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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 SILVASANDE 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 SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA 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 STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN 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 THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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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 LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE 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 MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES 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 MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA 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 NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS 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 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05BAGHDAD5069 | BAGHDAD GOVERNOR HOPES TO HEAD MOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 18 meeting Hussein Mohammad Al-Tahan, Governor of Baghdad, told PolOff that he expects to be the next Minister of the Interior. Hussein, a member of the Shia Islamist SCIRI party, said MOI requires a complete overhaul and needs to be less aggressive with terrorists [...] | 2005-12-20 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5070 | SHIA LEADERS REACT TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sayed Kareem al Bukhati from List 652 Sun of Iraq and Jawad al Bolani of Ahmed Chalabi's List 569 Iraqi National Congress told us December 18 that the elections were conducted well in most places. Bukhati felt there was some electoral fraud, but his party has yet to file any com [...] | 2005-12-20 17:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5085 | NEW CHAIRMAN OF BAGHADAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL SETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 19 meeting, Mu'een Hammed, the new Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) Chairman, outlined his agenda for the coming months. Mu'een is a SCIRI Party member from Sadr City in Baghdad. He hopes to unify the BPC, strengthen the Provincial Reconstruction and Development C [...] | 2005-12-21 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5160 | DECEMBER 22 MEETING WITH IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (C) On December 22 Iraqi Minister of Interior Baqir Jabr told us that: -- he supported the decision by the police chief of Babil Province to refuse to hire 800 recently nominated police recruits who were Badr Corps militiamen; -- another 650 recruits had been appropriately vetted and sen [...] | 2005-12-30 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR IZ |
05BANGKOK1233 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRIVY COUNCILOR [...] (S) On February 16, 2005 I, met with Privy Councilor General Surayud Chulanont former Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTAF) and Royal Thai Army (RTA) Commander-in-Chief. The meeting, held at Surayud,s request, took place at his residence in the Eastern suburbs of Bangkok and [...] | 2005-02-17 10:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK3930 | (C) THAILAND: ALLEGED USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS [...] (S) Summary: The senior Thai Foreign Ministry (MFA) official covering Burma told poloffs that the Royal Thai Government (RTG) has no hard evidence confirming the reported use of chemical weapons by the Burmese Army against ethnic Karenni soldiers near the Thai border in February 2005. These [...] | 2005-06-14 10:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PINR MOPS PHUM TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK5020 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SPEAKING OUT ON GITMO AND [...] (C) Upon receipt of reftel, Embassy has done the following: -- Incorporated talking points for possible use in relevant high-level meetings with senior RTG officials; -- Discussed main points with working level counterparts in the RTG (See para 2); -- Post also ant [...] | 2005-08-04 10:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR PINS TH |
05BANGKOK5626 | FLU PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS: THAILAND [...] (C/NF) Summary: The responses below are in reply to questions contained in Reftel. In general, Thailand is increasingly capable and increasingly transparent in detecting, reporting, and planning for and responding to avian influenza outbreaks in animals and humans. Although Ministry of Publi [...] | 2005-09-01 08:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAGR ECON PGOV PINR SOCI TBIO TH |
05BANGKOK7462 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: INSIDE THE ARMY'S HEARTS AND [...] Summary. (C) In a meeting with poloffs on 1 December, Royal Thai Army (RTA) civil affairs officer Lt. Col. Saniroj Thumayos explained the challenges facing the RTA's attempts to win the hearts and minds of the public in the violent South. Saniroj outlined RTG efforts to train and support Isl [...] | 2005-12-02 10:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR TH |
05BANGKOK869 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES THE SOUTH WITH KEY [...] (C) Summary: On January 27, I called on Pansak Vinyaratn, a principal advisor to Prime Minister Thaksin. Our conversation focused on the violence in southern Thailand and how the situation affects Thailand's ability to deploy additional troops to Iraq; how Thaksin is learning, slowly, to de [...] | 2005-02-02 10:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TH |
05BEIRUT2068 | MGLE1: LEBANON'S NEW PARLIAMENTARY LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Four major personalities will dominate the new Parliament. These leaders -- Saad Hariri, Walid Jumblatt, Hassan Nasrallah, and Michel Aoun -- have the votes and the voices they need to push for -- or to block --change. The men and women who counsel these figures will be among our chief [...] | 2005-06-24 16:29:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR |
05BEIRUT2285 | MGLE01: BIOGRAPHY OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR [...] WE have learned that Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora has agreed with the two main Shiite political forces to name Fawzi Salloukh as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Salloukh is a retired diplomat and a moderate Shia figure with national standing as an independent intellectual. He is 74 y [...] | 2005-07-12 12:55:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON SOCI LE |
05BEIRUT654 | Lebanon Biographies of Potential Prime Ministers [...] Followig are biographies of potential candidates to repace Prime Minister Omar Karami who resigned on Febuary 28, 2005. According to the 1943 National Pat and the 1989 Taif Accord, Lebanon's Prime Miniter must be a Sunni Muslim. Several names of poential candidates are being discussed i [...] | 2005-03-03 11:37:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON LE |
05BOGOTA10336 | NGOS SHARE CONCERNS OVER JUSTICE AND PEACE LAW AND [...] (SBU) On October 20, representatives from five leading human rights NGOs met with WHA/AND Director Philip French to provide their assessments of human rights conditions in Colombia. Three NGOs expressed concern over paramilitary demobilizations and the implementation of the Justice and Peace [...] | 2005-11-02 19:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA10396 | HISTORIC LOW TURNOUT FOR CARTAGENA MAYORAL [...] (C) On October 30, a record low number of Cartagena's residents voted to return controversial doctor-turned-politician Nicolas Curi to the mayor's office for a third, non-consecutive term. Seventy-eight percent of eligible voters stayed home during the special election. Curi's main opponent [...] | 2005-11-04 15:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PINR CO |
05BOGOTA10686 | COURT APPROVES ELECTORAL GUARANTEES LAW; NO [...] (U) Summary: As expected, the Constitutional Court approved the electoral guarantees law, the final remaining legal hurdle to President Uribe's running in the May 28, 2006 presidential election. The Court made some changes to the original law, toughening campaign finance rules and limiting [...] | 2005-11-16 14:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR CO |
05BOGOTA10848 | COUNTER-DRUG BRIGADE CHANGE OF COMMAND [...] (U) The Colombian Army Counter- Drug Brigade (CD BDE) will be getting a new commander in mid-December. Brigadier General (BG) Jorge Octavio ARDILA Silva will replace outgoing CD BDE Commander BG Luis Felipe PAREDESParedes Cadena, who will assume command of the 2nd Brigade in Barranquilla. [...] | 2005-11-21 16:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR MOPS PINR CO |
05BOGOTA10892 | ELECTORAL GUARANTEES DECISION BOLD BUT RISKY MOVE [...] (C) The Constitutional Court's ruling in favor of the Electoral Guarantees law was a bold but risky move that some say could call into question the court's legitimacy. The court essentially rewrote the law to avoid sending it back to the Congress for amendments. A Congressional rewrite would [...] | 2005-11-22 15:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PINR CO |
05BOGOTA10991 | DEVELOPMENTS IN CONGRESS AND THE LEAD-UP TO MARCH [...] (C) Summary: With less than a month remaining in the current session, the only major item to pass Congress thus far is the 2006 budget. A law aimed at approving Colombia's compliance with the Hague Convention on child abduction is pending conference committee approval. Opposition to Uribe [...] | 2005-11-28 15:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR CO |
05BOGOTA11814 | DAS DIRECTOR PENATE MAY RESIGN OVER URIBE REPROACH [...] (C) On December 20, Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) Director Andres Penate told polcouns that he was upset with President Uribe for excoriating him in public after he tried to correct the record regarding Venezuelan allegations that GOC military officials were working with forme [...] | 2005-12-20 22:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | MOPS PINR PREL CO |
05BOGOTA1296 | PRESIDENT URIBE MEETS WITH USAID ADMINISTRATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Uribe expressed his gratitude for U.S. support of Colombia during his February 3 meeting with USAID Administrator Natsios, before the opening of the International Donors Conference on Colombia in Cartagena. In a wide ranging discussion, Uribe reviewed outstanding human [...] | 2005-02-09 18:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR EAID CO |
05BOGOTA1297 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNODC DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) On February 3, Ambassador met with Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and local UNODC representative Ambassador Sandro Calvani on the margins of the international cooperation meeting in Cartagena. Ambassador expressed concern [...] | 2005-02-09 19:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PTER PREL PINR CO |
05BOGOTA1660 | DEMOBILIZATION LAWS: COMPETING DRAFTS IN SPECIAL [...] (C) On February 9, the GOC formally presented to Congress its version of a law that would impose alternative sentences on members of illegal armed groups accused of serious crimes who demobilize and comply with specific conditions. A group of Colombian legislators led by Senator Rafael Pardo f [...] | 2005-02-18 22:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PTER PINR PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA1728 | U/S GROSSMAN MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] February 14, 2005, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Ambassador's residence, Bogota 2. Participants: ---- U.S. ---- Marc Grossman, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counselor Baxter Hunt, P Special Assistant Kiersten Stiansen, notetaker Nohemy Katta [...] | 2005-02-23 18:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PTER PINR KJUS EAID CO |
05BOGOTA2564 | UNHCHR RELEASES ITS 2004 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) On March 11, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released its 2004 human rights report on Colombia. The report once again characterized the human rights situation in Colombia as "critical," and noted an increased number of reports of State-sponsored extrajudicial killing [...] | 2005-03-17 19:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PREL PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA2649 | CONGRESS PASSES 29 ARTICLES IN DEMOBILIZATION LAW [...] (C) Before pausing for holy week, Congress passed 29 out of 67 articles in the draft Law for Justice and Peace. Disagreement over controversial issues, including confession, alleged extradition loopholes, and reduction of jail sentences for all prisoners remain unresolved. The GOC will propos [...] | 2005-03-22 18:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KJUS PINR PREL PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA2650 | UNHCHR FRUHLING DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT WITH [...] (C) On March 18, Michael Fruhling, Director of the Colombia Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) briefed the diplomatic community on his recently released report on the human rights situation in Colombia. Fruhling gave a brief overview of the report and rec [...] | 2005-03-22 18:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PREL CO |
05BOGOTA3223 | DEMOBILIZATION LAW: THREE CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLES [...] (U) Summary: The Senate and House First Committees have voted on 63 out 67 articles (reftel). Several contentious articles -- to block drug traffickers from benefiting; to call for, but not require, an open statement on crimes and illicit assets by each beneficiary; to allow individual desert [...] | 2005-04-07 18:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KJUS PINR PGOV PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA3422 | ZAPATERO VISIT AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR URIBE [...] (SBU) Summary: Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's March 31 visit to Bogota, as well as his participation in a March 29 four-party summit in Venezuela, produced positive results diplomatically for the GOC. Zapatero pledged support on the critical issues of terrorism and trade and [...] | 2005-04-13 14:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV PINR CO |
05BOGOTA3555 | DEMOBILIZATION LAW APPROVED IN COMMITTEE [...] (C) On April 12, the Senate and House First Committees finished voting on the Law for Justice and Peace, including on the three most controversial articles (reftel). The changes made to the text provide added safeguards for our ability to extradite drug traffickers. Article 2 on the scope of [...] | 2005-04-14 22:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER KJUS PINR PGOV PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA3842 | DECLINING OFFICIALIST LIBERAL PARTY LIKELY TO PIN [...] (C) Summary: The Officialist Liberal Party (PLC),Colombia's largest and oldest, has been declining nationally. Several dozen Congressional "dissident" Liberals are set to leave the party and formalize a new political movement, likely to be called Apertura Liberal (Liberal Opening),which p [...] | 2005-04-21 21:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO |
05BOGOTA3926 | MININSTER PRETELT DISCUSSES ASSET FORFEITURE, [...] (C) On April 20, Minister of Interior and Justice Sabas Pretelt requested a meeting with the Ambassador to discuss: (1) GOC frustration with U.S. delays in responding to a request for a percentage of assets seized from Colombian drug traffickers by the U.S; (2) paramilitary commanders' complai [...] | 2005-04-25 21:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KJUS PREL PINR PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA431 | FISCALIA CLOSES CHENGUE MASSACRE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) The Fiscalia announced it has closed its criminal case against retired Rear Admiral Rodrigo Quinonez for his alleged complicity in the January 2001 paramilitary massacre at Chengue. The head of the Fiscalia's Human Rights Unit told Embassy officials that Quinonez's case was handled by a s [...] | 2005-01-18 18:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER KJUS PINR CO |
05BOGOTA4571 | SERPA ON LIBERAL PARTY DYNAMICS AND UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with two-time presidential candidate Horacio Serpa on May 11. Serpa is resisting the move by former President Cesar Gaviria to take over the Liberal Party (PLC),believing the party would need to form a center-left alliance to effectively challenge President Uribe in [...] | 2005-05-16 18:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO |
05BOGOTA4959 | INDIVIDUAL DESERTION PROGRAM CREATING CONCERN [...] (C) Over 7,000 deserters from the illegal armed groups have entered the GOC's reinsertion program since Uribe took office. The Ministry of Defense controls the first phase of reinsertion when deserters are debriefed for intelligence purposes and given basic humanitarian assistance. Intelligen [...] | 2005-05-24 20:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER SNAR KJUS PINR CO |
05BOGOTA5509 | PDI SELECTS ANTONIO NAVARRO AS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 2, the leftist Polo Democratico (PDI) selected former M-19 guerrilla and current Senator Antonio Navarro Wolff as its Presidential nominee at the party's national convention. Despite much-rumored tacit support of Bogota Mayor "Lucho" Garzon for second-place finisher S [...] | 2005-06-09 15:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO |
05BOGOTA5671 | LIBERALS SELECT GAVIRIA AS PARTY CHIEF; [...] (C) Summary: On June 11, the Liberal Party (PLC) national convention selected former President and OAS SyG Cesar Gaviria as its national party head. Gaviria denounced President Uribe for abandoning and attacking the PLC, wrongheaded policies (most notably an alleged failure to control the p [...] | 2005-06-14 18:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR CO |
05BOGOTA6222 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ARCHBISHOP OF CALI [...] (C) Summary. During a trip to Cali on June 23-24, the Archbishop told the Ambassador that the Mayor's office was struggling with corruption limiting its ability to act, and that the USG should find ways to help support the municipal police. He credited the increase in violence in Cali last y [...] | 2005-06-30 21:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM PINR CO |
05BOGOTA6223 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GOVERNOR OF VALLE DE [...] (C) Summary. On June 24 the Ambassador met with the Governor of the Department of Valle de Cauca. The Governor endorsed Uribe's Democratic Security policy and the use of a legal framework like the newly adopted Justice and Peace law to demobilize the AUC and the FARC. He said the FARC may be [...] | 2005-06-30 21:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM PINR CO |
05BOGOTA6508 | NEW MOD CAMILO OSPINA DISCUSSES BILATERAL [...] (C) On July 9, the newly-appointed Minister of Defense Camilo Ospina visited the Ambassador to discuss bilateral military cooperation. They discussed a range of issues including human rights, high value targets, funding for military assistance, and the Justice and Peace Law. Ospina stated th [...] | 2005-07-12 11:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM PINR CO |
05BOGOTA6891 | SERPA ON 2006 ELECTIONS, BILATERAL RELATIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and Liberal Party Presidential nominee hopeful Horacio Serpa discussed national politics at breakfast on July 12. Serpa said under a reelection scenario, President Uribe would win easily. He hoped for a grand left/center-left coalition against Uribe in the first rou [...] | 2005-07-22 20:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO VE BL |
05BOGOTA7416 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) July 26, 2005, 2:30-3:30 pm, Ambassador's Office, Bogota 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- R. Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counse [...] | 2005-08-05 13:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PTER PREL PINR KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA8241 | OBSERVATIONS ON UPCOMING COURT DECISION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Commentators continue to differ in their predictions about the Colombian Constitutional Court's decision on President Uribe's reelection. A leading newspaper recently published an extensive article predicting a 6-3 vote in favor of Uribe's reelection, while others suggest diff [...] | 2005-08-31 21:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PINR CO |
05BOGOTA8602 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCHR MICHAEL FRUHLING [...] (C) Summary: On September 8, the Ambassador met with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Director in Colombia Michael Fruhling and his deputy, Amerigo Incalcaterra. Fruhling raised several concerns about the implementation of the Law on Justice and Peace, and about huma [...] | 2005-09-13 21:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PREL PTER CO |
05BOGOTA8650 | STAFFDEL GROVE MEETINGS IN BOGOTA [...] (U) Congressional aides Paul Grove and Thomas Hawkins met with Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo on August 30 and representatives of several human rights organizations on August 31 to discuss the paramilitary demobilization process and the Law of Justice and Peace. Restrepo explained th [...] | 2005-09-14 14:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PTER PINR PREL CO |
05BOGOTA8695 | DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PRO-URIBE POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Four center-right political parties -- Radical Change, National Unity, Democratic Colombia, and the Conservatives -- are vying to be the lead vehicle for President Uribe's reelection drive. While all are viable electorally, the continued existence of National Unity and Democr [...] | 2005-09-15 14:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO |
05BOGOTA9321 | UPDATE ON REELECTION: THINKING OF PLAN B [...] (C) President Uribe and his team are considering contingency plans in the event the Constitutional Court strikes down reelection. The plans that are receiving most attention include a public referendum that would seek to change the Constitution, and the casting of a separate ballot during Ma [...] | 2005-09-30 19:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PINR CO |
05BRASILIA1018 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN CONGRESSIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 12, Ambassador Danilovich met with the new Speaker of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Severino Cavalcanti, who --in his two months leading the lower house of Congress-- has butted heads with the Lula administration and entertained the press with his untailored style. [...] | 2005-04-13 20:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CVIS PINR PREL SOCI BR |
05BRASILIA1148 | FARC MAY BE BUYING STOLEN MEDICINE IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since November 2004, Federal Police in the Brazilian state of Amazonas have been investigating the disappearance of 8,000 bottles of Glucantine, a drug used to treat a parasitic disease common in the Amazon. Last October, locals in Amazonas state found an abandoned boat that c [...] | 2005-04-29 16:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM PTER BR |
05BRASILIA1207 | BRAZIL: Ambassador's Lunch with General Jorge [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-06 15:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PINR PREL BR US |
05BRASILIA1660 | LULA'S RIGHT-HAND WOMAN - DILMA ROUSSEFF BECOMES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 21, Brazilian President Lula da Silva named Minister of Mines and Energy Dilma Rousseff to be his new Chief of Staff, replacing Jose Dirceu, who resigned last week amid an unfolding corruption scandal. Rousseff was an opposition militant who was jailed and tortured by [...] | 2005-06-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON BR |
05BRASILIA1867 | BRAZIL: CABINET SHUFFLE--PART II [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-13 19:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON PINR BR |
05BRASILIA187 | JOSE DIRCEU - LULA'S WING-MAN GETS BACK ON TRACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Jose Dirceu is Chief of Staff and most trusted advisor to Brazilian President Lula da Silva. Dirceu's legendary, if peculiar, biography is a window on Brazil's recent history. His machiavellian political skills and decades of fierce loyalty to Lula and the Workers' Party (PT) [...] | 2005-01-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON PREL SOCI BR |
05BRASILIA2287 | FARC SPOKESMAN ARRESTED IN BRAZIL [...] On August 24, Brazilian Federal Police, in cooperation with Interpol agents in Brazil, arrested Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) "spokesman" Francisco Antonio CADENAS at a Sao Paulo bus station under an international order for his capture. The Colombian government has accused Cade [...] | 2005-08-25 16:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR BR CO |
05BRASILIA2767 | BRAZIL: REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE FOR [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph four for action request. 2. (U) On October 13, poloff delivered reftel talking points to Marcelo Bohlke at Brazil's Ministry of External Relations United Nations Division (DNU). Poloff also provided points to Marcia Ramos at the Ministry's [...] | 2005-10-17 18:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER PHUM PREF PINR BR TIP |
05BRASILIA318 | BRAZIL: REGIONAL INFORMATION SHARING FOR AIR [...] (C) Summary: Ref query requested Embassy views on the potential for sharing U.S. information (particularly ROTHR data) with the GOB as part of cooperative regional effort at air bridge denial (ABD) that may also include Colombia. In summary form below are our observations, based on the history [...] | 2005-02-03 19:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MARR MOPS PINR BR POL MIL |
05BRASILIA698 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN WORKERS' PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 9, Ambassador Danilovich met with Jose Genoino, the President of Brazil's Workers' Party (PT) and the PT's Secretary for International Relations, Paulo Ferreira. Genoino noted that the PT is now celebrating its 25th anniversary and has evolved into a modern nationwide i [...] | 2005-03-14 18:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI BR US |
05BRASILIA767 | SEVERINO CAVALCANTI LEADS BRAZILIAN CONGRESS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-21 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON SOCI BR |
05BRASILIA785 | ALLEGATIONS OF FARC FUNDING TO LULA'S ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. In recent issues, Brazilian weekly newsmagazine VEJA ran stories outlining an alleged plan by Colombia's FARC to funnel US$5 million to the 2002 election campaign of Brazilian President Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party (PT). While the timing and sourcing of the VEJA stories [...] | 2005-03-22 22:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR BR |
05BRASILIA792 | IRRITATED WITH PRESSURES, LULA PUTS OFF MOST OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Irritated by incessant clamoring from his allied parties as they jockeyed for cabinet posts, Brazilian President Lula da Silva dug in yesterday and put most of the cabinet shakeup on hold. The final straw for Lula was a challenge from the new Speaker of the Chamber, Severino C [...] | 2005-03-23 19:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON BR |
05BRATISLAVA218 | THE HZDS SHUFFLE [...] (C) Viliam Veteska unexpectedly gave up his post as parliamentary caucus leader of the opposition People's Party-Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (LS-HZDS). He will be temporarily replaced by Tibor Cabaj. Veteska will, however, maintain the post of Deputy Speaker of Parliament. Although he [...] | 2005-03-16 13:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA230 | RELEASE OF SECRET POLICE FILES CONTINUES TO CAUSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-18 13:41:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA251 | PARLIAMENT LEADER HRUSOVSKY'S APRIL VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April visit of a Slovak parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Pavol Hrusovsky will be a useful opportunity to press our agenda on Iraq, minority rights, religious registration, and while coordinating on areas where we already agree like trafficking and Cuba. Hrusovsky [...] | 2005-03-25 18:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA314 | SMER-SDL MERGER CONSOLIDATES LEFT, BUT DOES IT [...] (C) Summary. In late 2004, the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL) and two other small, leftist parties merged with Smer ("Direction"). Smer leader Robert Fico has successfully consolidated the center-left, but a slight increase in votes in 2006 will not necessarily correspond to an increase in [...] | 2005-04-20 08:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA397 | RESIGNATION OF THE SLOVAK MINISTER OF CULTURE COMES [...] Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic has accepted the resignation of the Minister of Culture Rudolf Chmel. The President's decision becomes effective today, May 24. Until a new Minister is appointed, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ivan Miklos will be temporarily in charge of the Cult [...] | 2005-05-24 13:48:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KPAO LO |
05BRATISLAVA432 | ROMA POLITICAL POLLING SHOWS DISCREPANCY BETWEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Democratic Institute (NDI) Roma Political Participation program advisors told Poloff that recent polling data showed commonly held perceptions of Roma political affiliation, involvement, and participation were false. Some of this data, they claimed, could be damaging t [...] | 2005-06-07 07:35:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR KDEM KPAO LO |
05BRATISLAVA463 | NEW MINISTER OF CULTURE [...] Mr. Frantisek Toth became the new Slovak Minister of Culture following the resignation of Minister Chmel in May. Mr. Toth has been appointed by President Ivan Gasparovic today, June 15, 2005. He was nominated for this position by the coalition party Alliance of New Citizen (ANO). 2. Please [...] | 2005-06-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KPAO LO |
05BRATISLAVA472 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, JUNE 1-20, 2005 [...] (C) Former Prime Minister and current HZDS leader Vladimir Meciar is currently studying English. The brother of his private teacher told Poloffs that the teacher is regularly subjected to long, delusional speeches about the MP's accomplishments. Meciar's most outlandish claim to date was th [...] | 2005-06-20 11:25:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR SMIG LO |
05BRATISLAVA473 | REGIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES TRY OUT ALLIANCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In advance of Slovakia's regional elections (scheduled for November 26),political parties have begun to experiment with different pairings and coalitions in the "consequence-free environment" of regional politics. At the local and regional level, Slovak politics is based less [...] | 2005-06-20 11:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM LO |
05BRATISLAVA486 | CORRUPTION: SOME GOOD LAWS IN PLACE; LOCAL [...] Summary: Reducing corruption in Slovakia has been a long-term U.S. goal. The laws are now generally good, although some gaping weaknesses remain. An area of growing concern is public procurement at the local and regional levels, where officials act beyond the control of the national auditor' [...] | 2005-06-22 08:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS KCOR PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA602 | FINANCE MINISTER IVAN MIKLOS: POWER BEHIND THE [...] (C) Summary. The political team of Minister of Finance Ivan Miklos and Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda has succeeded in transforming Slovakia's political and economic fortunes in a short amount of time. Miklos has won acclaim for his flat tax policy, and he has also managed several years of [...] | 2005-08-02 13:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA618 | PAVOL RUSKO: THE SLOVAK BERLUSCONI WANNA-BE [...] (C) Summary. The leader of the New Citizens Alliance Party (ANO),Minister of Economy Pavol Rusko, has been a controversial figure within Slovakia's ruling coalition government and is the leading cause of its internal tensions. His continued dominance of the largest private broadcaster in [...] | 2005-08-04 13:12:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA626 | DZURINDA CONCERNED ABOUT RUSKO, BUT NEEDS HIM [...] (C) During Charge's August 4 farewell call on Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, the Prime Minister shared some candid thoughts on Economy Minister Pavol Rusko (reftel). Dzurinda told Charge that he is increasingly concerned about Rusko. He said that he has traditionally dealt with Rusko in k [...] | 2005-08-05 14:06:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA642 | SLOVAKIA PREPARES TO ABOLISH EXTREMIST POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Slovakia is struggling to come to terms with its diversity and diminish the influence of racist extremist groups. A recent meeting with the Interior Ministry's chief coordinator of the anti-extremism unit revealed that the government allowed extremist group Slovens [...] | 2005-08-09 14:47:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI SMIG PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA663 | KDH ULTIMATUM: EITHER RUSKO GOES OR WE DO [...] (C) Summary: The latest threat by coalition partner KDH to leave the government if Prime Minister Dzurinda doesn't fire Economy Minister Pavol Rusko (ANO) is more serious than previous bluffs. No matter what happens, there is not enough support in parliament for early elections (90 votes are [...] | 2005-08-17 17:22:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR LO PGGOC |
05BRATISLAVA668 | (U) ORGANIZED CRIME IN SLOVAKIA (C-CN5-00417) [...] (U) In response to reftel inquiry regarding organized crime in Slovakia, post provides the following response: A. (U) ARE THERE ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS PRESENT IN THE HOST COUNTRY THAT ORIGINATED IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE, ITALY, THE BALKANS (ALBANIA, SERBIA, BOSNIA),JA [...] | 2005-08-18 12:57:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR SOCI LO |
05BRATISLAVA677 | MINISTER RUSKO'S WILD RIDE [...] (C) Following the Christian Democratic Party (KDH) announcement last week that it would leave the coalition if Minister of the Economy Pavol Rusko was not removed from office by August 23 (Ref C),Rusko's ANO party closeted itself August 22 to determine next steps. In Bratislava, the only t [...] | 2005-08-22 15:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPAO PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA683 | RUSKO SACKED BY PRESIDENT; COALITION WEAKENED, BUT [...] (C) President Ivan Gasparovic fired Minister of the Economy Pavol Rusko (reftels) at noon August 24, after Rusko failed to submit his resignation by 9:00am as demanded at a press conference last night by Prime Minister Dzurinda. Rusko's Alliance of New Citizen (ANO) party announced that it w [...] | 2005-08-24 13:36:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD PINR KDEM LO |
05BRATISLAVA692 | MINISTER OF ECONOMY, WHAT MINISTER OF ECONOMY? [...] (U) Summary. The firing of Pavol Rusko as the Minister of Economy (reftels) will not likely have a major impact on the Slovak economy. Though a long-term replacement remains uncertain, the temporary substitute, Finance Minister Ivan Miklos, has promised to enact measures which will verify al [...] | 2005-08-26 11:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD PINR KDEM LO |
05BRATISLAVA694 | COALITION NEEDS ANO LIKE A FISH NEEDS A BICYCLE [...] (SBU) In the wake of the sacking of their party leader, Pavol Rusko, seven MPs from the Alliance of New Citizen (ANO),in addition to Minister of Culture Toth, Minister of Health Zajac, and another independent MP, have submitted a written pledge to support the GOS coalition. With this decla [...] | 2005-08-26 13:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON ETRD PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA721 | GUIDANCE REQUESTED ON POSSIBLE SLOVAK ARMS SALES [...] (U) This is a guidance request, please see para 2. 2. (S) Peter Peniaska, head of the Slovak arms firm Petina International, is seeking the USG position on potential sales of Slovak military equipment to Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company has applied for a license w [...] | 2005-09-10 07:20:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS ECON PGOV PINR PREL LO |
05BRATISLAVA730 | SLOVAK PARLIAMENT CAN'T GET QUORUM; OPPOSITION [...] (C) The GOS failed to get enough votes to reopen parliament September 12 after its summer break. After failing to achieve quorum both Monday and Tuesday (falling three members short of the 76 required),we are told that Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky will postpone the session until 9:00am Tuesday [...] | 2005-09-14 06:33:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI LO |
05BRATISLAVA738 | KDH IS HOT; SDKU IS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Dzurinda is taking advantage of a long holiday weekend to try to gather the support of at least three independent MPs needed to open parliament on September 20 (reftel). Coalition partners KDH and SMK and ANO "Lintners" hope Dzurinda is successful, but if not, t [...] | 2005-09-16 15:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI LO |
05BRATISLAVA749 | STILL NO PARLIAMENTARY QUORUM AFTER A WEEK; [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A week after failing to gather the quorum necessary to open parliament (ref B),the Coalition failed again on September 20 to bring 76 MPs to the chamber, reach quorum, and resume the council's session after summer recess. Independent deputies continue to move in m [...] | 2005-09-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR LO |
05BRATISLAVA815 | MORE CABINET SHAKEUPS: LABOR OUT, ECON IN [...] (C) SUMMARY - Labor Minister Ludovit Kanik announced his resignation October 5 after admitting that he made a mistake in applying for EU Funds for the refurbishing of a hotel that he owns in the resort town of Banska Stiavnica. Kanik's announcement will complicate his efforts to formalize a de [...] | 2005-10-05 15:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KDEM LO PGOV PINR |
05BRATISLAVA853 | NEW MINISTER OF LABOR TAKES OFFICE [...] (U) Following the resignation of Ludovit Kanik (reftel),President Gasparovic approved the appointment of Ms. Iveta Radicova as the new Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, and Family; she officially took office on October 17. Prior to her appointment as Minister, Radicova was the director of [...] | 2005-10-19 14:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL LO |
05BRATISLAVA854 | HZDS: OLD DOG MECIAR CAN STILL LEARN NEW TRICKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 19 lunch, HZDS leadership (minus Meciar, whom we did not invite) told Ambassador that the party cannot exist without Vladimir Meciar, that they are working "behind the scenes" to reach out to the current coalition, that Meciar (an "old dog who can still learn [...] | 2005-10-20 06:13:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM LO |
05BRATISLAVA876 | FORMER ECON MINISTER RUSKO TO SELL TV SHARES [...] (C) Central European Media Enterprises (CME),an American Media firm, is finally poised to take control of TV Markiza by buying out the shares held by dismissed Economy Minister Pavol Rusko. Rusko, apparently badly in need of "clean" cash, finally agreed to sell all his shares -- and thus con [...] | 2005-10-31 13:09:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON LO PGOV PINR |
05BRATISLAVA888 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, NOVEMBER 3, 2005 [...] (C) Agriculture Minister Zsolt Simon (of the Hungarian SMK party) has recently come under pressure because of allegations that an agriculture company he co-owned received SKK 8 million (around USD 250,000) in agricultural subsidies from the state budget in 2003. Simon sold his share in the [...] | 2005-11-03 12:56:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ELAB PINR SOCI LO |
05BRATISLAVA924 | SLOVAKS DISCUSS BELARUS ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a series of recent meetings we have engaged our Slovak interlocutors in both the GOS and NGO community about democracy promotion efforts and strategy in Belarus, and spoken with several visiting Belarusian opposition figures about Slovak and EU engagement in the country. [...] | 2005-11-18 16:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ETRD PREL SOCI PINR BO LO |
05BRATISLAVA936 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP NOVEMBER 22, 2005 [...] (C) Pavol Rusko, former Minister of Economy and leader of political party ANO, sold his majority voting share in Slovakia's Markiza television station to American company Central European Media Enterprises (CME). As predicted reftel B, the ANO party -- which started the year with 11 MPs, a [...] | 2005-11-23 08:54:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI LO |
05BRATISLAVA958 | (C) SLOVAKIA MAY BE WILLING TO PART WAYS WITH EU [...] (C) At a reception on December 5, MFA State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister) Magda Vasaryova pulled aside DCM to stress Slovakia's desire for the closest possible cooperation with the USG during Slovakia's upcoming tenure on the UNSC. Citing her very positive recent meeting with Amb. Bolto [...] | 2005-12-06 13:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR LO UNSC UNGA UN |
05BRATISLAVA979 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, DECEMBER 12, 2005 [...] (C) SMK MP Laszlo Nagy told Poloff on December 7 that the SMK party continues to develop venues through which to promote democracy in Belarus. Having signed agreements with opposition parties in Minsk already, Nagy said that he has met with the Minister of Education to begin discussions of [...] | 2005-12-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR ETRD SOCI BO LO |
05BRATISLAVA992 | ROBERT FICO HAS DIRECTION, BUT NO COMPASS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Robert Fico, the driven chairman of opposition party Smer ("Direction"),hosted a small lunch for the Ambassador on December 15 during which he outlined his views on Slovak politics and foreign policy, and revealed what we had long suspected: Fico is an intense and [...] | 2005-12-16 16:21:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI EU LO |
05BRUSSELS1484 | SALAFRANCA PUSHES HIS CANDIDACY FOR UNDP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following up on previous approaches to USEU, Embassy Madrid and USINT Havana (REFS B-D),Spanish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Jose Ignacio Salafranca solicited support from USEU again on April 7 for his candidacy for UNDP Administrator. Salafranca is well known to USE [...] | 2005-04-14 09:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EAID SP UNDP EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1530 | CUBA: EU COMMISSIONER MICHEL BOLSTERS CUBAN FONMIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to his adviser on Cuba, European Commissioner for Development Louis Michel believes the EU must bolster Cuban FM Felipe Perez Roque as the best hope for improved EU-Cuba relations. During his March 24-27 visit to the island (REFS B-C),Michel offered Perez Roque better [...] | 2005-04-18 13:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR EAID CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2146 | CZECH FONMIN PUSHING IDEAS TO TOUGHEN EU CUBA [...] (S) On the margins of a European Parliament conference on Cuba on June 2, Czech FonMin Cyril Svoboda told us he had "four or five" specific proposals for toughening the EU's stance on Cuba. In the run-up to the June 13 EU FonMins meeting, at which Cuba policy will be reviewed, Svoboda is tryi [...] | 2005-06-06 13:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PHUM PINR CU EUN |
05BRUSSELS3534 | EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT OCT 4: READMISSION AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. The major outcome of the October 4 EU-Russia London summit is likely to be a Readmission Accord committing Russia to take back failed asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. In exchange, the EU will ease visa requirements on diplomats and other categories of Russians. Unli [...] | 2005-09-28 12:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON EAIR RS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS4323 | EU, OTHERS FRUSTRATED WITH IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY EU, Swiss, and Australian participants took the lead at a Berne Process meeting on Iran on November 29 in Brussels, agreeing that Iran was stonewalling their bilateral human rights dialogues, but Norway was optimistic that its recent exchange might yield an invitation to Iran for [...] | 2005-12-07 15:14:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL ECON EAID PINR XG XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS807 | MOLDOVAN ELECTIONS: PM TARLEV ON RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary. Moldovan PM Tarlev and FM Stratan met with EUR A/S Beth Jones February 21 in Brussels on the margins of the President's visit. Tarlev sought the meeting to convey concerns about Russian interference in the upcoming legislative elections in Moldova. He said recent U.S. critici [...] | 2005-02-28 14:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MD RS USEU BRUSSELS |
05BUCHAREST1003 | GEOANA WINS SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENCY; [...] (C) Summary. In a move that surprised the media and nearly all of Romania's political class, former Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana won the presidency of Romania's opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) in the early hours of April 22 at a dramatic party congress. Other reformers within the [...] | 2005-04-22 13:39:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON PINR RO |
05BUCHAREST1063 | BLACK SEA CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS ROMANIAN EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. An April 20 conference on strategic opportunities in the Black Sea region permitted Romanian President Basescu to highlight his view that democratic stability, security, and prosperity in the region depended on Euro-Atlantic cooperation. He also emphasized that Romanian strategi [...] | 2005-04-29 13:36:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PREL PINR PINS ENRG SENV ECON TU GG RS UP UK RO NATO |
05BUCHAREST1518 | VISAS VIPER: JUNE 2005 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Embassy Bucharest's Visas Viper Committee met on 28 June 2005. Consul General Bryan Dalton chaired the meeting. No new names were submitted to the committee at the meeting. Since May,s Visas Viper Report (Ref B),post submitted no additional names for consideration b [...] | 2005-07-08 13:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | SECRET | ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR LE PINR PTER RO KANSOU TALAL MOHAMAD |
05BUCHAREST153 | THE NEW GOVERNMENT'S FIRST WEEKS - BASESCU COMES OUT STRONG [...] (C) Summary: During his first several weeks in office, President Traian Basescu has been outspoken on the fight against corruption, foreign policy priorities and the status of the center right National Liberal Party -Democratic Party (PNL-PD) political alliance with the small Humanist Party (PUR). [...] | 2005-01-18 14:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON PINR RO |
05BUCHAREST1623 | ROMANIA'S ETHNIC HUNGARIANS: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON KEY LEADERS AND POLITICIANS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RO |
05BUCHAREST199 | FORMER ROMANIAN RULING PARTY FACES LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary. The formerly ruling center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD) is roiled by internal divisions and faces a leadership struggle, with former President Ion Iliescu and ex-PM Adrian Nastase the principle contenders to lead the party. The PSD recently reestablished its "Permanent Del [...] | 2005-01-21 15:41:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON PINR RO |
05BUCHAREST31 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador January 3-4 made introductory calls on new Foreign Minister Razvan Ungureanu and new Defense Minister Teodor Atanasiu. Echoing a prominent theme in President Traian Basescu's electoral campaign, both incoming ministers expressed a firm commitment to a strong relati [...] | 2005-01-06 16:08:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR MASS ECON PINR MD UP IZ RO UNSC |
05BUCHAREST34 | NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR LEADING [...] (SBU) The GOR contact information below should be considered "close hold" and should not be widely distributed. HEAD OF GOVERNMENT LAST NAME: Popescu-Tariceanu FIRST/MIDDLE NAMES: Calin Constantin Anton CONVENTIONAL USAGE: Calin Popescu-Tariceanu FORMAL TITLE: Prime Mini [...] | 2005-01-07 13:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL RO |
05BUCHAREST371 | ROMANIAN LIBERAL PARTY DISPLAYS UNITY, AS [...] (C) Summary. Delegates to the congress of Romania's center-right National Liberal Party (PNL),the largest party in the governing alliance, strongly endorsed Prime Minister Tariceanu's bid for PNL President. Delegates also turned down for the time being a proposed merger with the Democratic [...] | 2005-02-10 15:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI PINR RO |
05BUCHAREST476 | ROMANIA'S EMERGING FOREIGN POLICY: EVIDENCE FROM [...] (C) Summary. Romanian President Traian Basescu will likely seek to focus on solid support in Iraq and the Global War on Terror, Black Sea Security, and Moldova during his March 8-9 trip to Washington. He has defined a strong strategic relationship with the U.S. as the central component of hi [...] | 2005-02-25 15:05:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RS MD RO |
05BUCHAREST548 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT BASESCU'S MARCH 8-9 TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: During the first few months of his mandate, President Traian Basescu has pledged to vigorously battle corruption, supported implementation of free market economic reforms and promised to steer Romania to EU accession in 2007. Basescu is intellectually and emotionally pro-American- a st [...] | 2005-03-04 16:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON RS MD RO |
05BUCHAREST658 | ROMANIAN PRESIDENT PROPOSES NEW NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. President Traian Basescu is scheduled to propose within the next month a national security strategy for Parliamentary approval reflecting the findings of the February 28 meeting of the inter-ministerial Supreme Council of National Defense (CSAT). Responding to five principal thr [...] | 2005-03-16 15:26:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PINS PINR RO NATO |
05BUCHAREST8 | ADOPTIONS [...] On December 30, Consul General paid a final call on Gabriela Coman, outgoing Secretary of State at the National Authority for Child Protection and Adoptions (NACPA). Coman reported her discussions with the European Commission regarding a proposed commission on Romanian-origin international ado [...] | 2005-01-03 15:46:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CVIS PINR RO EU |
05BUCHAREST982 | FORMER ROMANIAN RULING PARTY PREPARES FOR NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) holds its national Congress April 21-22, an event at which ex-Romanian President Ion Iliescu will likely be elected party president while former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase will probably win the number two slot of Executive President. Despit [...] | 2005-04-20 14:21:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON PINR RO |
05CAIRO3729 | MARITIME PORT SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Egyptian officials responded positively to presentations by U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) International Port Security Liaison Officer John Bowers in Cairo and Alexandria March 6 to 8, as he described the USCG plans to monitor foreign compliance with International Maritime Organization [...] | 2005-05-16 12:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PBTS PINR PHSA PTER OTRA EG |
05CAIRO4756 | EGYPTIAN E-JOURNALISM - TWO WEBSITES IN VANGUARD, [...] Summary: Two Egyptian websites - Masrawy.com and ArabAmbassador.org are striving to establish themselves as credible Egyptian Internet news sources. Masrawy styles itself as a reliable source for general news, while Arab Ambassador aims to serve as a "bridge" between the Arab and western w [...] | 2005-06-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR OPRC SCUL KPAO EG |
05CAIRO5054 | QURANIC TEACHINGS, BLACK MAGIC, AND SCHOOL [...] Summary: While Egypt plays host to several religious media outlets, only Holy Quran Radio has any real influence on the Egyptian population and that remains a religious influence. Tightly controlled by the Egyptian government, Holy Quran Radio avoids hard news of any kind, while the three [...] | 2005-07-05 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR SCUL KPAO EG |
05CAIRO6135 | MAURITANIA COUP: ARAB LEAGUE SENDING PERSONAL [...] (C) Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Palestinian Affairs Said Kamal (protect) told poloff August 9 that he had been appointed as the Secretary General's Personal Envoy on Mauritania and that he would visit Nouakchott August 11 to meet with coup leaders and others. Kamal, who reques [...] | 2005-08-09 16:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PINR EG MR |
05CAIRO6271 | LIBYA: EGYPT HELPING HEAL RIFT BETWEEN SAUDIS AND [...] (S) During an August 14 conversation on Gaza disengagement, Presidential Spokesman Soliman Awad volunteered to the Charge that Libyan leader Qadhafi had "rescinded his support" for hostile elements in the Saudi Kingdom, and that the Saudis had forgiven Qadhafi for the assassination attempt on [...] | 2005-08-15 15:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EG SA LY PINR |
05CAIRO6509 | SUDAN: DARFUR REBEL GROUPS AND ZAM ZAM BLOCKADE; [...] (C) Post is unaware of any permanent official representation in Egypt of either the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) or the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). While representatives of these Darfur rebel groups may occasionally transit Cairo and engage locally-based Sudanese oppositio [...] | 2005-08-24 10:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MOPS EG SU SA KBIO |
