEN DAMS MOVE AHEAD DESPITE OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: NGOs, academics and former senators opposed to the building of dams along the Salween River predict the project will bring dire human rights, environmental and cultural disruption to the region. However, the post-coup Thai regime is sticking to the course set by the government of [...] | 2007-01-10 10:07:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PGOV PHUM BM CH TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI46 | SHAN MILITIA LEADER REACHES OUT TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Leaders of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) have invited Consulate General staff and other members of the international community in northern Thailand to visit Shan villages on the Thai-Burma border, seeking to draw attention to huma [...] | 2007-03-13 01:25:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | SECRET | PREL PHUM SNAR TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI63 | TENSIONS ON THAI-BURMA FRONTIER LEAD TO BORDER CLOSINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Tensions have increased along the Thai-Burma border over the past few weeks, leading to the closure of most border crossings. Likely causes for the tensions include a renewed Burma Army offensive in the Karen State and a handful of altercations involving military and police forces [...] | 2007-04-03 11:45:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI66 | BORDER FIGHTING HEATS UP AFTER KNU SPLIT [...] (C/NF) Summary. Shaken by a recent split in its ranks, the Karen National Union (KNU) took more battering this week, as soldiers allied with former KNU 7th Brigade Commander Htain Maung joined State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces in an atta [...] | 2007-04-10 09:57:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | SECRET | PREL PINS TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI68 | MILITARY SOURCES EXPRESS CONFIDENCE IN POLITICAL CONTROL [...] (SBU) Summary. While keeping a close watch for any Thai Rak Thai (TRT) resurgence, military officers in the northern region are confident that the new constitution will pass in a public referendum and the TRT party will be disbanded. Former northern army head Gen Saprang Kalayanamitra, now [...] | 2007-04-12 08:26:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS TH |
| 07CHIANGMAI70 | KAREN GROUPS SAY FIGHTING WON'T REACH REFUGEE CAMPS IN [...] (C/NF) Fighting along the Thai-Burma border is unlikely to spill into the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand's Tak province, according to the ethnic factions involved in recent clashes. Karen groups on both sides of the conflict share an interest in protecting the camp and other Karen settlements [...] | 2007-04-18 10:31:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PREF TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI85 | KAREN GROUP SAYS SPDC REJECTED THAI ARMY OFFER TO NEGOTIATE [...] (C) Northern Thailand-based Burma exiles told the Consulate that Burma's ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) recently rejected a Royal Thai Army (RTA) offer to negotiate a ceasefire with the Karen National Union (KNU). Sources said that representatives of a Thai special force [...] | 2007-05-10 08:56:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS TH BM |
| 07CHIANGMAI92 | NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE FLOW INTO THAILAND SURGES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ever-increasing North Korean refugee flow into Thailand is disrupting the RTG's ability to handle the wave of those seeking to use Thailand as a conduit to resettlement in a third country. Many sources believe the new RTG plan to process resettlement cases with Republic of Kore [...] | 2007-05-18 08:32:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | SECRET | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM TH KN CH |
| 07COLOMBO100 | SRI LANKA: INTERNATIONAL NGOS FACE CLIMATE OF [...] (C) Summary: Elements of the government appear to be orchestrating a campaign against international NGOs, particularly those working in LTTE-controlled areas. On January 11, a mob led by the nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) party stormed the Colombo office of the Dutch NGO ZOA Refugee [...] | 2007-01-17 12:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1016 | COLOMBO CELEBRATION MARKS VICTORY IN THE EAST [...] (C) Summary. On July 19 the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) held a ceremony in Colombo's Independence Square to celebrate the military victory in the East. The U.S., United Kingdom, and India sent their Defense Attaches to observe, while many countries opted not to attend at all. The Preside [...] | 2007-07-19 12:17:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1023 | SRI LANKA: POLICE FORCES KILL TAMIL TIGER LEADER [...] (SBU) Elite Sri Lankan police officers known as Special Task Forces (STF) killed six Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres on Saturday, July 21, including the Ampara area leader known as Ravindran, recovering a cache of weapons and ammunition. The STF reported that its raid was in [...] | 2007-07-23 13:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1057 | SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT STILL WORKING ON PLANS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Sri Lanka announced soon after consolidating military control over the East (ref A) that it would ask donors to fund development of the area. The president has designated his brother Basil as the point man for the Eastern development push. Basil told UN offic [...] | 2007-07-31 10:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EINV PGOV PHUM CE |
| 07COLOMBO1078 | SRI LANKA: JAFFNA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE ENDS CONTACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Long-time Embassy interlocutors in Jaffna, including those who met with Assistant Secretary Boucher in May 2007, report that they continue to feel pressure from the government, particularly the Jaffna military commander. Contacts have told us that in addition to the GSL curtailin [...] | 2007-08-03 06:53:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1093 | SRI LANKA: EAST DEVELOPMENT -- TRINCOMALEE NOT READY TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trincomalee, the eastern seaboard town boasting one of Asia's finest natural harbors, is underdeveloped and depressed as a result of over two decades of civil war in Sri Lanka. The government wants to translate its recent reassertion of control over the east into development, mu [...] | 2007-08-08 11:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV PTER CE |
| 07COLOMBO1165 | SRI LANKA: TRINCOMALEE TAMILS WARY OF GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM met with local government officials, civil society leaders, and community members in the eastern city of Trincomalee on August 10-12th to discuss the security and humanitarian situation in the area and promote policies that will foster peace and economic development. The Gov [...] | 2007-08-24 08:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PTER PHUM PREF MOPS PREL KMCA CE |
| 07COLOMBO1207 | SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT OFFENSIVE IN SOUTHERN MANNAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) began a military offensive on August 27 to clear Silavaturai and neighboring villages in southwestern Mannar district of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres. About four thousand civilians are reportedly displaced by the fighting. UN interlo [...] | 2007-09-04 11:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1225 | HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA: SOME IMPROVEMENT BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The period April-June 2007 showed a decline relative to the beginning of the year in Colombo and some other parts of Sri Lanka in certain categories of human rights abuses, such as abductions. However, the overall level of human rights violations compared to 2002-2005 remains e [...] | 2007-09-06 11:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1232 | SRI LANKAN PROGRESS ON ISSUES OF CONCERN TO U.S. - [...] (C) As Washington prepares for a busy fall, post thought it would be useful to provide a brief snapshot of where we stand on the key issues in our agenda with Sri Lanka; the outlook for the fall; and what specific steps the U.S. can take to advance our interests here. A number of factors have [...] | 2007-09-07 11:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CE |
| 07COLOMBO127 | SRI LANKAN ARMY TAKES VAKARAI; TIGERS ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: Security forces captured the eastern LTTE redoubt of Vakarai on January 20 after almost three months of fighting. This significant victory in the east may embolden the GSL to continue its campaign to recapture LTTE-held territory in the north and east. On January 21, a cluster o [...] | 2007-01-22 12:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER PHUM PGOV CE |
| 07COLOMBO1273 | SRI LANKA: OFFICIAL DELEGATION LIST FOR 62ND UNGA [...] (SBU) Embassy Colombo has received by diplomatic note the following list (para 2) of the official delegation and media members who are scheduled to visit the USA accompanying H.E. the President of Sri Lanka for the 62nd United Nations General Assembly. 2. (SBU) (begin list) Composition [...] | 2007-09-13 12:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ITRA OVIP UNGA CE |
| 07COLOMBO140 | SRI LANKA: ARMY COMMANDER CONSIDERS CLEARING [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Blake met with Army Commander Major General Sarath Fonseka on January 23 following the Sri Lanka Army's (SLA) victory in the eastern Tiger (LTTE) strong hold of Vakarai (ref B). Fonseka estimated that the LTTE had been significantly weakened by two and a half months of [...] | 2007-01-24 08:53:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1425 | SRI LANKA: TIGERS STAGE A RAID DEEP IN THE [...] (SBU) On October 15, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) base in Yala National Sanctuary, located deep in the predominantly Sinhalese portion of the South. Tamilnet, a pro-LTTE web site, reported that Tigers took a cache of weapons and set the camp ab [...] | 2007-10-16 10:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1441 | SRI LANKA: NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY'S [...] Embassy Colombo wishes to nominate Ms. Srinithy Nandasekaran of Sri Lanka for the Secretary's International Woman of Courage Award. As one of Sri Lanka's few female attorneys from the ethnic minority Tamil population, Ms. Nandasekaran has worked tirelessly as a lawyer, judge, and human righ [...] | 2007-10-19 09:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO CE |
| 07COLOMBO1450 | SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR LAUNCHES US-FUNDED [...] Summary. Ambassador on October 18 hosted a press event to launch a Department of State and USAID-funded anti-trafficking program implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The event received wide coverage in the Sri Lankan media. The Sri Lanka Police's Women's and Chi [...] | 2007-10-23 10:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1479 | SRI LANKA: AIR BASE ATTACK RESULTS IN HEAVY [...] SUMMARY: Reports of damage from the October 21 attack on the Anuradhapura air base (ref A) remain varied. The Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) reports 8 aircraft destroyed and 14 SLAF casualties, including two pilots. According to a U.S. defense contractor, approximately 75 percent of the SLAF's [...] | 2007-10-30 10:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1533 | SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOREIGN MINISTER ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Bogollagama requested a meeting with Ambassador on November 7 to follow up on Under Secretary Burns's October meetings with President Rajapaksa SIPDIS in New York and the Foreign Minister in Washington (reftel). He and his staff expressed frustration at their l [...] | 2007-11-09 09:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO154 | SRI LANKA: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN CLERGY FACE [...] (C) Summary: Catholic and Protestant clergy engaged in human rights work in the predominantly Tamil North and East report they have received death threats from elements of the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces and their allied paramilitaries, including that of Social Development M [...] | 2007-01-25 10:56:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1542 | MEETING WITH SRI LANKAN DEFENSE SECRETARY ON [...] (C) Ambassador and EU Head of Mission Wilson met with Defense Secretary Rajapaksa on November 13 to present a list of incidents reported by NGOs operating in eastern Sri Lanka in the last year perpetrated by the paramilitary Karuna Group. Secretary Rajapaksa admitted such incidents were stil [...] | 2007-11-14 13:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM CE |
| 07COLOMBO1551 | SRI LANKA: BUDGET VOTE A CLIFFHANGER AS JVP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of the principal Sinhalese nationalist party, the JVP, with 37 seats in Parliament, told a rally of supporters on November 13 that the party would not support the government on the crucial budget vote unless its conditions were met. He demanded that the President agree [...] | 2007-11-15 12:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1601 | LTTE CHIEF SAYS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his annual "Heroes' Day" speech, LTTE supremo Prabhakaran reiterated his litany of charges against the majority Sinhalese community in Sri Lanka. However, Prabhakaran went further than he has before in condemning what he sees as the international community's passivity in the [...] | 2007-11-28 13:38:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS PGOV PHUM CE |
| 07COLOMBO1604 | SRI LANKA: TIGERS RESUME ATTACKS IN COLOMBO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A bomb exploded near a clothing store in a crowded shopping mall in Nugegoda, a southern suburb of Colombo, at 5:55 p.m. on November 28. The attack may have been a reprisal for an alleged attack on a bus transporting schoolchildren near the Tamil Tiger de facto capital of Kil [...] | 2007-11-29 12:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1616 | SRI LANKA: ARMY, POLICE ROUND UP TAMILS WHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 30 - December 3, Sri Lankan security forces conducted random arrests and cordon and search operations, rounding up approximately 2500 Tamils in Colombo and suburbs and perhaps 3500 island-wide. Some of the detainees were released within hours, others were transported [...] | 2007-12-04 13:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO1618 | SRI LANKAN ARMY HOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS SEMINAR FOR [...] Summary: The Sri Lankan Army organized on December 4-7 a three-day seminar on "Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Disaster Response and Military Civilian Relations" for all of its battalion field commanders in the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka (where fighting is heaviest [...] | 2007-12-05 02:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MARR PTER PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO1708 | SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT UPS WAR RHETORIC, FIGHTING [...] (C) Summary. In late December, Sri Lanka's Defense Secretary, Prime Minister, and Army Commander spoke out SIPDIS confidently on the GSL's prospects of defeating the LTTE militarily. Meanwhile, heavy fighting continued in several areas in the North. The GSL's statements and actions conf [...] | 2007-12-31 08:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO214 | SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY RECKONS TIGER GROUND [...] (C) Summary: Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa offered his interpretation of the government security forces' January victory in Vakarai to Ambassador and DATT on February 5 and explained the government's current military strategy. Gothabaya noted that the security forces encountered pred [...] | 2007-02-05 13:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO221 | NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO "TENSE" KILINOCHCHI [...] Summary: In a February 5 readout of his February 1-2 visit to Kilinochchi, Norwegian Ambassador Brattskar described the mood in the area as very tense. LTTE spokesman and chief negotiator Tamilselvan complained to Brattskar that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) had gone to war by occupying V [...] | 2007-02-06 08:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV CE |
| 07COLOMBO230 | SRI LANKA: NEW MEGA-CABINET BOOSTS RAJAPAKSA [...] (C) Summary. President Mahinda Rajapaksa's recent cabinet reshuffle has served to consolidate his and his brothers' control, particularly over the all-important defense portfolio. The new United National Party (UNP) ministers have settled for distinctly secondary ministries, while their de [...] | 2007-02-06 12:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO264 | SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT ROUNDS UP ALLEGED SINHALESE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 5, three Sinhalese members of the Railway Services Trade Union disappeared. Three days after the abduction, Defense Spokesman Rambukwella announced that the Army had arrested the three men on allegations that they had links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L [...] | 2007-02-12 13:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO294 | SRI LANKA: GERMAN EMBASSY PROTESTS HARASSMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The German Ambassador has lodged a protest with Foreign Minister Bogollagama regarding separate recent incidents in Trincomalee and Batticaloa involving their aid agency and, apparently, members of the LTTE splitoff "Karuna group." German Technical Cooperation (GTZ),the German [...] | 2007-02-16 08:58:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS EAID CE |
| 07COLOMBO302 | SRI LANKA: AFTER THE FALL OF VAKARAI, GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: An Embassy team that visited Vakarai on February 14 was the first group of foreign diplomats into the area since the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) retook the strategic coastal town from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last month. Demining operations and infrastruct [...] | 2007-02-20 13:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS EAID CA |
| 07COLOMBO303 | SRI LANKA: PRESS COVERAGE FOR SIGNING OF ACQUISITION AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Department concurrence, Post plans to sign an Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the government of Sri Lanka on or about February 28, 2007. Because of the risk that the agreement could be misconstrued by local parties pursuing domestic political agendas, [...] | 2007-02-20 13:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PREL MOPS MASS CE |
| 07COLOMBO304 | SRI LANKA: PRESS COVERAGE FOR SIGNING OF ACQUISITION AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Department concurrence, Post plans to sign an Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the government of Sri Lanka on or about February 28, 2007. Because of the risk that the agreement could be misconstrued by local parties pursuing domestic political agendas, [...] | 2007-02-20 13:56:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PREL MOPS MASS CE |
| 07COLOMBO337 | SRI LANKA:EX-FOREIGN MINISTER COMPLAINS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on Ex-Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at his residence on February 26, at Samaraweera's request. Samaraweera reported that following his petition to the Human Rights Commission on Friday regarding his personal security, a senior official from the Ministe [...] | 2007-02-28 12:17:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO367 | SRI LANKA: THE SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Mission's submission for the seventh annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for Sri Lanka follows. Responses are keyed to questions in Reftel. Mission point of contact is poloff Anamika Chakravorty, telephone +94-11-249-8822, fax +94-11-249-8820. Paragraph 27: Sri Lanka Overvi [...] | 2007-03-05 12:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB ASEC PREF KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD CE |
| 07COLOMBO38 | SRI LANKAN SECURITY FORCES CAPTURE KEY TIGER BASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces captured the Tamil Tigers' (LTTE) main military camp in the eastern district of Ampara on January 7, where they reportedly uncovered an explosive-laden truck and three motorbikes fitted with explosive detonators. The military alleged [...] | 2007-01-09 12:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO416 | SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY OUTLINES SIX-MONTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa told visiting SCA PDAS Steven Mann that the government was certain that the LTTE was not interested in a political solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. Nevertheless, he said, the government would try to reach out to the Tamil populations, [...] | 2007-03-14 05:42:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO428 | SRI LANKA: MILITARY STRIKES LTTE BASES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 12, the Sri Lankan military launched its latest campaign in Thoppigala. Thoppigala, roughly between Polonnaruwa and Batticaloa, is home to a cluster of LTTE bases, which are among the last significant LTTE camps remaining in the east. Sri Lanka's air force used Kfir [...] | 2007-03-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO439 | MEETING WITH DEFENSE SECRETARY ON KARUNA PROBLEMS [...] (C) Ambassador, EU Head of Mission Wilson and UNHCR Head Awad met on March 16 with Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa and Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe. Wilson shared with Rajapaksa a list developed by the EC Humanitarian Office of concrete example [...] | 2007-03-16 12:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF CE |
| 07COLOMBO460 | SRI LANKA: KARUNA GROUP EMBOLDENED IN THE EAST [...] (C) SUMMARY: As ref A reported, Karuna, leader of a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) breakaway faction in the East, is engaging in serious human rights violations and criminal activities, often under the protection of the Sri Lanka security forces. This cable provides additional det [...] | 2007-03-20 12:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO464 | SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY CANDIDLY BRIEFS FOREIGN MEDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa held a closed door, off-the-record meeting with members of the Foreign Correspondents Association and some foreign diplomats. In response to pointed questions, Rajapaksa gave blunt answers, revealing a different side to that usual [...] | 2007-03-21 04:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO475 | SRI LANKA: SLOW STRANGULATION OF MEDIA FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary: Since the inauguration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in November 2005, Sri Lanka's vibrant media has been slowly smothered by attacks on journalists, publishers and broadcasters by the LTTE and armed paramilitary groups with alleged links to the government security forces. The [...] | 2007-03-22 11:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KPAO KDEM CE |
| 07COLOMBO484 | SRI LANKA: FRESH FIGHTING IN NORTHWEST COASTAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 23, Government security forces attacked Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) mortar positions inside LTTE territory. The activity took place at approximately 10:00 am in an area east of Mannar on the northwest coast. The attacks penetrated about two kilometers int [...] | 2007-03-23 11:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PHUM PGOV PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO496 | SRI LANKA: LTTE SUICIDE BOMBER EXPLODES TRACTOR [...] (SBU) At 7:15 am on March 27, a LTTE suicide bomber detonated a tractor with an attached trailer just outside the entrance to Chenkalady Army camp near Batticaloa. Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told us that the LTTE initiated a mortar attack on the south side of Chenkalady [...] | 2007-03-27 10:58:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MOPS PGOV CE |
| 07COLOMBO500 | SRI LANKA: IMPLICATIONS OF THE LTTE AIR ATTACK FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: There are indications that the damage to the Sri Lankan Air Force's fleet of attack aircraft may be more serious than the GSL has conceded. The military have clamped a virtual news blackout over the incident, refusing reporters and even the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission access to [...] | 2007-03-27 12:08:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO521 | SRI LANKA: CONTINUED VIOLENCE IN THE EAST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent violence in Sri Lanka's east included an April 2 blast on a civilian passenger bus in Amara district that killed 15 and injured 20. On Apil 1, in Batticaloa district, six Sinhalese consruction workers were gunned down. The Sri Lanka government blamed the Liberation Tige [...] | 2007-04-03 13:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO526 | UNHCR ASSESSES HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN THE VAKARAI [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador and USAID Program Officer attended the seventh Consultative Committee on Humanitarian Assistance (CCHA) meeting, chaired by the Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights and attended by the Secretary of Defense and representatives of UN agencies, the ICRC, and o [...] | 2007-04-04 13:03:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF CE |
| 07COLOMBO534 | SRI LANKA: TAMIL PARLIAMENT MEMBERS PRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 3 meeting with Ambassador, opposition party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan and three TNA members of Parliament pressed the U.S. to be a more vocal critic of the Rajapaksa administration. Speaking of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party's (SLFP) an [...] | 2007-04-05 12:30:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM MOPS PGOV PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO541 | SUMMARY OF UNITED NATIONS COMMON HUMANITARIAN [...] Summary: On March 30, UN agencies involved with the Sri Lanka Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) gave presentations on the status of their activities and funding levels. Additional funds are sought in all areas. During introductory remarks, UN Country Representative Frederick Lyons sta [...] | 2007-04-09 03:17:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF CE |
| 07COLOMBO545 | SRI LANKA: INTENSIFIED FIGHTING LEADS TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Fighting between the Sri Lankan military and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) intensified over the weekend. An April 8 claymore mine attack 12 kilometers northwest of Jaffna city killed at least one SLA soldier and wounded six others. A bus bomb the morning of April 7 [...] | 2007-04-09 11:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO57 | SRI LANKAN DEFENSE SECRETARY REITERATES COMMITMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa told Ambassador on January 10 that Army Commander Fonseka had been misquoted, and that the GSL would not take the fight to North after pushing the LTTE out of the East. Gothabaya insisted the GSL wants a peaceful solution to the conflict, not [...] | 2007-01-11 12:56:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO58 | SRI LANKA: INDIAN FOR MIN URGES GOVERNMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee, in Colombo ostensibly to invite President Rajapaksa to the next SSARC summit in April, expressed India's concern to the President and other senior leaders over civilian casualties in the two-decade old ethnic conflict. He ga [...] | 2007-01-11 13:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PGOV MOPS IN CE |
| 07COLOMBO592 | SRI LANKA: AIR FORCE HITS LTTE POSITIONS IN JAFFNA [...] (SBU) The local wire service reported April 19 that the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) gun positions in Palai (in the Jaffna peninsula, near the Forward Defense Line, or FDL) and in Mullaitivu in the East. The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission also reported the [...] | 2007-04-19 12:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO611 | SRI LANKA: LTTE CLAIMS SECOND SUCCESSFUL AIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) reported on their website Tamilnet that two small LTTE aircraft bombed the Palaly military complex in Jaffna at approximately 1:30 a.m. on April 24, "inflicting heavy damage and casualties." Sri Lankan government military spokesmen so [...] | 2007-04-24 12:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO630 | SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY OUTLINES MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa on April 26 to inquire about the military's future ambitions in the North. Ambassador reasserted the U.S. position that only a political solution will resolve Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. In a candid discussion, Gothab [...] | 2007-04-27 11:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO631 | SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: Your visit comes at a time when the environment for human rights, civil liberties, and media freedom is declining broadly as the conflict escalates. Our top priority is to press the government to put forward a serious power-sharing proposal that can help it win back the sy [...] | 2007-04-27 11:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS ECON EAID SL |
| 07COLOMBO636 | SRI LANKA: AIR TIGERS BOMB OIL STORAGE FACILITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 29, while most people were watching Sri Lanka play in the Cricket World Cup finals, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) carried out their third confirmed air attack, damaging Ceylon Petroleum Company oil and gasoline facili [...] | 2007-04-30 14:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO646 | COLOMBO EAC MEETING: APRIL 29 ATTACK ON PETROLEUM [...] (SBU) On May 2, 2007, Charge chaired a meeting of the Colombo Emergency Action Committee. Representatives from RSO, Consular, Management, Political, Econ, Public Diplomacy, IPC, USAID, DAO, ODC, IBB, and CSI attended. The EAC was convened to discuss the April 29 attack by LTTE light aircraf [...] | 2007-05-02 14:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL AORC CE |
| 07COLOMBO68 | SRI LANKA: CATHOLIC BISHOPS ASSESS DIRE HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Blake met the Catholic Bishops of Jaffna and the northwestern district of Mannar on January 11. Political Chief and Poloff followed up with Jaffna Government Agent Ganesh on January 12. The bishops expressed deep concern regarding the humanitarian situation in the n [...] | 2007-01-12 13:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO698 | PRESIDENT RELIES ON BROTHERS FOR POLICY ADVICE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa relies on his brothers, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa and Senior Advisor to the President Basil Rajapaksa, for advice on security matters and political affairs respectively. Fear that Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) stalwarts are disloyal has caused [...] | 2007-05-15 05:32:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO722 | SRI LANKA: IN JAFFNA, STUDENTS TARGETED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two armed, masked men entered the University of Jaffna campus in broad daylight on May 16 and delivered a note threatening eight named students with summary execution for working with the LTTE. Ambassador, following a request by the university's Vice Chancellor, spoke with both t [...] | 2007-05-17 12:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER CE |
| 07COLOMBO728 | SRI LANKA: GSL COMPLICITY IN PARAMILITARY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Allegations of government complicity in crimes committed by organized paramilitary groups have mounted in the last year. Paramilitaries such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-breakaway Karuna group and Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) have helped the Government of Sr [...] | 2007-05-18 09:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO734 | SRI LANKA: ARMY COMMANDER REQUESTS REVIEW OF A [...] (C) Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka asked Ambassador on May 18 to reconsider the case of a Sri Lanka Army intelligence officer rejected for U.S.-funded counterterrorism training under Leahy Amendment provisions. Ambassador explained the application of the Leahy Amendment, and said the E [...] | 2007-05-21 10:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO746 | SRI LANKA: EMINENT PERSON DEVELOPS EYEWITNESS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a May 21 meeting, U.S.-funded International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) Assistant David Savage told PolOff that a witness to the January 2006 killing of 5 youths in Trincomalee approached the United Kingdom's Eminent Person (EP) Sir Nigel Rodley in the UK wi [...] | 2007-05-23 12:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PTER MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO768 | SRI LANKA: LTTE DETONATE MINE DURING RUSH HOUR ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 28, 2007, at approximately 5:40 p.m. local time, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) detonated a claymore mine on Galle Road near Ratmalana military base. The attack was clearly an attempt to kill Special Task Force (STF) soldiers traveling on a bus after comple [...] | 2007-05-29 12:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO769 | SRI LANKA: EU HUMANITARIAN AID REPORT ON [...] (C) Summary: The EU Delegation to Sri Lanka, passed to us on May 28 a confidential report describing a recent European Commission Humanitarian Assistance (ECHO) visit to Sri Lanka's Vanni region, the heart of the northern area controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The repo [...] | 2007-05-29 13:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON MOPS PHUM PTER CE |
| 07COLOMBO805 | SRI LANKA: EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS OF RED CROSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The issue of abductions has again taken center stage in Sri Lanka as President Rajapaksa prepares to travel to Geneva to deliver a speech to the International Labor Organization on June 15 and meet with Louise Arbour. On June 1, President Rajapaksa announced a new committee desi [...] | 2007-06-06 11:08:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO809 | SRI LANKAN SECURITY FORCES IMPOSE TRAVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 2, the Defense Ministry issued verbal directives to police stations in Colombo to evict from the city Tamils whose identification cards indicate they are from areas outside Colombo. According to local news media and Embassy sources, on June 6 and 7, police evicted Tamils [...] | 2007-06-07 11:42:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO820 | SRI LANKA: SUPREME COURT STAYS ORDER EXPELLING [...] (S) SUMMARY: On June 8 the Sri Lanka Supreme Court stayed the removal of non-Colombo based Tamils temporarily residing in Colombo lodges and hostels (ref A). The Court ruled in favor of a Fundamental Rights Application filed by the NGO Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA). Military spokesm [...] | 2007-06-08 10:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO837 | LEAHY VETTING FOR SRI LANKAN PARTICIPANT IN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) The following Sri Lankan official has been nominated to attend the following course of instruction: Funding Source: ODC Course Name: Pacific Army Chiefs Conference Course Dates: August 4-10, 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia [...] | 2007-06-13 03:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM MASS CE |
| 07COLOMBO845 | OPPOSITION LEADER BLASTS RAJAPAKSA GOVERNMENT IN [...] (C) Summary: In a June 13 briefing to the diplomatic corps, Opposition Leader Wickremesinghe criticized the Rajapaksa government for being "at war with the LTTE, the international community, and with Sri Lankan values." He said the UNP party would soon start a campaign to bring the failures [...] | 2007-06-14 11:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CE |
| 07COLOMBO88 | SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY AND AMBASSADOR REVIEW [...] (S) On January 10, Ambassador and Pol Chief met Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa (ref a). Ambassador noted that SIPDIS the U.S. and Sri Lanka wanted to work with each other and with India on interdiction of arms shipments to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (ref b). He said the U [...] | 2007-01-16 13:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | MARR MOPS PTER PREL PGOV CE |
| 07COLOMBO882 | SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT CREATES HIGH SECURITY ZONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 18 media outlets reported that the Government of Sri Lanka has designated Sampur and Muttur in the Trincomalee district as a High Security Zone (HSZ) by formal "gazette notification." Some NGOs expressed concern that the move could prevent thousands of Tamils, displaced [...] | 2007-06-20 13:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO927 | AMBASSADOR AND OFDA DIRECTOR VISIT TO BATTICALOA, [...] (SBU) Summary: OFDA recently completed a mission to Sri Lanka that was highlighted by the participation of OFDA Director, Ky Luu. While in Sri Lanka Mr. Luu, along with the Ambassador and USAID Director, spent two days in Batticaloa District assessing the situation of IDPs and returnees. The [...] | 2007-06-29 04:03:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PREF PGOV EAID CE |
| 07COLOMBO933 | SRI LANKA: TIGERS ATTEMPT TO ORCHESTRATE MASSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Friday June 29, the Sri Lanka Navy seized a truck laden with more than 1,000 kilograms of C4 explosives in the Panikkar district of Trincomalee. This find follows police confiscation on June 1 of a truck traveling towards Colombo containing 1,054 kilograms of explosives. T [...] | 2007-07-02 12:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO977 | SRI LANKA: INSTABILITY IN THE EAST MAKES FREE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: After more than a year of fighting to rid the eastern province of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),the Government is making preparations to hold elections as a concrete sign that order has been restored. However, significant obstacles remain that could jeopardize th [...] | 2007-07-13 11:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07COLOMBO98 | SRI LANKA: ARMY MAKES GAINS IN CAMPAIGN TO TAKE [...] (C) Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe confirmed to pol FSN on January 16 that the security forces, through air strikes and ground movements, made progress against LTTE defenses both north and south of Vakarai on January 16. However, they have not yet captured the strategic brid [...] | 2007-01-17 12:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE |
| 07COLOMBO986 | SRI LANKA: FIGHTING SHIFTS TO THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 14, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) battled with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Vavuniya district in northern Sri Lanka, resulting in at least 14 SLA deaths. The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is planning a large celebration on July 19 in downtown Colombo to c [...] | 2007-07-16 11:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
| 07CONAKRY1136 | UNION LEADER SAYS NO STRIKES PLANNED, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The leader of Guinea,s largest labor union painted a grim picture of the country,s political and economic situation in a meeting with poloff, but said that the unions are not planning any strikes in the near future. She added that the international community can play an import [...] | 2007-10-11 14:29:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB ASEC GV |
| 07CONAKRY1161 | GUINEA'S 2008 BUDGET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 11, Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate submitted his administration's FY2008 budget to the National Assembly. The budget was submitted on-time, and forecasts significant growth in revenue and spending; however, the projections are based upon best-case assumptions. The [...] | 2007-10-22 06:44:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EFIN ECON EMIN PGOV GV |
| 07CONAKRY1220 | UNION LEADER SUGGESTS REOPENING POLITICAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Dr. Ibrahim Fofana, one of Guinea,s key union leaders is frustrated by Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate,s lack of progress on the January 27 Accords and plans to urge him to take a more aggressive approach. Dissatisfied with declining political momentum, Fofana suggested reopening [...] | 2007-11-07 13:46:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PREL ASEC GV |
| 07CONAKRY127 | PRESIDENT CONTE LIVES IN ANOTHER WORLD [...] (C) On February 1, I met for nearly an hour with Guinean President Lansana Conte. The conversation was disjointed, with Conte frequently digressing and going off on tangents. He minimized the importance of the recent general strike, including the use of lethal force against civilian protester [...] | 2007-02-02 10:01:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS KDEM GV |
| 07CONAKRY173 | SITREP 37: FEBRUARY 12, 2007, 2130 [...] (C) Guinea is under martial law. Appearing briefly on television and radio at just after 2000 local February 12, President Lansana Conte expressed his disappointment that when he had met union conditions for ending the general strike, people had in bad faith nonetheless caused disruption and [...] | 2007-02-12 20:56:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC CASC PREL PINR AMGT GV |
| 07CONAKRY191 | TFGV01: AMBASSADOR URGES PRESIDENTS OF NATIONAL [...] (C) On February 16, the Ambassador lobbied hard for President of the National Assembly Aboubacar Sompare and President of the Supreme Court Lamine Sidime to deal head on with Guinea's leadership vacuum by invoking Article 34 of the constitution to remove President Lansana Conte, who is object [...] | 2007-02-17 13:20:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PREL ASEC AEMR GV |
| 07CONAKRY489 | GUINEA'S MILITARY ENGAGED IN NATIONWIDE PROTEST [...] (C) On May 2-3, military officers and soldiers on bases and military barracks throughout Guinea protested over wages and the corruption of senior military officers. There are reports that junior-level officers raided weapons and food stores in several military outposts and looted the house of [...] | 2007-05-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PINS MARR GV |
| 07CONAKRY503 | NO SOLUTION YET FOR MILITARY CRISIS [...] (C) Although Guinea's Prime Minister has led efforts to resolve the crisis within the Guinean military (Ref A),the government has yet to announce a satisfactory solution. The National Council of Defense and Security has met several times over the last few days, with senior military leaders [...] | 2007-05-09 15:03:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PINS MARR GV |
| 07CONAKRY529 | SITREP NO. 3: MILITARY UNREST, MAY 14, 1030 HOURS [...] (C) On the surface, Conakry appears normal this morning, May 14, despite serious, unresolved problems within the military. Traffic is flowing. Schools, shops, and offices are open. 2. (C) The status of the military remains fluid, within both the ranks and the senior command. 3. (C) [...] | 2007-05-14 09:56:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS ASEC CASC GV |
| 07CONAKRY960 | GUINEA: DANGEROUS GAMES, TREACHEROUS GROUND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Union leadership and civil society are providing muted support to Prime Minister Kouyate, even in the face of its slow progress, as their mutual enemies in President Conte's circle pursue what some call a concerted plan to undermine the consensus government at every turn. While t [...] | 2007-08-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL ASEC GV |
| 07COPENHAGEN130 | DENMARK: NEXT STEPS ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Ambassador Cain highlighted for Danish Defense Minister Soren Gade the urgency of new contributions for Afghanistan and NATO-ISAF, emphasizing our common interest in ensuring that the requirements identified by SACEUR are met as quickly as possible. Gade indicated general support for our [...] | 2007-02-09 14:49:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL PINS AF DA |
| 07COTONOU654 | BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI PROMOTES SEVEN MILITARY OFFICERS [...] (U) On August 20, the GOB's Council of Ministers promoted Brigadier General Tissou Felix HESSOU, who has been Benin's Minister of the Interior and Public Security since June 17 (Reftels A and B),and Brigadier General Amoussa Chabi BONI to the rank of Major General, effective December 1, 2007. [...] | 2007-08-24 05:40:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BN |
| 07COTONOU962 | H5N1 UPDATE 1: GOB MEETS WITH DONORS [...] Summary: The GOB met with donor representatives on December 19 to review the GOB's avian influenza action plan. The plan, which covers the next six months, now assumes that there will be 8 outbreaks. The GOB asked the donors to prepare their contributions before the GOB makes a decision on it [...] | 2007-12-21 08:03:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR TBIO KFLU BN |
| 07COTONOU963 | H5N1 UPDATE 1: GOB MEETS WITH DONORS [...] Summary: The GOB met with donor representatives on December 19 to review the GOB's avian influenza action plan. The plan, which covers the next six months, now assumes that there will be 8 outbreaks. The GOB asked the donors to prepare their contributions before the GOB makes a decision on it [...] | 2007-12-21 08:29:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR TBIO KFLU BN |
| 07DAKAR1026 | AFRICOM DELEGATION RECEIVES SENEGALESE INPUT [...] (C) The interagency AFRICOM delegation visited Dakar in April, meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Minister of Armed Forces Becaye Diop and Chief of Defense Major General Abdoulaye Fall on April 21. There was a marked co [...] | 2007-05-10 17:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS OVIP SG |
| 07DAKAR1934 | GUINEA BISSAU:LIFE ON THE ISLANDS COMES INTO FOCUS [...] (C) The week of September 10-14 Poloff and FSN toured the Bijagos Archipelago, a collection of some 90 islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. On the islands of Bolama, Bubaque, Orango, Joao Vieira, Polao, Carache, Caravela, Caray, and Rubane Poloff learned what life was like in this remote, [...] | 2007-09-27 16:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR ECON EFIS SOCI |
| 07DAKAR2140 | GUINEA BISSAU: UNODC STEPS UP WITH MULTI-FACETED [...] The United Nations Office o\Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in conjunction with the GOGB a finalizing a project proposal for immediate and sustained assistance to Guinea-Bissau to fight narcotics trafficking and reform the justice sector. The progr is a responk to President Joao Bernardo fNino" Vieira [...] | 2007-11-06 06:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL EAID PU |
| 07DAKAR2258 | SENEGAL: THREATS AGAINST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION [...] (SBU) Recently four journalists, Moussa Gueye, Moussa Doucar (REF A),Pape Amadou Gaye, and Elhadj Malick Seck were all arrested and later ordered released by President Abdoulaye Wade in the face of serious pressure from the union of journalists and public opinion. Gaye, editor-in-chief of "L [...] | 2007-11-19 09:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR275 | DETERIORATION IN THE CASAMANCE [...] (C) Senegalese Army reoccupation of the Casamance, initially somewhat successful, has proved unable to thwart rebel activity. Violence, while still largely concentrated in a northern triangle bordering on The Gambia, is becoming increasingly significant in the key city of Bignona, and rebel [...] | 2007-02-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS ASEC CASC SOCI PGOV PINR SG GA PU |
| 07DAKAR276 | GUINEA BISSAU: GOVERNMENT IS THE ONLY BUSINESS [...] (C) As AF/W desk officer Dorsey Lockhart, PolOff, and PAO met with Bissau-Guinean government, NGO, human rights, and business leaders, January 24-26, they heard "government is the only business in Bissau." Some might have added that narcotics is fast catching on (Reftel). On January 27, the [...] | 2007-02-02 14:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON SNAR PU |
| 07DAKAR588 | SENEGAL'S FY07 BUDGET RELYS ON HIPC SAVINGS AND DOMESTIC [...] Senegal's FY2007 (January 1 - December 31) budget expenditures of CFAF 1.519 trillion (USD 2.978 billion) represents an overall increase of 7.9 percent over the 2006 budget. For 2007, the Government of Senegal is anticipating revenues of CFAF 1.048 trillion (USD 2.0 billion) from domestic sou [...] | 2007-03-15 07:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
| 07DAKAR612 | AF PDAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD MEETS SENIOR MINISTER OF [...] (C) During a March 12, 2007 meeting with Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio, AF PDAS Thomas-Greenfield praised a peaceful Mauritanian election while Gadio expressed hope that the new President will rejoin ECOWAS and deal with the refugee situation. On Somalia, Gadio agreed that a clear messag [...] | 2007-03-16 15:37:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KDEM GV MR SO SU SG |
| 07DAKAR82 | SENEGAL TO INCREASE TROOPS IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) During a 12 December meeting at the Senegalese Armed Forces Headquarters, Senegalese Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Colonel Cherif Mbodj informed Embassy Dakar Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief that Senegal would be increasing the size of its troop contribution for the A [...] | 2007-01-10 11:54:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SG SU MOPS |
| 07DAKAR833 | WADE RE-INAUGURATED: IMAGINING SOLUTIONS TO [...] (C) The odd thing about President Wade's re-election is that few Senegalese are asking about his second-term plans: what they really want to know is whom he will anoint to succeed him. Meanwhile, with various opposition parties boycotting upcoming parliamentary elections, doubts about the fa [...] | 2007-04-16 18:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON PINS PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR940 | SENEGAL CURRENTLY HAS 2,681 SOLDIERS AND CIVPOL IN SIX [...] Eighty Senegalese peacekeepers who have been serving as civilian police (CIVPOL) in Haiti returned last week. With Senegal benefiting from the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) and Centers of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) programs, the Mission has [...] | 2007-04-27 12:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MCAP KPKO SG |
