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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02ROME3564 |
ITALY ON "FUTURE OF IRAQ" EXPERT WORKING GROUPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE GOI GENERALLY SUPPORTS OUR "FUTURE OF IRAQ" WORKING GROUPS PROPOSAL AND IS ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN THE AREAS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION. WHILE ITALY VERY MUCH WANTS A DIFFERENT IRAQI GOVERNMENT IN POWER, IT IS CONCERNED ABOUT WHO WILL SUCCEED SADDAM. IN THE [...] |
2002-07-18 14:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID ECON PHUM IR IZ IT KWAC |
| 03OTTAWA2451 |
CANADA: ENLISTING HELP IN TARGETING WAR CRIMINALS [...] (S) In response to reftel demarche, DFAIT Deputy Director for the Western Balkans Margaret Moores and Defense and Security Relations desk officer Kelly Anderson affirmed to poloff the GOC's commitment to seeing PIFWCs brought to justice. Moores noted that while Canadian law precludes adoption [...] |
2003-08-27 20:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | PREL MOPS EFIN CLOK CVIS CA BK KWAC ICTY |
| 03ZAGREB325 |
GOC SEEKS CONFIRMATION OF LEAD ON PIFWC ANTE [...] (C) THE CROATIAN POLICE ARE TRYING TO CONFIRM THE CREDIBILITY OF INFORMATION INDICATING THAT ICTY INDICTEE ANTE GOTOVINA WAS HIDING IN BOSNIA, NEAR THE CROATIAN BORDER, IN JANUARY 2003. THAT IS WHAT BORIS SPUDIC, ASSISTANT HEAD OF CROATIAN CRIMINAL POLICE TOLD RSO DURING AN MEETING -- HELD AT [...] |
2003-02-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR KWAC ICTY |
| 04BRUSSELS2828 |
OPERATION BALKAN VICE IV: EU RESPONSE [...] (C) We met on June 30 with Council and Commission representatives to discuss ref A demarche. Council Secretariat Director for the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, SIPDIS and Central Asia Stefan Lehne and desk officer Helene Holm-Pedersen had no comment on the four entities mentioned in ou [...] |
2004-07-01 11:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC EUN KWAC USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04SANAA2994 |
GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD PROCEEDINGS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-01 13:22:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PINR YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05AMMAN5910 |
JORDANIAN RELEASED FROM GUANTANAMO TELLS PRESS OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-25 13:40:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MOPS JO KWAC |
| 05SANAA1359 |
NOTIFICATION OF GUANTANAMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW [...] (C) On May 18 Ambassador delivered reftels on Guantanamo Adminstrative Review Board Proceedings to Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi. FM accepted the information without comment. Krajeski [...] |
2005-05-24 13:31:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA1532 |
ROYG SAYS IT LACKS CERTAINTY ON NATIONALITY OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-07 05:16:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA1570 |
ROYG RELUCTANT TO COMMIT TO ACCEPT GTMO RETURNEES [...] (C) Despite several demarches, the ROYG continues to stall on giving full assurances that it will accept the return of Yemeni GTMO detainees. The purpose of this message is to shed light on ROYG reluctance to provide requested official guarantees for the Deputies Committee on Detainees. Ref A [...] |
2005-06-11 14:30:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA1578 |
GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-13 12:14:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA1772 |
NOTICE OF GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-26 13:25:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA185 |
GTMO NOTIFICATIONS DELIVERED TO ROYG [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-02 06:00:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PINR YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA1905 |
GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-17 14:08:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA2023 |
CHARGE DISCUSSES LIFTING OF SUBSIDIES, CABINET [...] (C) As riots were beginning to break out across the capital on July 19, CDA discussed pressing current issues with Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman, followed by a brief unscheduled meeting with Foreign Minister Abubakr Qirbi. Noman was critical of ROYG handling of the lifting of oil and [...] |
2005-07-25 14:02:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL PGOV OVIP ECON ENRG SOCI EAID KMCA KMPI YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA2129 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS, [...] (C) Summary. On August 3 Ambassador discussed the aftermath of the oil price hikes and next steps for ROYG economic reform and anti-corruption with Foreign Minister Qirbi. Discussions also focused on the return of Yemeni detainees from GTMO and Saleh's November meeting with President Bush. [...] |
2005-08-03 13:15:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER OVIP KMPI YM KMCC KWAC ECON COM COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA2461 |
GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel notification of six Yemenis scheduled to go before the Administrative Review Board to Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman on August 27. Noman accepted the names without comment. Krajeski [...] |
2005-08-29 13:08:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA2528 |
GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) On September 7, poloff delivered ref A notification to DFM Mustafa Noman on the pending transfer of one Yemeni detainee determined to no longer pose a threat. Noman anticipated that the ROYG would accept his return without issue as with the previous transferee (ref C), but would forward [...] |
2005-09-07 13:01:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA2580 |
GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATIONS [...] (C) On September 11, poloff delivered ref A notification on the continued detention of two Yemenis and ref B and C notifications on four Yemenis scheduled to go before the Administrative Review Board to DFM Mustafa Noman. Noman accepted the names without comment. Krajeski [...] |
2005-09-12 11:43:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA2764 |
GTMO NOTIFICATION DELIVERED, ROYG STILL UNSURE OF [...] (C) On September 13, DCM delivered notification on the continued detention of three Yemenis (ref A) to Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman. Noman accepted the names without comment. 2. (C) DCM also inquired on ROYG acceptance of an additional no-longer enemy combatant (ref B). Noman sai [...] |
2005-09-17 11:46:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA972 |
NOTICE OF GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-18 12:59:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 06DAKAR766 |
SENEGAL: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-29 08:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWAC UNSC LI NI SG |
| 06SANAA111 |
AMBASSADOR AND FONMIN DISCUSS ZINDANI, IRAN, AND [...] (C) Summary. In a January 21 meeting, FonMin Abubakr al-Qirbi presented Ambassador with a copy of President Saleh's response to President Bush's December 30 letter protesting ROYG support for UN-designated terrorist financier Sheikh Zindani and HAMAS leader Khalid Mishaal (ref A). Qirbi con [...] |
2006-01-24 06:50:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN |
| 06SANAA89 |
AMBASSADOR URGES ANSWER ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-01-18 12:54:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 06SARAJEVO1329 |
BOSNIA: STATE COURT ORDERS WAR CRIMINAL ZELENOVIC [...] (U) On June 9 an international judge at the BiH State Court ruled that accused war criminal Dragan Zelenovic should be transferred immediately to The Hague for trial. The State Court based its ruling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictment, the INTERP [...] |
2006-06-09 17:44:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KWAC PHUM PGOV PREL RS BK |
| 06SARAJEVO1751 |
RS OFFICIALS PLEDGE ICTY COOPERATION TO SWCI [...] (U) Summary and Comment: On July 28 and from August 1-2 Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with GBiH and Republika Serpska (RS) officials in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. Both GBiH and RS officials affirmed their commitment to ICTY cooperation, and all agreed with Ambas [...] |
2006-08-04 11:42:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KWAC PHUM PGOV PREL BK |
| 06SARAJEVO2725 |
BOSNIA'S STATE COURT CONVICTS MAJOR PIFWC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 27, the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced suspected PIFWC Karadzic financier Momcilo Mandic and former Serb Republic official Milorad Govedarica to prison for abuse of office and banking fraud. The men were acquitted of more serious war crimes-related c [...] |
2006-11-02 15:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | BK KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV ICTY KWAC |
| 06TUNIS2690 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRANSFER OF TUNISIAN DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-02 09:46:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PINR KWAC TS |
| 07ADDISABABA1208 |
AMIR MESHAL: EMBASSY ADDIS FORWARDS DIPLOMATIC [...] (S/NF) While Department notified Embassy not to issue any diplomatic note requesting Meshal,s release until further notice, post has, on its own authority, forwarded a diplomatic note informing the government of Ethiopia that there are plans to transport Meshal to the U.S. on Friday, April 20. [...] |
2007-04-19 13:44:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | CASC EAIR KHLS KWAC PTER ET |
| 07BAGHDAD1213 |
HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON DEATH PENALTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Upon returning to Iraq after a three week trip abroad, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim on March 27 clarified to PolOff her announcement of GOI's intention to eliminate the death penalty (made during a March 14 UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva). She said she believe [...] |