05CAIRO6582 | ADDITIONAL DETAIL ON GOE GTMO DETAINEE ASSURANCES [...] (S) This message adds additional detail to the GOE response regarding GTMO detainees as outlined in Ref A. Post received this information through established liaison channels and through face-to-face meetings with Egyptian General Intelligence Service (EGIS) Director Soliman. Soliman's thorou [...] | 2005-08-25 15:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PTER PREL PHUM PINR EG GTMO |
05CALCUTTA330 | WEST BENGAL COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER EXPRESSES PRO-CAPITALIST [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6, CG met State Secretary of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and Politburo and Central Committee member Anil Biswas. While focusing on the need for industrialization in West Bengal, Biswas said that foreign direct investment (FDI) is welcome from any co [...] | 2005-09-16 09:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV IN BG NP |
05CALCUTTA418 | ASSAM'S INSURGENT GROUPS QUIET FOR NOW BUT SOCIAL PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: November 5-10, CG made an introductory visit to the State of Assam, the gateway to India's Northeast. Ethnic insurgencies, poverty, drugs and economic stagnation have plagued Assam in recent history. However, some positive trends have emerged in moderating ethnic tensions and [...] | 2005-11-21 12:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EINV EMIN ASEC SNAR IN BG |
05CALCUTTA420 | NDA DECISIVELY WINS IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) Summary: In November 22 voting results, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Janata Dal (United) (JDU) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a landslide victory in Bihar's State Assembly elections, winning more than the 122 seats needed for a governing majority. The [...] | 2005-11-22 15:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC IN |
05CALCUTTA454 | GOI SEES IMMIGRATION FROM BANGLADESH AS NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) Classified By: CG Henry V. Jardine for Reasons 1.4 (B, D) 2. (C) Summary: In recent meetings with Poloff, Indian security services in West Bengal described illegal immigration from Bangladesh as a serious national security threat. The three major areas of concern for the officials [...] | 2005-12-16 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI IN XE PTER |
05CANBERRA1381 | MUSLIM COMMUNITY'S RESPONSE TO LONDON BOMBINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The London terrorist incidents of July 7 and 21 have sparked a debate in Australia about the value and meaning of multiculturalism and about the need for the Muslim community to condemn more forthrightly violent extremist propaganda within its own ranks. Australia's relatively [...] | 2005-08-12 07:25:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC KCRM AS |
05CANBERRA1423 | AUSTRALIA: LONDON BOMBINGS PROMPT CT SUMMITS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The July London bombings have prompted Australia to conduct a national, government-wide counterterrorism review to assess Australia's capacity to respond to a terrorist attack. PM John Howard will meet with state and territory leaders in late September at a national counterterr [...] | 2005-08-22 08:17:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR AS |
05CANBERRA1454 | CANBERRA VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR AUGUST 2005 [...] (U) VISAS VIPER 2. (SBU) The A/DCM chaired Embassy Canberra's August 26 Visas Viper committee meeting. There were no Visas Viper submissions for the month of August 2005. STANTON [...] | 2005-08-29 07:25:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS PINR ASEC CMGT AS PREL |
05CANBERRA1455 | PM HOWARD ENLISTS MUSLIM LEADERS TO COMBAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister John Howard and thirteen Australian Muslim leaders met at an August 23 "summit" to find ways in which the government and Islamic leaders could work together more closely to combat the spread of extremism within Australia's Islamic community (Refs A and B). After t [...] | 2005-08-29 07:54:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR AS |
05CANBERRA1460 | AUSTRALIAN DOD READOUT ON FIJI GUARD UNIT [...] (C) Summary: Australian Department of Defense (ADOD) officials told us on August 29 that they were exasperated by Fiji,s threat to renege on its commitment to provide guard units to the UN in Basra and Erbil, and they planned to advise Defense Minister Hill and the Department of Prime Ministe [...] | 2005-08-30 02:56:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV PINR IZ FJ AS UNSC |
05CANBERRA576 | AUSTRALIA-INDIA BILATERALS: INDIA'S UNSC BID AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) hosted a Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) and a strategic dialogue with India March 7-8. The SOM's principal topics were the promotion of bilateral economic ties and Australian support for India's bid for permanent UNS [...] | 2005-03-24 04:53:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PINR KNNP ETTC ETRD ENRG AS IN UNSC |
05CANBERRA725 | GOA CONSIDERING EXTENSION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE [...] (U) In an April 22 meeting, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Iraq Task Force Director Jeremy Bruer and Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) Iraq Program Manager Katherine Krilov. Krilov indicated that Australia [...] | 2005-04-22 05:39:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KJUS MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SNAR SOCI AU AS HU IZ |
05CARACAS1298 | THE TELESUR SAGA: CHAVISTA CNN, THE MANAGER'S [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez has been vigorously pushing for the creation of TELESUR, a hemisphere-wide, multi-national, Latin American satellite television network, to offer a different point of view from CNN. TELESUR would promote GOV interests, and it would promote Chavez,s ambitions for cont [...] | 2005-04-29 18:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS KPAO OPRC PGOV PINR XM VE |
05CARACAS2381 | VENEZUELAN YOUTH FESTIVAL: IT'S NO WOODSTOCK [...] (U) Over 20,000 international delegates from more than 130 countries are expected to attend the 16th World Youth and Students Festival in Caracas from August 7 to 15. Organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth, the theme is "For Peace and Solidarity We Fight against Imperialism a [...] | 2005-08-05 18:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR VE |
05CARACAS41 | VENEZUELA: NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-06 17:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL VE |
05CARACAS512 | VENEZUELA: BIOS OF SELECTED GOVERNORS [...] (C) Candidates backed by President Hugo Chavez won 20 of 22 gubernatorial races on October 31, 2004, in addition to the Caracas mayoralty. Chavez's Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) and allied parties picked up 7 states and lost only one. The new governors' competence varies; some are career p [...] | 2005-02-15 17:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM VE |
05CARACAS651 | AMBASSADOR VISITS BOLIVAR STATE [...] (U) The Ambassador,s visit to the state of Bolivar on February 16 and 17, included meetings with the Mayor of Ciudad Bolivar, Director General of Ciudad Guyana, a local Chavista university, local press, various business leaders, American citizens in the area, as well as visits to USAID-support [...] | 2005-03-03 14:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PINR VE PIR |
05CASABLANCA1269 | VISAS VIPER FOR NOVEMBER 2005 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on December 9, 2005. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by representatives from CG, CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, and LEGATT, and DAO. 2. (SBU) The Committee submits the following [...] | 2005-12-10 14:25:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
05CHENNAI1582 | MAOIST SCARE FORCES FIVE AP MINISTERS TO QUIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Revealing the muscle of the Maoists in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh (AP),five ministers of the Telangana Rashtra Samithy (TRS) quit the Congress-led state government on July 4. Their decision, ostensibly to press the Congress to expedite the formation of a separate s [...] | 2005-07-07 10:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
05CHENNAI1976 | INDEPENDENCE DAY TERROR: MAOISTS SLAUGHTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Indian Independence Day, Andhra Pradesh Maoists gunned down a senior Congress legislator and eight others at a public function in broad daylight. The biggest Maoist attack since the peace process broke down in January has sent shockwaves among politicians who are getting rea [...] | 2005-08-16 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
05CHENNAI2480 | CONGRESS SLIDES; COMMUNIST PARTY SET TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling Congress-led coalition's slide continues in Kerala and will likely end in its defeat in the 2006 state assembly elections. In a state where anti-incumbent voting is the norm, the Opposition Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist),is directly benefi [...] | 2005-10-24 04:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
05CHENNAI925 | NEPALI MAOIST REMAINS STUCK IN CHENNAI JAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent court decision, the Madras High Court has ruled that a team of human rights lawyers may visit senior Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) leader Chandra Prakash Gajurel who was arrested in August 2003 for presenting a forged British passport at Chennai airport and remains [...] | 2005-05-11 07:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER IN NP |
05CHIANGMAI173 | MAE RIM HMONG LINKED TO LAOS, U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Lost in the bigger news of over 6,000 Hmong seeking refuge in Petchabun province, a much smaller group has settled into a former resort in Mae Rim, north of Chiang Mai. With one exception, Thai media have been silent on these 42 Hmong, reportedly part of a group with connections to [...] | 2005-07-19 09:14:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF TH LA PGOV PHUM PINR |
05CHIANGMAI187 | HMONG U.S.-THAI-LAO LINKS UNDER INCREASED SCRUTINY [...] (sbu) Summary. Thai authorities in Bangkok and Chiang Mai are showing increasing concern over the activities of former American citizen Willis Bird Jr. and a group of Hmong who have settled near Mae Rim, 20 kilometers north of the provincial capital. Despite finding only two illegal Hmong d [...] | 2005-08-11 03:08:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PREF TH LA |
05CHIANGMAI195 | CHINESE VISITORS SHOW INTEREST IN THAILAND-BASED BURMESE EXILE GROUPS [...] (SBU) Summary. Chinese visitors from Yunnan traveled to northern Thailand in May and July to plumb the exile groups and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in the Burmese opposition movement These two trips were the latest is a two-year series of back-and-forth cross-border vis [...] | 2005-08-22 02:58:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PINR TH CH BM PHUM |
05CHIANGMAI215 | JAPANESE CONSULATE GENERAL EXPANDING PRESENCE IN NORTHERN THAILAND [...] Summary. Japanese diplomatic representation in Chiang Mai continues to expand with the addition of a fluent Thai speaker, the first to be stationed in the north in many years. The Consul General has made it clear that Japan is interested in playing a more active role in this region and that he [...] | 2005-10-03 09:57:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PREL PHUM TH JA CH |
05COLOMBO1396 | SRI LANKA: THESE TIGERS DON'T PURR: ANALYSIS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) exercise de facto control over parts of northern and eastern Sri Lanka, and the LTTE claims to have created a separate and fully functional government infrastructure within the areas it controls. These institutions include political [...] | 2005-08-10 07:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PHUM PGOV CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1407 | MALDIVES: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON FOREIGN [...] (C) The July 14 appointment of Chief Government Spokesman Dr. Ahmed Shaheed as Foreign Minister (Reftel) brings to this important post a bright, western-educated technocrat friendly to the U.S. with whom the Embassy has worked closely on such key bilateral issues as democratic reform and tsu [...] | 2005-08-11 11:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV MV |
05COLOMBO1485 | ALL IN THE FAMILY: SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT APPOINTS [...] (C) On August 22 President Chandrika Kumaratunga appointed Anura Bandaranaike, her younger brother and Minister of Tourism, Foreign Minister. The move is viewed largely as a consolation prize for Bandaranaike after he failed to gain his party's--and his sister's--approval as the next preside [...] | 2005-08-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1522 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN [...] (C) Charge' raised reftel situation of Uighur Guantanamo detainees with Foreign Ministry Secretary H.G.M.S. Palihakkara August 31 and asked SIPDIS for Sri Lankan assistance. Palihakkara replied that "we'd like to do it," but that accepting the Uighurs would "create problems with our Chine [...] | 2005-08-31 05:32:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR CE |
05COLOMBO1542 | SRI LANKA: NAME, TITLE AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] (SBU) This message conveys updated contact information for the Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs. FOREIGN MINISTER LAST NAME: Bandaranaike FIRST/MIDDLE NAMES: Anura CONVENTIONAL USAGE: Foreign Minister Anura Bandaranaike FORMAL TITLE: Minister of Foreign Affairs ( [...] | 2005-09-02 05:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL CE |
05COLOMBO1619 | AUSTRALIANS INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE LTTE ATTEMPT TO [...] (S/NF) We have been advised by the Australian High Commission here in Colombo that it has alerted authorities in Canberra to what appears to be an effort by a front company of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to purchase a small cargo ship in Australia. Without sharing full detai [...] | 2005-09-13 10:32:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINR CVIS EWWT CE AS LTTE |
05COLOMBO1843 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RAMAKRISHNA ?RAMKI? UPPULURI, [...] Post grants country clearance to Ramakrishna "Ramki" Uppuluri during the period November 15-19, 2005. Embassy control officer is Craig A. Zimmerman, office telephone number 94-11-244-8007, extension 2401, home telephone number 94-11-258-5337. 2. Reservations have been made at The Colombo P [...] | 2005-10-25 05:53:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | AINF PGOV PINR OTRA TW NP |
05COLOMBO1870 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE OF CERTAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 06:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR MV |
05COLOMBO1981 | SRI LANKA: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Percy Mahendra (aka "Mahinda") Rajapakse was sworn in as Sri Lanka's fifth President on November 18, 2005--his 60th birthday. Like his predecessor and rival Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Rajapakse has the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in his blood, with his father, D.A. Rajapakse [...] | 2005-11-21 11:59:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1982 | HAWKISH RATNASIRI WICKREMANAYAKE APPOINTED PRIME [...] (C) Summary. New Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, a Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) hard-liner and long-time loyalist of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, is a controversial politician unlikely to foster the broad consensus new President Mahinda Rajapakse, with his narrow margi [...] | 2005-11-21 12:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CE |
05COLOMBO1994 | BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (U) On November 23 President Mahinda Rajapakse appointed a 25-member Cabinet that retained many Ministers in the posts they held during former President Chandrika Kumaratunga's administration (septel). Among the few changes made, however, was the appointment of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) [...] | 2005-11-23 10:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL CE |
05COLOMBO1998 | PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSE APPOINTS SLIMMER CABINET [...] (C) Summary. President Mahinda Rajapakse appointed his cabinet on November 23, delayed reportedly because of several days of debate about who should control which portfolios. With 25 ministers, the new cabinet is slimmer than in the previous administration, with one notable deletion being s [...] | 2005-11-23 11:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CE |
05COLOMBO2138 | MALDIVES: IBRAHIM ISMAIL ELECTED PRESIDENT OF [...] (U) The opposition Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) held its first ever party Congress in Male' December 19-21. On December 20, delegates at the Congress used a cascading preferential voting system to elect Member of Parliament (MP) Ibrahim Ismail party president and former SAARC secretary-gen [...] | 2005-12-21 11:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR MV |
05COLOMBO400 | SRI LANKA REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR UNSYG [...] (U) On February 22 the Embassy received a diplomatic note formally requesting U.S. support for the candidature of Jayantha Dhanapala, Secretary General of the Peace Secretariat in Sri Lanka and former UN SIPDIS Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament, for the post of UN Secretary General. [...] | 2005-02-22 11:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR AORC CE UN UNSC UNGA |
05COLOMBO445 | NOTICE OF FINAL DETERMINATION OF COMBATANT STATUS [...] (C) The Embassy on March 1 forwarded to the Maldivian government a diplomatic note, drawing from the relevant portions of reftel, advising that Maldivian Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim Fauzee has been determined to no longer be an enemy combatant and thus approved for release. DCM also called [...] | 2005-03-01 10:37:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL MV |
05COLOMBO566 | SRI LANKA: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW UN [...] (SBU) Prasad Kariyawasam, who has been appointed as Sri Lanka's new Permanent Representative to the UN, has been a valued Embassy contact whose professionalism, good judgment and familiarity with the U.S. have helped advance our bilateral economic agenda on a number of key fronts over the pas [...] | 2005-03-21 09:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL CE UN |
05COLOMBO786 | SRI LANKA: INTERNECINE FIGHTING IN THE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Violence in the East*mainly involving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),Karuna faction cadres, and even the Sri Lankan military*continues to percolate, keeping tensions raw in this troubled region and slowly testing the limits of both the ceasefire agreement (CFA) and [...] | 2005-04-27 03:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR PHUM CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO807 | SRI LANKA: WESTERN PROVINCIAL COUNCIL SHOWDOWN [...] (C) Summary: A growing controversy over the future of the Chief Minister of the Western Province has exacerbated already-strained tensions within the United People,s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and has breathed new life into the long-dormant opposition United National Party (UNP). At the same t [...] | 2005-04-29 01:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PTER CE |
05COLOMBO843 | SRI LANKA: POLITICAL PARTIES RALLY THEIR BASES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: This year's May Day--a traditional forum for parties to hold pep rallies to tout their accomplishments, outline future moves, and lambaste opponents--passed without incident this past weekend. The various rallies in Colombo sponsored by the Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP),the [...] | 2005-05-05 11:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR CE LTTE |
05COPENHAGEN613 | DENMARK STRUGGLES WITH IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION [...] (C) Summary. The integration of Muslims and other ethnic minorities remains one of the most pressing political and social issues in Denmark. The government increasingly has focused attention on this issue, including passing legislation to assist newly arrived immigrants and introducing actio [...] | 2005-04-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM PINR PTER SCUL DA |
05DAMASCUS6394 | NEW MEMBERS OF THE BA'ATH PARTY REGIONAL COMMAND: [...] (C/NF) Summary: The new, downsized, Ba'ath Party Regional Command announced at the conclusion of the June Party Congress includes nine new members and five holdovers. Included below is biographical information on eight of the nine (extensive biographic information on DefMin Hasan Ali Turkman [...] | 2005-12-08 15:36:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV SY |
05DARESSALAAM701 | DUTCH ENVOY RACKE SAYS PALIPEHUTU-FNL REBEL [...] (C) Summary: Dutch Burundi Envoy Fred Racke told Charge that the current talks between the Government of Tanzania and FNL-Palipehutu rebels in Dar es Salaam are proceeding well so far, and the GOT is becoming cautiously optimistic. President Mkapa has insisted that all talks must be within [...] | 2005-04-11 04:53:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KPKO TZ BY NL |
05DHAKA1308 | DHAKA VISAS VIPER REPORT - MARCH 2005 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper committee met on March 22, 2005. The committee discussed the addition of several leaders of two radical Islamic groups into the VISAS VIPER program. 2. (U) The government of Bangladesh has recently banned two radical Islamic groups, the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh [...] | 2005-03-22 10:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KVPR CVIS PTER PINR ASEC |
05DHAKA1399 | ROHINGYAN LINKS TO EXTREMIST GROUPS AND PATTERNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A human rights activist briefed poloff about Rohingyan refugee connections to Islamic extremist groups and Rohingyan patterns of human smuggling. END SUMMARY 2. (SBU) Poloff recently met with Chris Lewa, a Belgian who works for Forum Asia in Bangkok and who has worked on Roh [...] | 2005-03-24 09:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV BG PTER PINR GTIP |
05DHAKA1524 | AMBASSADOR MEETS BANGLADESH'S NEW FOREIGN SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary: New Foreign Secretary Hemayetuddin reiterated familiar BDG themes during the Ambassador's first meeting with him. Ambassador Thomas welcomed recent BDG actions to combat terrorism and encouraged Bangladesh to sign the nine anti-terrorism conventions to which it is not yet a p [...] | 2005-03-31 10:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PGOV BG |
05DHAKA2069 | NEW GOVERNOR FOR BANGLADESH BANK [...] (U) Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed assumed command on May 2 as the new Governor of the Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. Dr. Salehuddin was previously the managing director of the Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF),a non-profit organization known for its work in micro-finance. He wa [...] | 2005-05-02 07:57:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PINR BG |
05DHAKA224 | BIHARI UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: While Bihari spokesmen continue to press for resettlement in Pakistan, many Biharis are integrating themselves into local life and say they want Bangladeshi citizenship. End Summary. ------------- Background ------------- 2.(SBU) The Biharis are an internally displaced gr [...] | 2005-01-18 12:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF BG PINR PHUM PTER |
05DHAKA2474 | DHAKA - MAY 2005 VISAS VIPER MEETING AND STATUS REPORT [...] POST'S VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON MAY 31, 2005 AND HAS NO NEW ENTRIES TO SUBMIT FOR MAY 2005. 2. THE MEETING WAS CHAIRED BY CHARG D'AFFAIRES JUDITH A. CHAMMAS. THE VVP COORDINATOR AT EMBASSY DHAKA IS CONSULAR SECTION CHIEF ELIZABETH GOURLAY. CHAMMAS [...] | 2005-05-31 02:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC PINR CMGT BG |
05DHAKA251 | DHAKA - DEC 2004 VISAS VIPER MEETING AND STATUS REPORT [...] POST'S VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON DECEMBER 15, 2004 AND HAS NO NEW ENTRIES TO SUBMIT FOR DECEMBER 2004. 2. CHAIR FOR THE MEETING WAS DCM JUDY A. CHAMMAS AND COORDINATOR WAS CONSUL ELIZABETH GOURLAY. THOMAS [...] | 2005-01-19 10:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC PINR CMGT BG |
05DHAKA2572 | KIBRI INVESTIGATION PROVIDES SNAPSHOT OF POLITICS [...] (C) Police investigators of the murder of Awami League leader SMS Kibria examined the financial records of the accused mastermind, Abdul Quayyum, a businessman turned local BNP politician, who allegedly planned the murder of sitting parliamentarian Kibria and sought to frame his chief BNP r [...] | 2005-06-05 07:46:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON CVIS KCRM BG |
05DHAKA261 | DHAKA - DEC 2004 VISAS VIPER MEETING AND STATUS REPORT [...] POST'S VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON DECEMBER 15, 2004 AND HAS NO NEW ENTRIES TO SUBMIT FOR DECEMBER 2004. 2. THE MEETING WAS CHAIRED BY DCM JUDITH A. CHAMMAS. THE VVP COORDINATOR AT EMBASSY DHAKA IS CONSULAR SECTION CHIEF ELIZABETH GOURLAY. THOMAS [...] | 2005-01-24 02:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC PINR CMGT BG |
05DHAKA3127 | DHAKA VISA VIPER REPORT - JUNE 2005 [...] (C/NF) Post Visa Viper committee met on June 28, 2005. The committee wishes to nominate one individual for inclusion in the Visas Viper Program, as follows: NAME: Hasanul Haq DPOB: 01-JAN-1976 Affiliation: Haq claims to be an al-Qaeda member, and sent e-mail messages threatening to blo [...] | 2005-07-05 02:41:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CVIS PINR PTER |
05DHAKA3797 | DHAKA - JULY 2005 VISAS VIPER MEETING AND STATUS REPORT [...] (SBU) POST'S VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON JULY 26, 2005 AND HAS NO NEW ENTRIES TO SUBMIT FOR JULY 2005. 2. (SBU) THE MEETING WAS CHAIRED BY CHARG D'AFFAIRES JUDITH A. CHAMMAS. THE VVP COORDINATOR AT EMBASSY DHAKA IS CONSULAR SECTION CHIEF ELIZABETH GOURLAY. CHAMMAS [...] | 2005-08-06 23:24:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC PINR CMGT BG |
05DHAKA607 | DHAKA - JAN 2005 VISAS VIPER MEETING AND STATUS REPORT [...] (SBU) POST'S VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON JANUARY 25, 2005 AND HAS NO NEW ENTRIES TO SUBMIT FOR JANUARY 2005. 2. (SBU) THE MEETING WAS CHAIRED BY DCM JUDITH A. CHAMMAS. THE VVP COORDINATOR AT EMBASSY DHAKA IS CONSULAR SECTION CHIEF ELIZABETH GOURLAY. THOMAS [...] | 2005-02-10 06:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC PINR CMGT BG |
05DHAKA95 | BANGLADESH: SEMI-ANNUAL REQUEST FOR NAMES, TITLES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-06 11:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BG |
05DJIBOUTI1028 | DJIBOUTI WALK-IN 10/13/2005 [...] (S/NF) Summary - On 10/13/2005 RSO and ARSO interviewed a Walk-in claiming to have information relating to terrorism. The Walk-in provided RSO with information regarding a terrorist camp located in Somalia. Details of the interview were discussed with ORA and the Walk-in was turned over to OR [...] | 2005-10-13 13:37:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PINR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI135 | ILLNESS AND EVACUATION OF DJIBOUTI'S MINISTER OF [...] (C) Djibouti's Foreign Minister Ali Abdi Farah suffered a stroke early morning of February 9. He was rushed to France's military hospital in Djibouti, Bouffard, where he was treated until his evacuation the evening of February 11 to Paris. According to French Ambassador Philippe Selz, Farah [...] | 2005-02-13 14:09:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI149 | ISLAM IN DJIBOUTI [...] (SBU) Summary: During recent years, the Islamic world has witnessed changes in religious attitudes and verbal outlook. Fundamental views that oppose all things external to Islamic culture expressed by scholars and preachers have taken hold in some Muslim societies. This fervent opposition of an [...] | 2005-02-15 07:01:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI SCUL PREL PGOV ASEC PINR KISL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI157 | UNION FOR PRESIDENTIAL MAJORITY (UMP) CONVENTION IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Union for Presidential Majority (UMP),the majority coalition, held its Convention February 6 at the Equestrian Club in Djibouti City. The UMP is composed of four political parties: People's Rally for Progress (RPP, ruling party),Front for Unity and Democracy Restoration (FRUD [...] | 2005-02-16 10:20:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR FR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI182 | TACTICAL MANEUVERS FOR UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) In less than sixty days, April 8, Djibouti will hold its third multi-party election since its independence in 1977. As presidential elections approach, a frenzy within the ruling party is increasingly visible in its efforts to seize every chance to win. Two months before election day, the [...] | 2005-02-22 08:50:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL SOCI PHUM PINR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI212 | ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER ON ELECTIONS, MCA, GOOD [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Acting Foreign Minister, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, at her request February 23 to discuss several issues, among them good governance, elections, and Djibouti's quest to become eligible for the Millennium Challenge Account. Youssouf said regarding good governance, D [...] | 2005-03-02 04:31:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM PINR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI326 | STAFFDEL CHAKA GETS STATISTICS ON DJIBOUTI'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 31, HIRC Staff members Malik Chaka and Dr. Pearl Alice Marsh met with Commandant Mohamed Moussa Abar, the Harbor Master and Director of Maritime Security at the Port of Djibouti (see para 9 for bio). Abar explained to the Staffdel how the current port operates, the problem [...] | 2005-04-06 14:01:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL OREP PINR ECON DJ |
05DJIBOUTI379 | POSSIBLE CREATION OF A 10TH POLITICAL PARTY? [...] (C) Pol/Econ received a courtesy call on April 12th from Ahmed Idriss, President of the Movement for Equality and Liberty (MEL),a political party in the process of forming. MEL has apparently tried to form a legal, recognized party in 2002 but was turned down. Idriss stated that he sent a lett [...] | 2005-04-17 11:38:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR DJ PDEM |
05DJIBOUTI391 | DJIBOUTI AT LOGGERHEADS WITH SAUDI ARABIA OVER [...] (C) The 4/19-20 visit of the president of Al-Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Dr. Mohamed Al-Salem, gave Arab League member state Djibouti the opportunity to reiterate to Saudi Arabia its concerns about instruction offered Djibouti's youth under Saudi auspices. Acting Minister of For [...] | 2005-04-20 13:44:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI PINR EAID SA DJ |
05DJIBOUTI498 | GUELLEH'S SECOND TERM: CABINET CHANGES, BUT NOT [...] (U) Summary: With the start of President Ismail Omar Guelleh's second term comes the customary change in cabinet. As required by law, Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita submitted his resignation Thursday, May 19th to President Guelleh. Saturday, May 21st, Guelleh issued a decree re-appoint [...] | 2005-05-23 13:09:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI529 | BIOS AND COMMENTARY ON NEW DJIBOUTIAN CABINET [...] (C) Summary: The following is current bio data on the new Ministerial cabinet, announced May 22nd, as well as on reasons behind the appointment/change/removal. An outline of Guelleh's policy "road map" for his new six-year term will follow septel. End Summary. 2. (C) Prime Minister Dileita [...] | 2005-06-05 13:07:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI541 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: GATHERING SUPPORT FROM MUSLIM [...] (U) Pol/Econ delivered demarche per reftel 2 June to Director of Bilateral Relations, Mohamed Ali Hassan. Hassan replied that it is not Djibouti's tendency to take positions on every crisis in the world. He explained that Djibouti's diplomatic corps was much smaller than that of the U.S. As it [...] | 2005-06-07 07:05:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL CASC PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER DJ |
05DJIBOUTI59 | RUMORED CHANGES IN DJIBOUTI'S TOP MILITARY BRASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sources told the Embassy Political Assistant that significant changes are expected in the country's top military commanders after Djibouti's presidential elections in April 2005. The projected changes include the retirement and replacement of Djibouti,s only two General Officers. [...] | 2005-01-13 14:14:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC MARR PGOV PINR PREL MOPS DJ |
05DJIBOUTI654 | AGOA FORUM: FOREIGN MINISTER ALSO CONFIRMS [...] (C) During Ambassador's 6/11 meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud Ali Youssouf on New Embassy Compound (NEC) issues, she informed the Minister of the Secretary of State's planned participation in the Dakar AGOA Forum July 18-20. She told the Minister that the Secretary's travel to [...] | 2005-07-11 11:42:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD PINR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI915 | DJIBOUTI'S PROTOCOL CHIEF THREATENS SUSPENSION U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 10, Djama Elmi Darar, Chief of Presid Protocol, accompanied by the head of presidential security, expressed Charge d'Affaires his displeasure in not being able to procure immedi of the members of the security staff chosen to accompany President Gu Darar threatened t [...] | 2005-09-14 10:24:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT PINR PREL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI918 | DJIBOUTI'S PROTOCOL CHIEF THREATENS SUSPENSION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 10, Djama Elmi Darar, Chief of Presid Protocol, accompanied by the head of presidential security, expressed and Charge d'Affaires his displeasure in not being able to procure im visa for one of the members of the security staff chosen to accompany Guelleh to UNGA. [...] | 2005-09-15 04:53:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT PINR PREL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI919 | DJIBOUTI'S PROTOCOL CHIEF THREATENS SUSPENSION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 10, Djama Elmi Darar, Chief of Presidential Protocol, accompanied by the head of presidential security, expressed to ConOff and Charge d'Affaires his displeasure in not being able to procure immediately a visa for one of the members of the security staff chosen to [...] | 2005-09-15 05:13:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT PINR PREL DJ |
05DOHA1056 | CONVERSATION WITH ISLAMIC SCHOLAR YOUSEF [...] (C) P/E Chief met with influential Islamic scholar Dr. Yousef al-Qaradawi in May. Qaradawi maintained an attitude of intellectual superiority and aloofness during the meeting. He made a point to reaffirm his well-known positions on suicide bombings against Israel and on interacting with Jews. H [...] | 2005-06-13 14:45:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PTER PINR IZ IS QA |
05DOHA845 | QATAR: UPDATE ON NATIONALITY ISSUE [...] (C) Summary. Over the past several months, post has received numerous reports from Qatari nationals that the government has revoked their nationality (reftel A). According to various sources, the group most affected by these revocations is the Al-Ghufran branch of the Al-Murra tribe. This trib [...] | 2005-05-10 13:51:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR QA |
05DUBAI4706 | FORMER IRANIAN MP: REFORMERS TRYING TO REGROUP [...] (S) Summary: Iranian reform leader and former member of parliament Fatemeh Haghighatjoo (please protect) believes that international pressure on Iran, but not war, will produce positive results on both the nuclear and the human rights fronts. She admits the reform movement is in disarray and t [...] | 2005-09-25 13:47:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET | IR PINR PGOV PHUM PREL KNNP |
05DUBAI4824 | ONE IRAN EXPERT'S VIEW OF PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD [...] (S) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXXX, an Iranian XXXXXXXXXXXX well known in Iran watcher circles, offered to PolEconChief his views on his "childhood friend," President Ahmadinejad. He asserted that Ahmadinejad had no role in the 1979 hostage crisis. He had opposed Ahmadinejad's candidacy due to his lack [...] | 2005-10-03 13:12:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL KNNP IR |
05DUBAI6301 | SABA TV TO AIR FIRST PROGRAM AS EARLY AS 21 DECEMBER [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-19 12:26:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECPS PGOV SCUL IR TC |
05DUBLIN1087 | IRISH IMAM VOWS TO ARREST EXTREMISTS, BUT WILL HE? [...] (C) Summary. Sheikh Hussein Halawa, the most prominent Muslim in Ireland, said in an August 29 interview with the Irish Times that he would personally arrest or report extremists to the Irish authorities. He said that he did not know extremists that were operating in Ireland, but would repudi [...] | 2005-09-02 12:47:00 | Embassy Dublin | SECRET | PTER KTFN ASEC KHLS PINR |
05DUBLIN1196 | ORGANIZED CRIME IN IRELAND (C-CN5-00417) [...] (C) Summary. It is unlikely that there is large scale involvement of non-nationals in organized crime activities in the Republic of Ireland. According to the EU's 2004 Organized Crime Report, Ireland is unique in that its organized criminal elements are comprised almost entirely of Irish na [...] | 2005-09-27 16:11:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PTER |
05DUBLIN1216 | IRISH SHI'A MUSLIMS PLEA FOR U.S. TO STAY IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. On September 26, the Ambassador met with five prominent Iraqi Shi'a members of the Irish Islamic community to initiate dialogue and advance post's Muslim Outreach program. The Imam of the Shi'a community, Dr. Ali Al-Saleh, expressed gratitude to the USG for removing Saddam Huss [...] | 2005-10-03 13:48:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR |
05DUBLIN1255 | IRELAND UNLIKELY TO ACCEPT GITMO UIGHURS [...] (S) In a private meeting October 7, the Ambassador delivered reftel points to Dermot Gallagher, Secretary General of the DFA. Gallagher frankly told the ambassador that Ireland would not accept GITMO Uighurs because of their bad experience with the Church of the Nativity occupier they had ac [...] | 2005-10-12 15:04:00 | Embassy Dublin | SECRET | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR |
05DUBLIN1264 | IRISH/IRAQI SHI'A MUSLIMS WELCOME AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Summary. On October 8, the Ambassador and two emboffs received a warm welcome at an Iftar celebration at the local Shi'a mosque in Dublin. Dr. Ali A. A. Al-Saleh, the Imam of the predominantly Iraqi Mosque, spoke out publicly in strong support of USG policy, stating that U.S. intervention [...] | 2005-10-14 11:12:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR KPAO |
05DUBLIN1307 | TERRORIST FINANCIER APPEALS AN ORDER FREEZING HIS [...] (U) On October 24, the Irish Times (newspaper of record) reported that Bin Muhammad Ayadi Chafiq will make an appeal on October 25 to the European Court of Justice for the release of his bank accounts. According to the report, Ayadi Chafiq, a Bosnian national born in Tunis, is named on a Eur [...] | 2005-10-24 13:54:00 | Embassy Dublin | SECRET | PTER KTFN ASEC KHLS PINR EI |
05DUBLIN1387 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ALEX YATES AND [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Alex Yates and Bernard Rogan to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from December 2 to 6, 2005. Purpose of visit is to assist in implementing the classified web publishing initiative known as Net-Centric Diplomacy (NCD). 2. Embassy control officer [...] | 2005-11-14 09:26:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | AINF PGOV PINR OTRA EI |
05DUBLIN1407 | LETTER FROM FAMILY OF MARGARET HASSAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-17 16:43:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PTER PINR PHUM PGOV PREL CMGT IZ |
05DUBLIN143 | PEACE PROCESS: GOI SHAKEN BY SECOND IRA STATEMENT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Amb Kenny met February 4 with Michael Collins, second Secretary General to PM Ahern, and Ahern's senior advisor on Northern Ireland. The ambassador indicated that the USG is inclined not to invite Northern Ireland political parties to the March 17 White House event. Collins sai [...] | 2005-02-04 16:06:00 | Embassy Dublin | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR EI UK NIPP |
05DUBLIN1439 | SUNNIS AND SHIAS ATTEND INTERFAITH THANKSGIVING [...] (U) Summary. On November 22, the Ambassador hosted the Embassy's second annual interfaith Thanksgiving reception, in large part to promote Post's Muslim outreach program. The event was especially successful in bringing together key Shia and Sunni Muslim leaders, including among the Iraqi com [...] | 2005-11-25 14:49:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR KPAO KIRF EI |
05DUBLIN1453 | IRELAND SHARES USG CONCERNS OVER RUSSIAN DRAFT LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 14:45:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS EI |
05DUBLIN1567 | ADDENDUM TO ORGANIZED CRIME IN IRELAND REPORT [...] (C) Per ref A's request for continued information on organized crime elements in Ireland, Post offers the following updates from police sources who were available for comment after the drafting of ref B: 2. (C) Irish police report Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, and West African involvement i [...] | 2005-12-30 13:13:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PTER EI |
05DUBLIN172 | ISLAM IN IRELAND, C-DI4-01219 [...] (C) Summary. Embassy Dublin salutes the initiative of Washington analysts (reftel) to look at the role of Islamic thinkers across Europe. In November, we launched a new outreach program to Muslims in Ireland, a group that has grown rapidly in recent years. There are two significant mosques [...] | 2005-02-11 10:21:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER SCUL |
05DUBLIN210 | POLICE ARREST SINN FEIN MEMBERS IN MONEY [...] (SBU) Summary. Sinn Fein is facing its biggest political crisis since the beginning of the peace process after two party activists, including a former elected representative, were arrested in a swoop by Irish police on suspects in an apparent money laundering scheme. Seven people were arreste [...] | 2005-02-18 14:01:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR PGOV PINS PREL EI NIPP |
05DUBLIN49 | PEACE PROCESS: GOI DISCOURAGED, BUT COMMITTED TO [...] (C) Summary: On January 13, the Ambassador met with Michael Collins, senior advisor to the prime minister, and separately with members of parliament. Anger and discouragement are rampant following the assertion that the PIRA is likely behind the December 20 robbery of Belfast's Northern Bank [...] | 2005-01-14 17:30:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EI UK PTER NIPP |
05DUBLIN680 | VISA DENIAL OF SINN FEIN MEMBER RITA O'HARE [...] (S) In May, the USG reversed past practice and denied a visa to Rita O'Hare, who serves as Sinn Fein's U.S. representative. As is well-known, Rita O'Hare, like most of the Sinn Fein leadership, was a member of the IRA and she is wanted in the UK for an attempted murder in 1971. The USG has [...] | 2005-06-03 17:22:00 | Embassy Dublin | SECRET | PINR PREL PTER UK EI NIPP |
05DUBLIN934 | IRA STATEMENT EXPECTED AFTERNOON OF JULY 28 [...] (C) Rita O'Hare, Sinn Fein's North America representative, told POL/ECON chief to expect an IRA statement on Thursday, July 28. (The statement is in response to Sinn Fein's call on the IRA last spring to pursue its objectives solely through peaceful and democratic means.) O'Hare believes that [...] | 2005-07-27 15:15:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR EI UK |
05DUBLIN942 | IRISH THANK USG FOR PEACE PROCESS SUPPORT AND [...] (C) Dermot Gallagher, DFA Secretary General, asked to meet with the ambassador July 28 to discuss the IRA statement. Gallagher said that in the view of the GOI, the IRA statement of July 28 showed "a clarity that was not in previous statements" and is "as good as you can get." He hoped the Ir [...] | 2005-07-29 07:26:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR EI UK |
05DUSHANBE1596 | DOES EVERYONE LOVE A PARTY? TAJIKS ABOUT TO FIND OUT [...] (SBU) Three new political parties have recently started the process of registering with Ministry of Justice. Whether they will be successful depends less on their paperwork and more on their support of or threat to existing power structures. 2. (U) Party of the Economic Reform o [...] | 2005-10-03 03:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV TI |
05DUSHANBE1702 | TAJIKISTAN: AMBASSADOR ZARIPOV COUNSELS NO SHARP RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN PROVOCATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-20 09:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS TI |
05DUSHANBE1729 | TAJIKISTAN: SWIMMING AROUND IN AUTHORITARIAN MOLASSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trying to do the U.S. Government's business in Tajikistan has never been easy, in part because of under-staffing and low capacity at many of the ministries. Further, the authoritarian desire to micromanage, as well as the inclination to buck even minor decisions up to a minister [...] | 2005-10-25 08:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM TI |
05DUSHANBE1732 | TAJIKISTAN: FERMENT FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: While the Government of Tajikistan is loathe to license new independent media outlets, ferment is occurring. A new, independent weekly newspaper has appeared, albeit with microscopic ci [...] | 2005-10-26 04:40:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PROP KDEM KPAO TI |
05DUSHANBE1812 | DESPITE RUSSIAN PRESSURE, THE UNITED STATES CAN PROMOTE ITS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Although we now de-emphasize its previous Cold-War primacy in U.S. foreign policy, Russia still requires clear-eyed scrutiny for the havoc it can play with the President's democracy agenda and larger goals for transformational diplomacy in the former Soviet republics. We believe Russia [...] | 2005-11-14 06:21:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR PROP ECON EAID KDEM KPAO RS TI |
05DUSHANBE1814 | TAJIKISTAN: IMAGINED REPORT TO MOSCOW BY THE RUSSIAN [...] (C) The following is an Embassy Dushanbe exercise to imagine a report that Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov might submit to the Kremlin. It draws on Post's observations of the last 18 months, Russian and regional media reports, and other reporting. This cable should be read as a compan [...] | 2005-11-14 08:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM RS TI |
05DUSHANBE1839 | TAJIKISTAN NOT OVERLY PLEASED BY NEW RUSSIA-UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Nazarov did not hide his unease about the November 14 Russia-Uzbekistan Alliance. Tajikistan is concerned that Tashkent will use it's "new best friend" status with Moscow to harm Dushanbe's interests. He judged it would be unth [...] | 2005-11-21 12:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR EU RS UZ TI |
05DUSHANBE1869 | TAJIKISTAN: TWO NEW DEPUTY MINISTERS APPOINTED [...] (U) President Rahmonov unexpectedly appointed two key deputy ministers on November 24 - Saidmumin Sattorovich Yatimov as new First Deputy Foreign Minister and Kosim Abdusalomovich Gaforov as Deputy Minister of Security. 2. (SBU) Major-General Yatimov had been Deputy Minister of Security f [...] | 2005-11-28 06:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TI |
05DUSHANBE1921 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAHMONOV: HIS VIEWS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) The Ambassador met with President Emomali Rahmonov on December 1 for two and a half hours. We report the meeting in three cables. This is two of three. The other two cover Rahmonov's views on (1) the U.S.-Tajikistan bilateral relationship and Tajik politics, and (2) Uzbekistan. 2. (S) SUMMARY [...] | 2005-12-02 10:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MARR RS TI |
05DUSHANBE1947 | TAJIK GOVERNMENT-WESTERN NGO ROUNDTABLE: ATTENDANCE HIGH, [...] (SBU) What looked like a routine meeting was a small breakthrough for Tajikistan's development community. The December 2 roundtable discussion of donors, NGOs and government was the first time all three groups came together on any subject, let alone the sensitive issues of NGO intentions, re [...] | 2005-12-06 09:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM RS TI |
05DUSHANBE1966 | TAJIKISTAN'S VIEWS OF US FORCE POSTURE (C-RE5-00249) [...] (S) Post's DATT and DCM polled their colleagues informally on the questions below. The following answers should be seen as the Tajik government's current mood on these hypothetical questions. When and if negotiations were to start, outside pressures and local politics would influence the rh [...] | 2005-12-08 09:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PINR MARR PREL AJ PL RO TI |
05FRANKFURT2147 | SPD Bucks Trend, Wins Local Races in Hesse [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidates have won a series of off-cycle election victories in formerly Christian Democratic (CDU) governed areas in Hesse -- most recently in Kassel (Hesse's third largest city) -- signaling a competitive battle for communal elections in early 20 [...] | 2005-03-15 13:04:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR GM |
05FRANKFURT2973 | Torch Passing in Conservative Bastion: Baden- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 21, Baden-Wuerttemberg CDU (Christian Democratic) caucus chief Guenther Oettinger will succeed Erwin Teufel as Minister-President. Oettinger, a lawyer and business expert, will likely retain Teufel's cabinet through state elections in March 2006. Observers expect Oe [...] | 2005-04-15 05:58:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR GM |
05FRANKFURT3867 | New Baden-Wuerttemberg State Cabinet [...] (U) SUMMARY: After assuming office (ref A),new Baden- Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrat) reshuffled the long-standing state government and laid out an extensive program to gain re-election in March 2006. On April 29, Oettinger replaced former M- [...] | 2005-05-20 12:13:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR GM |
05FRANKFURT4005 | Frankfurt Worries About Its Economic Future [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent developments including the failure of the Frankfurt-based German Stock Exchange to take over its London counterpart have sparked concerns over the economic future of the Frankfurt/Rhein-Main area in comparison to other European metropoles. With slow growth in the area's [...] | 2005-05-25 14:55:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PINR GM |
05FRANKFURT5998 | DALAI LAMA VISITS GERMANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dalai Lama paid a three-day visit to Frankfurt and Wiesbaden to receive one of Germany's most prestigious awards (the Hesse Peace Prize). Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU/Christian Democrat) drew praise from across the political spectrum for his endorsement of the [...] | 2005-08-05 14:27:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PINR GM CH XD |
05FRANKFURT8181 | Scenesetter/Visit of Baden-Wuerttemberg M-P Oettinger [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 14-15, Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister- President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats) will make his first official visit to Washington. A political moderate, Oettinger leads one of Germany's largest and economically most successful states. Oettinger is favored t [...] | 2005-11-10 16:01:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR GM |
05GABORONE1224 | MFA AND OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT SHUFFLE SENIOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation is in the midst of rotating several of its senior officers into new positions. This movement will bring new incumbents to the offices of the Permanent Secretary, Deputy Permanent Secretary, and Director for Multilate [...] | 2005-08-26 10:34:00 | Embassy Gaborone | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV BC |
05GABORONE54 | CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HOST GOVERNMENT FIGURES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-13 10:07:00 | Embassy Gaborone | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BC |
05GENEVA2767 | DUNANT CENTRE FACILITATING PHILIPPINE-MNLF TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue briefed interested Missions November 2 on its efforts to mediate final implementation of the 1996 peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). The effort grew out of concern th [...] | 2005-11-10 11:38:00 | US Mission Geneva | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINR PREL PTER RP MNLF |
05GEORGETOWN1182 | Country Clearance Granted for Harry Ponting and [...] Post welcomes Harry Ponting and Robert Sutter to Guyana from November 16-20 to assist in implementing the classified web publishing initiative Net-Centric Diplomacy. 2. Control Officer is Timothy Birner, telephone 592-225-4900 ext. 220, IVG 747-0220, fax 592-227-0240. Control officer's em [...] | 2005-11-10 12:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AINF PGOV PINR GY |
05GEORGETOWN1194 | VISAS VIPER: OCTOBER 2005 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] Post's VISAS VIPER Committee met on November 9, 2005, covering the period October 4, 2005 - November 9, 2005. Conoff Wells chaired the meeting. CONS, POL, ECON, RSO, and MLO attended. Non-resident LEGATT was queried separately. 2. No VISAS VIPER telegrams were submitted during this period [...] | 2005-11-14 21:02:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL GY |
05GUATEMALA1403 | GUATEMALA COUNTERDRUG PERFORMANCE: C-CN5-00289 [...] (C) The Berger Government (GOG) is seized with and increasingly alarmed by the growing power of drug traffickers in Guatemala. Guatemala,s political, business, and even NGO and Church leaders recognize drug trafficking and the crime and violence it spawns as a very serious threat to the nation,s [...] | 2005-06-02 22:10:00 | Embassy Guatemala | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR SNAR GT |