| 07DAMASCUS109 | Syria/Turkey, Syria/Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 1 reported FM Walid Mouallem's visit to Turkey on Jan. 31 and his meetings with President Sezer and PM Erdogan to convey two messages from President Asad on the latest developments in the region. Mouallem also held talks with Turkish FM Abdullah Gul on bilatera [...] | 2007-02-01 14:46:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS126 | Asad, Syria/Tajikistan, Syria/Vatican, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 8 reported President Asad's Feb. 7 address at the start of a two-day conference of the Ba'ath Party Central Committee, in which he called for maintaining Syrian national unity, pointing out the complementary nature of Islamic thought and pan-Arabism. He called [...] | 2007-02-08 12:49:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS131 | Syria/ Tajikistan, Syria/Oman, Syria/Germany, Syria/Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 11 reported the visit to Damascus by Tajik President Imamoli Rakhmanov on Feb. 9, and his talks with President Asad, VP Shara and FM Mouallem. The Presidents called for scheduling a withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq, reiterated the importance of a Palestin [...] | 2007-02-11 14:27:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS149 | BACKGROUND ON JANUARY PRISON RIOT IN SYRIA [...] (SBU) Summary: According to numerous Embassy sources, imprisoned members of President Asad,s extended family began an uprising in Adra'a prison January 25 over the fact they were not included in the Eid al-Adha Presidential amnesty (ref A). Eventually, the Army had to be called in to quell t [...] | 2007-02-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SY |
| 07DAMASCUS185 | Syria/Spain, Lavrov, Palestinian Territories, Arab League, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 22 reported FM Walid al-Mouallem's visit to Madrid and his meeting with his Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos on Feb. 21. Talks focused on bilateral relations, regional issues, most importantly the situation in the occupied territories following the Mecca Accord [...] | 2007-02-26 12:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS200 | Syria/Russia, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Iran [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 1 quoted an official source from the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs , confirming, on Feb. 28, that Syria will attend the Iraq Neighboring Countries conference that will be held in Baghdad on March 10. Answering a question by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SAN [...] | 2007-03-01 14:42:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS208 | Shara's "Le Monde" Interview, Mouallem's Cairo Visit, [...] Summary: Syrian papers featured VP Shara's interview with French daily "Le Monde" published March 2 in which he expressed Syria's relative optimism on the success of an international meeting in Baghdad aimed at stabilizing Iraq, saying that "much depends on the attitude of the United States; [...] | 2007-03-04 14:27:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS236 | Baghdad Conference, Syria/Iran, Syria/EU, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 11 reported the inauguration of the Baghdad Conference of Iraq's Neighboring Countries on Mar. 10. The Syrian delegation was headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Ahmad Arnus, who delivered a statement in which he explained Syria's position toward the difficult s [...] | 2007-03-11 14:49:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS257 | Syria/US, Syria/EU, Syria/Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 13 reported Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad's meeting on Mar. 12 with Ellen Sauerbrey, US Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration. Talks focused on developments in Iraq and the suffering of Iraqis at home and abroad as a resul [...] | 2007-03-13 15:33:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS299 | Syria/PLO, Arab Summit, Peace Process, Iraq, Lebanon [...] Summary: Papers on Mar. 26 reported the visit to Damascus by Rouhi Fattouh, Special Envoy of Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, and his meeting with VP Shara on Mar. 25 conveying a message from President Abbas to President Asad on the latest Palestinian development [...] | 2007-03-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS364 | US/Syria, Syria/Lebanon, Syria/Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Independent al-Watan on Apr. 16 reported a meeting arranged by the State Department with Arab reporters in Washington with Alberto Fernandez, of the Near East Bureau at the State Department, who denied that there is any new dialogue between Syria and the US, but said that "there migh [...] | 2007-04-16 11:34:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS371 | Syria/Iran, Syria/Palestinian Authority, Syria/Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 18 reported the Apr. 17 visit to Damascus of Iranian FM Manuchehr Mottaki, during which he held talks with Foreign Minister Mouallem and senior Foreign Ministry officials on bilateral relations and regional issues. Papers also reported VP Shara's meeting on Ap [...] | 2007-04-19 09:23:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS390 | CODEL PELOSI'S APRIL 3-4 VISIT TO DAMASCUS: [...] (C) Summary: Visiting U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her accompanying delegation met April 4 in Damascus with Syrian FM Walid Mu'allim. They discussed Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and prospects for a renewed Middle East peace process. End Summary. 2. (C) Speaker Pelosi and 15 members of h [...] | 2007-04-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY |
| 07DAMASCUS394 | Ban Ki-Moon's Visit, Syria/Qatar, Syria/France, Pelosi, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 25 reported President Asad's meeting on Apr. 24 with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, which focused on Syria's relations with the UN and the necessity of building confidence and mutual respect between the two sides. Talks also dealt with the peace process and [...] | 2007-04-25 12:38:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS400 | Ki-Moon Visit, Occupied Golan, Syria/Russia, Iraq, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 26 reported a televised interview by al-Jazeera TV on Apr. 25 of Information Minister Dr. Mohsen Bilal, who described President Asad's meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as positive and fruitful. "Syria SIPDIS considers Ki-Moon's visit to Damascu [...] | 2007-04-26 12:51:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS416 | Syria/GCC, Syria/US, Syria/South Africa, Winograd Report, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 3 reported President Asad's meeting on May 2 with Abdul-Rahman Attiya, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC). Talks focused on developments in Iraq, the occupied territories, and Lebanon, and on bilateral cooperation and means to activate Arab c [...] | 2007-05-03 14:30:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS419 | Asad, Syria/Palestinians, Winograd Report, Iraq, Lebanon [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 2 featured President Asad's visit to Der Ezzor province on May 1 to inspect development projects. He addressed a crowd of citizens and officials, saying that "this time the enemies are playing the card of discord among sects in the region." He added that what i [...] | 2007-05-07 06:14:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS424 | Syria/Russia, Syria/US, Sharm al-Sheikh Conference, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 5 reported FM Mouallem's participation in the Ministerial Conference of Iraq's Neighboring Countries held in Sharm al-Sheikh on May 4. In his speech at the conference, Mouallem stressed the need to schedule withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq in accordance wi [...] | 2007-05-08 05:20:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS431 | Syria/Cuba, Syria/Libya, Syria/US, Syria/France, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 9 reported Information Minister Mohsen Bilal's meeting on May 8 with Cuban MP Kenia Serrano, during which Bilal stressed Syria's concern to achieve stability and security in the Middle East through a just and comprehensive peace based on UN resolutions. Talks al [...] | 2007-05-09 13:37:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS436 | Syria/Libya, Syria/UN, Syria/France, Iraq, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian press on May 10 reported President Asad's meeting on May 9 with Libyan Prime Minister El-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi. This is the first high level meeting between the two countries for years. Talks dealt with bilateral relations, mutual cooperation, and topics on the agenda of [...] | 2007-05-10 12:59:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS444 | Asad Speech/Nomination, Syria/PLO, Syria/UK, Syria/Italy, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 11 reported President Asad's speech at the first session of the new People's Assembly on May 10, which approved the nomination of President Asad for a second seven-year term as president and set May 27 as the date for the presidential referendum. Papers also r [...] | 2007-05-14 09:39:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS458 | OIC Conference, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Cheney, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 16 reported Foreign Minister Mouallem's speech at the meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Islamabad on May 15. Mouallem said that the only way to end violence and realize peace in the Middle East is by Israel's recognition of relevant intern [...] | 2007-05-16 11:03:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS482 | Syria/Lebanon, Golan, Asad/Referendum, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 21 reported that clashes erupted on May 20 in the Lebanese city of Tripoli and in the nearby Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp between the Lebanese army and militants from the Palestinian group Fatah al-Islam. All papers featured an official statement by th [...] | 2007-05-21 13:07:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS484 | SARG CLOSES TWO BORDER CROSSING TO LEBANON [...] (U) On May 20, the Syrian Ministry of Interior released a statement announcing it had temporarily closed the two northern border crossings with Lebanon, al-Aridha and al-Dabbousiyah, "until the situation in Northern Lebanon becomes secure." It is unclear how long the crossing points will rem [...] | 2007-05-21 14:55:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY |
| 07DAMASCUS485 | North Lebanon Clashes, Mouallem, Jafaari, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 22 continued to report on clashes in Naher al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon. All papers also featured a lecture at Damascus University by FM Mouallem on May 21 praising Syria's foreign policy under President Asad's leadership, saying that "US pressures an [...] | 2007-05-22 12:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS491 | Events in Northern Lebanon, Mouallem/Ki-Moon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 23 reported that FM Mouallem received a phone call on May 22 from UN SecGen Ki-Moon about events in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. Mouallem expressed regret over the events, saying, "the leaders of Fatah al-Islam are wanted by the S [...] | 2007-05-23 11:55:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS496 | Asad/Referendum, Syria/UNDOF, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 24 reported VP Shara's lecture at Damascus University on May 23 in anticipation of the May 27 referendum on a new term for President Asad. Vice President Shara renewed Syria's rejection of the war in Iraq, stressing support for the political process in the count [...] | 2007-05-24 11:41:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS507 | Presidential Referendum, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, [...] Summary: The main focus in Syrian papers over the weekend was on the presidential referendum on president Asad's new term in office. Papers cited statements by Syrian officials praising President Asad's achievements during his first term in office. On May 27, papers featured statements by [...] | 2007-05-28 13:15:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS517 | SENIOR SYRIAN DISSIDENT ON THE OPPOSITION, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: SENIOR OPPOSITION FIGURE RIAD TURK TOLD A/DCM MAY 22 THAT HE REMAINS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE OPPOSITION IN SYRIA, DESPITE ITS CURRENT WEAKNESS. WHILE CRITICAL OF SOME OF THE TACTICAL DECISIONS AND CAUTION OF FELLOW DISSIDENT RIAD SEIF (PARTICULAR REGARDING CALLS TO BOYCOTT THE PRE [...] | 2007-05-30 09:36:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SY LE |
| 07DAMASCUS520 | Presidential Referendum, Syria/UK, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 29 reported Vice President Shara's meeting on May 28 with former Archbishop Hilarion Capucci in which they discussed the regional situation and the international community's disregard of the oppression of the Palestinians under Israel's abusive practices. Shar [...] | 2007-05-30 14:04:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS532 | Syria/Iran, Syria/Brazil, Mashaal, Nahr al-Bared, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 1 focused on the visit to Syria by Iranian FM Manuchehr Mottaki and his meeting with President Asad on May 31, which focused on bilateral relations and the latest developments in the region, particularly in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. Mottaki also met separate [...] | 2007-06-03 12:03:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS543 | Syria/Italy, Nahr al-Bared, International Tribunal, Golan, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 5 reported the June 4 arrival in Damascus of Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema who will hold talks with senior Syrian officials on bilateral relations and regional issues. As for developments in Lebanon, papers reported continu [...] | 2007-06-05 12:56:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS553 | Syria/Italy, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel/Palestinians (6/6) [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 6 reported President Asad's meeting on June 5 with Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Massimo Dalima focusing on bilateral relations and the latest developments in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon. Both sides stressed the n [...] | 2007-06-06 12:48:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS557 | Syria/Spain, Syria/Pakistan, Syria/Cuba, Golan, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 7 reported that FM Mouallem will leave for Spain today at the invitation of Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos. Mouallem will convey an oral message from President Asad to King Juan Carlos I and will hold talks with Moratinos regarding bilateral relations and th [...] | 2007-06-07 11:35:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS568 | Syria/Spain, Syria/Israel, Syria/Lebanon, Malaysia, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 8-9 reported the visit to Spain on June 7 by FM Mouallem, who conveyed an oral message from President Asad to King Juan Carlos of Spain on bilateral relations and current regional developments, particularly in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territories and Leban [...] | 2007-06-11 11:00:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS588 | Syria/Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Iran [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 12 reported a meeting by the Central Leadership of the National Progressive Front (NPF) on June 11. The Leadership stressed Syria's firm position toward the issue of peace with Israel, describing the current peace proposals to Syria as "contradictory and not s [...] | 2007-06-12 12:58:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS597 | ASAD INSISTS ON NEED FOR AMBASSADOR TO RETURN [...] (C) Summary: In a one-on-one with his American biographer, President Bashar al-Asad May 30 underscored the need for the return of the U.S. ambassador to Damascus, according to the biographer, David Lesch. Asad discounted the importance of the May 3 Sharm meeting between FM Mu'allim and the [...] | 2007-06-13 12:34:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY |
| 07DAMASCUS598 | Syria/Greece, Syria/Italy, Syria/Netherlands, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 13 reported the visit to Damascus by Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Dora Bakoyannis and her meeting with President Asad on June 12 about bilateral relations and political developments in Iraq, the occupied territories and Lebanon. Bakoyannis praised Syria's [...] | 2007-06-13 13:13:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS600 | POST APPROVES NSDD 38 - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF [...] Post approves this NSDD 38 Department of Defense, Department of Army request to add one Olmsted scholar position in Syria, for an appointment of limited duration. While this proposed staffing change is not reflected in the most recent MSP, post believes that DOD has made a persuasive case for [...] | 2007-06-14 09:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | AODE AMGT KMRS MASS SY |
| 07DAMASCUS603 | Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria/Israel, Iraq [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 14 quoted an official Syrian source as saying on June 13 that the Syrian government and Syrian people are concerned about intra-Palestinian fighting and violence. "Fighting among the Palestinian brothers will only serve the interests of the enemies of the Pales [...] | 2007-06-14 12:59:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS639 | Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Syria/Iran, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 25 reported the car bomb that killed six UNIFIL peacekeepers from a Spanish contingent patrolling a road in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on June 24, the first such attack on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon since it was reinforced last summer after the [...] | 2007-06-27 04:31:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS643 | Golan, Rice, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 27 marked the 33rd anniversary of the liberation of Al-Qunaytirah with reports and articles glorifying the "heroism" and sacrifices of Syrian forces during the October 1973 war and stressing that the occupied Golan will definitely return to Syria. Papers cited [...] | 2007-06-27 12:50:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS679 | Syria/Denmark, Syria/Japan, Golan, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 3 reported Foreign Minister Mouallem's meeting on July 2 with Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, who reiterated the importance of the pivotal role Syria plays in achieving security and stability in the region, particularly supporting efforts to restore Ir [...] | 2007-07-03 13:19:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS690 | Syria/Sudan, Syria/US, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 7 reported the visit to Sudan by Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri and his meeting with Sudanese President Omar Hasan al-Bashir on July 5. Their talks focused on bilateral relations and means of boosting them in all domains. The Sudanese President hailed Syria' [...] | 2007-07-08 13:15:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS718 | Syria/Kuwait, Syria/UAE, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 12 reported that President Asad on July 11 received al letter from Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad al-Jaber Al Sabah connected with bilateral relations between the two sisterly countries and issues of common concern. The letter focused on the latest devel [...] | 2007-07-13 09:04:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS723 | Syria/US, Syria/UAE, Syria/Guinea-Bissau Syria/France, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 13 reported President Asad's meeting on July 12 with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, and Catholic Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Brooklyn Diocese, focusing on the tense situation in the Middle East. President Asad reiterated the [...] | 2007-07-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS727 | Syria/UAE, Syria/Netherlands, Syria/Sudan, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 16 reported that President Sheikh Khaifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates arrived in Damascus July 15 on an official 2-day visit. He made a statement upon arrival expressing satisfaction with cooperation in recent years in the economic, trade and [...] | 2007-07-16 13:45:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS731 | Syria-UAE, Syria/Iran, Syrian Press, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 17 reported President Asad's meeting with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on July 16. The presidents reviewed bilateral relations and means of strengthening them and hailed the role played by the Syrian-Emirates Joint Committee. They discussed [...] | 2007-07-19 10:41:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS735 | Syria/Iran, Syria/France, Syria/PLO, Lebanon, Asad's [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 19 reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will pay a one-day visit to Syria today to meet with President Asad and other senior Syrian officials. Papers also reported VP Shar'a's meeting with Jean-Claude Cousseran, envoy of French Foreign Minister [...] | 2007-07-19 10:51:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS745 | Syria/Iran, Peace/Bush's Call for International [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 20 reported Iranian President Ahmadinejad's summit with President Asad on July 19. Talks focused on regional developments and bilateral relations. Banner headlines featured the joint press conference at the conclusion of their talks. The Iranian President call [...] | 2007-07-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS774 | SARG USES AHMEDINEJAD VISIT TO SIGNAL STRENGTH OF [...] (C) Summary: The scheduling of Iranian president Mahmud Ahmedinejad's visit to Damascus two days after president Bashar al-Asad took his second oath of office prompted observers of Syrian politics to interpret the visit in terms of the most notable element of Asad's inauguration speech: his co [...] | 2007-07-30 10:17:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY IR IS |
| 07DAMASCUS782 | Syrian Army, Syria/Spain, Peace Process, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 1 featured a speech by President Asad marking the 62nd anniversary of the Syrian army's creation published July 31 in the military journal "Army of the People", in which he called for the return of the Golan Heights. He said that the latest events in the regi [...] | 2007-08-01 13:02:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS802 | Syria/Italy, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Peace [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 7 reported that President Asad received a phone call from the Italian Prime Minister on August 6 focusing on the situation in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. On Iraq, papers continued to report the increasing number of US casualties in Iraq. [...] | 2007-08-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS806 | Syria/Iraq, US Arms Shipments, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 8 reported Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad's meeting on August 7 with Iraqi Foreign Ministry Deputy Labid Abbawi on bilateral relations between Syria and Iraq and means of developing them in all different domains. During the meeting, both sides exchan [...] | 2007-08-08 14:08:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS824 | Syria/India, Britain, Italy, Lebanon, Iraq, Peace [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 14 reported the visit to India by FM Mouallem on August 13. Mouallem conferred with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who praised President Asad saying that "Syria has achieved remarkable progress (which) showed wisdom in dealing with the developments of t [...] | 2007-08-14 12:54:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS825 | Syria/Lebanon, Lantos, Iraq, Peace Conference (8/13) [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 13 reported a statement by Kabalan Kabalan, Chairman of the Southern Lebanon Council on August 12 announcing that the Lebanese authorities started to execute a project to rebuild houses in the Lebanese southern towns of Qana, al-Qulaila and Seddiqin, destroyed [...] | 2007-08-14 13:13:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS835 | Shara, Syria/India, Nasrallah, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 15 reported a meeting with journalists in Damascus by Vice President Shara on August 14 confirming that Syria has no intention of waging war against Israel to restore occupied Golan, but he accused Israel for seeking "any excuse to launch a war." "Israel know [...] | 2007-08-15 13:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS838 | Syria/Israel, Syria/Argentina, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 16 featured a statement by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak saying on August 15 that "Israel is not interested in war with Syria, and Israel believes that Syria does not want war either," adding that "war shouldn't erupt, therefore." Barak made the stateme [...] | 2007-08-16 11:50:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS847 | Syria/Saudi Arabia, Syria/Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 19 featured a statement by an official source expressing regret over a Saudi official statement regarding statements attributed to VP Shara, which "were unrightfully changed," stressing at the same time Syria's insistence on not being dragged into disputes tha [...] | 2007-08-20 10:25:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS857 | Syria/Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Peace [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 22 reported President Asad's meeting on August 21 with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in which he reiterated Syria's support for the current political process in Iraq and stressed the need to intensify efforts to create a suitable foundation for achievin [...] | 2007-08-22 11:51:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS913 | Syria/Iraq, Syria/Iran, Middle East Peace Conference, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on September 4 reported that President Asad chaired a meeting the Central Leadership of National Progressive Front. During the meeting, President Asad briefed the Front's members on the latest political developments in the region. He referred to the role played by "some [...] | 2007-09-06 12:31:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS92 | Russia, Syria/Argentina, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 28 reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Tehran and Damascus must be involved in the Middle East peace process. "We are deeply convinced that Iran and Syria must not be isolated, but, rather, brought into the peace process," Lavrov to [...] | 2007-01-28 15:38:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DAMASCUS927 | Syria/Turkey, Petraeus-Crocker Report, 9/11 Events, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on September 10 reported the visit to Turkey by FM Mouallem on September 9 to convey a message from President Asad to President Gul congratulating him on his election as President. FM Mouallem's talks with Turkish officials focused on the recent Israeli warplanes viola [...] | 2007-09-11 13:53:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 07DARESSALAAM1055 | TANZANIA: FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS DIPLOMATS ON [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Bernard Membe briefed the European and Americas diplomatic corps recently on the deepening crisis in the Union of the Comoros and requested proactive diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue. Membe announced that at the African Union (AU) meeting in Accra (July 2-3),Ar [...] | 2007-07-29 12:01:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM TZ |
| 07DARESSALAAM1136 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY LEAVITT'S AUGUST 23-26 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S.-Tanzanian bilateral relationship has witnessed a sea change over the past two years. With the election of a charismatic, pro-Western President, and increasing levels of U.S. assistance, cooperation has expanded in areas ranging from health and education to counterter [...] | 2007-08-14 15:46:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP EAID PREL PGOV ECON TZ |
| 07DARESSALAAM1348 | ACOTA: TANZANIA INDICATES READINESS TO GET [...] (C) Only ten days after the former Chief of the Tanzanian Peoples Defense Forces (TPDF),General George Waitara, retired from his position, the Mission's Defense Attache (DATT) learned that Tanzania is again ready to consider peacekeeping training through the Department's African Contingency O [...] | 2007-10-04 14:50:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PREL TZ |
| 07DARESSALAAM1483 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S NOVEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) The U.S.-Tanzanian bilateral relationship has witnessed a sea change over the past two years. With the election of a charismatic, pro-Western President, and increasing levels of U.S. assistance, cooperation has expanded in areas ranging from health and education to counterterrorism and [...] | 2007-11-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV EAID ECON TZ |
| 07DARESSALAAM1581 | ZANZIBAR RECONCILIATION TALKS: END GAME OR DEJA [...] (C) Nearly one year after the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and opposition Civic United Front (CUF) parties shook hands January 17, 2007 and began talks to break the political impasse on Zanzibar, CUF leaders claim an agreement is close. Malim Seif Hamad, the CUF Secretary General and three [...] | 2007-12-12 18:27:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV PHUM TZ |
| 07DARESSALAAM489 | EXTRAORDINARY SADC HEADS OF STATE SUMMIT: [...] (C) SUMMARY. Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe briefed U.S., Canada and EU chiefs of mission March 30 to "fill in the gaps" on the outcome of the SADC Summit held March 28-29 in Dar es Salaam. Membe said SADC leaders told Mugabe that violence perpetrated against the opposition was not a [...] | 2007-04-03 21:10:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TZ |
| 07DARESSALAAM819 | TANZANIA: FOREIGN MINISTER MEMBE DISCUSSES [...] (C) The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Bernard Membe, told the Charge June 6 that Tanzania will join an AU mission to stabilize the situation in the Comoros Islands, by sending a company of 200 soldiers to monitor upcoming elections and train the Comoran army. The M [...] | 2007-06-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MOPS IR SO ZI TZ |
| 07DHAKA1028 | CHAT WITH SELF PROCLAIMED COORDINATOR OF A NEW [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with purported king's party leader Dr. Ferdaus Quarishi. Quarishi referred to himself as the coordinator for a movement that is filling a political vacuum with honest and seasoned politicians. He plans to draft a party constitution within three months and hold a party [...] | 2007-06-24 01:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1039 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SENIOR INTERNATIONAL [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Senior International Defense Management Course to be held in Monterey, California. Post requests that vetting be completed by July 5, 2007, to provide sufficient time for process [...] | 2007-06-24 07:27:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1040 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Aircraft Maintenance Officer Course to be held at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas from July 6 to October 12, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 20, 2007. Post requests t [...] | 2007-06-24 07:27:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1068 | A VIEW FROM CHITTAGONG: STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. "Guide and support this government" was the refrain from journalists, businessmen, academics and other elites on a recent visit to Chittagong. While acknowledging problems and imperfections with the government, almost everyone endorsed its anti-corruption agenda and asked the [...] | 2007-07-01 08:20:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM ECON BG |
| 07DHAKA1089 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING (ADDITIONAL NAMES) FOR [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following additional candidates have been selected for participation for the International Defense Management Course to be held in Dhaka from July 15 to 26, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be com [...] | 2007-07-03 06:33:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1095 | GOVERNMENT'S PHOTO VOTER LIST PILOT PROJECT A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Bangladesh Election Commission's three-week pilot project to test new methodologies for compiling the voter list officially ended on June 28. The pilot, which took place in Sreepur north of Bangladesh, registered approximately 46,000 voters and tested different data collect [...] | 2007-07-03 08:29:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA1096 | POLITICAL INSIDER DESCRIBES POSSIBLE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nazim Kamran Chowdhury, a prominent ad executive with close ties to the government, defended the government's decision to put off national elections until late 2008 and described his efforts to persuade the Chief Adviser to assert himself more politically. Chowdhury said the mili [...] | 2007-07-04 23:23:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA1115 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR EXERCISE KHAN QUEST, JULY [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in Exercise Khan Quest, in Ulaan Baatar, from July 24 to August 18, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 8, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by July 19, 2007, to provid [...] | 2007-07-09 01:58:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1149 | BNP REFORMER DISCUSSES STATE OF INTERNAL BNP [...] (C) Summary. On July 9, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) former MP Dr. Ziaul Haque Molla told poloff about the state of reform efforts taking place within the BNP. He said the BNP senior leaders are attempting to convince the National Executive Council to enact reforms, but that Zia is fig [...] | 2007-07-15 07:29:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA1176 | SENIOR ARMY OFFICER BRIEFS EMBASSY ON HASINA ARREST [...] (C) Summary: A senior military official told the Charge d'Affaires a.i. that Hasina was charged with one charge of extortion on July 16, 2007 and other charges would follow. He predicted that Khaleda Zia will soon be arrested and the ban on politics would be lifted after her arrest. He insiste [...] | 2007-07-19 08:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1207 | AT 180 DAYS, A REPORT CARD ON BANGLADESH'S INTERIM [...] (C) SUMMARY. After 180 days in power, the interim government installed after the January 11 declaration of a state of emergency remains popular. It has racked up a series of accomplishments and corrected initial excesses, particularly in the area of human rights. The Election Commission has u [...] | 2007-07-25 08:52:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1252 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR LEGAL ASPECTS IN [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism Course in Dhaka, Bangladesh from August 12-16, 2007. Post vetting was completed on August 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...] | 2007-08-02 02:14:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1279 | NEW RUMORS OF NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PERCOLATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Rumors of a "government of national unity" are making the rounds in Dhaka again. Several "reformists" from both main parties have raised this issue with us, arguing that a government without political elements lacks credibility and will fail. These pro-reform elements also argue [...] | 2007-08-07 07:38:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA128 | 15,000 ARRESTED IN ANTI-CORRUPTION, CRIME SWEEP [...] (C) SUMMARY. The 15,000 people arrested by police, army, and other security personnel since January 11 include established criminals as well as local and student leaders of both the Awami League and especially the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Seven deaths in custody have been reported. Ther [...] | 2007-01-23 09:33:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1280 | GOVERNMENT LACKING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Chief Advisor,s Press Secretary laid out his communications strategy for the caretaker government and discussed the challenges of representing a technocratic and non-political government to the press. He was defensive on the issue of whether the government could be making its [...] | 2007-08-07 07:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1341 | GENERAL DISSATISFACTION WITH CARETAKER GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Rumors of changes in the caretaker government have been a popular parlor game in Dhaka since January 2007. Growing frustration over rising prices, energy shortages, and a lackluster response to flooding have fueled speculation and criticism about the caretaker government. Scenari [...] | 2007-08-16 03:16:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1376 | GOVERNMENT FACES TOUGHEST TEST AS VIOLENT PROTESTS ROCK [...] (SBU) Summary: Bangladesh's eight-month caretaker government is facing its severest political test yet after student protests at Dhaka University spilled into the capital's streets on August 21. If mishandled, the protests threaten to weaken the caretaker government and could tarnish the reput [...] | 2007-08-21 09:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KGOV KDEM ASEC BG |
| 07DHAKA1418 | THE MAN TO SEE: CDA A.I. AND ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) Summary. Providing insight into the complicated relationship between the army and caretaker government, Chief of Army Staff General Moeen Uddin Ahmed told CDA a.i. that the recent violence had been a wake up call for the regime and outlined a series of steps that would be taken in the c [...] | 2007-08-28 09:15:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1439 | FORMER PM KHALEDA ZIA ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, head of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) and her son Arafat Rahman (&Koko8),were arrested in Dhaka September 3 on charges filed by Bangladesh,s Anti-Corruption Commission. The charges relate to the awarding of a bid for a shipping conta [...] | 2007-09-04 01:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KCOR BG |
| 07DHAKA1472 | GOVERNMENT RELAXES BAN ON INDOOR POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an address to the nation on September 9, Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed announced a raft of decisions, including a relaxation of the ban on indoor politics, a deadline for the compilation of a list of corrupt suspects, and a pardon for thousands of people accused of involvement [...] | 2007-09-10 11:24:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1494 | GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS DISCUSS ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed and Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed met September 5 with members of the nation's business community in an effort to strengthen the commercial climate. Business confidence appears to be weakening in the wake of floods, rising prices, the g [...] | 2007-09-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR BG |
| 07DHAKA153 | FINANCE/PLANNING ADVISOR SUPPORTS EARLY ELECTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: Finance and Planning Advisor Islam told the Ambassador that the Caretaker Government should hold elections as soon as possible, but the timing of "possible" depends on reaching consensus on the reforms needed to hold free and fair elections. Protecting human rights and minimi [...] | 2007-01-29 09:15:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA1569 | DAS GASTRIGHT URGES BANGLADESH CARETAKER [...] (C) Summary and Introduction. On September 18-19, SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary John Gastright met with the Chief Adviser and the Foreign Adviser of the Caretaker Government, the Chief of Army Staff, the three-member Election Commission, other officials, businessmen and leading journalists. [...] | 2007-09-26 11:19:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | BG PGOV PREL |
| 07DHAKA159 | BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT PASSES NEW RULES ON STATE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The government has released rules further specifying its emergency powers. The scope is broad, ranging from political to commercial activities, but many of the powers are discretionary as opposed to outright bans. The rules do, however, prohibit media criticism of the governm [...] | 2007-01-30 04:03:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1602 | ENGAGING BANGLADESH'S RAPID ACTION BATTALION: THE [...] (C) Summary: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is the lead Bangladeshi security force for countering terrorism. Yet since its creation the U.S. government has not engaged the 10,000-member paramilitary group because of human rights concerns stemming from persistent reports of extrajudicial kill [...] | 2007-10-04 08:44:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | BG MASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL |
| 07DHAKA1763 | HOME SECRETARY ON COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bangladeshi Home Secretary Abdul Karim, in a November 6 meeting with the Charge d'Affaires a.i., expressed interest in expanded bilateral cooperation on counter-terrorism, including another look at the potential for installing a PISCES program here. Karim reiterated the GOB's de [...] | 2007-11-07 08:20:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CASC PHUM SNAR ASEC BG |
| 07DHAKA1785 | DRAFT BANGLADESH PART I FOR 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) The following is the draft text on Bangladesh of the first part (drugs and chemical control) for the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: 2. (U) I. Summary: A Major narcotics bust in Dhaka in October 2007 supported law enforcement officials' claims of a sharp incr [...] | 2007-11-13 09:39:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1794 | LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS STAFF OFFICERS [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the United Nations Staff Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 14, 2007. Post requests that ve [...] | 2007-11-15 15:02:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1795 | LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS LOGISTICS [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the United Nations Logistics Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 15, 2007. Post requests tha [...] | 2007-11-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA1797 | BANGLADESH CYCLONE SIDR SITREP FOR NOVEMBER 17 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bangladesh is slowly beginning to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr. Unofficial estimates of the number of deaths reached 2,000 by late afternoon November 17. As many as a million homes and an estimated 250,000 acres of crops may have been damaged or destroyed. Loss of [...] | 2007-11-17 14:38:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
| 07DHAKA1814 | US MILITARY OPTIONS IN SUPPORT OF USAID/OFDA IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Members of the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team, Defense Attach, Office of Defense Cooperation chief, USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and EMBOFF participated in briefings with host Armed Forces Division on 19 NOV, and the same group (less USAID/OFDA) [...] | 2007-11-20 17:30:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1826 | BANGLADESH REQUESTS IMMEDIATE US MILITARY SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. CDA a.i. received a broad request from the GOB for immediate U.S. military resources to participate in the response to Cyclone Sidr. U.S. military planners already present in Bangladesh will now begin developing specific operational plans for implementing this request in conjun [...] | 2007-11-21 12:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1830 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #2: USAID/DART's [...] Summary. Storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has affected more than 1.5 million families in Bangladesh as of November 22. Although the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) early warning and preparedness programs have significantly reduced the humanitarian impact of the cyclone, severe rainfall [...] | 2007-11-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
| 07DHAKA1837 | BANGLADESH CHIEF ADVISOR STRESSES CARETAKER [...] (C) Summary: During an hour long one on one meeting, on the eve of Cyclone Sidr's arrival November 15, Fakhruddin Ahmed( Bangladesh,s Chief Advisor explained his goals for the caretaker government and asked for inturoational support for the massive reforms underway. Frank and open, he came a [...] | 2007-11-25 11:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR BG |
| 07DHAKA1838 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #4: The Adverse [...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground, provide recommendations on priority needs, and coordinate relief efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, USAID/B [...] | 2007-11-25 13:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
| 07DHAKA1843 | BANGLADESHI MEDIA FEELING HEAT FROM CARETAKER [...] (C) Summary: Bangladeshi media are under pressure. The Caretaker Government and especially the military apply pressure -- usually discreetly but sometimes not -- to limit coverage that is critical or provokes opposition to their policies. In recent months, authorities have shut down an all- [...] | 2007-11-26 10:27:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | BG KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR |
| 07DHAKA1847 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #5: USAID/DART [...] Summary. Tropical Cyclone Sidr made landfall in southern Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, leading to 3,061 deaths, affecting more than 6.8 million people, and damaging more than 1.2 million homes, according to the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Disaster Management Bureau and the U.N. World F [...] | 2007-11-26 11:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
| 07DHAKA1848 | JOINT INTERAGENCY PLANNING MEETING BETWEEN USG AND GOB TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Planners from the US military elements in Bangladesh and, along with representatives from USAID's Bangladesh mission, USAID/OFDA, and DOS attended a joint, interagency planning and coordination meeting with the Bangladeshi military and civilian agencies November 25 at Armed For [...] | 2007-11-27 00:39:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1902 | DEFINING THE USG ROLE AS BANGLADESH BEGINS ITS [...] (C) Summary: The prompt and effective response to Cyclone Sidr's devastation has saved many thousands of lives and averted a potential political crisis for Bangladesh's weak Caretaker Government. The USG response during this initial phase was a model of Diplomacy-Defense-Development workin [...] | 2007-12-06 11:11:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | BG EAID MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL |
| 07DHAKA1910 | ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION FACES HURDLES, [...] (C) Summary: Prepared with USG assistance, a series of amendments that would strengthen Bangladesh,s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act and a draft Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) are being held up in the Law Ministry, in contravention of instructions from the Chief Adviser that they be enacted by the [...] | 2007-12-09 09:39:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER PREL PGOV KCRM KTFN SNAR BG |
| 07DHAKA1914 | Country Team, USAID/DART, and U.S. Military Coordination [...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in southern Bangladesh, the U.S. Government (USG) organized an interagency response under the leadership of the Department of State that included contributions from USAID and the Department of Defense (DOD). USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Te [...] | 2007-12-10 03:14:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
| 07DHAKA1920 | INDIAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER VISITS BANGLADESH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee December 2 visited cyclone-affected areas of Bangladesh and met with government leaders to discuss bilateral issues including trade, water-sharing and security. Mukherjee announced a temporary waiver of India's ban on rice exports [...] | 2007-12-11 03:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON EAGR BG |
| 07DHAKA1925 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #11: [...] Summary. With the approach of the one-month anniversary of the November 15 cyclone in Bangladesh as well as improvements in humanitarian indicators, USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) will demobilize. USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) will now [...] | 2007-12-11 10:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
| 07DHAKA1933 | Trip Report- from Barisal through SidrQs destruction to [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three weeks after cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, the response has transitioned from the critical first phase, which included U.S. military aircraft assisting in relief supply movement, to the second phase, which will be more centered on longer-term rebuilding and economic rehab [...] | 2007-12-13 04:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA1979 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL WILLARD'S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at the one-year mark of the Caretaker Government as Bangladesh begins to rehabilitate areas of the country hit by Cyclone Sidr, while at the same time continues to prepare for nationwide elections at the end of 2008. Bangladesh largely survived the immediate cri [...] | 2007-12-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PREL MOPS BG |
| 07DHAKA198 | SENIOR FIGURES FROM BOTH PARTIES ARRESTED [...] (C) Summary. Seven former ministers and at least nine other senior figures from both major political parties have been arrested, apparently on suspicion of corruption. Tariq Rahman, the son of the former prime minister, is reportedly hunkered down at home and may face imminent arrest. Popula [...] | 2007-02-05 12:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA1986 | CORRUPTION TRIAL AGAINST SHEIKH HASINA CONTINUES [...] (U) SUMMARY. The corruption trial of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League recommenced with hearings on the framing of charges, when the prosecution presented its evidence for defense examination. Sheikh Hasina used her courtroom appearance to pass a public message through he [...] | 2007-12-31 09:52:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA25 | AWAMI LEAGUE LED NATIONWIDE BLOCKADE OBSERVED WITH [...] (U) Summary: As of 1800 local, the first day of a planned three-day Awami League led nationwide blockade forced shops and businesses in Dhaka to close and stopped intra-city traffic, but triggered only sporadic clashes with police, limited injuries and no deaths. Chittagong port was operationa [...] | 2007-01-07 12:35:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA283 | BANGLADESHIS STILL UPBEAT ABOUT GOVERNMENT BUT [...] (S) Summary. Bangladeshis remain highly supportive of their government's reformist agenda, but the success of its anti-corruption drive is critical -- if the drive falters, so does the rationale for delaying elections and hobbling political parties. Government hints of an election in late 200 [...] | 2007-02-20 10:12:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEN BG |