2007-04-08 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS KWAC IZ |
| 07KABUL1578 |
ISAF DETAINEES: CANADIANS CONCLUDE NEW AGREEMENT [...] (S/NF) Summary: It is NATO policy that ISAF partner nations should transfer detainees to GoA custody within 96 hours, or release them. While NATO's policy originally did not identify a particular Afghan agency to receive the ISAF detainees, an ISAF HQ order (FRAGO) issued March 30 designated [...] |
2007-05-10 14:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | KWAC MARR NATO PTER PHUM AF |
| 08BELGRADE1097 |
SERBIA: PROSPECTS FOR COMPLETION OF ICTY [...] (C) The Serbian government's cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has increased since parliamentary elections in May and took a dramatic step forward just after the July formation of the new government with the arrest of wartime Bosnian Serb political leade [...] |
2008-10-22 14:28:00 | Embassy Belgrade | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KWAC SR |
| 08KABUL2797 |
AFGHAN OFFICIALS AIR CONCERNS TO SIGAR ON USAGE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Arnold Fields heard two common themes during meetings with the GIRoA Auditor General and senior Afghan MOD and MOI officials: A) that there is insufficient coordination between Afghanistan and the Donor Community, inc [...] |
2008-10-20 02:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KWAC AF |
| 09BELGRADE165 |
SERBIA REACTS TO FIRST KOSOVO WAR CRIMES VERDICTS [...] (SBU) Reactions in Serbia were swift and strong to the February 26 convictions by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of five former Yugloslav or Serbian officials for crimes against humanity in Kosovo in 1999. While human rights NGOs were happy with the five [...] |
2009-02-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWAC ASEC SR |
| 09BELGRADE191 |
SERBIA ISSUES WARRANTS FOR BOSNIAN LEADERS FOR WAR CRIMES [...] (SBU) Based on an apparent leak, the Serbian press has reported that the Serbian War Crimes Court has opened an investigation and issued arrest warrants against former Bosnian leaders, including former members of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, for a 1992 attack on the Yugoslav Army as [...] |
2009-03-06 06:05:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWAC SR |
| 09BELGRADE379 |
SERBIAN WAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR WANTS MORE REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told the Ambassador on April 27 that there is good cooperation with Croatia and Montenegro, but he would like more cooperation with others -- particularly Bosnia -- in order to solve and prosecute war crimes cases more effectively. End Summ [...] |
2009-04-30 14:41:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWAC SR |
| 09BELGRADE399 |
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT HUNTING FOR MLADIC [...] (C) The Serbian government continues to publicly emphasize its efforts to capture war crimes indictee Ratko Mladic, and Serbian officials responsible for cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) privately tell us the current government is very supportive [...] |
2009-05-06 17:31:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWAC SR |
| 09BELGRADE421 |
SERBIA: CONVICTIONS IN SUVA REKA WAR CRIMES TRIAL [...] (SBU) The Belgrade District Court's War Crimes Trial Chamber on April 23 convicted four former policemen and sentenced them to a total of 68 years in prison, and acquitted three others, in the trial for war crimes against civilians in Suva Reka, Kosovo, in March 1999. The trial of seven Serbia [...] |
2009-05-14 17:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWAC SR |
| 09BELGRADE469 |
SERBIA: ARREST OF POWERFUL BALKAN ORGANIZED CRIME FIGURE [...] (SBU) Following President Tadic's March promises to crack down on organized crime (Ref A), on April 27 the Serbian police arrested notorious organized crime figure Sreten Jocic, better known as Joca "Amsterdam," for the October 2008 murder of Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic. Jocic was arrested [...] |
2009-06-01 16:47:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWAC SR |
| 09BELGRADE510 |
SERBIAN DAILY PUBLISHES MLADIC DIARY EXCERPTS [...] (SBU) A local daily newspaper published on June 5 and 6 excerpts of International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictee Ratko Mladic's diary, containing notes on meetings and plans to bribe U.S. officials. Officials from the Serbian government and the ICTY confirm that t [...] |
2009-06-12 16:06:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWAC SR |
| 09BERN273 |
SWITZERLAND SHUTTING DOWN COLENCO'S BUSINESS WITH [...] (S) Summary: Swiss Minister for Economics and Trade Doris Leuthard called CDA in to advise that the Swiss Federal Councilors had decided in a special session to shut down Swedish firm Colenco's commercial activities in Iran. The Minister also reaffirmed the commitment of the Swiss government to [...] |
2009-07-01 19:11:00 | Embassy Bern | SECRET | IR MNUC PARM PHUM PREL PTER KWAC ECON ETRD |