05GUATEMALA2653 | CONTRABAND, CUSTOMS REFORM AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY [...] (C) Contraband poses an ongoing threat to Guatemala's economic development, undermining growth in the formal sector and diminishing the government's ability to collect taxes. The potential nexus with organized crime, human and drug smuggling, along with the incentive to corrupt and undermine [...] | 2005-11-22 22:06:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN BEXP ETTC KCOR KCRM KIPR PGOV PM PINR ASEC SNAR GT |
05GUATEMALA376 | GANG VIOLENCE THREATENS GUATEMALAN SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With the implementation of hardline policies against gangs in neighboring Honduras and El Salvador (reftels),Guatemala is searching for ways to combat its own gang problem. The GOG blames the gangs for the continued upswing in homicides, which have increased each year for th [...] | 2005-02-15 12:58:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR SNAR KCRM PGOV PHUM PARM PTER SMIG MASS ASEC EAID KCOR KFRD GT |
05GUAYAQUIL1039 | GUAYAQUIL'S LATEST PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Having all but faded away after years of existence, the Concentration of Popular Forces party (CFP) is making a last-ditch effort to save itself by naming Jaime Damerval as its candidate for the 2006 presidential elections. An outspoken Minister of Government under Lucio Guti [...] | 2005-08-18 17:34:00 | Consulate Guayaquil | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EC |
05GUAYAQUIL1090 | PSC,S LEGACY THWARTING IT'S PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: OPERATING FORCEFULLY FROM THE SHADOWS, ECUADOR,S SOCIAL CHRISTIAN PARTY (PSC) AND ITS ENTRENCHED LEADER, FORMER PRESIDENT LEON FEBRES CORDERO (LFC),HAVE PROVEN THE COAST,S MOST FORMIDABLE PARTY AND INTEREST GROUP. LFC,S DOMINEERING PRESENCE MAY ALSO BE THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE [...] | 2005-09-01 18:16:00 | Consulate Guayaquil | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EC |
05GUAYAQUIL1151 | COASTAL POLITICS DRIFTING IN TIDE OF UNCERTAINTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Politicians - past, present and aspiring - in Guayaquil are searching to make sense of the country's current political situation. In a series of meetings with representatives from the major coastal parties, PolOffs took stock of the view from down south. It may be that this c [...] | 2005-09-28 19:39:00 | Consulate Guayaquil | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EC |
05GUAYAQUIL1225 | EX-PRESIDENT NOBOA FORCIBLY RETURNED TO GUAYAQUIL [...] (U) Tactical police stormed the beachfront home of former President Gustavo Noboa on October 11 and loaded him on to a helicopter under orders from the provincial police chief that he be returned to Guayaquil. Noboa has been under house arrest for more than five months, after he returned to [...] | 2005-10-18 14:09:00 | Consulate Guayaquil | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINR EC |
05HALIFAX16 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO NOVA SCOTIA -- SECURITY AND TRADE [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Cellucci visited Nova Scotia January 13-15, stressing key policy goals of security and trade. He met with U.S. and Canadian military officers and the leadership of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, the Lt-Governor and the Premier of the province. He gave several media in [...] | 2005-01-25 14:09:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD BEXP ASEC MARR PINR CA US |
05HALIFAX30 | ATLANTIC CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES: OFFSHORE ENERGY REVENUE [...] SUMMARY: The recently-concluded agreement on offshore revenues highlighted the differing tactics, strategies and personalities of Nova Scotia's John Hamm and Newfoundland-Labrador's Danny Williams. Although Hamm started the campaign to wrest more offshore revenues from the federal governmen [...] | 2005-02-01 20:56:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV BEXP EPET PINR CA |
05HANOI102 | The Ambassador's January 13 Call on Foreign [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting officially for the first time January 13, the Ambassador and Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien spent 40 minutes discussing the overall bilateral relationship, Vietnam's WTO accession, religious freedom, the Central Highlands and construction of the new Embassy compound. [...] | 2005-01-14 07:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PREF PINR ECON ETRD EINV VM WTO RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN |
05HANOI1065 | VIETNAM: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENING [...] (SBU) Summary. Although WTO accession continues to be the focus at the spring National Assembly (NA) session that opened on May 5, the Government has yet to show the swift actions on the legislative agenda needed to meet its December 2005 accession target. The Government also fails to acknow [...] | 2005-05-09 08:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EFIN ECON ETRD VM HIV AIDS AFLU WTO |
05HANOI1416 | The Ambassador's June 13 Meeting with the Prime [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met June 13 with Prime Minister Phan Van Khai to discuss the latter's upcoming trip to the United States and a number of pending issues, including Vietnam's WTO accession bid. The Prime Minister expressed his commitment to using his visit to construct the framework for fu [...] | 2005-06-14 09:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF PINR MARR OVIP ETRD VM WTO HIV AIDS AFLU HUMANR RELFREE CNARC |
05HANOI1604 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOCUSES ON CORRUPTION, WTO [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Assembly (NA) ended its longest ever session June 15 after passing a record number of bills and considering several others. The primary focus of this session was passage of new and amended laws related to Vietnam's WTO accession efforts. The NA also introduced a [...] | 2005-06-21 09:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ETRD VM WTO DPOL |
05HANOI2154 | The Ambassador's August 18 Meeting with Politburo [...] (SBU) During an August 18 meeting with senior Politburo member Phan Dzien, the Ambassador underlined continued USG support for Vietnam's WTO accession and stressed that, while bilateral progress is important, Vietnam will also need to deal with multilateral issues in Geneva and matters raised [...] | 2005-08-19 10:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF PINR ETRD VM WTO RELFREE SOE |
05HANOI2289 | VIETNAM'S AVIAN INFLUENZA SITUATION - SEPTEMBER 1, [...] (U) This cable is the first in a series of weekly reports requested in reftel A. Avian influenza (AI) issues and developments in Vietnam were previously reported in ref B and C. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vietnamese press reported a fatal case of the H5 strain was discovered August 28 in a distr [...] | 2005-09-01 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2324 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human cases of Avian Influenza (AI) since Mission Vietnam's last reporting. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) is continuing its poultry vaccination program and the Ambassador attended a Donors' Chief of Mission Meeting on September 5 to discuss AI and the GV [...] | 2005-09-08 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2372 | VIETNAM AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPAREDENESS [...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam is reporting on the Government of Vietnam's (GVN) Avian Influenza (AI) Preparedness capabilities and our answers are keyed to reftel questionnaire. -- While preparing for an AI pandemic is a significant concern, it is not currently the GVN's top priority. The GVN is f [...] | 2005-09-12 09:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PINR SOCI VM AFLU |
05HANOI2398 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOH VM ON PEPFAR [...] SUMMARY/COMMENT: The Ambassador met September 9 with Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen to discuss the progress of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Vietnam, the activities leading to the development of the 06 Country Operational Plan (COP),the development of a p [...] | 2005-09-14 10:59:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM HIV AIDS |
05HANOI2413 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR [...] (U) Summary. The United Nations Pandemic Preparedness Mission Team briefed the diplomatic community on its examination of the GVN Avian Influenza (AI) emergency plan on September 9. The team was impressed with the emergency plan (which has yet to be released) as a "first draft", but noted ar [...] | 2005-09-15 10:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2471 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human cases of Avian Influenza (AI) since Mission Vietnam's last reporting on September 15. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the August 28 death reported in the media was caused by H5N1 AI. Mission Vietnam continues to work with the int [...] | 2005-09-22 10:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2511 | EAP DAS Eric John's Meeting with Communist Party [...] (SBU) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Eric John met Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Commission on External Affairs Director for the Western Europe and Americas Department Pham Tien Nhien at the CPV headquarters September 27. The Ambassador, EAP Mainland Southeast Asia Direc [...] | 2005-09-29 06:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KN VM DPRK |
05HANOI2517 | EAP DAS Eric John's Meeting with Deputy Prime [...] (SBU) Summary: During EAP DAS Eric John's September 27 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan, the Deputy Prime Minister urged the United States to conclude at an early date its bilateral WTO negotiations with Vietnam for both economic and political reasons. DPM Khoan also pressed the U [...] | 2005-09-29 10:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINR KIRF PGOV ETRD VM APEC ASEAN WTO RELFREE HUMANR |
05HANOI2519 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human cases of Avian Influenza (AI) since Mission Vietnam's last reporting on September 22. In a meeting with Embassy officers, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) officials noted that post poultry vaccination monitoring was essential to c [...] | 2005-09-29 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI256 | Communist Party Wraps up Plenum [...] (SBU) Summary. The Communist Party of Vietnam's Central Committee met January 17-25 to kick off preparations for the 10th Party Congress, to be held in the second quarter of 2006. Among the major issues reportedly discussed were Party membership for capitalists, the participation of Party m [...] | 2005-02-01 00:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR VM DPOL |
05HANOI2597 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new cases of human or poultry Avian Influenza (AI) reported since Mission Vietnam's last weekly update on September 29. Delays in vaccine and equipment delivery have caused postponement of the third round of poultry vaccination. The Government of Vietnam (G [...] | 2005-10-06 10:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2609 | Ambassador Discusses AI with Vice Minister of [...] Summary: The Ambassador met with Ministry of Health (MOH) Vice Minister Trinh Quan Huan on September 7 to reiterate USG concerns over Vietnam's Avian and Pandemic Influenza (AI) preparedness planning. Huan was recently appointed as the lead official on AI at the Ministry of Health (MOH). Th [...] | 2005-10-07 10:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2655 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new cases of human or poultry Avian Influenza (AI) reported since Mission Vietnam's last weekly update on October 6. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) reported it hopes to extend the poultry vaccination campaign to an additional 38 pro [...] | 2005-10-13 06:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI268 | The Ambassador's January 31 Call on Deputy Prime [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Ambassador met for 75 minutes January 31 with Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung. Describing his satisfaction with the bilateral relationship's progress over the past ten years, DPM Dzung said his Government is willing to have a dialogue with the United Sta [...] | 2005-02-01 09:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PREF PINR ECON ETRD EINV VM ETMIN HUMANR WTO RELFREE HIV AIDS |
05HANOI2709 | APEC OFFICIAL MICHALAK'S WHO MEETING ON AVIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Senior Official for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Michael Michalak met with Dr. Hans Troedsson, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Vietnam, on October 10 to discuss avian influenza (AI) issues, including Vietnam's response plans, current contr [...] | 2005-10-17 08:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2762 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR OCTOBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new cases of human Avian Influenza (AI) reported since Mission Vietnam's last weekly update on October 13 (reftel). The Government of Vietnam (GVN) is showing increasing commitment to deal seriously with AI. The level of direct involvement in dealing with a p [...] | 2005-10-20 09:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2822 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S MEETING WITH THE VIETNAMESE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael Leavitt met with Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Cao Duc Phat on October 14 to discuss avian influenza (AI) issues and ways to improve U.S.-Vietnam cooperation to combat AI more effectivel [...] | 2005-10-25 10:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV VM AFLU |
05HANOI2823 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S MEETINGS WITH HAIPHONG [...] (SBU) Summary: On his second full day in Vietnam, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael Leavitt SIPDIS traveled to the port city of Haiphong to survey the avian influenza (AI) and HIV/AIDS situations there. He met with local Haiphong Provincial Health Department officia [...] | 2005-10-25 10:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM HIV AIDS AFLU |
05HANOI2824 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S MEETING WITH THE VIETNAMESE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael Leavitt met with Vietnamese Minister of Health (MOH) Tran Thi Chung Chien on October 14 at the Ministry to discuss avian influenza (AI) issues and ways to improve U.S.-Vietnam cooperation to combat AI more effectively. [...] | 2005-10-25 10:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU HIV AIDS |
05HANOI2825 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S MEETING WITH THE DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael Leavitt met with the Director of Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE),Dr. Nguyen Tran Hien, on October 14 to highlight NIHE's efforts to combat avian influenza (AI),learn about the Institute' [...] | 2005-10-25 10:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM HIV AIDS AFLU |
05HANOI2826 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S MEETING WITH VIETNAMESE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael Leavitt met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai October 14 to discuss bilateral health cooperation and mutual concerns about avian influenza (AI). The Prime Minister outlined Vietnam's commitment to tackle AI, [...] | 2005-10-25 10:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV VM AFLU HIV AIDS |
05HANOI2858 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR OCTOBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new cases of human Avian Influenza (AI) reported since Mission Vietnam's last weekly update on October 20 (reftel). The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues its poultry vaccination program and the National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) will ho [...] | 2005-10-27 10:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2923 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new cases of human Avian Influenza (AI) reported since Mission Vietnam's last weekly update on October 27 (reftel). Two suspected cases of AI are currently under investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO). The United Nations Development Program (UND [...] | 2005-11-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI2967 | COMMUNIST PARTY SEIZED WITH UPCOMING PLENUM; RUMORS [...] (SBU) Summary: In preparation for next year's Party Congress, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is currently preparing for its 13th and penultimate Plenum, during which key personnel decisions will be thrashed out based on ongoing lower-level party congresses. A number of rumors, sometime [...] | 2005-11-08 04:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR VM DPOL |
05HANOI3009 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There has been one new confirmed AI human fatality in Vietnam since Hanoi's last reporting on November 3. This death on October 29 is Vietnam's 42nd from AI. The first phase of the nationwide poultry vaccination campaign has been completed in 50 of 64 provinces in Vietnam, but [...] | 2005-11-10 10:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3038 | AVIAN INFLUENZA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM - [...] (U) Summary. This cable examines the Government of Vietnam's (GVN) overall strategy toward Avian Influenza (AI) and recent actions taken by GVN to plan for and respond to a potential AI pandemic in Vietnam. The GVN has developed a broad, multi-agency approach following the advice of the Worl [...] | 2005-11-16 09:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3055 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER [...] (U) Summary. While local press reported several possible human AI cases this week, there have been no confirmed cases and no AI deaths since the October 29 death reported in Reftel. The GVN's Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City released information suggesting possible mutation of the H5N1 [...] | 2005-11-18 08:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3124 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary. There were no new confirmed human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since the October 29 death. The total number of AI-affected provinces and cities rose to 17 out of Vietnam's 64 provinces and cities, despite the de-listing of two provinces in the Mekong Delta and Hanoi city. News [...] | 2005-11-25 10:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3190 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths in Vietnam since October 29. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed Vietnam's 66th human AI case on November 25 after a 15-year old boy contracted H5N1. During an informal donors' meeting chaired by the World Bank [...] | 2005-12-02 10:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3240 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since the confirmed October 29 death of a Hanoi man. The total number of active AI-affected provinces and cities decreased to 15 out of Vietnam's 64 provinces and cities, but localized poultry outbreaks have spread. Th [...] | 2005-12-09 07:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3287 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) cases. The number of active AI-affected areas decreased from 166 communes in 17 provinces to 126 communes in 15 provinces over the past two weeks, with no new reported outbreaks in poultry during the past week. The Government [...] | 2005-12-16 06:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3353 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths in Vietnam since October 29. The number of animal AI affected provinces in Vietnam continues to drop from a high of 21 in mid-November to 13 this week. With AI "in check" in recent weeks and consumer confidence rebounding [...] | 2005-12-23 02:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3361 | THE TWENTY-YEAR REVIEW OF VIETNAM'S DOI MOI POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: In remarks prepared for a conference reviewing Vietnam's "Doi Moi" or "renovation" policy after twenty years, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung emphasized the political/social component of the policy and the importance of the Community Party in the process of reform. He al [...] | 2005-12-27 09:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PINR VM DPOL |
05HANOI3383 | VIETNAM'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: Throughout this year, formal meetings and informal exchanges with officials from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV),the State Securities Commission, the World Bank, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (AUSTRAC),and other international agencies in Hanoi have mad [...] | 2005-12-29 10:14:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR VM ECON PREL PINR CTERR FINREF BTA |
05HANOI3384 | VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths in Vietnam since October 29. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued a circular guiding the quarantine, transport and sale of poultry and poultry products. Post's Marine Attache observed four disin [...] | 2005-12-29 10:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI3392 | A DOLLAR HERE, A DOLLAR THERE: THE ECONOMIC COST OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The cost of Avian Influenza (AI) both in human and agriculture terms has been greater in Vietnam than in any other country. AI has killed 42 people in Vietnam and over 50 million poultry have been culled to prevent its spread since December 2003. The World Bank estimates that [...] | 2005-12-30 08:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR EAID ECON EFIN EIND EINV ETRD PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HANOI423 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH HANOI PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE [...] (U) Summary: In a February 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Hanoi City People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Quoc Trieu described the city's many priorities and development plans and noted that the city will celebrate its 1000th anniversary in 2010. The Ambassador described lapses in intellectual [...] | 2005-02-23 09:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EINV KIPR PINR VM AFLU IPROP |
05HANOI622 | The Ambassador's March 10 Meeting with Minister of [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met March 10 with Minister of the Office of the Government Doan Manh Giao, the equivalent of the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff. The Ambassador described the current state of play of Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford's ongoing [...] | 2005-03-11 10:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF PINR MARR OVIP ETRD VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE WTO BTA |
05HANOI909 | The Ambassador's April 18 Meeting with Communist [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met for the first time April 18 with Nguyen Van Son, the Chairman of the Communist Party's External Relations Commission. Chairman Son was optimistic about continued progress in expanding the bilateral relationship, noting that the Party attaches importance to the U.S. ro [...] | 2005-04-20 01:41:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF PINR PREF MARR OVIP ETRD VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN APEC ASEAN WTO |
05HARARE1680 | THE NEW SENATORS: FEW GUIDING LIGHTS [...] (C) By far the majority of the 66 new Senators are ruling party hacks, in office only to accumulate a salary and government-provided luxury cars, a fleet of which, according to a state-controlled newspaper, will cost more than US$4.3 million at the overvalued official rate. Nonetheless, the [...] | 2005-12-13 14:42:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ZI |
05HARARE207 | SPY TRIO GETS JAIL TERMS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-10 11:05:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI ZANU PF |
05HARARE318 | PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT POSITIVE BUT MIXED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The election campaign period for the parliamentary elections scheduled for March 31 is in full swing with the peaceful launches of the ZANU-PF and MDC campaigns. The environment is notably less violent than in past elections, although the opposition continues to experience spo [...] | 2005-02-25 13:32:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI MDC ZANU PF |
05HARARE459 | ZIMBABWE'S LESS VIOLENT ELECTION [...] (C) This is the latest in a series of cables post is doing assessing the legal setting, pre-electoral environment, and conduct of Zimbabwe,s March 31 parliamentary elections. According to everyone involved in the election, violence is much reduced from the 2000 parliamentary and 2002 president [...] | 2005-03-25 09:16:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI |
05HARARE562 | A KINDER, GENTLER ZANU-PF? NOT LIKELY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speculation that an overwhelming ZANU-PF win in the Parliamentary elections, coupled with the recent party purges (ref A),would lead ZANU-PF to moderate its stance toward the opposition so far appears unfounded. Mugabe's public portrayal of the MDC has returned to a more vitriol [...] | 2005-04-11 14:00:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI ZANU PF |
05HARARE83 | TURMOIL AND INTRIGUE CONTINUE IN RUN-UP TO ZANU-PF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Harare's headlines continue to be dominated by tales of intra-ZANU-PF conflicts and a spy scandal in the run-up to the ruling party's parliamentary primaries scheduled for January 15. Plans to reserve a quota of seats for women appears to be the method of choice for dislodging c [...] | 2005-01-14 09:40:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI ZANU PF |
05HARARE831 | MODEST STAY-AWAY RESULTS CHALLENGE BROAD ALLIANCE [...] (C) The NCA,s Lovemore Madukhu, organizer of last week,s stayaway action, called it a limited success. However, Madhuku acknowledged that poor organization and communications had hampered the effort. Other opposition leaders were less charitable. While some alliance members felt slighted in [...] | 2005-06-14 11:03:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI |
05HARARE911 | PROCEDURES FOR ZIMBABWE,S SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (SBU) As the USG prepares to adjust the Zimbabwe sanctions list, Post offers the recommendations below concerning classification of the visa sanction list, notifications of sanctioned individuals, and entry of names into the visa lookout system. Post will send via septel suggested additions/d [...] | 2005-07-05 09:07:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR CVIS ZI |
05HARARE914 | RESTORE ORDER TSUNAMI ROLLS ON [...] (C) Now in its second month, Operation Restore Order is affecting both urban and rural populations throughout the country. In Harare, residents of high-density suburbs, domestics and other staff in low-density suburbs, and tenants in downtown office buildings have been turned out of their bui [...] | 2005-07-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ASEC ZI |
05HARARE951 | ZIMBABWE SANCTIONS - SUGGESTED ADDITIONS AND [...] (SBU) In response to the flawed March parliamentary elections, the EU,s new sanctions list, and the GOZ,s brutal Operation Restore Order, Post suggests the additions and deletions to the visa sanctions list detailed below. ------------------ Names To Be Added ------------------ 2. (SBU) [...] | 2005-07-11 15:16:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ZI |
05HARARE976 | STAFFDEL SIMPKINS ENGAGES ON RESTORE ORDER [...] (C) On a visit to assess and discuss the effects of Operation Restore Order, Majority Staffer Gregory Simpkins and Minority Staffer Pearl-Alice Marsh from the House of Representatives International Relations Committee (HIRC) traveled to Harare and Bulawayo, July 2-6. The staffdel saw first ha [...] | 2005-07-15 07:34:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON EFIN SOCI ZI VIP |
05HARARE980 | GOZ ANNOUNCES SUSPENSION OF DEMOLITIONS [...] (SBU) On July 15, Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo announced that the GOZ would halt Operation Restore Order, the GOZ's nationwide campaign to demolish "unauthorized structures" (reftel),for ten days in order to allow low-density suburb residents time to legalize any structures that do not co [...] | 2005-07-18 13:56:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC ZI |
05HARARE991 | OPERATION RESTORE ORDER IN BULAWAYO [...] (SBU) Operation Restore Order has had a profound effect on Bulawayo, Zimbabwe,s second largest city, much as it has in other cities around the country. During a visit to Bulawayo with Staffdel Simpkins on July 3-4, embassy staff viewed scenes of devastation and relief efforts at sites for dis [...] | 2005-07-20 14:04:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ASEC ECON ZI |
05HARARE995 | ZIMBABWE FINANCIAL SANCTIONS - SUGGESTED ADDITIONS [...] (SBU) In response to the flawed March parliamentary elections, the EU,s new sanctions list, and the GOZ,s brutal Operation Restore Order, Post suggests the additions and deletions to the financial sanctions list detailed below. Post relayed suggested additions and deletions to the visa sancti [...] | 2005-07-20 15:30:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN PINR PHUM PGOV ZI |
05HELSINKI1139 | EVERY FINN'S PRESIDENT: WHY TARJA HALONEN REMAINS [...] (SBU) Social Democratic President Tarja Halonen remains enormously popular in Finland, and polls consistently predict that she will easily win a second term in January's election. Halonen's left-wing base remains rock solid and her appeal across party lines is the object of great envy. Finlan [...] | 2005-10-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ELAB PINR FI |
05HELSINKI1310 | FINLAND'S "NATO CANDIDATE" STRESSES TRANS-ATLANTIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish People's Party candidate and MEP Henrick Lax briefed us on the presidential campaign and the political challenges facing the US and Europe. He expressed grave concern about developments in Russia and argued that Finland must assume far greater leadership in helping formu [...] | 2005-12-23 10:45:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR SENV PINR FI |
05HELSINKI3 | EMBASSY HELSINKI'S RESPONSE TO SEMI-ANNUAL REQUEST [...] Per reftel, Post submits the following updated contact information on leading Finnish government figures. 2. COUNTRY: Republic of Finland DATE: December 29, 2004 HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: Last Name: Vanhanen First Name/Middle Name: Matti Taneli Conventional Usage: Mr. Prime Mini [...] | 2005-01-03 06:45:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL AMGT FI |
05HELSINKI873 | PUTIN VISITS FINLAND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Earle I. Mack met privately with Jarmo Viinanen, Chief of Staff to Finland's President Tarja Halonen, on August 3. Viinanen briefed the Ambassador about Russian President Putin's 2 day visit to Finland for meetings with Halonen. Viinanen said that both sides emphas [...] | 2005-08-04 05:11:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM RS EN FI |
05HELSINKI947 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: FINLAND DISINCLINED TO RESETTLE [...] (C) DCM delivered subject demarche to MFA Undersecretary for Political Affairs Markus Lyra. Lyra said that the GOF would be disinclined to consider resettlement of any of the Uighurs from Guantanamo to Finland. Finland grants third-country resettlement only to cases referred through the UN H [...] | 2005-09-02 11:02:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREF PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PINR FI |
05HOCHIMINHCITY1091 | CENTRAL VIETNAM'S TALE OF TWO PROVINCES: POLITICS, [...] (SBU): The Consul General led a team to Danang and Quang Nam provinces October 4-7 to broaden U.S. engagement in central Vietnam and to promote U.S. economic, human rights and religious freedom interests. The style and substance of our interaction with the province's two Party Secretaries and [...] | 2005-10-20 10:54:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV PREL SOCI ETRD PHUM PINR VM DPOL HUMANR RELFREE |
05HOCHIMINHCITY1151 | COMMUNIST PARTY REFORMERS PUSH FOR CHANGE [...] (SBU): Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, senior statesman of the Party in southern Vietnam, has reportedly emerged in recent months as the de facto spokesman of the Party's reformist wing. According to a Party insider close to Kiet, his critique of the draft political report of the 10th party [...] | 2005-11-03 10:27:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON EINV PREL SOCI VM DPOL |
05HOCHIMINHCITY1155 | MEDIA, DISSIDENTS AND THE PARTY: DILEMAS AND POLITICAL [...] (U) This is a joint Hanoi-HCMC cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vastly differing media treatment of dissident Hoang Minh Chinh in Hanoi and HCMC newspapers underscores the differences between conservatives and reformers within the Party in advance of the 10th Party Congress. Soon after Chinh made [...] | 2005-11-04 11:20:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL PINR VM HUMANR DPOL |
05HOCHIMINHCITY1200 | POULTRY ALMOST UNAVAILABLE IN HCMC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ho Chi Minh City authorities are tightening restrictions on the sale of poultry within city limits as part of its avian influenza prevention plan. Several large supermarkets in HCMC have halted sales of domestic poultry, though they still plan to sell eggs. Combined with the GVN [...] | 2005-11-10 10:40:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EAID PGOV TBIO SOCI PINR CASC AMED VM AMGMT AFLU |
05HOCHIMINHCITY1269 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - A LOOK AT FOUR PROVINCES IN VIETNAM'S [...] (SBU) Summary. USAID Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor and EconOff visited Can Tho, Hau Giang, An Giang and Dong Thap provinces of the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam to assess provincial Avian Influenza (AI) preparedness activities. While outbreaks of AI in poultry and humans in th [...] | 2005-12-07 13:10:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU |
05HOCHIMINHCITY1296 | NEW CAN THO PARTY SECRETARY - A RISING STAR? [...] (U) The Consul General met with the newly appointed Party Secretary of Can Tho Province, Nguyen Tan Quyen, on December 6. SIPDIS Can Tho, the unofficial capital of the Mekong Delta region, is one of four independently administered cities in Vietnam. Although Can Tho's 2004 growth rate of 14. [...] | 2005-12-16 10:06:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON PINR VM |
05HOCHIMINHCITY210 | VISIT TO A REMOTE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS VILLAGE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On March 1, CG and PolOff made a stop at a small village in a remote area of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. The hour-long discussion with local residents highlighted the economic disparities between the indigenous Montagnards and ethnic Vietnamese migra [...] | 2005-03-03 10:45:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SCUL SENV PINR PREF KIRF PHUM VM ETMIN |
05HOCHIMINHCITY383 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH HCMC DEPUTY PARTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) The Ambassador, accompanied the CG, PolOff and notetaker, met HCMC Deputy Party Secretary Le Hoang Quan at HCMC's Communist Party Headquarters on March 30. The Ambassador, noting the ongoing port call of the USS Gary to HCMC, said that he believed that the U.S.-Vietnam relationship had i [...] | 2005-04-12 08:14:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI KIRF PHUM VM HUMANR HIV AIDS RELFREE |
05HOCHIMINHCITY422 | (SBU) GVN ADVISOR THANH ON PARTY REFORM, CHINA, CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Special Advisor to the Prime Minister in the South Vo Viet Thanh described for the Consul General on April 18 his frustrations with the pace and tenor of reform in Vietnam and outlined ideas for change, particularly within Vietnam's Communist Party (CPV). Thanh said [...] | 2005-04-20 12:03:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR VM CH HUMANR ETMIN CVR RELFREE |
05HOCHIMINHCITY451 | HCMC CELEBRATES THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE [...] (U) Ho Chi Minh City threw an elaborate celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war and the reunification of the country. The cornerstone of the April 30th event was a three- hour parade followed by speeches from Communist Party national and city leaders. In the reviewing s [...] | 2005-05-04 13:53:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI VM |
05HOCHIMINHCITY516 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO HCMC: CHALLENGES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During his visit to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on May 6, the Deputy Secretary focused on the economic challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for HCMC, Vietnam's economic and financial locomotive. The U.S.-educated Vice-Chairman of HCMC's People's Committee told the Deputy Sec [...] | 2005-05-18 13:37:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI EAID PINR OVIP VM WTO SOE LABOR IPROP |
05HOCHIMINHCITY924 | MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY IN HCMC SEEKS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff (accompanied by RSO) was invited to a first-ever meeting at HCMC's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) headquarters at which officials made a pitch for greater cooperation between the MPS and ConGen on political issues. The clear implication was that this cooperation was p [...] | 2005-09-01 08:41:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PINR PREL SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR CTERR |
05HONGKONG4611 | HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE DONALD TSANG LOOKS AHEAD [...] (C) At lunch with me on October 3, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang looked ahead to the Government's Policy Address on October 12, its upcoming proposals for political reform, and his visit to the U.S. at the end of October. With the policy and political reform issues out in the open, he hop [...] | 2005-10-03 09:06:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH HK |
05ISTANBUL1960 | ARMENIAN ARCHBISHOP ON KATHOLIKOS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: New York-based Archbishop Khajag Barsamian of the Armenian Church of America told CG November 9 Armenian Katholikos Karekin II of Echmiadzin is considering a visit to Turkey next year, adding that he had received positive reactions from both Turkish diplomats in New York and Ar [...] | 2005-11-16 12:45:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR AM |
05JAKARTA15147 | FORMER PRESIDENT MEGAWATI CRITICIZES YUDHOYONO'S [...] (C) In a November 18 meeting with the Ambassador, former President Megawati Soekarnoputri played the part of opposition leader to the hilt, expressing dismay with the performance of the current administration and President Yudhoyono's reliance on Islamist political parties. Megawati downplaye [...] | 2005-11-22 10:13:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID |
05JEDDAH1903 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: YOUTH, BLACK [...] (SBU) From the Grand Mosque in Mecca on June 10, Sheikh Salah bin Mohammed al-Budayr delivered a sermon focusing on summer activities for youth. The imam stated that leisure activities should be used to strengthen the well-being of one's society and nation. He underscored the importance of [...] | 2005-06-15 16:45:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL SOCI PINR |
05KABUL4948 | INTIMIDATION FORCES VILLAGERS TO INCREASINGLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local NGOs in Kandahar report increased intimidation by anti-coalition forces. This, compounded by continuing corruption, creates an extremely difficult environment for aid organizations. Villagers are asking NGOs not to return. Corrupt officials are impeding their work in other [...] | 2005-12-07 10:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL4953 | KANDAHAR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL NOT REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Governor of Kandahar and local NGOs told the Ambassador that the newly elected Provincial Council is not representative of the province's population and is being circumvented by use of the shura system. They believe the shuras currently are a better means to identify and add [...] | 2005-12-07 10:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL4988 | PRT/GHAZNI: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL BEGINS WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of Ghazni's recently seated Provincial Council met cordially on December 3, their second official meeting since a contentious election for Council officers and Meshrano Jirga members. Council members agreed that the main purpose of the Council is to keep the Provincial Ad [...] | 2005-12-09 06:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5010 | KARZAI'S MESHRANO JIRGA APPOINTMENTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Karzai released his official list of 34 appointments to the Meshrano Jirga (MJ, Upper House of Parliament) on December 10. The list fulfills Afghan Electoral Law requirements that he include 17 women, two Kuchi representatives, and two representatives of the martyrs and [...] | 2005-12-11 12:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5027 | AFGHAN PARLIAMENT - ONE WEEK UNTIL INAUGURATION DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the final week before Afghanistan's first Parliamentary Inauguration in 30 years, discussions among MPs are intently focused on who will take the "plum jobs" in the new National Assembly. Despite skepticism among some partisan politicians in Kabul, both the Ambassador and USG [...] | 2005-12-13 05:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5038 | HELMAND GOVERNOR SENT TO PARLIAMENT; REPLACED BY [...] (U) President Karzai has named Engineer Mohammad Daoud, currently holding a senior position at the National Security Council, as the new Governor of Helmand Province. Per reftel, outgoing Governor Mullah Shir Mohammad Akhund is leaving Helmand to take a seat in the Meshrano Jirga (MJ, Upper H [...] | 2005-12-14 08:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5042 | EMERGING AFGHAN INTERAGENCY PROCESS TO MANAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. USDOJ and CFC-A representatives briefed a delegation of Afghan officials on the fundamentals of an interagency process. The GOA officials are to become the working group that will decide the form of the process Afghanistan will use to receive detainees transferred by the USG. [...] | 2005-12-14 08:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC AF |
05KABUL5071 | PRT/GHOR - PICNIC POLITICS [...] (U) SUMMARY: PolOffs and Chaghcharan AIDOff spent the afternoon of December 8 with Ghor Governor Afzali, former Ghor Governor and current MP Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Malekzada, and several of Afzali's wealthy family members chatting about local politics in classic Afghan style - over a lavish meal [...] | 2005-12-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5180 | PRT: BADGHIS: AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN PROVINCE [...] Summary: In one of the poorest countries in the world, Badghis is one of (out of 34) the poorest provinces in Afghanistan. There is no paved road network, no electricity except for a few small generators, and no radio reception outside the capital of Qal I Now. Apart from its presence in Q [...] | 2005-12-20 12:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PINR EAID SNAR AF |
05KABUL5274 | PRT JALALABAD: NEW NANGARHAR CHIEF OF POLICE APPOINTED [...] (SBU) Summary. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai welcomed newly appointe Nangarhar Police Chief Basir Salangi at a special ceremony on Decembe 27 attended by district chiefs of police, the Nangarhar chief justice and other key judicial sector personnel. Sherzai, who has been activ campaigning to kee [...] | 2005-12-29 07:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR AF |
05KABUL5297 | CORRECTED COPY: PRT JALALABAD: NEW NANGARHAR [...] (SBU) Summary. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai welcomed newly appointed Nangarhar Police Chief Basir Salangi at a special ceremony on December 27 attended by district chiefs of police, the Nangarhar chief justice, and other key judicial sector personnel. Sherzai, who has been actively campaigning [...] | 2005-12-31 06:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR AF |
05KATHMANDU2399 | NEPALI CONGRESS NOT FORMING ALLIANCE WITH MAOISTS [...] (C) Nepali Congress (NC) President GP Koirala, reacting to the Embassy's recent statement warning against a Maoist-Parties alliance, insisted to the Ambassador on November 7 that his party would "not join hands with the Maoists while they still had guns." Koirala, who expressed concern about [...] | 2005-11-07 11:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR NP |
05KINGSTON1361 | WHA/CAR DIRECTOR MEETS WITH LEADING PM CANDIDATE, [...] (C) On May 11, visiting WHA/CAR Director Brian Nichols met with Undersecretary for Bilateral Affairs and non-resident Ambassador to Haiti Peter Black to discuss OASGA issues, the situation in Haiti, and the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI),about which Black registered concern. Nich [...] | 2005-05-27 20:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | SECRET | PREL PGOV KCRM PINR JM |
05KINGSTON1888 | PNP INSIDER COMMENTS ON RACE TO SUCCEED PRIME [...] (U) Summary: On July 28, Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff met with Balfour Denniston, local businessman and member of the People's National Party's (PNP) National Executive Committee (NEC),the ruling party's highest decision-making body outside of its annual conference. Denniston shared his perspec [...] | 2005-08-06 04:31:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR JM |
05KINGSTON2257 | CARIBBEAN ISSUES CONFERENCE [...] (C) With regard to proposed panelists from Jamaica contained Ref A, neither Pol/Econ nor OPA was familiar with Freckleton, Figueroa, Osei, or Niaah. Alternatively, per Ref B, we suggested that consideration be given to inviting Dr. Anthony Harriot (a prominent criminologist and head of the U [...] | 2005-09-28 20:05:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA PINR JM |
05KINGSTON2642 | AMBASSADOR'S NOV. 29 COURTESY CALL ON PORTIA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid an initial courtesy call on Portia Simpson Miller, Minister of Local Government, Community and Sport, on November 29. Simpson Miller, considered the most popular politician of either party in Jamaica, outlined the responsibilities falling under her portfolio [...] | 2005-12-02 20:35:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR JM |
05KINSHASA1649 | VP RUBERWA MUSES ON ELECTIONS, CONGO'S FUTURE [...] (C) During an October 2 dinner, VP Ruberwa shared his insights on his evaluation of his own character and electoral chances/options, as well as his opinion of the other two likely presidential candidates, VP Jean-Pierre Bemba and President Joseph Kabila. A Tutsi Triumphant ---------------- [...] | 2005-10-04 10:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CG |
05KINSHASA1907 | NEW SOUTH KIVU GOVERNOR PRESENTS PLANS FOR THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 17 meeting, newly appointed Governor of South Kivu Deogratias Buhamba-Hamba outlined his top five priorities for the province. These are: 1) improved intercommunity relations, 2) rebuilding and development, 3) ending recruitment by local militias, 4) region [...] | 2005-11-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CG |
05KINSHASA1923 | INTER-PPRD RIVALRY BRINGS NEW GOVERNOR TO KINSHASA [...] (C) Kimbembi Mazingi, a little-known politician not involved in government since the late 1990s under former president Laurent Kabila, was appointed Governor of Kinshasa November 15. He replaced Jean Kimbunda, a close ally of PPRD Secretary General Vital Kamarhe. (Note: The PPRD is the S [...] | 2005-11-21 09:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CG |
05KINSHASA1926 | CABINET SHUFFLE ANNOUNCED [...] (U) Summary: A long-expected cabinet shuffle was announced November 18. New ministers include Finance, Economy, Industry, Energy, Agriculture, Primary Education, Culture and Arts, Higher Education, and Youth and Sports. A new governor of Province Orientale has also been appointed. End summ [...] | 2005-11-21 11:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CG |
05KINSHASA1993 | NEW DRC MINISTER OF ECONOMY, PIERRE MALOKA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PINR PGOV CG |
05KINSHASA354 | Updated List of GDRC Leaders [...] SUMMARY. On February 17, DRC President Joseph Kabila completed a cabinet reshuffle that began January 3. An updated list of all GDRC vice presidents, ministers and vice ministers follows. END SUMMARY. Vice Presidents --------------- - Mr. Jean-Pierre BEMBA (MLC) - Mr. Abdoulaye YERODIA N [...] | 2005-03-02 09:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR CG |
05KINSHASA870 | RUMORS OF ARREST OF AIR FORCE COMMANDER UNTRUE [...] (C) Rumors of Air Force Commander General John Numbi's arrest, which turned out to be unsubstantiated, circulated widely in Kinshasa and throughout the country on May 24. Polcouns met with Numbi, who was not under house arrest as rumored, at his home the afternoon of May 24. Numbi told polcoun [...] | 2005-05-26 15:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CG |
05KINSHASA962 | RUBERWA STILL IN OFFICE, AND LOOKING TOWARD [...] (C) In a wide-ranging private discussion at his residence June 11, Vice President Azarias Ruberwa told the Ambassador that recent RCD-Goma party meetings had proven difficult for him. The sessions had been called because of internal RCD-Goma rules that office-holders should have a tenure of no [...] | 2005-06-13 15:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CG |
05KUWAIT1075 | UPDATE ON FORMER GTMO DETAINEE NASSER AL-MUTAIRI [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-15 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR PREL PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT1076 | EXTREME ISLAMIST JABER AL-JALAHMA SHARES WORLDVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: Extreme Sunni Islamist Jaber Al-Jalahma, a frequent subject of questioning by state security officials for his links to militants and for preaching violent jihad, granted an unusual and exclusive interview to the Daily Star, which ran in the March 12 edition of the Kuwaiti English [...] | 2005-03-15 13:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PGOV KISL KMDR PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT1078 | INTERAGENCY BRIEFING TEAM ON GUANTANAMO ISSUES [...] (C) Embassy Kuwait would welcome the visit of a senior-level interagency team provided that team is empowered to answer direct questions on the 11 Kuwaitis currently detained at Guantanamo. The Kuwaitis have an active legal team in Washington and are familiar with U.S. policies. They would [...] | 2005-03-15 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL PGOV PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT1308 | ISLAMIC EXTREMIST HAMAD AL-ALI: GOK CONFUSION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Extremist Salafi preacher Hamad Al-Ali continues to preach violent jihad in Kuwait despite GOK attempts to promote tolerance in the society. Al-Ali was recently detained by Kuwait State Security (KSS) for alleged links to two of the January shoot-outs between law enforcement of [...] | 2005-03-30 14:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV KISL KMDR PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT1336 | JORDANIAN-KUWAITI RELATIONS: FROM "TERRIBLE TO [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's outgoing Ambassador to Kuwait told the Ambassador March 30 that Jordanian-Kuwaiti relations have progressed from "terrible to great" during his seven-year tenure. Some low level resentment due to the 1990 Iraqi invasion, however, lingers among some Jordanian parliamentari [...] | 2005-04-03 12:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PINR KU JO |
05KUWAIT1349 | NEW INFORMATION MINISTER HAILED BY LIBERALS, [...] (C) Summary: Moving to fill cabinet vacancies in the run-up to an expected Parliamentary vote on women's rights, the GOK announced March 31 it had chosen Dr. Anas Mohammed Al-Rasheed, sworn in on April 4, as its new Information Minister. A professor and former editorial adviser to local Arabi [...] | 2005-04-04 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1373 | KUWAIT FINANCIAL UPDATE: NEW FINANCE MINISTER, NEW [...] (U) Summary: On April 4, the GOK officially appointed Kuwait Fund Director General Bader Al-Humaidhi as the new Minister of Finance, replacing Mahmoud Al-Nouri who had resigned for health reasons. On April 3, the Kuwait Stock Exchange broke the 8,000 point barrier for the first time in its [...] | 2005-04-05 13:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1493 | NEW MINISTER OF INFORMATION HOPES TO DISSOLVE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In an introductory meeting with Ambassador, new Minister of Information Dr. Anas Al-Rasheed said that he would consider himself a successful minister if he were able to dissolve the ministry. He said that he is committed to freedom of the press and would work with the [...] | 2005-04-13 09:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO ETRD PREL KIPR PINR KU IPR |
05KUWAIT1519 | SILENCED WRITER RETURNS AFTER NEWSPAPER COLUMN [...] SUMMARY: Liberal columnist Ahmed Al-Baghdadi, who forswore writing after being sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term for defaming Islam, has returned to work, saying that he must write to defend himself. His return follows an April 12 newspaper "column strike" in support of freedom of ex [...] | 2005-04-16 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL KISL PINR PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT1631 | NEW FINANCE MINISTER EMBRACES PORTFOLIO, PROMISES [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met with newly appointed Minister of Finance Bader Al-Humaidhi on April 20 and raised a number of issues of concern, including: cracking down on terror financing and tightening up Kuwait's money-laundering laws; IPR enforcement; Iraqi debt; and a tax case involving a U. [...] | 2005-04-20 10:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1732 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: COLUMNISTS CALL FOR [...] Summary and comment: In the wake of an April 24 rampage by hundreds of Bangladeshi laborers who ransacked their Embassy to protest chronic nonpayment of wages (septel),both Liberal and Islamist columnists have called such nonpayment a national disgrace and urged their countrymen to do better [...] | 2005-04-27 15:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL KISL PHUM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1756 | KUWAIT STOCK EXCHANGE: AN INSIDE VIEW [...] (U) Summary: Econ Officer met on April 27 with Kuwait Stock Exchange Manager of the Technical Bureau Department Ms. Wafa Mohamed Al-Rasheed for an overview and tour of the Exchange. Al-Rasheed described the modernization and upgrading of the Exchange, including the installation of a new ele [...] | 2005-05-01 04:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN BEXP PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1834 | KUWAITI SHIITE POLITICAL BLOCS BUOYED BY WAVE OF [...] (C) Summary: The often mistrusted Shi'a population has slowly increased the intensity of its calls for reform since the liberation of Iraq, winning some concessions from the GOK, but losing ground in the face of active Salafi opposition. Although most Kuwaiti Shiites claim to identify themse [...] | 2005-05-03 12:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL PINR KISL KU SOLI |