| 07DHAKA311 | ARMY CHIEF ENVISIONS ELECTIONS IN 18-24 MONTHS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 05:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | MARR PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA329 | ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION PLOWS AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary. The reconstituted Anti-Corruption Commission is off to a quick start. It summoned 50 individuals to its office to declare their wealth, threatened arrest if declarations were found to be false, arrested seven individuals even after they made their declarations, and announced pl [...] | 2007-02-28 07:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BG |
| 07DHAKA342 | AMBITIOUS ARMY PROPOSAL FOR NATIONAL VOTER ID CARD [...] (S/NF) Summary. An ambitious army proposal for a national voter ID card could, if accepted, further delay elections. End summary. 2. (S/NF) Post has obtained a Bangladesh army proposal for creating national and voter identification cards that was presented on February 17 to Chief Advisor Fa [...] | 2007-03-01 08:30:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV MARR PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA35 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BALANCED BUFFALO COURSE [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following units have been selected for participation in the 2007 Balance Buffalo exercise in Sylhet, Bangladesh from April 23 to May 22, 2007. Post vetting was completed on January 3, 2007. Post requests the department conduct Leahy vettin [...] | 2007-01-09 05:01:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA39 | AMBASSADOR AND BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER MEET [...] (C) Summary: In a January 7 meeting the Ambassador and the BHC advised Khaleda Zia of approaches by some within the political parties advocating scenarios, backed by the military, to force Zia and Hasina into political exile. Although acknowledging some dissent within the party, Zia bristl [...] | 2007-01-09 11:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA41 | RAB MAKES SEVERAL JMB ARRESTS - INVESTIGATIONS [...] (C) On January 7, members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided at least four separate locations in Narayanganj, which is an area approximately 15-20 miles southeast of Dhaka and arrested six members of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The raids were based on information derived from [...] | 2007-01-09 11:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL KISL BG |
| 07DHAKA411 | MILITARY-LED BODY TO COMBAT CRIMES AND CORRUPTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 09:05:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA457 | BUSINESSMEN AND POLITICIANS REACTION TO SECOND [...] (C) Summary. Businessmen are starting to express concern about the lack of transparency with the government's anti-corruption lists, particularly as they pertain to several well-regarded businessmen. Meanwhile, an Awami League politician says his inclusion on the lists is being used by senior [...] | 2007-03-19 09:28:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KDEM PREL PGOV BD |
| 07DHAKA458 | BNP SECRETARY GENERAL OUT TO REPLACE ZIA [...] (C) Summary: BNP Secretary General Bhuiyan confirmed to us he aspires to take over the leadership of his party once the military persuades Chairperson Khaleda Zia to leave Bangladesh. He is also considering leading a new national government, replacing the current caretaker regime, to carry ou [...] | 2007-03-19 10:17:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA459 | BUSINESSMEN AND POLITICIANS REACTION TO SECOND [...] (C) Summary. Businessmen are starting to express concern about the lack of transparency with the government's anti-corruption lists, particularly as they pertain to several well-regarded businessmen. Meanwhile, an Awami League politician says his inclusion on the lists is being used by senior [...] | 2007-03-19 23:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KDEM PREL PGOV BD |
| 07DHAKA476 | ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN DEFENDS [...] (C) Summary: Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Hosain Mashhud Chowdhury unequivocally maintained that the ACC has a solid basis for investigating each of the 100 individuals identified in two lists of individuals suspected of corruption. During a March 19 meeting with the Ambassador and [...] | 2007-03-22 07:35:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA484 | MINORITY ACTIVIST KILLED BY ARMY SOLDIERS [...] (SBU) Another allegation of torture and extra-judicial killing made its way into the local press this week. According to newspapers and witness reports, army and police personnel removed four members of the Christian Garo minority in the Madhupur Forest area from a micro-bus in the early after [...] | 2007-03-25 08:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA496 | BANGLADESH: AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; [...] Embassy Dhaka,s State point of contact on avian and pandemic influenza is Carter Wilbur, ESTH officer. Contact information is: Email - wilburcw@state.gov, Phone - (8802) 885-5500 xt 2206, FAX - 882-4008. 2. Embassy Dhaka,s DOD Point of contact on avian and pandemic influenza is LTC Ran [...] | 2007-03-27 08:46:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU MARR MASS CASC BG |
| 07DHAKA505 | ARMY CHIEF SPEAKS OUT [...] (C) Summary. The army chief's populist, politician-bashing speech yesterday has boosted rumors he intends to become president once the incumbent's term expires in September. End Summary. The General Speaks Out ---------------------- 2. (SBU) On March 27, Chief of Army Staff General Moeen [...] | 2007-03-28 09:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA524 | HEAD OF LAND-RIGHTS ORGANIZATION IMPRISONED, BEATEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Shahidul Islam, director of the non-governmental organization Uttaran, was detained at his organization's training center in Tala in southwestern Bangladesh by army personnel on January 27. At a meeting with POLOFF on March 22, Uttaran officials provided first-hand details of Is [...] | 2007-04-01 06:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA529 | AMBASSADOR RAISES DEMOCRACY CONCERNS TO FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Affairs Adviser Chowdhury and the Ambassador discussed USG concerns about Bangladesh's democracy, custodial deaths, Shoaib Choudhury's sedition trial, and continuing registration problems for American visitors to Bangladesh. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On March 28, the Ambas [...] | 2007-04-01 08:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM CVIS PTER BG |
| 07DHAKA53 | DIPLOMATS COORDINATE STRATEGY ON BANGLADESH [...] This is an action cable. Please see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Key diplomatic missions in Bangladesh are coordinating their responses to the ongoing political crisis. The U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the European Commission, Germany (representing the European Union presidency) [...] | 2007-01-11 08:15:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA56 | MILITARY SAYS NO TO POLITICAL ROLE, [...] (C) Summary: Political factions, leading business organizations and civil society are seeking international support for military solutions to the present political crisis, creating intense pressure on the military to act. Our embassy, the British High Commission and other missions in Dhaka [...] | 2007-01-11 09:25:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA560 | MILITARY AMBITIONS IN BANGLADESH [...] (U) COAS Presses Political Agenda: Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed on April 2 renewed his populist attacks on Bangladeshi politicians and called for a "new brand of democracy." Moeen made the remarks in his keynote address to a regional conference hosted by the Bangladesh Po [...] | 2007-04-05 09:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA57 | MILITARY SAYS NO TO POLITICAL ROLE, [...] (C) Summary: Political factions, leading business organizations and civil society are seeking international support for military solutions to the present political crisis, creating intense pressure on the military to act. Our embassy, the British High Commission and other missions in Dhaka [...] | 2007-01-11 09:25:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA576 | THREE MONTHS LATER: DEMOCRACY IN BANGLADESH [...] (C) As the Fakhruddin Ahmed government hits its 90-day mark, the future of Bangladesh's democracy remains uncertain. Elections, the government now admits, are at least 18 months away, both big political parties are reeling from government pressure, the army chief has called for radical const [...] | 2007-04-10 04:01:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PHUM MARR BG |
| 07DHAKA623 | YUNUS EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT AGENDA, [...] (C) Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Mohammad Yunus offered praise of the caretaker government in a meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission, POLOFF and Staff Advisor Manpreet Singh Anand of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on April 8. Yunus acknowledged mistakes had been made -- such as mass demol [...] | 2007-04-16 04:00:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM KGOV BG |
| 07DHAKA629 | BANGLADESH ANNOUNCES ELECTIONS BY END OF 2008 [...] (U) Election timeline: Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed announced April 12 that elections will be held by the end of 2008. The announcement was part of his nationwide address reviewing the Caretaker Government's accomplishments in its first 90 days and reaffirming the CG's commitment "not (t [...] | 2007-04-16 08:41:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA66 | SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL DISCUSSES STATE OF [...] (S) Summary: A senior military official told the Ambassador the military approached President/Chief Advisor Iajuddin Ahmed to press him to declare a state of emergency and resign as Chief Advisor. The military moves were motivated both by UN statements that military participation in a one [...] | 2007-01-12 10:07:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA663 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENTS WITH COAS MOEEN [...] (C) Summary: In an April 16 meeting with Ambassador Butenis and DATT (note taker),Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed described the military's successes in support of the civilian government, cited the need for political party reform, provided assurances the military would remai [...] | 2007-04-22 09:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF KDEM PMIL BG |
| 07DHAKA684 | AMBASSADOR VISITS MADHUPUR, DISCUSSES CUSTODIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. No charges have been filed and no action taken in the case of Choilesh Ritchil, the Christian Garo activist from Madhupur who was killed by the army on March 18. This was the situation as described to the Ambassador by Garo activists when she visited the Pirgachha Catholic Missio [...] | 2007-04-26 04:12:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA685 | BANGLADESH - THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY [...] (C) Summary: The interim government formed following the January 11 declaration of the State of Emergency has pursued an aggressive agenda of political and economic reform coupled with an anti-corruption campaign and institutional change all designed to create conditions conducive to free, [...] | 2007-04-26 04:36:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA743 | TRIP REPORT OF VISIT TO POULTRY FARMS IN SAVAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 2, Econoff visited two poultry farms in the Ashulia area of Savar district north of Dhaka. Both farms had their entire stocks of egg-laying chickens culled due to H5N1 in late March or early April. The two farms demonstrated widely different levels of preparation and so [...] | 2007-05-07 01:31:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU PREL PGOV BG |
| 07DHAKA778 | HASINA'S RETURN SETBACK FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM [...] (C) Summary. Hasina's triumphant return to Bangladesh marks a dramatic setback to government efforts to force the two ladies into exile and create a new political landscape. Taking Hasina, and by necessity Zia, to trial may be Plan B but is fraught with risks for an increasingly risk-averse g [...] | 2007-05-12 04:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA779 | HASINA'S RETURN SETBACK FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM [...] (C) Summary. Hasina's triumphant return to Bangladesh marks a dramatic setback to government efforts to force the two ladies into exile and create a new political landscape. Taking Hasina, and by necessity Zia, to trial may be Plan B but is fraught with risks for an increasingly risk-averse g [...] | 2007-05-12 04:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA803 | AMBASSADOR URGES GOVERNMENT TO RETURN JOURNALIST'S [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador is pressing senior government officials to allow journalist Tasneem Khalil and family to travel to mitigate the negative international reaction to his case. End Summary. 2. (C) Early May 11, security officials (apparently from the military intelligence organizat [...] | 2007-05-17 06:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV BG |
| 07DHAKA848 | USARPAC COMMANDER BROWN'S MEETING WITH BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary. In his meetings with COAS General Moeen and other senior Bangladeshi military officers, USARPAC Commander LTG Brown stressed the importance of returning Bangladesh to democratic, elected governance as soon as possible and noted the difficulties the Thai generals have encountered by [...] | 2007-05-24 07:38:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PHUM PGOV BG |
| 07DHAKA87 | NEW SLATE OF CARETAKER ADVISORS NAMED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ten advisors for the new Caretaker Government have been selected and are in the process of taking office. With a few exceptions, the advisors are viewed as non-partisan and distinguished members of society. END SUMMARY A New Team of Advisors ====================== 2. (S [...] | 2007-01-17 10:09:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BG |
| 07DHAKA890 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PEACE SUPPORT OPERATION [...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Peace Support Operation Instructors Course to be held in Dhaka from June 17 to 28, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 30, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by [...] | 2007-05-31 08:11:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG |
| 07DHAKA907 | "KING'S" PARTY COULD UNDERMINE FREE AND TIMELY [...] (C) Summary. The military continues to court primarily BNP politicians for a new "king's" party, but its failure to displace the "two ladies," the absence of credible leadership for the party, and mixed signals about General Moeen's political ambitions have confused and frustrated potential r [...] | 2007-06-04 09:11:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA93 | AWAMI LEAGUE HOPES FOR ELECTION IN EARLY APRIL [...] (C) On January 18, Major General (R) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, head of security for Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, presented to poloff a one-page Caretaker Government "work schedule" that culminates in the holding of parliamentary elections on April 3. He said he generated the document [...] | 2007-01-18 09:41:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV BG |
| 07DHAKA951 | GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION INTO DEATH OF INDIGENOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The retired judge appointed by the government to investigate the death of Garo activist Choilesh Ritchil in Madhupur on March 18 has had Ritchil's body exhumed for autopsy. Meanwhile, the recent wave of anti-corruption arrests in Dhaka has netted the Chief Conservator of Forests, [...] | 2007-06-12 08:33:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 07DHAKA952 | FOUR MONTHS INTO STATE OF EMERGENCY, BANGLADESH'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Bangladesh passes the four-month anniversary of its state of emergency, the human rights record is mixed. According to local NGOs, deaths caused by law enforcement officials, including "crossfire" killings and deaths in custody, have gone down. While there have been many alleg [...] | 2007-06-12 08:34:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PHUM BG |
| 07DHAKA984 | CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER LAYS OUT PLAN FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Election Commission is preparing to announce a roadmap for elections in mid-July. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Huda clarified the role of the army in the voter registration process, discussed how planning for the registration process was proceeding, and assured the Ambass [...] | 2007-06-17 08:09:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG |
| 07DILI164 | SECURITY OUTLOOK IN ADVANCE OF PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF [...] (C/NF) Summary. With the start of the campaign period for the second round of the presidential election, East Timor for the most part remains calm. Within this context, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) met with International Stabilization Force (ISF) commander Brigadier Mal Rerden April 23 to discu [...] | 2007-04-25 08:31:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR ASEC KPKO UN TT |
| 07DILI327 | PACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL KEATING MEETS TIMOR-LESTE'S LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. In his September 19 visit to Timor-Leste, USPACOM Commander Admiral Timothy J. Keating extended an offer to provide training and assistance appropriate to the country's security needs. PACOM, he said, would work with Timor's leaders to identify which programs and forms of train [...] | 2007-09-25 09:32:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TT |
| 07DILI338 | COMMISSION ON TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP HOLDS HEARINGS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 06:51:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS KAWC TT ID |
| 07DOHA439 | QATARIS WILL SUPPORT KOSOVO RESOLUTION ON PRINCIPLE [...] (C) Summary. Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs told S/R Frank Wisner that Qatar "will support the same position you support" on Kosovo. He appreciated consultation on the matter. He said a Serbian envoy had tried to convince him to back a "middle way" -- but the Qataris were not swa [...] | 2007-05-01 10:58:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XH QA |
| 07DOHA581 | QATARI-U.S. GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE MAY 24 [...] (C) Summary. State/DOD Gulf Security Dialogue delegation met with Qatari MFA, MOD, and MOI officials May 24 in Doha. The Qataris acknowledged the importance of maintaining ambiguity on whether there might be a military attack in response to Iranian plans to develop a nuclear weapon. Noting per [...] | 2007-06-03 08:25:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET | PREL MARR KNNP EPET IR ASEC IZ SU LE QA |
| 07DOHA594 | QATAR LIKELY TO SUPPORT FURTHER IRAN SANCTIONS IF [...] (C) Summary. The GOQ's Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed al-Rumaihi, who holds the UN portfolio, told Ambassador Greg Schulte June 4 that Qatar would likely support additional Iran sanctions in the UN Security Council if the sanctions did not exceed unspecified red lines. Rumaihi [...] | 2007-06-06 11:27:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KNNP IR QA |
| 07DOHA897 | DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S MEETING WITH QATARI [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary John Negroponte met the evening of September 9 at the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Al-Mahmoud, the number two official in the Qatari MFA. Joining Al-Mahmoud were Assistant Minister Mohamad Al-Rumaihi, Director of Eu [...] | 2007-09-12 10:50:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA IR IS IZ KWBG PREL QA |
| 07DUSHANBE1149 | PUTTING THE BRAKES ON TAJIKISTAN'S BACKSLIDING [...] (C) Summary: By comparison to some of its neighbors in Central Asia, Tajikistan does not stand out as particularly authoritarian, corrupt or incompetent. Yet even in this context, where the bar has been lowered considerably in terms of good governance, the Tajik government's policies and re [...] | 2007-08-10 12:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EAID KDEM TI |
| 07DUSHANBE1255 | TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENS IN STYLE [...] (U) On August 26, after 19 months of construction led by the Afghan Engineering Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, $37 million in U.S. funding, 19,100 cubic meters of concrete, and countless demarches and interventions by the Embassy to secure building materials and licenses, Tajik [...] | 2007-09-04 11:04:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID ECIN ELTN TI AF |
| 07DUSHANBE1516 | SETTING THE SCENE FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND'S 1 [...] (C) Executive Summary. Embassy Dushanbe looks forward to your upcoming visit to Tajikistan. Besides the opening of the bridge between Afghanistan and Tajikistan in August, little has changed since your introductory meeting with President Rahmon in June. As this is your second visit, you will [...] | 2007-10-19 13:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS MCAP OVIP TI AF |
| 07DUSHANBE1686 | CENTCOM COMMANDER VISIT BUILDS RELATIONS, FOCUSES ON [...] (C) Summary. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral WiIliam J. Fallon's 6 November 2007 visit to Dushanbe yielded a second meeting with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and first-time discussions with Defense Minister General-Colonel (U.S. 3-star equivalent) Sherali Khairulloyev and [...] | 2007-11-23 14:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MASS PGOV TI AF IR |
| 07DUSHANBE256 | TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENING COULD HELP HIGHLIGHT SUCCESS IN [...] (C) The U.S.-funded bridge between Tajikistan and Afghanistan serves as the most visible symbol of our efforts to link South and Central Asia and establish lasting trade and transportation ties between the two regions. In Tajikistan, where the Chinese, Russians and Iranians have all donated [...] | 2007-02-16 12:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TI AF |
| 07DUSHANBE314 | FEBRUARY 2007 BORDER WRAP-UP REPORT [...] (SBU) An interagency Department of State and Defense team conducted a demining policy assessment visit February 5-7. The purpose of the trip was to obtain an initial assessment of the landmine problem, and make recommendations to the PCC sub-group regarding the viability of allocating resourc [...] | 2007-03-05 04:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR SNAR TI AF |
| 07DUSHANBE44 | TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER PITCHES HIGH PROFILE BRIDGE OPENING [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel),Tajik Foreign Minister Zaripov proposed a high profile opening for the United States Government funded bridge linking Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Pyanj river. The Embassy fully supports a strong public diplomacy pa [...] | 2007-01-09 12:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS KPAO TI AF |
| 07DUSHANBE860 | AFGHANS IN TAJIKISTAN -- READY FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: While a common perception amongst Tajik officials and academics is that the Afghans are all poor, coming from a war-torn country with little education and healthcare, Afghan businessmen are surprisingly successful and growing wealthy in Tajikistan, and they have an equally dim vi [...] | 2007-06-10 07:45:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV EAID TI AF |
| 07DUSHANBE886 | SETTING THE SCENE FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND'S JUNE [...] (C) Executive Summary. Embassy Dushanbe welcomes you on your first trip to Tajikistan. This will be an important step in forging personal relationships with key Tajik leaders. We enjoy friendly relations with this small but strategic country on the Afghan border. In addition to DoD and CENT [...] | 2007-06-13 09:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON EAID TI |
| 07DUSHANBE924 | U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL ASSAULTED AND MEDEVACED [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On June 17 at 0115 hours, three temporary duty military personnel and one private American citizen were severely beaten outside a local night club. Members of the team estimated the assault lasted for twenty minutes and around thirty attackers participated. They subsequentl [...] | 2007-06-18 13:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC AMED CASC PREL TI |
| 07DUSHANBE969 | EXTENDED MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAHMON DOMINATES CENTCOM [...] (C) Summary. In an unexpectedly long meeting with the Tajik President, which dominated Admiral Fallon's visit June 19, Emomali Rahmon hailed U.S.-Tajik relations as one of the first priorities in Tajik foreign policy and stated that Tajikistan is interested in further development of these rela [...] | 2007-06-28 11:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MASS PGOV TI AF IR |
| 07EFTOBAGHDAD1116 | REFERRAL OF INTERPRETER ESSAM HAMMOUDI AHMED [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer Essam Hammoudi Ahmed to the US Refugee Admissions Program. 2. (SBU) Biographical information: Principal applicant NAME: Essam Hammoudi Ahmed DOB: July 1, 1980 POB: Iraq Passport Number: S 1647887 Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Dependents [...] | 2007-03-31 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
| 07FRANKFURT3223 | Kurt Beck: Profile of a Pragmatic Social Democrat [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Social Democratic/SPD national chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck rose to power as a centrist leader combining political bridge-building with charm appeal to a working-class and often rural base. Having achieved prominence via hard work and charisma rathe [...] | 2007-07-09 10:42:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR GM |
| 07FRANKFURT445 | Stuttgart Ansar al-Islam Trial Continues [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ongoing trial in Stuttgart of three suspected members of Ansar al-Islam is now expected to last at least until April - and perhaps even until the fall. The Federal Prosecutor has charged the three with plotting to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi during a visit t [...] | 2007-01-31 10:27:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM |
| 07FRANKFURT594 | RAF Parole/Clemency Bids Divide Body Politic, Legal System; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the controversial parole bid of German "Red Army Faction" left-wing terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt -- a case with implications for other incarcerated RAF members -- the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe has recommended that the Stuttgart Regional Court grant Mohnhaupt pa [...] | 2007-02-08 11:40:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KCRM ASEC GM |
| 07FRANKFURT671 | Social Democratic Leader on Trans-Atlantic Relations, U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 1, national SPD Chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck spoke with the Consul General at the state chancellery in Mainz, praising trans-Atlantic relations, raising concerns about military stationing issues, and offering his take on goals for the Germ [...] | 2007-02-12 14:14:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR GM |
| 07FREETOWN387 | SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE DELIVERS FIRST VERDICT [...] (U) On June 20, three judges in Trial Chamber II of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) delivered a guilty verdict against three former leaders of the renegade Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) who were on trial accused of war crimes and other serious violations of international h [...] | 2007-06-20 19:38:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SL |
| 07FREETOWN439 | SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE HANDS DOWN SENTENCES IN THE [...] (U) On June 20, the three judges of Trial Chambers II at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) found Alex Tamba Brima, Brima Bazzy Kamara, and Santigie Kanu, three former Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) leaders, guilty of 11 of 14 counts of crimes against humanity (reftel). On Jul [...] | 2007-07-23 17:20:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR KAWC SL |
| 07FREETOWN464 | SPECIAL COURT DELIVERS GUILTY VERDICT IN CDF TRIAL [...] (U) On August 2, Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa of the Civil Defence Force (CDF) were found guilty of war crimes committed during Sierra Leone's decade long civil war by a majority of the three judges of Trial Chamber I in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). Fofana was convicted on f [...] | 2007-08-02 20:13:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR KAWC SL |
| 07FREETOWN493 | OPPOSITION PARTY VOICES CONCERN ABOUT RUNOFF [...] (C) During an August 17 meeting with the Ambassador, All People's Congress (APC) presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma voiced concern about the 2007 national elections turning into a replay of the 1967 elections, when the national elections, which the APC had won over the ruling party, were [...] | 2007-08-17 19:12:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SL |
| 07FREETOWN547 | SIERRA LEONEANS CAUTIOUSLY PREPARED TO CAST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The official campaign period for the Sierra Leone run-off presidential election ended at 6 p.m., September 6, amid relative calm. Civil society successfully conducted an impromptu peace march without disruption and with only minor traffic congestion in Freetown. Both candidate [...] | 2007-09-07 20:14:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SL |
| 07FREETOWN58 | SIERRA LEONE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT [...] The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) Ministry of Trade and Industry is actively working to increase trade and investment. 2. Investment Laws: A new Investment Code went into effect in 2005. It is designed to put Sierra Leone at par with western countries concerning the protection of compa [...] | 2007-01-24 17:46:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV KTBD OPIC EFIN USTR ETRD SL |
| 07FREETOWN689 | BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW SIERRA LEONEAN [...] The initial group of cabinet Ministers in the new government has been announced by President Koroma. The process of confirmation by parliament has been completed for most nominees. Three Ministers were confirmed on October 19, and 12 more confirmed on October 24. Biographic information for 15 [...] | 2007-11-19 17:17:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SL |
| 07FREETOWN91 | MANU RIVER UNION SECRETARY GENERAL FEARS RETURN TO [...] (C) Meeting in his downtown Freetown office on February 8, Manu River Union (MRU) Secretary General Aliou Diallo briefed the Ambassador and DCM on efforts to resuscitate the MRU, which will be reported septel. When the conversation turned to the crisis in Guinea, Diallo, who returned February [...] | 2007-02-08 18:48:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PREL GV SL |
| 07GENEVA1371 | Five manslaughter incidents - Geneva 2007 Communications [...] (U) Mission has received a communication from Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions regarding five incidents of manslaughter. It is number 12 on the Geneva 2007 Communications Log. 2. (U) Begin text of letter: Excellency, I have the honour to address you [...] | 2007-05-30 15:05:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNHRC |
| 07GEORGETOWN1042 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART I [...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control Guyana: I. Summary Guyana is a transit point for cocaine destined for North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, but not in quantities sufficient to impact the U.S. market. In [...] | 2007-11-26 18:31:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN795 | JAGDEO PROMOTES LT. COLONELS TO DEFENSE GENERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that Coast Guard Captain Gary Best, one of four officers promoted to O-6 rank last week, will be appointed the next Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defense Force (GDF). The other three new colonels will take senior positions in the GDF General Sta [...] | 2007-08-24 13:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MCAP PGOV PINS PREL GY |
| 07GRENADA151 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: OCTOBER 14 - 20, 2007 [...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. Grenada's Private Sector Warms to VAT Private sector entities are expressing confidence in the eventual imple [...] | 2007-10-24 17:53:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAGR PGOV GJ |
| 07GUADALAJARA347 | ANOTHER BORDER PROBLEM: JALISCO AND COLIMA SPAR OVER [...] Summary: Boundary issues are not solely confined to Mexico's international frontiers. A long-running land dispute between Colima and Jalisco has heated up in recent months, with both sides making sharp declarations and dispatching extra police forces to their common border. The Mexican Army [...] | 2007-07-12 16:31:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EINV SOCI MX |
| 07GUANGZHOU1214 | (C) Visit of Comoran President Draws PLA Officers [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reasons 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (C) At least one People's Liberation Army (PLA) general from the Lanzhou Military Region attended the meeting between Union of Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi and Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua i [...] | 2007-11-14 06:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH CN |
| 07GUANGZHOU1249 | CPSC RICH O'BRIEN VISITS FACTORY THAT PRODUCED TOXIC AQUA [...] (SBU) Summary: How does a potential toy nightmare and company branding problem get underway? In the case of Aqua Dots, it was partially caused by having just one manufacturing option. The toxic adhesive formula used in the Aqua Dots was developed locally by the Chinese manufacturer after the [...] | 2007-11-29 06:53:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
| 07GUATEMALA1135 | LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPEAK OUT AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemala's leading presidential candidates highlighted the key challenges facing Guatemala and outlined their economic plans during a June 6 public forum hosted by the Chamber of Industry. All five candidates stressed the need for macroeconomic stability and greater economic [...] | 2007-06-11 23:57:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI ELAB GT |
| 07GUATEMALA1136 | LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPEAK OUT AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemala's leading presidential candidates highlighted the key challenges facing Guatemala and outlined their economic plans during a June 6 public forum hosted by the Chamber of Industry. All five candidates stressed the need for macroeconomic stability and greater economic [...] | 2007-06-11 23:59:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI ELAB GT |
| 07GUATEMALA1802 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day pre-election trip, poloffs visited 14 municipalities in seven departments throughout western and southwestern Guatemala, including nine municipalities identified as "conflictive areas." TSE delegates expressed confidence in election preparations despite weather [...] | 2007-09-07 17:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM SNAR KDEM SMIG PHUM ECON SOCI GT |
| 07GUATEMALA1941 | PEREZ MOLINA OUTLINES SECOND-ROUND STRATEGY [...] (C) During a September 18 meeting with the Ambassador, center-right presidential candidate Otto Perez Molina of the Partido Patriota outlined his strategy for winning the November 4 run-off election with the support of voters of the center-right GANA. Perez Molina said he was "certain" that non [...] | 2007-09-25 19:42:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM SNAR PHUM GT |
| 07GUATEMALA2013 | PEREZ MOLINA TAKES THE LEAD IN GUATEMALA'S [...] (C) The latest major poll gives center-right Patriota candidate Perez Molina a nearly nine-point lead over center-left UNE candidate Colom, but the poll likely overstates Perez Molina's support somewhat. Nonetheless, Perez Molina, who finished second in the September 9 first-round election, [...] | 2007-10-05 17:50:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM GT |
| 07GUATEMALA2252 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COLEMAN [...] Your November 23 - 24 visit will afford you a chance to view adoptions processes and practices in Guatemala. You will also have the opportunity to review our efforts to promote economic development, poverty alleviation, democracy, and rule of law, following the 1996 signing of the Peace Ac [...] | 2007-11-19 19:37:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CONS PREL GT |
| 07GUATEMALA2325 | CODEL REID'S VISIT TO GUATEMALA [...] (SBU) Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid led a bipartisan delegation of six senators to Guatemala Nov. 30 - Dec. 2. Reid opened the CODEL's November 30 meeting with President Berger by saying that the USG should give greater attention to social issues in Latin America, noting Guatemala's prob [...] | 2007-12-05 17:46:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV SNAR GT |
| 07GUATEMALA347 | GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 22:31:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT |
| 07GUATEMALA352 | GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - 009 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 15:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT |
| 07GUATEMALA362 | GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 21:57:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT |
| 07GUATEMALA417 | GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 21:32:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT |
| 07GUATEMALA469 | GUATEMALA: AMENDMENT TO DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Per previous consultations between PM/PPA and U.S. MILGP Guatemala, post needs to amend a previous diplomatic agreement concerning U.S. Army Corps of Engineers support for the renovation of the Guatemalan Army Regional Peacekeeping [...] | 2007-03-06 22:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA MASS MOPS KPKO PREL EAID AFIN GT |
| 07GUATEMALA57 | GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-10 19:57:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT |
| 07GUATEMALA85 | GUATEMALA: RESPONSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY VETTING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-12 17:06:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT |
| 07HANOI1133 | INL-FUNDED COUNTERNARCOTICS TASK FORCE UNIT DELIVERS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Counternarcotics Task Force Unit (TFU) in Son La Province, set up as part of an INL-funded UNODC project, plays a key role in coordinating interagency efforts in the province's fight against drug trafficking. Although the project concluded in December 2006 (Ref A),the coord [...] | 2007-06-20 02:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PINS VM |
| 07HANOI1419 | AMBASSADOR'S OUTCALL WITH VIETNAM'S MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) On 30 July, Ambassador Marine conducted a final call on Senior General Phung Quang Thanh, the Minister of Defense. In their discussion, the Ambassador raised a wide range of issues including high level visits, ship visits, fullest possible accounting (MIA),International Military educatio [...] | 2007-08-09 11:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER MARR VM |
| 07HANOI1420 | MEETING BETWEEN U.S. ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 8 during the Pacific Armies Commanders' Conference (PACC) in Sydney, Australia General George Casey Jr., Chief of Staff, United States Army and Lieutenant General John Brown III, Commander, U.S. Army of the Pacific met with Lieutenant General Nguyen Huu Kham, Deputy C [...] | 2007-08-09 11:02:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PTER VM |
| 07HANOI1801 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL WITH VIETNAM'S MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by Defense Attache, met with Vietnam Minister of Defense, Senior General Phung Quang Thanh, on 19 September 2007 for an introductory call. After a warm welcome, Minister Thanh noted that Vietnam seeks to increase defense cooperation with the United States, [...] | 2007-10-17 02:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PTER VM |
| 07HANOI1892 | 2007-2008 INCSR PART I -- VIETNAM [...] The following is Embassy Hanoi's submission for the narcotics section of the 2007-2008 INCSR. 2. Begin INCSR text: Vietnam I. Summary The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continued to make progress in its counternarcotics efforts during 2007. Specific actions included: sustained effor [...] | 2007-11-06 00:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR VM |
| 07HANOI1966 | SCENESETTER FOR ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR [...] (SBU) Acting Assistant Secretary Mull: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important contribution to the growing U.S.-Vietnam relationship, especially in advance of Vietnam taking its seat on the UNSC next year. Your visit comes on the heels of Novem [...] | 2007-11-20 07:37:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV OTRA VM |
| 07HANOI2051 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY COMMANDER, UNITED STATES [...] (SBU) Admiral, your visit to Vietnam is well timed to complement the successes of recent trips by other senior civilian and military leaders and will be an important contribution to the growing U.S.-Vietnam relationship, especially in advance of Vietnam taking its seat on the UNSC next year. [...] | 2007-12-07 04:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MOPS PHSA VM |
| 07HANOI210 | COMMANDER, U.S. PACIFIC FLEET KICKSTARTS NAVAL [...] (C) During a recent visit to Hanoi and Hai Phong, Vietnam, the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Gary Roughead, proposed a range of new initiatives intended to broaden U.S.-Vietnam naval cooperation, including cooperation in the fields of Meteorological-Oceanographic (METOC) predict [...] | 2007-01-31 10:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PHSA VM |
| 07HANOI550 | GVN RESPONSE TO U.S. ARF INITIATIVES AND ITS ASSESSMENT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 22, Poloff presented reftel points and proposals on ARF initiatives at the MFA ASEAN Department. While the reaction to the nonproliferation Inter-Sessional Meeting ("ISM") and cooperation statement initiatives was positive, the proposal to create ISM working groups rep [...] | 2007-03-22 08:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ARF MARR PARM VM |
| 07HARARE1007 | ZIMBABWE SANCTIONS: IDENTIFIERS FOR TARGETED [...] (C) This cable provides unclassified identifier data for the newly proposed Zimbabwe sanctions targets. Note that in each case involving a family relationship, the family ties have been confirmed by Embassy Political/Economic Section contacts or internet sources. Where internet sources are [...] | 2007-11-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI |
| 07HARARE115 | ZANU-PF FLEXES MUSCLES IN UPCOMING BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary. ZANU-PF is expected to win the February 17 Chiredzi South by-election, also being contested by candidates from both MDC factions and the United People's Party (UPP),a ZANU-PF off-shoot. The MDC and UPP candidates are from the area and belong to its dominant Shangaan ethnic gr [...] | 2007-02-13 15:07:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI |
| 07HARARE195 | POLICE BRUTALLY DISRUPT PRAYER RALLY AND ARREST [...] (C) Security forces on March 11 brutally suppressed a prayer rally planned by the Save Zimbabwe Campaign and arrested more than 100, including MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and other key opposition leaders. Observers SIPDIS report that more than 1,000 police officers were deployed to th [...] | 2007-03-12 15:39:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI |
| 07HARARE270 | JONATHAN MOYO ON MUGABE SUCCESSION, U.S. POLICY [...] (C) Jonathan Moyo, former Minister of Information and erstwhile Mugabe intimate, told the Ambassador March 30 that Mugabe is aware that there is diminishing support for him within ZANU-PF and around the country. However, if Mugabe decides to run for president again in 2008, Moyo said it is u [...] | 2007-03-30 12:30:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI |
| 07HARARE301 | LABOR STAYAWAY PRODUCES MIXED RESULTS [...] (SBU) The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) two-day nationwide stay-away attracted a mixed response. Many businesses in Harare and other major cities closed or had limited operations at the start of the first day with a greater percentage of workers in the country's depressed industria [...] | 2007-04-05 16:16:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB ZI |
| 07HARARE311 | MUTAMBARA BACKS TSVANGIRAI FOR 2008 [...] (C) Arthur Mutambara, leader of the MDC's pro-Senate faction told the Ambassador April 10 that both MDC factions would work together in a coalition, fielding one candidate for president, and that anti-Senate faction leader Morgan Tsvangirai would be that candidate. Mutambara was confident S [...] | 2007-04-12 10:59:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI |
| 07HARARE319 | SUBJECT: DIAMONDS: THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE,S [...] (C) Zimbabwe is at risk of losing its Kimberley Process Certification as a result of the how the GOZ has handled the discovery of diamond deposits in Eastern Zimbabwe. The state-owned Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) seized the deposits from African Consolidated Resources (ACR) [...] | 2007-04-13 07:41:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EMIN ETRD ZI |
| 07HARARE418 | MDC CEDES BY-ELECTION TO ZANU-PF [...] (SBU) The two factions of the MDC have decided not to contest the Zaka East Parliamentary By-election on June 9, virtually ensuring victory for the ZANU-PF candidate, retired Colonel Livingstone Chineka, who is part of the Mujuru faction. Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (ZESN) said it pla [...] | 2007-05-14 15:42:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ZI |
| 07HARARE513 | ZANU-PF WINS PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION AMID LITTLE [...] (SBU) As expected (Ref A),the ruling party won the Zaka East Parliamentary by-election on June 9, after both factions of the MDC boycotted the race. ZANU-PF candidate retired Brigadier General Livingstone Chineka polled 11,162 votes against only 2,376 combined for two smaller parties. Chinek [...] | 2007-06-11 15:16:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI |
| 07HARARE795 | GONO ON MUGABE'S FUTURE, ECONOMY [...] (C) President Robert Mugabe has been urged by those closest to him to leave office, according to Gideon Gono, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, in a meeting with Charge on September 1. In particular, Mugabe's personal physician advised him to step down immediately to preserve his hea [...] | 2007-09-05 10:32:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ZI |
| 07HARARE822 | CABINET PANEL CONCEDES PRICE BLITZ DISASTER, GONO [...] (C) A Cabinet panel reviewing the operation of the Taskforce on Price Monitoring and Stabilization learned on September 5 that the crackdown had had a disastrous effect on the supply of food and goods and was also fomenting unrest across the country, according to Munyaradzi Kereke, Senior Adv [...] | 2007-09-10 16:22:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ASEC ZI |
| 07HARARE879 | SANCTIONS II: SDN IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION [...] (C) This cable provides a comprehensive listing of all the material post has developed on our sanctions targets, including the updating of material in reftel. Efforts to obtain biographical information on the below-listed individuals have included: --Consular Section reviewed visa files at P [...] | 2007-09-28 09:42:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI |
| 07HARARE883 | SANCTIONS II: SDN IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION [...] (C) This cable provides a comprehensive listing of all the material post has developed on our sanctions targets, including the updating of material in reftel. Efforts to obtain biographical information on the below-listed individuals have included: --Consular Section reviewed visa files at P [...] | 2007-10-01 10:08:00 | Embassy Harare | SECRET | PREL PGOV ZI |
| 07HARARE940 | POLICE BEAT PEACEFUL MARCHERS CALLING FOR NEW [...] (U) Riot police used baton sticks to disperse more than 50 NCA activists peacefully marching in Harare on October 16 for a new constitution. Several NCA activists were arrested and released without charge and more than 30 were injured. The assault comes on the heels of the arrest of 75 WOZA m [...] | 2007-10-17 14:52:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ZI |
| 07HAVANA609 | CUBA'S MASSIVE MOBILIZATION CAPACITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite its limited resources, the GOC has proven that, when it wants to, it can successfully mobilize people and assets. This cable describes some examples of this and provides a window into the existing organizational infrastructures and capabilities. It is an open question ho [...] | 2007-06-26 15:24:00 | US Interests Section Havana | SECRET | ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU |
| 07HELSINKI322 | FINLAND CALLS FOR UNIFIED EU RESPONSE TO ESTONIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The escalating dispute between Russia and Estonia over the Bronze Soldier has prompted an unusually strong criticism of Russia's behavior from senior Finnish officials, who are typically known for their caution in dealing with Russia. The President and the FM have issued strong s [...] | 2007-05-04 13:39:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EUN FI |
| 07HELSINKI416 | SCENESETTER: FINNISH FM KANERVA,S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Kanerva's June 11 visit gives us an excellent opportunity to capitalize on the new GOF's stated goal of improving relations with Washington. Finland has a center-right government for the first time since 1995, and the right message from the Secretary will lay out our expectatio [...] | 2007-06-01 13:04:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS FI |
| 07HELSINKI51 | FINNISH RESPONSE -- FULL COURT PRESS FOR [...] (SBU) PolChief discussed NATO/ISAF's new "Comprehensive Approach" to bolstering the mission in Afghanistan and the Jan. 26 and Feb. 8 NATO ministerials (reftels) with Finnish Roving Ambassador to Afghanistan Antti Koistinen and MFA Director for Security Policy Kimmo Lahdevirta on Jan. 25. I [...] | 2007-01-26 09:34:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF PK FI |
| 07HELSINKI636 | CHIEF OF THE FINNISH DEFENSE FORCES MEETING WITH [...] (C) ADM Juhani Kaskeala, Chief of the Finnish Defense Forces (CHOD),briefed the Ambassador on his recent trip to Russia, where he met with the Russian Army Chief of Staff (and Deputy Defense Minister) Yuri Baluyevsky. Kaskeala and Baluyevsky discussed, inter alia, the US missile defense initi [...] | 2007-08-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR GL FI |
| 07HILLAH100 | KARBALA: SERMON FOCUSED ON GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala cable. 2. (U) Again this week Sayed Ahmed al-Safi, Head of the Al Abbas shrine office, conducted the Friday sermon at Karbala's al-Husain shrine. There is no official word about the absence of Sheikh Abdul Mehdi al-Karbalae at this time. This sermon focused on th [...] | 2007-07-07 15:17:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IZ PTER |
| 07HILLAH101 | BABIL GOVERNOR DISCUSSES RECONSTRUCTION, SADR MEETING, [...] (C) Summary: On July 5, Babil Governor Salem Saleh Mahdi Al-Muslimawi discussed his security and reconstruction with Third Infantry Division Deputy Commanding General (DCG),MNF-I Strategic Effects Deputy Commander Brigadier General and PRT representatives at the Regional Embassy Office in Bab [...] | 2007-07-10 13:44:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PTER ECON IZ IR |
| 07HILLAH103 | KARBALA: SERMON FOCUSES ON THE CONSTITUTION AND SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala cable. 2. (U) Again this week Sayed Ahmed al-Safi, Head of the Al Abbas shrine office, conducted the Friday sermon at Karbala's al-Husain shrine. Sheikh Abdul Mehdi al-Karbalae reportedly headed the recent meeting of the Karbala Provincial security body, but he wa [...] | 2007-07-14 17:40:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC PTER |
| 07HILLAH109 | KARBALA AND ANBAR SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala and PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The governors of Anbar and Karbala provinces met at the Regional Embassy Office (REO) in al-Hillah on July 17 to talk about security concerns along their provinces' shared border. By the conclusion both governorates s [...] | 2007-07-19 07:56:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV IZ SA |
| 07HILLAH111 | KARBALA: SHRINES ANNOUNCE TRIBAL SHEIKHS CONFERENCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala cable. 2. (U) Sayed Ahmed al-Safi, Head of the Al Abbas shrine office, conducted the Friday sermon at Karbala's al-Husain shrine. The message of this sermon focused on government support of budget execution, security and inviting leaders around Iraq to attend a re [...] | 2007-07-21 14:12:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV |
| 07HILLAH12 | EYES ON THE SECURITY PRIZE, BABIL GOVERNOR PUTS HIS BEST [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (S) Summary and comment: In a meeting with Babil PRT that proved more of a two-way exchange than previous ones, the Babil governor requested stronger U.S. support for reconstruction projects, spoke somewhat favorably of cooperation with the Coalition in m [...] | 2007-01-20 15:12:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM IR IZ |
| 07HILLAH13 | WORRISOME WARRANTS AND OTHER TALES FROM BABIL [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. (C) Summary: Two cases involving a total of fifteen warrants issued in Karbala for Sunni citizens of Babil have the provincial police chief and chief justice worried that extradition may serve as cover for nefarious sectarian or anti-Ba'athist ends. One of [...] | 2007-01-22 09:44:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI PTER KDEM IZ |
| 07HILLAH145 | KARBALA PROVINCE GOES PIC [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala Cable 2. (SBU) Summary: On October 29, Karbala Province became a Province under Iraqi control (PIC). The arrival of PIC status was celebrated in a three-hour ceremony hosted by Karbala Province and attended by the Prime Minister and Karbala notables, 3ID MG [...] | 2007-11-03 06:43:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MARR IZ |
| 07HILLAH146 | NAJAF DEPUTY GOVERNOR PRAISES USG COLLABORATION, SEEKS [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During an October 31, 2007 meeting in Najaf with PRT Najaf Team Leader, PRT Engineer, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South (GRS) Engineers, the Najaf Deputy Governor praised the supportive role the USG is playing in Najaf, while c [...] | 2007-11-03 11:50:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
| 07HILLAH147 | IRAQI GENERAL OFFERS UPBEAT ASSESSMENT OF IMPROVED SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi general offers reasonably upbeat assessment on the improving security climate, despite recent violence in the wake of a concentrated sweep through a JAM-controlled area of Diwaniyah City. Local population appears to support increased efforts to rid the area of Jaish al-M [...] | 2007-11-04 12:39:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ |
| 07HILLAH154 | INFLUENTIAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT HUSSEIN ALI AL-SHALAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Influential sheik and COR member Al-Shalan sees South Central as crucial to Iraq's future. Security situation improving. He fears a weakened Sadr militia will increase influence of Badrists, who "have an agenda beyond Iraq's borders." He believes that Islamists are incapable [...] | 2007-11-13 13:54:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR IZ |
| 07HILLAH167 | IMPROVED SECURITY IN QADISIYAH BODES WELL FOR POSSIBLE PRT [...] (U) This is a joint DS-PRT Diwaniyah cable. 2. (C) Summary: Iraqi general offers upbeat assessment on the improved security climate in Diwaniyah. MND CS Commander concurs but is concerned that Diwaniyah's Governor remains an obstacle to progress. MND CS Commander and 8th IAD General [...] | 2007-12-08 11:33:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR IZ |
| 07HILLAH175 | DEPUTY GOVERNOR DESCRIBES SOUTH KOREA TRIP, AIRPORT FOLLOW [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) Deputy Governor Abtan met with PRT Leader and PRToffs at the proposed new location for PRT Najaf at former Camp Endeavor next to the airport on December 18. Abtan described his travel to the Republic of Korea (ROK) earlier this month. He noted that t [...] | 2007-12-28 11:30:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR IZ PREL |
| 07HILLAH6 | BABIL PROVINCIAL ELECTION SHAPSHOT: CHASING A SHADOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Corruption, stagnation and not wanting to repeat the mistakes of two years ago figure among the reasons Babil citizens would like to see elections take place sooner rather than later. An extended delay in scheduling them could plunge more potential voters into cynical abstention [...] | 2007-01-10 09:04:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV SOCI KDEM IZ |
| 07HILLAH86 | IRANIAN-SUPPORTED GROUP SAID TARGETING SISTANI AIDES, WOULD [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (S) Summary: A civil society activist with strong religious credentials recently warned PRT leader that an Iranian-controlled group called Asa'ib Al-Haq, based in Diwaniya, is serving as a tool in Iran's efforts to take control of the hawza, the Shi'a relig [...] | 2007-06-07 04:37:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER KISL IZ IR |
| 07HILLAH95 | KARBALA: GOVERNOR PUTS HIS HEART INTO THE TRANSFER OF THE [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala classified cable. 2. (U) On June 27, Karbala Governor Aqeel Mahmood al-Khazali met with 3ID Deputy Commanding General (DCG) and PRT representatives at the Regional Embassy Office (REO) in al-Hillah. This was the first meeting betwe [...] | 2007-06-30 08:42:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
| 07HILLAH96 | CORRECTED COPY: KARBALA: GOVERNOR PUTS HIS HEART INTO THE [...] (U) This is a corrected copy of Hillah 00000095 (wrong classification) a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala classified cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On June 27, Karbala Governor Aqeel Mahmood al-Khazali met with 3ID Deputy Commanding General (DCG) and PRT representatives at the Regional [...] | 2007-06-30 08:50:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY1220 | LABOR ACTIVISTS CONVICTED [...] (SBU) Four United Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO) activists were convicted on December 10 for "abusing democracy and freedom rights to infringe upon the interests of the State and the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and citizens." The activists received sentences from one [...] | 2007-12-12 15:17:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB SOCI VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY157 | SAIGON INSIDERS ON COMMUNIST PARTY POLITICS [...] (C/NF) : Media contacts report that the Politburo has not yet begun to focus on the planned visit of President Nguyen Minh Triet to the United States. Triet has recovered fully from his bout with prostate cancer, but politically is weak. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung is consolidating power; [...] | 2007-02-14 10:22:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL CH VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY168 | FORMER PM KIET: STILL PRESSING REFORM [...] (SBU) Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, one of the fathers of Vietnam's economic reform and a doyen of the Communist Party, told the Consul General February 12 that improved U.S. ties was one of the biggest milestones for Vietnam in 2006. The "full normalization" of ties with the United Stat [...] | 2007-02-15 11:37:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV KCOR VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY880 | TIGHT LIPPED DEPORTEES IN GIA LAI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 03:07:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM CB VM |
| 07HONGKONG1278 | LABOR DAY WITH THE PLA - MACAU STYLE [...] (U) Similar to the display on May 1 in Hong Kong (see reftel a),the People's Liberation Army (PLA) held an "open day" in Macau at its compound on Taipa Island. The "Macau Post Daily" reported that 2,500 residents visited the barracks on Labor Day and watched a flag raising ceremony and mili [...] | 2007-05-10 09:45:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL SOCI CH HK MC |
| 07HONGKONG1777 | HONG KONG COMMEMORATES TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Hong Kong celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Special Administration Region's (SAR) reversion to the PRC with a mixture of official celebrations and the annual pro-democracy demonstration. PRC President Hu Jintao helped mark the anniversary by personally swearing in [...] | 2007-07-03 09:46:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH |
| 07IRANRPODUBAI60 | NEW IRGC HEAD JAFARI DESCRIBED AS A BETTER SOLDIER AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-04 16:20:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | IR PGOV MARR PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD1124 | PAKISTAN'S CHIEF JUSTICE SUSPENDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 9, President Pervez Musharraf suspended Pakistan's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on various corruption charges. Chaudhry had developed a reputation for judicial activism during his short time on the bench and ruled against the Government of [...] | 2007-03-11 11:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD1270 | FOREIGN SECRETARY CONVENES AMBASSADOR TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan convened Ambassador March 19 to discuss the controversy surrounding President Musharraf's decision to make the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court "non-functional." Khan stressed that Pakistan was not in a "crisis situation." He admitted that government offic [...] | 2007-03-20 07:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD133 | STATUS OF FRONTIER CORPS [...] (SBU) On December 29, 2006, PolCouns raised with the MFA's America's Desk post's request for information regarding the legal status of the Frontier Corps. (Reftel) Post had twice earlier requested the MFA's assistance in parsing the legal underpinnings of the Frontier Corps, as the issue ha [...] | 2007-01-09 13:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD1631 | CODEL LOWEY MEETS WITH PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-12 12:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PHUM PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD1647 | 3,000 WOMEN, A MOSQUE, AND GUNS: A STORY ANY [...] (C) Fiery headlines in the Pakistani and international press about Islamabad's Red (Lal) Mosque and the adjacent women's madrassah (seminary) could lead readers to believe that talibanization has spread to Islamabad -- or that extremism has appeared suddenly at the Red Mosque. In reality, [...] | 2007-04-13 06:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD1687 | AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI'S ISLAMABAD VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State for Women's Empowerment Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli met with a wide spectrum of government officials, civil society, and media -- and garnered significant media coverage -- during her March 14-19 visit to Islamabad. Her interlocutors p [...] | 2007-04-16 12:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD1786 | TENSIONS FLARE OVER FENCING: UPDATE FROM PAKISTAN [...] (C) Pakistan Military contacts confirm that the April 19 Pakistan Military-Afghan National Army confrontation over the location of the Shkin-Angor Adda area fence transpired as reported reftel. Pakistan Military officials were unable to meet with Office of Defense Representative - Pakistan [...] | 2007-04-20 12:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD1813 | GENERAL PASHA ON FENCE CONFRONTATION [...] (C) MG Helmly, Chief, Office of Defense Representative - Pakistan, met on April 21 with MG Ahmad Pasha, Pakistan Military Director General of Operations, to discuss the April 19 confrontation between Afghan Army and Pakistan Army troops near Angor Adda and Shkin. MG Helmly complimented Pasha [...] | 2007-04-23 12:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF MARR PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD2067 | MUSHARRAF'S CHANGED POLITICAL SITUATION: LESS [...] (S) Two months in, observers, including some of President Musharraf's main supporters and advisors, believe that the Chief Justice controversy has inflicted political harm on the President. Musharraf's political position is now more fragile. We continue to agree with the prevailing informe [...] | 2007-05-08 19:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD2157 | VIOLENCE IN KARACHI: RUMOR MILL ACTIVE WHILE CITY WAITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-14 11:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD2316 | SCENESETTER: CHAIRMAN JCS GENERAL PACE MEETING [...] (C//NF) Embassy Islamabad welcomes your meeting with Chief of Joint Staff General Ehsan Ul Haq of the Pakistan Army. Your meeting comes at an important time in U.S.-Pakistan relations: Politicians, opinion makers, and the press are paying close attention to what Pakistanis view as unfair pu [...] | 2007-05-23 11:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PK AF IN |
| 07ISLAMABAD2378 | DISARMING KARACHI: A WORTHY BUT CURRENTLY UNLIKELY GOAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 11:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD2401 | UPDATE ON MUSHARRAF'S POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (SBU) Frequently Asked Questions about President Musharraf's current political problems. 2. (C) Q: Is Musharraf in as much trouble as some Western journalists indicate? A: No, but he is not as strong politically as he was four or five months ago. 2007 is an election year in Pakistan, and the P [...] | 2007-05-31 13:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | ASEC KDEM PGOV PHUM PK PREL PINS |
| 07ISLAMABAD2495 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN MFA ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) On June 4, PolOff delivered reftel points urging Pakistan to weigh in with the UN and the AU on the need for UN command and control of the proposed hybrid operation to MFA Director (UN-I) Haider Shah. Shah said that the substance of our message made sense, as Pakistan has in the past al [...] | 2007-06-05 13:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO PK SU |
| 07ISLAMABAD250 | POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PELOSI [...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your January 27-28 visit to Islamabad. The Government of Pakistan is a key ally in the War on Terror and an essential partner in our efforts to stabilize Afghanistan. President Musharraf and Prime Minister Aziz, both western-oriented modern [...] | 2007-01-17 03:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PK PREL PTER PGOV KDEM OVIP OTRA |
| 07ISLAMABAD2526 | WHAT HAPPENED TO PRESS FREEDOM IN PAKISTAN? [...] (C) On March 24, President Musharraf told Ambassador Crocker that Musharraf intended to fire the head of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Agency (PEMRA),whose heavy handed interventions during the early stages of the Chief Justice controversy had been "unhelpful and wrong" (ref C). I [...] | 2007-06-06 14:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD256 | MUSHARRAF TELLS BOUCHER ABOUT PAKISTAN’S PLANS FOR [...] (S) Summary and introduction: In his January 12 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf spoke of irritants in Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan and Pakistan's tactical adjustments to enhance security i [...] | 2007-01-17 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | EAID MOPS PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD2574 | FEDERAL RAILWAYS MINISTER DEFENDS MEDIA CRACKDOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-08 13:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD2654 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL FALLON'S JUNE 15-17 VISIT [...] (C) We look forward to your arrival in Pakistan. As always, your discussions with senior officials will strengthen joint U.S.-Pakistan efforts in the War on Terror. You may also have the opportunity to encourage your military counterparts to support democratization and the protection of huma [...] | 2007-06-14 12:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV AF IN PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD268 | GOVERNMENT HINDERS ACCESS TO INTERNALLY DISPLACED IN BALOCHISTAN [...] (C) Summary: In spite of a mid-December intervention from Ambassador Crocker to senior Pakistani officials, UNICEF reports it is still unable to assist internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Balochistan. End summary. 2. (U) On December 21, the Christian Science Monitor reported that UNICEF had fa [...] | 2007-01-17 11:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF SOCI PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD274 | BOUCHER DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, INDIA, TRADE WITH [...] (C) On January 12, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Kasuri for a wide-ranging discussion, which included Pak-Afghan and Pak-India relations, Reconstruction Opportunity Zones, the development plan for Pakist [...] | 2007-01-17 12:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PREF PK AF IN CA |
| 07ISLAMABAD2782 | BOUCHER VISITS BALOCHISTAN [...] (C) Summary: On June 14, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher made his first visit to Balochistan. Inspector General of Police Tariq Khosa discussed the need for more contacts with his counterparts in Afghanistan and Iran and expressed doubt that Afg [...] | 2007-06-22 11:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK AF |
| 07ISLAMABAD2793 | MUSHARRAF ASSURES NEGROPONTE THAT FIGHT AGAINST [...] (C) During a 90-minute cordial meeting with Deputy Secretary Negroponte, Assistant Secretary for South and SIPDIS Central Asian Affairs Boucher, and the Charge d'Affaires, President Musharraf emphasized that Al Qaeda and extremism are Pakistan's greatest threat. The National Security Counc [...] | 2007-06-22 13:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV PK AF |
| 07ISLAMABAD2796 | BOUCHER AND VICE CHIEF DISCUSS NEW STEPS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: While he demurred from speaking about Pakistan's political situation, Vice Chief of the Army Staff General Ahsan Saleem Hyat was eager to discuss a variety of topics during his June 13 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher. Hyat reported tha [...] | 2007-06-23 05:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD2856 | DEPUTY SECRETARY, GEN HYAT, AND GEN UL-HAQ STRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte, Assistant Secretary Boucher, and Charge d,Affaires Bodde met with Vice Chief of Army Staff GEN Ahsan Saleem Hyat and then separately with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff GEN Ehsan ul-Haq on June 16. Both sides emphasized the importance o [...] | 2007-06-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PK MOPS AG |
| 07ISLAMABAD2870 | DISASTER DECLARATION -- CYCLONE YEMYIN [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: This cable declares areas affected by Cyclone Yemyin in Sindh and Balochistan provinces as a disaster, and requests U.S. government emergency assistance for those in need. The powerful cyclone is traveling along southern Pakistani coastal areas, killing over 2 [...] | 2007-07-01 10:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD2907 | RED MOSQUE -- SITREP ISLAMABAD 15:30 LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: The Pakistan Army has taken command of government forces in the immediate area of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque). Approximately 700 people inside the mosque surrendered at the urging of the government; approximately 3,200 remain. Prime Minister Aziz told visiting Codel Davis July [...] | 2007-07-04 11:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PTER PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD2908 | RED MOSQUE -- SITREP ISLAMABAD 15:30 LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: The Pakistan Army has taken command of government forces in the immediate area of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque). Approximately 700 people inside the mosque surrendered at the urging of the government; approximately 3,200 remain. Prime Minister Aziz told visiting Codel Davis July [...] | 2007-07-04 12:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PTER PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD2919 | SITUATION REPORT #1 - CYCLONE YEMYIN [...] (U) On Monday, July 2, 2007 Major General Farooq Ahmad Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) held a meeting with the donor and diplomatic community to provide a briefing on the impact of the recent cyclone, what the Government of PakistanQs (GOP) respons [...] | 2007-07-05 06:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD2932 | RED MOSQUE -- SITREP 16:00 LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Lal Masjid leader mullah Abdul Aziz was arrested July 4 while trying to escape disguised as a woman in a burqa. Pakistan Army Rangers estimate close to a thousand people have surrendered from the mosque. Abdur Rashid Ghazi, the remaining mullah in the mosque, reaffirmed his [...] | 2007-07-05 11:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PTER PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD2934 | RED MOSQUE -- SITREP 16:00 LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Lal Masjid leader mullah Abdul Aziz was arrested July 4 while trying to escape disguised as a woman in a burqa. Pakistan Army Rangers estimate close to a thousand people have surrendered from the mosque. Abdur Rashid Ghazi, the remaining mullah in the mosque, reaffirmed his [...] | 2007-07-05 13:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PHUM PTER PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD2954 | ATTACK ON MUSHARRAF / RED MOSQUE STANDOFF CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Government sources confidentially confirmed that a rocket was fired at President Musharraf's airplane at Chaklala Air Base this morning; the Pakistan Army continues to publicly deny the attack took place. Security forces and militants at the Red Mosque continue to exchange spora [...] | 2007-07-06 12:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD2976 | RED MOSQUE - SITREP JULY 9, 1600 LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: There has been no major change in the Red Mosque situation since Post's July 7 report (reftel),but the government appears to be preparing for a final siege. Security forces and militants exchanged sporadic gunfire on July 8 and 9, and mosque leader Ghazi continues to refuse to [...] | 2007-07-09 11:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PTER PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3084 | RED MOSQUE AFTERMATH; DEMISE OF NORTH WAZIRISTAN [...] (C) Summary: The Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) operation was a catalyst for implementation of this weekend's attacks on Pakistani security forces in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and the FATA. However, the attacks were primarily a tribal response to the growing re-deployment of government [...] | 2007-07-16 11:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD31 | PRESIDENT MUSHARAFF BRIEFS GEN SCHOOMAKER AND [...] (C) Introduction and summary: During a December 29 meeting, President (and Chief of Army Staff) Musharraf reinforced for U.S. Chief of Army Staff GEN Schoomaker and the Ambassador that Pakistan and the U.S, are in the war on terrorism together, sharing the same goals and fighting the same enemy. No [...] | 2007-01-03 13:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF MOPS PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD3128 | MUSHARRAF TELLS EDITORS: IT IS MODERATES VS. [...] (C) Summary: In a surprisingly wide ranging and confident interview with senior Pakistani editors July 18, President Musharraf flatly stated that Pakistan was in a direct confrontation with extremist forces and the biggest challenge was to stop the spread of Talibanization. To win that fight [...] | 2007-07-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3200 | PAKISTAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, PART 2: FRACTURED OPPOSITION PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Unable to unite at the All Parties Conference (APC) for en masse resignations or mass street protests, Pakistan's severely fractured opposition is unlikely to mount a credible challenge to President Musharraf's bid to seek re-election under the current assemblies. Unsurprisingly the Ju [...] | 2007-07-24 12:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3374 | PAKISTAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES ENGAGE THE SUPREME [...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of the June 20 landmark Supreme Court decision reinstating the Chief Justice, Pakistan's opposition political parties and civil society have hailed what they see as an invigorated and independent judiciary. Both the Chief Justice and President Musharraf have lauded the ne [...] | 2007-08-02 13:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3434 | NEW NATIONWIDE POLL SHOWS DIMINISHED SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: The results of a new nationwide poll show a 20 percent drop in support for President Musharraf's job performance since February -- from 54 percent to 34 percent. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Benazir Bhutto's popularity continued to grow steadily, and she emerged as the c [...] | 2007-08-07 09:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3476 | FATA STRATEGY UPDATE: AUGUST 8, 2007 [...] (U) Summary: Embassy is beginning biweekly snapshot reporting on implementation of the FATA Development Program. Embassy appreciates Washington's support for the FATA initiative, which will require coordination among a number of agencies and funding spigots. These cables will provide detai [...] | 2007-08-08 12:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PK PREL PGOV |
| 07ISLAMABAD3534 | MUSHARRAF AND SENATOR DURBIN DISCUSS WAR ON [...] (C) Summary: Senator Durbin called on President Musharraf August 7 to discuss Pakistan's role in the war on terror, the state of Islamic extremism in Pakistan, relations with the U.S., and education in Pakistan, particularly in religious schools. Senator Durbin recognized Pakistan had been A [...] | 2007-08-13 07:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3779 | PAKISTAN SUPREME COURT: INCREASING CHALLENGES TO [...] (C) Summary: President Musharraf's troubles with the Supreme Court are multiplying even as his negotiations with Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto intensify. On August 28, the Court agreed to hear two cases challenging Musharraf's right to seek re-election in uniform. The newly e [...] | 2007-08-29 12:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3796 | SOUTH WAZIRISTAN'S CONTINUING MILITANCY [...] (C) Summary: Concurrent with the much-publicized breakdown of the North Waziristan Agreement, the GOP's agreement in South Waziristan has also been faltering. The result has been increasingly brazen militant attacks on security forces, including the recent kidnapping of 19 Frontier Corps (FC [...] | 2007-08-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD3857 | SUICIDE ATTACKS SHAKE RAWALPINDI [...] (C) Summary: On September 4, 31 people were killed and 67 injured in two separate suicide bomb attacks on government targets in Islamabad's neighboring city of Rawalpindi. In the short-term these attacks and the kidnapping (reftel) of Frontier Corps soldiers in Waziristan will undermine public [...] | 2007-09-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD392 | 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM -- PAKISTAN [...] Embassy Islamabad submits the following draft text for inclusion in the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism: Few countries play as central a role as Pakistan in the long war on terrorism and few have experienced as much suffering at the hands of terrorists. Credible reports estimate that as [...] | 2007-01-22 09:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD4024 | PAKISTAN -- PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COUNTDOWN [...] (C) Summary. The next few days likely will determine whether or how President Musharraf can secure his re-election, and last-minute maneuvering is in full swing. Musharraf unquestionably has the simple majority of votes he needs in the current National and Provincial Assemblies; however, the [...] | 2007-09-18 14:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4064 | PAKISTAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: A PRIMER [...] (SBU) On September 20, Pakistan's Election Commission announced that the presidential election will be held on October 6. This cable outlines the process through which President Musharraf plans to be re-elected. WHEN WILL THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OCCUR? -- On October 6. WHO CAN N [...] | 2007-09-20 11:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4092 | BIN LADEN'S CALL TO ARMS FALLS FLAT [...] (C) Summary: On September 20, al-Qaeda leaders released two new tapes calling for Pakistanis to wage holy war against President Musharraf in retaliation for the Red Mosque operation in July. The government has dismissed the threats and vowed to continue its counter-terrorism strategy. It is to [...] | 2007-09-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4107 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PAKISTAN'S [...] (C) Summary: On September 13, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Minister of Interior Sherpao. Sherpao praised the recent jirgas with Afghanistan and said Pakistan would move quickly to appoint its follow up team. Sherpao briefed the participants on the ongoing efforts by both the Pakistani [...] | 2007-09-24 14:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4148 | GOP PREPARES FOR A SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON [...] (C) Summary. Pakistan's Supreme Court continues to hear arguments on the bundle of pending cases challenging President Musharraf's eligibility to run for re-election. We expect a verdict by the end of the week, and the government remains confident of a pro-Musharraf vote. Musharraf has sign [...] | 2007-09-27 02:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4158 | MUSHARRAF PLACES LOYALISTS IN KEY ARMY SLOTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-27 09:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4206 | SUPREME COURT RULES FOR MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary: In a complex decision, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled September 28 six to three to dismiss the petitions challenging Musharraf's right to run for re-election while concurrently holding the offices of President and Chief of Army Staff. However, the decision was based on procedural [...] | 2007-09-28 13:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4271 | ANOTHER LEGAL BATTLE FOR MUSHARRAF; MASS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan's Supreme Court agreed October 2 to begin immediate hearings on petitions filed by two opposition presidential candidates challenging Musharraf's right to seek re-election in uniform. Simultaneously, in an effort to embarrass Musharraf, 86 opposition politicians resigned [...] | 2007-10-02 14:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4337 | MUSHARRAF SIGNS DEAL WITH BHUTTO; COURT DELAYS RELEASE OF OFFICIAL ELECTION TALLY [...] (C) Summary. President Musharraf October 5 signed the "reconciliation package" sealing his agreement with Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto. Meanwhile, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled that the presidential election, scheduled for October 6, can proceed. However, the Court barred the Elec [...] | 2007-10-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4363 | FATA PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE: OCTOBER 8, 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTS: Implementation of the Mission's strategy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is moving ahead despite challenges. We received our fiscal year 2007 (FY07) funding for the FATA by September 30. With our prodding, the donor community is taking ste [...] | 2007-10-09 12:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MASS KPAO PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4573 | POLITICAL ROUNDUP: BHUTTO CAMPAIGNING; MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary: Despite ongoing security concerns, Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto announced October 25 that she would travel to Larkhana on October 27 where tens of thousands are expected to welcome her. Pakistan's Supreme Court continues to hear the case against Musharraf's re-el [...] | 2007-10-25 13:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4625 | MORE SIGNS THAT SUPREME COURT MAY RULE IN FAVOR OF [...] (C) Summary: President Musharraf's inner circle is still very concerned about a Supreme Court decision against Musharraf's eligibility to run for re-election, but, according to a senior attorney who initially argued the case against Musharraf, the Court will probably not rule against President [...] | 2007-10-29 15:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4694 | MGPK01: SITREP 02, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary. Musharraf defended his decision to suspend the Constitution in an emotional speech aired on Pakistan Television; notably, he did not mention a schedule for elections or his plan to resign as Chief of Army Staff. The government continues to block cable distribution of most intern [...] | 2007-11-03 20:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4695 | MGPK01: SITREP 03, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD; QUIET [...] (C) SUMMARY. Pakistan's first morning under the state of emergency was a quiet one throughout Pakistan. Both Embassy and Consulates report business as usual on the streets. However, we are receiving increasing reports of arrests of opposition figures and human rights activists. The government has c [...] | 2007-11-04 09:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLO PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4713 | MGPK01:SITREP 05, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD; LAWYERS' [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite growing scattered protests by lawyers, the streets in Pakistan remain largely quiet. The number of lawyers, human rights activists, and opposition figures detained by the Government of Pakistan continues to grow. During a briefing for the diplomatic corps, Musharraf appear [...] | 2007-11-05 09:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL AEMR AMTG ASEC CASC KFLO PINR PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4728 | MUSHARRAF CONVOKES DIP CORPS [...] (C) Summary: President Pervaiz Musharraf spoke November 5 to the full diplomatic corps. The hour-long monologue was rambling and personalized, focused more on his reasons for the March 12 sacking of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry than for his November 3 suspension of Pakistan's Constitution. [...] | 2007-11-05 13:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK ASEC CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4729 | CHAUDHRY SHUJAAT PREDICTS ELECTIONS WILL PROCEED [...] (C) Summary. Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that President Musharraf would resign as Chief of Army Staff as promised and would hold parliamentary elections on schedule in January. Shujaat was surprised that earlier in the day President Musharraf had declined [...] | 2007-11-05 14:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4761 | MGPK01: SITREP 09, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Following Mission and Department intervention, 54 members of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan were released November 7 morning from house arrest, and charges against them have been dropped. People's Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto, upon arriving in Islamabad November 6, [...] | 2007-11-07 09:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PK AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4766 | MGPK01: SITREP 10, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Police used tear gas to break up a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) parliamentarians march to the National Assembly. Earlier, PPP leader Benazir Bhutto issued defiant statements at a press conference and PPP supporters clashed with police in front of PPP headquarters. DCM met with [...] | 2007-11-07 13:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PK AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4767 | DCM MEETS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR AZIZ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DCM met with National Security Advisor Tariq Aziz for a 30-minute one-on-one meeting November 7. During the meeting the DCM conveyed reports that detained human rights lawyer Atizaz Ahsan has no access to family members and may have suffered physical abuse. The DCM reiterated [...] | 2007-11-07 16:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PK AEMR CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4776 | MGPK01: SITREP 11, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: ISOLATED [...] (C) Summary: The National Security Council is meeting to discuss the current political/security situation. The National Assembly November 7 voted to approve the State of Emergency. In a meeting yesterday with Ambassador, PPP leader Bhutto said she is ready to work with Musharraf if he sched [...] | 2007-11-08 09:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4786 | ATTORNEY GENERAL REVIEWS CURRENT EVENTS [...] (C) Summary: Attorney General Qayyum told Ambassador November 7 that Musharraf would announce parliamentary elections once his own re-election was confirmed by the newly reconstituted Supreme Court. (Note: In the course of the evening of November 7, we heard three entirely different versions [...] | 2007-11-08 10:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PK AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4789 | BHUTTO SAYS SHE MUST PROTEST STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary. Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto told Ambassador Novmeber 7 that "I am ready to continue with the roadmap with Musharraf" but first he has to honor his commitments to schedule elections and announce his resignation from the Army. Without this, Musharraf had left h [...] | 2007-11-08 11:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4791 | INTERIOR MINISTER SHERPAO DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Sherpao defended the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) and told DCM November 7 that elections likely would be delayed until March or April. Sherpao gave his personal assurances over the well-being of detained opposition lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan and agreed to l [...] | 2007-11-08 12:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4795 | PAKISTAN: RECONSTITUTED SUPREME COURT AND [...] (C) Summary: President Musharraf has reportedly decided that, before he can schedule parliamentary elections, the newly constituted Supreme Court must rule on the pending case challenging his own election. Under Musharraf's November 3 Provisional Constitution Order (PCO),he fired all Supreme [...] | 2007-11-08 13:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4797 | MGPK01: SITREP 12, ELECTIONS TO BE HELD BY FEB 15; [...] (C) Summary: President Musharraf announced today that national elections would take place before February 15 and that he would resign as Chief of Army Staff when the newly constituted Supreme Court rules on his election case. Bhutto exhorted supporters to join a PPP rally in Rawalpindi Novemb [...] | 2007-11-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4805 | MGPK01: SITREP 13, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: BHUTTO [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto is under virtual house arrest. Ambassador called Bhutto to urge her to consider the consequences of pushing for demonstrations and to express our concerns regarding further political polarization and her own personal safety. The [...] | 2007-11-09 08:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PK PREL PINR KFLO CASC AMGT AEMR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4811 | PAKISTAN: MUSHARRAF DUAL OFFICES BACKGROUNDER [...] (U) President Pervez Musharraf currently serves as both President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff. This dual office role is permitted under the 17th amendment to the Pakistani Constitution, which specifically allowed Musharraf to hold both offices through Decembe [...] | 2007-11-09 11:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4813 | CONVERSATIONS WITH BENAZIR BHUTTO [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador spoke to Benazir Bhutto November 8 and 9 to express concerns for Bhutto's safety and to urge her to consider the possible effect her rally and arrest might have on polarization and violence in the country. They spoke again mid-day as Bhutto was trying to leave her hous [...] | 2007-11-09 12:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4814 | MGPK01: SITREP 15, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: BHUTTO [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto retreated back into her house late November 9 after attempting to go to Rawalpindi to lead her party's demonstration. Her Islamabad home is now surrounded by police and barricades, a virtual if not yet official house arrest. Bhutto v [...] | 2007-11-09 13:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PK AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4816 | MGPK01: SITREP 16, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: BHUTTO [...] (C) Summary: The GOP lifted the virtual house arrest on Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto. Ambassador raised Amcit and civil society detainees cases with Interior Minister. Lahore CG met separately with human rights activist Asma Jahangir and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader Liaq [...] | 2007-11-10 09:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4817 | PAKISTAN: RETHINKING ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Musharraf has now set a date for elections and indicated he will resign from the Army. This is an opportunity to re-examine our assistance relationship and consider changes that will enable USG funding to more directly promote a more robust counter-terrorism (CT) and c [...] | 2007-11-10 10:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD4818 | MGPK01: SITREP 17, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary: President Musharraf was scheduled to give a press conference at 1400 local time; we will provide immediate follow-up information on his remarks for the Department. Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto moves to Lahore today in preparation for a planned "long march" Novem [...] | 2007-11-11 10:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PK PREL AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4819 | MUSHARRAF'S PRESS CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with local and international press November 11, President Musharraf announced elections would be held "by January 9" and said he would take the presidential oath of office as a civilian after the Supreme Court allows the Election Commission to confirm his re-election. He [...] | 2007-11-12 10:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PK PREL AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PINR |
| 07ISLAMABAD4821 | MGPK01: SITREP 18, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: REACTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Some opposition parties threatened to boycott elections if they are held under a state of emergency. All media covered the Secretary's Sunday talk shows comments on Pakistan. The Attorney General predicted the Supreme Court would begin hearing the case on Musharraf's re-electio [...] | 2007-11-13 06:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4824 | MGPK01: SITREP 19, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: BHUTTO [...] (C) Summary: The GOP placed PPP leader Bhutto under house arrest and deployed several thousand police in Lahore, who are now (1330 local) clashing with PPP activists staging a "Long March" from Lahore to Islamabad. As Interior Minister promised Ambassador, the GOP last night released Amcit Ha [...] | 2007-11-13 11:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4869 | MGPK01: SITREP 21, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: IMRAN KHAN [...] (C) Summary: CNN, BBC and some local private TV news channels are back on the air. CG Lahore met with Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto, still under house arrest, in Lahore today. The PPP announced it would try again to launch the "long march" from Lahore to Islamabad; th [...] | 2007-11-15 12:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4876 | MGPK01: SITREP 22, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: BHUTTO [...] (C) Summary: The government this morning released PPP leader Benazir Bhutto and human rights activist Asma Jahangir. Senate Chairman Soomro today was sworn-in as Pakistan's caretaker prime minister. Musharraf amended the Provisional Constitutional Order to give the president and not the Chief [...] | 2007-11-16 09:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4889 | FATA PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post still awaits publication of the Central Command Planning Order that will formalize the security development plan (SDP). Post appreciates funding for Pashto radio programming and the temporary FATA Coordinator, and will continue to urge Pakistani leadership to appoint a FA [...] | 2007-11-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MASS PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD4890 | MUSHARRAF NAMES CARETAKER CABINET [...] (C) Summary: As expected and provided for under the constitution, Musharraf named a caretaker cabinet when the National Assembly's term ended on November 15. Caretaker governments will be named for the provinces beginning November 20. These caretaker governments will serve until new assembli [...] | 2007-11-16 12:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PK PREL PINR AEMR KFLO CASC |
| 07ISLAMABAD4895 | MGPK01: SITREP 23, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: NEGROPONTE [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary met with National Security Advisor Tariq Aziz and telephoned Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto November 16; he met with President Musharraf and Vice Chief of Army Staff Kayani on November 17. The GOP officially shut down Geo TV overnight, which had s [...] | 2007-11-17 10:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PK AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PINR PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4990 | WEEKLY ROUNDUP: COURT CLEARS WAY FOR MUSHARRAF'S [...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed the final case challenging Musharraf's candidate eligibility, clearing the way for him to re-take the presidential oath of office as a civilian, possibly as early as this weekend. Musharraf issued new constitutional amendments to provide himself legal [...] | 2007-11-23 12:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4992 | URGING THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO STAY ENGAGED ON [...] (C) Summary and action request: Led by the European Commission, a growing number of European countries here are questioning their participation in election observer missions. Ambassador briefed her European counterparts November 22 (septel) to urge that they not take pre-emptive decisions th [...] | 2007-11-23 12:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD4995 | MEETING WITH EU AMBASSADORS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with several EU ambassadors November 22 to brief them on the Deputy Secretary's recent visit and encourage their nations' continued support for election observer missions. See reftel requesting demarche in Brussels. The group agreed on goals of: (1) on-time electi [...] | 2007-11-23 16:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD5060 | GOP DECLINES UNHCR HELP FOR IDPS FROM SWAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Citing concern about the optics, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority declined to approve the Northwest Frontier Province's request for UN assistance to help displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing the violence in Swat. NDMA claims it has sufficient tents and food, but pr [...] | 2007-11-28 10:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS PREF UNHCR EAID PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD5085 | MUSHARRAF'S LEGACY AND THE RETURN OF THE TROIKA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 12:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD5099 | PAKISTAN UPDATE: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26 [...] (C) Summary: Sporadic protests by lawyers, journalists and students continued around the country the week of November 26, and opposition political party leaders continued to debate whether to boycott the January 8 elections. In the wake of Pervez Musharraf's retirement as Chief of Army Staff, [...] | 2007-11-30 14:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD5138 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NAWAZ SHARIF [...] (C) Summary. During a one and a half hour meeting December 3 with Pakistan Muslim League-N party leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz, Ambassador outlined USG support for free and fair elections with the participation of all parties. Nawaz indicated that he would boycott the electio [...] | 2007-12-04 15:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD516 | PAKISTAN'S "INFLUENTIAL WOMEN" NOMINEES [...] Embassy Islamabad nominates the following outstanding Pakistani female leaders for inclusion in the Women's Empowerment Strategy Session. The list includes women who represent the vast range of ethnicities, political affiliations, and vocations in Pakistan. --Ms. Sumaira Malik Federal Mi [...] | 2007-01-31 07:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD5161 | BHUTTO CALLS ON THE AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto called on the Ambassador to thank her for the "critical" USG pressure that pushed Musharraf to resign from the Army and lift the state of emergency. Bhutto shared her concern about the government's ongoing and planned efforts to rig th [...] | 2007-12-05 15:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL EAID |