05KUWAIT1878 | GULF INVESTMENT CORP: A GCC INVESTMENT POWERHOUSE [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met May 3 with executives of the Gulf Investment Corporation and heard how this GCC-funded institution is changing its focus from simply encouraging private enterprise in the Gulf to providing financial research, investment advice and consulting throughout the region. [...] | 2005-05-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1879 | KUWAIT INVESTMENT AUTHORITY: DOING FINE BUT [...] (C) Summary: During a May 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Kuwait Investment Authority Managing Director Bader Al-Sa'ad said that KIA's assets had grown "substantially" over the previous year, but noted that recently KIA's U.S. investments had been a "drag on overall performance." He also said [...] | 2005-05-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1883 | KUWAIT FUND: SPREADING GOODWILL WITH THE OIL MONEY [...] (C) Summary/Comment: During a May 4 meeting with newly appointed Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Abdulwahab Al-Bader and Deputy DG for Operations and Disbursement Hisham Al-Waqayan, the Ambassador thanked the Kuwait Fund for its work in places of need around [...] | 2005-05-08 05:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT214 | GRILLING OF JUSTICE MINISTER UNEVENTFUL; PERSONAL [...] Summary: In what is being described as the most bland grilling yet, Justice Minister and MP Ahmed Baqer, the only Salafi in the cabinet, was grilled by liberal MP Jamal Al-Omar on January 10 for nine hours. Al-Omar is known to have a personal feud with the Justice Minister and this is likely [...] | 2005-01-12 13:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KISL KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT2171 | AMBASSADOR MEETS CANDIDATE FOR FIRST WOMAN CABINET [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-22 14:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT2174 | LAWYER FOR ACCUSED TERRORIST MAKES HIS CASE [...] (C) Summary: PolOffs met with prominent defense attorney Osama Al-Munawer on May 15, 2005, at the law offices of his father, Ahmed H. Al-Munawer, to discuss the status of pending criminal cases against many of his clients. Al-Munawer is the defense attorney for most of the Kuwaiti nationals [...] | 2005-05-22 14:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM PINR KJUS KISL KU TERRORISM ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT2508 | (C) KUWAITI AMBASSADOR TO TEHRAN: IRAN FEARS [...] (C) Summary: During a June 4 meeting with Poloff and PolMiloff, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Iran Majdi Al-Thufiri shared his thoughts on the June 12 election, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei's ability to control Iran's security forces, the U.S.-Iranian relationship and Iran's concerns o [...] | 2005-06-07 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PARM KU IR KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2509 | AMBASSADOR CONGRATULATES NEW MUNICIPAL COUNCIL [...] (U) Summary: Ten Kuwaiti men were elected in June 2 elections to the 2005-2009 Municipal Council and the GOK appointed on June 3 two women and four men to the Council completing the formation of the 16-member local governing body. The Ambassador paid courtesy calls on several newly-elected Cou [...] | 2005-06-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN EIND KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2606 | KUWAIT APPOINTS FIRST FEMALE MINISTER; CABINET [...] (C) Press reports that Kuwait has appointed Kuwait University Political Science professor and women's rights activist Dr. Massouma Al-Mubarak as Minister of Planning and Minister of State for Administrative and Development Affairs have been confirmed by Dr. Massouma and sources inside the Prim [...] | 2005-06-12 13:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT2674 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FIRST WOMEN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Earlier this month, the GOK appointed six members to the 16-person Municipal Council, including, for the first time, two women: engineers Shaykha Fatima bint Nasser Al-Sabah and Fawziya Al-Bahar. The appointments represented a historic first step for women's political [...] | 2005-06-15 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN EIND KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2712 | A SHAYKHA ON THE MOVE IN KUWAIT'S EDUCATION AND [...] (C) President of the American University of Kuwait (AUK) Dr. Shafiq Al-Ghabra recently invited the Ambassador to meet the chair of the university's board of trustees Shaykha Dana Nasser Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, granddaughter of the Prime Minister. Accompanying her at the June 13 meeting were Dr. A [...] | 2005-06-19 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR KU |
05KUWAIT2893 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: KUWAITI OPINION ON IRANIAN [...] Summary: The election of Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stirred unease among Kuwaiti observers. While few voices predict Iranian foreign policy will substantially change under the new president, the perceived continuation of the status quo has prompted calls for GCC unity and [...] | 2005-06-28 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KISL PHUM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3041 | TFUK01: KUWAITI RESPONSE TO JULY 7 TERROR ATTACKS [...] (U) The Kuwaiti government was quick to publicly condemn the July 7 attacks in London, reassert its commitment to the global war on terror, and call for the immediate capture of the perpetrators. Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Shaykh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah told the press, "Ou [...] | 2005-07-08 11:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL PINR KPAO KISL KU |
05KUWAIT3173 | MIN ENERGY UNDERSECRETARY ON OIL PRICES AND ENERGY [...] (C) At a July 16 meeting with Charge, Ministry of Energy Undersecretary Issa Al-Own voiced his concerns about the "NOPEC" legislation and described three problems keeping world oil prices high: lack of refining capacity; market uncertainty in major producing countries such as Iraq and Venezue [...] | 2005-07-18 10:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PINR KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3266 | READING, WRITING, AND QUR'ANIC RECITATION: THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-25 04:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL SCUL KWMN KIRF PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT3267 | READING, WRITING, AND QUR'ANIC RECITATION: THE [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: The January shoot-outs between Kuwaiti security officers and extremist militants placed new emphasis on the debate over the Islamic religious education curriculum in public schools, an already politically divisive issue at the best of times. As Kuwaitis wrestle w [...] | 2005-07-25 05:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL SCUL KWMN KIRF PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT3270 | KOC GAS CHIEF LOOKS FOR HELP IN AVOIDING [...] (C) Summary: At a July 23 meeting, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Gas Management Group Manager Mohammad Al-Otaibi told Econ Officer that Iran was "very eager" to have Kuwait sign an agreement to import gas from Iran, but that the GOK was still weighing its options. He asked for any assistance that [...] | 2005-07-25 10:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PINR BEXP KU IR IZ OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3389 | INDIAN WORKERS CONFRONT THEIR EMBASSY ABOUT LABOR [...] (U) Summary: Expatriate workers in Kuwait continue to air their labor grievances publicly since the Bangladeshi revolt in April (reftel) emboldened other groups to denounce exploitative labor practices. Local media chronicled July 16-25 the fate of approximately 140 Indian workers who sought t [...] | 2005-07-31 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM PREL PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3393 | CHARITY OVERSIGHT DIRECTOR DESCRIBES HIS WORK; [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Econ Officer met July 27 with Ministry of Social Affairs Charitable Organizations Oversight Department Director Nasser Al-Ammer and Undersecretary Adnan Al-Omar to learn more about the day-to-day operations of th [...] | 2005-07-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3580 | KUWAITI FOREIGN MINISTER ON WASHINGTON VISIT, FUEL [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador August 9, FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah said PM Shaykh Sabah Al-Sabah was "very satisfied" with his July 1 visit to Washington. The FM reported that, as requested by the PM, he delivered messages to Saudi King Abdullah Al-Saud, then Cro [...] | 2005-08-10 10:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EPET MARR KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT3583 | ANTI-WEST, ANTI-ISRAEL AD MAKES ROUNDS OF LOCAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: A virulently anti-West, anti-Israel advertisement calling on good Muslims to fight to defend the Quran and their faith appeared in two of Kuwait's five Arabic daily papers on three consecutive days this week. The ad, placed at considerable expense by an individual Kuwaiti said to [...] | 2005-08-10 11:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KISL PREL PTER PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT36 | SHI'A INFORMATION MINISTER RESIGNS AMID SCANDAL; [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah accepted, on January 2, the resignation of Information Minister Mohammed Abulhassan, preempting what was certain to be a difficult grilling of Abulhassan during the January 3 session of Parliament. Although Islamists were preparing to grill the Informa [...] | 2005-01-04 03:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3607 | INSIDE THE KUWAIT CENTRAL BANK'S AML/TF OFFICE [...] (C) Summary: Talal Alsayegh, head of the Anti-Money Laundering Section of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),confirmed that the CBK notifies Kuwaiti financial institutions of new terrorist finance designations and seeks to ensure compliance through periodic assessments. Alsayegh affirmed tha [...] | 2005-08-13 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PINR KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT3669 | NATIONAL GUARD CHIEF ON COUNTERTERRORISM, THE [...] (C) Summary: During an August 15 meeting, National Guard Commander Shaykh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah told the Ambassador that fighting poverty and illiteracy will help combat terrorism and that the security situation in Iraq will improve once the Iraqis advance economically. On Iran and [...] | 2005-08-16 08:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER IZ KU |
05KUWAIT3677 | REVIVED AL-SABAH DEBATE OVER SUCCESSION; [...] (S/NF) Summary: Sources indicate a major change in leadership may take place in Kuwait, possibly before the end of August. Although Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is considered the primary candidate for Amir, his succession is not a foregone conclusion. According to [...] | 2005-08-16 12:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR KU PDEM |
05KUWAIT3809 | NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT CEO DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with the Ambassador on August 22, Ibrahim Dabdoub, the CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK--largest Kuwaiti bank and third largest in the Middle East),made the following key points: (1) NBK has outgrown the Kuwaiti market and continues to expand worldwide; (2 [...] | 2005-08-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PINR CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT3831 | KUWAIT CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NEW [...] (C) Summary. In an August 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz Al-Sabah, Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait made the following key points: (1) GOK remains committed to enacting comprehensive legal reform on terror finance and money laundering; (2) an independent auditing [...] | 2005-08-27 15:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PTER PINR CVIS KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT3850 | KUWAIT FUND DIRECTOR GENERAL DISCUSSES AID TO [...] (U) Action request at para 13. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: In an August 24 meeting with the Ambassador, the Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED),Abdulwahab Al-Bader, made the following key points: (1) GOK has donated 25 million USD in grants to the [...] | 2005-08-28 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PINR PTER KU AF IZ GZ CH WB TERROR FINANCE |
05KUWAIT3973 | KUWAIT FREEDOM AGENDA: AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSES [...] (C) During a September 6 office call that focused on thanking the Kuwaitis for their generosity towards victims of Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador raised key elements of the democracy agenda for Kuwait with the Acting Speaker, Abdulwahad Rashid Al-Haroun. Ambassador asked for Al-Haroun's views [...] | 2005-09-07 11:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT4032 | POST SUPPORT FOR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF GULF [...] (S) Post reaffirms its support for the goals and objectives of the Gulf Strategy to combat terrorist finance and strengthen money-laundering (CTF/AML) efforts. We appreciated the opportunity to offer input on the strategy paper. 2. (C) While there is more to be done in Kuwait, it is impo [...] | 2005-09-13 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PTER PINR CVIS KU |
05KUWAIT4116 | KUWAITI CONTACTS BRIEF KUWAIT COUNTRY OFFICER ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Country Officer for Kuwait, David Berns, met September 18 with Jassem Boodai, owner and editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language daily Al-Rai Al-Aam; Salim Al-Nashi, official spokesman of the Traditional Salafis; and Dr. Lubna Al-Kazi and Ma'souma Al-Abdullah, members of the Wome [...] | 2005-09-21 11:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM KWMN KISL SOCI OTRA PINR KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4142 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON KUWAITI DETAINEES AT GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-21 14:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4190 | FREEDOM AGENDA: UNPRECEDENTED [...] (C) Summary and comment: Emboffs have confirmed that an unprecedented alliance of liberal, Islamist, and Shi'a political associations have been meeting since the end of May to negotiate a political reform agenda. Former Minister of Information Dr. Saad Bin Tefla Al-Ajmi said the associations [...] | 2005-09-26 12:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KISL SOCI KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4264 | RUMORS OF A "SHAYKH" UP: KUWAITI WRITER PREDICTS [...] (C) The succession issue continues to dominate political discussion in Kuwait as factions both inside and outside the Al-Sabah family maneuver for political influence in anticipation of the death of either the Amir or the Crown Prince who are both in poor health. Ahmed Deyain, a liberal colu [...] | 2005-10-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4313 | FREEDOM AGENDA: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPOKESMAN SAYS [...] (C) The Political Relations Head for the Islamic Consensus Movement (ICM),the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, told Poloff in a recent meeting that his organization is committed to working within Kuwait's political system as outlined by the Constitution. Mohammed Al-Dallal [...] | 2005-10-04 11:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL KWMN KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT4314 | FREEDOM AGENDA: BACKGROUND ON ELECTORAL [...] (C) Paragraph two is a translation of a document on reform of electoral constituencies in Kuwait, drafted by Shaykh Nassar Al-Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, the son of the Prime Minister and an advisor to the Amir and PM, on December 17, 2002. Shaykh Nassar provided the Ambassador with a copy foll [...] | 2005-10-04 11:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4318 | KUWAIT FUND CLARIFIES STATUS OF GOK ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with Econ Counselor on October 3, the Kuwait Fund's Regional Manager for Arab Countries reaffirmed the $1.575B in reconstruction assistance the GOK has allocated for Iraq, noting that $1B had been disbursed prior to 2003 and that the remaining $575M (in new funds) wi [...] | 2005-10-04 13:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KU IZ |
05KUWAIT4325 | MEPI-FUNDED REGIONAL CAMPAIGN SCHOOL BRINGS ARAB [...] (U) Summary. The National Democratic Institute (NDI) held in Kuwait from September 25 - 28, the fourth regional campaign school funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). "Partners in Participation" attracted women activists from 14 countries in the Middle East and North Afri [...] | 2005-10-05 09:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM KMPI KWMN PGOV PREL PINR KU XF WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS MEPI |
05KUWAIT4352 | FREEDOM AGENDA: MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT SPEAK OUT ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: During his nightly courtesy visits to diwaniyas during Ramadan, which began October 4, the Ambassador has been asking National Assembly members (MPs) and political activists their views on reducing the number of electoral districts, a key component of political refor [...] | 2005-10-10 12:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT4372 | AMIR VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN KUWAITI PM AFTER [...] (C) Summary: National Guard Chief Shaykh Salem Al-Ali created the sensation of the early Ramadan season by suggesting publicly that a three-party ruling family committee be formed "to assist" Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah. Faced with this high level sniping, Shaykh Sabah was the recipient of a [...] | 2005-10-11 12:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4438 | LEADING MP "SCARED TO DEATH" ABOUT LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Ambassador met October 15 with Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager, a National Assembly member (MP) and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Commenting on the recent ruling family spat over the country's future leadership (reftels),sparked by National Guard Chief Shay [...] | 2005-10-16 07:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SUCCESSION FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4479 | MINISTER FOR AMIRI DIWAN AFFAIRS SHAYKH NASSER ON [...] (C) The Ambassador met October 18 with Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Shaykh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Shaykh Nasser said the recent succession controversy within the ruling family (reftels) "is calming," although he commented that "there will be some issues in the coming [...] | 2005-10-18 11:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4480 | AMID FLURRY OF RUMORS ABOUT SUCCESSION, PM OPENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah opened the National Assembly October 17, delivering the Government speech on behalf of the Amir, who was notably absent from the protocolary duty. The session comes amid a flurry of rumors that Shaykh Sabah will replace th [...] | 2005-10-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU SUCCESSION NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT4552 | KUWAIT'S STOCK EXCHANGE EYES REGIONAL ROLE, FEMALE [...] (U) Summary. In an October 19 meeting with Econoff, the Director of Public Relations at the Kuwaiti Stock Exchange (KSE) applauded the increased number of Kuwaiti female investors, expressed confidence in the continued rise of the Kuwaiti stock market, and underscored the importance of ensuri [...] | 2005-10-24 09:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT4555 | AMBASSADOR RE-EMPHASIZES RECENT DEMARCHES DURING [...] (U) On October 23, the Ambassador, accompanied by Econcouns and Econoff (notetaker),met with the new head of the Economics Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shaykh Ali Khaled Al-Sabah. The Ambassador congratulated Al-Sabah on his recent appointment and discussed current issues [...] | 2005-10-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KU |
05KUWAIT4588 | FOUR SHI'A POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS FORM COALITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: LEADERS OF FOUR LOCAL SHI'A POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS ANNOUNCED OCTOBER 23 THE FORMATION OF A SHI'A UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION, THE NATIONAL SOCIETIES COALITION (NSC),TO ADVOCATE FOR GREATER SHI'A RIGHTS AND TO COORDINATE EFFORTS IN THE 2007 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. TWO OF THE FIVE S [...] | 2005-10-25 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KISL KU SHI |
05KUWAIT4647 | FREEDOM AGENDA: ENERGY MINISTER'S VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: Responding to the Ambassador's inquiries about elements of the "Freedom Agenda" during a meeting on October 30, ruling family member and Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said most National Assembly members "don't know how many voting constituencies they want," [...] | 2005-10-31 07:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KMPI PREL SOCI PTER PINR KU FREEDOM AGENDA SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4729 | PRIME MINISTER HOSTS FIRST OFFICIAL RAMADAN DINNER [...] (U) On October 31 Prime Minster Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah hosted a 'Ghabqa' traditional Ramadan late night dinner for a group of Kuwaiti women, marking the first time an official dinner has been held for women by the Prime Minister. The Ghabqa was held at the Prime Minister's [...] | 2005-11-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT4792 | PUBLIC PROSECUTION QUESTIONS RULING FAMILY MEMBER [...] (C) Summary: The Public Prosecution Office questioned Shaykh Mishal Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, former Assistant Undersecretary for State Security Affairs, on November 8 about his public criticism of the GOK during a September interview conducted by Mohammed Al-Jassem on his program "Al-Majlis," whic [...] | 2005-11-16 13:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PHUM KDEM KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4933 | PM TRIES TO CALM SUCCESSION FEARS; INSISTS AMIR [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In an effort to silence continued speculation over succession, Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in a November 22 interview, firmly dismissed the possibility that either the Amir or the Crown Prince, both in poor health, would step down from the [...] | 2005-11-29 10:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT5016 | FREEDOM AGENDA: PARLIAMENT SPEAKER SUPPORTS [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador December 5 that discussions on reducing the number of electoral constituencies were important to Kuwait's political future, but complicated due to a lack of consensus on the number and shape of electoral districts. [...] | 2005-12-06 06:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN SOCI KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5032 | HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS CENTER CHIEF ON IRAQ AND [...] (C) Summary: Lt. General (Ret.) Ali Mohammed Hassan Al Mu'min, head of Kuwait's Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC),met with poloff on November 28 and discussed his candidacy for ambassador to Iraq, the extension of the HOC's mandate until spring 2006, and Sunni-Shi'a relations in Kuwait. [...] | 2005-12-06 15:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL KISL OFDP SOCI PINR IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5069 | FREEDOM AGENDA: USING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS [...] PolChief participated December 10 in a program organized by the American Universal School in celebration of International Human Rights Day. Addressing an audience of approximately 100 students aged 15-16, and drawing from reftel, she emphasized the U.S. commitment to promoting and safeguardi [...] | 2005-12-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI SCUL KIRF KDEM KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5081 | OIL INDUSTRY CONTACTS TALK INVESTMENTS, PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: In the first two weeks of December, Econ Officer heard from a number of oil industry contacts that, while the GOK and the Kuwait oil industry are serious about investment in increasing upstream and downstream capacity, a bottleneck remains in bringing concepts to f [...] | 2005-12-11 14:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5100 | APOSTOLIC NUNCIO RAISES VATICAN CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Ambassador, DCM, and PolOff met with Mounged El-Hachem, the Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Yemen, on December 10. El-Hachem praised Kuwait's general atmosphere of religious tolerance but said two concrete issues would receive a great deal of his focus. 2. (SBU) First [...] | 2005-12-12 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI PREL PINR VT KU |
05KUWAIT5130 | FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS GEN. AL-MUMIN IS THE [...] (C) During a December 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah confirmed that General Ali Hassan Al Mu'min, former Kuwaiti military Chief of Staff and current head of the Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC),is the Government's choice for a [...] | 2005-12-14 12:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL OFDP SOCI PINR IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5136 | FREEDOM AGENDA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POSTPONES [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly voted on December 12 in favor of postponing discussion on proposals to reduce the number of electoral constituencies, a key political reform, until June 30, 2006. The vote comes amid heated public debate over the issue, and after the Government came out pub [...] | 2005-12-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT5137 | SHI'A CLERIC FINDS NO LOVE FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) In a December 8 meeting, Kuwaiti Shi'a cleric Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Mohri told Emboffs he met "no one who was happy" with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government during his early-December trip to Iran. Al-Mohri said he met with the head of the Higher Judiciary Council, a former Minis [...] | 2005-12-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT5190 | PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE PLANNING MARCH [...] (SBU) MP and head of Parliament's Human Rights Committee Ali Al-Rashed announced December 10, International Human Rights Day, that he intended to organize a March conference, to coincide with International Women's Day, on human rights with a specific focus on women's issues. During a December [...] | 2005-12-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KMPI KWMN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5210 | SHUNNED KUWAITI EDITOR FEARS FOR SAFETY [...] (SBU) Summary: Mohammed Abdul Qader Al-Jassem, Al Hurra talk show host and the liberal former editor-in-chief of the Arabic daily Al-Watan, complained to Emboffs of receiving threats after posting a scathing article on his website on December 10 criticizing Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahm [...] | 2005-12-20 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT5285 | MEPI AND BMENA IN KUWAIT: YOUNG ARAB LEADERS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT On December 27, Ambassador met with Maha Al-Ghunaim, Vice-Chairperson and Managing Director of Global Investment House (GIH),to discuss the Young Arab Leaders organization in Kuwait (YAL-K). Also on 12/27, Ambassador spoke with Kuwait Economic Society head Dr. Rola Dasth [...] | 2005-12-28 12:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMPI PINR KDEM KPAO ECON EAID KU |
05KUWAIT5299 | HOC CHIEF / UNOFFICIAL KUWAITI AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Lt General Ali Hassan Al-Mu'min, former Kuwaiti military Chief of Staff, current head of the Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC) and the GOK's unannounced choice for Ambassador to Iraq (reftel),told the DCM during a December 28 meeting that Kuwait will not "make the first move" [...] | 2005-12-31 10:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL OFDP PINR MOPS PHUM IZ KU |
05KUWAIT943 | MINISTRY OF ENERGY UNDERSECRETARY OUTLINES GAS [...] (C) Summary: During a March 6 meeting with Economic Counselor, Ministry of Energy Undersecretary Issa Al-Own outlined Kuwait's options for receiving much-needed gas to fuel electric power plants. He said that Kuwait was now focusing its efforts on the two most promising options: drilling in [...] | 2005-03-07 14:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL PINR KU IZ OIL SECTOR |
05LAGOS1153 | AKWA IBOM DEPUTY GOVERNOR IMPEACHED, REINSTATED, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent impeachment and subsequent save-face "resignation" of Akwa Ibom State Deputy Governor, Chris Ekpenyong, highlighted ever-present rivalries and rifts within the ruling People,s Democratic Party (PDP). The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly impeached the Deputy Governor f [...] | 2005-07-19 14:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NI |
05LAGOS1250 | NIGERIA: CA GAYE MEETING WITH NDLEA CHAIRMAN TO [...] (C) ON JULY 23, 2005, DEA ATTACHE (CA) SAM GAYE MET DR. BELLO LAFIAJI, NDLEA CHAIRMAN TO DISCUSS OPERATIONAL MATTERS AS WELL AS QUESTIONS AFRISING FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK,S INTERAGENCY NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION MEETING IN WASHINGTON. 2. (C) CA GAYE INFORMED DR. BELLO ABOUT THE OUTSTANDING QU [...] | 2005-08-09 12:13:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PINR NI |
05LAGOS1277 | NIGERIA: REPORTED AL QA'IDA ACTIVITY [...] (S) Summary. Professor Ukandi Damachi, a long-time Mission contact and close advisor to former head-of-state Ibrahim Babangida, recently told us about a chance encounter he had with pro-Obasanjo members of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) executive. These partisans alleged an association [...] | 2005-08-15 15:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PTER PINR PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1581 | GFUP-06-9259/NIGERIA; INTERNATIONAL CONTROLLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 11, DEA Attache (CA) Sam Gaye and British Drug Liaison Officer (DLO) Jon King in conjunction with Togolese authorities, conducted a successful international controlled delivery (ICD) of 7 kilograms of heroin in Lome, Togo. Nigerian national Fedelis Ezechukwu was arres [...] | 2005-10-13 12:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | NI PGOV PINR SNAR |
05LAGOS1591 | GFUP-06-9259/NIGERIA; INTERNATIONAL CONTROLLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 11, DEA Attache (CA) Sam Gaye and British Drug Liaison Officer (DLO) Jon King in conjunction with Togolese authorities, conducted a successful international controlled delivery (ICD) of 7 kilograms of heroin in Lome, Togo. Nigerian national Fedelis Ezechukwu was arres [...] | 2005-10-13 13:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | NI PGOV PINR SNAR |
05LAGOS1692 | MEETING WITH NDLEA INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 11:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PINR SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1738 | NDLEA SAYS IT IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING [...] (S) In late October, the Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) created a special unit, consisting of 25 agents. The mandate of the new unit was to arrest drug kingpins, according to unit commander-Gadzama who was also the NDLEA's top officer in the currently dormant NDLEA/DEA J [...] | 2005-11-08 08:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PINR SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1768 | MEETING WITH NDLEA CHAIRMAN BELLO LAFIAJI [...] (S) Summary: During an often tense November 15 meeting with DEA Attache and the Consul General, Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Chairman Bello Lafiaji continued to express his bitterness over the Ambassador and the British High Commissioner's meeting with President obasan [...] | 2005-11-18 16:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PINR SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1951 | NIGERIAN PETROLEUM VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT [...] (S) Given the presence of armed militia and of oil bunkering enterprises, the GON has difficulty maintaining security of the oil producing Nigerian Delta region. Parts of the region are effectively under the control of the militia or bunkering groups than governmental authority. As the Dec [...] | 2005-12-28 12:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | EPET PTER KHLS EWWT PINR ETRD NI |
05LAGOS1956 | ANOTHER PIPELINE EXPLOSION, SABOTAGE SUSPECTED BUT [...] (U) As repairs continue on the pipelines ruptured in last week's attack reported ref B, a section of pipeline carrying refined product from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) refinery in Warri, Delta State to locations elsewhere in Nigeria suffered multiple explosions on December [...] | 2005-12-29 06:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV PGOV ASEC PTER KHLS EWWT PINR NI |
05LAGOS362 | ALIKO DANGOTE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HIM [...] (C) Summary. Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Dangote) is Nigeria's most well known businessperson and may be its wealthiest citizen. He has taken on the aura of an economic folk hero for some, villain for others. To supporters, he symbolizes that Nigeria can do more than barter and trade. It can suc [...] | 2005-03-07 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ECON NI PINR BEXP PGOV |
05LAGOS364 | ALIKO DANGOTE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HIM [...] (C) Summary. Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Dangote) is Nigeria's most well known businessperson and may be its wealthiest citizen. He has taken on the aura of an economic folk hero for some, villain for others. To supporters, he symbolizes that Nigeria can do more than barter and trade. It can suc [...] | 2005-03-07 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ECON NI PINR BEXP PGOV |
05LAGOS365 | NIGERIAN GOVERNOR: EXAMPLE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE BUT [...] (C) Summary: Ogun State and its governor Gbenga Daniel have fared relatively well since the 2003 elections, which were manipulated in order to allow President Obasanjo to carry his home state by a wide margin. Daniel, an Obasanjo protege, possibly could have won the elections without any ta [...] | 2005-03-08 06:21:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR NI |
05LAGOS537 | NIGERIA ECONOMIC UPDATE, MARCH 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: The GON's privatization program may accelerate as a result of the power sector reform bill signed into law March 11, and the new Maersk operating concession of the Apapa (Lagos) port container terminal. The GON has also contracted the Italian firm, Grimaldi Group, to build a USD [...] | 2005-04-08 13:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON ECPS EWWT EINV PINR NI |
05LILONGWE146 | BIODATA - MALAWI'S NEW MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] CDA paid a courtesy call to new Minister of Foreign Affairs Davis Katsonga on February 14. Katsonga, whose appointment to Foreign Affairs comes in the wake of the President's departure from the United Democratic Front (UDF),expressed his support for the president and his anti- corruption in [...] | 2005-02-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PINR KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE46 | CONTACT NUMBERS FOR KEY OFFICIALS - MALAWI [...] POST SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KEY GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI OFFICIALS. RESPONSE IS KEYED TO REFTEL PARAGRAPH 5. COUNTRY: REPUBLIC OF MALAWI DATE: 01/18/2005 HEAD OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT LAST NAME: Mutharika FIRST/MIDDLE NAMES: Bingu CONVENTIONAL USAGE: Dr. Bingu wa M [...] | 2005-01-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL MI |
05LILONGWE634 | PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS; IMPEACHMENT MOTIONS PUT OFF [...] SUMMARY: (U) Parliament adjourned Thursday July 22 after passing the 2005/06 budget, electing a new Speaker, and addressing other legislative issues. Parliament did not, however, address the impeachment procedure bill that had been tabled before the they temporarily adjourned on June 23 (Reft [...] | 2005-07-26 13:27:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL TBIO MI |
05LIMA1344 | (U) DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DRUG MARKETS IN PERU [...] (U) The responses in this cable reference the questions posed in Ref A. A. (S) Describe cocaine trafficking organizations in Peru? Do they typically specialize in one drug activity? What is their average size? How are they structured? Are they vertically or horizontally integrated? [...] | 2005-03-21 16:18:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR SNAR PE EXIM |
05LIMA2054 | CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE REPORT ON FORGED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three opposition party members of the congressional committee investigating allegations that President Alejandro Toledo's party forged signatures to register for the 2000 elections concluded that there was massive fraud and that Toledo was responsible. The two pro-GOP memb [...] | 2005-05-04 21:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PINR PE |
05LIMA2074 | BOWEN DECISION CAUSES OUTRAGE, THREATENS PRESS [...] (U) Judge Alfredo Catacora of the 11th Criminal Court of Lima on 5/4 convicted British journalist Sally Bowen, her co-author Jane Holligan, and their publisher of criminal defamation for quoting in their book "The Imperfect Spy" an imprisoned narcotrafficker's assertion that narco-kingpin Fer [...] | 2005-05-06 15:41:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL PE |
05LIMA2223 | PERU'S PARTICIPATION IN THE FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI AMGT ASEC CPAS CVIS KCRM KFRD PINR PINS PE BR |
05LIMA2589 | FUJIMORI EXTRADITION CASE HAS PROBLEMS SAYS EXPERT [...] (C) The GOP's case to compel Japan to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is poorly organized and filled with errors, according to noted human rights lawyer and former Truth and Reconciliation Executive Secretary Javier Ciurlizza (strictly protect). Foreign Minister Rodrigue [...] | 2005-06-09 19:53:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PE |
05LIMA2702 | ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS (C-CN5-00417) -- PERU [...] (C/NF) Information requested in Ref A regarding the activity in Peru of organized crimes groups based in specified countries is summarized below. The countries listed are the only ones from those cited in Ref A for which Embassy agencies possess significant background data. ------ Russia [...] | 2005-06-16 21:35:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PE |
05LIMA3261 | GOVERNING PARTY CANDIDATE ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF [...] (U) On July 26, 2005, the Peruvian Congress elected Marcial Ayaipoma, the candidate of President Alejandro Toledo,s ruling Peru Posible (PP) Party, as its new President, succeeding Antero Flores Araoz. Although Ayaipoma ran unchallenged, his election proved difficult. The opposition APRA and U [...] | 2005-07-27 18:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA3379 | NEW PRO-CHAVEZ PUBLICATION IN LIMA [...] SUMMARY: A pro-Chavez, leftist publication entitled "Wankar" ("the Song of the People" in Quechua) recently appeared in Lima. The first issue has a slick paper cover with a dramatic color photo of Chavez sporting his commando cap, his fist raised in the air. The masthead of the magazine as [...] | 2005-08-05 15:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL PE VE |
05LIMA3476 | APPOINTMENT OF FERNANDO OLIVERA AS FOREIGN [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Alejandro Toledo appointed coalition ally Fernando Olivera as Foreign Minister on 8/11; Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero and Housing Minister Carlos Bruce resigned in response. Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti and Justice Minister Eduardo Salhuana reportedly boycotted Oliv [...] | 2005-08-11 23:07:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA3489 | CABINET CRISIS AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIR FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 8/11 resignation of Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero, in response to the appointment of Fernando Olivera as Foreign Minister, forced the resignation of the entire Cabinet and resulted in a serious political dilemma for President Alejandro Toledo. It remains an intergovernment [...] | 2005-08-12 20:55:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PINR PE |
05LIMA3518 | RESIGNATION OF FOREIGN MINISTER ENDS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The intergovernmental political crisis resulting from the resignation of Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero on 8/11, following the appointment of Fernando Olivera as Foreign Minister, was resolved the evening of 8/12, when President Alejandro Toledo asked Olivera to step down. Tole [...] | 2005-08-15 21:08:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PE |
05LIMA3548 | NEW PRIME MINISTER, FOREIGN MINISTER AND DEFENSE [...] (C) New Prime Minister-designate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) phoned the Ambassador on the morning of 8/16 to confirm press reports that he would be sworn-in later that day as Prime Minister. The Ambassador inquired as to other Cabinet changes that might affect upcoming meetings with SECDEF. P [...] | 2005-08-16 21:59:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MARR PE |
05LIMA3549 | CABINET INCLUDES SIX NEW FACES [...] (U) President Toledo swore in his new cabinet of ministers on 8/16. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, previously Minister of Economy and Finance, became the Prime Minister. Six new cabinet members were approved: Oscar Maurtua Romana as Minister of Foreign Relations, Marciano Rengifo Ruiz as Minister of [...] | 2005-08-16 22:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL ECON MARR PE |
05LIMA3555 | NAMING OF KUCZYNSKI CABINET CALMS POLITICAL [...] SUMMARY: President Alejandro Toledo's 8/16 swearing-in of a new Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK),received a warm welcome from politicians across the political spectrum, the business sector and the media; calmed the recent political turbulence; and should not/not [...] | 2005-08-17 17:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON SCUL PE |
05LIMA3914 | NEW PERM REP TO OAS [...] A Supreme Resolution published on 9/7 in the GOP's "Legal Norms" named Fernando de la Flor Arbulu as Peru's Permanent Representative to the Organization for American States (OAS). A subsequent Ministerial resolution will determine the date upon which De la Flor will assume responsibility. 2. [...] | 2005-09-09 20:45:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR PGOV PE OAS |
05LIMA4132 | FAR LEFT, INSPIRED BY CHAVEZ, SEEKING TO RIDE [...] (C) Most of Peru,s far-left Marxist parties, movements, and labor organizations are attempting to unite forces for the 2006 general elections under the banner of a "Frente Amplio" (Broad Front). They hope their standard bearer will be Ollanta Humala, leader of the fascistic Nationalist Peruv [...] | 2005-09-22 19:23:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PE |
05LIMA4179 | EMBASSY AND EVANGELICALS: BREAKING NEW GROUND [...] (U) This is the third in a three-part series on Peru,s Evangelical Christians. Reftels described the history and contemporary political strategy of this key emerging group. This cable discusses Embassy outreach. -------- Summary: -------- 2. (U) Peru,s rapidly-growing population of [...] | 2005-09-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PHUM PGOV PE |
05LIMA4394 | LATIN AMERICA MISSING PERSONS (LAMP) NETWORK [...] (C) The authors of the Peruvian website for Missing Persons, www.peruanosdesaparecidos.com, are now establishing a series of similar and interlinked web pages for missing persons in other countries called the Latin American Network for Missing Persons (LAMP). The system has already helped s [...] | 2005-10-12 20:58:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA4548 | NEW LABOR MINISTER [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo, on 10/7, swore in Carlos Alberto Almeri Veramendi as Minister of Labor and Job Promotion. A bio for Minister Almeri follows. 2. (U) Almeri was elected to Congress in 2001 as a representative from Loreto Department for the ruling Peru Posible (PP) party. In [...] | 2005-10-21 16:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA4633 | DECENTRALIZATION: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK IN PERU, [...] Peru will hold referenda in 16 of its 25 departments on 10/30, in which voters will decide whether to consolidate their departments into up to five macro-regions. The formation of macro-regions would be a major step forward in Peru's ongoing decentralization process, which is aimed at devolv [...] | 2005-10-27 22:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL PE |
05LIMA4634 | DECENTRALIZATION: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK IN PERU, [...] This is the second in a two-part series on Peruvian decentralization. It focuses on the 10/30 referenda on forming macro-regions, current opinions, and possible outcomes. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. SUMMARY. On the eve of the 10/30 referenda on the formation of macro-regions, the GOP fi [...] | 2005-10-27 22:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL PE |
05LIMA4650 | ATTEMPT TO FACILITATE PASSAGE OF MACRO-REGION [...] Despite a furious last-minute push from President Alejandro Toledo, with support from presidential hopefuls Lourdes Flores and Valentin Paniagua, proponents of legislative changes to facilitate the passage of the 10/30 macro-region referenda (Refs) failed to obtain the necessary 61-vote absol [...] | 2005-10-28 20:32:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA4661 | MACRO-REGION REFERENDA FAIL - DECENTRALIZATION [...] With 90 percent of the ballots counted, the referenda to form five macro-regions failed in 15 of Peru's 16 departments. Only in Arequipa did a majority of voters support the proposal. (Note: Since the other departments considering consolidation with Arequipa, Tacna and Puno, voted the referen [...] | 2005-10-31 21:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA4662 | PERU SURPRISED BY CHILEAN REACTION ON DRAFT [...] (C) Embassy Santiago's reporting (Ref) has laid out the Chilean perception of what the GOP is doing with its draft "Law on the Bases of Maritime Control," which is now under review by the Peruvian Congress. In our view the GOP impulse behind the law is far more anodyne; it was part of an effo [...] | 2005-10-31 21:21:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EC PE |
05LIMA4673 | CONTROVERSY CONTINUES REGARDING PERU'S DRAFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The controversy between Peru and Chile over the GOP's introduction of legislation defining its maritime limits continues, although Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua informed the Ambassador that the two countries are talking and should eventually calm things down. Meanwhile, the F [...] | 2005-11-02 22:08:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL CI EC PE |
05LIMA4854 | HUMALA FEINTS TO THE CENTER, BUT CONTINUES TO [...] (C) Peruvian ultra-nationalist and Chavez admirer Ollanta Humala has recently made efforts to position himself -- at least rhetorically -- closer to the political center. Over the last month, he has publicly rejected the New Years Eve 2004 rebellion his brother, Antauro Humala, led in Andahu [...] | 2005-11-15 18:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PE |
05LIMA4933 | BEATRIZ MERINO SWORN IN AS OMBUDSMAN [...] Former Prime Minister Beatriz Merino was sworn in as the new Public Ombudsman on 11/16. On the very day of her swearing in, Merino demonstrated her political clout by obtaining assurances from Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to countermand proposed budget cuts that would have forced the [...] | 2005-11-21 17:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA4934 | PERU'S UN AMBASSADOR ON IRAQ [...] Peru's new Ambassador to the United Nations, Oswaldo de Rivero, who will represent Peru on the Security Council Starting in January, recently authored an article entitled, "Is Iraq Another Vietnam?" in the Lima intellectual journal "Quehacer." De Rivero's piece criticizes U.S. policy in Iraq [...] | 2005-11-21 17:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL PE |
05LIMA5192 | OLLANTA HUMALA DRAWS FIRE FROM THE POLITICAL CLASS [...] (U) Ultra-nationalist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala's recent rise in the polls has galvanized the political class, kicking its immune response system into action against this anti-systemic threat. Ollanta has found himself under attack for having received approximately USD 250,000 i [...] | 2005-12-07 16:01:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SNAR PE |
05LIMA5322 | TOLEDO CRITICIZES CHAVEZ IN ARMY DAY SPEECH [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo clearly, albeit indirectly, criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his Army Day speech on 12/9. In his remarks, President Toledo recalled that Army Day commemorates the Battle of Ayachucho, where an army made up of recruits from many nations defeate [...] | 2005-12-16 15:21:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA5365 | TOLEDO MAKES ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL PICK FOR ARMY [...] (C) President Toledo has named a reported personal favorite, General Cesar Reinoso Diaz, to become Commanding General of the Army, passing over the three officers who would normally be considered next in line for the job by Army guidelines (which include seniority and military merit). Two of [...] | 2005-12-20 20:20:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR PE |
05LJUBLJANA103 | COM CALLS ON SLOVENIA'S MINISTER OF PUBLIC [...] Summary. On February 10, COM called on Dr. Gregor Virant, Minister of Slovenia's newly created Ministry of Public Administration. Virant described his ministry as a consolidation of human resources, information management and eGovernment initiatives into one, central, transparent, and servi [...] | 2005-02-15 09:36:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR SI |
05LJUBLJANA106 | SLOVENIA APPROVES TRADE WITH GMOs; COM MEETS NEW [...] Summary: In a February 10 courtesy call by COM, new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Food, Marija Lukacic, highlighted Slovenia's goals of promoting rural development and adopting legislation to improve the competitiveness of Slovene farmers. This would be accomplished by increasing th [...] | 2005-02-15 11:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PINR SI |
05LJUBLJANA118 | SLOVENIA: COM AND NEW LABOR MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 16 February courtesy call, new Labor Minister Janez Drobnic told COM that combatting unemployment is his top priority, with a focus on introducing programs to help the disabled, the elderly, and first-time job-seekers. Drobnic also listed improving MoL's IT base as a key [...] | 2005-02-18 11:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB PINR PHUM SI |
05LJUBLJANA224 | SLOVENIA: ZLSD RE-ELECTS PAHOR AND CHANGES ITS NAME [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Saturday, April 2, 2005, the United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD) held its Party Congress and elected its leadership for the next four years. Members of the Youth Wing won important positions, which will likely move the party away from the center and more to the left. The p [...] | 2005-04-05 10:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
05LJUBLJANA483 | SLOVENIA: NEW GENERAL PROSECUTOR LOOKING AT WHITE [...] (SBU) Summary. COM met July 7 with Barbara Brezigar, recently appointed General State Prosecutor for Slovenia. Brezigar, just back from Eurojust in Brussels is focused on combating white-collar crime and is interested in cooperating with the USG to build prosecutorial capacity in Slovenia. B [...] | 2005-07-13 08:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PINR KPAO SI |
05LJUBLJANA61 | SLOVENIA PM CONSIDERING IRAQ DEPLOYMENT: "WE'RE [...] (C) On January 27, I called Prime Minister Jansa to express my appreciation for his statement on Iraq at his January 25 Brussels' press conference. (NOTE: Jansa was quoted as saying Slovenia will consider sending troops to Iraq to train the local security forces there..."We will consider an [...] | 2005-01-28 10:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SI |
05LJUBLJANA62 | `I AM NOT A TROUBLEMAKER': COM MEETS NEW SLOVENIAN [...] Summary: In a January 24 courtesy call, new Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Janez Podobnik told COM about his plans for the Ministry, highlighting challenges of nuclear waste disposal and biotech. He also stated that there might be opportunities for US investors as Slovenia plans [...] | 2005-01-28 10:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PINR SI |
05LJUBLJANA67 | COM CALLS ON DIRECTOR OF SLOVENIA'S CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary. In a January 27 courtesy call, COM met with Drago Kos, the head of Slovenia's newly independent Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, (CPC). Kos explained the CPC was established as an independent Commission to address the issue of preventingcorruption. It has no invest [...] | 2005-02-01 10:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR PINR SI |
05LJUBLJANA682 | Slovenian Referendum on the new Law on the National [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Sunday, September 25 Slovenians will vote in a referendum on whether the new Law on National Radio and Television should be implemented. The main issue is whether the Parliament will have the authority to approve a greater proportion of the Program Council members of Public R [...] | 2005-09-23 09:10:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
05LONDON1257 | TAKING ACTION AGAINST HEZBOLLAH AND HAMAS [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Prime Minister's commitment to the Secretary to proscribe the political wings of Hezbollah and Hamas coupled with the March 1 London meeting to support the Palestinian leadership provide us with our best opportunity in three years to leverage significant change in HMG policy t [...] | 2005-02-11 15:31:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PTER UK XF |
05MADRID1003 | SPAIN: UPDATE ON TRANSFERRED GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (U) The USG transferred Spanish-national Guantanamo detainee Hamed Abd al Rahman Ahmed (DPOB: September 22, 1974, Ceuta, Spain) to Spanish custody on February 14, 2004. He was held for five months on suspicion of membership in a terrorist organization and released on EUROS 3,000 bail (USD 3,9 [...] | 2005-03-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA PTER PHUM PINR OPDC PREL |
05MADRID1011 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: MILENOV, TONI RADEV - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: JAN. 6, 1978, POPOVEZT, BULGARIA - CLASS: POSITIVE (NO DOB) 3. SPANISH PRESS OF MARCH 14, 2005 R [...] | 2005-03-16 13:19:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1025 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY "EL PAIS" OF MARCH 16, 2005, REPORTED THAT MEMBERS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL GUARD ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ON MARCH 15, 2005. THEY ARE [...] | 2005-03-16 16:01:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL DIEZ |
05MADRID1042 | (S) SPAIN: RESPONSE TO FOLLOW UP REQUEST RE [...] (S) Summary: Spanish Foreign Ministry officials have conveyed their concern that the USG released an incorrect report regarding a possible coup plot against the Government of Equatorial Guinea (GREG) that could adversely affect Spain's recent efforts to normalize bilateral relations with Equ [...] | 2005-03-17 14:24:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PREL PINS PINR UK SP EQ |
05MADRID1179 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: RODRIGUEZ RECONDO, ZAINE - GENDER: FEMALE - DPOB: 26 YEARS OLD, SPAIN - CLASS: NEGATIVE 3. SPANISH PRESS OF MARCH 22, 2005 REPORTED THAT [...] | 2005-03-29 15:16:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1181 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH PRESS OF MARCH 20, 2005 REPORTED THAT FRENCH AND SPANISH POLICE CONDUCTED AN OPERATION THAT ENDED IN THE ARREST IN LE CAP D'ADGE, MONTPELLIER, FRAN [...] | 2005-03-29 15:16:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1182 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH PRESS OF MARCH 20, 2005 REPORTED THE ARREST BY SCOTLAND YARD IN LONDON, U.K. OF MOUTAZ ALMALLAH, DABAS, A SYRIAN NATURALIZED SPANISH CITIZEN, WANTED [...] | 2005-03-29 15:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1183 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS OF MARCH 19, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE DETAINED MOHANNAD ALMALLAH DABAS. HE WAS PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED ON MARCH 24, 2004 IN CONNECTION [...] | 2005-03-29 15:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1203 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: OLABARRIETA COLORADO, IKER - GENDER: MALE - SEP. 29, 1977, BARACALDO, VIZCAYA, SPAIN - CLASS: NEGATIVE 3. NAME: GONZALEZ SOLA, IGOR [...] | 2005-03-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1204 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH PRESS OF MARCH 24, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE TWO ETA ACTIVISTS REFERENCED BELOW WERE ARRESTED BY FRENCH POLICE IN LANNEMEZAN, FRANCE. THE ARRESTED WERE FOUND [...] | 2005-03-30 13:21:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1278 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 - MARCH [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON 04 APRIL 2005, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE CHARGE, ROBERT MANZANARES. THE CHARGE EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE CONTINUING STRONG COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PROGRAM BY ALL AGENCIES AT [...] | 2005-04-04 13:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1305 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING 13 INDIVIDUALS ON APRIL 1, 2005 IN CONNECTION WITH THE 11 MARCH 2004 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN MADRID. THE ARRE [...] | 2005-04-06 08:46:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1306 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH PRESS OF APRIL 1, 2005 REPORTED THE ARREST OF JON SANCHEZ MENDAZA, AN ALLEGED LEADER OF "KAS - EKIN", AN OUTLAWED ORGANIZATION OF ETA'S POLITICAL OR [...] | 2005-04-06 08:47:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1442 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY PRESS OF APRIL 8, 2005 REPORTED THAT AS A RESULT OF RECENT POLICE OPERATIONS CONDUCTED IN FRANCE AND ALSO IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY OF SPAIN, AGAINS [...] | 2005-04-13 15:33:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1517 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS OF APR. 16, 2005, REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH NATIONAL COURT EXAMINING JUDGE FOR THE MARCH 11TH TERRORIST ATTACKS, ORDERED THE UNCONDITIONAL IMPRISONMENT [...] | 2005-04-20 11:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1560 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST REFERS TO THE RADICAL ISLAMIST ACTIVITY OF TWO MOROCCANS IMPRISONED IN SPAIN. AS OF LATE MARCH 2005, THE SPANISH AUTHORI [...] | 2005-04-21 15:39:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1598 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF APR. 22, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE CANADIAN SUPREME COURT DENIED THE LAST APPEAL BEFORE THE EXTRADITION TO SPAIN OF THE TWO SUSPECTED E [...] | 2005-04-25 15:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1637 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS OF APRIL 25, 2005 REPORTED THAT ETA SUSPECT ARAIZ ZUBIMENDI IZAGA ARRIVED IN SPAIN ESCORTED BY FRENCH POLICE AND WAS HANDED OVER TO THE SPANISH [...] | 2005-04-27 13:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1691 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY EL PAIS REPORTED THAT FRENCH POLICE ARRESTED TWO ALLEGED MEMBERS OF ETA ON APR. 28, 2005. THE ARREST TOOK PLACE IN CAUSSADE, FRANCE, WHEN THEY [...] | 2005-04-29 15:43:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1739 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 APRIL [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON MAY 06, 2005, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE DCM, ROBERT MANZANARES 2. DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL 2005, MADRID SUBMITTED EIGHT VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING TWENTY-FIVE INDIVIDUALS, EIGHT SUSPE [...] | 2005-05-06 15:47:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID1826 | LOOKOUT SHARING [...] CHARGE D'AFFAIRES A.I. MANZANARES PRESENTED DEMARCHE AS INSTRUCTED IN REFTEL TO JOSE MARIA PONS IRAZAZABAL, DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR NORTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON MAY 10. FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER WAS IN SPAIN AND HAD A MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ALONSO IN WHICH H [...] | 2005-05-13 05:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CASC PGOV PTER PINR PREL KPAO EU SP |
05MADRID1829 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF MAY 7, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH NATIONAL COURT SENTENCED THE ALLEGED ETA ACTIVISTS REFERENCED BELOW TO 2,775 YEARS OF PRISON FOR [...] | 2005-05-13 09:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL LORAN |
05MADRID1831 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: MOTO NSA, SEVERO - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: NOV. 6, 1943, ACOCK, EQUATORIAL GUINEA - POSITIVE 3. DAILY SPANISH PRESS "EL PAIS" REPORTED THAT TH [...] | 2005-05-13 12:02:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL MOTO |
05MADRID1835 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF MAY 10, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED THE INDIVIDUALS REFERENCED BELOW AS SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA'S INFORMATION NE [...] | 2005-05-13 13:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL PENA |
05MADRID1837 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS REPORTED ON MAY 12, 2005, THAT THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED TWO ALLEGED MEMBERS OF ETA'S FINANCIAL NETWORK. THE DETAINEES HAD MADE TRAN [...] | 2005-05-13 13:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL LARREA |
05MADRID1881 | DEMARCHE ON TRANSFER OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEE TO [...] (C) Poloff advised MFA Deputy Director General for North America Manuel de la Camara on May 16 regarding the USG's readiness to transfer Moroccan national Lahcen Ikassrien to the Spanish authorities, contingent upon Spain's agreement to the conditions established in reftel. De la Camara had no [...] | 2005-05-17 16:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR SP |
05MADRID2126 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 MAY [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON JUNE 6, 2005, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE DCM, ROBERT MANZANARES. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF MAY 2005, MADRID SUBMITTED EIGHT VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING TWENTY INDIVIDUALS, SUSPECTED MEMBERS [...] | 2005-06-06 12:56:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID2132 | GUANTANAMO DETAINEE IKASSRIEN: SPAIN AGREES TO [...] (C) On June 3, post received note verbale number 67112-Ext-04 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating the Government of Spain's acceptance of USG terms for the transfer to Spain of Guantanamo detainee Lahcen Ikassrien (ref A). Attached to the note verbale was a notification from the C [...] | 2005-06-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR SP |
05MADRID2310 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST INDICATES THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUAL WAS LINKED TO THE 11 MARCH 2004 BOMBINGS IN MADRID, SPAIN. 3. BOU NADJA, REZKI SOUKE [...] | 2005-06-15 14:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL BOU |
05MADRID2332 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH NEWS OF JUNE 15, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE CONDUCTED AN OPERATION IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN SPAIN, RESULTING IN THE ARREST OF 11 ALLEGE [...] | 2005-06-16 13:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID2337 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS OF JUNE 16, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED FIVE MOROCCAN NATIONALS IN BARCELONA AND MADRID, FOR THEIR ALLEGED LINKS TO THE MADR [...] | 2005-06-16 15:43:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL |
05MADRID2340 | SPANISH POLICE DISRUPT AL-ZARQAWI SUPPORT NETWORK [...] (U) Spanish police arrested 16 suspected Islamic terrorists early June 15 in two related operations involving over 500 police officers. The arrests took place in Madrid, Catalunia, Andalucia, Levante and Ceuta; with 13 of those detained being natives of Morocco, two others from Algeria and on [...] | 2005-06-16 16:05:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SP PINR |
05MADRID2347 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ALL INDIVIDUALS REFERENCE BELOW WERE ALSO ARRESTED IN THE RECENT SPANISH POLICE OPERATIONS AGAINST RADICAL ISLAMIST CELLS ASSOCIATED TO "ANSAR AL ISLAM" AND T [...] | 2005-06-17 12:06:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL |
05MADRID2442 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION OBTAINED AT THIS POST REFERS TO THE INDIVIDUALS REFERENCED BELOW, ARRESTED OR BEING SOUGHT FOR THEIR ALLEGED ASSOCIATION WITH THE "ANSAR AL ISLAM" [...] | 2005-06-24 12:55:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL |
05MADRID2522 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 JUNE [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON June 06, 2005, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE DCM, ROBERT MANZANARES. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE 2005, MADRID SUBMITTED FIVE VISAS VIPER CABLE IDENTIFYING THIRTY-THREE INDIVIDUALS, SUSPECTED M [...] | 2005-07-05 10:46:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID2523 | DRUG TRAFFICKING AND POSSESSION TRENDS CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) The Government of Spain's National Drug Plan (PND) latest Annual Statistical Report on Drugs reports increases in total drug seizures (29%),trafficking arrests (11%),and arrests for drug possession (22%) between 2003 and 2004. Officials consider these statistics to be an indication tha [...] | 2005-07-05 10:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KSEP PINR PGOV PREL SP |
05MADRID2594 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INDIVIDUALS REFERENCED BELOW HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BY THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE FOR THEIR LINKS WITH THE SPAIN-BASED JIHADIST FACILITATOR NETWORK, "ANSAR AL [...] | 2005-07-11 14:35:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SAAD |
05MADRID2765 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH NEWS MEDIA REPORTED THAT ON JULY 27, 2005, THE SPANISH POLICE CONDUCTED AN OPERATION IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN THE BASQUE AREA OF SPAIN, WHICH LED TO TH [...] | 2005-07-27 12:03:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL ORUE |
05MADRID2817 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: JULY 2005 [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON AUG. 2, 2005, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF JULY 2005, MADRID SUBMITTED TWO VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING SEVEN INDIVIDUALS, FIVE SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA AND TWO SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ISLAMI [...] | 2005-08-02 11:03:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID2851 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY PRESS OF JULY 30, 2005 REPORTED THE ARREST IN FRANCE OF FOUR MEMBERS OF THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ETA IN TWO, NON-RELATED, POLICE SECURITY C [...] | 2005-08-03 15:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID2868 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. FOLLOWING IS ACCURATE DPOB FOR TWO OF THE ETA SUSPECTS SUBMITTED IN REFTEL. 3. NAME: ERRASTI GOITI, ZUHAITZ - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: FEB. 13, 1981, ARETXABALET [...] | 2005-08-04 15:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID2970 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF AUG. 18, 2005 REPORTED THE ARREST IN BELGRADE, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, OF RADICAL ISLAMIST ABDELMAJID BOUCHAR FOR WHOM SPANISH AUTHORI [...] | 2005-08-18 13:55:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID3038 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST FROM ANOTHER AGENCY INDICATES THAT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ARE CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES FOR TERRORISM [...] | 2005-08-25 07:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL JAWAD |
05MADRID3171 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES. 2.INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST FROM ANOTHER AGENCY INDICATES THAT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS HAVING LINKS WITH A NETWORK OF JIHADIST FACILATATORS IN SPAIN: [...] | 2005-09-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL OMAR |
05MADRID3202 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 AUGUST [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON SEPTEMBER 08,2005, AS PART OF MADRID'S INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2005, MADRID SUBMITTED FOUR VISAS VIPER CABLE IDENTIFYING TWENTY-NINE INDIVIDUALS, FOUR SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA AND TWENTY-FIVE SUSPECT [...] | 2005-09-12 11:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID3262 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST REFERS TO THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUAL, PRESENTLY RESIDING IN SPAIN, WHO HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND IS UNDER SPANISH POLICE INVES [...] | 2005-09-15 11:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID33 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 - DECEMBER [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON JAN. 5, 2005, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE CHARGE, ROBERT MANZANARES. THE CHARGE EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE CONTINUING STRONG COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PROGRAM BY ALL AGENCIES AT [...] | 2005-01-05 13:39:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP |
05MADRID3488 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 SEPTEMBER [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON 04 OCTOBER 2005, AS PART OF MADRID'S INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2005, MADRID SUBMITTED FOUR VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING THIRTY-TWO INDIVIDUALS, SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ISLAMIST TERRORIST GROUPS LINKE [...] | 2005-10-04 11:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID3490 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS REPORTED OCT. 4, 2005 THAT FRENCH ANTITERRORIST POLICE (DNAT) IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPANISH POLICE CONDUCTED AN OPERATION IN AURILLAC, SOUTH- CEN [...] | 2005-10-04 13:46:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL AGUIRRE GARCIA HARRIET ET AL |
05MADRID3600 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY PRESS REPORTED OCT. 7, 2005, THAT FRENCH AUTHORITIES EXTRADITED THE ALLEGED ETA MEMBER ANTXON SASIAIN RODRIGUEZ TO SPAIN ON OCT. 6, 2005. THE [...] | 2005-10-14 14:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SASIAIN RODRIGUEZ ANTXON |
05MADRID3601 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS OF OCT. 7, 2005 REPORTED THAT FRENCH AUTHORITIES AGREED TO THE TEMPORARY EXTRADITION TO SPAIN OF FERNANDO SILVA SANDE, THE ALLEGED LEADER OF SPA [...] | 2005-10-14 14:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SILVASANDE FERNANDO |
05MADRID3667 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST FROM ANOTHER AGENCY STATES THAT THE SPANISH POLICE HAS IDENTIFIED THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AS SUSPECTED ISLAMIC EXTREMIS [...] | 2005-10-19 14:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL ET AL BOUCHAIB KAKA |
05MADRID3668 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY "EL PAIS" OF OCT. 18, 2005 REPORTED THE DETENTION IN PARIS OF TWO SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF THE SPANISH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION "GRAPO", MILITARY ARM OF TH [...] | 2005-10-19 15:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL RAMONTEIJELO ANTONIO ET AL |
05MADRID3753 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS OF OCT. 23, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE DETAINED THREE ETA COLLABORATORS IN NAVARRA, SPAIN. THE INDIVIDUALS FACILITATED THE TRANSIT [...] | 2005-10-26 11:57:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL ET AL JOSE ANGEL ALZUGUREN PERURENA |
05MADRID391 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST INDICATES THAT AS OF MID-JANUARY 2005, THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES WERE INVESTIGATING THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS FOR POSSIBLE [...] | 2005-02-02 12:39:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID394 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 - JANUARY [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON JAN. 5, 2005, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE DCM, ROBERT MANZANARES. THE CHARGE EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE CONTINUING STRONG COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PROGRAM BY ALL AGENCIES AT POST [...] | 2005-02-02 14:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID4353 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2.INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST FROM ANOTHER AGENCY INDICATES THAT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BY SPANISH AUTHORITIES FOR LINKS TO TERRORISM. 3. NAME: [...] | 2005-12-30 11:38:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL ET AL ABDALLAH FETHI |
05MADRID467 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS "EL PAIS" OF JAN. 29, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE FRENCH JUDICIAL POLICE ARRESTED THREE MEMBERS OF ETA'S POLITICAL ORGANIZATION NETWORK, WHO [...] | 2005-02-07 16:36:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID468 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF JAN. 29, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SWISS OFFICE OF FEDERAL JUSTICE AGREED TO THE REQUEST FOR EXTRADITION TO SPAIN OF MOHAMED ACHRAF, A R [...] | 2005-02-07 16:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID471 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. RELIABLE PRESS OF FEB. 2, 2005 REPORTED BELGIUM POLICE ARRESTED THE ALLEGED AL QAEDA "SPOKESMAN" YOUSSEF BELHADJ IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM ON FEB. 1, 2005. THE [...] | 2005-02-07 16:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID473 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. RELIABLE DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF FEB. 2, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE DETAINED FOUR MEMBERS OF THE SAME FAMILY ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED AND/OR ASSOCIATED [...] | 2005-02-07 16:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID474 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH PRESS OF FEB. 3, 2005, REPORTED THE ARREST OF THE INDIVIDUAL BELOW. HE IS ACCUSED OF ASSOCIATION WITH THE PERPRETRATORS OF THE MARCH 11 ATTACKS. 3 [...] | 2005-02-07 16:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID50 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON DECEMBER 22, 2004, THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SPANISH CIVIL GUARD, DETAINED SIX MOROCCAN NATIONALS IN BARCELONA, SPAIN, FOR THEIR [...] | 2005-01-10 13:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID540 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF FEB. 10, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE ETA MEMBER, JUAN MARIA INSAUSTI MUGIKA, ESCORTED BY FRENCH POLICE, ARRIVED TO BARAJAS AIRPORT, MADRID ON [...] | 2005-02-10 16:21:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID584 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY PRESS OF FEB. 14, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH GUARDIA CIVIL ARRESTED ON FEB. 11, 2005 TWO SUSPECTED ETA ACTIVISTS IN BASAURI, VIZCAYA AND CAMPELLO, [...] | 2005-02-14 15:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL PEREZ |
05MADRID611 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. RELIABLE SPANISH PRESS OF FEB. 10, 2005 AND SUBSEQUENT DAYS, REPORTED THAT ON FEB. 9, 2005, THE SPANISH POLICE CONDUCTED SEVERAL OPERATIONS IN THE BASQUE C [...] | 2005-02-15 15:15:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID712 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF FEB. 18, 2004 REPORTED THE ARREST OF TWO ETA ACTIVISTS IN VALENCIA, SPAIN. AT THE TIME OF ARREST THEY WERE IN POSSESION OF TWO PISTOL [...] | 2005-02-24 16:19:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID979 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY PRESS OF MARCH 5, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH NATIONAL COURT PROVISIONALY RELEASED THE INDIVIDUALS REFERENCED BELOW, ALL HIGH RANKING MEMBERS [...] | 2005-03-14 16:38:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL |
05MADRID981 | VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH PRESS OF MARCH 6, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE HAVE ARRESTED THE INDIVIDUAL REFERENCED BELOW FOR HIS ALLEGED COLLABORATION WITH THE TERRORIST [...] | 2005-03-15 08:31:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL LEON |
05MANAMA1179 | WOMEN MINISTERS SET POSITIVE PRECEDENT [...] (C) Bahrain's two women ministers are setting a positive example for women's leadership in Bahrain. Minister of Health Dr. Nada Abbas Haffadh, who was appointed in April 2004, and Dr. Fatima Al Balooshi, appointed in January 2005, are the first women to serve in Bahrain's cabinet. End Summ [...] | 2005-08-15 15:18:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV KWMN BA |
05MANAMA1462 | TRANSFER OF SECOND BAHRAINI DETAINEE [...] (C) The Ambassador contacted Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar on October 8 to advise him that the United States was prepared to transfer from USG control to Bahrain custody and control Bahrain national Abdullah Al Noaimi. Ambassador reviewed ref a talking points [...] | 2005-10-10 12:35:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PHUM PINR BA |
05MANAMA1469 | NEW FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZES DESIRE TO ENHANCE [...] (C) Newly-appointed Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid told the Ambassador October 5 that the United States "has a special place" in his heart and he wants to enhance the already strong bilateral relations. He stressed that King Hamad is committed to the path of democratic reform and expanding w [...] | 2005-10-11 09:15:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD PINR BA IZ IR |
05MANAMA1563 | NOTICE OF ARB FINAL DETERMINATION - BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL BA |
05MANAMA1578 | TRANSFER OF THIRD BAHRAINI DETAINEE [...] (C) Ambassador advised Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar on October 29 that the USG is prepared to transfer a third Bahraini national, Shaikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa, from Guantanamo to the exclusive custody of the Government of Bahrain on the basis [...] | 2005-10-29 13:55:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR BA |
05MANAMA1594 | MFA GOES PUBLIC ON IMPENDING TRANSFER OF BAHRAINI [...] (U) Unidentified "sources" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Bahraini press on October 30 that some of the six Bahrainis detained at Guantanamo would return to Bahrain shortly, possibly over the upcoming Eid holidays. This story became a lead front-page news in both the English and A [...] | 2005-10-31 13:20:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR BA |
05MANAMA1627 | THREE BAHRAINI DETAINEES ARRIVE, RELEASED AFTER [...] (C) Three Bahraini Guantanamo detainees, approved for transfer back to Bahrain, arrived in Bahrain at 9:15 AM November 5 via USG transportation. Upon arrival at the airport, the three -- Shaikh Salman Ebrahim Mohammed Ali Al Khalifa, Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi, and Abdullah Al Noaimi -- wer [...] | 2005-11-05 10:20:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PREL PHUM PINR BA |
05MANAMA1686 | MFA REPORT ON THREE RETURNED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] After the Bahraini citizens Adel Kamel Abdulla Al Awadhi, Abdulla Majid Al Noaimi, and Shaikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa were returned, they were presented to the Public Prosecutor for the necessary legal procedures. 2. After the procedures completed, the detainees were rele [...] | 2005-11-15 12:27:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR BA |
05MANAMA273 | PM ENDORSES FOR ENHANCED SECURITY COOPERATION, [...] (C) Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa told the Ambassador February 26 that Bahrain must improve its security system with American assistance. The United States continues to be the leader in dealing with security threats while the Gulf region has fallen behind. The PM expressed his admiration fo [...] | 2005-02-28 15:05:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC KJUS PINR BA IZ IR |
05MANAMA392 | BAHRAIN: INTERAGENCY BRIEFING TEAM ON GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Post welcomes DOD's offer to lead an interagency team to discuss the status of the six Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo (reftel). Senior government officials regularly raise the detainees in meetings with the Ambassador and EmbOffs, most recently today, March 16, and the press covers the [...] | 2005-03-16 13:33:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL BA |
05MANAMA68 | NEW CABINET REFLECTS CONTINUED REFORM; PM'S BASE [...] (C) The new cabinet announced January 14 by King Hamad has two new ministers and six ministers from the former cabinet covering new portfolios. Five ministers in the previous cabinet, formed in November 2002, were dropped, four of whom have new positions as advisors to the Prime Minister or [...] | 2005-01-16 11:51:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BA |
05MANAMA84 | NOTICE OF FINAL DETERMINATION OF COMBATANT STATUS: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-18 09:21:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL BA |
05MANILA1401 | LEFTISTS CLAIM SYSTEMATIC CAMPAIGN TO KILL PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Gunmen have already killed up to eighteen members of leftist front groups including Bayan Muna -- a political party closely associated with the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) -- since the beginning of 2005. Leftist leaders have claimed that there [...] | 2005-03-29 08:03:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR SOCI KPAO RP |
05MANILA1774 | LATEST VIGILANTE KILLINGS IN CEBU - NO END IN SIGHT [...] (U) Summary: Summary executions of suspected criminals by "death squads" in Cebu are continuing at an alarming rate. According to media reports, suspected vigilantes have killed at least 41 people since December 2004. Civil society groups have condemned the extrajudicial killings, but much [...] | 2005-04-18 23:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI RP |
05MANILA1954 | CHINESE PRESIDENT HU JINTAO VISITS MANILA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The state visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao focused primarily on economic and trade issues, with apparently no discussion of improving military-to-military ties. Although Deputy Chief of the General Staff General Xiong Guang Kai plans a trip Manila in May, observers do not e [...] | 2005-04-29 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINR CH RP |
05MANILA1988 | MALACANANG DOWNPLAYS LATEST DESTABILIZATION PLOT [...] (C) Summary. Former Defense Secretary Fortunato Abat and other retired officials stirred fresh coup plot jitters on April 30 when they publicly called for a "revolutionary transition government" to replace the current administration. Malacanang downplayed the move, while the GRP continues to [...] | 2005-05-02 09:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PINR ELAB RP |
05MANILA2172 | ENLISTED OAKWOOD MUTINEERS COP A PLEA [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 11, an Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) military tribunal accepted a plea bargain for about 190 enlisted men who participated in the failed July 2003 "Oakwood" mutiny. They will return to active duty status but with demotions and loss of pay. They will likely be [...] | 2005-05-12 08:14:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AADP ASEC MOPS PGOV PINR PREL RP PINS PTER |
05MANILA2174 | MORE ON HU JINTAO'S VISIT TO THE PHILIPPINES [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, PRC President Hu Jintao's state visit was a "normal" component of Beijing's outreach to the region. Visits by the PRC Vice Minister of Defense and Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army are on the agenda as part of the war [...] | 2005-05-12 23:08:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EPET ECON CH RP |
05MANILA219 | TRADING A CHILD RAPIST FOR VOTES ON FISCAL [...] (C) Summary: Over 50 congressmen have signed "a letter of appeal" calling for President Arroyo to pardon former congressman Romeo Jalosjos, who has been in jail since 1997 for raping an 11 year old girl. President Arroyo is studying the request, apparently in a ploy to win votes for her leg [...] | 2005-01-13 08:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RP |
05MANILA2332 | GRP PREPARATIONS FOR THE AUGUST REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: With just over two months to go until the August 8 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),there are indications that the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) may not be able [...] | 2005-05-20 07:29:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM RP |
05MANILA2406 | POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE PHILIPPINES [...] (C) Summary: Party organizations are relatively weak in the Philippines and are overshadowed by the influence of personalities. Parties tend to coalesce around popular political leaders during electoral campaigns due to the desire for patronage, but otherwise are underfunded, without clear [...] | 2005-05-26 05:47:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI RP |
05MANILA2578 | CORRUPTION UPDATE: "JUETENG"; GARCIA; ESTRADA [...] (C) Summary: Amid a recent swirl of allegations involving the first family, a witness at a May 30 Senate investigation of "jueteng" (illegal lottery games) accused the President's son, Congressman "Mikey" Arroyo, of receiving profits from the game. President Arroyo dismissed the accusations [...] | 2005-06-02 08:12:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCOR ECON RP |
05MANILA2590 | STAYING ENGAGED WITH COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION [...] (S) SUMMARY. US counterterrorism assistance, ranging from operations/intelligence fusion support for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to RMAS' involvement with the Philippine National Police (PNP),has helped the Philippines register some counterterrorism successes in 2004 and 2005. [...] | 2005-06-03 04:24:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PINS ASEC MOPS PINR RP |
05MANILA2626 | PALACE ASSERTS THAT OPPOSITION IS TRYING TO USE [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye publicly stated June 5 that Malacanang was worried that the opposition was trying to use an alleged tape of presidential conversations as part of a destabilization plot. Bunye also stated that the opposition claimed that the tape had come fr [...] | 2005-06-06 06:59:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO PINR RP |
05MANILA2675 | MILF VALIDATING WANTED TERRORIST LIST FROM GRP [...] (SBU) Below is a list of 53 suspected militants provided to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) (a copy has been faxed to EAP/PMBS). MILF officials have publicly stated they are in the process of "validating" the list, and the names will form [...] | 2005-06-09 06:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR PINS ASEC PREL ID MY RP |
05MANILA271 | FORMER PRESIDENT ESTRADA RETURNS TO THE [...] (C) Summary: Former president Joseph "Erap" Estrada returned to Manila on January 15 after undergoing knee surgery in Hong Kong. Despite concerns that there could be a confrontation between his supporters and authorities, Estrada's return was uneventful, with police whisking him off via hel [...] | 2005-01-18 09:39:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR PREL ECON PINR RP |
05MANILA2712 | SETBACK IN GARCIA GRAFT CASE [...] (C) Summary: The recent ruling in the corruption trial of former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) General Garcia that his wife cannot be charged as a co-conspirator poses a serious threat to the prosecution's case. Though the prosecutors intend to appeal the ruling, [...] | 2005-06-14 03:30:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCOR ECON RP |
05MANILA2731 | PHILIPPINE POLITICS: ONE WEEKEND AT A TIME... [...] (C) Summary: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo survived the Independence Day weekend despite protests and calls for her ouster by members of the opposition. Privately, high-level Administration officials thanked the Charge for the USG's role in calming the waters; Charge reiterated that our [...] | 2005-06-14 08:35:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PINR MOPS RP |
05MANILA2777 | ARROYO UNDER PRESSURE TO EXPLAIN TAPES [...] (C) Summary: The Philippine Congress is planning inquiries into an audiotape that the opposition says implicates President Arroyo in electoral fraud. Arroyo -- defending herself -- has condemned "irresponsible detractors" and her press secretary has announced that she has no plans to appear [...] | 2005-06-17 06:05:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA2815 | CARDINAL SIN DIES AT AGE 76 [...] (U) Retired Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin died of multiple organ failure at a hospital in greater Manila at 6:15 AM on June 21. Cardinal Sin, 76, had been in poor health for the past several years and had been in intensive care for the past two days due to an infection related to a lon [...] | 2005-06-21 04:29:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS KPAO SOCI PINR RP VT |
05MANILA2821 | EMBASSY ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS -- LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past year, Mission has stepped up law enforcement anti-corruption efforts. Mission played a key role in major anti-corruption cases, particularly the case against former Comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) General Carlos Garcia. We are now activ [...] | 2005-06-21 08:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KCOR CVIS ECON RP |
05MANILA2840 | LEFTISTS JOIN OPPOSITION MOVES AGAINST ARROYO [...] (C) Summary: Leftist groups, most of which are aligned with the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA),appear to be lining up with mainstream opposition elements in efforts to unseat President Arroyo. Leftist groups, which have the ability to turn out protesters, are [...] | 2005-06-22 05:14:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS MOPS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA2970 | ARROYO SAYS "I AM SORRY" [...] (C) Summary: In a brief national address on June 27, a subdued President Arroyo admitted that a taped telephone conversation with an election official last year was "a lapse in judgment" and said "I am sorry." Asked subsequently for media comment, Charge underscored that the USG supports tr [...] | 2005-06-28 08:12:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR KPAO RP |
05MANILA2991 | DESIGNATION OF THE RAJAH SOLAIMAN MOVEMENT AS A [...] (S) Summary and Action Request. The Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM) has emerged as one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the Philippines. Its members have been involved in the 2004 Superferry 14 bombing, the synchronized 2005 "Valentine's Day" attacks in Manila, General Santos, and Da [...] | 2005-06-29 07:53:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC EFIN PINR PREL RP |
05MANILA2993 | ARROYO CLEANING HOUSE AS OPPONENTS STILL DENOUNCE [...] (C) Summary: According to President Arroyo, husband Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo has now "volunteered to go abroad." Susan Roces, the widow of former presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., called for Arroyo's immediate resignation, while privately indicating through an intermediary that she d [...] | 2005-06-29 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA3046 | ARROYO STEADYING THE SHIP [...] (C) Summary: The political scene in Manila continues to be lively but not truly turbulent. During a day trip outside of Manila, President Arroyo vowed to bring the country out of "political and economic deterioration." According to her son, the president's mood was good and she was confiden [...] | 2005-07-01 08:23:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINS PINR KPAO ASEC RP |
05MANILA3061 | ARROYO CELEBRATES JULY 4TH, BUT SUPREME COURT [...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo attended Mission's July 4 celebration and also hosted an anti-trafficking event at Malacanang attended by Charge on July 2. At the July 4 event, Charge publicly hailed close U.S.-Philippine ties and underscored the importance of strengthening democratic institu [...] | 2005-07-05 09:57:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL ECON PINR KPAO RP |
05MANILA3095 | MUSLIM VIEWS ON MANILA'S POLITICAL CIRCUS [...] (C) Summary. Some moderate Muslims are looking beyond PGMA to a possible De Castro era. The ongoing circus has sparked renewed interest in a look at an independent Mindanao as part of a federal system. Muslim clerics may issue veiled attacks against PGMA on July 8. End Summary. 2. (C) [...] | 2005-07-07 06:44:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KISL PINR RP |
05MANILA3115 | A GMA INSIDER GETS OUT [...] (S) Summary. The defection from GMA ranks of Congressman Golez is a blow to Arroyo. He believes she has lost the "moral high ground" and civil society support. There are no signs yet of other significant political defections or military unrest, but the situation remains highly fluid. End [...] | 2005-07-07 07:09:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA312 | MORE VIGILANTE-STYLE KILLINGS REPORTED IN DAVAO [...] (C) Summary: There have been 26 reported killings of suspected criminals in Davao City, Mindanao, since the new year began. Human rights organizations have implicated the "Davao Death Squad," a vigilante group linked with Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, in the killings. Mission has expressed [...] | 2005-01-20 08:14:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR SNAR RP |
05MANILA3202 | VATICAN HAND IN CATHOLIC BISHOPS' STATEMENT? [...] (C) Summary: Several local press reports have claimed that the Papal Nuncio "scolded" the Catholic bishops during their recent conference, demanding that they not involve themselves in politics by explicitly calling for President Arroyo's resignation. As reported, after much discussion, the [...] | 2005-07-12 07:50:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI RP VT |
05MANILA3251 | MUCH DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: A group of party leaders from across the political spectrum (pro-President Arroyo to opposition) met July 12 and agreed that the Philippine Constitution should be changed to create a unicameral legislature. No firm work program was agreed to. Arroyo welcomed further discussions [...] | 2005-07-14 08:55:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR PREL RP |
05MANILA3278 | PONDERING A "TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL" PROPOSAL [...] (C) Summary: Some politicians have begun to look at a possible "transitional council" for the Philippines, notably Senator Ramon Magsaysay and Renato De Villa, then-President Ramos' Defense Secretary. Under this scheme, President Arroyo and Vice President De Castro would resign and let a ca [...] | 2005-07-15 09:01:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL RP |
05MANILA3290 | PRO-ARROYO SUPPORTERS HOLD LARGE RALLY [...] (C) Summary: Media and police estimate that roughly 100,000 people attended a pro-President Arroyo rally on July 16 in Manila. Most rally participants appeared to be provincial- or local-level government workers and their families bused to the rally. In other news related to the ongoing po [...] | 2005-07-18 07:36:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL ASEC RP |
05MANILA3319 | OPPOSITION PRESSES FORWARD ON IMPEACHMENT EFFORT [...] (C) Summary: Opposition lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on an impeachment complaint against President Arroyo and believe that they are close to the needed number of House co-sponsors. Pro-Arroyo contacts still expect lengthy House hearings and a plenary vote before a trial in th [...] | 2005-07-19 09:45:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL RP |
05MANILA3391 | OPPOSITION FILES IMPEACHMENT CHARGES AGAINST ARROYO [...] (C) Summary: The Opposition filed amended impeachment charges in the House of Representatives against President Arroyo early July 25. The Opposition complaint charges that Arroyo betrayed public trust, violated the Constitution, and engaged in corrupt practices. The impeachment complaint di [...] | 2005-07-25 08:28:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL ASEC RP |
05MANILA3397 | ARROYO GIVES STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS, WHILE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo gave her State of the Nation Address (SONA) late July 25. In a short speech, she claimed that her government had made great strides in strengthening the economy and she promise [...] | 2005-07-25 10:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS PINR ECON ASEC RP |
05MANILA3413 | POSITIVE MEDIA COVERAGE FOR ARROYO SPEECH, BUT [...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo's July 25 State of the Nation Address (SONA) netted positive coverage in the media. Political reaction generally fell along predictable lines, with supporters asserting that it was an excellent speech, while the opposition castigated it. On the economic side, r [...] | 2005-07-26 07:42:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL ECON KPAO RP |
05MANILA3435 | GRP-MILF PEACE TALKS POSTPONED; LATEST NEWS [...] (S) Summary: The latest round of exploratory talks between the GRP and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been postponed. The talks -- which are being facilitated by the Malaysian government -- were scheduled to be held on July 25 in Kuala Lumpur and appear to have been postponed [...] | 2005-07-27 06:48:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PGOV PINS PTER PINR KISL MY RP |
05MANILA3632 | TENSIONS SPIKE BETWEEN GRP AND EXTREME LEFT [...] (C) Summary: The GRP announced on August 2 that it was suspending the immunity from arrest for National Democratic Front (NDF) officials, who had been participating in the negotiation track. The NDF sharply criticized the government's move. A congressman with close links to Malacanang told [...] | 2005-08-05 06:47:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER PINR RP NO NL |
05MANILA3697 | CONTINUED BICKERING IN HOUSE OVER IMPEACHMENT [...] (C) Summary: There has been continued bickering in the House over the Opposition's impeachment complaint against President Arroyo. Formal hearings in the Justice Committee began on August 10, with pro-Arroyo members immediately raising procedural questions about the nature of the complaint, [...] | 2005-08-10 08:19:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR SOCI RP VA |
05MANILA3709 | GRP BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON REVOCATION OF NDF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an effort to rally international backing, senior officials briefed representatives of the Manila diplomatic corps on the GRP's decision to suspend the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG),which provided Communist peace negotiators immunity from arrest an [...] | 2005-08-11 07:14:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER PINR PREL NO NL RP |
05MANILA3726 | AMPATUAN WINS GOVERNOR'S RACE IN MUSLIM AUTONOMOUS [...] (C) Summary: Official results have been released for the August 8 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Zaldy Ampatuan, the favored candidate, won the governor's race in a landslide, as did Ansaruddin Adiong in the vice-governor's race. They will be sworn in on Sept [...] | 2005-08-12 07:10:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS KISL ECON PINR RP |
05MANILA3754 | UPTICK IN EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN DAVAO AND CEBU [...] (SBU) Summary: Extra-judicial killings of suspected criminals in Davao and Cebu are on the increase. So far, 137 have been slain this year in Davao and 77 in Cebu. No arrests have been made. The killings appear to have spread to other localities: there have been several recent slayings [...] | 2005-08-15 07:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREL RP |
05MANILA3771 | AFP RECOVERS/SEEKS TO IDENTIFY TERRORIST REMAINS [...] (S/NF) Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) units recovered on August 11 in the vicinity of Datu Odin, Sinsuat in the Mindanao province of Maguindanao the remains of a terrorist killed in an engagement a month earlier with AFP troops tracking Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leader Khadaffy Janjalani. [...] | 2005-08-16 06:09:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER MOPS MARR PREL PINS PINR ID RP |
05MANILA3788 | STUDENT ACTIVISM IN THE PHILIPPINES: STILL A [...] (C) Summary: Student activism in the Philippines has long been a political force and it remains one. This is particularly the case at state-funded universities, where many students are involved in politics, including the effort to oust President Arroyo. Private university students play les [...] | 2005-08-17 07:36:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR KISL SOCI RP |
05MANILA3790 | GENERAL GENEROSA SENGA ASSUMES COMMAND OF ARMED [...] (SBU) Summary. Lieutenant General Generosa Senga assumed command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from retiring General Efren Abu in an August 15 change of command ceremony. Senga has a reputation as a combat commander. A classmate of Abu's, he is expected to continue many of his pred [...] | 2005-08-17 08:56:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR MCAP PGOV PINS PINR PTER RP |
05MANILA3810 | HEARINGS ON IMPEACHMENT CHARGES CONTINUE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: House hearings into the impeachment charges brought against President Arroyo are continuing, but pro-Arroyo and Opposition members continue to argue over procedure. In other legislative news, a House leader has advocated the formation of a constituent assembly that would focus [...] | 2005-08-18 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA3862 | CABINET SECRETARY IN DISCUSSIONS WITH ESTRADA [...] (C) Summary: Michael Defensor, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, has confirmed that he has been engaged in talks with supporters of former president Estrada. The exact scope of the talks is unclear, but Defensor, claiming that he is acting on his own volition, says the talks su [...] | 2005-08-21 09:27:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR SOCI KCOR RP |
05MANILA3901 | PRO-ARROYO MAJORITY WINS INITIAL VOTE IN HOUSE ON [...] (C) Summary: The pro-Arroyo Majority in the House won the initial vote in the Justice Committee on the Opposition's impeachment charges against President Arroyo on August 23. The vote in the Committee was 54-24 against an Opposition motion to move directly into discussion of the substance of [...] | 2005-08-23 08:45:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA3946 | CATHOLIC CHURCH CHANGES TACK AND TAKES MORE [...] (C) Summary: The Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines is changing tack in regard to its political role. Under the leadership of the now-deceased Cardinal Sin, the Church assumed an activist posture, pressing for the ouster of two presidents, and at times indicating preferences for or ag [...] | 2005-08-25 07:28:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI RP |
05MANILA3994 | IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS CONTINUE WITH KEY VOTES [...] (C) Summary: Impeachment hearings in the House Justice Committee continued on August 30. The pro-Arroyo Majority made clear that it intends to vote against allowing the House to review the Opposition's amended impeachment complaint against President Arroyo. The Opposition argues that its c [...] | 2005-08-29 09:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA4019 | MAJORITY SEEMS SET TO WRAP UP IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS [...] (C) Summary: The pro-Arroyo Majority in the House voted August 31 to disallow the Opposition's impeachment complaint against President Arroyo in favor of a weaker complaint filed earlier by a private citizen. There are also reports that the Majority is planning to throw out this remaining i [...] | 2005-08-30 09:58:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA4040 | END GAME FOR IMPEACHMENT EFFORT DRAWS NEAR AS [...] (C) Summary: The pro-Arroyo Majority in the House Justice Committee voted down the final impeachment complaint left standing against President Arroyo late August 31. The Committee voted overwhelmingly to reject the complaint on the grounds that it lacked substance (the Committee had already [...] | 2005-08-31 08:01:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA4140 | HOUSE QUASHES IMPEACHMENT EFFORT [...] (C) Summary: The Philippine House of Representatives has quashed the Opposition's impeachment effort against President Arroyo. In a session concluding late September 6, the vote in the House to uphold the Justice Committee's findings dismissing the complaints against Arroyo was 158 for and 5 [...] | 2005-09-05 09:10:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA4271 | ARCHBISHOP ROSALES ENCOURAGES CHURCH TO STAY OUT [...] (C) Summary: In a September 8 meeting with Charge, Archbishop of Manila Gaudencio Rosales identified economic and moral poverty as the greatest problems in the Philippines today and criticized the current political leadership as corrupt and ineffective in improving the lives of the people. [...] | 2005-09-11 08:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RP |
05MANILA4278 | AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS: GAPS IN PLANNING [...] (SBU) Summary: Although there have been no reported cases of avian influenza (H5N1) in the Philippines, the GRP's capacity to respond to a potential outbreak is limited by lack of resources in many areas. The GRP lacks funds for materials such as protective gear and stockpiles of Tamiflu. K [...] | 2005-09-11 10:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PINR SOCI EAGR SENV TBIO TSPL RP |
05MANILA4322 | CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE URGES FILIPINOS TO [...] (C) On September 13 the Permanent Council of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a sequel to its pastoral statement of July 2005, calling on Filipinos to move beyond the current political turmoil and to "address the more important and urgent problem of grinding po [...] | 2005-09-13 08:55:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RP |