| 07ISLAMABAD5266 | PAKISTAN: FIXING COALITION SUPPORT FUNDING [...] (U) This is an action request, see Para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Since 2002, the USG has reimbursed Pakistan over 5.3 billion USD for support to U.S. operations using Coalition Support Funds (CSF). When pending claims are processed, that figure will likely exceed 5.6 billion USD. The CSF authorizi [...] | 2007-12-14 04:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD5288 | CORRECTED COPY: PAKISTAN: FIXING COALITION [...] (U) This is an action request, see Para 12. This is a retransmission correcting text in Paragraph 10 of Ref A. Please refer only to this version of the cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Since 2002, the USG has reimbursed Pakistan over 5.3 billion USD for support to U.S. operations using Coalition Support Fu [...] | 2007-12-15 05:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD5289 | PAKISTAN: STATE OF EMERGENCY LIFTED [...] (U) Summary: As promised, President Musharraf has lifted the State of Emergency (SOE) and restored the constitution; he addresses the nation at 2000 local tonight. The January 8 general elections can now proceed under an established legal framework. However, the effects of the SOE linger on [...] | 2007-12-15 09:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PK PREL |
| 07ISLAMABAD5361 | CODEL SPECTER'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary. In a December 27 meeting with Codel Specter, President Musharraf outlined ongoing Pakistani efforts to fight extremism, expressed support for increased IMET funding, and defended his decision to impose a state of emergency. Senator Specter pressed for Pakistan to capture Usama [...] | 2007-12-27 19:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD5380 | MGPK02: SITREP 3: BHUTTO'S FUNERAL; PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: The GOP transported the body of slain Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto to Larkana, where funeral services are taking place as of 1430 hours December 28. Violent sporadic protests occurred throughout the country well into the night of December 27. Pakistan was r [...] | 2007-12-28 11:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PK PREL AEMR ASEC CASC PINR KFLO MARR |
| 07ISLAMABAD5383 | BHUTTO'S ASSASSINATION: THE DAY AFTER [...] (C) Summary. Benazir Bhutto's family and supporters are consumed with funeral and mourning ceremonies, but the struggle for party leadership between Benazir's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and PPP Vice Chairman Amin Faheem has begun. The USG is perceived as being the power behind Bhutto's retur [...] | 2007-12-28 13:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD5384 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BHUTTO ASSASSINATION WITH NSA [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met NSA Tariq Aziz December 28 to discuss the GOP's reaction to the assassination of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto. Aziz made the following points: 2. (C) The GOP will defer to the PPP on whether to proceed on schedule with the election. Azi [...] | 2007-12-28 13:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD5388 | PAKISTAN’S NEXT PRIME MINISTER? [...] (S/NF) The Pakistan Muslim League has unofficially selected former Punjab Chief Minister and current head of the party's Punjab chapter, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, as its candidate for the Prime Ministership following the January 2008 national elections. Elahi, who until the November 15 dissolution of [...] | 2007-12-28 16:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINR SHUM PK PINS |
| 07ISLAMABAD5390 | MGPK02: SITREP 4: BHUTTO'S FUNERAL FOLLOWED BY [...] (U) SUMMARY. Countrywide protests, violence and widespread arson followed the December 28 afternoon interment of Benazir Bhutto. Today has brought greater calm in many areas with most businesses closed and light traffic on the streets, but unrest continues in some cities, especially Karachi. [...] | 2007-12-29 11:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PK PREL AEMR ASEC AMGT CASC PINR MARR |
| 07ISLAMABAD5392 | INITIAL BHUTTO INVESTIGATION BRIEFED TO DIP CORPS [...] (C) Summary: At a special briefing for the diplomatic corps December 29, Interior Secretary Kamal Shah presented the GOP's "initial findings" from the investigation into the Bhutto assassination. Basing his conclusions primarily on medical reports, Shah stated that Bhutto was killed by the bl [...] | 2007-12-29 12:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER MARR ASEC |
| 07ISLAMABAD5393 | MGPK02: SITREP 5: PPP POST-BENAZIR STRATEGY; [...] (C) Summary: Order was being restored in much of Pakistan on the last day of the 3-day mourning period in memory of Benazir Bhutto. In Sindh and its major city of Karachi, violence and casualties continued with widespread property loss. Shops remained closed, but airports and roads reopened [...] | 2007-12-30 12:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLO MARR |
| 07ISLAMABAD5395 | BHUTTO'S SON (AND HUSBAND) NEW PPP LEADERS; PPP [...] (C) The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has chosen Benazir's son, Bilawal Bhutto, to lead the party, with support from her husband, Asif Ali Zardari as a co-chair. Amin Faheem will continue as Vice Chairman and be the PPP's candidate for Prime Minister. While Bilawal finishes his degree at Oxf [...] | 2007-12-30 15:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD637 | SUPREME COURT'S DEMAND TO ACCOUNT FOR MISSING DRAWS LIMITED GOVERNMENT COOPERATION [...] (C) On October 9, 2006, after agitation by human rights organizations and repeated public protests by family members, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the Government to locate 41 missing Pakistanis believed to have been arrested by government authorities and subsequently held incommunicado, of [...] | 2007-02-08 08:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PTER PHUM PK |
| 07ISLAMABAD650 | INTERIOR MINISTER ANALYZES REPRISAL ATTACKS [...] (S//NF) Summary: In a February 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao shared his assessment that, with one exception, the spate of suicide bombings, IED and missile attacks since mid-January were not/not motivated by sectarian tensions; these attacks were [...] | 2007-02-08 13:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF MOPS PK PREL PTER |
| 07ISLAMABAD828 | SUICIDE BOMBER DETONATES IN QUETTA COURTROOM: 16 [...] (SBU) On February 17 at approximately 1100, a suicide bomber wearing explosives around his chest entered a courtroom in the Quetta District Court complex and detonated himself, killing 16 people and wounding 40. Among those killed was senior civil judge Abdul Wahid Durrani. 2. (U) The bombe [...] | 2007-02-20 13:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PK |
| 07ISTANBUL1028 | CODEL ROHRABACHER DISCUSSES KURDISH ISSUES, [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 26, CODEL Rohrabacher met ARI Movement founder Kemal Koprulu to discuss Kurdish issues in Turkey and Iraq. The Congressman was joined by Congressman Louie Gohmert and former Chairman of the California Republican Party Shawn Steel. Koprulu was accompanied by Rifat [...] | 2007-12-03 10:58:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL TU |
| 07ISTANBUL103 | CALIK ON ASHGABAT LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Ahmet Calik, Turkish oligarch and longtime Ashgabat insider, shared his views on Turkmen developments February 11 in Istanbul with visiting SCA PDAS Mann. We convey them as an additional window on Turkmen issues. 2. (C) Calik has known interim President Berdimukhammedov since 1997 wh [...] | 2007-02-12 14:48:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET PGOV TX |
| 07ISTANBUL106 | AHMET CALIK ON ASHGABAT LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Ahmet Calik, Turkish oligarch and longtime Ashgabat insider, shared his views on Turkmen developments February 11 in Istanbul with visiting SCA PDAS Mann. We convey them as an additional window on Turkmen issues. 2. (C) Calik has known interim President Berdimuhammedov since 1997 whe [...] | 2007-02-13 07:40:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV TX |
| 07ISTANBUL258 | BANKERS' TAKE ON POSSIBLE ELECTION OUTCOMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul bankers and key business leaders are evenly divided on Prime Minister Erdogan's presidential aspirations with some claiming he would be a fool to take the highly respected but largely ceremonial position while others claim Erdogan's ego will not allow him to forego the [...] | 2007-03-28 10:34:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN TU |
| 07ISTANBUL358 | HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS IN ISTANBUL MARCH FOR [...] Summary: An unprecedented crowd of around 1 million rallied in Istanbul on April 29 in support of Turkey's secular democracy. The previously planned rally followed a strong statement by the Turkish military on April 27, warning of threats to the secular republic (refs B, C). Within the div [...] | 2007-04-30 13:33:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TU |
| 07ISTANBUL476 | CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON TURKEY MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Religious minority leaders from the Armenian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities met separately May 30 with the Congressional Study Group on Turkey. Discussions at the Armenian and Ecumenical Patriarchates focused on the possible effect of a congressional Armenian [...] | 2007-06-04 12:40:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL TU |
| 07ISTANBUL914 | NBA AND STARKEY FOUNDATION'S SLAM DUNK IN ISTANBUL [...] Summary: In the midst of a tense period in U.S.-Turkish relations, there is good news on the sports front, as the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves spent the first week of October in Istanbul practicing people-to-people diplomacy at its best. While the headline event was an exhibition game with Tur [...] | 2007-10-11 10:30:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KPAO SCUL TU |
| 07JAKARTA1038 | EAST JAVA: Lapindo Mud Volcano Floods Roads and Rail While [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A March 30 dam wall collapse at the source of the PT. Lapindo Brantas (Lapindo) mud volcano flooded East Java's remaining north-south road and railways, causing major transportation disruptions. Local mudflow victims delayed damage control response by preventing heavy equipment [...] | 2007-04-12 08:54:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EPET ELAB PGOV ASEC ID |
| 07JAKARTA1075 | INDONESIA'S SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES: HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Army Special Operations Forces (KOPASSUS) of Indonesia's Armed Forces (TNI) remains outside the ambit of U.S.-Indonesian military-to-military cooperation. This message reviews its progress on the critical issue of human rights and provides an update on current Mission Jakart [...] | 2007-04-16 10:05:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PHUM MOPS ID |
| 07JAKARTA1223 | PROGRESS IN THE MUNIR CASE [...] (C) Summary. The Indonesian police have intensified their investigation into the murder of Indonesian human rights leader Munir, making new arrests and reopening the case against the Garuda airlines pilot already acquitted. It is headed by the recently appointed chief of the Internal Invest [...] | 2007-05-01 07:18:00 | Embassy Jakarta | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID |
| 07JAKARTA1246 | EMBASSY POSTPONES JULY JCET WITH KOPASSUS [...] (C) Embassy Country Team discussed possible responses to reports that Tommy Suharto was feted at the 55th anniversary celebration of the Indonesian Army Special Forces (KOPASSUS) on DATE. Unless otherwise directed, Embassy intends to postpone indefinitely the Joint Combined Exercise Training [...] | 2007-05-02 08:21:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA1566 | INDONESIA AND SINGAPORE SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENTS [...] (U) Summary: The bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and Extradition Treaty (ET) signed by Indonesia and Singapore on April 27 achieve long-sought objectives and potentially will sustain that cooperation over the next 25 years. Strategically paired from the beginning to balance res [...] | 2007-06-06 10:55:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KJUS ID |
| 07JAKARTA1576 | A/S HILL'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: EAP A/S Christopher Hill emphasized the need for continued attention to human rights and reform of Indonesia's military during his meeting with Indonesian Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono in Jakarta on May 29. Sudarsono provided examples of officers who had been punished for hum [...] | 2007-06-07 09:32:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA1618 | E.TIMOR'S PRESIDENT MAKES INDONESIA DESTINATION OF [...] (C) Summary. President Jose Ramos-Horta's June 5 visit to Indonesia was "very, very positive," according to Timorese DCM Roberto Soares. He said that the two presidents discussed bilateral economic and political issues (including border demarcation),and agreed to extend the Commission on Tru [...] | 2007-06-11 09:47:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS TT ID |
| 07JAKARTA1656 | A/S MULL UPDATES BILATERAL POLITICAL-MILITARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In meetings with Indonesian foreign-affairs and defense counterparts in Jakarta on June 4-5, Acting Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull pressed for Indonesian accession to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),proposed a reciprocal Article 98 ag [...] | 2007-06-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR PHUM PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA1835 | HAWAII GOVERNOR LINGLE VISITS INDONESIA: NATIONAL [...] Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle (R) in Jakarta on June 10-12 explored potential partnerships related to disaster preparedness, investment and trade, women's leadership, health, education and regional development. Her interlocutors included Vice President Kalla, Defense Minister Sudarsono, Legisl [...] | 2007-07-06 09:18:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR PGOV EFIS ID |
| 07JAKARTA1892 | CODEL PAYNE'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] SUMMARY: Meeting in Jakarta on July 6, Congressmen Donald Payne (D-NJ),David Dreier (R-CA) and James Moran (D-VA) complimented Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono for Indonesia's remarkable democratic progress. The Congressmen voiced concern about the slow pace of military reform, lack of ac [...] | 2007-07-12 01:23:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM ID |
| 07JAKARTA201 | SBY FIRES BACK AT HIS OPPONENTS [...] (C) Summary. On January 15, Indonesian agitator par excellence Hariman Siregar organized a rally of approximately 1000 people to simultaneously protest the SBY administration and commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Malari incident (Note: The term refers to a historic student protest that [...] | 2007-01-24 09:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC ID |
| 07JAKARTA2322 | PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO ON INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On August 24, Ambassador Hume spoke with President Yudhoyono after SBY's address commemorating 50 years of American Field Service (AFS) activity in Indonesia. Yudhoyono stressed the need for cultu [...] | 2007-08-24 07:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SENV ECON ID |
| 07JAKARTA2377 | SBY REPLACES AILING HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER [...] (C) On August 28, President Yudhoyono appointed Central Java Governor Mardiyanto to replace Mohamad Ma'ruf as the Minister for Home Affairs. Mardiyanto was sworn in on August 29. Outgoing Minister Ma'ruf suffered a debilitating heart attack in late March, and SBY surprised many observers by [...] | 2007-08-29 08:31:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL PINR ID |
| 07JAKARTA2405 | NATIONALIST PDI-P PARTY TRIES TO STRENGTHEN ITS [...] (C) The Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) party's nascent Islamic wing, Baitul (House) Muslimin (HM),is just getting off the ground. PDI-P, led by former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, is putting a lot of effort into building up the group. The grouping, which is closely linked [...] | 2007-08-31 06:42:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PINR ID |
| 07JAKARTA2422 | DAS MARCIEL'S MEETING WITH MINDEF ADVISOR ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: EAP DAS Scot Marciel's meeting with MG Djoko Sutrisno at the Department of Defense highlighted progress in the bilateral defense relationship, challenges of managing it and means of moving it forward. Discussion touched on assistance, exchanges and training, human rights account [...] | 2007-09-04 09:30:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA2528 | MILITARY PROMOTIONS HOLD MIXED IMPLICATIONS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia recently publicized its military promotion list for 2007. As in past years, the promotions and reassignments represent a cross-section of the Indonesian military, and are a reflection primarily of seniority. Six key appointments have mixed implications for U.S. policy: [...] | 2007-09-12 03:16:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA2598 | CENTRAL SULAWESI - POSO: ECONOMIC RECOVERY KEY TO [...] (U) This is a joint Surabaya - Jakarta message. 2. (C) Summary: While interlocutors describe the current security situation in Poso, Central Sulawesi, as "good," all agree that economic development is critical to Poso's stability. Extremists continue to eye Central Sulawesi's young and po [...] | 2007-09-17 07:44:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID ID |
| 07JAKARTA2644 | TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN INDONESIA [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation, is a crucial test for transformational diplomacy. Just ten years ago it was an authoritarian, military dominated state weakening under the pressures of [...] | 2007-09-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI TBIO ID |
| 07JAKARTA2674 | IMPLICATED IN CORRUPTION CASE, PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A special unit within the Attorney General's office has reportedly implicated T.B. Silalahi--an influential adviser to President Yudhoyono--in an ongoing corruption investigation. According to media reports, Silalahi allegedly received a house from a contact. Silalahi has heat [...] | 2007-09-21 06:42:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCOR ID |
| 07JAKARTA2717 | Indonesian National Police - An Historical Overview [...] (U) This information is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: Founded in 1945, the Indonesian National Police (INP) separated from the Armed Forces in 2000 and began a period of reform, reinventing itself as a modern, civic-minded force that responds to t [...] | 2007-09-26 07:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SNAR KJUS ASEC ID |
| 07JAKARTA2725 | INDONESIA LOOKING AT TWO LARGE F-16 DEALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia is actively pursuing two large orders for new U.S. F-16 planes and parts to refurbish its existing older models. The two deals, a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case and a commercial case, each involving several hundred million dollars, demonstrate that the Indonesian Ai [...] | 2007-09-26 09:57:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ETTC PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA2776 | COUNT HIM IN -- JAKARTA GOVERNOR TAKES THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso has formally entered the 2009 presidential hunt. Sutiyoso--who will step down after ten years as governor on October 7--removed what little doubt remained about his big-time ambitions with his long-anticipated announcement. According to Mission contact [...] | 2007-10-02 06:53:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL PINR ID |
| 07JAKARTA2777 | INDONESIA - 2008 DRAFT BUDGET, SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN [...] (U) Summary. On August 16, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) presented to the Parliament his FY 2008 draft budget, which focused heavily on boosting infrastructure spending. The draft budget targets 6.8% economic growth for 2008, up from 6.3% expected in 2007, with 6% inflation. In or [...] | 2007-10-02 07:14:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KMCA ECON KCOR PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA278 | INTERIM BILATERAL DEFENSE DIALOGUE EXPANDS [...] (U) Summary: An interim session of the annual U.S.-Indonesian Bilateral Defense Dialogue (BDD) in Jakarta on January 30-31 reached agreement on several important additions to the FY2007 agenda. Those included a multi-tiered set of exercises on humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) [...] | 2007-02-01 09:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL ID |
| 07JAKARTA2903 | THE POLITICS OF RAMADAN IN INDONESIA -- THE GOOD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: October 13 marked the Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri--the end of Ramadan--and the Indonesian political spectrum celebrated in its inimitable fashion. On the positive side, they held multiple ceremonies to give money to the poor. On the negative side, a number of politicos--includ [...] | 2007-10-15 10:03:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KISL PTER ID |
| 07JAKARTA2923 | COMING TO GRIPS WITH "THE YEAR OF LIVING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Events in the 1965-66 timeframe shook Indonesia to its core: faced with an attempted leftist takeover, the military launched a successful counter-coup. This was followed by widespread massacres as military and conservative Muslim elements killed an unknown number of alleged c [...] | 2007-10-17 10:28:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KISL PREL ID |
| 07JAKARTA2934 | RESUMING ENGAGEMENT WITH KOPASSUS, THE ARMY'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The time is right to resume gradual engagement with KOPASSUS, the Indonesian Army's elite Special Forces unit. The basis for engagement remains the Secretary's waiver of legislative restrictions on military SIPDIS cooperation with the GOI issued in November 2005, which opened [...] | 2007-10-19 05:29:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS ID |
| 07JAKARTA296 | SEPARATIST CLASHES SPARK PANIC, HARDSHIP IN PAPUAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Two months of clashes between separatist guerrillas and police in Papua's Central Highlands has panicked villagers, causing them to abandon their farms and villages and resulting in reports of food shortages. Church sources place the number of displaced persons at about 2,000. [...] | 2007-02-02 09:39:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
| 07JAKARTA2990 | DEFENSE COOPERATION -- ENGAGING INDONESIA ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S.-Indonesian military-to-military relationship has reached an important phase. Both sides need to discuss how they see this relationship developing. The October 29-November 3 CHODS conference in Hawaii provides Admiral Keating with an ideal opportunity to engage Panglima [...] | 2007-10-25 10:21:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA3128 | DEFENSE COOPERATION -- CHANGE IN NAVY CHIEF COULD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Admiral Sumardjono has replaced Admiral Slamet Soebijanto as Indonesia's Naval Chief of Staff. Sumardjono--who had been serving as Indonesian Defense Department Inspector General--was sworn in by President Yudhoyono on November 7; the actual change of command will occur Nove [...] | 2007-11-09 09:49:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PREL ID |
| 07JAKARTA3155 | DEFENSE COOPERATION -- INDONESIA INCREASINGLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There are signs that the GOI is increasingly interested in purchasing U.S. military equipment as it begins to rebuild its defense capabilities. Two prospective F-16 deals continue to move forward (ref a) and the Indonesian military is considering possible deals for other items. [...] | 2007-11-14 09:30:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA3160 | RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN INDONESIA [...] (C) Summary. Indonesia has a long history of tension between economic nationalists and those who welcome foreign investment. However, our contacts report no upsurge in resource nationalism-inspired actions. Indeed, the increase in resource nationalism described in ref A has benefited Indone [...] | 2007-11-14 10:54:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV PREL PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA3199 | DEFENSE COOPERATION -- INDONESIAN MILITARY WANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Indonesian defense officials have expressed broad support for moving forward on cooperation with the U.S. Their near-term objectives are practical and tied to Indonesia's immediate need to rebuild its military capabilities after more than a decade of sanctions. Primary a [...] | 2007-11-19 10:05:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA3267 | INDONESIAN PEACEKEEPING -- LEBANON, DARFUR AND THE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Indonesia is sending a fresh battalion of peacekeeping troops to the United Nations Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The 850-member battalion from the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) replaces the initial [...] | 2007-11-28 09:34:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR KPKO PGOV PHUM ID |
| 07JAKARTA3335 | NEW ARMED FORCES CHIEF: PROFESSIONAL, REFORMER, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Amid some political jousting, Indonesia's legislature confirmed Army Chief of Staff Gen. Djoko Santoso as the new Chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces on December 5. Santoso--President Yudhoyono's nominee for the position--pledged to work to continue to professionalize the mili [...] | 2007-12-06 10:52:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PINR ID |
| 07JAKARTA3439 | SINO-INDONESIAN TIES -- CAUTIOUS BUT INCREASING [...] (C) SUMMARY: China is becoming an increasingly important player in Indonesia. It has incipient defense cooperation relations, and growing trade, investment and cultural ties with Indonesia. Taiwan and historical legacies complicate relations, while Indonesia's Chinese community offers a poi [...] | 2007-12-19 08:52:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ECON ID CH |
| 07JAKARTA932 | SECURITY ISSUES AT FREEPORT MINE IN PAPUA, [...] (C) Summary. Executives of the U.S.-owned Freeport mine near Timika, Papua, report that despite a difficult start, police Mobile Brigade personnel have successfully taken over the Indonesian Armed Forces' old role in supporting the company's security operations. Freeport provides some financ [...] | 2007-04-01 22:47:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PHUM PGOV EMIN CASC ID |
| 07JERUSALEM1023 | BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT: GAZA NSF COMMANDER JAMAL [...] (C) BRIGADIER GENERAL (BG) JAMAL M M KAYYAD (SPELLED "KAIED" ON HIS PA TRAVEL DOCUMENT) IS COMMANDER OF NATIONAL SECURITY FORCES (NSF) FOR GAZA. PERSONAL DATA AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOLLOWS. 2. (C) PERSONAL. DPOB: SAIDA, LEBANON, 19 JULY 1958. MARRIED TO HUSUN M HAMAD. RESIDES IN [...] | 2007-06-01 08:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL IS PINR |
| 07JERUSALEM1024 | BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT: NEW POLICE CHIEF KAMAL [...] (C) BRIGADIER GENERAL (BG) KAMAL AL-SHAYKH (ALSO SPELLED "SHEIKH" IN SOME PAST REPORTING) IS THE NEW COMMANDER OF THE PALESTINIAN POLICE (APPOINTED IN MAY 2007). PERSONAL DATA AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOLLOWS. 2. (C) PERSONAL. AL-SHAYKH COMES FROM MAZRA AL-QIBLIYA, A VILLAGE NORTHWE [...] | 2007-06-01 08:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL IS PINR |
| 07JERUSALEM1254 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NEW PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY CABINET [...] (SBU) Biographies of new Palestinian Authority (PA) Cabinet members are listed starting in para. 2. According to PM Salam Fayyad, this government will likely be expanded in the next 30 days to include more ministers from Gaza and to reduce the number of ministers responsible for multiple por [...] | 2007-06-18 15:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KWBG IS KPAL PREL PINR |
| 07JERUSALEM1345 | NABLUS INCURSION: AT LEAST 12 PALESTINIANS [...] (SBU) According to Palestinian security contacts and Arabic-language media, Nablus has been under curfew since 0330 local on June 28 when the IDF entered the city and clashed with Palestinian militants around the Old City, Rafidiya neighborhood and Balata Refugee Camp. Militants responded to [...] | 2007-06-28 13:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KWBG PGOV KPAL IS PTER |
| 07JERUSALEM1371 | DFLP CLAIMS MORTAR STRIKE ON KEREM SHALOM CROSSING [...] (SBU) The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) claimed joint responsibility (along with the PRC and al-Baraq Army) for mortar attacks against Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings on June 27, claiming the attack was "retaliation for the murder of Palestinians by occupation forces [...] | 2007-07-02 13:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KWBG KPAL IS PGOV |
| 07JERUSALEM1463 | PM FAYYAD AND HIS GOVERNMENT CONTINUE AFTER END OF [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. Following expiration of the 30-day state of emergency declared on June 14, PA President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) accepted PM Salam Fayyad's resignation and then directed him to form a new government. Until a new government receives a vote of confidence by the PLC -- whi [...] | 2007-07-16 13:39:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS |
| 07JERUSALEM2113 | GAZA CHRISTIAN MURDERED [...] (SBU) Summary. The body of Rami Ayyad, an employee of the Baptist-affiliated Holy Bible Association, was found in Gaza City on October 8, with indications that he was murdered. According to Gaza Governor Muhammad al-Qidwa, initial indications point to a hate crime, noting that Ayyad had rec [...] | 2007-10-10 17:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KWBG IS PGOV PHUM |
| 07JERUSALEM2555 | AL-NUEMAN VILLAGE: CAUGHT BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND [...] (C) Summary. Mayor of al-Nueman and village residents told Poloffs November 30 that they "feel trapped" in their own homes, noting that al-Nueman is within the 1967 Jerusalem municipal boundaries, but two-thirds of residents have West Bank IDs. Residents said they are surrounded by the sep [...] | 2007-12-13 12:56:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS |
| 07JERUSALEM687 | FATAH REFORM IN GAZA: INTERNAL DIVISIONS THREATEN [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 10, senior Fatah activist Ahmad Hillis organized a conference attended by 1,700 Fatah members in Gaza City. While the conference's theme, "Our Message," was intended to energize grassroots Fatah activists around Fatah's public message and political program, the speake [...] | 2007-04-16 13:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | SECRET | KWBG PGOV KPAL IS PREL |
| 07JERUSALEM704 | RAFAH SECURITY WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Summary: USSC Dayton chaired the Security Working Group (SWG) on the Rafah Crossing April 15. All sides agreed to create a sub-working group on persons of concern. The GoI provided an approved list of goods of concern. The next SWG meeting is tentatively scheduled for May 16. 2. (C) [...] | 2007-04-19 14:13:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS |
| 07JERUSALEM983 | ASSESSMENT OF FATAH-HAMAS CLASHES AND PASF [...] (C) SUMMARY. FACTIONAL CLASHES THAT FLARED MAY 13-18 DEMONSTRATED THE WILLINGNESS OF PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES (PASF) TO FIGHT HARD TO DEFEND MAJOR INSTALLATIONS, BUT ALSO SHOWCASED SUBSTANTIAL HAMAS ADVANTAGES IN TACTICS, EQUIPMENT AND MOTIVATION. END SUMMARY. METHODOLOGY ----------- [...] | 2007-05-25 14:56:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PINS PREL KPAL IS PTER MOPS |
| 07KABUL1017 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PLENARY LOOKS TO ENERGIZE [...] (C) The U.S. delegation led by Under Secretary of Defense Edelman and Assistant Secretary Boucher joined its Afghan counterpart for a Plenary Meeting in Kabul on March 13 to reaffirm the importance of the Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership. The Prosperity session focused attention on the loomi [...] | 2007-03-27 13:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL1018 | PRT LASHKAR GAH: FOURTH SUICIDE BOMBING IN HELMAND [...] (SBU) On March 27 at approximately 1150 local time, a suicide bomber blew himself up in downtown Lashkar Gah, provincial center of Helmand Province. The incident occurred at the headquarters of the Afghan National Police (ANP). (NOTE: The headquarters is across from the entrance to Lashkar G [...] | 2007-03-27 14:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL1030 | PRT KANDAHAR: ASSESSMENT -- WHERE WE ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable assesses developments in Kandahar Province in 2006 through security, political, economic, and social lenses. The cable does not review ISAF performance or programs, but looks ahead to anticipated developments in 2007 and notes areas in need of further attention from [...] | 2007-03-28 11:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER AF |
| 07KABUL1032 | HOW NOT TO LOSE THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Having been caught off guard by the Taliban's opportunistic efforts in the South, post stepped back to look at the situation in the North to assess how best to avoid destabilizing violence and power vacuums in the region. The current stability in northern Afghanistan can be credit [...] | 2007-03-28 11:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PINR SNAR AF |
| 07KABUL1036 | PRT MEHTARLAM: SIX MONTH REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary. Laghman province is positioned to take advantage of new attention to governing capacity and increases in developmental funding after heightened anti-government activity in 2006. The security situation worsened somewhat in the second half of 2006 due to limited Coalition prese [...] | 2007-03-29 09:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL1051 | PRT/SHARANA: PAKTIKA GOVERNOR ON SPRING OFFENSIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Paktika's Governor Khpalwak has launched his own political spring offensive designed to preempt a widely expected Taliban offensive in southeastern Afghanistan. Starting on March 18, the Governor has been in near constant motion around the province. The Governor's agenda inclu [...] | 2007-03-31 13:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL1055 | PRT LASHKAR GAH: SEMI-ANNUAL HELMAND REVIEW [...] (C) Helmand faces serious problems within all PRT pillars )- security, governance and development. Security is the most pressing and immediate concern for the province. Apart from intense civilian and military focus on major projects such as Kajaki, little progress can be expected on governa [...] | 2007-04-01 11:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL1095 | PRT SHARANA: PAKTIKA ASSESSMENT 2006 [...] (SBU) In the past twelve months, measurable progress in Paktika has been limited, although 2006 witnessed greater Afghan involvment in the province's security. The most positive changes were driven by the U.S. military and the PRT in Sharana. Paktika is a province that has never experienced [...] | 2007-04-04 03:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON MARR AF EAID |
| 07KABUL1169 | "OPERATION ACHILLES" MOVES TALIBAN FROM SANGIN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Since last fall, the Taliban presence in North Helmand had been growing, especially in the districts of Musa Qala, Now Zad, and Sangin. This Taliban presence undermined USAID's multi-million dollar efforts to refurbish the major hydroelectric plant located at Kajaki Dam -- an [...] | 2007-04-09 16:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS NATO PTER MARR PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL1214 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANA PERSONNEL SELECTED TO [...] This is an action request. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, post is forwarding the names of four Afghan National Army (ANA) officers selected by Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) to participate in military education courses at the Near East Sout [...] | 2007-04-11 13:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PTER PINR SNAR AF |
| 07KABUL1226 | EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Border Management [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During this reporting period the Border Management Task Force (BMTF) was briefed by the European Commission and UNDP regarding the planned construction upgrades in Badakhshan Province on the Tajikistan and Afghanistan border for three Border Crossing Points (BCPs): Nusay; Segna [...] | 2007-04-12 14:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM ETRD PREL KSTC KNNP AF |
| 07KABUL1229 | Afghan Media Honor Partial Ban on Taliban Reporting [...] (U) In response to the April 8, 2007, execution of an Afghan journalist by the Taliban, many Afghan media outlets are fully or partially boycotting Taliban-related news for one week. While most government media already limit their reporting on the Taliban, this development is especially notew [...] | 2007-04-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL1238 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: DEFENSE MINISTER WARDAK ON [...] (S) In a separate meeting with members of the Strategic Partnership delegation, Minister of Defense Wardak stressed the importance to Afghanistan of its partnership with the United States, and praised U.S. forces for the "marvelous job" they are doing in Afghanistan. He noted in particular the [...] | 2007-04-14 08:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR MASS NATO AF |
| 07KABUL1267 | THE AFGHAN NATIONAL POLICE: WHERE WE ARE, WHERE [...] Summary: This cable uses the opportunity offered by a tasking from the Joint Department of State - Department of Defense Inspector General Interagency Assessment of Afghanistan Police Training and Readiness (ref A) to review recent progress in Afghan police development and to describe ongoing [...] | 2007-04-15 14:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SNAR ASIG PREL PGOV ASEC NATO AF |
| 07KABUL1315 | PRT LASHKAR GAH: ENSURING STABILITY IN BABAJI [...] (SBU) On March 22, Afghan National Security Forces, with ISAF support, initiated an operation that cleared a Taliban enclave close to the provincial center of Lashkar Gah (the "Babaji region"). Following the operation, local Afghans expressed what the Helmand Task Force and PRT generally take [...] | 2007-04-17 13:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL1344 | PRT LASHKAR GAH: GOVERNOR HOSTS JIRGA IN SANGIN [...] (SBU) Following the recent military operation to clear the Taliban from Sangin district, on April 12 a Government of Afghanistan (GOA) and ISAF delegation traveled from Lashkar Gah to Sangin to meet with a group of elders. Governor Wafa's delegation included the Police Chief, head of the Ule [...] | 2007-04-19 15:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL1412 | ATTEMPTED IED ATTACK AT KABUL AIRPORT [...] (C) At approximately 1000 hours local time on 18 April, a pipe bomb was detected aboard a fuel truck shortly after it entered the north (military) gate to Kabul International Airport. The truck had just passed through an Afghan National Army (ANA) checkpoint and, according to witnesses, the d [...] | 2007-04-25 13:44:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ASEC PTER ECON AF |
| 07KABUL1558 | DETAINEE LEGAL FRAMEWORK: GOA OFFICIALS OUTLINE [...] (S/NF) Summary and Action Request: Please advise regarding Post's paragraph 9-13 suggestions on possible legal vehicles and next steps. Building on reftel efforts, Post has continued, ahead of and during the 1-3 May advance team visit of L/PM Attorney Adviser Eric Pelofsky and OSD Global Secu [...] | 2007-05-08 13:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | KAWC MARR PTER PGOV PINS PREL AF |
| 07KABUL1574 | MESHRANO JIRGA "DRAFT RESOLUTION" ON RECONCILIATION [...] (SBU) Meetings with a member of the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) and a senior Parliamentary staffer provided some clarity on the intent of the reconciliation resolution passed on May 8. According to these contacts, the intent of the resolution passed by the Meshrano Jirga was to [...] | 2007-05-09 19:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM PREL AF |
| 07KABUL1598 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANA OFFICERS SELECTED FOR IMET [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of three Afghan National Army (ANA) officers who have been selected to participate in a Marshal Center sponsored seminar on counterterrorism. The semi [...] | 2007-05-14 02:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL1609 | NATO SCR EVERTS CALLS FOR MORE UNITY OF EFFORT [...] (C) In a May 8 meeting with Counselor Cohen, NATO Senior Civilan Representative Daan Everts said that the North Atlantic Council (NAC) had a "distinctly more positive" view than they had previously, based on their most recent visit to Afghanistan. His own view was somewhat different, however, [...] | 2007-05-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO AF |
| 07KABUL1690 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER FIRING INCIDENTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Another border firing incident between Afghan and Pakistani forces occurred early on the morning of May 17. The facts regarding which side fired first and why remain hard to pin down, with each side blaming the other for having provoked the exchange. The incident occurred in [...] | 2007-05-20 09:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MOPS MASS NATO PREL PK AF |
| 07KABUL1720 | AMBASSADOR LOOKS AT SECURITY, POLICE, POPPY IN [...] (C) (SUMMARY) During a May 13 visit to Mazar-i-Sharif and meeting with Balkh Governor Atta, the Ambassador offered congratulations for a dramatic reduction in poppy production, announced a planned increase in assistance to the province, and urged more progress on combating local warlords. T [...] | 2007-05-23 10:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PINR PGOV PTER NATO SNAR AF |
| 07KABUL1731 | EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Border Management [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The new Border Management Task Force (BMTF) Director, and the Finance and Metrics Coordinator, and the Customs Systems Coordinators are expected to arrive between mid-May and early June. These positions are located at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. In addition, six mentors who wil [...] | 2007-05-24 12:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM ETRD EFIN PREL KSTC KNNP AF |
| 07KABUL1749 | COUNSELOR COHEN DISCUSSES AFGHAN SECURITY WITH [...] (C) Counselor Cohen reviewed Afghanistan,s internal and external security situation in recQt meetings with Minister of Defense Wardak and Minister of Interior Zarar Moqbel. Wardak emphasized the need for a larger, more capable, and better equipped Afghan National Army. According to his calc [...] | 2007-05-25 11:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR NATO AF |
| 07KABUL1755 | DETAINEE LEGAL FRAMEWORK: CHARGES OUTLINED AGAINST [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) legal adviser has now outlined charges to be brought against 10 of the first group of 12 detainees transferred to the Afghan National Detention Facility (ANDF). NDS is waiting for information from provinces in the remaining two [...] | 2007-05-27 07:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | KAWC MARR PTER PGOV PINS PREL AF |
| 07KABUL1770 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANA IMET Candidates for [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of eight Afghan National Army (ANA) officers designated to attend aviation training at Fort Bliss, TX under the IMET program. Post has [...] | 2007-05-29 04:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL178 | BOUCHER SEES COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY WORKING IN [...] (U) During his January 10 visit to Panjshir Valley, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher heard an extensive analysis of the province from its Governor, Haji Bahlul. The Governor portrayed Panjshir as free of terrorist activity, official corruption and popp [...] | 2007-01-20 05:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL1817 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANA IMET Candidates for Training at [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of ten Afghan National Army (ANA) officers and interpreters designated to attend training at the U.S. Army Recruiting School at Fort Jack [...] | 2007-06-02 07:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL1820 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GATES VISIT TO [...] (S) Your June 3-4 visit to Afghanistan will be greeted by a President Karzai facing challenges both domestically and from his neighbors. Domestic discontent is to a considerable degree a reflection of unmet expectations. The population expected the fall of the Taliban and arrival of the int [...] | 2007-06-02 11:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF ECON IR |
| 07KABUL183 | BOUCHER AND SPANTA TALK NEIGHBORS, COORDINATION [...] (C) On January 9, Assistant Secretary Boucher and Afghan Foreign Minister Spanta discussed Pakistan, cross-border jirgas, U.S. funding for Afghanistan, Iran, the Strategic Dialogue, and the U.S. proposal to energize the Joint Coordinating and Monitoring Board. Spanta was downbeat over recent [...] | 2007-01-20 11:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF IR PK |
| 07KABUL184 | A/S BOUCHER MEETING WITH AFGHAN NSA RASSOUL [...] (C) During a January 9 meeting between Assistant Secretary Boucher and Afghan National Security Advisor SIPDIS Rassoul, Rassoul offered a comprehensive look at the security situationin Afghanistan, and the two shared concerns over the situation in Musa Qala and poppy cultivation. Boucher s [...] | 2007-01-20 12:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF IR PK ECON |
| 07KABUL186 | BOUCHER AND WARDAK TALK ABOUT RESOURCES, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 meeting with Defense Minister Wardak, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher assured Wardak that the United States is working to provide "bigger and better" support to the Afghan National Security Forces. Wardak replied that, in the [...] | 2007-01-21 01:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO MOPS PREL PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL1860 | PRT GARDEZ: ASSESSMENT TEAM SUPPORTS NEW CZECH PRT [...] (C/REL) The Czech Republic is considering establishing a new PRT in Logar Province. During a May visit to US-led PRT Gardez, which currently has responsibility for Logar, a Czech assessment team indicated it planned to give a favorable recommendation to the Czech government and to ISAF HQ for [...] | 2007-06-05 09:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PREL AF |
| 07KABUL187 | AFGHAN AND UN OFFICIALS COVER KEY DONOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-21 01:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAID PGOV EFIN AF |
| 07KABUL1893 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: Pilot Training and Marshall Center [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of an Afghan National Army (ANA) cadet and a Ministry of Interior (MOI) general officer. The cadet will receive English language and pil [...] | 2007-06-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL193 | ANA NCO DEVELOPMENT: STRONG LEADERSHIP AND UNIT PRIDE [...] In 2002, the Afghan National Army (ANA) did not have a Noncommissioned Officers Corps or any tradition of professional NCOs. This year there are over 8,000 NCOs, including 311 Sergeant Majors, who have begun to perform their role as the backbone of the ANA. Under the leadership of Sergeant M [...] | 2007-01-21 08:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PTER AF |
| 07KABUL1971 | PRT URUZGAN - THE FIGHT FOR CHORA [...] (C/REL NATO and AUS) Summary: Chora district center came under Taliban attack Friday, June 15, the focal point of a province-wide surge in insurgent activity. When it looked as if Chora might fall, the Dutch took the politically difficult decision to go on the offensive. They mounted successfu [...] | 2007-06-19 07:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF |
| 07KABUL2004 | PRT URUZGAN - THE FIGHT FOR CHORA [...] (C/REL NATO and AUS) Summary: Chora district center came under Taliban attack Friday, June 15, the focal point of a province-wide surge in insurgent activity. When it looked as if Chora might fall, the Dutch took the politically difficult decision to go on the offensive. They mounted successfu [...] | 2007-06-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PGOV PREL PTER SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL2068 | PRT BAMYAN: AMBASSADOR ASSESSES DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his introductory visit to Bamyan Province, Ambassador Wood and Governor Habiba Sarabi discussed development priorities and security risks in what has generally been Afghanistan's most secure province. The Ambassador also met the Provincial Council, a women's shura, and [...] | 2007-06-27 11:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR PHUM PTER EAID AF |
| 07KABUL2071 | RECONSTRUCTING AFGHANISTAN - USG PROCUREMENT AS DEMAND [...] (SBU) Beginning with Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan's (CFC-A) landmark Afghan First initiative, local procurement of goods and services by the U.S. and NATO military establishments and the international community is growing. It needs to grow more. An April 2007 study estimates that of th [...] | 2007-06-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EIND ETRD EINV EAID MOPS AF |
| 07KABUL2099 | KYRGYZ OFFICIALS SEE MANAS IMPACT ON WAR IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador hosted Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and a six member delegation of Kyrgyz senior officials to Afghanistan June 13-14 to allow them to better understand the importance of Manas Air Base in supporting coalition military and reconstruction efforts. The delegation me [...] | 2007-07-01 12:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF KG |