05MANILA4417 | FILIPINO REACTION TO ESPIONAGE CASE AGAINST FBI [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The announcement of the arrest of a former Philippine police official and an FBI employee on espionage charges in the U.S. has generated mixed reaction in the Philippines. Several national poli [...] | 2005-09-19 09:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS RP |
05MANILA4443 | OPPOSITION MOTION IN HOUSE TO RECONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: The Opposition tried to file a motion in the House on September 19 asking for a reconsideration of its recent decision to quash the impeachment complaints against President Arroyo. The effort failed, however, due to the lack of a quorum. Opposition leaders have admitted that t [...] | 2005-09-20 08:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA4464 | MALACANANG TAKES FLAK OVER HIRING OF U.S. LOBBYING [...] (C) Summary: Malacanang has recently taken a great deal of criticism for the hiring of Venable LLP, a U.S.-based law firm, to do lobbying. Opposition and even some pro-administration lawmakers have asserted that the contract was too expensive and complained that it was non-transparent. Mat [...] | 2005-09-21 08:34:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR ECON RP |
05MANILA4488 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE PHILIPPINES: A SNAPSHOT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The approximately six million plus indigenous persons in the Philippines are marginalized and lag far behind the general population in most social and economic indicators. They also suffer dis [...] | 2005-09-22 07:49:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV ECON EAID PINR PINS PREF RP |
05MANILA4491 | MORE COVERAGE IN PHILIPPINE PRESS OF ALLEGED [...] Anti-government, pro-opposition daily "The Philippine Daily Inquirer" printed another in a series of daily articles summarizing and analyzing purported classified US Embassy reports on the front page in its edition of September 23. Following is the full text of the article. BEGIN TEXT " [...] | 2005-09-22 08:01:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PINS KPAO RP |
05MANILA4545 | MALACANANG REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING PARDON OF [...] (C) Summary: The Palace is reportedly considering pardoning former Congressman Romeo Jalosjos, who has been in jail since 1997 for raping an 11 year old girl. According to opponents of the possible move, the Palace is considering the matter as a reward to the Jalosjos clan, which is politica [...] | 2005-09-26 07:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RP |
05MANILA4637 | PHILIPPINE MILITARY OFFICERS DISCIPLINED AFTER [...] (U) Summary. Two high-ranking Philippine military officers have been relieved of their posts after claiming at a Senate hearing to know of vote fraud committed on behalf of Philippine President Arroyo in the 2004 election. End Summary. 2. (U) On September 28, 2005, two high-ranking offic [...] | 2005-09-28 07:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL MCAP RP |
05MANILA464 | ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE PICKS UP STEAM [...] (C) Summary: Mission is actively working with GRP counterparts to help them develop legal cases against Philippine officials who have allegedly been engaged in graft and other forms of corruption. GRP officials have recently advanced numerous new corruption-related cases against prominent m [...] | 2005-01-28 07:35:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR PREL MARR ECON PINR RP |
05MANILA4662 | DEBATE OVER POSSIBLE CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES [...] (C) Summary: The perennial debate over possible changes to the Philippine Constitution of 1987 is steadily heating up. Jose De Venecia, the Speaker of the House, is pressing the matter forward in Congress, urging that the current bicameral, executive presidential system be changed into a pa [...] | 2005-09-29 05:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA4740 | MALACANANG-SENATE RELATIONS DETERIORATE [...] (C) Summary: After several highly contentious Senate sessions, a group of Opposition senators led by Senate President Franklin Drilon continues to press for more hearings into issues potentially embarrassing to President Arroyo. Malacanang has reacted angrily and is strictly controlling acc [...] | 2005-10-04 05:32:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR ECON EINV PTER CH RP |
05MANILA4776 | NEW GOVERNOR IN MUSLIM REGION IN MINDANAO SWORN IN [...] (C) Summary. Newly elected Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan was sworn into office on September 30 by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. Conspicuously absent from the inaugural ceremony were outgoing ARMM Governor Dr. Parouk Hussin, and Cotabato City Mayor M [...] | 2005-10-05 09:19:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PINS KISL PINR ECON RP |
05MANILA4785 | PHILIPPINE REACTION TO LATEST REVELATIONS ABOUT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Philippine media is covering in an extensive fashion an October 5 report by ABC News that recently-arrested FBI analyst Leandro Aragoncillo may have stolen classified US documents from the office of th [...] | 2005-10-06 07:18:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS KPAO RP |
05MANILA4809 | MORE PHILIPPINE REACTION TO UNFOLDING U.S. [...] (C) Summary. The indictment of Philippine national Michael Ray Aquino on charges of conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent has elicited a range of reactions in the Philippines, including comments from President Arroyo and the Secretary of Justice. Key Opposition politicians, [...] | 2005-10-10 09:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS KPAO ASEC PREL RP |
05MANILA4810 | PHILIPPINES: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGIES [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This message is in response to the action request contained in "Democracy Promotion Strategies for EAP Focus Countries" (ref a). Responses are keyed to specific informational requests contained in ref a, p [...] | 2005-10-10 09:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR PINS ECON KDEM RP |
05MANILA4934 | DISPERSAL OF OPPOSITION RALLY SPARKS DEBATE OVER [...] (C) Summary: The October 14 dispersal of a small Opposition rally has sparked a sharp debate over the GRP's tactics. The Opposition and many in the media have criticized the police, asserting that the use of water cannons was not appropriate, for example. Malacanang -- while not endorsing [...] | 2005-10-18 08:45:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA4962 | DIVISIONS IN PRESIDENT ARROYO'S COALITION IN HOUSE [...] (C) Summary: Tensions have spiked between Lakas, the major party in President Arroyo's coalition in the House, and KAMPI, a group of strong Arroyo loyalists. The flashpoint for the friction has been how many KAMPI members will serve on a key committee. A major source of continuing tension, [...] | 2005-10-20 06:04:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PINS RP |
05MANILA4971 | ANTI-ARROYO RALLY SPONSORED BY LEFT DRAWS 10,000 [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: About 10,000 leftist anti-President Arroyo protesters convened at a site near Malacanang Palace on October 21. In scuffles with police, several people were injured. This latest rally is part o [...] | 2005-10-20 07:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA499 | INTERNATIONAL TEAM INVESTIGATES SLAYINGS OF [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: A fact-finding team organized by the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) January 24-31 investigated recen [...] | 2005-02-01 08:24:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR SOCI KPAO RP |
05MANILA5012 | SEARCH FOR NEXT OMBUDSMAN -- GRP'S KEY ANTI- [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GRP's Judicial and Bar Council is reviewing possible candidates to replace Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo, who is resigning on November 30. Favored candidates include Presidential Legal Counsel [...] | 2005-10-25 03:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR ECON EAID PINR RP |
05MANILA5059 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - LIMITED SURVEILLANCE AND [...] (U) This is the third of a series of reports on the Philippines' preparedness to avert a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak (Refs C and D). This report focuses on stages 1 and 2 of the Philippines' Avian Influenza Protection Program: HPAI prevention and the establishment of co [...] | 2005-10-27 02:40:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR SOCI EAGR SENV TBIO TSPL RP |
05MANILA5097 | MANILA BOMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PHILIPPINE [...] This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Death sentences were handed down in a Philippine trial court on October 28 to three extremists for their role in the February 14, 2005, bombing of a passenger bus in Manila. Key to the prosecutors' [...] | 2005-11-01 09:37:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV PINR PINS RP |
05MANILA5130 | THE INC AND EL SHADDAI: TWO PHILIPPINE RELIGIOUS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) and the charismatic El Shaddai Catholic group are politically active and their leaders retain significant influence on national politics. This influence was highli [...] | 2005-11-02 09:13:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS SOCI KDEM RP |
05MANILA5291 | NEW AVIAN FLU "CZAR" WILL FOCUS ON PREVENTION [...] On November 2, President Arroyo appointed Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Domingo Panganiban as the "anti-Avian Flu Czar" supervising avian flu preparedness. Panganiban will lead the National Avian Influenza Task Force (NAITF) that coordinates inter-agency efforts to prevent and cont [...] | 2005-11-09 07:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PINR SOCI EAGR SENV TBIO TSPL RP |
05MANILA5328 | GRP CONTINUES TO CONSIDER EMERGENCY RULE [...] (S) Summary/Comment: EAP DAS John underscored the USG's firm opposition to the imposition of emergency rule or any other similar measures during separate meetings with President Arroyo, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, and defense officials on November 11. Both Arroyo and Romulo indicated [...] | 2005-11-14 09:56:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA5331 | EAP DAS JOHN'S NOVEMBER 11 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: EAP DAS John and Charge met November 11 with President Arroyo. Arroyo underscored her government's support for Philippine Defense Reform (PDR) and continued counterterrorism cooperation. She expressed interest in the U.S. and the GRP agreeing to a Free Trade Agreement (FTA),sa [...] | 2005-11-15 02:07:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR PTER PHUM ETRD RP BM UNSC |
05MANILA5346 | AMID CONTINUED NPA ATTACKS, KILLINGS OF LEFTIST [...] (C) Summary: About 40 leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines so far in 2005. These killings, a jump from the number recorded in 2004, come amid a flurry of attacks by the New People's Army (NPA),which have killed and injured many. "Legal" left politicians and activists have [...] | 2005-11-15 09:40:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER PINS PREL PINR RP |
05MANILA5364 | A VIEW FROM MANILA'S STREETS: GENERAL PESSIMISM [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Poloff and Pol FSN visited a poor neighborhood in Manila on November 14 to canvass views about residents' lives, politics and the U.S. Filipinos on the streets were generally pessimistic abou [...] | 2005-11-16 07:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS KDEM SOCI PREL KPAO RP |
05MANILA5393 | TEXT MESSAGE RUMORS SHOW RISING PUBLIC CONCERN [...] This is an information message. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. The Philippines remains free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI),but recent text message rumors of HPAI cases in the Philippines show rising public awareness and concern over avian flu. The GRP faces increasing chall [...] | 2005-11-17 09:13:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PINR SOCI EAGR SENV TBIO TSPL RP |
05MANILA5482 | GARCI'S RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES: WILL IT BRING [...] (C) Summary: Former Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano's reappearance in the Philippines after almost four months overseas has sent ripples through political circles and led to speculation and rumors about the timing and purpose of his return. Both the pro-Ar [...] | 2005-11-24 07:48:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA5510 | SCENE SETTER FOR DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Comprehensive counterterrorism efforts -- ranging from the military to humanitarian to public diplomacy -- top the broad U.S. agenda in the Philippines' still struggling democracy. In Manila, you will meet President Arroyo, former President Ramos, Executive Secretary Ermita, [...] | 2005-11-28 11:38:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PINR ASEC OVIP PINS MOPS MARR PGOV RP |
05MANILA5521 | EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN DAVAO AND CEBU HIT NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Justice Secretary Gonzalez has issued the first public statement by a high-ranking Philippine administration official on the extra-judicial killings of suspected criminals in Davao and Cebu, which continue to increase. This year, at least 147 have been killed in Davao and 104 [...] | 2005-11-30 07:51:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREL RP |
05MANILA5619 | SCENE SETTER FOR SENATOR CHRISTOPHER BOND [...] (S/NF) Summary. Comprehensive counterterrorism efforts -- ranging from the military to humanitarian to public diplomacy -- top the broad U.S. agenda in the Philippines' still struggling democracy. In Manila, you will meet President Arroyo, National Security Advisor Gonzales, National Intell [...] | 2005-12-02 06:45:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PINR ASEC OVIP PINS MOPS MARR PGOV RP |
05MANILA5647 | COURT-MARTIAL FINDS GENERAL GARCIA GUILTY [...] (U) On the afternoon of December 2, a general court martial board sentenced retired Major General Carlos Garcia to dishonorable dismissal, forfeiture of military retirement benefits, and two years of hard labor at a military prison. The military court found Garcia, a former military comptroll [...] | 2005-12-02 09:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KCOR ECON RP |
05MANILA5688 | PRESIDENT ARROYO APPOINTS NEW OMBUDSMAN TO LEAD [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo has named her Chief Legal Counsel, Maria Merceditas "Mercy" Gutierrez, as the new Ombudsman for the Philippines. Gutierrez, a 1995 participant in the State Department's Intern [...] | 2005-12-06 08:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR KWMN ECON EAID PINR RP |
05MANILA5734 | TESTIMONY OF FORMER ELECTORAL OFFICIAL BEFORE [...] (C) Summary: Former Commission on Elections (COMELEC) official Virgilio Garcillano's House testimony on December 7 did not bring closure to the "Hello Garci" audiotape controversy involving President Arroyo. Garcillano refused to comment directly on the audiotapes, but firmly denied rigging [...] | 2005-12-08 07:32:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR PINS PINR EAID RP |
05MANILA5806 | SEARCH FOR NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE NARROWS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GRP's Judicial and Bar Council has submitted to President Arroyo its "short list" -- consisting of the three most senior associate justices -- to succeed current Supreme Court Chief Justice [...] | 2005-12-14 03:33:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PREL ECON EAID ETRD PINR RP |
05MANILA5844 | FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY DECLARES HIMSELF [...] (C) Summary: Inveterate plotter and former defense secretary Fortunado Abat declared himself "President" of a SIPDIS "Revolutionary Transition Government" at a December 13 press conference held in Manila. In reaction, the GRP reportedly detained him on December 15. Amid the on-and-off sw [...] | 2005-12-15 08:54:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PINR RP |
05MANILA5864 | Avian Flu-Related Trade Restrictions on Poultry [...] This cable confirms delivery of ref A talking points to the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). It also provides information requested in ref A on poultry market trends and GRP import restrictions. The GRP appears to follow guidelines of the World O [...] | 2005-12-16 07:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PINR SOCI EAGR SENV TBIO TSPL RP |
05MANILA587 | POLICE ACTIVELY INVESTIGATING STRING OF [...] (C) Summary: Cebu city remains abuzz about a recent string of extrajudicial killings that has taken upwards of 25 lives. Philippine National Police (PNP) officials confirmed that PNP is actively investigating the slayings, which have divided the city, with the Cardinal and some key local po [...] | 2005-02-07 09:06:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR SNAR RP |
05MANILA5877 | FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY RELEASED AFTER BEING [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Former defense secretary Fortunado Abat and three members of his self-proclaimed "Revolutionary Transition Government" were released on December 16 -- a day after police detained them for quest [...] | 2005-12-19 09:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PREL PINR RP |
05MANILA5914 | PRESIDENT ARROYO APPOINTS NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 20, President Arroyo appointed Associate Justice Artemio V. Panganiban, 69, as the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Panganiban is a well-respected, articulate jurist and is expected to continue the judicial reforms begun by his predecess [...] | 2005-12-21 09:21:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PREL ECON EAID ETRD PINR RP |
05MANILA5947 | CONTRASTING VIEWS FROM OPPOSITION LEADERS IN [...] (C) Summary: Charge recently held separate meetings with key Opposition figures Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson and House Minority Leader Francis "Chiz" Escudero. Lacson and Escudero were a contrast in perspectives and style. Lacson predicted that new impeachment charges would be filed agains [...] | 2005-12-23 06:59:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR RP |
05MANILA630 | CORRECTED COPY: JOLO FIGHTING LEAVES OVER 50 DEAD [...] (U) This is a corrected copy of Manila 621. The Summary reported incorrectly that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was involved in the recent clashes. The Summary should read that the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was involved, as is indicated below. The body of Manila 621 [...] | 2005-02-09 23:32:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PINR PREL MOPS RP |
05MANILA724 | GRP PREPARES FOR AUGUST ELECTIONS IN MINDANAO AND [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Executive branch and Commission on Elections (COMELEC) sources confirm that regional assembly (ARMM) elections in Mindanao are on track to take place in August 2005. Nationwide neighborhood (b [...] | 2005-02-15 07:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR EAID SOCI RP |
05MANILA835 | SULU UPDATE: MAJOR FIGHTING GIVES WAY TO GUERRILLA [...] (C) Summary. Fighting has subsided on Jolo Island but intermittent skirmishes continue. The military continues pursuit operations against enemy forces now employing guerrilla tactics by squad-sized units. The fighting has so far displaced over 32,000 people. Often impassable roads -- susc [...] | 2005-02-23 08:40:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PINR PREL MOPS PREF RP |
05MANILA84 | LATEST PROGRESS ON ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President's new anti-corruption czar has requested Embassy's cooperation, which Embassy officers will provide in addition to ongoing coordination with the Office of the Ombudsman. The GRP is making progress on some new high profile corruption cases, most recently charging an [...] | 2005-01-06 08:45:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR PREL MARR ECON PINR RP |
05MAPUTO1099 | BIO INFORMATION ON NEW SADC EXECUTIVE SECRETARY [...] (U) Under former President Chissano, Tomas Salomao served as Mozambique's Minister of Transport and Communication (2000-2005) and Minister of Planning and Finance (1994-1999). Salomao is a member of the powerful 15-person FRELIMO Political Commission. In the December 2004 general elections he [...] | 2005-08-26 08:34:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV PREL MZ SADC |
05MAPUTO1112 | MUSLIM IV HITS HOME RUN TELLING AMERICA'S [...] SUMMARY. Speaking to large audiences of Mozambican Muslims, Abdul Carimo Sau told America's story better than any American could have done. Sau, the Vice President of the Islamic Council of Mozambique, recently returned from the three-week International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on Rel [...] | 2005-08-29 15:58:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PINR KPAO MZ |
05MAPUTO1137 | MOZAMBIQUE - RENAMO OFFICERS THREATEN TO "RETURN [...] (SBU) The Ambassador, along with other heads of missions, was called to a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign on August 30 to hear the government rebut claims made recently a RENAMO leader that former RENAMO officers are being forced to retire unfairly from the Mozambican armed forces. Former se [...] | 2005-09-01 16:25:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MZ RENAMO |
05MAPUTO1158 | MOZAMBIQUE - ONE DOZEN KILLED IN POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6 violence broke out in the small town of Mocimboa da Praia in northern Mozambique between the police and supporters of the main opposition party, RENAMO, resulting in 12 deaths and nearly 50 wounded. Order has since been restored, but several RENAMO figures from th [...] | 2005-09-08 16:15:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI MZ RENAMO |
05MAPUTO1348 | ADDITIONAL PRESS COVERAGE OF U.S. ARREST OF EX-USG [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-17 14:32:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OIIP KPAO PINR ASIG CASC ASEC MZ |
05MAPUTO184 | MOZAMBIQUE: BIODATA ON NEW GUEBUZA CABINET (PART I) [...] (U) This message provides biographical data for key cabinet ministers sworn in on February 5 by President Guebuza. Biodata on additional cabinet members will be provided in septels. Sources include official ministerial biographies, local media reports, and information obtained from Embassy con [...] | 2005-02-09 14:56:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO208 | MOZAMBIQUE: BIODATA ON NEW GUEBUZA CABINET (PART II) [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (U) This message reports biographical data for key ministers recently appointed by President Guebuza. The message follows biodata presented in reftel A. Biod [...] | 2005-02-15 12:19:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO257 | MOZAMBIQUE: BIODATA ON NEW GUEBUZA CABINET (PART III) [...] (U) This is the third message in a series of biographical reports on cabinet ministers recently appointed by President Guebuza. Sources include official ministerial biographies, local media reports, and information obtained from Embassy contacts. ----------------- Table of Contents ------- [...] | 2005-02-25 09:18:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO313 | MOZAMBIQUE: GUEBUZA REPLACES CHISSANO AS FRELIMO [...] (U) On March 4, FRELIMO's Central Committee announced that former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano had voluntarily stepped down from his post as president of the ruling FRELIMO party. Shortly thereafter, Mozambique's newly-elected President Armando Guebuza was named his successor by the 1 [...] | 2005-03-07 13:32:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PINR MZ FRELIMO |
05MAPUTO692 | MOZAMBIQUE: GUEBUZA'S 100-DAY VICTORY LAP [...] (SBU) President Guebuza has spent the first 100 days in office traveling the length of the country, bolstering support for himself and the ruling party, Frelimo. In public addresses he has held firm to the themes of his campaign promise to alleviate poverty, combat corruption and eliminate bur [...] | 2005-06-03 10:02:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM MZ KCOR HIV AIDS PEPFAR |
05MAPUTO836 | AMBASSADOR VISITS MATOLA MUSLIM SCHOOL [...] On June 16 the Matola Muslim School (Massjid Hamza) warmly welcomed its first visit by an American ambassador. Following up on his participation in last November's Iftar hosted by the Ambassador, the school's director and the most important Imam in Mozambique, Sheik Aminudine Muhammed, gave a [...] | 2005-07-06 05:07:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO PINR PTER KISL MZ |
05MASERU373 | NEXT STEPS ON ARTICLE 98 [...] (C) Ambassador met July 19, 21 and 25 with Foreign Minister Moleleki concerning Article 98. We learned from a United Kingdom (UK) source that arguments against Article 98 had been developed by the European Union (EU) at an informal Cabinet meeting chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) du [...] | 2005-07-25 15:10:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR LT UN |
05MASERU572 | AU, MCC, ARTICLE 98 AND THE MFA [...] (C) Following attendance at an extraordinary meeting of the African Union, FOMIN Moleleki portrayed Africa's stance on the Security Council as unchanged during November 3 discussion. He characterized the AU's position as contrary to that of the U.S. in terms of size with the AU still arguing [...] | 2005-11-04 12:09:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR LT KICC UN MCC |
05MINSK1055 | Media Polling: Most Watch, Distrust State News [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 2 the head of the IISEPS polling service provided polling results for a June poll ISEPS conducted on media access in Belarus. The poll found that a minority of Belarusians have access to satellite TV or the internet, and that over 80% watch Belarusian state televis [...] | 2005-09-06 14:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BO |
05MINSK1062 | Regional Opposition Malaise [...] (C) Summary: In the past month Poloffs visited three mid-sized Belarusian cities, each an hour or two from Minsk, to the west, northeast and southeast. In each we found a shrinking and demoralized opposition struggling to stay alive. Most were at a loss as to how to promote themselves to the [...] | 2005-09-07 08:25:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BO |
05MINSK1079 | Would You Go on Holiday in Belarus? [...] (U) Summary: President Lukashenko decided this year that tourism in Belarus must increase, and the GOB issued a number of new laws to ensure that it does. Lukashenko also wants stricter enforcement of hunting legislation. Agro and eco tourism are slowly taking off in rural regions, but thos [...] | 2005-09-08 13:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1099 | Lukashenko to Help Opposition [...] (C) Summary: Lukashenko recently announced he would assist the opposition in finding a venue for their convention inside Belarus. This statement came after all venues in the country already rejected the opposition's application. The 10+'s organizer, Aleksandr Bukhvostov, has been in contact [...] | 2005-09-13 14:28:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BO |
05MINSK1106 | The Few, The Timid, The Youth Groups [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with a series of non-partisan youth NGOs to determine young peoples' attitudes to the present and future of Belarus. All of the youth organization leaders criticized GOB policies regarding youth and democracy. They also painted a dismal picture of the situation for [...] | 2005-09-15 07:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR BO CH |
05MINSK1107 | Tourism Part II: An Examination of Agrotourism [...] Summary: (U) The GOB has a two-part program for tourism: to increase tourism within Belarus by Belarusians and to increase the number of foreign tourists to Belarus. On September 3 and 4, Emboffs set off to test the tourism waters, starting with an overnight at an agrotourism farm. They also [...] | 2005-09-15 07:06:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1164 | MOJ: Any Political Organization Must Register [...] (U) On September 19 Minister of Justice Viktor Golovanov signed a "postanovlenie" (ruling, or ordinance) regulating the political activities of Belarusians. Specifically, the ruling demands that, "Before conducting any events of a political character or forming any blocs of political parties, [...] | 2005-09-23 13:55:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1165 | Flaws in Single Candidate Process [...] (C) Summary: The independent election observation NGO Partnership recently released a report on the conduct of the opposition 10+ coalition's single candidate process. Partnership documented numerous instances of harassment by the regime, but also pointed out failings by the oppositiQ, such as [...] | 2005-09-23 13:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1192 | New Poll - Lukashenko Already Winning [...] (U) Summary: NOVAK released the results of its August - September survey and presented an analysis to Pol Chief on September 27. Lukashenko's rating jumped 5 percentage points while the leading opposition contenders' ratings remained below one percent. However, the percentage of those who di [...] | 2005-09-29 13:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1194 | Single Opposition Candidate Convention Almost A [...] (C) Summary: The 10+ coalition leaders are frantically making the final preparations for the single candidate convention, which will take place in Minsk October 1-2. The approximately 900 delegates will select one of the four candidates to be the single candidate on the second day of the con [...] | 2005-09-30 10:02:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1205 | Opposition Chooses Single Candidate [...] (C) Summary: The 10+ coalition, by far Belarus' largest opposition group, held its Congress of Democratic Forces in Minsk October 1 and 2 and narrowly chose Aleksandr Milinkevich to be its single candidate to challenge President Lukashenko in the July 2006 elections. This congress was the cul [...] | 2005-10-03 14:24:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1227 | "BELARUS' ELECTION MORE DEMOCRATIC THAN THOSE IN [...] (C) Summary: In an October 5 meeting, Head of the Central Election Committee (CEC) Ludmilla Yermoshina and her deputy explained to Pol Chief the processes of choosing an election date and registering presidential candidates. The election will be no later than July 20 and campaigning will begin [...] | 2005-10-07 10:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1231 | New IISEPS Poll: Lukashenko Will Win, [...] Summary: Head of the IISEPS polling service delivered his recent survey results to Ambassador on September 30. Similar to other polls, IISEPS confirmed that Lukashenko enjoys a large lead over his opposition and is trusted by the majority. However, many of the respondents indicated it was ti [...] | 2005-10-07 10:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1232 | BELARUS: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGIES [...] (C) The Lukashenko regime is engaged in a clear and comprehensive effort to continue and deepen Lukashenko's dictatorial rule over Belarus. The regime has created a climate of fear in the country and is attempting to eliminate any possibility for democratic change through an aggressive anti- [...] | 2005-10-07 10:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR EAID PREL BO |
05MINSK1236 | Who is Alexander Milinkevich? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress of Democratic Forces of Belarus nominated physics professor, former deputy mayor of Grodno and NGO activist Alexander Milinkevich to run in the 2006 presidential elections against current president Aleksandr Lukashenko. A cultured, quiet man with Western exposure, [...] | 2005-10-11 11:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BO |
05MINSK1271 | INTERVIEW WITH LUKASHENKO'S WIFE [...] (U) Summary: An independent newspaper interviewed President Lukashenko's separated wife, Galina, on September 29. His wife spoke of how the two met and their short time living together as husband and wife. Galina claimed she and Lukashenko are still legally married and that it was her deci [...] | 2005-10-17 14:02:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BO |
05MINSK1284 | CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS DISCUSS IMPACT OF [...] (C) Summary: Since the October 2 nomination of Aleksandr Milinkevich by the democratic congress, Emboffs have conducted a series of meetings with civil society leaders and political analysts to assess the significance of the democratic congress and of Milinkevich's presidential bid. Most obs [...] | 2005-10-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1286 | China Q Belarus Relations: Politically Strong, [...] (C) Summary: On October 14 the newly arrived Chinese Ambassador candidly discussed Chinese-Belarusian relations. He asserted his main task is to increase Belarusian Q Chinese economic ties to balance the strong political ties between Minsk and Beijing. He complained that this would be an impo [...] | 2005-10-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ECON BO CH |
05MINSK1316 | MILINKEVICH APPEALS TO US AMBASSADOR FOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 26, Aleksandr Milinkevich discussed with Ambassador his campaign activities following the October 1-2 democratic congress (ref A). He was relatively pleased with his efforts to pull together a unified campaign team, and was cautiously optimistic he and his team could [...] | 2005-10-28 11:15:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1342 | MILINKEVICH TEAM OUTLINES CAMPAIGN STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief recently met with 10+ presidential nominee Aleksandr Milinkevich and several leaders of his team to discuss their plans to bring about democratic change around the time of the 2006 presidential elections. The strategy, though still in its elementary [...] | 2005-11-01 13:20:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1384 | Belarusian TV Accuses U.S. Diplomats of Revolutionary [...] (U) Summary: Belarus' national television channel aired exposes on November 4 and 13 accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of using NGOs and the human rights/democracy campaign as covers for spreading revolutions around the world. The hosts of the two programs proposed that Emboffs were partic [...] | 2005-11-15 11:58:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1405 | Lukashenko Forming an Obedient Electorate Ahead of the [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the beginning of September, Lukashenko has stepped up populist efforts to buy the people's support for his election. At the same time, he has intensified his campaign to liquidate opposition forces within the media, youth, and workforce in order to prevent what he portray [...] | 2005-11-22 06:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1436 | Security Advisory Opinion (FEDULOV, YURIY) [...] (S) Summary: Post requests guidance regarding the visa application of Yuri Nikolaevich Fedulov. Mr. Fedulov is applying for a visa in order to attend NATO working group conferences and to visit family. The previous Defense Attache and the previous Consular Officer at Embassy Minsk had seriou [...] | 2005-11-29 08:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | SECRET | CVIS FEDULOV YURIY PINR PGOV BO |
05MINSK1485 | GOB Seeks Meeting with U.S. Delegation During WTO [...] Following up on Ambassador's November 21 meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Mikhnevich (reftel),the MFA on December 8 delivered a letter to Ambassador requesting the Embassy's assistance in arranging a meeting with a senior member of the U.S. delegation at the December 13-18 WTO M [...] | 2005-12-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR ECON BO CH |
05MINSK1495 | EUR DAS Kramer Discusses Campaign Strategy with [...] (C) Summary: On December 6, EUR DAS David Kramer met with single opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's campaign team. Milinkevich was out in the regions on his campaign trips. Campaign manager Sergey Kalyakin and his deputies described the negative effects the government- supported i [...] | 2005-12-13 13:58:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
05MINSK1556 | Even Bureaucrats Want Change: Elite Poll Shows [...] (C) Summary: Head of the IISEPS polling service Oleg Manaev (protect) delivered his recent survey results to Ambassador on December 21. The two groups surveyed - thirty business leaders and thirty senior government officials Q responded similarly on most questions about the upcoming presiden [...] | 2005-12-29 13:59:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK760 | New SD Leader Meets Ambassador, Tries to Sell [...] (C) Summary: On July 7, new social democrat leader Aleksandr Kozulin called on Ambassador Krol to give his view of the political opposition in Belarus. Kozulin spent most of the meeting slamming the rest of the opposition for their waste of foreign monies and inability to build their parties. [...] | 2005-07-13 07:40:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BO |
05MINSK810 | Polling Shows Street Name Fury [...] Summary: According to the NOVAK opinion polling for June, 42.3 percent of Belarusians would vote for President Aleksandr Lukashenko, down 0.1 percent since April. The opposition candidate posing the greatest threat to Lukashenko, UCP leader Anatoli Lebedko, would receive 1.0 percent of the v [...] | 2005-07-22 10:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK904 | Russia's Missing Ambassador and the Sorry State of [...] (C) Summary: Russia's newly appointed Ambassador to Belarus, and former Saratov governor, Dmitriy Ayatskov's arrival to assume his post has been delayed "indefinitely." Minsk has linked this delay to indelicate remarks Ayatskov made critical of Lukashenko, although the Russian MFA claims he re [...] | 2005-08-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BO |
05MINSK956 | Minsk's Deepening Relations with China [...] (U) Summary: Belarus' relationship with China continues to strengthen. China has invested and plans to invest millions of dollars in Belarusian companies while Belarus is contemplating opening a bank in China. Both countries have exchanged military delegations and have signed military accord [...] | 2005-08-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR BO CH |
05MONTREAL776 | Welcome to the Montreal International Conference on Haiti [...] Post welcomes Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Ambassador Roger Noriega and delegation to the Montreal International Conference on Haiti. 2. Control Officer Neill Krost will meet and assist Ambassador Noriega at the airport. His contact numbers in Montreal are: (514) 90 [...] | 2005-06-15 21:02:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PGOV PINR CA |
05MOSCOW15735 | KREMLIN AGGRESSIVELY SEEKS TO DISRUPT KASYANOV'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the only declared candidate for the 2008 presidential election, has faced a tough and thus far frustrating slog in his bid to unite the democratic opposition behind him. During several recent visits to the country's regions, Kasyanov has b [...] | 2005-12-30 09:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS |
05MUMBAI1708 | GUJARAT: WILY MODI WEAKENS HIS OPPONENTS AND POSITIONS [...] (C) On August 1, controversial Gujarat BJP Chief Minister Narendra Modi (whose visa we revoked for his role in the 2002 Gujarat Hindu-Muslim riots) expanded his cabinet by inducting 11 new ministers. In doing so, Modi met a long-standing demand of the rebels within his own party who had openly cr [...] | 2005-08-10 11:16:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR CVIS IN |
05MUMBAI1931 | GUJARAT: PEACEFUL ON THE SURFACE, YET STATE GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) The riots of 2002 belong to history, and communal harmony now reigns in Gujarat, business leaders and the state's Chief Secretary told the Consul General during his September 8-9 visit to Ahmedabad. The Chief Secretary criticized the USG for continuing to probe into the judicial aftermat [...] | 2005-09-22 08:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PINR CVIS PREL PGOV KISL IN |
05MUMBAI2076 | BJP TROUBLES CONTINUE AS IN-FIGHTING ERUPTS OVER LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Firebrand politician Uma Bharati, the deposed former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh (MP),has launched a public fight to return to power, embarrassing her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the process and dividing its MP members into two camps. Bharati succeeded in getting the support o [...] | 2005-10-20 12:15:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR PREL IN |
05MUMBAI2252 | MADHYA PRADESH: FIREBRAND BHARTI SIDELINED AS BJP NAMES NEW [...] (SBU) On November 26, the BJP national leadership replaced Madhya Pradesh (MP)Chief Minister Babulal Gaur with state party President Shivraj Singh Chauhan. The action was a blow to former MP chief minister Uma Bharti, a controversial and boisterous politician who had lobbied heavily behind the [...] | 2005-11-28 09:00:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV PREL IN |
05MUMBAI756 | GUJARAT BJP PARLIAMENTARIANS OPENLY CHALLENGE CM MODI [...] (SBU) Some of our contacts in Gujarat tell us that BJP Chief Minister (CM) Narendra Modi is facing the most serious challenge to his power yet, as a growing number of BJP Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are openly speaking out against him. The MLAs are criticizing what they consider [...] | 2005-03-15 11:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON PHUM IN GOI |
05MUMBAI876 | GUJARAT CHIEF MINISTER MODI SURVIVES, FOR NOW [...] (U) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has successfully fended off another attempt by dissidents within his own party to dislodge him. The leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),headed by party president LK Advani, met with a delegation of Modi's opponents in the Gujarat BJP on Marc [...] | 2005-03-31 14:19:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON PHUM IN |
05MUSCAT1109 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE JAILED [...] (SBU) An outspoken elected former Shura Council deputy and current Nobel Prize nominee was sentenced July 13 by a Muscat court for insulting government officials in connection with the controversial arrests of Ibadhi activists charged by the government of belonging to an illegal organization. [...] | 2005-07-16 02:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1132 | ORDER, DISSENT, AND THE INTERNET [...] (SBU) The Omani authorities have incarcerated an outspoken former parliamentarian and questioned a banned writer/activist for making critical remarks about senior government officials. On the heels of pardoning 31 Ibadhis who were convicted of belonging to an illegal organization, the authori [...] | 2005-07-19 01:05:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI PINR PGOV MU |
05MUSCAT1185 | BIO: RAJIHA BINT ABDUL AMER BIN ALI, MINISTER OF [...] (C) Per ref A, the requested information on Oman's female Minister of Tourism is provided below, keyed to ref A para 3 format. Much of this information was provided previously in ref B. 2. (U) Rajiha bint Abdul Amer bin Ali, Minister of Tourism (since 2004) A. (U) Born: April 12, 1953; [...] | 2005-07-27 12:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV MU |
05MUSCAT1203 | TAYBAH AL-MA'WALI AWAITS SENTENCING [...] (SBU) On July 30, a Muscat court released Taybah al-Ma'wali on bail until a verdict on her appeal is announced around August 3. According to family members, al-Ma'wali had been in hiding since she was sentenced in absentia on July 13 to one and a half years in prison. On July 30, however, al [...] | 2005-07-30 11:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1238 | TAYBAH AL-MA'WALI SENTENCE REDUCED TO 6 MONTHS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-07 11:07:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PREL PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1250 | BIO: SHARIFA BINT KHALFAN AL-YAHYAI, MINISTER OF [...] (C) The requested information on Oman's female Minister of Social Development is provided below, keyed to ref A para 3 format. Much of this information was provided previously in ref B. 2. (U) Dr. Sharifa bint Khalfan bin Nasser al-Yahyai, Minister of Social Development (since October 20, [...] | 2005-08-10 07:56:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV SCUL MU |
05MUSCAT1458 | SULTAN APPOINTS FEMALE AMBASSADOR TO U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-30 19:48:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1514 | NEW OMANI AMBASSADOR IS ALL BUSINESS [...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with U.S. and Omani business executives, Oman's new ambassador-designate to the U.S. Hunaina al-Mughairy expressed optimism over the bilateral economic relationship and elicited the assistance of the business community in identifying project opportunities -- and obst [...] | 2005-10-11 03:40:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON PREL PINR MU |
05MUSCAT165 | ECONOMISTS' FTA FRUSTRATIONS, CONCERN FOR FUTURE [...] (C) Two Omani economics professors recently discussed with Econoff the upcoming free trade agreement (FTA),the state of the Omani economy, and prospects for Omani college graduates. The academics displayed a subtle but unmistakable sense of frustration and isolation in their university settin [...] | 2005-01-31 02:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB EPET EIND SOCI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT210 | COMMERCE U/S ON FTA, TRADE ISSUES (C-NE4-01168) [...] (SBU) In a February 5 introductory call by the Ambassador, new Ministry of Commerce and Industry Under Secretary Ahmed al-Dheeb offered an optimistic outlook on impending U.S.-Omani Free Trade Agreement talks. Noting that labor issues under the FTA will require some work, he likewise laid dow [...] | 2005-02-08 04:32:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON KIPR TBIO PINR MU |
05MUSCAT322 | OMAN SEEKS SUPPORT FOR JUDGE CANDIDATE TO LAW OF [...] This is an action request for OES/OA - please see para 3. 2. The Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a circular to resident diplomatic missions on February 16 requesting support for its candidate to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). The salient portions of the [...] | 2005-02-26 13:06:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA TPHY PREL PINR MU |
05MUSCAT365 | INVITING WOMEN LEADERS TO FORUM ON POLITICAL [...] (SBU) The Sultan's Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Omar al-Zawawi and Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi both assured the Ambassador of the delivery and acceptance of the invitations to Higher Education Minister Dr. Rawya al-Busaidi and oil company executive Ms. Asillah al-Har [...] | 2005-03-02 09:56:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWMN PHUM PGOV KMPI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT369 | OMANI INFLUENCES GNASSINGBE ON TOGO DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Salim bin Nasser al-Ismaili (protect),appointed by the Sultan in 1996 to head the Omani Center for Investment Promotion and Export Development (OCIPED),revealed to the Ambassador in a March 1 meeting his personal intercession with self-proclaimed Togolese leader Faure Gnassingbe to end h [...] | 2005-03-03 13:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PINR TO MU |
05MUSCAT470 | NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR: KEIJI OMORI [...] (C) Japan's newly arrived ambassador-designate to Oman, Keiji Omori, paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador on March 14. Omori's background is in military intelligence. Most recently serving as Director General of the Defense Facilities Administration Agency of the Japanese Defense Agency, [...] | 2005-03-18 02:42:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL JA MU |
05MUSCAT547 | GEN ABIZAID'S 3/29 MEETING WITH SULTAN QABOOS [...] (C) In a March 29 visit by USCENTCOM CDR Gen Abizaid, Sultan Qaboos credited Saudi Arabia for tactical successes against terrorism but worried whether the Al Saud yet have a longer term strategy. He sees Iraq still at a crossroads, expressing concern over the country's territorial integrity, [...] | 2005-04-04 08:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINS PINR PGOV KDEM ETRD MARR XF IR IZ MU |
05MUSCAT552 | SULTAN'S SECURITY CHIEF ON ARRESTS OF IBADHI [...] (C) The Minister of the Royal Office and one of the most powerful men in the country, General Ali bin Majid al-Ma'amari told the Ambassador that forty people have been arrested for conspiring to overthrow the government in order to resurrect an Ibadhi religious state in the interior. The Mini [...] | 2005-04-04 13:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV SOCI KISL PHUM KJUS PINR MU |
05MUSCAT582 | BIO: SAYYID BADR AL-BUSAIDI, MFA UNDER SECRETARY [...] (U) Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Humud al-Busaidi Under Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since 2000) Rank: Ambassador ------------- Personal Data ------------- 2. (U) Born: May 30, 1960; Muscat, Oman. Married, two daughters. Education: Master of Letters (MLitt) (Political Philosoph [...] | 2005-04-09 14:55:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MU |
05MUSCAT642 | BIOGRAPHY: HUNAINA BINT SULTAN BIN AHMED [...] (U) Hunaina bint Sultan bin Ahmed al-Mughairy, OCIPED Representative in New York Born: October 13, 1948, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ------------------------ Current Responsibilities ------------------------ 2. (SBU) While she considers herself "retired" per a recent visa application, Hunai [...] | 2005-04-18 13:51:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV MU |
05MUSCAT863 | CAMEL RACING TRANSFERRED TO MINISTRY OF SPORTS [...] (U) In an unexpected move May 24, authority over Oman's Camel and Equestrian Association (OCEA) was transferred by royal directive to the Ministry of Sports Affairs (MSA). Addressing camel owners at the association's new premises outside of Barka, royal family member Sayyid Asa'ad bin Tariq al [...] | 2005-05-30 05:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ETRD ELAB PREL KOCI PINR MU |
05NAIROBI1517 | KENYA: FINANCE MINISTER TALKS ABOUT CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: The kingpins of corruption who fleeced Kenya under the previous administration went about "business-as-usual" with officials in the current Kibaki government, acknowledged David Mwiraria, Kenya's Finance Minister, in a meeting with the Ambassador on March 6. In this regard, th [...] | 2005-04-13 04:26:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KCOR PINR KE |
05NAIROBI4063 | POSSIBLE THREAT INFORMATION RECEIVED BY AMBASSADOR [...] (S/NF) The following information was passed to post's Ambassador at a function held at his home on Sunday, September 24. The diplomat who passed the information, which was typed on a plain white piece of paper, stated he had been given this information but had no way to check it's veracity an [...] | 2005-09-28 13:37:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | ASEC PINR PTER |
05NAIROBI5072 | KENYA'S NEW CABINET APPOINTEES AND U.S. INTERESTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kibaki's new cabinet is a mixed bag for U.S. interests in security, corruption, and economic policy. New Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju will be more capable than the laterally transferred Ali Mwakwere, but given his antagonistic track record, will not necessarily be ame [...] | 2005-12-08 11:01:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KCOR ETRD KE |
05NAIROBI5078 | THANKS, BUT NO THANKS: CABINET NOMINEES DECLINE [...] (C) Although President Kibaki met his self-imposed two week deadline for announcing a new cabinet (reftel),Kenya's government is still incomplete, with twenty-one nominees declining their appointments. Within moments of the President's announcement on December 7, ten appointees turned Kibak [...] | 2005-12-08 13:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KE |
05NAIROBI5103 | CORRUPTION IN KENYA - JOHN GITHONGO PREPARES TO TELL [...] (C) Summary: Former Kenyan "anti-corruption czar" John Githongo has organized all of the evidence of wrongdoing in his possession and put it into a single seamless narrative detailing the grand scale corruption committed by several of the highest-ranking and most influential ministers and ad [...] | 2005-12-13 09:36:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KCOR KPAO PINR KE |
05NASSAU166 | NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO THE BAHAMAS CALLS ON [...] (C) Newly-arrived Chinese Ambassador ((Li)) Yuanming paid a courtesy call on Ambassador January 25. Ambassador Li was accompanied by his senior staff members, Li Boheng (DCM); Song Zhenguang (First Secretary); and Chen Dayu (Second Secretary). DCM Robert Witajewski also joined in the meetin [...] | 2005-01-25 18:20:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR CH BF |
05NASSAU332 | BAHAMIAN FOREIGN MINISTER EQUATES ISRAEL WITH [...] (C) Visiting non-resident Israeli Ambassador David Dadonn was not given a meeting with Bahamian Prime Minister Perry G. Christie during his current visit to Nassau. Ambassador Dadonn also reported that his first meeting with Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell ended abruptly after five minutes af [...] | 2005-02-16 20:44:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV IS BF |
05NASSAU393 | FOREIGN MINISTER POISED TO RAISE PROFILE IN CARICOM [...] (C) His intelligence, work ethic, and undisguised ambition have made Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell one of the three or four most powerful members of the Perry Christie Government and a person of growing influence in the Caribbean. Currently the vice-chairman in the Commonwealth Min [...] | 2005-02-25 16:57:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL OFDP PGOV XL BF CARICOM |
05NDJAMENA1259 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA TRAINING FOR CHADIAN [...] A search of Embassy biographic, human rights, consular, and law enforcement files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for Anti-Terrorism Training (ATA) training as of this date. 2. The following group of Chadian police and [...] | 2005-08-16 08:02:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD |
05NDJAMENA1421 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individual nominated for English Language and Undergraduate Pilot training as of this date. 2. Hassan Emmanuel Abdoul DJANGBEI. DOB: October 17, 1976 WALL [...] | 2005-09-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD |
05NDJAMENA390 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for IMET training as of this date. 2. Mahamat Ousame Abdoulaye, Youssouf Louang Azi, Takoulngar M'Bainaye, Dadje Margata, Idriss Djid [...] | 2005-03-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD |
05NDJAMENA391 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ANTI-TERRORISM TRAINING [...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for anti-terrorism training as of this date. 2. The names of the individuals vetted by the embassy are: Abakar Ousmane Adoum, Guere [...] | 2005-03-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD |
05NDJAMENA392 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR MINE ASSISTANCE TRAINING [...] A seach of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals selected for Mine Assistance training as of this date. 2. The Embassy vetted the following individuals: Abakar Mahamat, Zenaba Jean, Hassan Brak [...] | 2005-03-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD |
05NDJAMENA499 | HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS IN [...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for anti-terrorism training as of this date. 2. The names of the individuals vetted by the Embassy are: Ali Hamid Youssouf, Chaibo Ha [...] | 2005-04-02 12:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD |
05NEWDELHI1073 | ""NATWAR'S MAN"" SK LAMBAH: INDIA'S LIKELY NEW SPECIAL ENVOY TO ISLAMABAD [...] (C) Summary: The expected appointment of retired career diplomat Satinder Kumar Lambah as Special Envoy to Pakistan would maintain the web of engagement between New Delhi and Islamabad, but at a quieter pitch, a decidedly lower political level, and with firmer MEA guidance than was the case w [...] | 2005-02-10 11:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI1192 | WEST ASIA ENVOY OFFERS PALESTINIAN SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: GOI Special Envoy for West Asia and the Middle East Peace Process Chinmaya Gharekhan told the DCM on February 15 that India would like to provide and fund security training for the Palestinian Authority, in response to what he said were statements by the Secretary welcoming such [...] | 2005-02-15 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IZ IS IN |
05NEWDELHI1274 | NAXALITES AND SYMPATHIZERS ENCOURAGED BY NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: In a reflection of India's mounting concern about internal disorder, Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee recently described India's Naxalite insurgency as "the gravest threat to our internal security." This worry is also reflected in the stern GOI reaction to the coup in Nepal, wi [...] | 2005-02-18 05:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ELAB PHUM PINR IN NP |
05NEWDELHI1304 | BIHAR ELECTIONS COULD WEAKEN UPA GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: The elections for the Bihar State Assembly are being watched more closely than usual this year, because the outcome could possibly weaken the UPA coalition in Delhi. A resurgent Congress is losing patience with Bihar satrap Lalu Prasad Yadav, and would like to reduce his influenc [...] | 2005-02-18 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL IN |
05NEWDELHI1424 | THE BJP PROMISES FIREWORKS FOR BUDGET SESSION [...] (C) Summary: The BJP leadership is determined to disrupt Parliament when the Budget Session convenes on February 25, insisting that the agitation will not end until the UPA ""restores"" the deposed Goa government (Reftel B). Congress plans to undercut the agitation by convening the Goa Assemb [...] | 2005-02-24 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI1546 | MEA CAUTIOUSLY UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK [...] (C) Summary: In a February 28 conversation with PolCouns and Poloff, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Arun K Singh was generally upbeat about short-term Indo-Pak rapprochement, and expressed cautious optimism about long-term sustainability of this trend. After shari [...] | 2005-03-01 11:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR MOPS KNNP IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI1661 | RAHUL GANDHI: LACKLUSTER LEADER [...] (S) In a March 1 conversation with Poloff, influential columnist and political insider Saeed Naqvi commented on Rahul Gandhi at some length. Naqvi prefaced his remarks by noting that he was a personal friend of Rahul's father, Rajiv Gandhi, and a well-wisher of the Gandhi family. Naqvi was initi [...] | 2005-03-03 12:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI1710 | STATE ELECTIONS SET OFF POLITICAL TURMOIL IN INDIA [...] (C) Summary: Attempts by Congress to grab power in Goa and Jharkhand has thrown the Indian domestic political scene into turmoil. Observers in Delhi see these moves as part of a larger strategy by Congress operatives to gain control over a majority of Indian states. Should Congress succeed i [...] | 2005-03-04 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI1773 | CONGRESS BEGINS PARTY CLEANUP IN HARYANA [...] (C) Summary: Following a week of political turmoil in which Congress has taken a beating for playing fast and rough with the democratic process in several states, the party leadership moved to install a cleaner politician as Chief Minister of Haryana. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a longtime Congre [...] | 2005-03-08 08:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI1854 | INDIA'S COMMUNISTS - CONTENT TO SUPPORT THE [...] (C) Summary: The strong performance of the BJP following recent State Assembly elections has convinced India's mainstream Communists to downplay their differences with the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and cooperate for the time being to meet the "rightist" threat. The Communists [...] | 2005-03-10 10:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI2086 | A CHASTENED CONGRESS FACES HARSH REALITIES [...] (C) Summary: As India's leading newsmagazine splashed across the cover of its March 21 issue, "the halo has slipped," from Sonia Gandhi after Congress' electoral setbacks and questionable decisions in Bihar, Goa, and Jharkhand. The long term impact for Congress and the BJP is unlikely to be [...] | 2005-03-18 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI2262 | FURTHER INDIAN THOUGHTS ON UNCHR61 [...] (C) Following up on our recent demarche on Cuba (Refs A and B),PolCouns and Poloff met with MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Hamid Ali Rao and incoming Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjeev Puri on March 24 to review our UNCHR priorities. Recalling the recent statements by the P [...] | 2005-03-24 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PINR IN CU NP |
05NEWDELHI2470 | "WE ARE COMMUNISTS, BUT WE ARE NOT FOOLS:" CPI(M) [...] (SBU) Summary: The Communist Party of India-Marxist, the CPI(M) or CPM, the most organized and important member of India's Left Front (LF),will debate whether to change its leadership at its April 6-12 Party Congress. The CPI (M) patriarch, Harkishen Singh Surjeet, who steered the party to [...] | 2005-04-01 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI2602 | CONGRESS CULTURE DEFINES SONIA GANDHI'S ROLE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-06 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI2788 | INDIAN LEFT REMAINS ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO US SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Most Indian strategic commentators have endorsed the Administration's March 25 South Asia Initiative, and there is an emerging consensus within the GOI that India should capitalize on this opportunity to ensure close ties to the US. India's Communist parties remain adamantly oppo [...] | 2005-04-13 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MASS IN PK NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2932 | A TROUBLED BJP TURNS TO THE RIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Facing multiple crises, including electoral lethargy, growing ideological divides and an uncertain leadership succession, the BJP is drifting further to the right in an attempt to rouse its Hindutva base. The imminent departure of former PM Vajpayee and Party President Advani ha [...] | 2005-04-19 11:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI301 | AFTER DIXIT, INDIA PONDERS ROLE OF ITS NSA AND WHO [...] (C) Summary: Two questions now swirl around India's National Security Advisor position: will it lose its major role in the Indian foreign policy establishment, and who will land the job permanently? JN Dixit's death has prompted media speculation that PM Manmohan Singh is reassessing what he want [...] | 2005-01-12 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PINS PREL PGOV IN PK |
05NEWDELHI3365 | INDIA'S LEADING COMMUNIST OPENS UP TO THE EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with Charge and Poloff on May 4, newly-elected Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat demonstrated that he is a talented SIPDIS and skillful leader who is well-aware of his political importance. Karat emphasized that the Communists want to play a [...] | 2005-05-04 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3432 | INDIA'S COMMUNISTS ADOPT AMBITIOUS AGENDAS AT [...] (C) Summary: India's Communist parties have been energized by their growing power as "kingmakers" who keep the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in power. During recently-concluded party congresses, they passed the baton to dynamic new leaders and broadened their agenda to take on ambitious [...] | 2005-05-06 11:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3505 | BJP LEADER REAFFIRMS US-INDIA COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary: BJP spokesman and former Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley warned us recently that the Modi controversy continues to fester among the party rank and file, who see the Chief Minister's visa revocation as a personal attack on a leader of the party that began the transformation of US-India r [...] | 2005-05-10 10:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON IN US |
05NEWDELHI364 | INDIAN LEGISLATORS TELL CODEL LEACH THEY ARE [...] (SBU) Summary: Senators Sam Brownback and John Corzine, and Representatives James Leach, Earl Blumenaur, Scott Garrett, Wayne Gilchrest, Frank Pallone, and Diane Watson discussed a broad range of issues with an Indian parliamentary delegation led by MP Murli Deora, the President of the India [...] | 2005-01-13 15:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC EAID KDEM PINR IN PK US INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3736 | PARLIAMENT CONCLUDES A STORMY YET PRODUCTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Despite BJP disruptions and a boycott of Parliament, the UPA and the Left Front (LF) passed crucial legislation and the budget during the session which ended May 13. Growing animosity between the BJP and the UPA underlies the inability of the parties to cooperate in Parliament, [...] | 2005-05-18 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3912 | SONIA REVAMPS TWO PARTY COMMITTEES [...] (U) In the run-up to her re-election as Party President on May 27, Sonia Gandhi on May 25 revamped two important Congress party committees, the Parliamentary Affairs Committee (PAC) and the Media Committee (MC). Defunct for almost 20 years, Sonia plans to make the PAC into an active body and [...] | 2005-05-26 10:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3933 | THE UPA SCORES BETTER THAN AVERAGE AFTER ONE YEAR [...] (C) Summary: The UPA government completed one year in office on May 22. Although the Left parties and the BJP predictably criticized its performance, commentary has been generally positive, reflecting widespread respect for Manmohan Singh's performance. Despite some initial weaknesses (such [...] | 2005-05-27 05:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PARM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI4232 | ADVANI'S DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE IN PAKISTAN PROVOKES [...] (C) Summary: During his landmark May 30-June 6 trip to Pakistan, Opposition Leader LK Advani renounced his former antagonism towards Pakistan and its founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, lauding him as a secular "ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity." Advani's public recognition of Pakistani sovereignty [...] | 2005-06-06 13:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI4270 | ADVANI RESIGNATION THROWS THE BJP INTO TURMOIL [...] (U) BJP President LK Advani threw his party into turmoil on June 7 when he abruptly announced his resignation after a tempest erupted following his recent visit to Pakistan (Reftel). In his letter of resignation Advani stood by his remarks in Pakistan praising the country's founder Muhammad [...] | 2005-06-07 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI4299 | BIOS OF KASHMIR-RELATED LEADERS -- PART 2 [...] (C) This is the second of a three-part biographic report compiling information and impressions A/Polcouns gained from contact with Indian Kashmir-related politicians, government officials, separatists, academics, journalists, NGO activists, and others during a 2002-2005 assignment at Embassy [...] | 2005-06-08 06:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI4300 | BIOS OF KASHMIR-RELATED LEADERS -- PART 3 [...] (C) This is the third of a three-part biographic report compiling information and impressions A/Polcouns gained from contact with Indian Kashmir-related politicians, government officials, separatists, academics, journalists, NGO activists, and others during a 2002-2005 assignment at Embassy N [...] | 2005-06-08 06:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI4312 | INFORMATION MINISTER JAIPAL REDDY UPBEAT ON MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Charge and the PA Minister Counselor in New Delhi on June 7, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Jaipal Reddy was upbeat and optimistic about the prospects for further liberalization of the media sector. The purpose of the Charge's call was to get the Minis [...] | 2005-06-08 11:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI4315 | ADVANI'S RESIGNATION - WHAT DOES IT MEAN? [...] (C) Summary: The turmoil surrounding Advani's dramatic June 7 resignation as BJP President continues. The BJP leadership meeting June 8 voted unanimously for him to remain, while the Sangh Parivar (family of Hindu nationalist groups) spent the day celebrating his resignation and anticipating [...] | 2005-06-08 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI5108 | SEEKING ELECTORAL GAINS LEFT PARTIES COME DOWN [...] (C) Summary: India's Left parties have severely criticized the "New Framework for the US-India Defense Relationship" signed by SecDef Rumsfeld and DefMin Mukherjee on June 28, despite initial positive reviews from most Indian media and strategic commentators, and will hold street demonstrations [...] | 2005-07-05 10:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PINR PINS PREL IN US |
05NEWDELHI5216 | BJP MISCALCULATES AGAIN: EFFORTS TO CAPITALIZE ON [...] (C) Summary: BJP attempts to capitalize on the July 5 Ayodhya terrorist attack have largely fallen flat, and opposition calls for the resignation of Home Minister Patil and the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister have evoked little popular response. BJP calls for nationwide strikes and demonstrations [...] | 2005-07-07 11:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER KISL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI5521 | INDIAN WOMEN CONTINUE TO FACE OBSTACLES IN POLITICS [...] Summary: Despite an impressive list of accomplishments, including several current Chief Ministerships and presidency of the Congress party, Indian women continue to face cultural and practical barriers to their participation in politics. Female political leaders insist that greater women's par [...] | 2005-07-18 10:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KWMN PINR SOCI IN AF BG PK |
05NEWDELHI5593 | UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT SHAKY - COULD FALL SHORTLY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 13-15 visit to Uttar Pradesh (UP) Poloff met with a wide variety of interlocutors who speculated that the two year rule of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav would soon come to an end. Pervasive mis-governance and corruption, and a fast-deteriorating law and order sit [...] | 2005-07-20 09:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI5685 | MONSOON SESSION OF PARLIAMENT LIKELY TO BE LESS [...] (C) Summary: Although it leads the opposition, the BJP is in disarray and largely incapable of playing a strong role in the upcoming Parliamentary session scheduled for July 25-August 26. The Left Front (LF) is determined to fill the vacuum and will act more like an opposition party than an [...] | 2005-07-22 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KNNP IN |
05NEWDELHI594 | INDIA'S SUNNI-SHIA DIVIDE DOMINATES MUSLIM [...] (C) Summary: Indian Shias are excited about the prospect of a Shia government in Iraq, revere Ayatollah Sistani and support the January 30 election. This does not mean, however, that they are pro-American, as they also want US troops to depart Iraq as soon as possible and Iraq and Iran to ha [...] | 2005-01-25 05:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IR IZ |
05NEWDELHI6520 | ALL EYES ON UNGA SUMMIT AS INDO-PAK TALKS WRAP UP [...] (C) Summary: Round Two of the Indo-Pakistan Composite Dialogue (CD) is drawing to a close with few concrete results, although the two sides managed to preserve a sense of forward movement, which reinforces the broad Indian public support for rapprochement with Pakistan. To facilitate dialogu [...] | 2005-08-24 14:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV ECON SNAR SCUL PBTS PINR IN PK INDO PAK UNGA |
05NEWDELHI6737 | INDIAN MUSLIMS REJECT EXTREMISM VIA FATWAS [...] (U) Summary: The recent controversy surrounding a fatwa from the Darul-Uloom Deoband seminary demonstrates the unique ability of India's Muslim community to reign in signs of extremism to maintain a moderate Islam identity. During Panchayat (local) elections in Uttar Pradesh, three muftis f [...] | 2005-09-01 13:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KISL KIRF PINR PHUM PTER IN IR |
05NEWDELHI6841 | INDIA-SYRIA RELATIONS (C-NE5-00868) [...] (S/NF) Summary: Indian West Asia Envoy Gharekhan's recent trip to Syria was focused on Iraq. India's broader interests in Damascus include Syria's influence on the Israel-Palestine conflict and Iraq, and the GOI's desire to burnish relations with the Muslim world. End Summary. Gharekhan's Visi [...] | 2005-09-06 13:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PINR IN SY |
05NEWDELHI709 | INDIA REINVENTING NSA POSITION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: MK Narayanan, formally named on January 25 as India's new NSA, will be a different kind of National Security Adviser than his high-profile, powerful predecessors, JN Dixit and Brajesh Mishra. After several weeks of debat [...] | 2005-01-28 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PINS PREL PGOV IN PK |
05NEWDELHI7230 | WHITHER THE BJP? [...] (C) Summary: Well-documented divisions (reftels) have recently prevented the BJP from fulfilling its role as India's leading opposition party and led to a string of electoral defeats. The latest "crisis" was the expulsion and reinstatement of BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana. The core issue is [...] | 2005-09-15 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI7261 | NUCLEAR ISSUES OVERSHADOWED NATWAR'S TRIP TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha complained to CDA and Poloff during a September 15 office call that nuclear proliferation issues overshadowed in the press the rest of Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's September 2-4 trip to Iran. The trip's substantive fo [...] | 2005-09-16 13:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET KNNP PARM PINR IN IR UK GM |
05NEWDELHI7345 | ALL EYES ON VAJPAYEE AS ADVANI AND RSS TUSSLE [...] (C) Summary: The BJP's leadership conclave in Chennai ended with a bang when LK Advani picked a very public fight with the Hindu right-wing RSS over the future ideological direction of the party. On September 18, Advani finally submitted to RSS pressure to resign (in December) as party pres [...] | 2005-09-20 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER IN PK BG |
05NEWDELHI7759 | CONGRESS MOVES TO CALM COALITION JITTERS [...] (C) Summary: The virulent criticism by the Left Front (LF) and the opposition BJP of India's anti-Iran vote in the IAEA and their efforts to politicize the debate on economic reform has caught many Congress leaders by surprise, and fed rumors that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governm [...] | 2005-10-05 12:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB KISL PREL PINR EINV IR IN |
05NEWDELHI7777 | HOME SECRETARY UPBEAT ABOUT DECLINE IN TERRORISM, [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST FOR S/CT IN PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In an October 3 meeting with the Ambassador following an MLAT signing ceremony, Home Secretary VK Duggal was moderately upbeat over the security situation in Kashmir, noting that the situation was calm enough for the valley to welcome [...] | 2005-10-06 08:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER CASC CJAN IN PK NP GOI |
05NEWDELHI796 | CONGRESS SET TO WIN IN HARYANA BUT THE VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: Pundits, journalists, and politicians agree that Congress will emerge victorious in Haryana's February 3 Legislative Assembly elections, winning from 60 to 80 seats in the 90 member Assembly. Growing disgust with the misrule and corruption of the ruling Indian National Lok Dal (I [...] | 2005-02-01 13:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI8034 | INDO-PAK COUNTRY TEAMS DISCUSS HOW TO ENCOURAGE [...] (C) Summary: Taking advantage of Ambassador Crocker's trip to India, New Delhi and Islamabad country teams on October 4 convened a round table discussion on Indo-Pak relations. Both sides agreed that, although there are few feasible avenues for direct USG involvement in this sphere -- and th [...] | 2005-10-17 10:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR ETRD EPET MASS KPAO IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8054 | RAJASTHAN PROVIDES NO LET-UP IN UNRELENTING BAD [...] (C) Summary: Rajasthan has joined a long list of places where BJP fortunes are on the wane. Vasundhara Raje pulled off a stunning upset victory to become Chief Minister in 2003 and many thought her administration would be one of the rare "success stories" for the embattled BJP. However, her [...] | 2005-10-17 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SCUL PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI8120 | INDO-PAK "DISASTER DIPLOMACY" SOFTENING BORDERS [...] (C) Summary: Terrorism aside (Ref A),the diplomatic vibes of disaster diplomacy are resonating well in India. The GOI warmly welcomed Musharraf's October 18 decision to permit "any amount" of Kashmiris from J&K to cross the LoC into Pakistani Kashmir to assist with earthquake reconstruction [...] | 2005-10-19 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ECPS PBTS IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8188 | UIGHUR RESETTLEMENT: GOI UNLIKELY TO RESPOND [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar told the Charge on October 15 that the GOI would consider the US request for assistance in resettling Uighur detainees, but suggested that the answer would be no. "You know why," he added. Comment ------- [...] | 2005-10-21 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI8231 | JASWANT SINGH BELIEVES THE UPA IS INCAPABLE OF MANAGING THE INDO/US RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with U/S Burns and the Ambassador in New Delhi on October 21, former Foreign Minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh expressed wholehearted support for the India/US agenda and its many components, but reading between the lines, that support was actually qualified. Singh seemed [...] | 2005-10-24 10:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PINR IN PK IR |
05NEWDELHI8253 | INDIA OPENS LOC TO HELP PAKISTAN DESPITE TERROR [...] (U) Summary: Consistent with the PM's admonition to find ways to make the Line of Control (LoC) less relevant and facilitate quake relief, the GOI is putting aside fears that terrorists will seize the advantage even as it creates camps along the LoC to provide food, shelter, and medical attent [...] | 2005-10-24 13:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINR PHUM EAID IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8266 | INDIA'S SHAME: LINGERING BIGOTRY AFFLICTS 200 [...] (SBU) Summary: India,s 200 million Hindu and Christian Dalits (formerly &untouchables8) constitute approximately 21-25% of the population. Dalit leaders argue, and our Human Rights Report agrees, that Dalits are subject to sporadic cases of human rights abuses, including rape, trafficking, an [...] | 2005-10-25 09:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR ECON ELAB KDEM KIRF SCUL IN |
05NEWDELHI8394 | LEFT RAISES THE STAKES IN CONFRONTATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: On October 27, after a four month hiatus, the Left Front (LF) deigned to meet their Congress coalition partners again in their formal Coordination Committee, but instead of being cowed by their recent pummelling in the press, the Communists were even more combative and rigid, an [...] | 2005-10-28 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD PREL SCUL PINR EINV ELAB SOCI IN |
05NEWDELHI8535 | THE UPA DESCENDS DEEPER INTO THE VOLCKER REPORT [...] (C) Summary: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government continued to descend into the quagmire created by the release of the Volcker Report (reftels),while its embattled Foreign Minister has veered to the left in a desperate attempt to win support from the Left Front (LF). The UPA has [...] | 2005-11-07 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETTC EPET KCRM IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8711 | THE COMMUNISTS THREATEN THE UPA AGAIN OVER [...] (U) While addressing campaign meetings in Kerala on November 15 Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat and Communist Party of India (CPI) SIPDIS General Secretary AB Bardhan demanded that the GOI change its stance in the IAEA regarding Iran's nuclear program. Bo [...] | 2005-11-16 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8741 | CONGRESS PUSHES THE LEFT TO MOVE TOWARD COMPROMISE [...] (U) On November 15, Communist leaders from the CPI(M) and CPI demanded that the GOI reverse its position and vote with Iran at the November 24 IAEA meeting or "face the consequences," but left the door open for face-saving "consultations," (ref A). On November 16, the GOI took advantage of t [...] | 2005-11-17 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KNNP MNUC IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8809 | PM SINGH SHUFFLES PORTFOLIOS SLIGHTLY [...] (SBU) In an anti-climax, the GOI announced November 18 that it had reallocated Cabinet portfolios between the sitting Cabinet Ministers rather than expanding the Cabinet as expected. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh retained the External Affairs Ministry. Jaipal Reddy moved from Information an [...] | 2005-11-21 11:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI8844 | CONGRESS FACING A DOMESTIC "PERFECT STORM" [...] (C) Summary: With Parliament set to convene on November 23, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is reeling from assaults from its left and right and faces a series of political events that could undermine its stability, including the UPA defeat in the important Biha [...] | 2005-11-22 14:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EPET ETTC KCRM IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8856 | CONGRESS DREADS IMPENDING SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT, [...] (C) Summary: Congress is facing a major political mess of its own making as it waits for a Supreme Court judgment that may rule its actions in Bihar to have been unconstitutional, with potentially dire consequences. When Congress moved precipitously to head off the formation of BJP/NDA gover [...] | 2005-11-23 10:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KDEM PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI9127 | INDIA’S DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMY MINIMIZE EXTREMIST [...] (C) India's over 150 million Muslim population is largely unattracted to extremism. India's growing economy, vibrant democracy, and inclusive culture, encourage Muslims to seek success and social mobility in the mainstream and reduces alienation. With Indian Muslim youth increasingly comfortable in [...] | 2005-12-02 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV KDEM PINR PTER SCUL IN |
05NEWDELHI9128 | NEW ALLEGATIONS BREATHE LIFE INTO NATWAR OIL [...] (C) Summary: The NDA's anti-UPA, anti-Natwar Singh campaign got a new lease on life December 2 when longtime Natwar Singh confidant (and serving Indian Ambassador to Croatia) Aneil Mathrani claimed in a television interview that the former Foreign Minister was deeply and personally involved [...] | 2005-12-02 12:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER EPET ETTC IN |
05NEWDELHI9223 | INDIA WILL TAKE STOCK OF IRAQ OPTIONS AFTER [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns shared Ref A points with MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh on December 7, continuing a SIPDIS December 6 discussion on India's objectives and perspectives in the Middle East (septel). New Delhi is waiting to see the outcome of the December polls in Iraq before d [...] | 2005-12-07 11:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM PINR IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI9231 | GOI INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS COMMUNAL [...] (C) Summary: Over stringent opposition from BJP-ruled states, the Congress government devised a bill to prevent the outbreak and spread of communal rioting by allowing New Delhi to intervene in any state experiencing communal violence. On December 5, the UPA unexpectedly diluted the bill t [...] | 2005-12-07 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KISL IN |
05NEWDELHI9245 | INDIA FACES GROWING NAXALITE MENACE [...] (C) Summary: Despite India's rapidly expanding economy, Naxalite groups in poor rural areas and their educated urban sympathizers continue to spread and have extended their areas of influence into 12 states, proving they can launch spectacular attacks on government facilities. The GOI has respon [...] | 2005-12-08 08:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER KCRM ASEC SCUL IN NP |
05NEWDELHI9249 | GOI DESIRE TO EXPAND CYBER RELATIONSHIP [...] (U) This is an Action Request for PM. Please see para 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOI would like to see measurable progress on the creation of a joint Indo-US Cybersecurity fund and joint training opportunities, and welcomes Washington comments on how to proceed on these issues. Of particu [...] | 2005-12-08 09:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KCIP TINT PTER EFIN ECPS KTFN IN |
05NEWDELHI9319 | INDIA SEEKS TO PROTECT CITIZENS, SECURE ENERGY INTERESTS IN MIDDLE EAST (C-NE5-00945) [...] (C) Summary: While India has major interests in the Middle East (energy, trade, expatriate workers, and religious ties),it has historically had lackluster relations in the area. GOI attention focuses on a few nations of particular importance to those interests, primarily Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq [...] | 2005-12-12 01:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EPET PTER PINR IN BA IR IS IZ QA MU AE XF |
05NEWDELHI9376 | IS THE BJP READY FOR A REVIVAL? PERHAPS [...] (C) Summary: The BJP is undergoing churnings that suggest that it could regain its political legs. Supporters of this position point to the recent NDA electoral victory in Bihar, and the decision to expel perennial troublemaker Uma Bharati as signs that the party is putting its internal pro [...] | 2005-12-13 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM EPET ETTC ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI940 | INDIAN REACTIONS TO THE IRAQ ELECTION REFLECT [...] (C) Summary: The reaction of India's political parties and major newspapers to the January 30 election in Iraq predictably reflected their political orientations. The UPA government saw the election as a step forward, but unveiled no new initiatives or specific plans for greater engagement. [...] | 2005-02-07 09:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI9414 | TENTATIVE AGREEMENT FOR JAN 24 CTJWG WITH INDIA [...] (U) PolCouns and Poloff made an introductory call on new Additional Secretary (UN and International Security) KC Singh on December 15, and discussed plans for the next round of the US-India Counter-terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),which Singh enthusiastically supported. PolCouns reviewe [...] | 2005-12-15 05:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR EAIR EFIN TBIO KTFN IN |
05NEWDELHI9421 | AHMADINEJAD'S IRRATIONALITY: AN INDIAN [...] (C) Summary: During PolCouns's introductory call on new MEA Additional Secretary (UN and International Security) KC Singh, Singh shared his impressions from his recent posting as India's Ambassador in Tehran, emphasizing that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's perspective is skewed by his fer [...] | 2005-12-15 09:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV KNNP PINR IN IR |
05NEWDELHI9486 | PM SINGH ABLY DEFENDS RECIPROCAL NATURE OF INDO/US [...] (C) Summary: The BJP latched onto a leftist Parliamentary question on the July 18 civil nuclear agreement in an attempt to score points against the UPA. BJP heavyweights Yashwant Sinha (former Foreign Minister) and Sushma Swaraj asserted that the agreement was "stalemated," and that the US [...] | 2005-12-16 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ETTC KNNP MNUC ENRG IN |
05NEWDELHI9504 | BHUTAN KING TO ABDICATE IN 2008, DEEPENING [...] (U) Wire services and the on-line Bhutanese newspaper Kuensel.com reported on December 18 that King Jigme Singye Wangchuck announced he would abdicate the throne to the well-regarded and modest Crown Prince (known in Bhutan as the Chhoetse Penlop) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in 2008. Kuens [...] | 2005-12-19 11:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI9516 | NSA NARAYANAN FOCUSED ON POTUS VISIT, NSG, AND [...] (C) Summary: Ahead of FS Saran's meeting with Burns on December 21, NSA Narayanan shared his priorities for the POTUS visit to India and his take on progress at the East Asia Summit and GOI policy on Burma in a December 16 meeting. He listed progress on the civil nuclear agreement and initi [...] | 2005-12-19 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ENRG PHUM PTER BM IN |
05NEWDELHI9527 | THE TRIBAL BILL - A UPA ATTEMPT AT SOCIAL [...] (C) Summary: India's forest dwelling tribals (aboriginals largely residing in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra) are caught in a vise between greedy forest mafias and the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist),which hopes to enlist them into its vio [...] | 2005-12-20 10:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KCRM ASEC SCUL SENV KSCA TSPL |
05NEWDELHI9592 | GOI'S TAKE ON CHINA'S ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE [...] (C) Summary: In a December 16 meeting on India's relationship with Central Asia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),MEA J/S Jaimini Bhagwati (Eurasia) suggested that India and the US should look for opportunities to advance our shared interests in the region. Bhagwati speculated [...] | 2005-12-20 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL KDEM MOPS CH IN PK RS |
05NEWDELHI961 | LOOKING TO REASSERT A MID-EAST ROLE, INDIA [...] (C) Summary: On February 2, the MEA announced the appointment of retired career diplomat Chinmaya Gharekhan as Special Envoy for West Asia and the Middle East Peace Process. In creating this position, the GOI signaled its hope to raise New Delhi's profile in the Gulf, where India has an unde [...] | 2005-02-07 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PINR IS IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI9752 | GOI NON-PAPER ON LINKAGES AMONG TERRORIST GROUPS [...] (S) MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran) Dilip Sinha in a December 27 meeting passed to Acting DCM a 10-page non-paper on connections among various terrorist groups, entitled "Inter-Group Linkages". The terrorist groups addressed in the non-paper include the following: al-Qaida an [...] | 2005-12-27 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN PINR SNAR IN PK BG AF |
05NEWDELHI9820 | BIOS OF INDIAN CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS [...] Summary: This cable includes biographic notes of 13 GOI and Indian private sector cybersecurity interlocutors. These biographies are derived primarily from their resumes, and all below information is in the public domain. End Summary. R. Chandrashekhar ----------------- 2. Ministry [...] | 2005-12-30 10:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KCIP TINT PTER KIPR MCAP KCRM ECPS |
05NICOSIA291 | CIVILIAN-MILITARY RELATIONS IN NORTH CYPRUS: [...] (C) SUMMARY. With roughly 25,000 troops in Cyprus and a history of interference in Turkish Cypriot politics, the Turkish military exercised considerable sway in many spheres of civilian life in the north. The army has kept a low profile, however, since the 2003 elections that brought the pro [...] | 2005-02-18 15:16:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CY TU PHUM PINR ECON |
05OTTAWA1128 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON FOURTH GLOBAL [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche discussing the Fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption (GF IV) to Alain Tellier, Deputy Director of the International Crime and Terrorism Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on April 8. Tellier thanked us for the points, said that FAC was tracking the [...] | 2005-04-14 19:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PREL PINR KFRD SOCI CVIS CA GF IV FAC |
05OTTAWA1947 | BIO -- GARY FILMON [...] (U) Canadian Prime Minister Paul Mrtin recently named Gary Filmon as Chairman of the country's Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC),which oversees the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Filmon had served on the committee for about four years before his appointment at chairman. [...] | 2005-06-27 18:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2361 | HAITIAN-CANADIAN ANNOUNCED AS NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL [...] (C/NF) Summary: PM Martin today announced that the Queen has approved the appointment of Michaelle Jean, a prominent Quebec journalist and media personality, to a five-year term as Governor General when Adrienne Clarkson's term ends September 27. Jean covers all the right bases, indeed it wo [...] | 2005-08-04 20:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV CA PINR |
05OTTAWA3065 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE OF CERTAIN [...] (S) On October 12, 2005 POL M/C raised the Uighur resettlement issue with Michael Small, Acting ADM (Assistant Deputy Minister) for Global Affairs at Foreign Affairs Canada. Small, who is also Director General for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, had been briefed by FAC,s Senior Adviso [...] | 2005-10-13 14:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | KAWC MOPS PREL PTER PHUM PREF PINR |
05OTTAWA3540 | CANADA ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW [...] (U) Polcons and Poloff delivered reftEl on 28 November to Tom MacDonald, Director General of the Central, East and South Europe Bureau and Gilles Breton, Deputy Director, Eastern European Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). . 2. (C) According to MacDonald, the GoC shares many of t [...] | 2005-11-30 17:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CA RS |
05OTTAWA3618 | CANADA: FUNDING APPROVAL FOR EXTENSION OF [...] (SBU) Foreign Affairs Peacekeeping and Peace Operations Group Director Wendy Gilmour has affirmed that Canada plans to extend its police trainers at the International Police Training Center for another year. We understand that the extension had been endorsed by RCMP authorities and the fundin [...] | 2005-12-07 22:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05OTTAWA3638 | FOLLOW-UP TO REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 6. 2. (S) Polmiloff met with Senior Advisor for Migration and Refugees Kathy Porter on December 9 to discuss Uighur resettlement. Other meeting participants were China and Mongolia Senior Political Officer Walter Bernyck, and U.S. Relations Politica [...] | 2005-12-09 22:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR CA |
05OTTAWA3656 | CANADA: RESETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN REFUGEES [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 5. 2. (S) On December 13, Political Minister Counselor and polmiloff raised the matter of Uighur resettlement with Tony Burger, Assistant Secretary of the Global Affairs Secretariat at the Privy Council Office (Burger reports to Jonathan Fried, Senio [...] | 2005-12-13 22:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR CA |
05OTTAWA3684 | U.S.-CANADA LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C/NF) Summary: The final reports of the Arar Public Inquiry (one factual, one with policy recommendations) will be released in March 2006. RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli fears that the recommendations will seek to undermine his institution's independence and its ability to freely and proactiv [...] | 2005-12-15 19:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CA KCRM KJUS PINR |
05OTTAWA3695 | CANADIAN IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS NEGATIVE ON [...] (S) Pol Minister Counselor and polmiloff met with two Assistant Deputy Ministers (Operations and Policy) at Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) on December 15, to follow up on USG's request that Canada consider resettlement of Uighurs from Guantanamo. In a cordial but candid exchange, A/D [...] | 2005-12-16 20:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PINR CA |
05OTTAWA3698 | CANADA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Unclassified entire text. GENERAL ASSESSMENT ------------------ 2. The Government of Canada remained steadfast in 2005 in partnering with the United States and other like-minded states to support the international fight against terror. With a 5,200 mile undefended border, Canada is one [...] | 2005-12-16 21:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CA KCRM KHLS PGOV PHUM PINR PTER KPAO |
05OTTAWA696 | MICHAEL IGNATIEFF OFFERS VISION FOR LIBERAL PARTY, [...] Summary: Harvard-based Canadian Michael Ignatieff offered a compelling case as the Liberal Party,s keynote speaker for why the Liberals are the most successful party in Canada and can be expected to remain so well into the new century. He attributes the Party,s success to a national (as oppose [...] | 2005-03-04 19:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PGOV PREL PINR CA |
05OTTAWA741 | LIBERAL PARTY CONVENTION WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Liberal Party Convention finished on an upbeat note March 6, trumpeting the theme of "Promises Made - Promises Delivered" for three days. The Liberals followed the model of successful American convention organizers by scripting an overwhelming endorsement of PM Martin,s lea [...] | 2005-03-09 21:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PINR PREL |
05OTTAWA944 | LETTER FROM SECRETARY RICE TO FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Secretary Rice's letter to Foreign Minister Pettigrew regarding Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was delivered by polmiloff on March 30 through the Foreign Intelligence Division (ISI) at Foreign Affairs Canada. ISI staff subsequently confirmed hand-delivery of the letter to the Foreign Mini [...] | 2005-03-31 18:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PTER KAWC PHUM PINR CA |
05PANAMA1438 | PANAMA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARRY PONTING AND ALEX [...] Country Clearance is granted to Harry Ponting and Alex Yates, for travel to Panama during July 13-16, 2005. 2. Purpose of this visit is to assist Embassy implementation of the classified web publishing initiative known as Net- Centric Diplomacy (NCD). 3. As per reftel, hotel reservations [...] | 2005-07-07 15:03:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | AINF PGOV PINR OTRA PM |
05PANAMA1591 | PANAMA'S COLON: FLINT MICHIGAN ON THE CARIBBEAN [...] (SBU) When the USG began to draw down military forces from its bases in the Panama Canal Zone in the 1970s, the port city of Colon, on the Canal's northern terminus, was hit hard, experiencing the same rapid decline that made one-time car manufacturing center Flint, Michigan infamous. By the [...] | 2005-07-28 20:25:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ECON SNAR PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
05PANAMA1695 | (C) PANAMA: DIALOGUE WITH TAIWAN ON PRC ACTIVITIES [...] (C/NF) Embassy maintains excellent informal relations with Taiwan diplomats in Panama and frequently engages in productive dialogue with them. For instance, PolOffs have met with former Taiwan ambassador David Hu and current Taiwan ambassador Tomas Hu several times. (See Reftel B.) PolOffs [...] | 2005-08-12 22:53:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PM TW POL CHIEF |
05PANAMA1729 | PANAMANIAN INSIDERS ACCUSE TORRIJOS GOVERNMENT OF [...] (SBU) This message is the first in a three"part series on views of the Torrijos administration's performance as it approaches its September 1 first anniversary. SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION """""""""""""""""""""""" 2. (C) Martin Torrijos's reform"m [...] | 2005-08-19 22:23:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD PINR PM POL CHIEF |
05PANAMA1930 | PANAMA'S "COSMETIC" CABINET RESHUFFLE. [...] (SBU) The long-awaited GOP "re-organization," rumored since last April, was finally announced by President Torrijos on Saturday, September 3. Despite high expectations for in-depth Cabinet changes, in the end, just as GOP Embassy contacts predicted, changes were minimal, leading many in the [...] | 2005-09-22 14:01:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST |
05PANAMA2020 | PANAMA,S ATTORNEY GENERAL PLEDGES FULL COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. Panama,s Attorney General pledged to cooperate fully with the USG as the case against former Nicaraguan President Aleman goes before a judge on November 23. There are opportunities for the USG to assist Panamanian prosecutors as they prepare for the November hearing. An arres [...] | 2005-10-06 20:30:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PGOV PINR PM POL CHIEF |
05PANAMA2025 | INTERAGENCY TEAM DISCUSSES SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Panamanian President Torrijos and his principal national security advisors met with a visiting USG interagency delegation September 29 and agreed to pursue enhanced information sharing, improve border security cooperation, and develop a mechanism for closer bilateral security coo [...] | 2005-10-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PINR PINS MARR PM POL CHIEF |
05PANAMA2232 | STATE COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE REFORMS FINAL REPORT [...] (SBU) On September 28, the State Commission for Justice Reform submitted to President Torrijos recommendations for in-depth changes to Panama's administration of justice (AOJ). Many of the report's suggested reforms will require constitutional changes. The report attempts to address glaring [...] | 2005-11-15 17:09:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST |
05PANAMA2263 | FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER,S VISIT TO PANAMA: FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: FBI Director Robert Mueller visited Panama October 27 ) 28 as part of his five day, five nation visit to Latin America. During his brief stay he met with President Martin Torrijos and senior GOP national security officials, Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez and her senior st [...] | 2005-11-18 14:27:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR PINS PM LEGATT |
05PANAMA2294 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FACE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT IF [...] (SBU) In the wake of a March 2005 scandal that featured mutual allegations of wrongdoing between four Supreme Court Justices, on November 14 Alianza Pro Justicia (Pro-Justice Alliance) dramatically submitted to the National Assembly a criminal complaint against eight Supreme Court Justices. [...] | 2005-11-23 22:01:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR PM POL SPECIALIST |
05PANAMA2351 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DISMISSES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT [...] (U) In a decision that surprised no one, on November 29 the National Assembly Judicial Affairs Committee decided to dismiss Alianza Pro Justicia's criminal complaint against eight Supreme Court Justices. November 29, the Panamanian press was quick to point out, also was the day that the U.S. [...] | 2005-12-02 17:10:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR PM POL SPECIALIST |
05PANAMA2463 | PANAMA MOVES CLOSER TO NAMING NEW SUPREME COURT [...] (C) As a civil society evaluative commission released its December 19 report on 72 self"nominated candidates for two high"court vacancies, Supreme Court Magistrate Adan Arjona predicted that President Torrijos probably would choose "serious" people for the job. (See para 4.) Torrijos is expecte [...] | 2005-12-21 20:41:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PM |
05PANAMA810 | PANAMA'S SUNTRACS: UNION OR POLITICAL PROTEST [...] (C) Recalling the September 2003 street violence sparked by the firing of Social Security (CSS) director Juan Jovane (reftels A, B, C),Panama is collectively holding its breath as the GOP prepares to release its proposed CSS reforms. The SUNTRACS construction union and its labor confederation CO [...] | 2005-04-11 21:13:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB PINR SOCI PM CU VE LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL |
05PANAMA909 | PANAMA: CHINA AND TAIWAN TEND THEIR GARDENS AS [...] (C) China had high hopes of replacing Taiwan as Panama's diplomatic partner, given the supposed pro"China tilt of President Torrijos's PRD government, in power since 9/1/2004. Also, Taiwanese diplomats worried that China could use the Mar del Sur public relations disaster (that grew out of the Ta [...] | 2005-04-22 20:27:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ETRD EWWT PM CH TW VE POL CHIEF |
05PARIS1014 | SOCIALIST PARTY KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN TO VOTE "YES" [...] (U) Summary: France's Socialist Party (PS) kicked off ahead of schedule a campaign intended to promote a "yes" vote among left-leaning voters in the referendum on the proposed EU Constitution tentatively scheduled for next June. Among the slogans chosen for this campaign is "Yes to a stronge [...] | 2005-02-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB FR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
05PARIS104 | GTMO AND DJAMEL BEGHAL TRIAL UPDATES [...] (C) Summary: The investigation against four former GTMO detainees (reftels A and B) appears to be proceeding well; all appeals for pre-trial release have been denied and the investigating judges feel confident that the trial, likely to begin this summer, will result in conviction. However, in a [...] | 2005-01-06 17:58:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR PGOV PINR PREL KISL |
05PARIS1229 | TOGO/FRANCE: UPDATE ON CHARLES DEBBASCH AND MFA [...] (U) This message reports (para 2) developments in the case of Charles Debbasch (reftel) and (para 3) MFA statements on Togo since the February 14 statement reported reftel. 2. (SBU) DEBBASCH CASE: According to a February 24 AFP report, the criminal case against Debbasch (a longtime adv [...] | 2005-02-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
05PARIS1304 | FRENCH INFORMED OF FINAL DETERMINATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-01 17:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR |
05PARIS1680 | SARKOWATCH: NICOLAS SARKOZY REGAINS SEAT IN THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a special by-election on March 13, Nicolas Sarkozy regained his old seat in the National Assembly representing the affluent town of Neuilly in the suburbs west of Paris. Sarkozy won handily in the first round garnering 71 percent of the vote. It was the most comfortable ma [...] | 2005-03-14 14:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB FR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
05PARIS1711 | FRANCE: UPDATE ON TRANSFERRED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-15 12:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTIA KAWC PHUM PINR OPDC PREL FR |
05PARIS1797 | FRANCE: INTERAGENCY BRIEFING TEAM ON GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-17 16:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR |
05PARIS1805 | FRENCH WELCOME DEMARCHE ON GBAGBO [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met March 15 with Nathalie Delapalme, FM Barnier's Africa advisor, to share the elements of the demarche on Ivoirian President Gbagbo (reftel) and to discuss the situation in Cote d'Ivoire generally. 2. (C) Delapalme welcomed the demarche on Gbagbo, noting that Fr [...] | 2005-03-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IV FR |
05PARIS1833 | RAFFARIN MOVES TO DAMPEN DISCONTENT BEFORE MAY 29 [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin agreed to open wage negotiations with public sector unions following a relatively strong turnout for the general strike on March 10 (reftel). Raffarin also called on French corporations "to share the wealth" with private sector workers following a ye [...] | 2005-03-18 14:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB FR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
05PARIS1883 | GOF SAYS RUSSIA-FRANCE-GERMANY-SPAIN MARCH 18 [...] (C) Summary: Laurent Bili, President Chirac's technical advisor on pol/mil and Russia issues, told POL M/C March 21 that the meeting between the Russian, French, German and Spanish leaders on March 18 focused primarily on EU-Russia relations, with the goal of concluding negotiations on the "Fo [...] | 2005-03-21 17:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS FR EUN |
05PARIS1998 | PARTY OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF SOCIALIST PARTY 'YES' [...] (C) At a meeting with PolOff on March 16, Francois Rebsamen, Mayor of Dijon and Socialist Party (PS) official in charge of the party's campaign to mobilize left-leaning voters to vote 'yes' in the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution, acknowledged that the "Yes, for a strong Europe agai [...] | 2005-03-24 16:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