| 07KABUL2131 | PRT LASHKAR GAH: ASSESSING SANGIN SECURITY [...] (C) Over the last two weeks, Helmand Province's Sangin district has seen a spate of violence directed not only at ISAF and Government of Afghanistan (GOA) military forces but also at Afghans with links to those forces or to reconstruction efforts. Taliban attacks have resulted in the deaths [...] | 2007-07-05 08:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF EAID |
| 07KABUL2136 | DETAINEES: UPDATE ON TRANSFER-RELATED ISSUES [...] (S/NF) Summary: Transfers to the Afghan National Detention Facility (ANDF) resumed on June 3, and the ANDF now contains 56 detainees. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has relayed charges for the first 12 detainees transferred in April to the Attorney General's prosecutors, who have a [...] | 2007-07-05 14:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | KAWC MARR PTER PGOV PINS PREL AF |
| 07KABUL2137 | PAG TO DISCUSS COUNTERNARCOTICS IN THE SOUTH [...] (S/REL ISAF) Summary: At a June 28 Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting chaired by Afghan NSA Rassoul, COMISAF GEN McNeill urged the GoA and international community to do more to address the growing narcotics problem in Afghanistan. Ambassador Wood proposed that the PAG meet in three weeks to di [...] | 2007-07-05 14:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | MARR SNAR PTER MOPS NATO AF |
| 07KABUL2190 | PRT KHOST: KHOST PROVINCE SIX MONTH ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Khost Province, located on the eastern-most edge of Afghanistan, remains vulnerable to extremist activity due to its close proximity to the Waziristan region of Pakistan. Attack levels have risen in recent months, directed at Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and Coalition Forces (CF). [...] | 2007-07-11 14:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL2334 | PRT HERAT: IRAN AS A MULTI-FACETED ACTOR IN HERAT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Iran's strategic and economic interests in western Afghanistan, and particularly in Herat, are expressed in a mix of traditional (mostly soft) and non-traditional (harder-edged) engagements. While Iran's sponsorship of official and unofficial crossborder delegations and aid/develo [...] | 2007-07-19 12:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR IR AF |
| 07KABUL2343 | PRT/QALENOW: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (C) In Badghis economic and social indicators continue to improve slowly, but growth has been restrained by a deteriorating security environment caused by a recently-removed corrupt and inefficient Governor. Recent insurgent attacks have grown in size and coordination in the Pashtun parts of [...] | 2007-07-22 11:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID AF |
| 07KABUL2379 | PRT KANDAHAR: SIX MONTH ASSESSMENT [...] (C) The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IROA) are taking steps to improve security, governance, and the economy in Kandahar Province, but it remains a struggle. ISAF forces are taking the fight to districts north of Kandahar City. The [...] | 2007-07-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF ECON EAID CA |
| 07KABUL2380 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: Candidates for Advanced Security [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of two Afghan National Army (ANA) officers to participate in the Program for Advanced Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center i [...] | 2007-07-26 04:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL2382 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: Language and Military Training for [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of two Afghan National Army (ANA) officers. Major Sakhi Mohammad Bariz will receive language training at Lackland AFB and Ranger trainin [...] | 2007-07-26 04:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL2384 | MOI MAKES PROGRESS ON FINAL PHASES OF ANP RANK [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA is making progress towards completion of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) Rank Reform Process to reduce the currently over-manned Afghan National Police (ANP) officer corps to an efficient level by selecting the best qualified officers through an extensive testing, selecti [...] | 2007-07-26 05:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PGOV AF PREL |
| 07KABUL2402 | AFGHAN CIVIL ORDER POLICE UNDERMINED BY POOR MOI [...] (SBU) The Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) are being trained by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) in close coordination with Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) to provide a force capable of responding to urban unrest, civil disorder and national emergencies, whil [...] | 2007-07-27 04:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | MASS PGOV PREL AF |
| 07KABUL2505 | PRESIDENT KARZAI APPOINTS NEW GOVERNORS [...] (C) Governors have recently been sacked and replaced in Badghis, Ghor, Kapisa, and Logar. The status of the governor in Jowzjan remains unresolved, though he is no longer in the province. The governors from Faryab and Takhar were shifted to new provinces. Faryab remains vacant. The Ministry [...] | 2007-08-03 03:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PINR AF |
| 07KABUL2506 | PRT SHARANA: PAKTIKA PROVINCE SIX MONTH ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Despite an active pro-Coalition governor, weak government and a 60 percent increase in insurgent attacks continue to hamper progress in Paktika, a province of 800,000 people on the Pakistan border. The provincial government is well-meaning but weak, and almost all development in the provi [...] | 2007-08-03 05:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PTER ASEC MARR EAID AF |
| 07KABUL2507 | PRT NURISTAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Security remains a concern in Nuristan, especially in the districts bordering Pakistan. Political activity continues to center on Governor Tamim who travelled to remote districts to firm up support and allegiance to the provincial and national governments. Construction on the more than 4 [...] | 2007-08-03 07:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON SNAR MARR SOCI PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL2723 | PRT MEHTARLAM: LAGHMAN PROVINCE SIX MONTH [...] (C) Governance capacity improved in Laghman province, which also saw progress in reconstruction during the last six months. Taliban and HiG insurgents continued low-level operations in remote areas, but IEDs were the main threat to ISAF and IROA forces. Afghan security force training is on t [...] | 2007-08-15 06:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL28 | NEW AFGHAN NATIONAL COMMUNICATION COORDINATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: With active encouragement and support from the international community (IC) and especially Embassy Kabul, the Government of Afghanistan established the National Communication Coordinating Center (known as the NCCC or NC3) in early December 2006. Although the GOA is still identif [...] | 2007-01-04 10:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AF PREL PTER MOPS |
| 07KABUL2976 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF ANCOP POSITIONS [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP). [...] | 2007-09-06 07:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL2977 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF ANCOP POSITIONS [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP). [...] | 2007-09-06 07:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL2990 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM PLANNING AND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Planning and Coordination Directorate: the [...] | 2007-09-07 04:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL2991 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM PLANNING AND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Planning and Coordination Directorate: the [...] | 2007-09-07 04:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL2998 | BOUCHER AND KARZAI, SPANTA ON JIRGAS, DRUGS, ECON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher's August 27 meetings with President Karzai, Foreign Minister Spanta, Lower House Speaker Qanooni and National Security Advisor Rassoul spanned a range of key topics. Boucher, Karzai and Rassoul agreed to focus on t [...] | 2007-09-08 14:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON IR AF |
| 07KABUL3000 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM COUNTER-NARCOTICS [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Counter-Narcotics Unit. When there are ind [...] | 2007-09-10 02:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3001 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM COMMUNICATIONS [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of forty (40) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Communications Department. When there are [...] | 2007-09-10 02:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3002 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM COUNTER-NARCOTICS [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of twenty-one (21) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Counter-Narcotics Unit. When there ar [...] | 2007-09-10 02:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3003 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM COUNTER-NARCOTICS [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Counter-Narcotics Unit. When there are ind [...] | 2007-09-10 02:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3016 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF CENTRAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Central Command Center. When there are ind [...] | 2007-09-11 02:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3017 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF CENTRAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Central Command Center. When there are ind [...] | 2007-09-11 02:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3018 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF CENTRAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of twenty-four (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Central Command Center. When there a [...] | 2007-09-11 02:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3019 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF CENTRAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of twenty-four (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Central Command Center. When there a [...] | 2007-09-11 02:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3020 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF CENTRAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of twenty-four (24) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Central Command Center. When there a [...] | 2007-09-11 02:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3021 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF CENTRAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Central Command Center. When there are ind [...] | 2007-09-11 02:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3022 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Kabul Command Center. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-11 02:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3023 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of twenty-five (25) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Kabul Command Center. When there are [...] | 2007-09-11 02:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3136 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command-West. When there are indi [...] | 2007-09-19 02:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3137 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command-West. When there are indi [...] | 2007-09-19 02:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3138 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of forty-one (41) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command-West. When there are [...] | 2007-09-19 02:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3182 | FOUR NEW GOVERNORS APPOINTED AS NEW GOVERNANCE [...] (C) President Karzai has approved the appointments of new governors in Jowzjan, Faryab, Ghazni, and Uruzgan provinces. The appointments in Faryab and Jowzjan fill vacancies. The appointee in Uruzgan may have benefited from an early assertion by the new Director General of the Office of Local [...] | 2007-09-20 09:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL324 | CLARIFICATION ON PARLIAMENTARY DECLARATION ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. Several media outlets are reporting a decision on Wednesday, January 31, by the Afghan Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) to approve a declaration which would provide protection from prosecution for all the political and opposition elements that were in involved in war with each other o [...] | 2007-02-02 03:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3267 | Security in Nuristan -- The Enemy Within? [...] (SBU) Summary: Nuristan Province has seen an increase in security incidents since the establishment of a Coalition presence last fall. The situation became particularly acute this summer, with 21 separate attacks on Coalition or Afghan targets. While the frequency has declined since July, t [...] | 2007-09-27 11:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EAID ECON PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL3278 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Eastern Regional Command Center. When ther [...] | 2007-09-29 12:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3279 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Eastern Regional Command Center. When ther [...] | 2007-09-29 12:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3280 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty-seven (57) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Southern Regional Command Center. Wh [...] | 2007-09-29 12:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3281 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of twenty-four (24) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Eastern Regional Command Center. Whe [...] | 2007-09-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3282 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of one hundred (100) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Northern Regional Command Center. W [...] | 2007-09-29 12:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3283 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of twenty-seven (27) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Northern Regional Command Center. W [...] | 2007-09-29 12:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3284 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF REGIONAL COMMAND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of one hundred (100) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Northern Regional Command Center. W [...] | 2007-09-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3285 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF AFGHAN BORDER [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan Border Police. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3286 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF AFGHAN BORDER [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan Border Police. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3287 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF AFGHAN BORDER [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan Border Police. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3288 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF AFGHAN BORDER [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty-one (51) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan Border Police. When there are i [...] | 2007-09-29 12:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3289 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF AFGHAN BORDER [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan Border Police. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3290 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3291 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3292 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3293 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3294 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3295 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3296 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3297 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3298 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty-six (56) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are i [...] | 2007-09-29 12:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3299 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of fifty (50) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are indiv [...] | 2007-09-29 12:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3300 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of one hundred (100) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there ar [...] | 2007-09-29 13:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3301 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of eighty-four (84) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there are [...] | 2007-09-29 13:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3302 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of one hundred (100) Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior. When there ar [...] | 2007-09-29 13:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3437 | SPANISH OFFER TO TRAIN AFGHAN ARMY COMPANY [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy-Combined Security Transition Command Q) Afghanistan message. 2. (C) Spanish willingness to support and train the Afghan Army is appreciated. Our concerns here are that Spanish (and other) Allied assistance be provided in a manner that reinforces Q) not und [...] | 2007-10-09 03:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF |
| 07KABUL3448 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF U.S. INVASION [...] SUMMARY: Editorialists in all major Kabul dailies used the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to measure the progress their country has made, and, despite improvements, all found the progress wanting. A resurgent Taliban, government corruption, ineptitude of the Afghan securi [...] | 2007-10-10 02:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL AF |
| 07KABUL3460 | SPANISH OFFER TO TRAIN AFGHAN ARMY COMPANY [...] (U) This is a resend of Kabul 03437. This is a joint Embassy-Combined Security Transition Command Q) Afghanistan message. 2. (C) Spanish willingness to support and train the Afghan Army is appreciated. Our concerns here are that Spanish (and other) Allied assistance be provided in a [...] | 2007-10-10 08:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF |
| 07KABUL3479 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: JAMAL MIR JAMAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the biodata of Jamal Mir Jamal, candidate to be Criminal Investigation Director for District 15 of Kabul. 3. IMPORTANT NOTE: The international community re [...] | 2007-10-11 13:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3498 | KARZAI POLICY CHIEF OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR THE NEXT [...] (C) Republic Party Chairman and President Karzai's Chief of Policy Sebghatullah Sanjar outlined in a September 24 conversation with POLCOUNS his plan for winning the 2009 presidential election. Sanjar's strategy is based on "drawing a line between those who favor the Constitution and those wh [...] | 2007-10-15 10:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL3520 | EVENTS IN PARLIAMENT SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 11 [...] (U) Parliament continued to debate and, in some cases, amend the 100-plus remaining Presidential decrees enacted before its establishment. Speaker Qanooni's ongoing dispute with President Karzai over constitutional authority found expression in parliament's attempt to override Karzai vetoes o [...] | 2007-10-17 14:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL3598 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: Afghan National Military School [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of four Afghan Nationals selected for military school training in Preventative Medicine and Intelligence. Post possesses no derogatory [...] | 2007-10-23 11:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL371 | PRTSHARANA: PAKTIKA GOVERNOR SEEKS AMBASSADOR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Paktika Governor Khpalwak used his January 20 meeting with the Ambassador to seek U.S. support for projects in his province. The Governor requested help in funding new projects in the border districts. The Ambassador highlighted the importance of the newly-authorized Afghan N [...] | 2007-02-06 10:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MARR AF |
| 07KABUL3714 | NEW GOVERNANCE CZAR POPAL LAUNCHES AMBITIOUS [...] (SBU) Jelani Popal's three-year strategic plan for his new Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) aims to strengthen sub-national governance by holding appointed representative District Councils accountable for local governance, development, poppy-eradication, and security. To re [...] | 2007-10-31 08:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR EAID KDEM AF |
| 07KABUL372 | PRT NURISTAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Nuristan Province has traditionally been neglected and remains underdeveloped, but recent initiatives by Governor Tamin are energizing district administrations and encouraging communities to take responsibility for their own security. Despite these efforts, security remains problematic [...] | 2007-02-06 10:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON EAID MASS SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL375 | PRT/BAMYAN: ANA OPENS INTELLIGENCE BRANCH [...] (C) The Afghanistan National Army (ANA),which previously consisted of three recruiters in Bamyan, was augmented in December to include an intelligence component of approximately 20 soldiers. Their stated mandate is to recover arms caches and investigate smuggling. They have reached out to [...] | 2007-02-06 11:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS AF |
| 07KABUL3765 | SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY EDELMAN'S NOVEMBER [...] (S) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Your visit, coming near the end of this year,s fighting season, is an opportunity to assess 2007,s military, political and development progress and to prepare the ground for major challenges in 2008. With 2008 being the last full year before the next Afghan president [...] | 2007-11-06 08:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3800 | USDP EDELMAN NOV 7 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KARZAI: [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his November 7 office call on President Karzai, USDP Edelman expressed condolences for the victims of the November 6 bombing in Baghlan Province and highlighted the opportunity presented by this heinous act to reinforce Afghan national unity and action against the Taliban. Karzai we [...] | 2007-11-10 06:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SNAR PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL3842 | POLLS SHOW AFGHANS OPTIMISTIC, CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (SBU) Three polls released this fall suggest, contrary to many international press reports, that Afghans continue to feel that their country is headed in the right direction, with little change in attitudes from a year ago. The most pronounced difference over last year is a rise in perceptions [...] | 2007-11-15 01:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL3848 | AFGHAN POLICE TRAINING: SHIFT TO FOCUSED DISTRICT [...] (C) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghan National Police (ANP) development has lagged behind that of the Afghan National Army (ANA). Despite the training of over 70,000 ANP individuals and advances in equipping and recruiting, the police remain largely ineffectiv [...] | 2007-11-15 10:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS MARR AF |
| 07KABUL3896 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: Afghan National Military School [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of six Afghan Nationals selected for military school training as indicated. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individu [...] | 2007-11-24 10:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL3973 | SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF GATES' DECEMBER 3-5 VISIT [...] (S/NOFORN) SUMMARY: Your visit, coming at the end of this year,s fighting season, is an opportunity to assess 2007,s military, political and development progress. ISAF was the clear winner this year on the battlefield, which has pushed the enemy to resort increasingly to asymmetric attacks. [...] | 2007-12-02 08:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS MARR AF |
| 07KABUL4005 | CANADA'S MANLEY PANEL IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Canadian DCM Hoffman on December 4 provided the Charge with an assessment of the 10-day visit to Afghanistan by the Panel on the Future Role of Canada in Afghanistan (Manley Panel). Hoffman emphasized repeatedly that the Panel,s report will be critical to the future of the Canad [...] | 2007-12-06 14:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SNAR PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL4022 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: AMIDST MUSA QALA FIGHTING, AFGHANS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 02:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL AF |
| 07KABUL4079 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM AFGHAN BORDER [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of thirty-eight Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan Border Police. When there are ind [...] | 2007-12-12 14:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4080 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM AFGHAN NATIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 17 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Afghan National Civil Order Police. When there are [...] | 2007-12-12 14:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4081 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 15 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Counter-Narcotics Unit. When there are individuals [...] | 2007-12-12 14:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4082 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 8 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command Central. When there are individual [...] | 2007-12-12 14:52:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4084 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE MINISTRY OF [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 84 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Ministry of Interior Headquarters. When there are [...] | 2007-12-12 14:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4085 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 18 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command East. When there are individuals [...] | 2007-12-12 14:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4086 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE PLANNING AND [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 3 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Planning and Coordination Directorate. When there a [...] | 2007-12-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4087 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 20 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command Capital. When there are individua [...] | 2007-12-12 15:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4088 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 21 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command North. When there are individuals [...] | 2007-12-12 15:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4089 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANP RANK REFORM OF THE REGIONAL [...] This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 11 Afghan National Police (ANP) field grade officers selected for positions in the Regional Command West. When there are individuals [...] | 2007-12-12 15:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL4107 | AFGHAN GOVERNMENT'S SHORT TERM STABILIZATION PLANS [...] (C) During a December 15 meeting, Presidential Adviser "Engineer" Ibrahim outlined for the DCM the GIRoA's efforts to stabilize the district of Musa Qala in Helmand province, now that Afghan and ISAF troops have driven the Taliban from the area. Ibrahim said President Karzai had dispatched In [...] | 2007-12-16 06:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PTER PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL4142 | Afghans and Tajiks agree to Double Opening Hours of Bridge [...] (U) Summary: At a USG hosted meeting on December 17, Afghan and Tajik officials discussed current operations of, and ways forward for, the US-built and financed Afghan-Tajik bridge. Participants agreed to extend opening hours, consider pedestrian traffic and identify a common frequency for r [...] | 2007-12-18 07:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD AF |
| 07KABUL4170 | Kunduz, Afghanistan: A Regional Hub for Security and [...] (SBU) Summary: In 2007, Kunduz province has made demonstrable progress along all lines of operations (security, development and governance) and served as a regional catalyst for Northeast Afghanistan. There is both visible reconstruction activity and private sector development, symbolized by t [...] | 2007-12-22 05:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL4171 | Takhar, Afghanistan: Secure and Stable, but Development [...] (SBU) Summary: Takhar province has remained relatively secure and stable throughout 2007. While there have been rocket and IED attacks directed against Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF),the disruption of an insurgent cell in September 2007 has resulted in a significant decrease in insurg [...] | 2007-12-22 06:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL439 | STATE OF PLAY AND ACTION REQUESTS ON UPCOMING [...] (SBU) Embassy is working with the GOA to set dates and fix the agenda for upcoming working-level and senior-level Strategic Partnership meetings. We are in direct contact with our GOA counterparts for each working group. The MFA is responsible for overall organization of the Strategic Partne [...] | 2007-02-09 05:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MASS ECON EAID SNAR AF |
| 07KABUL440 | HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN - GOING [...] (U) Contains Action Request; please see para 10. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Afghanistan remains seriously affected by landmines and unexploded ordinance (UXO) that cause nearly 100 casualties each month. Landmines and UXO are found in 2,368 communities as well as agricultural fields and around major [...] | 2007-02-09 05:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS AF |
| 07KABUL442 | CODEL PELOSI CITES STRONG SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: During January 28 CODEL Pelosi visit to Kabul, Pakistan and poppy were dominant themes. Speaker Pelosi, Chairmen Skelton (Armed Services),Lantos (Foreign Affairs),and Reyes (Intelligence) and Sub-Committee Chairs Murtha (Defense Appropriations) and Lowey (State/Foreign Operatio [...] | 2007-02-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PTER PGOV SNAR MOPS AF |
| 07KABUL460 | ANA / ANP: POLICE CASUALTIES HIGHER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-10 13:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR SNAR PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL483 | PRT JALALABAD: NEW OFFICIALS REINVIGORATE DIAG [...] (U) Summary: New DIAG Regional Director visited the PRT to describe plans for new initiatives to reinvigorate the DIAG process. Two weeks later, DIAG hosted an event in Jalalabad for former Mujahideen. While the meetings were encouraging, getting new momentum for DIAG will require hard work [...] | 2007-02-13 06:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF |
| 07KABUL510 | REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING DETERMINATION ON ANA [...] (SBU) This is an action request - see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Post seeks Department's assistance in concluding Leahy (DoD) vetting for the Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel selected to participate in DoD-funded training to create a guard unit for the Afghan National Detention Facility (AND [...] | 2007-02-14 12:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PHUM PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL564 | ANA RETENTION RATES SHOW IMPROVEMENT; MORE WORK [...] (SBU) Summary: For the Afghan National Army to grow rapidly to the target strength of 70,000 personnel by December 2008, traditionally high AWOL and attrition rates need to be reduced. The Afghan Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) are work [...] | 2007-02-20 12:44:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR ASEC NATO PTER PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL606 | KARZAI DISCUSSES SECURITY, PAKISTAN WITH CODEL [...] (U) On February 21, Codel Dicks discussed security and reconstruction issues with President Karzai. Karzai expressed confidence about GOA and ISAF ability to succeed. Attendees included Representatives Dicks, Kaptur, Frelinghuysen, Rothman, Carney, and Murphy. ---------------------------- [...] | 2007-02-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR NATO AF |
| 07KABUL652 | DETAINEE LEGAL FRAMEWORK: GOA PROVIDES PART ONE [...] (S) As promised (reftel A),on February 19 the GOA provided a written description of the legal framework that will apply to detainees transferred from the Bagram Theater Internment Facility (BTIF) and later possibly from Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) to GOA custody at the Afghan National Detention Fac [...] | 2007-02-27 13:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | KAWC MARR PTER PGOV PINS PREL AF |
| 07KABUL661 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: The February 15 Strategic Partnership Working Group meeting ranged broadly over issues related to building Afghan National Security Force capacity and increasing security sector links. The discussion covered the growth, equipping, and capacity building of both the army and poli [...] | 2007-02-28 14:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR SNAR NATO AF |
| 07KABUL662 | OSD DELEGATION DISCUSSES PAKISTAN, IRAN, AND [...] (C) Summary: In February 13-15 meetings, a delegation from the Office of the Secretary of Defense discussed Pakistan, Iran, Afghan security forces development, and the Strategic Partnership with key leaders in the Afghan government. National Security Advisor Rassoul advised that the GOA is w [...] | 2007-02-28 14:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV SNAR NATO AF |
| 07KABUL663 | UPDATE ON THREATS AGAINST MP SHAKILA HASHEMI [...] (SBU) On February 13, PolOff met with Parliamentarian Shakila Hashemi and discussed the details of her daughter's murder, which occurred on January 3 in the front yard of Hashemi's home. Hashemi thought the bullet was intended for her due to her activities in support of women's rights and t [...] | 2007-03-01 03:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PRM PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL682 | ANSF AMMUNITION STOCKPILE MANAGEMENT NEEDS OVERHAUL [...] (C/REL ISAF) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting of the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MOD) Ammunition Working Group, Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) urged the MOD to destroy its stockpiles of unserviceable ammunition. The buildup of unserviceable ammunition in MOD depo [...] | 2007-03-02 10:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL AF |
| 07KABUL790 | PRT CHAGHCHARAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Ghor Province should be one of Afghanistan?s success stories, but because it remains unable to attract the resources needed to overcome its developmental deficit, the province continues to lack the wherewithal for economic and political "take-off". Marginal progress was made [...] | 2007-03-07 13:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON MARR NATO SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL804 | SCENE SETTER: US-AFGHAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Your March 13-14 visit to Afghanistan will be greeted by an Afghan government eager to host the Second U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Dialogue meeting. As some Afghans begin to fear international support may be slipping, the GOA sees the Strategic Partnership as a key vehicle to r [...] | 2007-03-08 16:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL805 | SCENESETTER II: US-AFGHAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Reftel reported scenesetter for the March 13 U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership Plenary meeting. This message provides points for March 13-14 bilateral meetings in Kabul (in order of the meeting schedule). FOREIGN MINISTER SPANTA ----------------------- 2. (S) Under constant press [...] | 2007-03-08 17:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL829 | SHIA ACTIVIST DESCRIBES IRAN'S EFFORTS TO EXPAND [...] (C) According to Sayed Jawad Husseini, the leader of a minor political party, "Afghan Youth", Iran is stepping up its efforts to influence the Afghan media, education, and influential Parliamentarians. At least four television stations financed by Iran are scheduled to go on the air in April [...] | 2007-03-12 07:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR AF |
| 07KABUL852 | STAFFDEL GROVE'S FEBRUARY 19-21 VISIT TO [...] (C/REL ISAF) Summary: Mr. Hakan Abaci, Civilian Director of the Turkish-led PRT in Wardak province, emphasized that the PRT is mainly a "civilian" operation, which seeks to minimize the visibility of the Turkish military element that provides security for the PRT compound. He said he believes [...] | 2007-03-13 12:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP MASS EAID SNAR ASEC AMGT AF |
| 07KABUL855 | ANP PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT ACCOUNTING COMMENCES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-14 05:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR SNAR PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL878 | PRT LASHKAR GAH: HELMAND: TWO SUICIDE BOMBINGS, [...] (SBU) At about 1115hrs on March 13, approximately one mile south of the PRT, two DynCorp vehicles (attached to the Poppy Elimination Program (PEP) coming from Bost airfield and driving to the Lashkar Gah PRT in Helmand were the targets of an IED attack. It has not been confirmed whether it wa [...] | 2007-03-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL881 | EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Border Management [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The European Union (EU) has approved a plan for a European mission to Afghanistan aimed at enhancing training for the Afghan National Police. The ESDP mission will strengthen the European contribution to police training, of which the largest part is now the German Police Prog [...] | 2007-03-15 13:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AF |
| 07KABUL882 | EXBS AFGHANISTAN ADVISOR AND BORDER MANAGEMENT MONTHLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During this reporting period, the BMTF position for Border Police and Immigrations Systems Coordinator was filled. The Afghan Customs Department (ACD) drafted a proposal for transferring the Customs Police unit to MoF. The GoA accepted the Iranian proposal to fund and construc [...] | 2007-03-15 13:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AF |
| 07KABUL905 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANA PERSONNEL SELECTED TO [...] This is an action request. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, post is forwarding the names of four Afghan National Army (ANA) officers selected by Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) to participate in military education courses at the Near East Sout [...] | 2007-03-19 03:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PTER PINR SNAR AF |
| 07KABUL934 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: ANA PERSONNEL SELECTED FOR IMET [...] This is an action request. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 10 Afghan National Army (ANA) officers selected by Embassy Kabul's Defense Attache Office (DAO) to participate in international military education training at Alexa [...] | 2007-03-21 09:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
| 07KABUL94 | PAKISTAN PM AZZIZ VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Afghan Deputy National Security Advisor Engineer Ibrahim characterized the January 4 visit of Pakistan Prime Minister Azziz as a "good trip." There had not been agreement on substance, but Azziz and Karzai held frank and open discussions on a range of bilateral issues. Foreign Minister S [...] | 2007-01-10 06:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF PK |
| 07KABUL940 | PRT/KUNDUZ: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON THE NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) The situation on the ground in the Northeast region of Afghanistan has not changed appreciably in the past six months. The security situation remains relatively calm, with only occasional criminal or terrorist attacks against local officials and ISAF. The primary threat and cause of ins [...] | 2007-03-22 09:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL950 | PRT/QALENOW: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Qal-e Now, in the western part of Afghanistan, has witnessed much progress over the last year. Residents of the capital enjoy a much better quality of life then they did under the Taliban. The PRT has had a direct impact on economic growth in the provincial capital. However, th [...] | 2007-03-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL979 | PRT/MAZAR: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Northwest Afghanistan enjoys a better security situation than much of the rest of the country but drought and crime hamper development. The Afghan National Police (ANP) and the judicial system need much work but progress has begun with the ANP. The balance of power between T [...] | 2007-03-26 05:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL996 | PRT/PANSHJIR: FUTURE PLANS OF THE PROVINCE II [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Panjshir Province is changing. Its transformation will continue thanks to agents of change: a new road, radio broadcasts, cell phones, a maturing administration and an active PRT. Provincial officials have formulated specific plans to lay the foundation (ref A). Panjshir's f [...] | 2007-03-26 16:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EAGR AF |
| 07KAMPALA1011 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (June 4-16, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-06-15 07:49:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1050 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSIONAL STAFF DELEGATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives [...] | 2007-06-26 12:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG |
| 07KAMPALA1079 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (June 17-30, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-07-02 03:13:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1089 | UGANDA: BESIGYE'S DETAINED BROTHER GRANTED BAIL [...] Summary. The High Court finally granted bail and release of Joseph Kifefe, Dr. Besigye's brother and an alleged member of the Peoples' Redemption Army (PRA),due to grave illness. The court was satisfied with the medical reports, which provided grounds for bail to be granted. Kifefe had spe [...] | 2007-07-03 13:09:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS ASEC PINS PHUM UG |
| 07KAMPALA1122 | UGANDA: PEOPLES' REDEMPTION ARMY SUSPECTS GRANTED AMNESTY [...] Nine treason suspects allegedly members of the Peoples Redemption Army (PRA) were granted Amnesty on July 5. The suspects are part of the first group of 23 suspects arrested in Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in March 2003. Meanwhile, the High Court failed to produce [...] | 2007-07-12 05:13:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS ASEC PINS PHUM UG |
| 07KAMPALA1159 | UGANDA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS TEMPLATE [...] (C) Summary: Ugandan military and civilian officials view the U.S.-facilitated Tripartite Plus process as important for confidence-building between the parties and for keeping pressure up on neighbors to rein in negative forces. Ugandans argue that the process has resulted in behind-the-scen [...] | 2007-07-13 08:09:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BY CG RW UG |
| 07KAMPALA1160 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (July 1-14, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-07-13 08:23:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1172 | UGANDA: ROUNDUP ON STAFFDEL SMITH AND KUIKEN VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee Professional staff members Shannon Smith and Michael Kuiken visited Uganda from July 4-7, 2007 to gain further understanding on both bilateral and military relations. The team examined the ongoing peace proce [...] | 2007-07-17 05:26:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI MOPS UG |
| 07KAMPALA1197 | NORTHERN UGANDA: KEEPING MOMENTUM IN THE PEACE [...] (C) Summary: The peace talks between the Government of Uganda and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are at another important juncture. Currently, the parties are consulting with the stakeholders on the mechanisms for accountability and reconciliation. We expect the recess to be extended for anoth [...] | 2007-07-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1199 | UGANDA: CORRUPTION TRIAL POSTPONED [...] (C) Summary: The Government requested a postponement of the high profile trial of former Ministry of Health officials involving the redirection of funds for immunization to political mobilization campains. The trial, which began on July 16, was delayed because the Government said it was not [...] | 2007-07-24 08:10:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCRM UG |
| 07KAMPALA1209 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LOWEY (August 18-23) [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives [...] | 2007-07-26 04:19:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG |
| 07KAMPALA1224 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (July 15-28, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-07-27 05:15:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1236 | NORTHERN UGANDA: CURRENT TRENDS IN PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Juba Peace Talks are on recess while the Government of Uganda and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) undertake consultations with various stakeholders. The break has provided many observers and the Government of Uganda an opportunity to take stock of the process and potential scen [...] | 2007-07-31 11:43:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1242 | UGANDA: PEOPLES' REDEMPTION ARMY SUSPECTS GRANTED BAIL [...] The High Court in Arua finally granted bail to seven suspected Peoples Redemption Army (PRA) rebels currently facing murder charges. The suspects were returned to jail after failing to raise adequate bail funds. The suspects are part of the group charged with treason alongside Forum for Demo [...] | 2007-08-02 09:22:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS ASEC PINS PHUM UG |
| 07KAMPALA1310 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL FEINGOLD (AUGUST 26-30, [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive partner for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. Uganda is vigorously supporting a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives on HIV/AIDS (PEPFAR) and malaria (PM [...] | 2007-08-15 10:23:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID UG |
| 07KAMPALA1346 | UGANDA: COURTS SET TOUGH BAIL TERMS FOR PRA SUSPECTS [...] (SBU) The High Court in Mbarara granted bail and released two suspected Peoples Redemption Army (PRA) rebels charged with murder on August 16. The court imposed a new condition, requiring each suspect to have three individuals deposit land titles as a guarantee for bail. The suspects are part [...] | 2007-08-24 06:24:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS ASEC PINS PHUM UG |
| 07KAMPALA1360 | AFRICA BUREAU SENIOR ADVISOR ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION [...] Summary: August 15 to 17 Senior Advisor on Conflict Resolution, Timothy Shortley, traveled to northern Uganda to meet with local leaders and affected populations. The primary objectives of the trip were to discuss the peace process in Juba, including community consultations on agenda item th [...] | 2007-08-27 14:45:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | UG |
| 07KAMPALA1419 | SENATOR FEINGOLD DISCUSSES NORTHERN UGANDAN ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Russell Feingold met with a wide range of government officials, local and religious leaders, military officers, internally-displaced persons, UN officials and international donors to discuss the current situation in northern Uganda during his visit from August 26 to 30. [...] | 2007-09-07 09:48:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1426 | SENATOR FEINGOLD RAISES REGIONAL AND DOMESTIC [...] Summary: Senator Russell Feingold discussed Somalia, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),Congo, the war on terror, and the President's plans for the 2011 election with President Yoweri Museveni on August 28. Museveni described potential military action against the LRA in Congo as "easy" and di [...] | 2007-09-11 08:24:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1429 | Ugandan Perspective on Museveni-Kabila Summit [...] (SBU) Summary: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Congolese President Joseph Kabila met in Arusha, Tanzania for a two-day summit on September 7 and 8 to discuss border issues, the Lord's Resistance Army and other negative forces, and sharing of common resources. The two heads of state agre [...] | 2007-09-11 13:17:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS UG CG |
| 07KAMPALA1435 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (AUGUST 25 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-09-12 12:16:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1449 | UGANDA: A/S FRAZER DISCUSSES LRA, CONGO, AND [...] (C) Summary: Africa Bureau Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on September 5 to discuss current developments in the negotiations with the Lord,s Resistance Army (LRA),developments in eastern Congo, and stabilizing Somalia. President Museveni, similarly to [...] | 2007-09-14 09:01:00 | Embassy Kampala | SECRET | PGOV PREL UG SU CG SO |