05PARIS2205 | 'YES' VS. 'NO' -- THE FRENCH REFERENDUM DEBATE [...] (SBU) The deepening debate in France over the EU Constitution has highlighted the divisions within the center-right and center-left coalitions that dominate the country's political scene. Overall, to be in favor of the proposed Constitution is seen as supporting business-as-usual -- to favor [...] | 2005-04-04 05:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
05PARIS248 | ELYSEE MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON UNIFIL RENEWAL, [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Elysee appears solidly behind the MFA in opposing a preambular reference to UNSCR 1559 in the UNIFIL renewal resolution, though it suggests greater flexibility than the MFA on asking DPKO to review UNIFIL's force structure (ref b). During a January 12 meeting, Pre [...] | 2005-01-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY PTER PINR FR UNSC |
05PARIS2516 | KEY ISSUES IN FRANCE'S EU CONSTITUTION DEBATE [...] (SBU) The direction taken by France's debate on the proposed EU Constitution has left many observers perplexed: what, if anything, do unemployment and loss of purchasing power, Turkey's possible accession to the EU, public service unions unhappy with proposed reforms to 35 hour work week, and [...] | 2005-04-13 15:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR ECON SOCI PINR |
05PARIS2552 | French Regional Paper Slams American Presence Post [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-14 15:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR KPAO EIND FR ADIP ODPC |
05PARIS2554 | French Regional Paper Slams American Presence Post [...] (U) On April 12, the Toulouse-based, left-of-center regional daily "La Depeche du Midi" published an article on alleged U.S. economic intelligence gathering in Europe, with a short sidebar article entitled "The True Role of the American Presence Post." The front page headline, "When America [...] | 2005-04-14 16:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR KPAO EIND FR ADIP ODPC |
05PARIS2604 | EU CONSTITUTION: PRESIDENT CHIRAC TAKES HIS CASE [...] (SBU) Seeking to revive flagging support in France for the proposed EU Constitution, President Chirac, in a closely followed TV event the evening of April 14, made his case that the constitution's defeat in the May 29 referendum would isolate France, undermining its influence in Europe, and th [...] | 2005-04-15 17:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI |
05PARIS2663 | EU REFERENDUM AS PLEBICITE ON JACQUES CHIRAC AND [...] (SBU) France's referendum on a proposed Constitution for the EU could be shaping up into a nationwide vote of no confidence in Chirac and his leadership. Chirac has been President of France since 1995, and may well be aiming to run for a third term. For many voters across the electoral spec [...] | 2005-04-19 18:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI |
05PARIS2746 | FRANCE MOLLIFYING PROTESTORS TO LIMIT UNREST [...] (SBU) Summary: Strikes and social unrest, while common in France, have increased in recent months and could well intensify as the May 29 referendum on the EU Constitution approaches (reftel A). In order to deflect unpopularity while still pursuing necessary changes, politicians have long bla [...] | 2005-04-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI |
05PARIS2825 | THE FRENCH REFERENDUM ON THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION: [...] (SBU) The current debate over French referendum on the EU Constitution has highlighted France's deep-rooted economic and social malaise. With unemployment at a five-year high of just over 10 percent, labor groups and public sector unions have linked outsourcing to this general malaise to just [...] | 2005-04-26 15:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL ELAB PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS2896 | FRANCE: GOF DELEGATION TO FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON [...] EconOff contacted Virginia Tonniatti, Counselor at the Brazilian Embassy in Paris, regarding the possibility of jointly meeting with GOF officials to encourage strong, Minister-led GOF participation in the Fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption. Tonniatti was familiar with the topic of the [...] | 2005-04-28 14:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV SOCI KCRM KFRD PINR PINS PREL FR |
05PARIS2942 | FRANCE'S MAY 29 REFERENDUM ON EU CONSTITUTION: THE [...] (SBU) Despite urgings from Jacques Chirac and most of France's mainstream political leaders to cast ballots on the EU Constitution's merits in the May 29 referendum, many French voters remain focused on unemployment and other pressing economic and social issues (reftel B). Diminished purchas [...] | 2005-04-29 16:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS2975 | GROWING DISCORD OVER ABOLISHED HOLIDAY THREATENS A [...] (SBU) A government initiative to fund health care for the elderly through the elimination of the Whit Monday holiday is meeting strong opposition from organized labor and leftist political activists. Discord over this "day of solidarity", May 16, could provoke strikes and unrest in the run-up [...] | 2005-05-02 17:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS3014 | NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO FINLAND GERARD CROS [...] (C) According to the official GoF "Daily Bulletin" on May 2, Gerard Cros will be the next French Ambassador in Helsinki. Although Cros has been involved in work on the Congo Basin Forest partnership, he appears to have been essentially without a job since being replaced as MFA Africa Director [...] | 2005-05-04 07:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR FI PBIO FR CROS GERARD |
05PARIS3103 | FRANCE'S MAY 29 REFERENDUM ON EU CONSTITUTION: [...] (SBU) "The question of Turkey" as the French refer to it, looms large in the background of voter concerns as France's electorate prepares for the May 29 national referendum on a proposed constitution for the European Union. Opponents of the constitutional treaty suggest that it will make Turk [...] | 2005-05-06 17:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS3208 | POLLS ON EU CONSTITUTION: ALL EVEN WITH LESS THAN [...] (U) With less than three weeks to go before France's May 29 referendum on the EU Constitution, several recent public opinion surveys put the race in a statistical dead heat. One major poll shows an exact 50-50 split between 'yes' and 'no' among those who say they have decided how they will vo [...] | 2005-05-11 14:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS328 | FRANCE: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH TOTAL CEO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over lunch with the Ambassador January 13, Total CEO Thierry Desmarest provided a wide-ranging overview of developments in the world oil and gas sectors. Among the highlights were his description of Total's activities in Iran and Libya, and his view of China's aggressiveness in [...] | 2005-01-18 16:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETTC ENRG EINV PINR FR |
05PARIS3342 | FRANCE'S REFERENDUM ON CONSTITUTION: VOTERS [...] (SBU) Arguments aiming to tap into anti-Americanism among the French to win support either for or against the proposed constitution have by and large met with indifference from ordinary voters. This has not prevented the TV debates featuring major politicians, the print editorials and the no [...] | 2005-05-16 17:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS3379 | FRANCE APOLOGIZES FOR MIX-UP BARRING U.S. MILITARY [...] (C) A wrong call by a low-level French official was quickly reversed when we brought it to the attention of the MOD and MFA. At issue was the participation of Col. Ernest Herold, Chief of the Embassy's Office of Defense Cooperation, in the annual study trip sponsored by the Direction Generale [...] | 2005-05-17 17:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINR CH FR NATO |
05PARIS3492 | FRANCE'S REFERENDUM ON CONSTITUTION: NOTHING [...] (SBU) With a week to go before France's May 29 referendum on the proposed constitution for the EU, the outcome remains highly uncertain. Latest polls, taken in mid-May, show 'no' with a slight lead over 'yes' among decided voters. Pollsters, however, are careful to point out that the number [...] | 2005-05-20 17:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS3659 | FRANCE'S REFERENDUM ON EU CONSTITUTION: INTERNAL [...] (C) Whatever the outcome on May 29, none of the purely domestic political/economic issues that have so divided the French electorate during the referendum campaign will have been resolved. Rejection of the political class, along with the high unemployment, diminished purchasing power and eco [...] | 2005-05-26 14:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS3722 | FRANCE'S REFERENDUM ON EU CONSTITUTION: 'NO' WINS [...] (SBU) In a stinging defeat for President Chirac and the entire French establishment -- its political class and business, media and cultural elites -- French voters massively voted 'no' in the May 29 referendum on the proposed constitution for the EU. President Chirac, in a terse statement on [...] | 2005-05-31 10:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS3813 | CHIRAC GAMBLES AGAIN, ALLYING HIS PROTEGE AND HIS [...] (C) In choosing former Foreign and Interior Minister and long-time collaborator Dominique de Villepin to head his new government, and center-right rival Nicolas Sarkozy to be its number two, President Chirac is attempting to unite the main factions that divide France's center-right in response [...] | 2005-06-02 12:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS3878 | FRANCE: NEW GOVERNMENT LINE UP [...] (SBU) The new French government led by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, with Nicolas Sarkozy as Minister of the Interior (reftel) was formally announced by the Elysee palace the evening of Thursday, June 2. The new government, significantly smaller than the one it replaces (31 versus 43 [...] | 2005-06-03 16:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ELAB FR |
05PARIS3952 | NEW FRENCH RESEARCH MINISTER [...] Summary. President Chirac appointed a new government on June 2 (ref C). The research portfolio remains folded into a large Education Ministry. Francois Goulard, the new `Minister-Delegate for Higher Education and Research,' will face a number of sensitive challenges, including the final dr [...] | 2005-06-07 17:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY TSPA TSPL KSCA PGOV PINR FR |
05PARIS4044 | DOMINIQUE DE VILLEPIN'S MAIDEN SPEECH AS PRIME [...] (SBU) A tightly self-controlled Dominique de Villepin -- he stuck to an uncharacteristically dry text and kept his hands glued to the podium throughout -- delivered his "general policy" speech to a packed National Assembly on June 8. Villepin was clearly focused on televisually communicatin [...] | 2005-06-09 17:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS426 | GOF OFFICIALS ON BAGHDAD SECURITY CONCERNS, GOF [...] (C) Summary: MFA A/S-equivalent for Middle East/North Africa Jean-Francois Thibault stressed GoF security concerns regarding its personnel in Baghdad, during an introductory meeting with Pol/MC January 21. Noting that he had been instructed to raise the issue, Thibault asserted that increasi [...] | 2005-01-24 17:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IZ FR |
05PARIS433 | FRENCH NOTIFIED OF LATEST ENEMY COMBATANT STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-25 08:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR |
05PARIS4659 | FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER'S JULY 5 VISIT TO [...] (C) Upon his appointment as foreign minister June 2, much of the French press and many political pundits (fed by, among others, disdainful career diplomats at the MFA) wrote off Philippe Douste-Blazy as a dilettante. His lack of foreign policy experience, it was said, and penchant for currying [...] | 2005-07-01 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR FR |
05PARIS4756 | FRENCH INITIAL REACTION TO TERRORIST ATTACKS IN [...] (SBU) Shared outrage and shock, and a renewed awareness of their own vulnerability, characterized French reaction to the terrorist bombings in the London transport system. Prime Minister Villepin wrote to Prime Minister Blair within an hour of the attacks to express France's solidarity with [...] | 2005-07-07 16:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS482 | JUDGE BRUGUIERE DISCUSSES ONGOING TERRORISM [...] (S) Summary: During a January 24 lunch hosted by the Ambassador, top terrorism investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere discussed a number of ongoing investigations he was leading and also commented on a variety of terrorism-related issues. He believed that 2005 would be a dangerous year, give [...] | 2005-01-27 09:01:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PINR PTER FR |
05PARIS4954 | CHIRAC'S BASTILLE DAY INTERVIEW: A WEAKENED [...] (SBU) Fighting to re-establish his relevance, President Chirac began the now traditional Bastille Day interview of France's President by casting himself as the leader of France's anti-terrorism effort. Thereafter, in the hour-long exchange with two leading TV anchorpersons, Chirac focused on [...] | 2005-07-18 15:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS5025 | ELECTION OF NEW FRENCH BUSINESS LEADER HINTS AT [...] (SBU) France's leading business association, MEDEF, on July 5 elected Laurence Parisot, head of major French pollster, IFOP, as its new president. Parisot is a first for MEDEF, both in that she is the CEO of a cutting-edge services sector business and a woman. MEDEF has long been considered [...] | 2005-07-20 09:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL ELAB PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS5099 | SARKOZY DEFIES CHIRAC, THEN RETREATS -- AS [...] (SBU) France's Interior Minister and 2007 presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy has again challenged President Chirac's credibility as a leader. In highly publicized remarks on July 14, Sarkozy compared Chirac to King Louis XVI. (Louis XVI is identified in France with ingnoring the winds of [...] | 2005-07-22 14:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS5352 | FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL VIEWS MAURITANIA COUP AS [...] (C) GOF MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher on August 4 said that France viewed Mauritania's coup as "consolidated" (i.e., concluded). He said that the key remaining question involved Mauritanian forces which remain loyal to President Taya and are conducting anti-terrorist oper [...] | 2005-08-05 07:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC PINR MOPS CASC MR FR |
05PARIS5694 | FRANCE: SEEKING MORE LABOR FLEXIBILITY [...] (SBU) PM de Villepin has announced an emergency employment plan, which will introduce more flexibility into the rigid French labor market. The plan creates a new type of hiring contract that will allow companies of up to 20 employees to lay off workers anytime during the first two years of e [...] | 2005-08-24 11:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL ELAB PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS5922 | REPORT FROM THE FRENCH SOCIALIST PARTY'S "SUMMER [...] (C) France's Socialist Party (PS) held the thirteenth edition of its annual "Summer University" on August 26 - 28 (ref D). This year, party leaders used the event to start drawing up the battle lines (ref C) between the rival populist and progressive factions -- the 'no' and the 'yes' camps [...] | 2005-08-31 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS5935 | NEW FRENCH BUSINESS LEADER WARNS AGAINST GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Laurence Parisot, the new head of France's leading business association, MEDEF, recently warned the French Government against any resurgence of protectionism. In a newspaper interview on Aug. 30, she reiterated her intention to reconcile the French with the market economy, business cult [...] | 2005-09-01 11:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL ELAB PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS6031 | PRESIDENT CHIRAC HOSPITALIZED WITH "LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: President Jacques Chirac was admitted to a military hospital in Paris on the evening on Friday, September 2 for what doctors are calling a "minor vascular accident" that slightly impaired vision in one of his eyes. According to media reports, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin [...] | 2005-09-06 18:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS6090 | P-3 COMPROMISE ON DEVELOPMENT CAN RESCUE OUTCOME [...] (C) Salvaging the Outcome Document (OD) for the High Level Summit hinges on P-3 compromise, in the view of Quai d'Orsay action officer Nicolas Kassianides. At a September 7 meeting with poloff to discuss reftel demarche, Kassianides emphasized that finding mutually acceptable language on dev [...] | 2005-09-08 14:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR EAIR EAID EFIN FR UNGA |
05PARIS6333 | RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO UIGHURS - FRANCE [...] (C) DCM discussed reftel request with MFA Director of Cabinet Pierre Vimont, September 16. Vimont said the GOF would "study" the request and promised a rapid response. Vimont said that, if France were in principle able to accept some/all of the Uighurs, it would be helpful to have more deta [...] | 2005-09-16 15:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR FR |
05PARIS6336 | SANT'EGIDIO OUTLINES AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Summary: Community of Sant'Egidio representatives reviewed their diplomatic outreach in Africa during meetings with Africa Watcher on the margins of the Community's 19th annual congress in Lyon, France, September 11-13. Sant'Egidio's 1992 role in brokering peace negotiations to end the [...] | 2005-09-16 16:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM MZ TO IV RW CG SU FR |
05PARIS6434 | FRENCH EFFORTS TO BOLSTER ABUJA TALKS ON DARFUR [...] (C) Like the USG, France took steps to dissuade Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Menes Menawi from staging a rival conference in Darfur during the Abuja round of talks that began September 15, Sudan deskoff Jeremie Robert told Africa Watcher in a September 20 meeting (ref A). The Quai [...] | 2005-09-21 14:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR EAID PREF SU FR UNSC |
05PARIS6576 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: At a September 21 meeting with Ambassador Stapleton, President of the National Assembly and leader of the Gaullist faction in the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party Jean-Louis Debre brushed aside assertions that U.S.-French relations are on the mend and foresaw, inste [...] | 2005-09-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR GM SOCI PINR ECON |
05PARIS6633 | FRENCH MFA ON NEXT STEPS FOR EU [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for EU institutional affairs Setton told us September 27 that FM Douste-Blazy's September 23 proposal, at the governing center-right party's conference on Europe, for a two-speed Europe was "personal" not GOF policy. (The same holds true for Interior Minister [...] | 2005-09-27 16:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PINR EUN |
05PARIS6744 | ALAIN MADELIN SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR HIS CANDIDACY [...] (C) At a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on September 6, former French Finance Minister Alain Madelin solicited U.S. support for his candidacy to head the OECD. Madelin stressed his commitment to reform of the OECD along the lines of the U.S. proposal to that end. Madelin also made the case [...] | 2005-09-30 16:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EU FR IO PGOV PINR SOCI |
05PARIS6825 | AUSTRALIA MULLS OVER AMBASSADORIAL ACCREDITATION [...] (SBU) Australia is looking for signs of progress toward democracy since the August coup in Nouakchott in order to justify the accreditation of its ambassador in France to Mauritania, Second Secretary Tracey Haines informed Africa Watcher on October 4. Australian ambassador Penny Wensley, who [...] | 2005-10-04 13:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ECON EINV EFIN EPET PINR AS MR FR |
05PARIS6887 | FRENCH ILL AT EASE ON DARFUR, CHAD, AND THE [...] (SBU) DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal and Sudan Desk Officer Jeremie Robert singled out recent violence in Darfur, cross-border attacks into Chad by militia with possible government backing, African Union representative Kingibe's strong criticism of Khartoum, and Chad's rebuke to Sudanese author [...] | 2005-10-06 11:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KAWC PINR SU CD FR |
05PARIS6938 | PDAS VOLKER HEARS FRENCH VIEWS ON AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTS: EUR PDAS Volker met AF PDAS-Equivalent Barbier and DAS-Equivalent Le Gal October 6 to discuss areas of converging interest in Africa. Barbier struck a positive note of appreciation for ongoing cooperation and consultations. France shared U.S. views on Sudan [...] | 2005-10-11 06:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ASEC KPKO PINR IV ZI LI SU FR |
05PARIS7043 | PKK TERRORISM: FRENCH REPLY ON SUPPORT FROM EUROPE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-13 15:59:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KCRM PTER EFIN PINR PREL FR |
05PARIS7439 | ISRAELI FM SHALOM VISITS PARIS, TOULOUSE [...] (C) Summary: Israeli FM Sylvan Shalom concluded a 3-day visit to France on Saturday, October 29 after visiting Paris and Toulouse. Although Shalom's visit was planned as the latest in a series of bilateral efforts to improve the Israeli-French relationship, international issues predominated, [...] | 2005-10-31 15:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IS FR |
05PARIS7528 | TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGE COMMENTS ON ONGOING [...] (S) Summary: Terrorism investigating judge Jean-Francois Ricard (strictly protect) discussed his office's ongoing C/T activities November 3, including the possible upcoming release of two ex-GTMO detainees and the continued investigation of three separate terrorist cells discovered in 2005. [...] | 2005-11-04 10:58:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR PTER FR |
05PARIS7626 | FORMER PM JOSPIN DEFLECTS SPECULATION ABOUT [...] (C) Over lunch with Ambassador Stapleton on November 2, former prime minister Lionel Jospin said that desire for change, along with widespread disappointment with the record of President Chirac and the center-right, "puts things in place" for a center-left victory in 2007. However, he also cau [...] | 2005-11-08 13:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS7745 | FRENCH-IRAQI RESEARCHER DESCRIBES RECENT RAMADAN [...] (C) Summary: A local French-Iraqi anthropologist, Hosham Dawod (protect),briefed us on a recent visit to Qom, Iran, reportedly at the invitation of supporters of Ayatollah Sistani. Dawod, who is a former IVLP participant and an expert on Iraqi tribes and Shi'ism, told us he spent 12 days in [...] | 2005-11-14 17:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINR IR IZ FR |
05PARIS7785 | ACTION REQUEST: GUIDANCE ON RESPONSE TO COE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (U) Amb. Stapleton received by fax a letter (full text para 4) from Dick Marty, whom the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly has appointed to investigate the allegations of CIA secret detention centers in CoE member countries. The key [...] | 2005-11-16 12:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR PINS FR |
05PARIS7835 | ANALYZING THE CIVIL UNREST -- THE ISLAMIC FACTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The perpetrators of the urban rampaging (refs) in France are by and large of Arab-African and Black-African background. In most cases, they are also Muslims, raising the question as to what extent their religious affiliation helps explain the explosion in France's immigrant subu [...] | 2005-11-17 17:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS7899 | MFA CABINET MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: MFA Cabinet advisor on Maghreb/Arabian Gulf issues Francois Thoizy, during a November 17 discussion on GoF policy in the Gulf and Maghreb (septel),offered unusually frank observations on domestic integration and discrimination issues, referring frequently to his status as the fir [...] | 2005-11-18 19:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL SOCI PINR XF |
05PARIS7920 | FRENCH THINK TANKER ON VISIT TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: French think-tanker Francois Gere, who claims to have extensive ties to the local Iranian Embassy as well as the Quai and Israeli Embassy met with us November 18 to report on his recent trip to the Isfahan nuclear facility at the Iranian government's invitation. Gere -- who many [...] | 2005-11-21 16:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR MNUC IR PINR KNUP |
05PARIS8062 | FRANCE: HSPD-6 TERRORIST LOOKOUT SHARING PROSPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Agencies at post involved in our productive and extensive counterterrorism dialogue with the French have considered HSPD-6 requirements to explore obtaining terrorist watchlist information. We consider it highly unlikely the GOF would consent to unilateral sharing of its watchli [...] | 2005-11-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER CVIS CASC PGOV PREL PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS8069 | SOCIALIST PARTY ENDS MONTH-LONG DECISON PROCESS [...] France's Socialist Party (PS) -- in a convoluted, fiercely contested, but genuinely democratic process throughout November -- agreed on a document setting out the party's policy direction and renewed the membership of its governing institutions. It also created a "Presidential Commission" to [...] | 2005-11-28 18:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS8075 | FRANCE TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON NGO DRAFT LAW DEMARCHE [...] (C) On November 22, Poloff delivered ref A demarche regarding a new Russian draft law on NGOs to Aurelia Bouchez, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space. On November 29, Charles Denier, senior desk officer for Russia, told Poloff that France was, like the U.S., very c [...] | 2005-11-29 11:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS PHUM PINR |
05PARIS8173 | MFA CABINET ADVISOR ON FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS AND [...] Summary: FM Douste-Blazy's advisor for Franco-German relations Heldt and German Ambassador Neubert, speaking about German Chancellor Merkel's November 23 inaugural visit to France, both predicted continuity in the Franco-German relationship while emphasizing more a marriage of reason than of [...] | 2005-12-01 18:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR GM PINR EUN |
05PARIS8313 | TEXT OF LETTER FROM PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE [...] (U) Action request -- see para 5. 2. (U) Post received on December 6, 2005 faxed copy of a letter to the Secretary from the President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Renee van der Linden. The transmittal sheet attached to the letter from van der Linden's Chief of Staf [...] | 2005-12-07 16:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU PTER PINR PHUM FR |
05PARIS8462 | COUNCIL OF EUROPE ON ALLEGATIONS OF SECRET [...] (C) Summary: Council of Europe Secretary General Davis warned the Ambassador December 12, citing NATO "unresponsiveness" to repeated written queries, that he intended soon "to go public" with respect to the alleged use of KFOR-run detention centers in Kosovo for secret CIA secret prisons (this [...] | 2005-12-15 06:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS8605 | FRENCH HOPEFUL ON ALTERNATIVE TO SUDANESE AU [...] (C) MFA Sudan Desk Officer Jeremie Robert confirmed to Africa Watcher that France remains hopeful that a Congo-Brazzaville candidacy may avert the fiasco of a possible Sudanese African Union (AU) Presidency after the January 2006 summit in Khartoum. Chirac's Africa Adviser Michel de Bonnecorse [...] | 2005-12-22 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM CF SU AU FR |
05PARIS8606 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH KEY SARKOZY ADVISOR FRANCOIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sarkozy advisor and former Education Minister Francois Fillon told the Ambassador December 20 that Sarkozy had a chance to buck the French predisposition to vote against the ruling party in 2007 by focusing his presidential campaign on the electorate's deep-seated desire for re [...] | 2005-12-22 12:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI FR EUN |
05PARIS952 | TOGO: FRENCH SUPPORTERS OF EYADEMA INVOLVED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reftel notes the current involvement of two French figures in the succession controversy following Togolese President Eyadema's death, Charles Debbasch and Michel Scarbonchi. Both are well-known longtime supporters and advisors of the former President, and both have had recent [...] | 2005-02-15 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR TO FR |
05PORTAUPRINCE1221 | FORMER ARISTIDE OFFICIALS UNDER DRUG INDICTMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: Since mid-2003, seven high-profile members of the Aristide government or associates of the former President have been arrested on drug charges in the United States. Other officials are still under investigation for possible prosecution in the U.S. or Haiti. Press reports indicate t [...] | 2005-05-03 11:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR HA |
05PORTAUPRINCE1274 | MAY 4 REPATRIATION OF 132 HAITIAN MIGRANTS [...] Summary. On May 4, the Coast Guard cutter Dependable repatriated to Haiti 132 migrants who claimed to have left Cap Haitien on Haiti's northern coast in the early morning of April 27. The Dependable interdicted the migrants in a 35-foot sail freighter 30 nautical miles east of Great Inagua [...] | 2005-05-06 19:37:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR SMIG HA |
05PORTAUPRINCE1313 | PORT-DE-PAIX: HAITI'S WILD NORTHWEST [...] Summary. Ambassador Foley visited Port-de-Paix on April 20 to meet with political, religious and economic leaders, as well as U.S. citizens in the region. While petty crime is high in Port-de-Paix, the city has not had any political violence recently. MINUSTAH's Argentine forces based out [...] | 2005-05-11 15:08:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM EAID PINR HA |
05PORTAUPRINCE1314 | OPPORTUNITY AND STABILITY IN CAP HAITIEN [...] Summary. Ambassador Foley visited Cap Haitien on April 20-21 to meet with political, religious and economic leaders, as well as U.S. citizens in the region. Optimism prevailed on security; Cap Haitien is stable and has seen no political violence in recent months. Chilean MINUSTAH forces de [...] | 2005-05-11 15:27:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM PINR EAID HA |
05PORTAUPRINCE1550 | JUNE 1 REPATRIATION OF 162 HAITIAN MIGRANTS [...] SUMMARY. On June 1, the Coast Guard cutter Confidence repatriated to Haiti 162 migrants who claimed to have departed Les Cayes on 19 May. The Confidence, the USCGC Metompkin and a USCG helicopter intercepted the migrants in a 65 foot sail freighter 60 nautical miles south of Andros Island, [...] | 2005-06-03 19:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR SMIG HA |
05PORTAUPRINCE1628 | HAITI: BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT ON IGOH'S FAILURE TO ADDRESS JUDICIAL REFORM AND SECURITY ISSUES IN THE COUNTRY [...] (C) Summary: Poloff discussed the deplorable state of the judiciary, prolonged pretrial detention, and the deteriorating security situation in Haiti with Port-au-Prince Bar Association president Gervais Charles. Charles acknowledged that the Haitian judicial system faces inherent structural and pro [...] | 2005-06-13 13:52:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR HA |
05PORTAUPRINCE2871 | REPATRIATION OF 250 HAITIAN MIGRANTS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-22 16:05:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR SMIG HA |
05PRAGUE106 | ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL SALE OF CZECH PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Reftel reported the request of the Czech government for the U.S. government's opinion on the potential sale of a passive surveillance system (PSS) to the Air Force of Pakistan. This cable offers additional technical and background information on the system. Note: ref A mistakenly made r [...] | 2005-01-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL PINR PK EZ |
05PRAGUE1130 | CZECH DEPUTY PM JAHN CONSIDERS JOINING CSSD AND [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador, Czech Deputy Prime Minister Martin Jahn offered views on his possible political future, potential political scenarios heading into next summer's elections, and the fate of economic legislation. Jahn confirmed that PM Paroubek has asked him [...] | 2005-07-29 14:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR EZ |
05PRAGUE1164 | CZECH REPUBLIC: VISIT OF MADELYN SPIRNAK, SENIOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Over the course of an intense two-day visit to the Czech republic (July 27-28),Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology, Madelyn Spirnak met with senior government officials and US business leaders to advance the US position on transgenic crops and to enlist Czech aid in wo [...] | 2005-08-09 12:30:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ETRD ECON EAGR PINR EZ |
05PRAGUE1665 | UPDATE ON EXTENSION OF POLICE TRAINERS AT THE [...] Pol Specialist Nov 28 confirmed with the Interior Ministry that the Czech Republic plans to extend the Czech participation in police training in Jordan. The Ministry of Interior has already allocated the necessary financing. The proposal to extend is now being reviewed in the Czech interagency [...] | 2005-11-30 15:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ KCRM KJUS MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SNAR SOCI |
05PRAGUE1687 | CZECHS ALSO CONCEREND ABOUT RUSSIAN NGO LAW [...] (C) The Czech Republic shares USG concerns about the draft Russian NGO law, and is interested in coordinating with the U.S. on practical measures that will result in changes to the legislation. Embassy discussed reftel points in recent weeks with MFA Director General for European Bilateral Rel [...] | 2005-12-06 16:30:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ RS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
05PRAGUE1701 | CZECHS APPROVE 2006 MILITARY DEPLOYMENT PLANS [...] Summary: The Czech Chamber of Deputies voted December 7 in favor of proposed foreign military deployments for 2006, including the retention of 100 troops in Iraq. End Summary 2. The Czech Chamber of Deputies voted December 7 in favor of proposed foreign military deployments for 2006. This ti [...] | 2005-12-08 16:49:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | EZ PGOV PHUM PINR PREL MARR MOPS |
05PRAGUE1707 | IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS PRAGUE BUT [...] (C) Summary: The recent visit of an Iranian parliamentary delegation to Prague left a trail of conflicting claims and counterclaims between the Iranians and their Czech hosts. Closer investigation has revealed that most Czech officials remain skeptical about Iran, and the Iranians were unsucce [...] | 2005-12-09 16:36:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ PREL PGOV ETRD PINR KNNP IR |
05PRAGUE184 | CZECH PM STANISLAV GROSS: SHROUDED IN CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary. Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross is under increasing pressure from the opposition and the public to explain the unclear origin of money used in 1999 to purchase the family's luxury Prague apartment, or to resign. His inability to explain his source of financing for the apart [...] | 2005-02-09 06:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EZ |
05PRAGUE213 | NEW EC DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EXTERNAL [...] (U) Post offers the following background and biographical information on Karel Kovanda, the current Czech Ambassador at NATO, who was appointed February 9 as European Commission Deputy Director General for External Relations. Kovanda will replace Fernando Velenzuela Marzo. His portfolio will [...] | 2005-02-14 16:26:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR EZ EUN |
05PRAGUE346 | CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON LEBANON [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with DCM Hillas, Czech Deputy Minister for Bilateral Relations Petr Kolar and Czech Ambassador to Lebanon Marek Skolil stated that the Czech Republic agrees with the U.S. position about the complete withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon. The Czech MFA issued [...] | 2005-03-09 15:58:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINS PINR SY LE EZ |
05PRAGUE699 | CZECH PARLIAMENT MAY INVESTIGATE ALLEGED RENDERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Czech press in past week has picked up the story from the "New York Times" and other American press about CIA rendering flights that have allegedly transited the Czech Republic. Opposition politicians plan to call for a Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee hearing to discuss [...] | 2005-05-11 16:04:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | PINR PREL EZ |
05PRAGUE892 | CZECH PROPOSAL FOR PASSIVE RADAR SYSTEM TO VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-13 08:45:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM PINR PREL EZ VM PK |
05PRAGUE896 | CZECH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER KOLAR ON IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Czech republic is promoting former Czech Ambassador to the US Alexandr Vondra to become the Special EU Representative to Bosnia, and has garnered the support of Slovakia and Poland. The Czechs are presenting a proposal on the EU on dealings with Cuba which includes developmen [...] | 2005-06-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS PINR EAID IZ BK EZ EUN |
05PRAGUE94 | ODS SECOND-IN-COMMAND PETR NECAS AN IDEOLOGICAL [...] (C) Summary. The December 2004 election of main opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS) long-time defense expert and ideological visionary Petr Necas to the number two position in the party strengthens Chairman Mirek Topolanek's leadership team and bodes well for future direction of ODS. The [...] | 2005-01-19 17:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV MARR EZ |
05PRETORIA2194 | SOUTH AFRICA: CONFERENCE PROMOTES INVESTING IN [...] (U) Summary. South African-based Investec Asset Management hosted a May 4th conference in Johannesburg focused on improving the investment climate in South Africa and Africa. About 250 people attended the posh conference which touted such high profile speakers as Cyril Ramaphosa (former ANC [...] | 2005-06-03 15:46:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD ECON PREL PINR XA SF |
05PRETORIA2599 | OPPOSITION TO MBEKI'S POLICIES AT ANC CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: There appeared to be a popular revolt by provincial representatives against South African President Thabo Mbeki's proposed program to legislate a dual economy and redesign the ruling ANC party on the first day (June 30) of a four-day ANC National General Council (NGC) conference [...] | 2005-07-01 15:46:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ELAB ECON PINR SF |
05PRETORIA4076 | NEW NEPAD CHIEF EXECUTIVE [...] (U) Summary. In August 2005, Mozambican agricultural economist Firmino Mucavele was appointed the Chief Executive of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Secretariat. He replaced South Africa's Wiseman Nkuhlu, who continues to serve as South Africa's representative in the NE [...] | 2005-10-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR ECIN ECON EINV ETRD SF |
05PRETORIA423 | SOUTH AFRICA: MONEY LAUNDERING AND CASINOS [...] (U) Summary. Although the gambling industry comprises a small portion of its GDP, South Africa has a relatively large gambling industry in global terms. South Africa operates an advanced system of casino regulation over its 32 casinos. The National Gambling Board conducts continual inspection [...] | 2005-01-31 15:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR EFIN SOCI SF |
05PRETORIA4340 | NIA IMPLICATED IN ANTI-MBEKI SPYING [...] (C) Summary: National Intelligence Agency Director General Billy Masetlha and two of his deputies on October 21 were suspended by Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils after NIA was accused of spying on Saki Macozoma, a prominent businessman and ally of President Thabo Mbeki. Press reports al [...] | 2005-10-27 06:29:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SF |
05PRETORIA4438 | SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANIES IMPLICATED IN IRAQI [...] (U) Adding to SAG/ANC woes over the domestic political fall-out from President Mbeki's firing of former Deputy President Zuma for alleged corruption (Ref A),South African companies reportedly are implicated in the scandal-ridden UN Iraqi oil-for-food program. The Iraqi Government under Saddam [...] | 2005-11-03 17:21:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD PINR IZ SF |
05QUEBEC25 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL VISIT TO QUEBEC CITY [...] Summary: Ambassador Cellucci traveled to Quebec City February 9-10 in what was his tenth and parting visit as Ambassador. He spoke to a packed audience at Laval University, met with opposition party leaders Bernard Landry and Mario Dumont, dined with three pivotal Liberal government minister [...] | 2005-02-17 16:37:00 | Consulate Quebec | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD BEXP PINR CA |
05QUEBEC26 | QUEBEC: PREMIER CHAREST ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] With security breaches at Hydro Quebec installations dominating the media and popular support for his government a record low of 17 percent, embattled Quebec Premier Charest announced a long awaited Cabinet reshuffle. Given the outcry over security at Hydro Quebec, it is no surprise that both [...] | 2005-02-18 19:20:00 | Consulate Quebec | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ETRD CA |
05QUEBEC35 | HARPER FACES STEEP UPHILL BATTLE IN QUEBEC [...] (SBU) Summary: In the fall of 2003, the federal Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties merged and Stephen Harper beat out Stockwell Day for the new Conservative Party leadership. In the federal election following that merger the Conservatives failed to elect anyone in Quebe [...] | 2005-03-19 01:24:00 | Consulate Quebec | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR CA |
05QUITO1047 | NEW TRADE MINISTER SOUNDS REASONABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings with the Ambassador and AID, Ecuador's new Minister for Trade Oswaldo Molestina said he wanted an FTA with the USG, but was most concerned about the agricultural negotiations. He said that he intended to keep lead FTA negotiator Cristian Espinosa on board, [...] | 2005-05-06 19:49:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV EINV ECON PINR EC |
05QUITO1050 | ECUADOR: NEW VICE PRESIDENT ROUNDS OUT CABINET [...] (U) Summary: Congress swore in Alejandro Serrano Aguilar as Vice President of Ecuador on May 5. Serrano hails from Ecuador's third largest city of Cuenca, providing some regional balance to a Guayaquil-centric cabinet. Serrano's swearing in leaves only the Labor portfolio still open; labor [...] | 2005-05-06 21:18:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO1097 | ECUADOR: BIOS: NEW MINISTER OF LABOR IS UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: The President swore in Galo Chiriboga Zambrano as Minister of Labor on May 11, completing his Cabinet. Chiriboga, who was pushed by union leaders, took office pledging to strengthen worker rights and fight child labor, while also increasing competitiveness. Chiriboga's appoi [...] | 2005-05-12 21:43:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ELAB EC |
05QUITO1100 | ECUADOR: DEMOCRATIC DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? [...] (C) Summary: The political scene is coming alive with voices, new and old, providing different prescriptions for Ecuador's democratic ills. Congress on May 11 ejected four more of its members, tossing due process to the wind in the face of threatened protests on May 12. As the first test of [...] | 2005-05-13 13:54:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO1177 | ECUADOR: FM AND MINDEF MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met separately with FM Parra and MinDef Espinosa on May 19. Parra expressed hope for the strongest possible relations with the U.S., and pledged MFA support for successful FTA negotiations. He expressed GOE discomfort with language in the draft OAS resolution, sa [...] | 2005-05-19 23:05:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS PINR SNAR EC |
05QUITO1202 | GOE REQUESTS AGREMENT [...] (SBU) On May 24, the Embassy received diplomatic note no. 21177-GM/2005 (faxed to WHA/AND),signed by FM Antonio Parra Gil, requesting USG consent and agrement for Dr. Alvaro Perez Intriago as Ecuador's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States. 2. (SBU) The note i [...] | 2005-05-24 20:58:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO1256 | PRESIDENT PALACIO SENDING MIXED SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting which failed to inspire great confidence in his leadership ability or vision, President Palacio told the Ambassador on May 31 that his government is focused on achieving durable political reforms. Palacio expressed continued concern about disloyalty in the police an [...] | 2005-06-01 22:25:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MOPS KCRM EC |
05QUITO1926 | PRES. PALACIO ON NEW AMB. TO U.S., REPLACEMENT FM [...] (C) Summary: President Alfredo Palacio told the Charge that he would name career diplomat Luis Gallegos Chiriboga to be Ecuador's Ambassador to the U.S. shortly. He also said he intended to replace FM Parra with another career Ecuadorian and UN diplomat, Diego Cordovez. End Summary. 2. [...] | 2005-08-17 23:37:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO1931 | PRES. PALACIO CONSIDERS, THEN REJECTS VISIT TO CUBA [...] (C) Summary. On August 17, President Palacio shared with Charge his inclination to attend a ceremony in Havana for graduating Ecuadorian medical students on August 20. Doing so would boost his international standing, he said, offering Latin America an alternative regional leader to Hugo Chav [...] | 2005-08-18 12:40:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CU EC |
05QUITO2060 | AMBASSADOR MEETS GOVERNMENT MINISTER GANDARA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara on September 1. Gandara, a lightning rod for growing criticism of the Palacio government, made light of the chorus of calls for his impeachment. In a cordial and wide-ranging discussion, Gandara bla [...] | 2005-09-02 20:23:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO2191 | ID LEADERS SUPPORT PALACIO'S REFORM EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In initial office calls on President of Congress Wilfredo Lucero and Quito Mayor Paco Moncayo, the Ambassador discussed prospects for political reform. Both Moncayo and Lucero were emphatic that Palacio needed support for his reform agenda, echoing the sentiments of other le [...] | 2005-09-23 21:43:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2193 | BACKGROUND ON NEW ECUADORIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] Summary: (SBU) Francisco Carrion Mena, who has been tapped to replace Foreign Minister Antonio Parra, comes to the job with a history of leftist leanings, but with a solid background as a career diplomat and a good relationship with the United States. Carrion, the current ambassador to Spain, [...] | 2005-09-23 22:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR EC |
05QUITO2241 | NEW GOVERNMENT MINISTER AN IMPROVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, the Ambassador discussed pending political reforms with new Minister of Government Oswaldo Molestina. She also enlisted Molestina's continued support for the successful conclusion of an FTA and new leadership combating trafficking in persons (TIP). President [...] | 2005-09-30 15:33:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO2359 | GUTIERREZ RETURNS TO JAIL, PALACIO SOWS UNCERTAINTY [...] (C) Summary: Ex-president Lucio Gutierrez returned to Ecuador on October 14 and was promptly arrested and incarcerated in Quito. Perhaps more destabilizing was an announcement the same day by President Alfredo Palacio proposing a national constituent assembly over congressional opposition. [...] | 2005-10-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2463 | PALACIO CONSIDERS COMPROMISE, CONGRESS APPEALS TO [...] (C) Summary: President Alfredo Palacio told the Ambassador on October 27 that he was considering sending a new referendum proposal to Congress which would allow voters to decide between constituent and constitutional assemblies to make political reform. The Ambassador urged strict adherence [...] | 2005-10-28 19:16:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2499 | GOE REJECTS IRANIAN REMARKS, CONSIDERING STATEMENT [...] PolChief, British DCM Peter Evans, and PolOff delivered RefTel points on November 1 to Ambassadors Rafael Veintimilla and Marco Samaniego of MFA Bilateral Relations, requesting that the GOE publicly reject President Ahmadi-Nejad's call to "wipe Israel off the map." Veintimilla said that the GO [...] | 2005-11-04 14:37:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2506 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: In her initial meeting with Foreign Minister (FM) Francisco Carrion on November 1, the Ambassador reaffirmed the importance of respecting constitutional bounds for reform, urged the MFA to revitalize the GOE inter-ministry working group on TIP, and reminded the FM that the GOE,s [...] | 2005-11-04 18:06:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2652 | INDIGENOUS MARCH IN QUITO AGAINST FTA [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 1,000 indigenous from the provinces participated in mobilizations on November 16 and 17 organized by indigenous organization CONAIE against the free trade agreement (FTA) and the US-owned Occidental petroleum company, and in favor of a constituent assembly. Protest [...] | 2005-11-21 16:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL ETRD EC FTA |
05QUITO2677 | FORMER SPANISH PRESIDENT AZNAR PROMOTES TRADE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Former Spanish PM Aznar told the Ambassador on November 22 that the situation in Latin America is not good, and faulted the USG and Spain, the two countries with the most influence in the region, for lacking a plan to counter rising populism. Aznar was in Quito at the invitati [...] | 2005-11-21 21:45:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO2724 | MFA'S COOLER HEADS ON COLOMBIA, PERU [...] (C) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira told the Charge on November 30 that FM Francisco Carrion would like to pay an official visit to Washington in January or February. Ribadeneira, who took office in October when Carrion replaced outgoing FM Antonio Parra, highlighted the im [...] | 2005-11-30 22:29:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2725 | UN CRITICIZES ECUADOR'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Committee Against Torture, which oversees countries' compliance with the Convention Against Torture, recently publicly announced that Ecuador needs to adopt a clear definition of the crime of torture and ensure investigation and punishment for acts of torture. The repor [...] | 2005-11-30 22:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM EC |
05QUITO2746 | ECUADOR-CHILE: PRESIDENTS SIGN JOINT DECLARATION [...] Summary: During a six hour visit to Ecuador on December 1, Chile's President Ricardo Lagos and President Alfredo Palacio signed seven bilateral agreements and issued a declaration on maritime limits between South American countries on the Pacific. The declaration echoed statements made by b [...] | 2005-12-02 17:18:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2748 | PRESIDENT PUSHES "PLAN B" FOR REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: After being rebuffed by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and Congress, President Palacio on December 1 announced he had issued a decree ordering the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to hold a referendum on January 22. The referendum would ask voters whether to convoke a national assem [...] | 2005-12-02 19:58:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2814 | FIRST LADY: CABINET SHAKEUP COMING SOON [...] (C) Summary: First Lady Maria Paret de Palacio called on the Ambassador on December 9 to share President Palacio's intended Cabinet changes in advance of a public announcement which she implied was imminent. The First Lady said Palacio wished to assure the USG that Alfredo Castillo, his choi [...] | 2005-12-09 23:02:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON EC |
05QUITO2863 | ECUADOR: PALACIO SWEARS IN TWO NEW CABINET MEMBERS [...] (U) Summary: On December 14, President Alfredo Palacio swore in Alfredo Castillo Bujase as the new Minister of Government (the fourth person to hold this post since Palacio took office in April). Acting Minister of Government Galo Chiriboga returned to his previous post as Minister of Labor. [...] | 2005-12-15 22:53:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EC |
05QUITO2970 | PALACIO APPOINTS FOUR NEW MINISTERS [...] (U) Summary: Following weeks of speculation, President Palacio on December 29 named new economic, education, health and housing ministers. The most significant change to USG interest is the naming of flower sector businessman Diego Borja as Minister of Economy and Finance, replacing Magdalen [...] | 2005-12-30 14:30:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN PREL EC |
05QUITO566 | VISAS VIPER: FEBRUARY 2005 MONTHLY ACTIVITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-11 18:11:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC PINR EC IT |
05QUITO869 | PROFILE OF VICE PRESIDENT ALFREDO PALACIO [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Alfredo Palacio became Vice President in 2002 and hoped to reform health care and provide free coverage for the poor. He has publicly criticized Gutierrez on numerous occasions, going so far as to call him a dictator just days ago. Palacio, a green card holder, h [...] | 2005-04-20 18:38:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EC |
05QUITO886 | BIO INFO ON NEW CABINET MINISTERS: PART 1 [...] (U) Summary: On the afternoon of April 21, President Palacio swore in the first members of his new Cabinet: Secretary General of the Administration Luis Herreria Bonnet, SIPDIS Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara Gallegos, Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Parra Gil, Minister of Defe [...] | 2005-04-21 22:54:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EC |