| 07KAMPALA1467 | NORTHERN UGANDA: PEACE PROCESS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Tim Shortley, Senior Advisor on Conflict Resolution, traveled to Kampala with AF A/S Secretary Jendayi Frazer and remained in the region to meet with key officials in Uganda, Southern Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo from September 5-17. The GOU's lead negotiator at [...] | 2007-09-20 13:24:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1482 | NORTHERN UGANDA: MILITARY OFFICIALS PESSIMISTIC [...] (C) Summary: Africa Bureau Deputy Assistant Secretary James Swan and Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley discussed Congolese plans for dealing with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Garamba National Park with Ugandan officials. The meeting took place at the conclusion of t [...] | 2007-09-24 13:40:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 07KAMPALA1485 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (SEPTEMBER 8 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-09-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1486 | TRIPARTITE PLUS MEETING READ-OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Tripartite Plus meeting in Kampala from September 15-17 followed several significant bilateral meetings between member states. Progess on action against the negative forces remained slow, but the Democratic Republic of Congo and MONUC presented the outlines of their plan [...] | 2007-09-25 13:44:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 07KAMPALA1594 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 5, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-10-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1595 | UGANDA: THE INTERNATIONAL COMPONENT OF PRESIDENT MUSEVENI'S [...] (SBU) Summary: A look inside Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's in-box reveals a range of international and regional issues, many where the U.S. also has interests. Museveni's immediate "to-do" list includes repairing relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo, to gain its cooperation [...] | 2007-10-16 12:52:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU CG |
| 07KAMPALA1689 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (OCTOBER 6 - 19, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-10-31 07:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1720 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA DEFECTOR AND NEGOTIATORS WELCOMED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Operations Chief Opio Makasi, who fled the group's camp on October 2, and the LRA's Juba Delegation arrived in Kampala on October 31 and November 1 respectively to warm welcomes and heavy press coverage. The Government continues to debrief Makasi a [...] | 2007-11-05 11:46:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1743 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA REPORTEDLY SPLINTERING [...] (C) Summary: In a phone call to a northern Ugandan politician, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony confirmed a rupture within the LRA, and claimed that Vincent Otti was under arrest for plotting against him. GOU officials are convinced that Otti is dead. On November 7, GOU intel [...] | 2007-11-09 12:35:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA1894 | LRA PEACE PROCESS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Turmoil within the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),including the execution of LRA deputy leader Vincent Otti and recent defections, have injected uncertainty into the future of the peace process. The LRA negotiating team's consultations were set to wrap up in Uganda on December 8, but fu [...] | 2007-12-17 13:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MOPS PGOV SU UG |
| 07KAMPALA1895 | UGANDAN PRESIDENT MUSEVENI FLEXIBLE ON "PLAN B" [...] (C) Summary: President Yoweri Museveni does not believe that Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony wants peace, but is willing to allow the peace process to continue until March. On December 14, Museveni complained to U.N. Special Envoy for LRA-Affected Areas Joachim Chissano that [...] | 2007-12-17 13:39:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG |
| 07KAMPALA193 | UGANDA: VOTE ON APPROVAL OF SOMALIA DEPLOYMENT [...] (U) On January 31, ruling party parliamentarians rejected the Defense Minister's motion to short-circuit parliamentary procedures to move forward a resolution to approve the Ugandan military's deployment to Somalia. In a 45-43-4 vote, ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentaria [...] | 2007-02-01 02:51:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID KPKO ET SO ER KE UG |
| 07KAMPALA240 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (January 27-February 9, 2007) [...] Summary: Post presents the thirteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to 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 gove [...] | 2007-02-12 04:33:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA312 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD (FEB 27-28) [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money, and logistics. Uganda cooperates fully in the War on Terror, and is highly receptive to U.S. training and presence. On the humanitarian and develo [...] | 2007-02-23 03:10:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA341 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (February 10-26, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: Post presents the fourteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to 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 [...] | 2007-02-28 10:49:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA342 | UGANDA: ACTION ITEMS ON SOMALIA FROM EUCOM DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command General William Ward, discussed a wide range of issues with Ugandan military and civilian officials during his visit to Uganda from February 27 to 28. Ward praised President Museveni's commitment to regional stability. Senior military off [...] | 2007-02-28 12:28:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE UG |
| 07KAMPALA345 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR AND NSC DEPUTY ADVISOR DAVID [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of US initiatives including Presidential initiatives o [...] | 2007-03-01 03:50:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG |
| 07KAMPALA367 | UGANDA: GOVERNMENT RE-ARRESTS PRA SUSPECTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government re-arrested the remaining Peoples Redemption Army (PRA) suspects, after they were released on bail on March 1, during a confrontation that turned violent on the premises of the High Court. Over the past year, the Executive and President Museveni have defied two [...] | 2007-03-02 06:36:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM PINS UG |
| 07KAMPALA377 | UGANDA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2007 [...] (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 (FO-02) spent 30 hours and political assistant Gracie Jaasi spent 3 [...] | 2007-03-05 10:58:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB UG |
| 07KAMPALA448 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA LEADER JOSEPH KONY AGREES TO RESUME [...] Summary: Minister of Internal Affairs Ruhakana Rugunda described the discussions between Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony and United Nations Special Envoy for LRA-Affected Areas Joaquim Chissano on March 11 as "positive and constructive." Rugunda said that he anticipated anothe [...] | 2007-03-14 05:46:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA463 | UGANDA: GOVERNMENT CLOSURE OF NATIONTV [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government's closure of NationTV and concurrent demands on its sister organization, Monitor Publications, highlight the Ugandan Government's questionable commitment to an independent media. In exchange for allowing the station to broadcast, President Museveni has reportedly [...] | 2007-03-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO UG |
| 07KAMPALA526 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (March 10-23, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: Post presents the sixteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to 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 g [...] | 2007-03-27 08:05:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA577 | GOVERNMENT DEMANDS ACTION AGAINST UGANDAN REBELS IN CONGO [...] (SBU) Summary: Following recent infiltrations of Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebels into western Uganda from bases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),the Ugandan Government formally protested to the DRC and the U.N. Mission in Congo (MONUC). The Ugandan military killed over 46 ADF r [...] | 2007-04-03 01:42:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL PGOV PTER UG ASEC PHUM |
| 07KAMPALA589 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (March 23-April 6, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: Post presents the seventeenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to 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 [...] | 2007-04-06 03:59:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA630 | NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA TALKS TO RESUME APRIL 23 [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 10 for proposed press guidance. 2. (SBU) Summary: Negotiations between the Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are set to resume in Juba, Southern Sudan on April 26. The two parties agreed to extend the Cessation of Hos [...] | 2007-04-16 10:46:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREF PREL MOPS UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA842 | NORTHERN POLITICIANS SHARE THEIR PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Africa Bureau Deputy Assistant Secretary James Swan discussed the prospects for peace, the commitment of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and Government of Uganda to a negotiated settlement, justice and accountability mechanisms, and potential pressure on the LRA would be usefu [...] | 2007-05-16 05:01:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA871 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (May 1-18, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-05-22 07:35:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA964 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (May 19-June 2, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting MissionQs objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to socia [...] | 2007-06-05 12:02:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KAMPALA968 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (May 19-June 2, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides 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 [...] | 2007-06-06 03:52:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
| 07KATHMANDU1002 | UNMIN CHIEF CONFIRMS VERIFICATION, ELECTION PREP [...] (C) UNMIN Chief Ian Martin told the Ambassador May 17 that he continued to urge the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists to allow the second phase of combatant verification to begin, but so far had seen little movement. Martin and visiting Senior UN Political Affairs Officer for South A [...] | 2007-05-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1008 | NEPAL: NEW PEACE MINISTER STARTING TO MAKE PROGRESS [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert told the Ambassador May 18 that Peace and Reconstruction Minister Ram Chandra Poudel was getting things done. Under his leadership, the Government of Nepal (GON) was finally starting to come to grips, most importantly, with conditions in t [...] | 2007-05-21 12:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1009 | NEPAL: MAOIST COMBATANT VERIFICATION TO BEGIN SOON [...] (C) On May 21, the Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Suresh Chalise confirmed to Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Hugins that the Maoists had agreed to allow verification of Maoist combatants to begin. Chalise expected verification might commence within a week. Prime Minister [...] | 2007-05-21 12:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1028 | NEPAL: FORMER PM: "EVERYONE IS KEEPING MUM" [...] (C) On May 23, former Prime Minister and President of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (National People's Power Party) (RJP) Surya Bahadur Thapa told the Ambassador that King Gyanendra had no intention to step down. Thapa had told Gyanendra that it might be wise to abdicate in order to "preserve [...] | 2007-05-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1032 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO NEPAL [...] Barry, I'm delighted that you are able to make it out to Nepal at this crucial point in the country's history. You will find a country that is teetering on the brink of becoming either a showcase for democratic transformation or a failed or totalitarian state threatening stability in the reg [...] | 2007-05-24 11:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU105 | NEPAL: UN ARMS MONITORING BEGINS [...] (C) On January 17, Ian Martin's political advisor John Norris told the Deputy Chief of Mission that the UN arms monitoring team had begun the arms management process at the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) 3rd Division cantonment site in Chitwan District at around noon. The process began with [...] | 2007-01-18 12:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1069 | AMBASSADOR URGES HOME MINISTER TO HOLD MAOISTS [...] (C) In a May 30 meeting with Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula, the Ambassador sharply criticized the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) for attacking his vehicle in Jhapa on May 25 and for threatening and intimidating Nepalese with impunity across the country. The Maoist leade [...] | 2007-05-30 12:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PHUM ASEC PREL PGOV BT NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1077 | NEPAL: PARTY LEADERS GROWING INCREASING [...] (C) In separate meetings with the Ambassador on May 22 and May 30 both Sher Bahadur Deuba, President of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D),and Madhav Kumar Nepal, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist SIPDIS Leninist (CPN-UML),blamed Prime Minister Koirala for [...] | 2007-05-31 09:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1091 | NEPAL: SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT HOPEFUL POLITICAL [...] (C) Speaker of the Interim Parliament Subash Nemwang told visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and Ambassador Moriarty May 31 that the governing Eight-Party Alliance had reached an informal understanding on a new date for a Constituent Assembly ele [...] | 2007-06-01 12:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREF NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1092 | NEPAL: ELECTION COMMISSION HAS PLAN BUT LACKS LAWS [...] (C) Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel told visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and Ambassador Moriarty May 31 that the externalities, including the uncertain security situation and the absence of election legislation, were the Election [...] | 2007-06-01 13:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1099 | OHCHR FAILING TO REPORT ON MAOIST HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) On May 31 Lena Sundh, head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal, defended her recent newspaper interview in which she slammed the failure by the Government of Nepal (GON) to implement its human rights commitments while saying nothing about Maoist abuses [...] | 2007-06-04 11:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1116 | NEPAL: MEETING LEAHY AMENDMENT CONDITIONS ON [...] (C) There is a strong case for certifying that the requirements of the Leahy Amendment for U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) have been met for Nepal given the significant progress the Government of Nepal (GON) has made in restoring human rights. Resumption of FMF is also in U.S. national [...] | 2007-06-05 13:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1117 | KATAWAL CONFIRMS NEPAL ARMY'S COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff General Rookmangud Katawal(COAS) told visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and Ambassador Moriarty June 1 that the Nepal Army (NA) was uncomfortable with the prospect of working under a "leftist" regime. Katawal explained th [...] | 2007-06-06 10:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR PHUM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1168 | UNMIN CHIEF SAYS MAOIST COMBATANT VERIFICATION TO [...] (C) Ian Martin, the head of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN),announced at a June 12 press conference that UNMIN would begin verification of Maoist combatants on June 14. Martin also highlighted the importance of public security for a free and fair Constituent Assembly election an [...] | 2007-06-13 12:30:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR KDEM UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1188 | KILLINGS OF MAOISTS IN TERAI PROMPT DELAY IN [...] (C) United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) chief Ian Martin told the Ambassador June 14 that the launch of the second phase of UNMIN's registration of Maoist "combatants" -- combatant verification -- had been unexpectedly delayed. He indicated the senior Maoist leadership had decided to hold [...] | 2007-06-15 11:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR EAID PHUM UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1191 | NEPAL: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOR JUNE [...] (SBU) Post's avian influenza (AI) working group held a virtual meeting on June 11. Post Medical Officer reported that there have been no confirmed cases of AI in Nepal, in spite of more reported outbreaks in nearby Bangladesh. Post is actively monitoring the situation and continuing awareness [...] | 2007-06-18 05:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CASC KFLU SOCI WHO NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1197 | NEPAL: INDIAN OFFICIALS TAKE TOUGHER STAND ON [...] (C) On June 15, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee confirmed to the Ambassador that the Government of India had taken a tougher line on Maoist abuses. Mukherjee's recent visit to New Delhi had coincided with the visit of Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist General Secretary Ma [...] | 2007-06-18 13:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MARR IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1204 | UNDP PLAYING SECOND FIDDLE TO UNMIN [...] (C) UN Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative Matthew Kahane told the Ambassador June 18 that UNDP was contributing the majority of the over 100 UN personnel deployed to manage verification of Maoist combatants. Kahane said the duration of the process would depend on whether the [...] | 2007-06-19 12:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR EAID KDEM UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU122 | NEPAL: FORTY-EIGHT NEW MPS ROUND OUT INTERIM [...] (C) On the eve of the Interim Parliament's first session on January 15 (Ref A),the governing Seven Party-Alliance and the Maoists appointed representatives to fill the 48 additional seats the November 8 peace agreement had allocated to civil society (Ref B). The Maoists had previously announ [...] | 2007-01-19 09:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1248 | NEPAL: FINANCE MINISTER WANTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Finance Minister Mahat told the Ambassador June 22 that the Government of Nepal's most pressing need was support for the Nepal Police to ensure a free and fair Constituent Assembly election. The Ambassador said the U.S. had come up with an additional USD 2.8 million for election security [...] | 2007-06-25 12:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV EAID KDEM BT NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1298 | NEPAL: UNMIN POLITICAL ADVISER SAYS COMBATANT [...] (C) On July 1, UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) political adviser John Norris informed Emboff that Maoist chief Pushpa Dahal had suspended further verification of Maoist combatants after receiving the results of UNMIN's review of members of the Maoist "1st Division." Dahal had asked for a delay unt [...] | 2007-07-03 10:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1307 | NEPAL: ARMY CHIEF RULES OUT COUP [...] (S) On July 2, during the Ambassador's farewell call on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Rookmangud Katawal, the COAS revealed that he had had three visitors from King Gyanendra in recent days who had urged him to "move" to "save the country." He told the Ambassador that he had rejected the request [...] | 2007-07-06 08:36:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV MARR NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1314 | NEPAL: ARMY CHIEF OPPOSES INTEGRATION OF MAOISTS [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Rookmangud Katawal told the Ambassador July 2 that he opposed integrating Maoist combatants into the Nepal Army for "five years." He estimated it would take that long for democracy to take root in Nepal. He said he had stressed to Prime Minister G.P. Koirala on [...] | 2007-07-06 09:03:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PTER IN CH NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1320 | AMBASSADOR TELLS FOREIGN MINISTER: REFUGEE CAMPS [...] (C) On July 6, the Ambassador highlighted to Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan U.S. concerns regarding the intimidation and terror tactics the Bhutanese Communist Party and traditional Bhutanese refugee leaders were using in the refugee camps to discourage resettlement. Pradhan agreed that ther [...] | 2007-07-09 12:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER CVIS KDEM BT NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1328 | NEPAL: HOME MINISTRY TO HIRE 75,000 POLICE FOR [...] (C) During a farewell call July 10 on Home Minister Krishna Sitaula, the Ambassador stressed that the Maoists had miscalculated by assuming that the Nepal Army would acquiesce if the Maoists attempted to seize power. Pushing ahead with the Constituent Assembly polls in November was the best wa [...] | 2007-07-11 10:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PTER KDEM BT NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1329 | NEPAL PROMISES TROOPS FOR DARFUR MISSION [...] (C) The Acting Defense Secretary told Emboff and the Defense Attache July 3 that the Defense Ministry supported contributing troops to the planned UN/African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur. The Prime Minister had recently approved increasing the ceiling on the number of Nepali peacekeepers [...] | 2007-07-11 11:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS KDEM SU NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1334 | NEPAL: REINTEGRATION OF EX-COMBATANTS A WORK IN [...] (SBU) Representatives from several child-focused international NGOs reported to Emboffs in late June that they and other similar NGOs under the leadership of the UN Children's Fund were poised to assist with reintegration of former Maoist child combatants. They had devised a standard reinte [...] | 2007-07-12 15:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR KOCI NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1339 | MAOIST DELAYING VERIFICATION PROCESS [...] (C) On July 12, UNMIN Chief Ian Martin told the Ambassador that the Maoists had suspended the verification process, stating that they wanted further discussions on separate issues with other political parties and wanted to hear the views of the Maoist commanders on the ground. Martin indicate [...] | 2007-07-13 04:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1340 | KOIRALA THANKS U.S. AND CRITICIZES YCL [...] (C) In comments to the Ambassador after serving as the guest of honor at the dedication of the New Embassy Chancery on July 11, Prime Minister (PM) Girija Prasad Koirala expressed deep concern about the intentions and goals of the Maoists. The PM was also worried about continued unrest in the [...] | 2007-07-13 04:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1345 | KING'S SUPPORTERS HAVE LOST HOPE [...] (C) On July 11, Royal confidant Prabhakar SJB Rana told the Ambassador that King Gyanendra's supporters had lost all hope for the future of the monarchy. Rana said the King was aware of his extremely weak position, but he still hoped that the Government of India and the passage of time might r [...] | 2007-07-13 08:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM ECON IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1347 | MK NEPAL CONFIRMS NO LEFT ALLIANCE [...] (C) On July 10, MK Nepal, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML),reported to the Ambassador that his party had finished a 15 day party meeting at which the party members had discussed the conditions for the election in the countryside. Nepal told [...] | 2007-07-13 08:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PREF PTER KDEM BT NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1577 | NEPAL: ARMY CHIEF ASKS FOR AMBASSADOR'S HELP TO [...] (C) At an August 15 introductory courtesy call, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Rookmangud Katawal requested the Ambassador's assistance to protect the Nepalese Army from institutional alteration after the Constituent Assembly election. General Katawal listed the chief threats he perceives [...] | 2007-08-21 08:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU158 | INDIAN AND UK AMBASSADORS SHARE U.S. CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) In separate meetings January 18 with Ambassador Moriarty, Indian Ambassador Mukherjee and UK Ambassador Hall stressed the importance of arms management before Maoist entry into government and expressed concern over the security climate in the countryside. Ambassador Moriarty and Ambassado [...] | 2007-01-22 10:30:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UN UK NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1603 | NEPAL: AMBASSADOR REVIEWS ELECTION, REFUGEES AND [...] (C) During the Ambassador's introductory call on Foreign Minister Pradhan on August 13, the Ambassador emphasized the ongoing U.S. interest in assisting Nepal with its upcoming Constituent Assembly election and its democratic transition. Minister Pradhan responded that the election was the Gov [...] | 2007-08-24 12:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PREF ELAB KDEM KWMN AMGT BT |
| 07KATHMANDU165 | NEPAL: IAN MARTIN COMMENTS ON ARMS MANAGEMENT, [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST -- See para. 3. Summary ------- 2. (C) The UN Secretary General's Personal Representative Ian Martin informed the Ambassador January 22 that the process of Maoist arms management was progressing fairly smoothly at the two main People's Liberation Army camps [...] | 2007-01-24 11:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER MARR UN IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1666 | BOMBINGS IN KATHMANDU [...] (C) At approximately 4:30 p.m. September 2, three bombs exploded simultaneously in downtown Kathmandu, killing two and injuring twenty nine. Two little know Terai based groups -Terai Utthan Sangh (Terai Upliftment Union) and Terai Army -have claimed responsibility, but investigations continue [...] | 2007-09-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1691 | UPDATE ON ELECTION ENVIRONMENT IN NEPAL [...] (C) At the inaugural meeting of Post's Democracy Working Group August 31 representatives from NDI and IFES presented sobering assessments of the status of preparations for the Constituent Assembly (CA) election on November 22. Behind the scenes discussions to ensure that leaders of the Eight- [...] | 2007-09-07 05:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU171 | NEPAL: PM'S ADVISOR TALKS TOUGH, BUT SEEMS WORRIED [...] (C) Dr. Suresh Chalise, Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, stressed to the DCM January 24 that the Maoists would not be allowed into the Interim Government until Maoist arms management was complete. Chalise was unhappy with the way the UN was handling arms monitori [...] | 2007-01-25 09:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1720 | NEPAL: AIRPORT THREAT PROMPTS ADDITIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) A leftist weekly, Jana Aastha, reported September 12 that Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had received an emailed threat of an attack against Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport September 10 from an unknown group. The email was signed "T Army of Nepal." (Note: An organizati [...] | 2007-09-12 11:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAIR KSEC NP |
| 07KATHMANDU176 | AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR PLANS TO MEET WITH MAOISTS [...] (C) Australian Ambassador Lade told Ambassador Moriarty January 24 that Canberra had authorized him to meet with the Maoists. He conceded that he had no illusions about the Maoists and acknowledged they were continuing their abuses. Nevertheless, the Government of Australia had interests in N [...] | 2007-01-26 00:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECON ENRG EAID AS NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1811 | NEPAL: DRAFT GUIDANCE AND ACTION PLAN IF ELECTION [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST -- SEE PARA. 3. 2. (C) Prime Minister G.P. Koirala, his partners in the Interim Government and the Maoists may agree in the coming days to postpone Nepal's Constituent Assembly election, which is currently scheduled for November 22, 2007, until April or May 200 [...] | 2007-09-28 11:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID KDEM KPAO UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1833 | NEPAL'S ELECTION: DO THE COMBATANTS HOLD THE KEY? [...] (C) In recent days, senior diplomats have told the Ambassador that if Prime Minister Koirala wishes to hold a Constituent Assembly election in November, he must come up immediately with some satisfactory solution on the Maoist combatants. UN Mission in Nepal political adviser John Norris insi [...] | 2007-10-04 03:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PTER KDEM UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU188 | PARTY LEADERS CONCERNED ABOUT A MAOIST DEPUTY [...] (C) In separate meetings January 22, 23 and 26, Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chairman Pashupati Shumsher Rana, and Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal all told the A [...] | 2007-01-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1901 | NEPAL: NO POLITICAL PROGRESS LIKELY UNTIL AFTER [...] (C) Nepal's Six-Party Alliance and the Maoists are not expected to reach any agreement on resolving the current political deadlock until after the Hindu holiday season of Dashain. Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) General Secretary M.K. Nepal informed the Ambassador Oct [...] | 2007-10-17 13:00:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU1982 | NEPAL: DRAFT 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] 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. An increase in the number of Nepalese couriers apprehended by the police in 2007 suggests that N [...] | 2007-11-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2027 | NEPAL: PARLIAMENT RESUMES BUT POLITICAL DEADLOCK [...] (C) Nepal's Interim Parliament resumed its regular session November 29 after a 10-day recess, but without any progress on resolving the political deadlock. As expected, a last-ditch meeting of the Six-Party Alliance and the Maoists the morning of November 29 saw no breakthrough. Senior leade [...] | 2007-11-29 10:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2038 | NEPAL: UPDATE OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION 2007 [...] As requested by Reftel, Post is providing current information on child labor, especially its worst forms, as well as on efforts by the Government of Nepal (GON) to address the problem. Emboff collected information from the Ministry of Labor and Transport (MOLT),the Ministry for Women, Childr [...] | 2007-12-02 23:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2044 | NEPAL: FORMER PRES. CARTER PROPOSES COMPROMISE TO [...] (C) On November 24, at the end of a four-day visit to Kathmandu, former President Jimmy Carter proposed a three-point compromise to end Nepal's political deadlock and lead the way to a Constituent Assembly election. His first point was that the Interim Parliament should declare Nepal a republ [...] | 2007-12-05 01:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2079 | NEPAL: 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Nepal experienced no significant acts of international terrorism in 2007; however, several incidents of domestic terrorism and politically-motivated violence occurred in urban areas and in the Terai. None was aimed at U.S. citizens or facilities. Nepal was not a state sponsor of terrorism, [...] | 2007-12-17 03:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2085 | SOME PROGRESS BUT DEAL FOR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) On Saturday December 15 the Six-Party Alliance registered a constitutional amendment with the Interim Parliament to eliminate the requirement to hold the Constituent Assembly (CA) election by the end of the Nepali month of Mangsir (which ended December 15),but it would keep the requirem [...] | 2007-12-17 09:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR NP |
| 07KATHMANDU21 | NEPAL: ARMS MONITORING TO START, POLICE MONITORS A [...] (C) In a January 4 meeting, UN Special Envoy Ian Martin informed Ambassador Moriarty that arms monitoring operations by at least 15 UN monitors would begin o/a January 8 with the remaining contingent of 20 monitors on the ground by mid-January. Martin also reported that recruitment of 111 e [...] | 2007-01-05 07:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NP |
| 07KATHMANDU210 | NEPAL REQUESTS EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES [...] (C) On January 25, Post received a letter from Under Secretary for Planning and Procurement Shiva Thapa of the SIPDIS Ministry of Defense requesting delivery to Nepal of all its excess defense articles (EDA). In a conversation with the Office of Defense Cooperation Chief the same day, Secr [...] | 2007-01-30 07:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2118 | NEPAL: POLITICAL AGREEMENT REACHED BUT OBSTACLES [...] (C) On December 23, after a nearly three-month stalemate, the Six-Party Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists signed a twenty-three-point agreement, which addressed two major Maoist concerns: declaration of the republic and the electoral system. They agreed to revise the Interim Constitution to decl [...] | 2007-12-26 12:28:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2135 | NEPAL: ALLEGATION OF MASS CREMATION SITE STILL [...] On December 19, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) members, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) staff, and local human rights representatives went to Shivapuri National Park. At least one, and possibly more, of the 49 Maoists allegedly killed by the Ne [...] | 2007-12-31 09:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU2138 | NEPAL: UNMIN COMPLETES VERIFICATION OF MAOIST [...] (C) On December 27, the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) chief Ian Martin announced that UNMIN had verified 19,602 members of the Maoist People's Liberation Army and disqualified more than 12,600. In a conversation with the Defense Attache December 28, the Nepal Army's Director of Public Relations [...] | 2007-12-31 11:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PTER PHUM UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU232 | NEPAL: JTMM WREAKS HAVOC IN TERAI [...] (C) The Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM)(Terai People's Liberation Front),a Maoist splinter group, has played a key role in racheting up violent protests wracking Nepal's Terai, or southern belt. The JTMM broke with the Maoists in 2003 over its demand for an independent state for the Ma [...] | 2007-02-01 11:55:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV NP |
| 07KATHMANDU24 | NEPAL CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF FEELS BELEAGUERED, SEEKS [...] (C/NF) In a January 4 meeting with Ambassador Moriarty, Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal worried that armed Maoists were occupying strategic locations in and around Kathmandu and questioned why they had not been sent to cantonment sites. Katawal felt somewhat beleaguered, with little su [...] | 2007-01-05 10:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PREL PGOV NP |
| 07KATHMANDU25 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT NEPAL [...] (C) In a meeting on January 5, former Prime Minister and President of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (National People's Power Party) Surya Bahadur Thapa told the Ambassador that the Prime Minister and the Government of Nepal (GON) needed to become more assertive. Thapa complained about continui [...] | 2007-01-05 11:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
| 07KATHMANDU327 | NEPAL: OHCHR WORRIED ABOUT TERAI UNREST [...] (C) In a February 6 briefing, Country Representative for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Lena Sundh told Chiefs of Mission that OHCHR worried about the growing violence in the Terai. OHCHR officers were worried about the actions of the Nepal Police and the Armed [...] | 2007-02-08 12:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU340 | UN WILL REPORT MAOIST WEAPON DISCREPANCIES AFTER [...] (C) Newly-designated Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) to Nepal Ian Martin told the SIPDIS Ambassador February 8 that once the UN arms registration process was complete, the UN would report the total number and type of weapons the Maoists had turned in to the Government [...] | 2007-02-09 12:30:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU341 | U.S., UK, INDIA, AND UN DISCUSS CHALLENGES [...] (C) In a February 6 meeting with the Ambassador, UK Ambassador Hall, UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) head Ian Martin, and an Indian Embassy representative, a visiting UK security assessment team described the key challenges facing the police as: 1) the absence of public debate on public security a [...] | 2007-02-09 12:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU366 | NEPAL: PM'S ADVISOR UPBEAT ABOUT PEACE PROCESS [...] (C/NF) Dr. Suresh Chalise, the Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Advisor, told the DCM February 12 that he was confident that the Government of Nepal (GON) would find a solution to the situation in the Terai. The Maoists had been put on the defensive due to the Terai unrest, and the Nepali Cong [...] | 2007-02-14 12:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PREF NP |
| 07KATHMANDU406 | PM'S ADVISOR ASKS FOR HELP ON ARMS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) Dr. Suresh Chalise, Prime Minister Koirala's Foreign Policy Advisor, expressed concern to the DCM February 20 about UN pressure to accept the results of the arms management exercise without effective monitoring mechanisms in place. The UN had submitted a report to the Government of Nepal [...] | 2007-02-21 11:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU407 | NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR WORRIED ABOUT KING, [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Mukherjee told the Ambassador February 21 that King Gyanendra's speech on Democracy Day reflected the monarch's increasingly deliberate efforts to interfere with Nepal's democratic transition and derail the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. Mukherjee said that the Sev [...] | 2007-02-21 12:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU408 | NEPAL: ELECTION COMMISSION WAITING IN THE GATES [...] (C) On February 12, Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel told the Ambassador and a visiting team from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) that the Home Ministry and Nepal Police were taking care of security for the planned [...] | 2007-02-21 12:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU416 | NEPAL: PM CONCERNED ABOUT MAOISTS AND KING [...] (C) Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala expressed concern to the Ambassador February 22 that the UN arms management exercise had not been satisfactorily completed. Although the UN had told the PM that the quantity of weapons was satisfactory, the PM was not satisfied that enough weapons had [...] | 2007-02-22 12:33:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU427 | NEPAL: UNMIN COMPLETES ARMS AND COMBATANT [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador February 22, UNMIN chief Ian Martin said that the UN would be releasing final numbers of arms (roughly 3,400) and combatants (roughly 30,000) registered by UNMIN on February 23. The Ambassador emphasized to Martin that he should also release the types of w [...] | 2007-02-23 15:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU437 | NEPAL: COAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE MAOISTS [...] (C/NF) General Rukmangud Katawal, Chief of Army Staff of the Nepal Army (NA),told the Ambassador February 26 that the Maoists were not serious about arms management or joining a democratic system. The NA was the last shield against a Maoist takeover, and the U.S. should not abandon it. The [...] | 2007-02-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV MASS PREL PTER PHUM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU445 | FOREIGN MINISTER WORRIES BUT HOME MINISTER [...] (C) In separate meetings with the Ambassador on February 26, Foreign Minister K.P. Oli worried that the Maoists intended to make a grab for power while Home Minister Sitaula hoped that Maoists would enter the political mainstream and renounce violence. Oli believed the Prime Minister would st [...] | 2007-02-28 10:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU485 | NEPAL: MINISTER FOR WOMEN AGREES ADOPTION REFORM [...] (C) On March 5, the Ambassador identified three areas in which Nepal's adoption process required reform to Urmila Aryal, Minister for Women and Children. Aryal stressed that she would continue to push policy makers for change in Nepal's adoption system. Aryal cited the Ministry's accomplishm [...] | 2007-03-06 11:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CVIS CASC KFRD KOCI NP |
| 07KATHMANDU511 | PM'S ADVISOR SAYS INTERIM GOVERNMENT LIKELY IN 5-6 [...] (C) Dr. Suresh Chalise, Prime Minister (PM) Koirala's Foreign Policy Advisor, told the DCM March 8 that Maoists were likely to join an interim government in the next five to six days. Chalise said the Prime Minister, leaders of the Nepali Congress (NC),and Maoist leaders had reached an under [...] | 2007-03-09 10:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU512 | NEPAL: FORMER PRIME MINISTER OFFERS DIRE [...] (C) Three-time former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa agreed with the Ambassador March 8 that the government was not acting quickly enough to resolve the Terai unrest or negotiate with other ethnic groups. Thapa worried that the Indian government would become involved if the situation wors [...] | 2007-03-09 11:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV NP |
| 07KATHMANDU530 | UNDER SECRETARY FORE DECRIES LAW AND ORDER VACUUM [...] (C) On March 10, Under Secretary of State Fore voiced her concern about the poor law and order situation in Nepal to Prime Minister Koirala. The Prime Minister acknowledged the problem. He told the Under Secretary and the Ambassador that one reason was the failure by the Maoists to meet their [...] | 2007-03-12 12:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU55 | UN SAYS ARMS MONITORS SOON TO BE OPERATIONAL [...] (C) UN Political Advisor John Norris informed Charge January 9 that fifteen UN arms monitors were currently on the ground, and another twenty would arrive by the end of the week. The team would be partially operational by January 15, and fully operational by January 20. A second phase of Pe [...] | 2007-01-10 10:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU557 | NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR WORRIED ABOUT MAOISTS [...] (C) Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Mukherjee agreed with the Ambassador March 12 that Maoist leader Prachanda should provide evidence of his claim of a royalist plot to assassinate official Americans and that, if he failed to provide evidence, the Government of Nepal (GON) should issue a publ [...] | 2007-03-16 08:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU562 | AMBASSADOR TELLS PARTY LEADERS PRACHANDA'S REMARKS [...] (C) In separate meetings March 12 and March 14 with the leaders of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) and the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) the Ambassador expressed his concern about Maoist leader Prachanda's remarks regarding a royalist plot to kill American of [...] | 2007-03-16 12:48:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU568 | NEPALI CONGRESS VICE PRESIDENT INSISTS ON [...] (C) Sushil Koirala, Vice President of Prime Minister G.P. Koirala's Nepali Congress Party (NC),told the Deputy Chief of Mission March 14 that the Government of Nepal (GON) had taken Maoist Supremo Prachanda's allegation of a royalist threat against U.S. officials very seriously. Koirala, who [...] | 2007-03-19 07:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC NP |
| 07KATHMANDU574 | CARTER CENTER'S ELECTION OBSERVERS DEPLOYED [...] (C) The Carter Center's Advisor on Nepal, Peter Burleigh, told the Ambassador March 13 that 12 of 13 planned Carter Center long-term election observers had been deployed across Nepal's five development regions. Burleigh and Carter Center Kathmandu representatives described the potent Madhesi [...] | 2007-03-19 11:26:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NP |
| 07KATHMANDU619 | UN WORRIED ABOUT VIOLENCE; JUNE ELECTIONS NOT [...] (C) UN Secretary General's Personal Representative to Nepal Ian Martin briefed Kathmandu-based Chiefs of Mission on March 22, expressing appreciation for the outcome of the UNMIN budget exercise. Martin worried that ethnic and communal violence in Nepal was rising and doubted that the Governm [...] | 2007-03-23 10:57:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MCAP NP |
| 07KATHMANDU667 | KEY ALLIANCE LEADERS DIVIDED OVER INTERIM [...] (C) In meetings March 29 and March 30 with Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) General Secretary MK Nepal and Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) President Sher Bahadur Deuba, the two senior Seven-Party Alliance leaders expressed divergent views on the formation of an interim [...] | 2007-03-30 16:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU669 | NEPAL: INTERIM GOVERNMENT WITH MAOISTS SWORN IN, [...] (C) On April 1, after days of bickering between the parties, Prime Minister and Nepal Congress (NC) President G.P. Koirala administered the oath of office to an interim Nepali government. The 16 ministers and five state ministers include five Maoists. Koirala once again kept the defense mini [...] | 2007-04-01 14:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER NP |
| 07KATHMANDU720 | NEPAL: COUNTDOWN TO THE ELECTION [...] (C) Nepal will need significant assistance if its planned June 20 Constituent Assembly election is to have a chance of success. Our work in the coming 75 days falls into four main categories: support for the Election Commission and the security forces, support for voter education, diplomatic [...] | 2007-04-06 13:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM EAID NP |
| 07KATHMANDU728 | SECOND PHASE OF MAOIST COMBATANT REGISTRATION [...] (C) A Nepali journalist told the Ambassador April 5 that, on a recent tour of one of the Maoist cantonments, he had observed military training of new People's Liberation Army (PLA) recruits. He claimed that many of the PLA's most skilled combatants remained outside the UN-monitored camps; mos [...] | 2007-04-09 12:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU732 | THE KING AND THE MAOISTS: FROM FOE TO FRIEND TO FOE [...] (SBU) An article by a former senior Maoist turned dissident that appeared in mid-January 2007 in one of Nepal's leading newsweeklies casts light on the somewhat bewildering turns that have characterized the relationship between King Gyanendra and Maoist chief Prachanda. Maoist dissident Rabin [...] | 2007-04-09 12:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PTER PINR IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU741 | NEPAL: DIFFICULT TO HOLD ELECTION ON TIME [...] (C) Peter Erben, Country Director for IFES Nepal, and Dominic Cardy, Country Director for the National Democratic Institute (NDI),told the Ambassador April 6 that holding the Constituent Assembly (CA) election by the proposed June 20 date would be difficult. Erben outlined the major technical [...] | 2007-04-10 12:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU751 | TIBETAN REFUGEES: NANGPA-LA SURVIVOR TELLS HIS [...] (C) According to Lhopsang Penjore, a Tibetan refugee who was present at the time, recently provided more details regarding the September 2006 murder of a Tibetan nun by PRC border guards. Penjore told RefCoord on April 10 that the 76-person group was ten days from Lhasa when Chinese armed pol [...] | 2007-04-12 09:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PGOV CH NP |
| 07KATHMANDU753 | UNMIN CHIEF PREDICTS ELECTIONS WILL BE POSTPONED [...] (C) Ian Martin, the head of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN),told the Ambassador April 10 that he expected Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel to state publicly soon that the Constituent Assembly election would have to be postponed until the fall. Martin said Communist P [...] | 2007-04-12 10:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU76 | NEPAL: POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE WEST AGREE MAOISTS [...] (C) Leaders of the main political parties from 12 districts in western Nepal told Emboff during a driving tour from December 14-25 that the Maoists were effectively in control of their districts. The only difference between the Maoists before the April 2006 cease-fire and after the cease-fire [...] | 2007-01-12 09:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU760 | NEPAL: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOR APRIL [...] (SBU) A/DCM chaired post's avian influenza (AI) working group on April 11. Post Medical Officer reported that there have been no confirmed cases of AI in Nepal, in spite of recent confirmed cases in surrounding countries. In the past thirty days there have been confirmed reports of AI bird [...] | 2007-04-13 11:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CASC KFLU SOCI WHO NP |
| 07KATHMANDU761 | PRIME MINISTER SAYS ELECTION DELAY LIKELY, [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala told the Ambassador April 13 that an election delay was likely. The Ambassador acknowledged that free and fair elections now would be difficult, noting that security in the country remained poor and marginalized ethnic groups continued to feel excluded from the poli [...] | 2007-04-13 11:55:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PREF MASS ETRD IN BT NP |
| 07KATHMANDU77 | NEPAL: POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE WEST--WHAT'S NEXT? [...] (C) Leaders of the main political parties from 12 districts in western Nepal told Emboff during a driving tour from December 14-25 that they trusted the police as a legitimate force to restore security and lamented the fact that the police were not allowed to do their jobs. There was, for the [...] | 2007-01-12 09:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID NP |
| 07KATHMANDU771 | NEPAL ELECTION: TO BE OR NOT TO BE? [...] (C) On April 13, the Election Commission publicized a letter it had sent to the Interim Cabinet one day earlier stating that it could not hold a Constituent Assembly election by June 20, the date the Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists had agreed upon when they formed the Interim Government o [...] | 2007-04-16 12:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU774 | NEPAL: NC-D PARTY CHIEF PLEASED THAT ELECTION [...] (C) President of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) Sher Bahadur Deuba stated to the Ambassador April 16 that it was good that the Constituent Assembly election had been delayed from its planned June 20 date. The situation in the countryside was still bad, and a free and fair election would [...] | 2007-04-17 10:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU81 | NEPAL: VIEW OF TWO MAOIST CANTONMENTS [...] (C) During a driving tour of western Nepal from December 14-25, 2006, Emboff had the opportunity to get a glimpse of two Maoist People's Liberation Army cantonment sites. The first, on December 22, 2006, was a main cantonment site, situated on the north side of the Mahendra Highway, a few kil [...] | 2007-01-12 10:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR NP |
| 07KATHMANDU825 | NEPAL: ELECTION PROCESS FLAWED, MAOISTS BENEFIT [...] (C) In an April 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Dominic Cardy, Country Director for the National Democratic Institute (NDI),and Peter Erben, Country Director for IFES, told the Ambassador that the election process thus far had been flawed -- to the Maoists' advantage. The new constituencies t [...] | 2007-04-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU826 | NEPAL: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MODEL IS UNDER DEBATE [...] (C) Retief Olivier, a USAID-contracted peace facilitator, told the Ambassador April 20 about a 10-person official delegation headed by Deputy Speaker Chitra Lekha Yadav that he was taking to the United Nations in New York as well as Peru April 22 - May 1 to look at transitional justice issues. [...] | 2007-04-23 13:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PTER CVIS UN SF NP |
| 07KATHMANDU830 | CENTER-LEFT LEADER SAYS MAOISTS DIFFICULT TO [...] (C) MK Nepal, General Secretary of the center-left Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML),told the Ambassador April 21 that he believed there was an internal struggle within the Maoist ranks that made it difficult to predict their next move. MK Nepal reiterated his frust [...] | 2007-04-24 11:19:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU856 | BRITISH AND INDIAN AMBASSADORS AGREE: NEED TO NAG [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, British Ambassador Dr. Andrew Hall, and the Ambassador April 26 agreed that the Government of Nepal (GON) should set a date for a Constituent Assembly election and enforce law and order. The Maoists needed to be made aware that serious abuses in t [...] | 2007-04-27 11:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KDEM PHUM UN IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU858 | NEPAL: PM SAYS NOVEMBER ELECTION LIKELY; POLICE [...] (C) Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala told the Ambassador April 27 that the eight parties would set a date for the Constituent Assembly election "very soon," likely for late November 2007 following Nepal's autumn holidays. The Ambassador stressed that an election date announcement was ke [...] | 2007-04-27 13:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS PREF KDEM BT NP |
| 07KATHMANDU859 | CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF SAYS MAOISTS CAN'T BE TRUSTED [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff General Katawal (COAS) told the Ambassador April 27 that the Maoists could not be trusted and stressed that the Nepal Army (NA) had to be kept intact. For law and order to be restored, a new Home Minister would have to be appointed. Katawal expressed his gratitude for [...] | 2007-04-28 07:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR PHUM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU869 | NEPAL: YCL CONTINUES TO INTIMIDATE IN RURAL NEPAL [...] (C) Nepal Police and Nepal Army sources told Emboff during a trip with Defense Attaches from the U.S., Great Britain, China, Pakistan, and India on April 25 to Dolpa and Dang Districts in rural western Nepal that the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) continued to intimidate people [...] | 2007-05-01 06:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU879 | NEPAL ABLE BUT UNWILLING TO ASSIST IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-01 11:48:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ NP |
| 07KATHMANDU883 | NEPAL: POLITICO PREDICTS BAD TIMES AHEAD [...] (C) Dr. Narayan Khadka, Central Committee Member of the Nepali Congress-Democratic Party (NC-D),told Emboff April 30 that Nepal was heading in a bad direction with the Maoists poised to take control. Prime Minister Koirala had been acting alone, and all the main parties in the coalition gove [...] | 2007-05-03 11:33:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
| 07KATHMANDU907 | NEPAL: FORMER PM ENCOURAGES INDIANS TO SEND CLEAR [...] (C) On May 4, former Prime Minister and President of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (National People's Power Party) (RJP) Surya Bahadur Thapa expressed concern to the Charge that the Maoists would increase their efforts to destabilize the country in the coming months. During recent consultatio [...] | 2007-05-07 11:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PTER IN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU916 | UNMIN: HURRY UP AND WAIT ON PHASE II OF ARMS [...] (C) UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) Political Advisor John Norris told the Charge May 7 that UNMIN was in "hurry up and wait" mode regarding the start of Phase II of the arms management process. UNMIN Chief Ian Martin had declared publicly May 1 that UNMIN was ready to begin verification of Peo [...] | 2007-05-09 08:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU92 | PM KOIRALA ASKS FOR U.S. ADVICE ON COMMUNISTS AND [...] (C/NF) Prime Minister GP Koirala told the Ambassador January 17 that he planned to tell Maoist Supremo Prachanda later the same day in plain terms that, with the Maoists in the interim parliament, the time had come for them to end their violence and extortion and dissolve their "people's gover [...] | 2007-01-17 11:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PREF MARR UN NP |
| 07KATHMANDU973 | PEACE MINISTER'S DIALOGUE WITH MADHESIS STALLED [...] (C) Minister of Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra Poudel told the Ambassador May 15 that Madhesi insistence on the immediate formation of a high-level Commission of Inquiry into events in the Terai had delayed his scheduled dialogue with the Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF). However, P [...] | 2007-05-16 12:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
| 07KHARTOUM1 | Sudan/Uganda/DRC: Special Envoy for LRA Issues Returning [...] (SBU) The UNSYG's special envoy for areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano, is tentatively planning return to the region January 11-22 for extensive consultations. Government of Southern Sudan-brokered peace talks, now in recess, are expecte [...] | 2007-01-03 04:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SU CG UG PREL |
| 07KHARTOUM106 | SAVING THE NORTH/SOUTH PEACE [...] (C) Summary: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),the keystone of U.S. policy toward Sudan, is at risk. The death of John Garang, the south,s charismatic leader, and the marginalization of Vice President Ali Osman Taha, the co-architect of the peace agreement, have taken vision and energ [...] | 2007-01-24 15:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO PHUM PREF SOCI US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1090 | SUDAN OFFICIALS DIFFER ON DARFUR PKO, POLITICAL [...] (C) On July 12, Special Envoy Natsios met separately with Foreign Minister Lam Akol, Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie, and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs (and UN/AU hybrid negotiator) Mutriff Siddiq to discuss deployment of the hybrid peace-keeping force and bolster UN/AU efforts to ach [...] | 2007-07-13 10:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US ER CD LY |
| 07KHARTOUM1112 | Ceasefire Commission, July 4-11 [...] (SBU) Summary: Brigadier General Rurangwa continued to chair the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) from July 4 to 11. Several meetings focused on concerns about appropriate representation on the CFC at both the headquarters and the military group site (MGS) level. The new force commander of the Afri [...] | 2007-07-16 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU CD SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1119 | SUDAN - S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH NGOS [...] Summary: On July 12, Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, accompanied by Charge d'Affaires Alberto Fernandez and others, met with the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee in Khartoum to discuss issues facing the humanitarian community in Sudan. The NGOs noted that the Joint Communiq [...] | 2007-07-18 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1141 | SPLA DEPLOYS NEW TACTICS IN REDEPLOYMENT QUAGMIRE [...] (C) Summary: The SPLM and NCP are renegotiating a redeployment deadline of 9 November 2007 for southern-deployed Sudanese Armed Forces. In contrast, the SPLA has commenced redeployment of SPLA forces north of the 1956 line in advance of standing CPA deadlines, despite significant hardship, in [...] | 2007-07-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS SU UN |
| 07KHARTOUM1143 | SUDAN DENOUNCES UNMIS SPOKESWOMAN [...] (SBU) Sudan denounced United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) spokeswoman Radhia Achouri for stating that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) had not completed the withdrawal of its troops from Southern Sudan, in violation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In a July 21 statement, SAF spokes [...] | 2007-07-23 12:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO KPAO MARR MOPS UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1157 | DENG ALOR: NCP-SPLM AT LOGGERHEADS ON ABYEI, SAF [...] (U) This cable has an action request (see para. 11). 2. (C) The SPLM and the NCP have reached an impasse on the status of Abyei and the redeployment of the Sudanese Armed Forces from Southern Sudan, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Deng Alor told CDA Fernandez. Following senior-level internal c [...] | 2007-07-25 13:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1172 | DARFUR - ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Between July 12 and 19, USAID staff met with key civil society representatives in South and West Darfur to follow up on issues raised during the U.S. Special Envoy's visit to Nyala, gauge the views of civil society representatives in El Geneina, and assess possible areas of USG [...] | 2007-07-29 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1177 | PRIVATE OIL FIELD SECURITY TIED TO NISS, SAYS AL-JAZ AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A July 28 Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) special session on the oil sector revealed new information on the sensitive subject of oil field security. The session featured a presentation by and dialogue with the Minister of Energy and Mining, Mr. Awad Al- [...] | 2007-07-29 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PGOV MARR MOPS SU |
| 07KHARTOUM118 | U.S./SUDANESE RELATIONS: IN A LONG WAR, NO QUICK [...] (C) Summary: U.S. policy toward Sudan confronts a fundamental contradiction: although legally Sudan is organized as a nation-state, in reality Khartoum is an Arab capital struggling to rule a vast African hinterland. Ethnic conflict, economic change, and the declining legitimacy of Khartoum' [...] | 2007-01-26 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KDEM SCUL AU UN SU US |
| 07KHARTOUM1213 | DARFUR - EL GENEINA'S NORTHERN CORRIDOR AT RISK [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent USAID visit to El Geneina, West Darfur, U.N. staff alerted USAID to serious security problems and human rights abuses in the northern corridor of West Darfur. Arab nomadic groups and armed militia are terrorizing the residents of Abu Sorug, Sirba, Silea, and Bir [...] | 2007-08-05 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1321 | UPDATE ON DETENTION OF UMMA PARTY LEADER MUBARAK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 19, PolOff met with family members of detained Umma Reform and Renewal Party leader Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi. According to the family, Al-Fadil remains in solitary confinement in Khartoum's Kobeir Prison. Al-Mahdi was arrested along with some 20 others on July 14 (see r [...] | 2007-08-22 13:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1366 | SUDAN - STATUS OF IDP RETURNS TO SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary. In a recent meeting with USAID, the U.N. Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported that 1.24 million former internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to the Three Areas and Southern Sudan since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. Based on IDP surv [...] | 2007-08-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1368 | AMIS CEASEFIRE COMMISSION STILL HAMPERED BY SLA/MM [...] (SBU) Although the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Minawi representatives attended the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) meetings at the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) headquarters in El Fasher, the majority of their representatives in the sectors stayed off the job, despite instructions to return [...] | 2007-08-30 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1369 | SLM/MINAWI COMMANDER VENTS ON AMIS AND DISCOUNTS [...] (SBU) S/CRS Field Officers met with Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)-Minawi General Commander Jumah Hagar and three of his staff to discuss security in areas of Darfur under his control, alleged SLA-Minawi involvement in carjackings, strained relations between the rebel group and AMIS, and prospect [...] | 2007-08-30 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1373 | ON THE ROAD AHEAD, MINAWI SEES ALL DEAD ENDS [...] (S/NF) Characterizing the DPA as "dead, except to the U.S.," predicting that the UN/AU political process will fail, doubting that NCP policies toward Darfur can be changed through the 2009 elections and yet convinced that a return to war is useless, SLM leader Minni Minawi is seeking to chart a [...] | 2007-08-31 12:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1389 | JEM/SLA-UNITY LAUNCH BRAZEN ATTACK AHEAD OF PEACE [...] (SBU) An estimated 250 rebel fighters allied with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Unity struck a police installation in North Kordofan on August 29, resulting in the death of nearly 50 policemen, according to a variety of credible Embassy sources. I [...] | 2007-09-04 13:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM143 | SO. SUDAN: UPDATE ON UNMIS PKO KILLING AND LRA [...] (C) Summary: A January 26 ambush of a UN peacekeeping convoy southeast of Juba left one Indian peacekeeper dead and one injured. The Ugandan rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is suspected of responsibility for the attack. The incident follows a breakdown in peace talks between the LRA [...] | 2007-01-30 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM SU UG CG KE |
| 07KHARTOUM1436 | TRACK TO LIBYA TALKS FRAUGHT WITH HURDLES [...] (S) While the announcement of UN/AU-brokered negotiations between Sudan and Darfur's rebels is a very positive step toward ending the conflict, five hurdles obstruct the track to talks in Libya at the end of October: disunity within the rebel factions; ongoing hostilities on the ground; the Fur [...] | 2007-09-11 16:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US LY |
| 07KHARTOUM1439 | VIOLENCE IN HASKANITA LINKED TO ATTACK IN KORDOFAN [...] (C) A Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attack near Haskanita, South Darfur on September 9, which had included aerial bombardment, was in direct response to the August 30 rebel incursion into Kordofan led by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)-Unity (reftel). [...] | 2007-09-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1464 | KHARTOUM: EUSR BRYLLE DISCUSSES CPA, DARFUR [...] (SBU) In a September 17 meeting in Khartoum, EU Special Representative for Sudan Thorben Brylle and CDA Fernandez agreed that the Darfur crisis should not detract from international attention on implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Brylle noted that his current trip to S [...] | 2007-09-18 06:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN SU ER |
| 07KHARTOUM1470 | FORCE COMMANDER CHAIRS HIS FIRST CFC MEETINGS, MAKES [...] (SBU) Force Commander General Martin Luther Agwai took over Cease-fire Commission (CFC) meetings and is making positive changes (including some that we recommended). However, the inability to investigate the Haskanita violence highlights how weak the CFC will remain, despite internal reforms. [...] | 2007-09-18 11:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1472 | FM AKOL DISCUSSES UNGA, U.S.-SUDAN RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Meeting with Foreign Minister Lam Akol, CDA Fernandez previewed two critical issues that would be raised during Akol's visit to New York on September 21: Sudan's cooperation on facilitating the deployment of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the hold put on the r [...] | 2007-09-18 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US |
| 07KHARTOUM1476 | SPLA FORCES ENCOUNTER SAF FORCES IN EL-MUGLAD; [...] (SBU) On Sept 18, media reported that on September 17, elements of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) encountered Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) troops in El-Muglad for the second time in a month. The UN told embassy that SPLA Commander Hassan Hamed along with ten soldiers attempted to enter [...] | 2007-09-19 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1510 | CEASE-FIRE COMMISSION: FRUSTRATION WITH HASKANITA WHILE [...] (SBU) Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai chaired meetings of both chambers and pushed to reduce each chamber to one formal meeting per week. No report on the Kalma IDP incursion has yet been received from the sector, nor have any AMIS officials been able to investigate the Haskanita fighting. [...] | 2007-09-26 13:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1535 | HASKANITA ATTACK PART OF INCREASED VIOLENCE IN [...] (SBU) One day after the September 29 attack on the its camp near Haskanita, South Darfur, AMIS evacuated 10 dead and 14 wounded peacekeepers with the help of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Reports abound on the number and identity of the assailants, ranging from two Darfur rebel factions to [...] | 2007-10-01 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1541 | CFC WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24: NO MEETINGS BUT WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) Neither the First nor Second Chamber of the Cease-fire Commission (CFC) met the week of September 24 because Force Commander Agwai had left for Nigeria and Deputy Force Commander Karake was traveling the area of operation. The working group, however, addressed the two general topics of i [...] | 2007-10-03 10:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM155 | DARFUR: COMMANDERS CONFERENCE IN FLUX [...] (C) The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) again postponed the conference of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders in North Darfur to February 5 due to logistical problems in transporting the commanders to the event site, having already moved 24 commanders to North Darfur on [...] | 2007-02-01 16:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AU SU CD UN |
| 07KHARTOUM1556 | FUR SHURA COUNCIL TO S/E NATSIOS: WE NEED GUARANTEES BEFORE [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 4 meeting with Special Envoy Natsios, members of the Fur Shura Council in Khartoum claimed that Darfur rebel leader Abdul Wahid Nur would attend negotiations in Libya if he had 'guarantees' that Fur rights, such as compensation, security and return, would be satisfa [...] | 2007-10-08 06:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU SU UN |
| 07KHARTOUM1564 | SLM SEEKS TO BE PART OF SOLUTION TO DARFUR, MINAWI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-08 10:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1565 | DARFUR - BRAZEN CARJACKINGS BRING NGOS TO TIPPING POINT [...] (U) Recent attacks on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working throughout Darfur, including USAID partners CARE and World Vision, have impacted the delivery of humanitarian services. Brazen daytime carjackings in Nyala town, the capital of South Darfur, have prompted the UN to impose a 14 [...] | 2007-10-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1587 | AS DARFUR VIOLENCE SPREADS, SLM THREATENS RETURN [...] (C) Violence in South Darfur--set off by an August 30 rebel incursion into Kordofan--continues to escalate with the onset of an attack on Muhajeria that began October 8 (Ref. A). The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi, which controls Muhajeri [...] | 2007-10-09 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1596 | SUDAN, AU IMPLICATED IN SOUTH DARFUR ATTACK [...] (U) Please see para. 10 for an action request. 2. (C) A Sudanese Government representative, the UN, and the SLM have reported that AMIS requested SAF intervention in Muhajeria, South Darfur, precipitating an attack that has left at least 30 civilians dead and an equal number missing. SLM of [...] | 2007-10-10 16:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1648 | UN/AU CONFRONT CHALLENGES TO PARTICIPATION IN [...] (SBU) The UN/AU are confronting myriad challenges in securing inclusive participation in the upcoming Darfur peace negotiations, the UN/AU told the Khartoum diplomatic corps on October 21. The majority of rebel factions have since announced that they will either abstain from the talks or atte [...] | 2007-10-23 11:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1652 | SPLM MINISTERIAL SUSPENSION OF PARTICIPATION ESCALATES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 11 Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Ministerial level suspension of participation in the Government of National Unity (GoNU) continues, with each side resorting to a war of words, through press statements and in public fora. The SPLM remained firm in their r [...] | 2007-10-24 04:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1664 | OIL COMPANY VICE PRESIDENT CONFIRMS REBEL ATTACK [...] (SBU) On October 25, the Vice President of the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC),Dr. Yousif Mohamed Ahmed, confirmed that a rebel force took two GNPOC contractors and two Sudanese drivers hostage on October 24. Ahmed was not able to confirm that the rebels were tied to the Jus [...] | 2007-10-25 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1673 | FORMER DARFUR GOVERNOR SUGGESTS POSSIBLE NCP PEACE [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires and Pol/Econ Chief met October 27 with the Governor of Khartoum State Dr. Abdel Halim Mutaafi. The Governor provided insights on the Darfur conflict and made suggestions on how it might be resolved. Mutaafi is the former Governor of Darfur State and is married t [...] | 2007-10-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM170 | DARFUR: STATUS OF THE NON-SIGNATORIES [...] (C) Summary: The conference of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders has again been delayed to allow time for more commanders to assemble in North Darfur. A variety of Embassy contacts report that efforts to unify the commanders, facilitate negotiation within the framework of [...] | 2007-02-05 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU CD |
| 07KHARTOUM1702 | CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUND ON INTENTIONS IN DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: Despite differences in ideologies and political platforms, leaders of Darfur groups are expressing a common level of suspicion about the Government of Sudan's (GOS) current actions with regard to Darfur. They believe the GOS is pursuing a strategy to further undermine the efficac [...] | 2007-11-01 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1723 | S/E NATSIOS' MEETING WITH SPLA SENIOR LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 1 meeting in Juba, the senior leadership of the Sudan People,s Liberation Army (SPLA),told U.S. Special Envoy Andrew Natsios that the SPLA is showing restraint in the face of provocations by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) along the North-South border and avowed [...] | 2007-11-05 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1744 | SUDAN: NORTH-SOUTH TRANSPORT STOPPAGE REFLECTS [...] (U) The Governors of White Nile State (in Sudan's "North") and Upper Nile State (part of South Sudan)were to confer November 7 on reopening North-South river and road traffic along the Nile. National Congress Party (NCP) White Nile Governor Mohamed Nurallah had halted North-South transport o [...] | 2007-11-08 05:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1752 | JEM CFC REP WARNS OF LOOMING CONFLICTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a sobering November 6 meeting with FieldOff, the Justice and Equality Movement representative to the Second Chamber of the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) at AMIS Headquarters warned that the current widespread deployment of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) throughout the three Darf [...] | 2007-11-08 15:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1780 | SPLM OUTLINES RISKY STRATEGY OF BRINKSMANSHIP WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met November 15 with SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum. Amum said the SPLM could no longer afford to play the National Congress Party's (NCP) game, which is just to play for time in talks over implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in order to continue to [...] | 2007-11-15 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1793 | MEDIA BATTLE ESCALATES WHILE NCP-SPLM NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The media battle between the NCP and the SPLM has intensified, with President Bashir mobilizing the Popular Defense Forces (septel) and rallying the "mujahadeen" at a mass rally south of Khartoum November 17, seemingly in response to SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum's widely publ [...] | 2007-11-18 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1845 | TWO MAJOR DARFUR FACTIONS STEP TOWARD UNION WHILE [...] (SBU) JEM/Collective Leadership and SLA/Unity, two of the strongest rebel movements in Darfur, have taken steps toward a tentative alliance, and JEM/CL plans to conduct consultations with SLA/Unity leaders Abdullah Yehia, Suleiman Jamous, and Sharif Harir in Darfur over the next week to solidi [...] | 2007-11-26 05:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1859 | SHIFTING ALLEGIANCES AMONG SLA AND JANJAWEED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Some rebel and political leaders on the ground in Darfur are signaling a shift in the current political climate where by some support for Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) faction leader Abdelwahid al-Nur is shifting to Ahmed Abdelshafie and whereby some Arab militias (encouraged by t [...] | 2007-11-27 12:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1871 | FEAR OF LOSS OF INTERNATIONAL CREDIBILITY MAY KEEP JEM ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a November 27 meeting with FieldOff, the Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) representative in El Fasher admitted that despite the movement's unhappiness with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),JEM would not carry out the threats its leadership has [...] | 2007-11-29 09:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1884 | USAID ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S VISIT TO SOUTHERN SUDAN: LUNCH [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLM Crisis Committee members told Administrator Fore that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is providing an opportunity to advance democracy and development throughout Sudan. They identified the "three areas," independent media, and rural development as priorities. Deput [...] | 2007-11-30 10:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1886 | NYALA MAQDUM DENIES JANJAWEED TURNCOAT TREND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a November 29 meeting with FieldOff, the Maqdum (traditional viceroy of the Fur) of Nyala, Ahmed Rajal, denied reports that members of the janjaweed in Darfur were deserting their traditional benefactor, the Government of Sudan (GoS),in favor of rebel movements, as reported [...] | 2007-11-30 11:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1893 | ALEX DE WAAL ON SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudan expert Alex de Waal told poloff on November 28 his thoughts on the current situation in Sudan. De Waal cautioned that the international community should not expect an immediate success with the UNAMID deployment, and that the situation in Darfur has turned from genocide int [...] | 2007-12-02 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1907 | FUR LEADERS EVASIVE ABOUT JANJAWEED TIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Nyala Fur leaders were tight-lipped in a December 2 meeting with FieldOff about rumors of a growing alliance between the Fur and some janjaweed formerly loyal to the Government of Sudan (GoS). They spoke instead about growing insecurity throughout Darfur as a result of heighten [...] | 2007-12-04 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
| 07KHARTOUM1913 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS CDA WITH [...] A multi-party parliamentary delegation from the Southern Sudan (GOSS) Legislative Assembly called on CDA Fernandez December 3 as part of their visit to Khartoum. The Delegation is in town appealing to GNU officials for an end to the current SPLM-NCP stalemate over implementation of the CPA wi [...] | 2007-12-04 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1914 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS CDA WITH [...] A multi-party parliamentary delegation from the Southern Sudan (GOSS) Legislative Assembly called on CDA Fernandez December 3 as part of their visit to Khartoum. The Delegation is in town appealing to GNU officials for an end to the current SPLM-NCP stalemate over implementation of the CPA wi [...] | 2007-12-04 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1918 | FREE FROM KHALIL IBRAHIM, JEM/CL OPTIMISTIC ON PACT WITH [...] (SBU) Characterizing Khalil Ibrahim as a "dictator" unable and unwilling to lead his movement to productive peace negotiations, the Justice and Equality Movement/Collective Leadership (JEM/CL) claims that its strength increases daily as Ibrahim's supporters realize his course is a dead-end. Si [...] | 2007-12-05 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1928 | SPLA CHIEF OF STAFF OYAI DENG ON MILITARY STATE OF PLAY [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLA Chief of Staff Lt. General Oyai Deng Ajak told CDA that he was pessimistic about any great progress in deploying SAF-SPLA Joint Integrated Units (JIUs),and downplayed the significance of remaining southern troops on the border areas such as Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. He [...] | 2007-12-06 06:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS PREL AU SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1934 | WHITE NILE GOVERNOR DISCUSSES AGRICULTURE, ELECTIONS, AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a December 4 meeting with emboffs, the Governor of White Nile State, Dr. Mohammed Nur Al-Tigani, highlighted the importance of agriculture for Sudan, expressed confidence that mid-term elections would be conducted in a free, fair, and timely manner, and dismissed the existence o [...] | 2007-12-06 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1939 | SLA/UNITY: CHALLENGING KHARTOUM REQUIRES BOTH [...] (SBU) The lesson of the DPA is that the Sudanese Government will only compromise when challenged by a movement with both political and military strength, and SLA/Unity is the only group among Darfur's numerous rebel factions that combines these two elements, SLA/Unity operatives told Poloff in [...] | 2007-12-07 11:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL US AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1965 | SLA/UNITY STRIVES FOR "GRAND ALLIANCE" [...] (SBU) SLA/Unity is striving to form a "grand alliance" with Khalil Ibrahim and Abdulwahid al Nur through mobilization of Fur and Zaghawa IDPs, according to several of its representatives in North Darfur. Frustrated with the inertia of the UN/AU-led political process and doubtful that the NCP w [...] | 2007-12-11 11:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU LY |
| 07KHARTOUM1968 | JANJAWID WARLORD: WE WANT AMERICA AS OUR PATRON [...] Summary: Alleged Janjawid turncoat Juma Dagalo claims that his well-armed movement is sincerely opposed to Khartoum, despite sketchy evidence to the contrary, and has forged new ties with mostly African Darfur rebel groups. He seeks American moral and political support for a confrontation with [...] | 2007-12-12 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1995 | CHIEF MEDIATOR RIEK MACHAR ON LORD'S RESISTANCE [...] (SBU) Senior Adviser to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley met briefly with GOSS Vice President and Chief Mediator Riek Machar before the opening of a Human Rights Day ceremony at the Juba National stadium on December 10. Machar opened the meeting by stating that [...] | 2007-12-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1996 | DENG ALOR ON THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Adviser to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley met with future GNU Foreign Affairs Minister Deng Alor to update him on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),recent developments in Garamba Park, and to ask for his assistance in ending the 21-year w [...] | 2007-12-13 10:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM2003 | SAF AND SPLA FORCE REDEPLOYMENT FACES TOUGH DEADLINES, [...] (SBU) Media reported on December 12 that Joint Defense Board (JDB) spokesman Lt. General Abdalrahman Mohammed Zain said that Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) forces will begin redeployment consistent with the 1/1/56 border the weekend of December 14. [...] | 2007-12-14 07:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM2006 | SPLM THINKING ON OIL AND SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) During the course of their meetings in Juba December 9 to discuss the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),future GNU Foreign Minister and SPLM member Deng Alor spoke with Senior Advisor on Conflict Resolution Timothy Shortley about SPLM oil interests after 2011 and the effect of sanctions on Su [...] | 2007-12-16 04:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM2010 | GHAZI SULEIMAN: US SUDAN POLICY "SATISFIES MORAL [...] (C) Summary: Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) National Assembly leader and human rights advocate Ghazi Suleiman sees the SPLM as almost certainly running with and not against the National Congress Party in 2009 elections, criticized US Sudan policy as "too clumsy," described power in [...] | 2007-12-16 09:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM2028 | CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DARFUR'S "GREATEST WARLORD" [...] (SBU) The United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UN DSS) told FieldOff in late November that the threat it feared most in Darfur comes from a Mahariya Arab called Mohamed Hamdan, aka "Hamety." He is at the helm of a Darfur Peace Agreement non-signatory group which includes disaffect [...] | 2007-12-18 13:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM203 | DARFUR: A REVIEW OF RECENT SECURITY TRENDS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese government has scaled back the execution of sustained military operations in Darfur since the beginning of Ramadan in the fall of 2006. From Ramadan to present, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) appears focused on troop rotation, garrison activities, and logistical st [...] | 2007-02-11 16:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM2031 | MORE TO COME WITH JEM-GOS IN WEST DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a December 20 conversation with FieldOff, a commander of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in El Fasher assessed that Government of Sudan (GoS) frustration with JEM for a December 16 attack on a GoS convoy in West Darfur was to blame for the GoS' continued detention of a [...] | 2007-12-21 12:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU CD |
| 07KHARTOUM2060 | REPORTS OF SPLA CLASHES WITH MISSERIYA ARABS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese news media reported December 24 that Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forces clashed with nomadic Misseriya Arab tribesmen on December 22 and December 23 along the Kordofan-Bahr al Ghazal border. Newspapers quoted Misseriya sources claiming 30 SPLA soldiers and nin [...] | 2007-12-28 10:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM208 | REBELS' DESTINY IN THEIR HANDS [...] (C) On February 7, the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) completed the airlift of many Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders to attend the leadership conference in North Darfur. Some additional commanders may move to the conference site by ground in the coming days. Comman [...] | 2007-02-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU CD UN US |
| 07KHARTOUM216 | Darfur Security Update, February 8 [...] (SBU) Summary: UNDSS characterizes the security situation in Darfur over the past week as "calm but unpredictable." The threat of carjackings persists, especially in areas with increased Arab militia activity, and there remains the possibility of military confrontation between Sudanese Armed [...] | 2007-02-14 03:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO ASEC SOCI AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM235 | ELIASSON, SALIM: POLITICAL PROCESS TAKING OFF [...] (C) The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy Jan Eliasson and the Africa Union's Special Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim briefed ambassadors near the conclusion of their February 12-17 visit to Sudan. Despite the deteriorating humanitarian situation, they underscored the renewed willingness of the Su [...] | 2007-02-16 13:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU CD LI US |
| 07KHARTOUM239 | CDA MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GHAZI SALAH [...] (C) On February 18, CDA Hume met with Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salah ed-Dine to discuss the situation in Darfur, the threats to humanitarian operations, and peace-keeping. Hume said the USG was deeply concerned about trends in Darfur and about President Bashir's recent statements criticizing [...] | 2007-02-18 12:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AU UN SU US |
| 07KHARTOUM250 | DARFUR - VISIT OF THE USAID/DCHA ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR [...] (U) From January 20 to 25, USAID Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Assistant Administrator Michael E. Hess visited Sudan. Hess and six USAID/Sudan staff members traveled to North and South Darfur to gain a better understanding of the current humanitarian, political [...] | 2007-02-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM251 | SUDAN - BLUE NILE STATE - HEALTH CARE FOR RETURNING [...] The USAID Senior Humanitarian Advisor (SHA),accompanied by the Blue Nile State Minister of Health and the Dean of the Academy for Health Sciences, visited the Chali Way Station to consider options to improve working and living conditions for health care providers. The group also visited the r [...] | 2007-02-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM304 | DARFUR: CFC SECOND CHAMBER COLLAPSES [...] (SBU) In the February 12 Ceasefire Commission First (CFC) Chamber, African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Force Commander (FC) Aprezi expressed his dissatisfaction with the CFC Secretariat's presentation of cases for the February 7 Joint Commission (JC) meeting. He reviewed his efforts to persu [...] | 2007-02-28 12:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREC KPKO AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM309 | LRA ENTERS CAR, SPLA AND UPDF PLAN MILITARY ACTION [...] (C) Summary: Reports have proliferated in southern Sudan that Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has entered the Central African Republic (CAR) with a small force. However, the senior Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) official with responsibility for th [...] | 2007-02-28 15:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SU CG UG CT |
| 07KHARTOUM31 | SEX ABUSE CHARGES AGAINST UN PEACEKEEPERS [...] (U) After a UK newspaper reported that UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) personnel engaged in sexual exploitation of children, the UN confirmed that four Bangladeshi peacekeepers had been repatriated over the charges and that their cases will be pursued in Bangladesh. The UN also confirmed that th [...] | 2007-01-08 17:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI KPKO SU UNSC |
| 07KHARTOUM330 | EX-SUDAN ARMED FORCES SOLDIERS PROTEST IN JUBA [...] (C) A group of 150-200 ex-soldiers from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) marched across central Juba March 1 before staging a brief demonstration in front of the Juba headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). The decommissioned soldiers, who fought for the north during Sudan's [...] | 2007-03-02 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC SU |
| 07KHARTOUM331 | ELUSIVE SLA COMMANDERS' CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) commanders conference in North Darfur remains indefinitely postponed as the various factions attempt to resolve internal differences and persuade additional key military leaders, such as former G-19 leader Adam Bakhit, to participate in the process [...] | 2007-03-02 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM340 | SPLA CLASHES WITH LRA ON THE BORDER OF CAR [...] (C) A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) detachment came under attack March 1 from a group of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters at the border between Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR). One SPLA soldier was killed in the attack, and one wounded, according to SPLA Chief of Sta [...] | 2007-03-05 06:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC SU CG UG CT |
| 07KHARTOUM350 | (C) SPLA CHIEF OF STAFF DOESN'T LIKE HIS SAF [...] (C) Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Oyai Deng told ConGen Juba staff recently that he has a poor relationship with his Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) counterpart. Deng and SAF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Hajj Ahmed el-Jailee Hajj Ahmed ("el-Jailee") met "one-on-one" on the [...] | 2007-03-05 12:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM351 | UN ENVOY MEETS WITH LRA CHIEF KONY; PEACE TALKS [...] (C) Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano met with Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony March 2 in remote northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),according to sources in the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS). Chissano, the UN special envoy for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) pro [...] | 2007-03-05 13:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM388 | SE NATSIOS DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SE Natsios delivered a strong message of support for the modernization of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in a meeting with senior SPLA officers on March 6. SPLA Chief of Staff Oyai Deng said he faces enormous difficulty in simultaneously absorbing thousands of former militia int [...] | 2007-03-13 11:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM391 | SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: LRA PEACE TALKS SEEM LIKELY TO [...] (C) Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano met leadership of the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on the Sudan/Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border March 11 and secured an apparent agreement that the LRA will return to peace talks once various LRA concerns are addressed. L [...] | 2007-03-13 15:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU CG UG |
| 07KHARTOUM394 | DPA SIGNATORIES CLAIM HELP NEEDED NOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ongoing frustration at the lack of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) implementation boiled over in El Fasher as signatory factions forcibly entered the USG-funded Peace Secretariat to demand that their concerns be addressed. The factions claim that their soldiers are "starving" and [...] | 2007-03-13 16:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM396 | SHOW ME THE MONEY: MAKING THE CEASEFIRE COMMISSION [...] (SBU) The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) held a March 11 meeting to inform and seek input from the international community on the functioning of the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) and efforts to re-energize the Second Chamber for Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories. There was conse [...] | 2007-03-14 08:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM407 | CFC Week of March 5 -- Fireworks Follow the Killing of Two [...] (SBU) Summary: The killing of two Nigerian soldiers by Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Minawi soldiers in Graida dominated the Cease-fire Commission (CFC) this week, with tensions rising between the faction and the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in both the CFC and in the sectors. The CFC i [...] | 2007-03-16 13:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM438 | CFC VISIT TO ABECHE: MGS CONSTRAINTS AND JEM INTRANSIGENCE [...] (SBU) Members of the AMIS Ceasefire Commission traveled to Abeche, Chad to receive an operations update from the local Military Observer Group Site (MGS) Commander and to engage the JEM leadership. The MGS faces severe logistical constraints, including transportation and communications, which [...] | 2007-03-20 14:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM455 | SUDAN: TENSION OVER ARREST OF SENIOR SPLA GENERAL [...] (C) A top officer of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) was placed under house arrest in Juba March 20, provoking tensions between troops loyal to the officer and other military elements. Juba was calm in the immediate aftermath of the arrest. The officer, Major General Obutu Mamur M [...] | 2007-03-22 14:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM470 | SUDAN: SPLA CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS HE MIGHT BE [...] (C) Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Oyai Deng has had a history of disagreement with Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) President Salva Kiir, and admits that Kiir may replace him. Deng blames Kiir for inaction on problems facing the SPLA, and denies rumors that [...] | 2007-03-25 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU UG |
| 07KHARTOUM484 | MINAWI CONTEMPLATES DARFUR RETURN [...] (C) In private, Minni Minawi continues to contemplate a return to Darfur in the wake of the March 24 attack on Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) facilities in Khartoum and the ambush of a prominent SLM commander near Nyala. Minawi is pressing the Sudanese government to account for the dead, wou [...] | 2007-03-27 16:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM505 | DARFUR - DESPITE OBSTACLES USAID PARTNERS CONTINUE TO [...] (U) Despite significant bureaucratic impediments and security concerns, a recent USAID monitoring and assessment mission to Darfur confirmed that USAID partners are providing critical, quality, life-saving services to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the region. [...] | 2007-03-29 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM507 | SUDAN - IOM OVERVIEW OF IDP RETURNS [...] (U) The International Organization for Migration (IOM),the primary operational agency in the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to Southern Sudan, recently provided a breakdown of projected IDP returns and an overview of current operations. Although establishing the logistical infr [...] | 2007-03-29 06:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM521 | STATUS OF UN/AU POLITICAL INITIATIVE [...] (C) The UN and AU plan to begin negotiations with the non-signatory rebels in late June. Many UN and AU contacts, however, question Special Envoys Eliasson and Salim's commitment to the process and ability to lay the groundwork for successful negotiations. Though Eliasson has secured a renun [...] | 2007-04-02 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM53 | Southern Sudan: WFP Driver Killed in Ambush [...] On January 11, the World Food Program (WFP) issued a press release stating that an ambush along the Juba - Torit road on January 10 resulted in the death of a Sudanese WFP driver, who was riding in a pickup truck. The incident also resulted in a local GTZ employee and two accompanying SPLA so [...] | 2007-01-12 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID ASEC MOPS PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM531 | DARFUR - AMIS ENGAGEMENT IN ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES RAISES [...] (U) On March 3, USAID staff attended a tense meeting in Nyala, South Darfur, between the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Sector 2 leadership, AMIS Civilian Police (AMIS/CIVPOL),and the humanitarian community. Although the aim of the meeting was to improve communication and understandin [...] | 2007-04-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM55 | Southern Sudan: Four Die in Jan. 2 Ambush Southeast of [...] (U) Summary: On January 2, at 12:30 p.m., assailants ambushed a truck carrying approximately 35 passengers about 100 kilometers southeast of Juba, killing at least four and wounding six individuals. A survivor, a local PA&E employee, stated that the assailants were LRA rebels; she provided Co [...] | 2007-01-14 08:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID ASEC MOPS PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM56 | Southern Sudan: More Ambushes Near Juba [...] Summary: A series of armed attacks east and southeast of Juba on January 7 and 10 claimed three lives, injured 13, and left two missing. There is still no concrete evidence as to the identity of the assailants, but suspicion centers on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). End summary. ----- [...] | 2007-01-14 08:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID ASEC MOPS PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM567 | LRA PEACE TALKS SET TO RESUME AMID RENEWED ATTACKS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-12 11:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM MARR MOPS SU UG |
| 07KHARTOUM576 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH UNMIS FC LTG [...] (C) Summary: On April 14, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with UNMIS Force Commander (FC) Lt. General Lidder and Head of Security for UN/OCHA in Darfur Michael McDonagh. Both emphasized that simply increasing the size of peace-keeping operations (PKO) would not stabilize Darfur. General Lidde [...] | 2007-04-15 03:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
| 07KHARTOUM581 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SENIOR ASSISTANT [...] (C) Summary: On April 15, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Senior Assistant to the President and Sudanese Libaration Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi. Minawi characterized the security situation in Darfur as "fragile" and urged the international community to push for a political solution [...] | 2007-04-16 05:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
| 07KHARTOUM589 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: On April 15 Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Nafie Ali Nafie, a trusted advisor to President Bashir and a key hard-liner in the National Congress Party (NCP). The Deputy Secretary told Nafie that the most pressing issue of his trip was the situation in Darfur in all its aspects [...] | 2007-04-16 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |