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06ANKARA550 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, January 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by Sabah on Tuesday, January 17: [...] | 2006-02-08 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
06ANKARA999 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, February 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by Hurriyet on Wednesday, February [...] | 2006-02-28 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
06ASHGABAT659 | INDIA'S ENGAGEMENT IN TURKMENISTAN: CHALLENGES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During two conversations with the new Indian Deputy Chief of Mission in Turkmenistan, Binaya Srikanta Pradahan on June 15 and June 21, PolOff discussed the declining state of economic relations between India and Turkmenistan, various educational, cultural and other programs -- in [...] | 2006-06-23 03:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL ETRD TX IN |
06ASUNCION408 | PARAGUAY: COMPREHENSIVE TALKING POINTS ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-21 14:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ETTC KNNP KSCA PARM PREL IN PA |
06ATHENS900 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL HASTERT (APR 8-9) [...] Embassy Athens warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for Representative J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and accompanying members of his delegation. The Control Officer for the April 8-9 visit is Karen Grissette. She can be reached during office hours throu [...] | 2006-04-04 11:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GR IN NP VM |
06BANGKOK5133 | UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BANGKOK 005133 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-23 00:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT IN OTRA PINR PREL |
06BEIJING15388 | July 13 Preparatory Meeting for Energy Ministerial [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On July 13, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) hosted a successful preparatory meeting to discuss a proposed five country Energy Ministerial Roundtable in Beijing later this fall. Reflecting input from the Japanese and Korean delegations, the [...] | 2006-07-25 23:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV EPET CH JA KS IN |
06BEIJING1773 | CHINA/INDIA: INDIAN EMBASSY READOUT ON FOREIGN [...] (C) India and China maintain different positions on Iran and Nepal, according to Indian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Vinay Kwatra. Providing a readout on Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's January 9-11 visit to Beijing and in follow-on discussion, Kwatra noted India's continued opposit [...] | 2006-01-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH IN NP IR |
06BEIJING19483 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BEIJING SENDS POSITIVE SIGNAL [...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA IO Department UN Affairs Division Director Yang Tao on September 14. Noting that Indonesia has no objection to the UN 1267 Committee's listing of the Indonesian branch of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO),Poloff passed a copy of r [...] | 2006-09-14 06:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PTER EFIN PREL IN CH |
06BEIJING1992 | (CORRECTED COPY) CHINA/INDIA: DIFFERENCES ON IRAN, [...] (C) India and China maintain different positions on Iran and Nepal, according to Indian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Vinay Kwatra. In a readout to Acting Polmincouns on Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's visit to Beijing and in follow-on discussion, Kwatra noted India's continued oppos [...] | 2006-02-06 06:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH IN NP IR |
06BEIJING20223 | DDG LUO ON CHINA-SOUTH ASIA DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: China remains concerned about instability in Nepal, MFA Asia Department Deputy Director General Luo Zhaohui told Polmincouns in a September 22 discussion of China-South Asia issues. China continues to avoid contact with the Maoists in Nepal and wonders what role the UN could play [...] | 2006-09-22 12:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR XD AF NP IN PK CH |
06BEIJING23776 | NOVEMBER 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINESE SUBMARINE [...] Key Points made at the November 9, 2006 Press Briefing were: -- MFA Spokesperson Jiang Yu claims ignorance of reports that a Chinese submarine followed the USS Kitty Hawk. He said China is an &adamant force8 in the region and the world for peace and stability. -- Jiang deflected questio [...] | 2006-11-14 11:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL TBIO KN CH EC JA IN PK |
06BEIJING23849 | PRC/INDIA: DESPITE CHINA'S AMBASSADOR'S PRESS [...] (C) China and India are working closely together to ensure that Preident Hu Jintao's November 20 ) 23 trip to India is a success, according to a Chinese MFA official and an Indian Embassy officer. In separae meetings, both officers confirmed that recent press statements made by China's Ambass [...] | 2006-11-17 10:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN PK CH |
06BEIJING23954 | NOVEMBER 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key Points at the November 21 MFA Press Conference were: - A/S Hill and VFM Wu Dawei held talks on resumpion of the Six-Party Talks but no date has been set for the Talks to resume. -- The MFA Spokesperson had no comment on reports of the "unfreezing" of DPRK accounts in Macao or about th [...] | 2006-11-21 10:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KN IN CH MX CO |
06BEIJING24199 | PRC/INDIA: PRESIDENT HU JINTAO'S STATE VISIT TO [...] (C) Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20)23 visit to India strengthened the "mutual political trust" and "strategic cooperation" between Beijing and New Delhi, according to MFA officials and third country diplomats. The Summit between President Hu and Indian Prime Minister Singh resulted [...] | 2006-11-30 10:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CH |
06BEIJING24541 | PRC/INDIA: MFA SAYS NO CHANGE IN POSITION ON [...] (C) PRC views on the US)India civil nuclear agreement have not changed, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director Xia Tian said when asked about Ref A report suggesting that China's MFA Spokesperson had characterized the agreement as "beneficial." Xia told p [...] | 2006-12-15 00:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CE PK CH |
06BEIJING24643 | DECEMBER 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key Points at the December 19 MFA Press Conference were: -- With resumption of Six-Party Talks and bilateral talks between the United States and DPRK, all parties maintain hope that the Talks can press ahead toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. "Visible and sharp" differences w [...] | 2006-12-19 11:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM MNUC KN KS IN JA CH |
06BEIJING24739 | DECEMBER 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key Points at the December 21 MFA Press Conference were: --At the Six-Party Talks, bilateral meetings between the six parties will be held today. China is willing to draft a statement for this round of the Six-Party Talks if all parties can reach consensus. The statement would include den [...] | 2006-12-21 13:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM MNUC KN KS IN JA CH |
06BEIJING4362 | PRC RAISES QUESTIONS IN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) China welcomes the development of U.S.-India relations, believing that better relations between big powers will contribute to world stability, stated MFA Director for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Huang Xilian. In response to reftel points delivered March 8, he reiterated China's pos [...] | 2006-03-08 05:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CH |
06BEIJING5703 | PART I OF III: PRC/INDIA: INDIAN DIPLOMAT REPORTS [...] (C) Border talks between China and India are making progress, according to an Indian Embassy officer, who described the March 11-13 discussions between Indian National Security Advisor Shri M.K. Narayanan and EVFM Dai Bingguo as "optimistic." He also noted that Indian PM Singh and President H [...] | 2006-03-28 16:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IN CH |
06BEIJING5704 | PART II OF III: PRC/INDIA: INDIAN DIPLOMAT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-28 16:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IN CH |
06BEIJING5705 | PART III OF III: PRC/INDIA: INDIAN DIPLOMAT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-28 16:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IN CH |
06BEIJING5972 | PRC/INDIA: ACADEMICS SKEPTICAL OF U.S.-INDIA [...] (C) In reaction to the U.S.-India civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, China should review the multilateral agreements it participates in that the United States is also a party to, according to the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations Assistant President Yang Mingjie. [...] | 2006-03-30 11:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ETTC ENRG IAEA IN PK CH |
06BERLIN1165 | INDIAN PRIME MINISTER SINGH'S VISIT TO GERMANY [...] (C) (Summary) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Germany from April 23-25 raised India's profile as an international partner for Germany and gave Singh a chance to address German concerns about the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Initiative. In her public comments about the initiative, [...] | 2006-04-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GM IN |
06BERLIN2976 | GERMAN NONPROLIFERATION PRIORITIES INCLUDE G-8 [...] (C) Summary: German MFA Office Director for Nuclear Nonproliferation, International Energy, and Nuclear Energy Policy Thomas Meister told Global Affairs Counselor October 6 that Germany is still in the process of formulating nonproliferation priorities for its G-8 Presidency, but will focus i [...] | 2006-10-11 15:56:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY KGIT IAEA IN GM |
06BERLIN3058 | NSG - GERMAN REACTION TO INDIA PRESENTATION ON [...] (C) German MFA NSG Desk Officer Joerg Polster told Global Affairs officer October 20 that India's October 12 presentation on the margins of the NSG Consultative Group meeting (ref A),while helpful, had done little to change German thinking on civil nuclear cooperation with India. Polster stat [...] | 2006-10-20 17:18:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY IN GM |
06BERN587 | U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION: SWISS NOT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 16:00:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSCA KNNP ENRG PARM ETTC IN SZ |
06BRUSSELS4113 | MANDELSON PUSHES EU'S LABOR AND TRADE [...] SUMMARY. EU Trade Commissioner Mandelson keeps pushing for the inclusion and development of a social dimension in trade policy instruments and policies. Speaking at a Brussels conference last week, Mandelson pressed the EU Council to adopt the withdrawal of GSP benefits from Belarus. He al [...] | 2006-12-13 15:55:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD ILO PREL PGOV BM IN BO EUN |
06BRUSSELS491 | FOLLOW-UP ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE DEMARCHE TO EC [...] (SBU) PRM Assistant received feedback from the European Commission, DG RELEX India/Bhutan/Nepal Desk Officer, Rensje Teerink, on the February 2 courtesy visit between the Benita Ferrero-Walder, Commissioner for External Affairs, and Bhutan's Foreign Minister, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk which was p [...] | 2006-02-13 14:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | BT IN NP PREF EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
06CAIRO1489 | EGYPT REACTS NEGATIVELY TO PROPOSED U.S.-INDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM EG KNNP |
06CALCUTTA100 | INDIAN OFFICIALS REPORT NO PROGRESS IN CASE OF KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Post continues monitor the kidnapping case of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) Chairman and Kuki Christian Church Administrative Secretary Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim (REFTEL). On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Dr. Lunkim in the Senapti district of the Northeast [...] | 2006-03-01 13:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KRIM ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA101 | WEST BENGAL LEFTISTS PROTEST PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) On March 1, demonstrators from the youth wings of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM),the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Students Federation of India (SFI),protested the impending arrival of President Bush to India in front of the American Center in Calcut [...] | 2006-03-01 13:26:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC CASC CVIS PREL KRIM OVIP IN |
06CALCUTTA103 | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS STILL STRUGGLING TO RECOVER FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over a year after suffering the tsunami disaster of December 2004, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands still have not fully recovered. The GOI's substantial mobilization of assistance, while initially laudable, has now resulted in a culture of dependency in which the population ap [...] | 2006-03-02 12:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID SENV PGOV SOCI TPHY XD IN |
06CALCUTTA105 | ELECTION COMMISSION SCHEDULES WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Summary: On March 1, the Election Commission (EC) announced an extended five-phase polling schedule for West Bengal's (WB) upcoming state legislative assembly election. The phased schedule reflects the EC's intention to monitor polling closely in this state noted for vote rigging by the l [...] | 2006-03-03 09:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI PTER IN |
06CALCUTTA109 | MAOIST INSURGENTS EXECUTE WEST BENGAL COMMUNIST PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: March 4-5 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoist) insurgents killed two Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) workers in separate attacks in West Bengal. These attacks come just a week after a Maoist-emplaced landmine killed three West Bengal policemen. The recent spate [...] | 2006-03-07 07:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR ASEC KRIM PHUM PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA123 | KUKI LIBERATION ARMY RELEASE KIDNAPPED CHRISTIAN LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On March 18, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur released Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim after two months of captivity. The KLA returned him in good [...] | 2006-03-20 13:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM SOCI PGOV ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA134 | PARTIES JOCKEY FOR POSITION JUST DAYS BEFORE ASSAM STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 3 India's Northeastern state of Assam will begin its two-phased state assembly election. The second phase will be the following week on April 10. Even in the last hours of campaigning, the situation is still very fluid. No party has a clear majority and yet no formal [...] | 2006-03-31 12:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA137 | BIHAR GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES TO ERADICATE POLIO AND FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 23 CG had introductory meetings with recently elected Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior officials to discuss the new state government's economic development, public health and security initiatives. Kumar and other contacts expressed a strong interest in [...] | 2006-04-03 10:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON SOCI ASEC KHIV IN |
06CALCUTTA145 | EXIT POLLS SHOW NO CLEAR WINNER IN ASSAM'S LAST ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 10, the Congress-ruled Northeast Indian state of Assam concluded its second and final phase of state assembly elections. Counting of votes and announcing of results will be on May 11. Exit polls indicate that the Congress Party will not retain a majority of over 64 se [...] | 2006-04-11 12:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA148 | LEFTIST PROJECTED TO WIN WEST BENGAL STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 17, West Bengal will hold its first phase of the state assembly elections. With only a few days remaining, main opposition parties the Trinamul Congress (Trinamul) and the Congress Party (Congress) have failed to unite against the ruling Left Front. The only "opposit [...] | 2006-04-13 14:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA173 | INDIAN HIMALAYAN STATE SIKKIM SLOWLY OPENING FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU)Summary: From April 13-19 CG visited the Himalayan state of Sikkim to assess its political, social and economic issues. An independent kingdom until its annexation by India in 1975, Sikkim offers an interesting contrast to its neighbors, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, with which it shares many [...] | 2006-04-28 11:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV SOCI ETRD IN CH |
06CALCUTTA195 | COMMUNISTS SWEEP WEST BENGAL STATE ELECTIONS AND CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Initial May 11 state election results indicate that the Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPM) and its Left allies increased their seats in West Bengal's 294-seat state assembly from 199 to 235. The CPM's victory is seen as a strong endorsement of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bha [...] | 2006-05-11 14:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA201 | TREASURY U/S ADAMS MEETS WEST BENGAL FINANCE MINISTER AND [...] (U) Summary: May 2-3, 2006 U.S. Department of the Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Mr. Timothy D. Adams visited Calcutta as part of his trip to India for the Asian Development Bank's Annual meeting in Hyderabad. During his time in Calcutta, U/S Adams met with West Bengal F [...] | 2006-05-12 12:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV ECON SOCI ETRD IN |
06CALCUTTA211 | U.S. CORPORATIONS BEGIN EAST INDIA'S RURAL CONNECTIVITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To bridge the digital divide between the India's high-tech urban centers and its vast rural hinterland, Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) is working with the GOI and state governments to establish Internet Technology (IT) connectivity in 100,000 villages around the country. Pil [...] | 2006-05-18 12:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV SOCI PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA221 | CONGRESS LOSES ITS MAJORITY IN ASSAM STATE ASSEMBLY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The May 11 state assembly election results returned a diminished Congress Party to power in Assam that must now rule in a coalition with the tribal Bodo People's Progressive Front - Hagrama (BPPF-H). The recently established Muslim party Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) spl [...] | 2006-05-22 06:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM PTER IN |
06CALCUTTA244 | WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER BUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE FACES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the April-May West Bengal (WB) state assembly elections, the Left Front emerged victorious for the seventh consecutive time with an overwhelming 235 out of 294 seats. The Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) under the leadership of Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattach [...] | 2006-05-27 11:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EIND EINV SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA306 | NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE MEGHALAYA STRUGGLES WITH SOCIAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: July 7-8, 2006 ConGen visited the Northeast state of Meghalaya to meet senior government officials and to attend a regional conference on trafficking in persons in the capital, Shillong. Meghalaya's persistent insurgency problem appears to have moderated, with the two dominant [...] | 2006-07-18 09:28:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON KWMN EMIN ASEC IN BG |
06CALCUTTA307 | CALCUTTA EAC MEETING JULY 14, 2006 [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on July 14 post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. 2. (SBU) The Consulate has received no information indicating the possibility of violent protests or threats in Calcutta or [...] | 2006-07-18 10:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA327 | GOOD AND EVIL IN THE EDEN GARDENS CRICKET GROUNDS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 30, two passions in West Bengal (WB),cricket and politics, collided in the voting for the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) presidency. The election took on a significance greater than normal for a local sporting association as the two candidates, former president o [...] | 2006-08-01 13:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA349 | UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM CONDUCTS DEADLY EXPLOSIVE [...] (SBU) In the run-up to India's August 15 Independence Day celebrations, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) conducted two deadly explosive attacks in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. On August 11, six policemen were killed when a landmine exploded under a police convey conducting [...] | 2006-08-14 12:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR ASEC CASC IN BG NP |
06CALCUTTA362 | LACK OF TRUST CONTINUES TO STIFLE PEACE TALKS IN ASSAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Local media reports that hurdles for direct talks between Government of India (GOI) and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have been reduced, with New Delhi agreeing to release five militant leaders and ULFA announcing a "cessation of hostilities" against the Indian Army. [...] | 2006-08-23 08:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR IN XD NCTC |
06CALCUTTA386 | CHARGE PYATT MEETS W. BENGAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 29, Charge met with Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Minister for Commerce and Industry Nirupama Sen to discuss Communist Party of India - Marxist's (CPM) views on economic development in the state and CPM policy perspectives at the state and national level. Sen was [...] | 2006-08-31 09:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD IN PREL EAGR EIND ECON |
06CALCUTTA389 | NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE OF MANIPUR EXPERIENCES ESCALATING [...] (C) SUMMARY. August 22-25 ConGen visited the Northeast Indian state of Manipur to assess the security situation and to follow the investigation of the August 16 grenade attack on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Imphal (REFTELS). Manipur suffers from over 30 [...] | 2006-09-01 13:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM ASEC CASC PGOV SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA401 | JHARKAND'S GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO CRUMBLE, WITH LITTLE HOPE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fate of the Jharkhand state government, led by Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Arjun Munda, has become uncertain with the resignation of four ministers. However, the shape of an alternative formation is still unclear, with major national parties like the Indian National Con [...] | 2006-09-07 13:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN PINR |
06CALCUTTA411 | COMMUNIST WEST BENGAL OPENS FOR BUSINESS BUT A LAND BATTLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has received a vote of confidence from industry in recent months with the announcements of various large investments totaling several billion dollars. Foreign and domestic corporations have publicized plans to construct new fac [...] | 2006-09-13 07:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD IN ECON |
06CALCUTTA412 | COMMUNIST WEST BENGAL OPENS FOR BUSINESS BUT A LAND BATTLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has received a vote of confidence from industry in recent months with the announcements of various large investments totaling several billion dollars. Foreign and domestic corporations have publicized plans to construct new fac [...] | 2006-09-13 07:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD IN ECON |
06CALCUTTA413 | SHADOW LINES - INDIA STRUGGLES WITH SECURITY ON ITS EASTERN [...] (C) Summary. Porous borders with Bangladesh and Burma present a serious threat to India's security that India so far has been unable to manage effectively. In West Bengal, politicians, intelligence, law enforcement, and academics all agree on the growing problem of Islamist infiltration int [...] | 2006-09-13 12:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL BG IN NP PK |
06CALCUTTA420 | JHARKHAND'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT FALLS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 14 Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda resigned as independent party members defected from his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government to the opposition United Progressive Alliance (UPA). With the fall of the Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP)-led NDA govern [...] | 2006-09-15 10:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA423 | CPM POLITBURO PLANS MORE OPPOSITION TO ECONOMIC REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary: September 12-13, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Politburo met in Calcutta to discuss its progress since the party`s 18th Congress in 2005 and aspects of the GOI`s economic reforms that the CPM intends to oppose. The CPM Politburo plans to force a change in the Spec [...] | 2006-09-18 12:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV ETRD IN |
06CALCUTTA425 | JHARKHAND SWEARS IN A NEW CHIEF MINISTER [...] (U) Summary. On September 18, an Independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Madhukar (Madhu) Koda was sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Koda is Jharkhand's fifth Chief Minister since the state's creation in 2001. Three defectors from the previous government - Anos Ekka, [...] | 2006-09-19 13:31:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN EINV |
06CALCUTTA430 | NEPAL MAOIST LEADER RELEASED THEN DETAINED [...] (U) Summary: On September 18 in Chennai, W. Bengal police attempted to arrest Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPNM) Politburo member Chandra Prakash Gajurel upon his release from a Chennai prison after serving a three year term for passport forgery. The W. Bengal police action was in conn [...] | 2006-09-21 12:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR PGOV IN NP PTER |
06CALCUTTA442 | POVERTY IN THE EAST INDIAN STATE OF BIHAR FOSTERS INFECTIOUS [...] SUMMARY: September 6-7, ConGen visited the East Indian state of Bihar to assess its public health issues. Bihar, India's poorest state, presently has 19 polio infections this year, second only to its neighbor Uttar Pradesh (UP),which has 291 cases as of September 25. Local officials with t [...] | 2006-09-26 11:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON KHIV SOCI KGLB KSCI IN |
06CALCUTTA447 | INDIA'S CEASE-FIRE WITH ULFA ENDS [...] (U) Summary: Citing continuing violence and extortion, the Government of India (GOI) on September 24 ended the six-week ceasefire it had with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). The GOI decision comes in the wake of ULFA's reluctance to commit in writing to taking part in direct peace [...] | 2006-09-28 12:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER IN BT PGOV |
06CALCUTTA453 | TATA MOTORS TO GET LAND IN WEST BENGAL COME WHAT MAY, SAYS [...] SUMMARY: On October 4, 2006, an all-party meeting convened by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya failed to reach a consensus on the land acquisition policy for the Tata Motors Car Factory in Singur. With the leading opposition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) boycotting the [...] | 2006-10-09 08:12:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD IN ECON EIND |
06CALCUTTA454 | STATEWIDE STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL EXTENDS THE HOLIDAY WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 9, the All-India Trinamul Congress (AITC),the state's main opposition party, called a 12-hour general strike, forcing closed most business and government offices in West Bengal. The strike was called to protest the West Bengal's government's acquisition of fertile [...] | 2006-10-10 12:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA463 | DHAKA POL/ECON COUNSELOR DUNDAS MCCULLOUGH INTERACTS WITH [...] (U) Summary: On October 5, Embassy Dhaka Pol/Econ Counselor Dundas McCullough visited Calcutta to assess Indian perspectives on security and infiltration of terrorists from Bangladesh into India and for an overview of India's economic relationship with Bangladesh. The prevailing sentiment in [...] | 2006-10-16 13:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS ECON IN BG NP PTER |
06CALCUTTA464 | INDIA'S LOOK EAST ECONOMIC POLICY - JUST LOOKING, NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India continues to adopt a contradictory attitude in its trade relations with its Eastern neighbors, claiming to seek more bilateral trade agreements but placing severe limits and barriers to those agreements to make them essentially meaningless. The opening on July 1 of Indo-C [...] | 2006-10-17 11:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV WTRO EIND IN NP BG |
06CALCUTTA481 | UPPER ASSAM `LIKE A BATTLEFIELD' AS INDIAN SECURITY FORCES [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, the GOI resumed its operations against the Assam-based United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). This resumption of hostilities came forty-one days after the Indian military unilaterally suspended its operations against ULFA. Though the GOI is calling the brea [...] | 2006-10-24 10:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM PINR IN BT |
06CALCUTTA495 | INDIA'S COMMUNISTS LOBBY FOR CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In anticipation of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-24 visit to India, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) has been pressuring the GOI to conduct a more conciliatory foreign policy towards China. In its September Central Committee meeting, the CPM criticized the r [...] | 2006-11-01 12:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CH ETRD ENRG PBTS IN PGOV PREL |
06CALCUTTA508 | LEFTISTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on November 5, post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of the death sentence verdict in the Saddam Hussein case. EAC had no indication of direct threats. However, local security and police were directed to be alert for possible prot [...] | 2006-11-06 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA509 | DEADLY BOMB ATTACKS IN ASSAM KILL 12 PEOPLE AND INJURE 50 [...] (SBU) Summary: Following Assam's bloodiest month of insurgent violence this year, November began with one of Assam's deadliest bombings in recent years. On November 5, two bomb explosions in Assam's capital Guwahati killed 12 people and injured at least 50 others. GOI and state law enforcem [...] | 2006-11-06 15:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR PTER PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA516 | NO PROGRESS DURING LATEST ROUND OF TALKS ON NAGALAND [...] (U) Summary. October 17-19 in Amsterdam, another round of talks between the Northeast Indian insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagalim - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the GOI ended without progress. The Indian delegation met the rebel leadership to discuss "substantive issues" as a fo [...] | 2006-11-12 11:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN BM |
06CALCUTTA517 | DAILY DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN DEATH SENTENCE [...] (SBU) The street in front of post's American Center continues to be the venue for daily demonstrations against the recent Saddam Hussein death sentence. A range of the usual Leftist groups have come out to express their opposition to the verdict but other political groups, such as the youth [...] | 2006-11-13 07:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AMGT CASC PREL IN |
06CALCUTTA525 | LAUNCH OF AN IT WORKERS UNION BRINGS OUT THE SPLIT IN THE [...] SUMMARY: On November 14, IT workers formed West Bengal's (WB) first IT workers union. Its creation has exposed fault lines within the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and the Left over the role of labor and industrialization. The reforms-oriented Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattachar [...] | 2006-11-16 09:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ELAB ETRD IN |
06CALCUTTA526 | RULING COALITION LOSES 4 PARLIAMENT SEATS IN 3 DIFFERENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 6, Congress and its ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners lost all four contested seats in Lok Sabha (national parliament) by-elections in Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. In Bihar, the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won two seats, while in Jha [...] | 2006-11-16 12:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA533 | BOMBS ON TRAIN IN W. BENGAL KILL AT LEAST SIX [...] (U) Summary: On November 20, an explosion on the Haldibari-New Jalpaiguri passenger train in northern West Bengal killed at least 6 and injured more than 50 people. Unofficial estimates indicate the death toll may rise to 15. No Americans have been reported injured. Although no one has cl [...] | 2006-11-21 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PTER IN |
06CALCUTTA535 | RESOURCE WEALTHY JHARKHAND FACES INSTABILITY AND RISING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-24 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM IN PTER |
06CALCUTTA536 | INDIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE USD 70 MILLION AMPHETAMINE [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 14 officials of the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized an estimated USD 70 million in methampetamine precursor chemicals in a cargo shipping container at a warehouse in Calcutta. NCB officials arrested Indian national of Chinese origin Vincent Chang alia [...] | 2006-11-28 08:05:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM SOCI ASEC IN CH CO |
06CALCUTTA540 | STRIKE CALLED IN WEST BENGAL AS OPPOSITION DESTROYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, West Bengal regional political party Trinamul Congress (TC) organized a12-hour general strike in the state, disrupting commercial activity and resulting in some violent incidents. One government official was killed and four people reportedly injured by crude bom [...] | 2006-12-01 13:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN EINV ECON ASEC |
06CALCUTTA541 | MUSLIMS LAMENT LACK OF JOBS, EDUCATION IN WEST BENGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8-9, Poloff visited the majority Muslim district of Murshidabad along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border to discuss socioeconomic and security concerns with district officials, local politicians, and journalists. Discussions echoed the findings of the Rajinder Sachar Com [...] | 2006-12-03 17:03:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN BG PGOV PTER |
06CALCUTTA542 | WEST BENGAL OFFICIALS TALK BANGLADESH, BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of recent political tensions in neighboring Bangladesh, post has engaged West Bengal state government officials on their views of the situation and the impact on the India-Bangladesh border. The government contacts had a general preference for the Awami League as they be [...] | 2006-12-03 17:03:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PREF XD IN BG |
06CALCUTTA543 | TO KEEP CHINESE OUT, INDIA SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The GOI recently provided arms to Burma for use in counter-insurgency operations along the Indo-Burma border. The GOI hopes to stop the activities of especially violent insurgent groups the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the United Liberation Front (UNLF),but the GO [...] | 2006-12-04 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER IN BM |
06CALCUTTA555 | WEST BENGAL LABOR SECRETARY PROVIDES CHILD LABOR STATUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Labor Secretary Subesh Das met with Poloffs to discuss child labor and the state government's efforts to implement the national child labor ban enacted on October 10. Das recognized that implementation has been slow, but argued th [...] | 2006-12-14 14:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN |
06CALCUTTA556 | GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND NAXALISM IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After one year in office, expectations remain high for Bihar's Janata Dal United (JDU)-led government. During a December 4-6 visit to Bihar, state officials, journalists, and NGOs told Poloff, however, that the new state government has to start from scratch after fifteen years [...] | 2006-12-15 08:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ECON PREL SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA558 | ANOTHER STRIKE HURTS WEST BENGAL [...] (U) Summary: On December 14 the 24-hour all India bandh (strike) called by the Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) against the economic policies of the Central government brought the entire state of West Bengal to a grinding halt. Flights and trains to and from Calcutta were cancelled and [...] | 2006-12-15 13:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI EINV ETRD ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA561 | NAGA INSURGENCY OFFERS NO EASY SOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: December 4-7, ConGen met with government officials and contacts in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland to discuss ongoing ethnic Naga insurgencies. During this period, representatives of the separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) (NSCN-IM) factio [...] | 2006-12-18 11:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM IN BM |
06CALCUTTA574 | ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS EXPERT IDENTIFIES AREAS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) Ecologist and Regulatory Program Manager Wade L. Eakle visited Calcutta November 1-7, 2006. Eakle met senior Government of West Bengal (GOWB) officials representing the different agencies involved in wetlands management and administration to explo [...] | 2006-12-28 09:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON IN |
06CALCUTTA578 | WEST BENGAL: MAMATA STARTS EATING AGAIN, BUT POT STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: At midnight on December 28, Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee ended her 25-day fast to protest construction of a Tata car factory in the rural West Bengal district of Singur. Banerjee's health had been declining and two days earlier she had been put on oxygen. This e [...] | 2006-12-29 13:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PGOV PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA63 | ASSAM POLICE SHOOT VIOLENT PROTESTORS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST [...] (U) On February 10, nine people were killed in the Northeast Indian state of Assam when police opened fire on demonstrators protesting the death of suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) supporter Ajit Mahanta while in Indian Army custody. On February 5, the Indian Army detained Maha [...] | 2006-02-14 07:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA66 | MINERAL RICH JHARKHAND SUFFERS INSURGENCY AND POVERTY [...] (SBU) February 5-8, CG visited the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand to assess the economic development, security, religious freedom and the political situation. A new state, established only in 2000, Jharkhand is still experiencing serious growing pains. The National Democratic Alliance (ND [...] | 2006-02-14 12:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ASEC EIND EMIN SOCI PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA71 | ASSAM STARTS STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONEERING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 11 Congress Party Chairwoman Sonia Gandhi traveled to the Northeast Indian state of Assam to inaugurate her party's campaign for the May 2006 state assembly elections. Her presence reflected Congress' concern about retaining its hold on Assam, following recent setba [...] | 2006-02-16 13:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI BG IN |
06CALCUTTA93 | KUKI LIBERATION ARMY ABDUCTS KUKI COMMUNITY LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim in Senapati district of Manipur state in Northeast India. While ostensibly fighting for an indepe [...] | 2006-02-24 10:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PTER ASEC KCRM SOCI IN |
06CARACAS655 | DEMARCHE ON SUPPORTING US-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (U) On March 9, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Third Secretary for North America, Robinson Zapata, had no SIPDIS substantive response to reftel demarche, regarding the US-India civil nuclear cooperation initiative. Robinson agreed, however, to pass talking points to Vice Minister for North Am [...] | 2006-03-10 18:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC |
06CHENNAI1002 | PONDICHERRY: CONGRESS RETAINS POWER WITH DMK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Congress Chief Minister N. Rangasamy returned to power in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, forming a minority government with the external support of the DMK and other allies. A cluster of four former French enclaves in South India with a total population of one million, Pon [...] | 2006-05-19 04:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI1105 | PROPOSED VAT ON IMPORTS MAY SHRINK MARKET FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fruit dealers in south India expect U.S. apple imports to shrink by 30% to 50% if a proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) on imports is levied. Commercial Tax Commissioners in southern states oppose the imposition of VAT on imports because they fear a loss of tax revenue and potential a [...] | 2006-05-30 10:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1176 | CORRECTIONS TO CHENNAI 01105 - VAT ON IMPORTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post has learned that trade sources quoted in Reftel were misinformed and that a VAT on imports of fresh fruits and vegetables, reported as a possibility in Reftel, is extremely unlikely. A Government of Karnataka tax official has confirmed that the imposition of a VAT on importe [...] | 2006-06-07 02:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1187 | IBM ANNOUNCES $6 BILLION INVESTMENT IN INDIA [...] (U) During a June 6 visit to Bangalore, India's IT hub, IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano announced the company's plan to invest $6 billion over a three year period in India. An IBM press release quotes the chairman as saying, "India and other emerging economies are an increasingly important [...] | 2006-06-08 04:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EIND IN |
06CHENNAI1188 | TAMIL NADU REPEALS ITS ANTI-CONVERSION LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 31, 2006, the newly elected Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a bill that formally repealed the state's already inactive anti-conversion law. Formal repeal of the anti-conversion law fulfilled a campaign promise of the victorious Dravida Munnethra Khazhagam (DMK) party. END SUMM [...] | 2006-06-08 04:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI DRL IN |
06CHENNAI1192 | MOTOROLA ANNOUNCES $30 MILLION FACTORY NEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 04:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EIND PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1195 | KERALA CHIEF MINISTER ACHUTHANANDAN: VINTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Eighty three years old and with little formal education, Kerala's new Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is different from the state's previous communist Chief Ministers in that he hails from a low- caste and working class background. Wi [...] | 2006-06-09 10:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI1200 | ST-CMS ENERGY PLANS TO PURSUE ARBITRATION IN ITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. company ST-CMS Energy plans to immediately begin arbitration proceedings to seek to resolve its dispute with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) over the final capital costs of its 250 megawatt power plant in Neyaveli, Tamil Nadu. This case is an unresolved legacy issu [...] | 2006-06-09 11:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1247 | NEPALI MAOIST SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS BY [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) C.P. Gajurel, a Nepali Maoist leader who has been held in a Chennai jail since his arrest in 2003 on charges of presenting a forged passport at Chennai airport, was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Chennai court on June 13. The sentencing follows continued demands for [...] | 2006-06-15 04:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PTER IN NP |
06CHENNAI1418 | DIVIDED AND AMBIVALENT: KERALA'S NEW LEFTIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent visit to Kerala one month into the new CPI(M)-led government found Chief Minister Achuthanandan's cabinet divided, slow off the mark and ambivalent about new foreign investment. Nonetheless, the government enjoys a huge majority in the legislative assembly and is solid [...] | 2006-07-06 10:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EINV IN |
06CHENNAI1421 | HIGH COSTS HIT BANGALORE'S HIGH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Escalating labor and fixed costs have prompted two U.S. high technology companies, Apple Computer and Pervasive Software, to close their recently opened Bangalore operations. A shortage of qualified talent at a reasonable cost is cited as the principal reason for the closures. S [...] | 2006-07-07 12:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1426 | TAMIL NADU: NO POPULAR SUPPORT FOR SRI LANKAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Tamil Nadu Government (GoTN) and the state's political parties across the board continue to voice sympathy for the Tamils of Sri Lanka but there is little evidence of a groundswell of support in Tamil Nadu for the LTTE or other militant groups. In a recent meeting with Cons [...] | 2006-07-11 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER PHUM IN CE |
06CHENNAI1497 | SMALL INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS SETTLE WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: 24 Indian shrimp exporters have reached agreement with the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) to remove their names from the Department of Commerce's review list for imposition of dumping duties. This continues the trend that began in May when exporters from Thailand, Vietnam and E [...] | 2006-07-13 11:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV EFIS EIND IN CE BR EC TH CH VM |
06CHENNAI1660 | TAMIL NADU TO ADOPT VAT FROM JANUARY 2007 [...] (U) Summary: U.S. companies have welcomed the Tamil Nadu government's announcement that it will adopt Value Added Tax (VAT) from January 2007. The companies remain apprehensive of the rules that will govern implementation, however. State officials assert that rule formulation will be consultat [...] | 2006-07-27 08:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1705 | MAOIST LEADERS KILLED IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (U) Summary: In a recent series of incidents in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) in south India, police forces have killed numerous Maoist insurgents, including several leaders. Although the number of Maoist fighters in AP has fallen due to police action and moves into neighboring states, the [...] | 2006-08-01 11:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
06CHENNAI1746 | REFUGEE INFLOW INCREASES AS FIGHTING ESCALATES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of Sri Lankan refugees reaching Tamil Nadu shores continues to accelerate. From a total of 304 refugee arrivals in January the number has grown to 1,892, taking the total number of arrivals in 2006 to 5,799. Escalated fighting on the island and the welcome signal ext [...] | 2006-08-04 11:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREF IN |
06CHENNAI1786 | SRI LANKAN ISSUE: CENTER AND TAMIL NADU ON THE SAME PAGE, [...] (U) With the Sri Lankan Tamil issue grabbing increased media and political attention in Tamil Nadu, GOI National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan held discussions with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on August 9. After the meeting, Narayanan told the Chennai media corps that "there is [...] | 2006-08-11 11:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI1813 | REFUGEE INFLOW INCREASES AS FIGHTING ESCALATES IN SRI LANKA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of Sri Lankan refugees reaching Tamil Nadu shores continues to accelerate. From a total of 304 refugee arrivals in January the number has grown to 1,892, taking the total number of arrivals in 2006 to 5,799. Escalated fighting on the island and the welcome signal exte [...] | 2006-08-18 11:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREF IN |
06CHENNAI1818 | FURTHER INCREASE IN SRI LANKAN REFUGEE ARRIVALS [...] (SBU) With the tense situation prevailing in northern Sri Lanka, there has been a further rise in the number of refugees arriving Tamil Nadu. According to Chennai-based UNHCR Associate Repatriation Officer Vadeja Bharati, 528 persons landed at Mandapam on August 20, the highest number to land [...] | 2006-08-21 11:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM CE IN |
06CHENNAI1856 | TAMIL NADU CONGRESS PRESSES DMK TO TAKE FIRM STAND AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A quiet walk-out of Congress legislators from the Tamil Nadu assembly on August 22 brought into media focus the policy differences between the DMK and the Congress -- partners in the UPA alliance -- on the sensitive Sri Lankan Tamil issue. Despite the tactical show of protest, h [...] | 2006-08-25 11:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
06CHENNAI1857 | PROTEST AT U.S. EXHIBIT IN CALICUT [...] ON AUGUST 23 IN CALICUT, ALSO KNOWN AS KOZHIKODE, IN NORTH KERALA NEARLY 100 MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT (NDF) SHOUTED ANTI-U.S. SLOGANS AT AN EXHIBIT STAGED BY CONSULATE GENERAL CHENNAI. A HALF-HOUR BEFORE THE INAUGURATION OF THE MULTI-MEDIA EXHIBIT, WHICH WAS PART OF AN OUTREACH [...] | 2006-08-25 11:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ASEC KPAO IN |
06CHENNAI212 | NEW KARNATAKA CHIEF MINISTER H.D. KUMARASWAMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Haradanahally Deve Kumaraswamy (age 46),a former film producer and the son of former Indian Prime Minister Deve Gowda, became the new Chief Minister of the south Indian state of Karnataka on February 3, 2006. Kumaraswamy, who led a defection of Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) as [...] | 2006-02-07 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI2145 | ANDHRA PRADESH POLICE SEIZE CACHE OF CRUDE ROCKETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police Chief confirmed to Post the seizure of hundreds of Chennai-made rocket shells and dozens of rocket launchers from the storehouses of a transport company in the Mahaboobnagar and Prakasam Districts of AP on September 8. With no evidence of LTTE invo [...] | 2006-09-18 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
06CHENNAI2227 | KARNATAKA PROPOSES TO AMEND ANTI-PIRACY LAW [...] Summary: Following in the footsteps of their Tamil Nadu counterparts, the Karnataka police propose to amend an existing law intended to fight street crime to include video piracy. The ineffectiveness of the existing anti-piracy law in Karnataka prompted the local Kannada language film industry [...] | 2006-09-29 09:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV KIPR IN |
06CHENNAI2279 | PONDICHERRY RENAMED PUDUCHERRY [...] (U) The Government of India has changed the name of Pondicherry to Puducherry, its pre-colonial native name, with effect from October 1. A set of former French colonies in South India, Puducherry is one of India's six Union Territories, i.e., quasi states with less legislative powers and direc [...] | 2006-10-04 07:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTBS ODIP IN |
06CHENNAI2284 | BORDER DISPUTE SHUTS DOWN BANGALORE FOR A DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: A widespread "bandh" or total work stoppage closed most commercial and other activity in high-tech Bangalore and elsewhere in the state of Karnataka on October 4. Kannada language organizations had called the stoppage over a long drawn-out border dispute with neighboring Maharasht [...] | 2006-10-05 08:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ETRD CASC ASEC IN |
06CHENNAI2303 | COMMUNAL RIOTS CLOSE MANGALORE: PORT REMAINS OPEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Four days of sporadic communal (Hindu-Muslim) clashes and the resulting curfew stopped most commercial activity from October 4 to 9 in the western Karnataka port city of Mangalore. The conflict was sparked when militant Hindu groups attempted to prevent the transport of cattle f [...] | 2006-10-10 09:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR PINS PINR EWWT ASEC CASC IN |
06CHENNAI2308 | SCA/INS DIRECTOR BERNICAT ENGAGES SOUTH INDIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Political analysts Lt. General V.R. Raghavan and N. Sathiya Moorthy agreed that prospects for the upcoming October 28 talks were somewhat encouraging between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during discussions on October 5 with [...] | 2006-10-10 11:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP CE |
06CHENNAI2407 | RULING DMK PARTY WINS TAMIL NADU LOCAL POLLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling DMK party and its allies -- including the Congress -- emerged clear winners in the October elections to Tamil Nadu local bodies, but the victory was tainted by wide allegations of violence by DMK henchmen, particularly in Chennai. The DMK hopes the violence will soon b [...] | 2006-10-25 08:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2467 | TWO SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN MYSORE [...] (SBU) Summary: City police in Mysore, west of Bangalore in the south Indian state of Karnataka, announced the arrest of two Islamic terrorists on October 27. According to the Mysore city police commissioner, the two arrested suspects are Pakistani nationals and members of Al Badr, a Pakistan b [...] | 2006-10-31 04:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
06CHENNAI2552 | SOUTH INDIA REACTS TO HUSSEIN VERDICT: SECURITY NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reactions to the Saddam Hussein verdict from the left-leaning political parties in south India - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh - ranged from mild opposition to strong condemnation. Protests were peaceful overall yet indicative of the region's steadfast opposi [...] | 2006-11-09 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2554 | TAMIL NADU: ECONOMIC GROWTH, BUT IRRITANTS REMAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The growing FDI inflow into Tamil Nadu, particularly in the manufacturing sector, the support the state receives from the Center due to the synergic political arrangement between the DMK and the Congress parties, the bipartisan support for economic development available in the st [...] | 2006-11-09 11:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD ECON EINV ENRG IN |
06CHENNAI2555 | MILITARY ATTACKS IN SRI LANKA: TAMIL NADU URGES CENTER TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pro-Eelam Tamil rhetoric has again gone into high pitch in Tamil Nadu following the recent Sri Lankan army attacks in Tamil areas (ref a) and in anticipation of the upcoming India visit of Sri Lankan President Rajapakshe. Chief Minister Karunanidhi cited the recent attacks on Ta [...] | 2006-11-13 10:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN CE |
06CHENNAI2564 | UPDATE ON U.S. POWER PRODUCERS' DISPUTES IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: This message provides an update on the long-standing disputes, often called "legacy issues," between three U.S. independent powers producers (IPPs) and the Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN). In a letter to post received November 8, the GoTN asserted that it is awaiting a directive [...] | 2006-11-17 11:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2571 | IBM INVESTS BIG IN INDIA: HUMAN RESOURCES [...] (U) Summary: Riding the crest of a $6 billion investment, IBM India plans to expand its Bangalore research and development (R&D) operations and in doing so will unleash a new human capital thrust in already talent-hungry south India. The company anticipates its Indian workforce will triple i [...] | 2006-11-22 07:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EINT IN |
06CHENNAI2575 | SRI LANKA PRESIDENT'S INDIA VISIT CAUSES MILD TURBULENCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Protest demonstrations, quiet in-camera consultations with the Center, and passive indifference -- Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to India has drawn three types of responses from Tamil Nadu's political parties. Tamil Nadu's smaller pro-LTTE parties such as the MD [...] | 2006-11-27 11:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
06CHENNAI2580 | D/USTR AMBASSADOR BHATIA VISIT TO CHENNAI [...] (SBU) Ambassador Karan Bhatia's visit to Chennai was a full morning to evening schedule on November 29. He spoke with Chennai-based business people and journalists on a range of topics. At the Ford Factory, the issue of excise tax concessions for small cars, piqued his interest. With members [...] | 2006-12-04 05:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2584 | MUSLIM POLITICS OF KERALA: EMERGING HARDLINERS A CAUSE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala's widely reported sympathy for the convicted Saddam Hussein is a pointer to the direction of Islamic politics in this south Indian state where 24% of the population is Sunni Muslim. Driven by anti-Iraq war sentiments and leftist politics, Kerala's Muslim population strong [...] | 2006-12-06 11:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PINR ASEC KISL CASC IN |
06CHENNAI2590 | BY-ELECTION RESULTS WORRY SOUTH INDIA RULING PARTIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Four by-elections in three south Indian states produced results mostly worrying to the states' ruling parties. Karnataka's unstable JD(S)-BJP ruling coalition had yet another setback in the victory of a prominent JD(S) defector to the Congress. In Andhra Pradesh's Karimnagar con [...] | 2006-12-08 09:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2601 | SUSPECTED LTTE ARMS SMUGGLING FROM TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A chance discovery in southern Tamil Nadu of thousands of "gelex boosters" suspected to be on their way to Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has embarrassed the state police, who long have denied any arms movement from the state. Separately, the Indian Navy sei [...] | 2006-12-12 07:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
06CHENNAI2607 | U/S BURNS IN HYDERABAD: A NEW CONSULATE, MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: A busy series of December 9 meetings and a wide-ranging &windshield tour8 provided Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns a quick but thorough introduction to one of India,s leading boom towns and the planned site for the fifth U.S. post in India. While hi-tech dr [...] | 2006-12-14 10:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD CMGT ECON KISL IN |
06CHENNAI295 | NEW KARNATAKA DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMARY: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Bukanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (age 63),leader of the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Karnataka legislature, took his oath of office on February 3, 2006. A member of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),he has headed [...] | 2006-02-14 11:30:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI393 | TAMIL NADU ELECTION: DRAMATIC CHANGES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Tamil Nadu state assembly elections slated for May 8, intense political activity is changing the shape of party alliances. Vaiko, an LTTE supporter (Reftel) and fiery orator, has led his party out of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) fold to join hands with his former fo [...] | 2006-03-06 11:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
06CHENNAI476 | MINOR BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN NORTH KERALA RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two crude bomb explosions in Kozhikode (formerly known as Calicut),located in the northern part of Kerala, on March 10, highlighted the activity of Islamic groups dominant in the region. In view of the anti-U.S. attitude of these groups, security precautions are advisable whil [...] | 2006-03-14 11:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER ASCE CASC IN |
06CHENNAI521 | TAMIL NADU ELECTION: THE ACTION BEGINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The lineups are set and the battle lines drawn for the Tamil Nadu state assembly elections on May 8. Incumbent Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's campaign seems to have the momentum but her opposition may have the more impressive coalition in terms of committed voters. Swing vote [...] | 2006-03-21 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI567 | KERALA ELECTIONS: INFIGHTING SUSPENDED, RIVAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Communist-led Left Democratic Front poses a strong challenge to the ruling Congress- led United Democratic Front in the upcoming Kerala state assembly elections slated for April 22, 29 and May 3. Infighting, a perennial bane of the Congress party, has crept into the Communis [...] | 2006-03-27 12:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI724 | VIOLENCE IN BANGALORE FOLLOWS FILM STAR'S DEATH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Street violence rocked Bangalore on April 12 and 13, following the death of Kannada language film superstar Rajkumar. Widespread street riots left eight persons dead and more than 150 injured. The city's famed information technology industry was forced to shut down operations an [...] | 2006-04-17 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI757 | SECRETARY SPELLINGS AND CODEL ENZI VISIT TO THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the first India stop on what they billed as their "The World Is Flat Tour," Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and CODEL Enzi, consisting of Senator Michael Enzi (R-Wyoming),Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee),and Senator Johnny Isakson (R- Georgia),visited the [...] | 2006-04-20 09:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP OREP PREL SCUL ECON IN |
06CHENNAI772 | TAMIL NADU ELECTIONS: MANY GIVEAWAYS, BUT NO [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Free color TVs for all families without one; ten kilograms of free rice through ration shops; two acres of land for the landless; maternity dole for six months to pregnant women; burial allowance for the dead . . . Tamil Nadu political parties' election promises have surpassed [...] | 2006-04-24 08:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI802 | INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ATTACK: TRAIL GOES [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Four months after a gunman opened fire at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) at Bangalore, the assailant remains at large. While Karnataka police officially blame the Jammu and Kashmir based Lashkar e- Tayyiba (LeT) for the attack, in private they speculate that the attacke [...] | 2006-04-25 11:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC OVIP IN |
06CHENNAI846 | BOOM TIMES FOR SOUTH INDIAN COTTON MILLS [...] SUMMARY: (U) The cotton textile industry in south India is in the midst of a boom as international demand continues to grow for all categories of Indian cotton products. The spurt in demand, attributed to low production costs, internationally acceptable levels of quality and the removal of qu [...] | 2006-05-02 10:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD EAGR EIND IN |
06CHENNAI848 | KERALA ELECTIONS: EXIT POLLS POINT TO A LEFT [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Peaceful polling and unanimous exit poll results predicting a Left Front victory marked the first and second phases of Kerala elections, which cover 90% of the state. The remaining constituencies will vote on May 3. Despite the Congress leaders' media bravado, they privately a [...] | 2006-05-02 10:22:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI873 | TAMIL NADU ELECTION: CLOSE CONTEST, BUT DMK- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Growing DMK confidence of success in Tamil Nadu's May 8 election was evident in our contacts with party insiders during the final days of the campaign. At the end of a long and intensive campaign battle, opinion polls and conversations with experts indicate a narrow lead for th [...] | 2006-05-05 11:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI898 | SRI LANKAN TAMIL REFUGEES AGAIN ARRIVING IN [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Tamil refugee leader Chandrahasan has reported to Post and Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN) officials have confirmed that on May 6, a renewed flow of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka to south India began after a hiatus of four months. The flow at this point is light but may increas [...] | 2006-05-09 11:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM PTER IN CE |
06CHENNAI926 | SOUTH INDIA VOTES FOR CHANGE [...] SUMMARY: (U) In state assembly election results announced on May 11, incumbent governments in Tamil Nadu and Kerala lost to their traditional rivals. In the Union Territory of Pondicherry, the current Congress government won another term. END SUMMARY. ------------------ TAMIL NADU RESULTS [...] | 2006-05-11 11:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI954 | QUESTIONS ABOUT TAMIL NADU/LTTE CONNECTIONS [...] C) SUMMARY: Despite the fact that Tamil Nadu is home to the largest population of Tamils in the world, there is virtually no support in the state for the LTTE. There is no financial support coming from the state, no significant supplies flowing from Tamil Nadu to the LTTE, and almost no public [...] | 2006-05-15 10:59:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER CE IN |
06CHENNAI969 | DMK AND CONGRESS PREVAIL IN TAMIL NADU AS [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) The DMK-alliance, led by 82 year old M. Karunanidhi, won a closer than normal Tamil Nadu state assembly election and will set up Tamil Nadu's first minority government in memory. Their victory was assured by a cohesive coalition of parties with Congress making an especially st [...] | 2006-05-16 08:00:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI971 | BIO OF NEW TAMIL NADU CHIEF MINISTER KARUNANIDHI [...] (SBU) Reftel described state assembly election results in Tamil Nadu. Post has updated the biographical information on newly elected Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The complete new biography can be found on Consulate General Chennai's SIPRNet site under "South India Materials - Biographies - [...] | 2006-05-16 11:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06COLOMBO1040 | INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER SHARES OUR CONCERNS ON [...] (C) Ambassador called on Indian High Commissioner Nirupama Rao June 20 to discuss situation in Sri Lanka, possibility of a US-India joint demarche (ref a),and US proposals for international contact groups on LTTE financing and weapons procurement. Rao had just returned from a two-week vacation in [...] | 2006-06-21 09:15:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CE |
06COLOMBO1127 | INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY GIVES BLUNT MESSAGE OF [...] (C) Summary. Indian Foreign Secretary Saran delivered a "tough love" message of support, remarkably similar to our own, to the Sri Lankan government during his visit here July 3-4. The Indians are increasingly concerned about "disarray" in the military establishment and believe President R [...] | 2006-07-09 08:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CE |
06COLOMBO123 | AMBASSADOR BRIEFS INDIANHIGH COMMISSIONER ON [...] (C) Ambassador hosted a one-on-on lunch for Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad n December 22, hours after Prasad presented his credentials to President Rajapakse. The Ambassado told Prasad that he and his Embassy colleagues looked forward to working very closely with Prasad and his mission [...] | 2006-12-22 10:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTE MARR CE IN |
06COLOMBO2123 | AMBASSADOR BRIEFS INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER ON [...] (C) Ambassador hosted a one-on-one lunch for Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad on December 22, hours after Prasad presented his credentials to President Rajapakse. The Ambassador told Prasad that he and his Embassy colleagues looked forward to working very closely with Prasad and his miss [...] | 2006-12-22 10:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR CE IN |
06COLOMBO367 | SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 09:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN CE |
06COLOMBO721 | INDIANS STILL HOPING GENEVA TALKS CAN RESUME UNDER [...] (C) According to a local Indian diplomat, his government remains hopeful, despite the April 25 assassination attempt on Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) can engage the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a second round of talks. To get the talks back [...] | 2006-05-03 12:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IN CE |
06DAKAR558 | UPDATE ON ICS BANKING CRISIS [...] SUMMARY: Pressure is mounting on local banks to take provisions against approximately USD 150 million in overdue loans to Senegal's failing phosphate mining concern, Industries Chimiques du Senegal (ICS). So far, Citibank appears to be the only foreign bank actively moving to write off bad l [...] | 2006-03-06 08:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ETRD IN SG |
06DARESSALAAM490 | TANZANIA: NO OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON US-INDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-20 15:17:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC TZ |
06DHAKA1251 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY VISIT A SUCCESS; NUCLEAR [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Energy's visit to Dhaka was successful in moving forward on the Radiological Threat Reduction Program. After a two-year build up, contracts were signed at the Science Ministry, and a vendor has been hired to complete work. A demarche on the U.S.-India Nuclear [...] | 2006-03-12 00:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL KSCA PARM KNNP OTRA ETTC IN BG |
06DHAKA1252 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY VISIT A SUCCESS; NUCLEAR [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Energy's visit to Dhaka was successful in moving forward on the Radiological Threat Reduction Program. After a two-year build up, contracts were signed at the Science Ministry, and a vendor has been hired to complete work. A demarche on the U.S.-India Nuclear [...] | 2006-03-12 00:47:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL KSCA PARM KNNP OTRA ETTC IN BG |
06DHAKA5332 | INDO-BANGLADESH RELATIONS SHOW NEW STRAIN [...] (S) Summary. After a brief respite between the Dhaka SAARC summit in October and Prime Minister Zia's visit to New Delhi in March, Indo-Bangladeshi relations are again showing strain. Given India's support for the opposition Awami League, Indian antagonism towards the current government, and [...] | 2006-08-22 08:23:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PTER PGOV KISL IN BG |
06DHAKA708 | CODEL CROWLEY - BANGLADESH POC [...] Post welcomes the visit of CODEL Crowley as outlined in reftel. Control Officer/POC for Bangladesh is: David W. Renz Economic and Commercial Chief 8802 885-5500 x2532 (office) 8802 882-4008 (office fax) 8802 885-5500 (Embassy main switchboard, 24/7 coverage) 8802 882-3744 (Embassy ma [...] | 2006-02-09 09:22:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN BG IN GM UK |
06DUBLIN292 | IRELAND AWAITING INFORMATION ON U.S.-INDIA NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-21 18:24:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP PREL IN EI |
06DUSHANBE1555 | BUMPS ON THE SILK ROAD: TAJIK PRESIDENT RAHMONOV PROMOTES [...] SUMMARY: President Rahmonov conducted a five-day state visit to India from August 6-10, his first trip to India since 2004. Rahmonov sought to bolster flagging economic relations between India and Tajikistan, encouraging Indian investments in hydro power projects. The two countries signed fiv [...] | 2006-08-14 06:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ENRG EFIN TI IN |
06DUSHANBE1576 | INDIAN EXPECATIONS FOR TAJIKISTAN POSITIVE, BUT REALISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: India will continue to assist Tajikistan through exchanges, grants, military cooperation and targeted investment, but the memoranda signed during President Rahmonov's August 6-10 state visit to India only "legalized" initiatives already underway. G. Balusubramanian, [...] | 2006-08-17 06:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID IN TI |
06DUSHANBE862 | SCA A/S BOUCHER, NSC MILLARD MEET FM NAZAROV, DISCUSS SCO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and NSC Senior Director Elisabeth Millmetwith Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov May 8. Boucher delivered the reftel demarche on countering attempts to use the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ( [...] | 2006-05-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR KDEM IN TI |
06GENEVA2176 | INDIAN UN SECRETARY-GENERAL CANDIDATE THAROOR [...] On August 28, Ambassador Tichenor met with Shashi Tharoor, India's candidate for UN Secretary-General, during a dinner hosted by Indian PermRep Singh. Tharoor reviewed themes outlined in his September 4 Newsweek editorial, discussing with the Ambassador and other Geneva-based PermReps his vi [...] | 2006-09-06 16:23:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN IN |
06HANOI614 | VIETNAM LIKELY TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT U.S.-INDIA [...] (SBU) On March 10, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department senior expert Vu Van Mien, a frequent and close contact on nonproliferation issues. Mien said he appreciated the briefing on the initiative, and noted that Vietnam was sur [...] | 2006-03-16 08:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN VM |
06HELSINKI1073 | A READ-OUT ON THE EU-INDIA SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Emboffs met Oct. 18 with Johan Schalin, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's Special Advisor for Foreign Affairs. Schalin offered the following tidbits from the Oct. 12-13 EU-India Summit: Joint Action Plan and a Bilateral Trade Agreement --------------------------------------------- ---- [...] | 2006-10-20 11:08:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV EUN ETRD FI IN |
06ISLAMABAD10555 | PAKISTAN OBJECTION TO NAM STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) On June 3 Poloff meet with Ministry of Foreign Affairs UN Director, Imran Siddiqui. After delivering demarche points on the NAM's statement on Iran (reftel B),Poloff asked Siddiqui to explain why the Pakistani delegation objected to a paragraph in the final document at the NAM's Minister [...] | 2006-06-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PK IN PREL |
06ISLAMABAD10746 | SNAPSHOT OF UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN AJK [...] Summary: In July, voters in Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will elect a new President, Prime Minister (PM),and legislative assembly (AJKLA). Since 1975, elections in AJK have been regular and relatively fair. The position of AJK President and Prime Minister has traditi [...] | 2006-06-07 13:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN PK PREL |
06ISLAMABAD12211 | AFGHAN AMBASSADOR ON FM SPANTA'S JUNE 23 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: On June 25, Afghan Ambassador Tarzi offered poloff a read-out of foreign Minister Spanta's June 23 visit to Pakistan, his first bilateral foreign travel since assuming office. While in Islamabad, Spanta was received by President Musharraf, Prime Minister Aziz [...] | 2006-06-27 06:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PK PREL AF IN |
06ISLAMABAD13519 | MUMBAI BLASTS: BROAD CONDEMNATION IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Pakistani leaders and politicians have been unanimous in their condemnation of the July 11 Mumbai bombing, with the Foreign Ministry issuing a strong statement within hours of the attack that cited both President Musharraf and the Prime Minister Aziz. On July 13, President Mus [...] | 2006-07-14 12:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK IN PREL |
06ISLAMABAD13801 | MUMBAI BOMBINGS: PAKISTAN SEES POSTPONEMENT OF [...] (C) Summary. Pakistani leaders, including President Musharraf, regret India's cancellation of the Foreign Secretary level Composite Dialogue talks planned for July SIPDIS 20-21. They confirm that Indian counterparts informed them over the weekend that the talks would not be taking place. [...] | 2006-07-19 14:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PK IN |
06ISLAMABAD21224 | MFA PREVIEWS EXPECTATIONS FOR COMPOSITE DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 10:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | IN PK PREL PTER |
06ISLAMABAD21879 | PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF DETERMINED TO DEAL WITH BORDER [...] (S) Summary: In a November 7 meeting at his Army HQ office, President Musharraf told Asstsant Secretary Boucher that he would propose selective mining of the border with Afghanistan. Saying that it is too early to judge whether the North Waziristan jirga agreement is a success, the Preside [...] | 2006-11-08 08:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF EAID ECON ETRD IN MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER |
06ISLAMABAD21999 | UPCOMING PAKISTANI BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 11:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MCAP PREL PK IN |
06ISLAMABAD22046 | FOREIGN MINISTER'S VIEWS ON PAK-AFG JIRGAS, BAJAUR [...] (C) Summary: In a November 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Kasuri reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to hold a jirga as discussed at the September 27 trilateral iftar at the White House, but noted that Pakistan's vision for the event is limited to the tribal areas along the Pa [...] | 2006-11-17 11:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF IN PGOV PK PREL PTER |
06ISLAMABAD22178 | FOREIGN SECRETARY BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON NOVEMBER [...] (C) Summary: During a November 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan was positive about the tone of the November 13-14 Composite Dialogue talks, saying that the atmosphere was business-like with no "excessive restating of positions." The effort focused on exploring ar [...] | 2006-11-27 10:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF IN PK PREL PTER |
06ISLAMABAD22215 | GOP NOTIFICATION OF BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-29 00:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PK KNNP MCAP IN |
06ISLAMABAD4386 | PUGWASH CONFERENCE: KASHMIRI CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: A three-day gathering of Kashmiris, Pakistanis and Indians in Islamabad highlighted the continuing effort of President Musharraf to build support for his peace proposals. The meeting featured a two-and-a-half hour exchange with Musharraf on his ideas for demilitarization, self-g [...] | 2006-03-17 12:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PK IN PTER |
06ISLAMABAD5767 | YASIN MALIK TELLS KASHMIRI MILITANTS "GIVE PEACE A [...] (S) Introduction: Srinagar-based Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik has told post that he has used his extended March-April 2006 visit to Pakistan to reach out to Kashmiri militant leaders, counseling them to lay down their arms and give the peace process a chance. In between highly-pub [...] | 2006-04-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PK PGOV PTER IN |
06ISLAMABAD5822 | A/S BOUCHER AND PAKISTANI FM KASURI DISCUSS U-S [...] (C) Summary: In an April 4 meeting with visiting SCA Assistant Secretary Boucher, Pakistani Foreign Minister Kasuri repeated Pakistan's request that the U.S. consider a "package deal" on civil nuclear cooperation that would include Pakistan as well as India. At a minimum, the U.S. should choo [...] | 2006-04-06 04:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG MNUC PGOV PK IN PREL |
06ISLAMABAD5903 | A/S BOUCHER DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary. SCA Assistant Secretary Boucher reviewed a range of regional issues in separate April 4 discussions with Pakistani Foreign Minister Kasuri and Foreign Secretary Khan. Kasuri and Khan were optimistic on relations with India, taking heart from PM Singh's recent speech in Amritsar [...] | 2006-04-06 13:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN AF PK IR |
06ISLAMABAD6136 | PAKISTAN REITERATES CALL FOR STRATEGIC RESTRAINT [...] (U) In an April 5 address at Columbia University, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz reiterated Pakistan's call for a "package deal" on civil nuclear cooperation involving both India and Pakistan and noted that Pakistan had sought a "strategic restraint regime" to prevent an arms race and stabilize [...] | 2006-04-12 07:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP PK IN |
06ISLAMABAD6242 | INDIA-PAKISTAN COMPOSITE DIALOGUE MOVES FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Although there have been no major breakthroughs since the opening meetings of the third round of Composite Dialogue talks in January, delegations from India and Pakistan have been busy working on a variety of issues. The frequency of these high-level meetings suggests that Pak [...] | 2006-04-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IN PK PREL ETRD |
06ISLAMABAD6419 | PRIME MINISTER AZIZ BRIEFS SENATOR HAGEL ON [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with visiting Senator Hagel (R-NE),Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz reiterated Pakistan's opposition to any nuclear weapons program in Iran, but supported Iran's right to a civil nuclear energy program. He praised Afghan President Karzai, and highligh [...] | 2006-04-14 14:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PREL MARR PK AF IN PGOV IR |
06ISLAMABAD6420 | PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF EXPRESSES CONCERN TO SENATOR HAGEL ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-14 15:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | AF IN MNUC PGOV PK PREL PTER |
06ISLAMABAD6647 | WITH SENATOR HAGEL, FOREIGN MINISTER KASURI PUSHES FOR CIVIL NUCLEAR TRANSFERS AND WARNS THAT A MILITARY ATTACK ON IRAN WOULD MEAN DISASTER FOR PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-17 16:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | IN IR PK PREL PTER |
06ISLAMABAD9358 | PAKISTANI COMMENTS ON UPCOMING SIACHEN-SIR CREEK [...] (U) Summary. The Pakistani press has cast reports on the upcoming Composite Dialogue talks on Siachen glacier (May 23-24) and Sir Creek (May 25-26) in a lackluster light, mostly by lifting bylines from the Indian press. There has been little discussion on what proposals the GOP will bring [...] | 2006-05-22 13:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN PK PREL |
06ISLAMABAD9705 | PAK-SINO RELATIONS: “HIGHER THAN THE HIMALAYAS, DEEPER THAN THE SEA†[...] (C) Summary. At a May 23 conference celebrating 55 years of Pakistan-China relations, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz characterized the Sino-Pak relationship as a model bilateral relationship, in which both countries are committed to peaceful co-existence, sovereign equality, and non-i [...] | 2006-05-25 11:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | CH IN PK PREL |
06JEDDAH136 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 5: INDIAN INTEREST IN ARABIA, [...] (U) Local media have reported extensively on the Saudi interest in strengthening ties with India. The recent India National Day celebration in Jeddah provided evidence that the Indian Mission reciprocates that interest. At the entrance to the celebration, guests were offered samples of India [...] | 2006-02-11 12:41:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IN KISL KWMN PREL SA |
06KABUL1977 | PRESIDENT KARZAI'S VISIT TO INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Karzai had a productive visit to India earlier this month to discuss a variety of bilateral and regional issues. The visit of President Karzai and his 109 member delegation, including nine parliamentarians, religious leaders, and businessmen, reinforced the close r [...] | 2006-05-02 14:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID ETRD EFIN MARR AF IN |
06KABUL4777 | SENATORS FRIST AND MARTINEZ MEET WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) President Karzai hosted an Iftar dinner in honor of Senators Bill Frist and Mel Martinez, at the end of their October 2 visit to Afghanistan. Karzai used the dinner to express deep appreciation for U.S. support for Afghanistan, and particularly for the President's efforts to encourage Pr [...] | 2006-10-04 02:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER OREP PK IN IR AF |
06KATHMANDU1190 | PM KOIRALA TO U.S.: WE WELCOME SUPPORT AND HELP [...] (C) PM Koirala thanked A/S Boucher and NSC Senior Director Millard for U.S. support, and said more help would be needed as Nepal tries to become peaceful and prosperous. He agreed that the government needed to find a way to institute a ceasefire that will hold, and to get the Maoists to turn [...] | 2006-05-09 07:55:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID NP IN UK |
06KATHMANDU1191 | INDIAN AND UK AMBASSADORS BRIEF BOUCHER AND NSC [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with A/S Boucher, NSC Senior Director Elisabeth Millard, the Ambassador and Acting DCM, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee and U.K. Ambassador Keith Bloomfield said they expected the remaining seats in a 21-member cabinet would be filled May 3 or 4. Mukherjee s [...] | 2006-05-09 08:00:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PTER NP IN UK |
06KATHMANDU1195 | PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA ON THE WAY AHEAD [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala appealed May 10 to the Ambassador for assistance in gaining Indian support for a third party witness for negotiations with the Maoists and for international monitors of the cease-fire. Koirala liked the suggestion of having two witnesses - perhaps an Indian and an o [...] | 2006-05-10 11:57:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PREL MASS PINR IN NP |
06KATHMANDU1287 | CONSOLIDATING NEPAL'S FRAGILE DEMOCRACY [...] (S/NF) Nepal is transforming. The May 18 proclamation of Parliamentary supremacy by Nepal's House of Representatives has clipped the King's wings; the three-corner struggle of Nepal's politics in recent years (the King versus the parties versus the Maoists) should turn into a more straightfor [...] | 2006-05-19 13:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MCAP IN NP |
06KATHMANDU1319 | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR SUPPORTS ACTING QUICKLY TO [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka on May 24 in order to push the message that Nepal's traditional donors should increase assistance as quickly as possible to consolidate the democratic transition. Hiraoka replied that he supported increasing assistance to the new [...] | 2006-05-25 08:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID ASEC NP JP IN |
06KATHMANDU1432 | PRIME MINISTER BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON UPCOMING NEW [...] (S/NF) Ambassador Moriarty, accompanied by A/DCM Schwartz met June 5 with Prime Minister G.P Koirala and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Chalise on the eve of the Prime Minister,s upcoming visit to New Delhi. Although press accounts have speculated that the trip will focus on economic and trade [...] | 2006-06-05 12:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER IN NP |
06KATHMANDU1993 | FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON JULY 14 CORE GROUP [...] (C) On July 25, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Oli to give a read-out of the July 14 Core Group meeting and to confirm points on Bhutanese and Tibetan refugees (reftel). Oli confirmed the Government of Nepal's (GON) commitment to allow resettlement of t [...] | 2006-07-26 11:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL BT IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2097 | NEPAL: U.S. AND INDIA READING FROM THE SAME PAGE [...] (C) In an August 2 conversation with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee indicated that the Government of India (GOI) was moving in unison with the U.S. on Nepal policy, insisting that the Maoists give up their weapons before entering an interim government. Mukherjee also [...] | 2006-08-02 12:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PREF IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2204 | NEPAL GOVERNMENT'S TEMERITY PUTS INDIAN CONSULATE [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Mukherjee told the Ambassador August 14 that government forces had done little earlier that day to protect the Indian Consulate in Birgunj against a group of hostile demonstrators. Not until Mukherjee threatened to cancel India's assistance program did the police attempt [...] | 2006-08-15 11:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2284 | NEPAL: PUSHING BACK THE MAOIST TIDE [...] (C) We are reaching the crunch point in Nepal. Four months after Nepal's people's movement uprising, the Maoists appear intent on intimidating their way into power. Till now, the Seven Party Alliance government appears to have been more worried about alienating the Maoists than about preservi [...] | 2006-08-23 11:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2558 | INDIAN AMBASSADOR AFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) In a meeting on September 18, Indian Ambassador Mukherjee told the Ambassador that he had heard that the recent meeting between Prime Minister Koirala and Prachanda had been successful. Two-on-two talks were planned, he said for September 26, 27 and 28 between the Government of Nepal (GON [...] | 2006-09-20 13:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON MARR IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2587 | CRUNCH TIME IN NEPAL? [...] (S/NF) It looks like we're getting to crunch time here in Nepal. The Maoists are still stringing along talks with the GON, hoping that the GON will follow up on its past four months of unilateral concessions by caving in and allowing an armed Maoist movement into an interim government. The Prime [...] | 2006-09-22 11:26:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2638 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SCA PDAS STEVEN R. MANN [...] Embassy Kathmandu warmly welcomes SCA PDAS Steven R. Mann to Nepal from October 3-6, 2006, for meetings with embassy and host government officials. Country clearance is hereby granted for travel to and within the Kathmandu Valley. For the traveler's safety, you should review the security inf [...] | 2006-09-30 09:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA IN NP |
06KATHMANDU267 | NEPAL-INDIA TRANSIT TREATY EXTENDED ONLY THREE [...] (C) India and Nepal agreed at meetings held in New Delhi at the beginning of January to extend the Indo-Nepal transit treaty for three months instead of renewing it for seven years. The treaty provides for smooth movement of commercial goods through India, Nepal's largest trading partner. In [...] | 2006-01-27 10:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV BEXP ELTN IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2774 | NEW DELHI JOINS THE FRAY OVER NEPAL'S PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Siebert told Charge October 18 that the Government of India (GOI) has recently engaged in a powerful way in Nepal's peace process. Siebert said the intervention took place after a visit to New Delhi on October 13 by Indian Ambassador to Nepal Mukherjee. [...] | 2006-10-18 11:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PARM UN IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2880 | INDIA SUPPORTS SEPARATION OF MAOIST ARMS [...] (C) During an October 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee reiterated that the Government of India (GOI) supported the separation of Maoists from their arms and enforcement of law and order by the Government of Nepal (GON). Ambassador Mukherjee acknowledged [...] | 2006-10-27 12:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2931 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OLI CONCERNED ABOUT MAOIST [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on November 1, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister KP Oli shared his concerns about whether the Maoists intended to enter the political mainstream peacefully. He explained that the international community was playing an important role in the peace [...] | 2006-11-02 12:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IN NP |
06KATHMANDU2950 | SAARC SECRETARY GENERAL TO ATTEND REGIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-03 05:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PGOV IN |
06KATHMANDU2962 | PRIME MINISTER ANGRY INDIA AND EU COSYING UP TO [...] (C) The Ambassador stressed to Prime Minister Koirala in a meeting November 3 that any arms management agreement with the Maoists had to begin to drain the fear and would thus require substantial domestic and international monitoring. The Ambassador's third point was that the Government of Nep [...] | 2006-11-03 12:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR EU IN NP |
06KATHMANDU3034 | INDIA URGES RAPID ACTION IN THE UN [...] (C) In a November 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee emphasized the need for rapid action in the United Nations regarding Maoist arms management and peace and election monitoring in Nepal. Ambassador Moriarty stressed the need for a UN Security Council res [...] | 2006-11-13 10:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR IN NP |
06KATHMANDU3112 | FINANCE MINISTER DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS WITH UN [...] (C) During a November 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Mahat gave his views on what the United Nations was doing and should be doing soon to assist the peace process. He expressed appreciation for Secretary General Annan's November 22 letter to the UN Security Council Presiden [...] | 2006-11-27 06:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR EAID UN IN FI NP |
06KATHMANDU3210 | NEPAL: UN SECY GENERAL'S REP. DISCUSSES NEED FOR [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador December 11, the UN Secretary General's personal representative Ian Martin SIPDIS welcomed the U.S. plan to provide assistance to Nepal's peace process in two principal areas: electoral support and local security and governance. He agreed it would be cru [...] | 2006-12-13 07:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN IN UK NP |
06KATHMANDU3237 | CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF COMMENTS ON THE KING [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on December 13, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Katawal dismissed the recent coup rumors sparked by the King's issuing commands to prepare his palace at Hetauda (reftel). The COAS said he had reassured Koirala of his and the Nepal Army's trustworthiness and had [...] | 2006-12-18 09:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL IN NP |
06KATHMANDU3256 | NEPAL'S INTERIM CONSTITUTION INITIALED [...] (SBU) On December 16, the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists signed the much-anticipated interim constitution. While the 77-page document places the fate of the monarchy in the hands of the constituent assembly, it strips the King of all powers vested in the head of state and transfers [...] | 2006-12-20 09:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN IN NP |
06KATHMANDU409 | FOREIGN MINISTER PANDEY SEEKS GUIDANCE ON WAY [...] (C) In a February 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey lamented that the USG press statement on February 8th elections showed a "misunderstanding in Washington of the ground realities" in Nepal. He again stressed his desire for a strategic relationship with the [...] | 2006-02-10 12:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN NP |
06KATHMANDU430 | KOIRALA OPEN TO GESTURE BY KING, STRESSES INDIAN [...] (C) In a February 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Nepali Congress (NC) President G.P. Koirala explained that, unless the first move was made by the Palace, he could not meet with any representatives of His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN),rejecting a suggestion by Foreign Minister Pandey [...] | 2006-02-13 13:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN NP |
06KATHMANDU566 | INDIAN AMBASSADOR: SUMMIT AN IDEAL OPPORTUNITY TO [...] (S/NF) Indian Ambassador Mukherjee believes it important that we show the King and the people of Nepal that we remain closely lashed up with respect to handling the situation here. In a February 27 conversation, Mukherjee suggested that it would be particularly useful if the President and Pr [...] | 2006-02-27 11:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR PINS IN NP |
06KATHMANDU623 | SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) On March 6, the Ambassador demarched Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey to encourage support for the U.S.-India civil nuclear initiative (reftel). The Ambassador also encouraged Nepal to issue a public statement of support for the initiative. FM Pandey indicated Nepal supported the i [...] | 2006-03-06 12:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC NP |
06KATHMANDU77 | FOREIGN MINISTER PANDEY ON RELATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (C) In a January 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Pandey repeatedly stressed that good relations with the U.S. was key for Nepal as it tried to balance relations with its two powerful neighbors. Strained relations with the U.S. and India in the wake of the King's February, 2005 [...] | 2006-01-09 07:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM CH IN NP |
06KATHMANDU836 | DANISH AND NORWEGIAN AMBASSADORS INTERESTED IN [...] (C) Danish Ambassador Finn Thilsted and Norwegian Ambassador Tore Toreng separately met with the Ambassador to discuss a joint approach to Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey on internationalizing the Bhutanese refugee issue. They suggested that the three of them together go in to discuss Bhut [...] | 2006-03-29 08:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER IN NP |
06KATHMANDU869 | NEPAL-INDIA TRANSIT TREATY EXTENDED FOR SEVEN YEARS [...] (C) India and Nepal extended on March 30 their bilateral transit treaty for seven years, until January 5, 2013. In early January 2006, Indian and Nepali delegations had failed to agree on treaty extension criteria and the treaty was extended only three months until April 6 (reftel). Thus, ti [...] | 2006-03-31 12:36:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV BEXP ELTN IN NP |
06KATHMANDU894 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BHUTANESE REFUGEES WITH [...] (C) On April 3, Australian Ambassador Graeme Lade and Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka separately met with the Ambassador to discuss the Bhutanese refugee issue. While neither the Australians nor the Japanese could immediately agree to the idea of a joint approach with the Danes and Norweg [...] | 2006-04-04 12:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF IN NP JA AS BT |
06KINSHASA1731 | LOANS TO DRC FROM CHINA, INDIA, KUWAIT [...] (SBU) Post submits the following in response to reftel A's request for information on new lending from emerging bilateral creditors. The GDRC's bilateral lending agreements include China, India and Kuwait, although detailed information about the loans is difficult to obtain. (Note: Even the IM [...] | 2006-11-10 08:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ETRD EMIN PGOV CG CH IN KU |
06KINSHASA370 | DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SUPPORTING U.S.-INDIA [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and talking points March 3 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli said he welcomed the new initiative and its goal of controlling nuclear proliferation. He said the GDRC would need to study the partnership more closely before maki [...] | 2006-03-06 10:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC CG |
06KIRKUK117 | PUK LEADERSHIP: PARTY CHANGE, KRG UNITY, IRAN [...] (C) Summary. On May 31 PUK party leader Noshirwan Mustafa informed PRT/REO POLOFS that the number of new KRG ministries was linked to building support for the Kurds on the 2007 Kirkuk Referendum. Further, the PUK would soon hold a congress to restructure the party to adapt to the new political [...] | 2006-06-13 13:34:00 | REO Kirkuk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PNAT KDEM KCOR EPET IZ IN |
06KUWAIT262 | FREEDOM AGENDA: EMBASSY INITIATES KUWAIT [...] Post organized and hosted on January 24th a meeting of labor officials from source countries for expatriate labor in Kuwait to engage on how to better work together to improve the status of Kuwait's large expatriate labor force. Representatives from the embassies of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Paki [...] | 2006-01-25 14:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB CE BG ID RP PK IN KU |
06KUWAIT3325 | KUWAIT GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SPECTER [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for CODEL Specter to travel to post o/a 18 to 19 August, 2006. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Hotel reservations have been made for 18 Aug at [...] | 2006-08-16 14:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU LY IN BE CH COUNTRY CLEARANCE |
06KUWAIT4351 | NGOS SAY NEW DOMESTIC LABOR CONTRACT IS A FIRST [...] (C/NF) Summary. After more than a year of delay, the GOK recently implemented a rule that all domestic laborers coming to Kuwait must sign a standard, three-party (recruitment agency, worker, employer/sponsor) contract. The contract provides for, among other things, minimum wages and daily [...] | 2006-11-05 05:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB IN SL ET KU TIP |
06LONDON7250 | (C) UK-INDIA SUMMIT: BUILDING ON THE STRATEGIC [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Prime Ministers Blair and Singh met in London October 10 for the third annual UK-India summit since the bilateral strategic partnership was launched in 2004. This was not intended as a summit of breakthrough agreements, but rather of building on the multi-faceted relationship. [...] | 2006-10-11 16:05:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KNNP ETRD PTER IN AF UK |
06MADRID2343 | SPAIN ON REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-18 15:33:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM PREL TRGY KNNP IN SP |
06MANAGUA515 | GON SUPPORTS U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 17:50:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC NU |
06MANILA685 | INDIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS AGREEMENTS ON DEFENSE AND [...] (C) Summary: During a February 3-6 State visit to the Philippines by Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam, the GRP and GOI signed several defense and trade agreements. The defense agreement covers training and information exchanges, while the trade agreements deal with tourism, agriculture, and [...] | 2006-02-14 08:51:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR ECIN PINR RP IN |
06MUMBAI1253 | HOW SOUTHERN CHHATTISGARH BECAME INDIA'S HUB OF NAXALITE [...] (C) Southern Chhattisgarh has become the epicenter of Naxalite violence in India, with 214 insurgent-related casualties to date in 2006 and every indication that numbers will continue to rise. There are several causes for this escalating crisis. After the state was established in late 2000, [...] | 2006-07-05 11:42:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PHUM PGOV ASEC CASC IN |
06MUMBAI1261 | MAHARASHTRA POLICE UPDATE ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN WESTERN [...] (C) A top Maharashtra anti-terrorist official has told us that the three suspected terrorists killed in the foiled June 1 attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur were probably foreigners. J.J. Singh, Additional Chief of Police in the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS),also acknowledged t [...] | 2006-07-06 10:29:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KIRF KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1266 | FARMER SUICIDES PROMPT PM SINGH TO ANNOUNCE AGRICULTURAL [...] (U) Over 1,600 farmers in eastern Maharashtra's drought-affected cotton belt in the Vidarbha region have committed suicide in the past five years. The GOI has cited crop failure, depressed cotton prices and spiraling debt as the chief reasons for the suicides. During his June 30-July 1 visit [...] | 2006-07-07 06:45:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID PREL IN |
06MUMBAI1286 | CONDITIONS INSIDE CHHATTISGARH'S IDP CAMPS AS MONSOON SEASON [...] (SBU) Due to escalating combat between government, Naxalite-insurgent, and tribal counter-insurgent forces, southern Chhattisgarh had a growing internally displaced persons (IDP) problem in its Dantewara district before monsoon season arrived in late June. Dantewara's 27 IDP camps have appare [...] | 2006-07-10 12:14:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM PHUM IN |
06MUMBAI1292 | MULTIPLE TRAIN BOMBINGS KILL OVER 180 AT HEIGHT OF EVENING [...] (U) Over 180 persons died and over 500 were injured in a series of nearly simultaneous bomb explosions on seven trains on July 11 in Mumbai. The bombings occurred in overflowing trains at the height of the city's evening rush hour. All official Americans and their family members are accounted [...] | 2006-07-12 07:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KISL AEMR PGOV PREL IN |
06MUMBAI1293 | MULTIPLE TRAIN BOMBINGS KILL OVER 180 AT HEIGHT OF EVENING [...] (U) Over 180 persons died and over 500 were injured in a series of nearly simultaneous bomb explosions on seven trains on July 11 in Mumbai. The bombings occurred in overflowing trains at the height of the city's evening rush hour. All official Americans and their family members are accounted [...] | 2006-07-12 08:30:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KISL AEMR PGOV PREL CASC IN |
06MUMBAI1307 | MUMBAI REMAINS CALM AS POLICE DETAIN HUNDREDS IN CONNECTION [...] (U) Nearly 48 hours after bombs exploded aboard seven trains traveling Mumbai's western commuter railway line, casualty figures continue to rise, varying between 200 and 186 depending on the source. The number injured has also increased to 772. There have been no reports of Amcit deaths or in [...] | 2006-07-13 12:51:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KISL PGOV PREL ASEC CASC IN |
06MUMBAI1310 | AS DEATH TOLL NEARS 200, CONTOURS OF MUMBAI BOMBING [...] (C) Despite the local media's poor track record in handling on-the-record remarks, enough reputable media outlets have directly attributed a particular theory of the Mumbai train bombings to senior police leadership that the contours of the investigation are emerging. If the state's media is t [...] | 2006-07-14 13:47:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1332 | (C) PAKISTAN'S ISI INVOLVED IN MUMBAI BOMBINGS, TOP POLICE [...] (C) Maharahstra's top police official told the Consul General on July 19 that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) had a clear hand in the July 7 Mumbai train bombings. P.S. Pasricha, Director General of the state police, said the bombs used in the attacks may point to an A [...] | 2006-07-19 13:29:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1356 | POLICE MAKE FIRST ARRESTS IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBING CASE [...] (C) Investigators have reportedly made the first formal arrests in connection with the July 7 train bombings in Mumbai that killed over 180 people. If the media reports match information we have received from the police, then those arrested are suspected of having helped move materials for the [...] | 2006-07-21 10:17:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1375 | A $5-$6 BILLION "NUCLEAR PARK" FOR U.S. REACTORS IN INDIA? [...] (C) The head of India's state-run nuclear power company told visiting Charge on July 21 that U.S. nuclear suppliers could get their own "nuclear park" of five to six reactors worth $5-$6 billion if the U.S./India civil nuclear agreement becomes reality. S.K. Jain, MD and Chairman of the Nuclea [...] | 2006-07-26 08:08:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV BEXP IN |
06MUMBAI1506 | STILL NO BREAKTHROUGH IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBING INVESTIGATION, POLICE SAY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-11 18:17:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC IN KISL PGOV PK PREL PTER |
06MUMBAI1652 | MUMBAI BOMBING INVESTIGATIONS REVEAL DETAILS OF MUSLIM [...] (C) Although police have now arrested 14 men in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings, investigators still appear to know little about the actual perpetrators of the well-planned act of terrorism that killed 187 people and left few traces. All those arrested have been charged on th [...] | 2006-09-08 11:48:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1707 | BOEING IDENTIFIES SITE FOR PLANNED MAINTENANCE FACILITY IN [...] (SBU) A senior Boeing official told the Consul General on September 15 that his company has now identified a site for its planned maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Nagpur. Seattle-based Dinesh Keskar, who briefed us on the margins of the CG's visit to Nagpur, had met with offi [...] | 2006-09-18 13:40:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR PREL ETRD EFIN IN |
06MUMBAI1755 | (C) LOCAL MUSLIMS AND PAKISTAN NATIONALS PLANTED BOMBS ON [...] (C) Three local Muslims and four Pakistanis planted the bombs that killed 187 persons on seven Mumbai commuter trains in July, the Mumbai police chief told the Consul General on September 26. A.N. Roy said the police had detained two of the local men who had planted bombs. One of the two men [...] | 2006-09-27 12:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1986 | GUJARAT CHIEF MINISTER MODI SETS HIS SIGHTS ON NATIONAL [...] (C) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has his sights on national politics. Everyone we spoke to during a recent trip to Ahmedabad told us that Modi will use an expected state election victory next year to make a bid for the national presidency of the BJP. RSS and BJP leaders in Delhi echo thes [...] | 2006-11-02 12:42:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CVIS PHUM KIRF KISL ECON IN |
06MUMBAI1996 | POLICE BELIEVE MUSLIMS TARGETED MUSLIMS IN MALEGAON [...] (C) Maharashtra police are now convinced that Muslim extremists purposefully targeted other Muslims in the September 8 bombings in Malegaon that killed 31 persons and injured over 200. The police have told us that Muslim extremists hoped to inflame communal passions in a city with a history [...] | 2006-11-09 03:03:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL ASEC CASC IN |
06MUMBAI2027 | CONSUL GENERAL MEETS GUJARAT CHIEF MINISTER MODI [...] (C) Summary: Consul General met on November 16 with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the first such meeting since Modi's U.S. visa was revoked in 2005. Modi provided a glowing overview of his accomplishments in office, including better roads, universal access to electric power, greater ava [...] | 2006-11-27 11:35:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CVIS KISL IN |
06MUMBAI2054 | JULY RELIEF PACKAGE NOT ENOUGH, FARMER SUICIDES CONTINUE IN [...] (SBU) Farmer suicides have continued in the drought affected Vidarbha region of Eastern Maharashtra in spite of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's debt relief package announced in early July. Over 900 farmer suicides have been reported in Vidarbha this year, 300 of which occurred after the July [...] | 2006-12-11 13:03:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID PREL IN |
06MUMBAI2090 | MAHARASHTRA'S GRAND VISION FOR THE NAGPUR AIRPORT [...] (SBU) The Government of Maharashtra (GOM) has ambitious plans to convert Nagpur into a major regional transportation hub. During our recent trip to the city, located at the geographic heart of India, the Maharashtra Airport Development Corporation (MADC) explained its plans to build an integrat [...] | 2006-12-28 09:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR PREL ETRD EFIN EIND EINV PINR IN |
06NAIROBI5265 | U.S. FIRMS IN THE RACE TO BUILD A FIBER OPTIC CABLE IN EAST [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya and the rest of the East Coast of Africa are on the cusp of achieving interconnection to the worldwide web via undersea fiber optic cable. Two projects are racing to begin construction, and the leading contender, Seith East Africa, is 100% U.S.-owned. Moreover, Seith has [...] | 2006-12-14 13:55:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN KE IN AE |
06NASSAU238 | BAHAMAS OPENS EMBASSY IN BEIJING, SIGNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell visited China and India January 17-30, expanding political ties in China and business ties in India. In China, the GCOB opened its new embassy in Beijing, discussed UN reform, and received a gift of $3.75 million dollars from the PRC. The use of the [...] | 2006-02-10 17:53:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BF CH IN KUNR |
06NEWDELHI1094 | UPA/LEFT INFIGHTING REVIVES "NO CONFIDENCE" RUMORS [...] (C) Summary: Rumors of an imminent attempt by the Left Front (LF) and its allies to form a "third front" government to pull down Manmohan Singh have revived in the aftermath of India's IAEA vote against Iran. This is primarily the result of the contentious politics of India's largest state o [...] | 2006-02-13 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KDEM ECON PGOV PREL PINR IR IN |
06NEWDELHI1095 | CARTOONS: GOI ISSUES STATEMENT OF CONCERN, INDIAN [...] (C) Summary: Indian Muslims joined in scattered protests against the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad following Friday prayers on February 10. Most denounced the offensive cartoons, while a few directed their anger into either anti-US demonstrations (encouraged by the Iranian E [...] | 2006-02-13 14:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI KISL KDEM SCUL IN DA IR |
06NEWDELHI1162 | BJP OBEYS HINDU RIGHT IN OPPOSING IRANIAN BOMB [...] (C) Summary: Following a week of halfhearted denunciations of the UPA government for "selling out" to the United States by voting at the IAEA to report Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council, the opposition BJP Parliamentary Party executive committee concluded on February 14 that i [...] | 2006-02-15 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP KISL IN IR |
06NEWDELHI1171 | AFGHAN MILITARY DONATIONS: GOI READY BUT NEEDS A [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Ambassador presented reftel appeal for assistance to the ANA to Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on February 14 (septel),noting India's generous contribution of vehicles for the ANA and suggesting that New Delhi [...] | 2006-02-15 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL MARR MOPS PINS IN AF |
06NEWDELHI1172 | RECENT SRI LANKAN TAMIL REFUGEE ARRIVALS IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the promise of upcoming talks to strengthen the Cease-Fire Agreement has slowed the flow of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees coming to South India, there are now about 400 refugees at the Mandapam refugee transit camp in Tamil Nadu, near Palk Bay. In recent meetings, UNHCR an [...] | 2006-02-15 14:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREF SL IN |
06NEWDELHI1175 | PM REACHES OUT TO ARRAY OF KASHMIRI LEADERS AS J&K [...] (C) Summary: Mixed private reaction, ranging from support to suspicion, greeted the GOI announcement that PM Singh would, on February 24, bring together moderate Kashmiri separatists and J&K elected political leaders for a roundtable conference in New Delhi. The event appears designed by the [...] | 2006-02-15 14:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM MOPS PBTS IN PK |
06NEWDELHI118 | EMBASSY NEW DELHI AVIAN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC [...] (SBU) Post has published Avian Influenza pandemic tripwires from ref A) on the Tripwire Reporting and Integrated Planning System (TRIPS) per ref B). These tripwires apply to Embassy New Delhi and all three constituent posts in India: Calcutta, Chennai and Mumbai. 2. (U) Personnel respons [...] | 2006-01-06 10:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR IN |
06NEWDELHI1220 | EXPANDED CSLA SCOPE IS BLOCKING AGREED PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Summary: Approaching the President's visit to India, we need action by Washington principals in order to consolidate recent progress on civilian space cooperation and disentangle this from our trade agenda. The original NSSP goal to permit Indian launch of US satellites and foreign satel [...] | 2006-02-16 11:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC ETRD KSCA TSPA KNNP IN OVIP POTUS |
06NEWDELHI1230 | INDIA BUILDING UP ITS SECURITY CONTIGENT IN [...] (C) Media reports that India was deploying "commandos" or "sec ret police" to Afghanistan were "rubbish," Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told SIPDIS PolCouns and Poloff on February 16. However, the growing security threats to India's Border Roads Organization (BR [...] | 2006-02-16 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MARR IN AF |
06NEWDELHI1268 | PM RESPONDS TO IRAN VOTE CRITICISM IN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: In his February 17 statement to Parliament addressing the domestic criticism of India,s vote on the Iran nuclear issue at the IAEA Governing Board, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered a vigorous defense of his government's position, maintaining that the UPA's stance was consist [...] | 2006-02-17 15:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG EPET IN IR |
06NEWDELHI1269 | INDIAN ARMY CHIEF DEMANDS END OF CUSTODIAL DEATHS [...] (SBU) Custodial deaths will no longer be tolerated in the Kashmir Valley, Indian Chief of Army Staff General J.J. Singh told his field commanders on February 9. "Singh convened a meeting in Baramulla (approximately 30 miles from Srinagar) and categorically told his subordinates that custodial [...] | 2006-02-17 15:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS KISL IN PK |
06NEWDELHI130 | FM ASO INVIGORATES THE INDO-JAPANESE RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso's January 3-5 visit to New Delhi sent clear signals to the GOI that Tokyo wants to work past nuclear differences and build a closer strategic relationship with India. Within Japan, the Indians say, Aso has been a primary proponent of better ties [...] | 2006-01-06 13:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ECON ENRG EPET ETRD JA IN |
06NEWDELHI1315 | MUSLIMS SQUARE OFF - AGAINST AND FOR THE POTUS [...] (C) Summary: On February 21, influential Muslim leader Imam Bukhari of Old Delhi's Jama Mosque confirmed to Poloff that he had rejected overtures from anti-American leaders to support their "Bush go Back" campaign. Bukhari, who formerly supported anti-US campaigns, has moderated his views an [...] | 2006-02-22 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IAEA KNNP KISL KDEM SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI1318 | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PROPOSED DELIVERABLE ON [...] (U) This is an Action Request for PM -- see Para 5. 2. (SBU) National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) Joint Secretary Arvind Gupta and NSCS Deputy Director Cdr. Mukesh SIPDIS Saini on February 21 discussed with Poloff Reftel questions relating to Articles 1.2 (the joint Cybersecurit [...] | 2006-02-22 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCIP KCRM ECPS EFIN TINT IN |
06NEWDELHI1320 | INDIA AND THE US ON NEPAL: STILL NO DAYLIGHT, WE [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran sought reassurance on February 22 that India and the US were still reading off the same page on Nepal policy, and underlined that India still sees the Maoist insurgency as the principle problem in Nepal. He requested USG action to convinc [...] | 2006-02-22 14:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS IN NP PK |
06NEWDELHI1321 | CHIRAC VISIT PUSHES US AGENDA ON CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's February 19-21 trip to New Delhi, which focused on political, economic, defense and energy cooperation, served as a preview for President Bush's upcoming visit. In a program and agenda very similar to our President's, the GOF made progress on "soft power" issue [...] | 2006-02-22 14:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP FR IN |
06NEWDELHI1395 | AHLUWALIA: INDIA RESPONSIBLE NUCLEAR POWER, FAVORS [...] (C) Summary: The civil-nuclear deal continues to be a political "hot-button," but Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia stated to Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) on February 20 that the UPA Government supports the July 18 agreement and hopes a viable separation p [...] | 2006-02-24 14:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PREL ENRG EPET OVIP IR IN |
06NEWDELHI1415 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY AND RAHUL GANDHI DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. In a half hour February 20 meeting with Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY),Congress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi was eager to learn the Democratic party positions on a number of foreign policy issues, including the war in Iraq, the situation in the Middle East and the US relations [...] | 2006-02-27 09:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL IN IZ IR |
06NEWDELHI1445 | KASHMIRIS SPOIL PM'S DELHI DIALOGUE BUT INDIA [...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister continues to try to implement his vision of reconciliation in Kashmir, despite much political turbulence there and criticism from the BJP. PM Singh's February 25 roundtable on Kashmir attracted mainstream politicians, academics, and intellectuals, but none of t [...] | 2006-02-27 15:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PBTS KISL IN PK IZ |
06NEWDELHI1559 | NEW DELHI-BASED CHIEFS OF MISSION BRIEFED ON [...] (U) Drawing from reftel, DCM briefed New Delhi-based Chiefs of Mission and senior officers from key Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) and IAEA member countries on March 3, including Israel and Pakistan, regarding the March 2 announcement that President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Singh had reac [...] | 2006-03-06 11:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ENRG ETTC KSCA KNNP IN IAEA |
06NEWDELHI1572 | RGOB REMAINS COMMITTED TO REFUGEE RETURNS [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering's comments in Ref A that the RGOB my not repatriate SIPDIS any refugees, in a February 15 meeting with Poloff, Bhutanese Second Secretary Karma Thinley (Strictly Protect) stated that Thimphu remains committed to repatriating those in [...] | 2006-03-06 12:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF IN NP BT |
06NEWDELHI1611 | INDIANS SATISFIED WITH CONTINUED INCREMENTAL [...] (C) Indians are generally pleased with the status of Indo-Pakistan relations; as long as terrorism levels stay low and the bulk of jihadi terrorism stays in J&K, the GOI and our contacts support continued incremental progress on the peace process between South Asia's nuclear neighbors. A rec [...] | 2006-03-08 03:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL MOPS PBTS ETRD SCUL IN PK |
06NEWDELHI162 | TERRORIST FINANCE: POSTPONEMENT OF ACTION ON LET [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-09 14:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN IN PK |
06NEWDELHI163 | INDO-PAK WALTZ SLOWS: BACKWARD ON RHETORIC, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 conversation with the DCM (other topics reported Septel),Deputy NSA Vijay Nambiar underlined that much of the current friction between India and Pakistan stems from ongoing Pakistan-sponsored terrorism against India, including the spectacular Diwali bombings and t [...] | 2006-01-09 14:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ELTN ECIN ETRD IN PK |
06NEWDELHI1631 | INDIA WILL SIGN THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) MEA Deputy Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Prashant Pise told Poloff on March 7 in response to reftel demarche that the MEA's legal division was preparing the ratification process for the Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions. "We will sign it," he stated, but did not [...] | 2006-03-08 11:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ICRC PHUM PREF PREL IN SZ |
06NEWDELHI1632 | JIHADIS PRIME SUSPECTS IN VARANASI BLASTS; [...] (C) Summary: A March 7 evening terrorist bomb attack at one of three main Hindu temples in the holy city of Varanasi, followed by a second blast at the city's train station, put the country on high alert, but has not yet incited a major communal backlash, which terrorist analysts say was the [...] | 2006-03-08 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC CASC PREL IN PK |
06NEWDELHI1653 | GOI COMPARES NOTES ON NEPAL WITH PDAS CAMP [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran told visiting SCA PDAS Don Camp on March 7 that the GOI was not worried about the RNA's ammunition supplies (Refs A and B). New Delhi is "revisiting" its policies toward Nepal, but continues to stand by supporting the seven-party alliance [...] | 2006-03-09 12:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PTER IN NP |
06NEWDELHI166 | SYRIAN OIL DEAL DEMARCHE: INDIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Ref-A demarche points, Additional Secretary Ahmad of India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas told CDA that he had had concerns about the economic benefit of the joint India-China purchase of equity in a Syrian oil field, and that -- had he known there would be [...] | 2006-01-10 01:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG ETRD PGOV IN SY CH IS LE |
06NEWDELHI1660 | RAJASTHAN GOVERNMENT QUELLS HARASSMENT OF EMMANUEL [...] (SBU) Summary: Local press recently reported that Hindu activists had attacked churches, hospitals and schools associated with the Emmanuel Ministries (EM) in Rajasthan, and blocked its employees from entering a hospital and orphanage. Embassy contacts in Rajasthan acknowledged that Hindu ac [...] | 2006-03-09 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI1670 | A REVISIT TO INDIA'S CYBERSECURITY "CERT-IN" [...] Poloff on February 16 briefly revisited India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) facility (Reftel) and made the following observations: Security -------- 2. Nearly all interior doorways were secured with an infra-red badge reader, including every door that led to a room hous [...] | 2006-03-10 10:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KCIP TINT PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI1738 | GOI HOPES FOR RESPONSE ON UN DEMOCRACY FUND [...] (U) This message contains an ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora told PolCouns and Poloff on March 13 that India is awaiting a US response to its proposal to set up a New Delhi office of the UN Democracy Fund. The GOI also l [...] | 2006-03-13 13:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM IN |
06NEWDELHI1764 | INDIA PONDERING A POSSIBLE EXPANDED ROLE IN SUDAN [...] (C) MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora told PolCouns and Poloff on March 13 that UN representatives had informally approached him to ask about India's willingness to help with any UN peacekeeping operation in the Darfur region of Sudan, drawing on India's presence as the major for [...] | 2006-03-14 11:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MOPS PHUM IN |
06NEWDELHI180 | THE BROKEN BJP EMBRACES VOTE-LOSING HINDUTVA [...] (C) Summary: At its recently concluded "silver jubilee celebration" in Mumbai (septel) the BJP failed to overcome its deep divisions, failed to name a new President capable of uniting the party, failed to adopt a voter-friendly platform, and unenthusiastically embraced Hindutva and continued [...] | 2006-01-10 05:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI1814 | GOI MOVING DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE FORWARD [...] (C) The Charge, accompanied by PolCouns and Poloff, called on Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on March 16 to further our discussion on democracy initiatives. Charge explained USG reservations regarding the initial GOI proposal to establish a New Delhi office of the UN Dem [...] | 2006-03-16 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI1818 | LONG-SIMMERING PROPERTY DISPUTE AT HEART OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the Emmanuel Mission (EM) case has aroused considerable controversy in the press, the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and the Lok Sabha (Parliament),it is not likely to be resolved quickly. There are powerful vested property-interests on both sides of the dispute. Co [...] | 2006-03-16 13:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI1850 | GOI HOPING FOR POSITIVE BANGLADESH PM VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Bangladesh Prime Minister Zia's March 20-23 visit to New Delhi, reciprocating Prime Minister Singh's visit to Dhaka in November 2005, reflects in large part Singh's sustained efforts and desire to ease long-standing bilateral tensions. Zia is expected to attend a ceremonial rece [...] | 2006-03-17 12:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG ETRD PTER EINV PBTS IN BD |
06NEWDELHI1851 | DEMARCHE ON ELECTION FOR NON-PERMANENT SECURITY [...] (C) Using a March 16 meeting with Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma to follow up on an earlier letter, Charge shared reftel USG concerns on the upcoming election for a non-permanent UN Security Council seat between Venezuela and Guatemala, pointing out Venezuela's disruptive [...] | 2006-03-17 12:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IN GT VE |
06NEWDELHI1854 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOND [...] (SBU) Senator Bond, your delegation's 22-23 March visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating India-US relationship on the heels of President Bush's historic summit and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After forty years of mutual indiffe [...] | 2006-03-17 14:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB IN |
06NEWDELHI1953 | SECULAR INDIA SUPPORTS EMMANUEL MINISTRIES, [...] (C) Summary: Thousands of Indians from all religious communities marched on the Rajasthan Parliament in Jaipur on March 21 to demand an end to the anti-Emmanuel Mission (EM) campaign of state Minister for Social Welfare and Cooperatives Madan Delivar. The issue also caused a major uproar in [...] | 2006-03-22 11:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KRIF KDEM SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI2021 | SONIA GANDHI'S RESIGNATION FROM PARLIAMENT SETS [...] (C) Summary: Complicated political maneuvering culminated in Sonia Gandhi's dramatic resignation from Parliament and as head of the National Advisory Council (NAC) on March 23. Congress set off the furor when it tried to use an obscure Constitutional act which forbids MPs from holding "offices [...] | 2006-03-23 13:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI2057 | BOND: CIVIL NUCLEAR DEAL FACES HURDLES IN US [...] (C) Summary: Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri) told Minister of State Anand Sharma on Wednesday, March 22 that the civil-nuclear agreement faces stiff opposition in Congress, and Americans of Indian descent should actively engage their congressional representatives and urge them to support it. Sh [...] | 2006-03-24 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PREL ENRG EPET IR IN |
06NEWDELHI2058 | SENATOR BOND DISCUSSES FIGHTER PLANES WITH DEFMIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting Senator Kit Bond of Missouri discussed the growing US-India defense relationship with Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee on March 23. Senator Bond encouraged the GOI to select F/A-18 fighter aircraft to help replace its aging MiG fleet, and Mukherjee sounded out the Se [...] | 2006-03-24 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MARR ETRD IN |
06NEWDELHI206 | INDIAN GENERAL TO LEAD SUDAN PEACEKEEPING MISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-10 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MOPS PINR IN SU |
06NEWDELHI2060 | CODEL BOND, NSA NARAYANAN FOCUS ON AREAS OF [...] (C) Summary: In his March 22 meeting with Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri),National Security Advisor MK Narayanan reiterated the GOI's commitment to the transformed US-India relationship, and stressed the common ground India shares with the US. Narayanan responded positively to Senator Bond's c [...] | 2006-03-24 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER ECIN ENRG MARR MASS OREP EAGR US IN |
06NEWDELHI2061 | UPDATE ON DEVELOPMENTS SURROUNDING SONIA GANDHI'S [...] (C) Summary: One day after Sonia Gandhi's surprise resignation of her Parliamentary seat, she retains the moral high ground and appears to have enhanced her stature. Press accounts relate that a coterie of Congress insiders engineered a scheme to protect Sonia Gandhi that went awry. Althoug [...] | 2006-03-24 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI2090 | PM'S OLIVE BRANCH TO PAK: BUREAUCRACY, PUNDITS SEE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh's speech launching the bus service to Nankana Sahib from Amritsar on March 24 continued his efforts to push rapprochement with Pakistan, but Singh still faces resistance from skeptical Indo-Pak watchers in India and his own bureaucracy. Singh's speech was no [...] | 2006-03-27 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IN PK |
06NEWDELHI2091 | INDIA DENIES FLIRTING WITH IRANIANS [...] (C) Summary: In response to DCM's questions and concern about a Defense News article detailing Indian ""training"" of the Iranian Navy in Cochin, Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told DCM and Poloff on March 27 that the visit of an Iranian Vice President to New Delhi and p [...] | 2006-03-27 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET MOPS IR IN |
06NEWDELHI2131 | HELPFUL CONGRESS STATEMENT ON U.S. TIES DEEPENS [...] (U) A signed editorial by Sonia Gandhi in the March edition of the Congress party journal "Sandesh" praised the civil nuclear agreement as "historic" and congratulated Prime Minister Singh for "ensuring the success of President Bush's visit despite opposition from key allies (read the Left Fr [...] | 2006-03-29 11:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI2138 | INDIAN ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO INDEPENDENT INQUIRY [...] Summary: The Volcker Committee probing allegations of illegalities in the oil-for-food program had identified Indian entities including former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress Party among the non-contractual beneficiaries of illegal oil allotments. In India, a special inquiry a [...] | 2006-03-29 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV IN IZ |
06NEWDELHI2151 | BHUTAN HINTS AT QUID PRO QUO FOR VENEZUELA UNSC [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche asking Bhutan to support Guatemala's candidacy to represent GRULAC in the 2007-2008 UNSC and detailed our concerns about Venezuela. Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering responded that he would forward the message to Thimphu. 2. (C) Tshering noted that the Ro [...] | 2006-03-30 10:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNSC PREF GT VE IN |
06NEWDELHI2167 | BHUTAN INVITES NEPALESE FM TO THIMPHU TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering told PolCouns and PolOff on March 30 that the RGOB invited Nepalese Foreign Minister Pandey to Thimphu to expedite a solution to the refugee problem. In a welcome reversal of his previous statements to us, Tshering asserted that the RGOB position on [...] | 2006-03-30 11:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM IN BT NP |
06NEWDELHI2171 | FOLLOW-UP ON BARAPIND EXTRADITION ASSURANCES [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 29, 2006, Post received MEA Diplomatic Note T-413/11/2004 answering questions posed in USG Diplomatic Note 06/254/POL, dated March 7, 2006, regarding the extradition to India of Kulbir Singh Barapind. The full text of the GOI response is included below, as well as the [...] | 2006-03-30 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI2172 | INDIA WILL SUPPORT OUR INCB CANDIDATE IF WE [...] (SBU) After PolCouns raised reftel points regarding the nomination of Ambassador Levitsky for re-election to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on March 29, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjeev Puri responded that India would be pleased to support the US candidat [...] | 2006-03-30 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR AORC PREL UN IN |
06NEWDELHI2173 | GOI PRIVATELY MAINTAINING PRESSURE TO DEMOCRATIZE [...] (C) Summary: MEA Burma watcher Mohan Kumar told PolCouns March 30 that the GOI is continuing privately to push the military regime in Burma to pursue democratic reforms. Kumar elaborated on President Kalam's visit to Burma earlier this month, and indicated that discussions on democracy figur [...] | 2006-03-30 13:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM BM IN |
06NEWDELHI2216 | TERRORIST FINANCE: LET AMENDMENT [...] (S) Poloff on March 30 delivered Reftel demarche on amending the UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee listing on Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) to include the names Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq (IKK) to MEA Director (Americas) Gaitri Kumar and MEA Director (Pakistan) Jeeva Sagar. Both ex [...] | 2006-03-31 11:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC IN PK |
06NEWDELHI2226 | INDIA RE-STATES ITS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MANTRA [...] (C) Summary: MEA's UN Joint Secretary Manjiv Puri was sanguine about the as-yet unaddressed flaws in the new Human Rights Council, arguing that the need to stand for election in the General Assembly would bar the worst human rights violators from the Council. India and the US have different approac [...] | 2006-03-31 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KUNR KDEM UN IN |
06NEWDELHI2227 | INDIA BALANCING RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL AND HAMAS [...] (SBU) Summary: India is walking a tightrope as its defense and trade ties with Israel grow, even as the Hamas victory forces a delicate accommodation of popular Indian Muslim support for the Palestinians. As an emerging global power, New Delhi recognizes that it cannot afford to alienate either [...] | 2006-03-31 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KISL IN IS |
06NEWDELHI2229 | GOI GETS GOOD ATMOSPHERICS BUT LITTLE SUBSTANCE [...] (C) Summary: The GOI went to great lengths to cast a positive glow over Bangladesh Prime Minister Zia's March 20-22 visit to New Delhi in an effort to improve the tone of the bilateral relationship. Our MEA contacts lamented that this positive turn-around came just in time for Zia's lame duc [...] | 2006-03-31 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EINV ETRD ENRG EPET IN BG |
06NEWDELHI223 | NO IMMEDIATE MORALES VISIT PLANS, BUT LEFT WOULD [...] (C) Summary: D/PolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel talking points on January 10 to Director (Latin America Countries) Anwar Haleem, who commented that he knew of no immediate plans for the Bolivian President-elect to visit India. We note that Indian Left parties would welcome a Morales visi [...] | 2006-01-10 13:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN BO |
06NEWDELHI2230 | TAIWAN-INDIA RELATIONS LOOKING UP, BUT TRYING TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: Indian Government officials maintain that China has not protested India-Taiwan ties or the establishment of the Taiwan-India Cooperation Council (TICC). New Delhi perceives that its economic future lies in the success of its "Look East" objectives, and Taiwan beckons as a dem [...] | 2006-03-31 13:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PINR ETRD EAIR IN CH TW |
06NEWDELHI224 | S57-05 AND MTAG: CW DEMARCHE DELIVERED, FOLLOWING [...] (S) PolCouns and Poloffs delivered Ref A points to MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security Affairs) Hamid Ali Rao and his deputies on January 10, and followed up on several 2005 proliferation cases involving Iran. Rao agreed to look into Ref A transaction, but pushed back [...] | 2006-01-10 13:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL CBW ETTC MTCRE IR IN |
06NEWDELHI2291 | RAJASTHAN ANTI-CONVERSION BILL SLOW TO PASS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Fulfilling a BJP party platform commitment, the Rajasthan government introduced an anti-conversion bill on March 31 in the state assembly. Rajasthan Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Mohammad Mahir Azad (opposition Congress Party) predicted to us that the bill will likely pa [...] | 2006-04-04 13:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KRIF KDEM SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI2323 | INDIA GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SAARC [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff's April 4 introductory call on Preeti Saran, the new MEA Joint Secretary for SAARC, revealed an element in the GOI that is generally upbeat about SAARC's potential to improve regional cooperation, in line with Prime Minister Singh's long-term vision of Indian [...] | 2006-04-05 14:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG ECIN EAID IN AF BG BT |
06NEWDELHI2363 | SIX ALLEGED VARANASI TERRORISTS ARRESTED [...] (U) Uttar Predesh police on April 5 announced the arrests of six alleged terrorists they say were behind the March 7 twin bomb blasts in Varanasi (Reftel). The press reports -- many of which were un-bylined, a possible sign they came from an Intelligence Bureau or Research and Analysis Wing s [...] | 2006-04-07 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM IN PK |
06NEWDELHI2440 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] Following up reftel discussion (Ref B) between PolCouns and the GOI's ranking official on UN human rights issues PolOff delivered reftel message on April 10 to Prashant Pise, Deputy Secretary (UN Economic and Social) at the Ministry of External Affairs. Pise had no immediate substantive comme [...] | 2006-04-11 12:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KUNR PREL PHUM UNGA IN |
06NEWDELHI2446 | HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIGIOUS GROUPS DECRY PASSAGE OF [...] (C) Summary: Split on party lines, the BJP-dominated Rajasthan Assembly overwhelmingly passed a controversial anti-conversion bill on March 26, but it must be signed by the state governor, then be approved by the state cabinet and have regulations promulgated before it can be enforced. Human [...] | 2006-04-11 12:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI2527 | JASWANT SINGH CAUTIOUS IN MEETING WITH A/S BOUCHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his April 7 meeting with SCA A/S Boucher, former Indian Foreign Minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh cautioned that the US and India should not emphasize the nuclear agreement to the exclusion of other bilateral initiatives, but agreed that the two share a civilization an [...] | 2006-04-13 11:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MNUC KIRF ENRG IN PK |
06NEWDELHI2529 | RAJASTHAN'S CHIEF MINISTER TELLS SPEAKER HASTERT [...] (C) In an otherwise cordial April 10 courtesy call with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and seven accompanying Congressman, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje expressed genuine anger at the activities of Christian missionaries in her state and provided a spirited defense of the rece [...] | 2006-04-13 12:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF KDEM SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI2532 | CODEL HASTERT AND SONIA GANDHI DISCUSS US-INDIA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 12 meeting with a delegation led by Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert (R-IL),Sonia Gandhi was particularly engaged on the status and process of passing the civil nuclear agreement in Congress. She was surprised to hear that the Representatives [...] | 2006-04-14 06:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PREL ENRG EPET IN |
06NEWDELHI2535 | SENATOR HAGEL AND ANAND SHARMA DISCUSS BROAD BASIS [...] (C) Summary: In a brief April 10 meeting, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma and Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) reflected on the multifaceted nature of US-India relations, including cooperation in energy, infrastructure, agriculture, democracy, defense, the economy, health, and [...] | 2006-04-14 10:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET EAGR ECON MNUC IN |
06NEWDELHI2561 | TERRORISTS UNSUCCESSFULLY STRIKE DELHI AND [...] (C) Summary: Thirteen people were injured, but none killed, by two bombs that went off during Friday (April 14) evening prayers at the Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, the largest mosque in South Asia and a popular tourist destination (although tourists are escorted out of the mosque grounds by cust [...] | 2006-04-17 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC KISL PGOV IN PK |
06NEWDELHI2602 | INDIAN ENVOY TO TELL KING TO RENOUNCE ABSOLUTE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-18 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF PHUM IN NP BT |
06NEWDELHI2603 | GOI REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO AFGHANISTAN DURING [...] (C) Summary: During President Hamid Karzai's April 9-13 visit to India, the GOI reinforced its substantial support for Afghanistan with the announcement of an additional USD 50 million in assistance, the signing of three MoUs, and positive statements from both sides about their bilateral part [...] | 2006-04-18 13:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER MASS IN AF |
06NEWDELHI2622 | DESPITE DOMESTIC PRESSURE, PM AGAIN DEFENDS [...] (SBU) In an April 18 meeting with prominent Indian Muslim leaders including Ahmed Bukhari, chief Imam of New Delhi's largest mosque, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated India's conviction that it was correct to vote in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to refer Iran's nuclear [...] | 2006-04-19 11:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PGOV KISL MNUC IN IR |
06NEWDELHI264 | CODEL KERRY PROBES FOR AN INDIAN BOTTOM LINE ON [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting with visiting Senator John Kerry, Prime Minister Singh underlined India's intention to fulfill the terms of the July 18 civil nuclear understanding, but rebuffed the Senator's effort to explore enhancements to the deal that might help to minimize Congressio [...] | 2006-01-12 11:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ENRG PTER ECON IR PK CH IN |
06NEWDELHI265 | NSA SUGGESTS INDIA WILL VOTE AGAINST IRAN [...] (S) Summary: NSA MK Narayanan told the Ambassador on January 12 that India ""would like to"" vote for IAEA referral of Iran to the UN Security Council. New Delhi considers Iran in violation of its NPT obligations. However, he said, the GOI must still determine how to ""sell the vote"" domestical [...] | 2006-01-12 14:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV KNNP IN IR |
06NEWDELHI2655 | A/USTR HARTWICK DISCUSSES WAY FORWARD ON CSLA [...] (SBU) Summary: Awsistant US Trade Representative Doug Hartwick heard Indian objections to the draft Commercial Space Launch Agreement (CSLA) and explained USG reasoning behind the draft in a meeting with MEA and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) interlocutors on April 18. Ambassador H [...] | 2006-04-20 10:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD KSTC ETTC KSPA KNNP IN |
06NEWDELHI2699 | INDIAN ENVOY TO NEPAL KING: ASSUME CEREMONIAL ROLE [...] (C) Summary: As the Indian establishment debates the effectiveness of envoy Karan Singh's visit to Kathmandu, New Delhi is still reaching out to Nepalese actors to try to pull the parties and Palace together. Speaking with the Charge on April 21, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said the King ha [...] | 2006-04-21 11:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV PBTS OREP NP IN |
06NEWDELHI27 | GOI DECLINES A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN SRI LANKAN [...] (C) Summary: Mahinda Rajapakse's December 27-30 trip to India stimulated the public debate about the Sri Lankan President's call for a more active Indian role in the peace process, but did not yield any major new Indian initiatives. The GOI told President Rajapakse, who encouraged greater Indian i [...] | 2006-01-04 04:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS CE IN |
06NEWDELHI2703 | INDIA CONFIRMS DETAILS FOR PEACEKEEPING JWG, [...] (U) MEA Under Secretary (UN Political) Manish confirmed to Poloff on April 17 that India would participate in the next round of the bilateral Peacekeeping Joint Working Group (PKJWG) proposed for May 11-12 in Washington. MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora would lead the SIPDIS [...] | 2006-04-21 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MOPS PHUM KDEM MASS IN |
06NEWDELHI2706 | INDO-PAK ON THE RIGHT TRACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Seen from Delhi, Indo-Pak engagement seems to keep going strong, with the PM planning what he hopes will be a May or July trip to Pakistan that will be heavy on substantive achievement. In addition, India has made an important water concession to Pakistan and highly placed sourc [...] | 2006-04-21 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM PHUM PTER ECON EWWT IN PK |
06NEWDELHI2747 | INDIA STILL HOPEFUL ON NEPALESE PARTIES, TEMPERS [...] (C) Summary: Following criticism of its statement of support for Nepalese King Gyanendra's April 21 announcement, the MEA reassured us on April 23 and 24 that it continues to work with the Nepalese political parties and believes the "door is not closed" to a compromise between the parties and [...] | 2006-04-24 11:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI2783 | MDA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche on the meeting of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to MEA Deputy Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Prashant Pise on April 24. Pise had no immediate substantive comment. Post notes that Pise had earlier assured Poloff that India would [...] | 2006-04-25 12:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC PHUM PREF ICRC IN |
06NEWDELHI2785 | DEMARCHE ON AFGHAN ELECTION FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) Poloff discussed Ref A points with MEA Under Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Acquino Vimal on SIPDIS April 25, suggesting that some of India's USD 10 million in non-programmed but committed funds (Ref B) could be used to cover costs for Afghan elections. Vimal replied that it w [...] | 2006-04-25 13:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID PGOV IN AF |
06NEWDELHI2786 | INDIAN SUPPORT FOR STRONG UNHRC CANDIDATES, US [...] (SBU) Ambassador sent Ref B letter from the Secretary to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (in his capacity as Acting Foreign Minister) on April 12. PolCouns followed up and conveyed Ref A demarche to MEA Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjiv Puri on April 24. Puri informed us that In [...] | 2006-04-25 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR PHUM HUNRC UN IN |
06NEWDELHI2788 | JAMMU & KASHMIR ASSEMBLY BY-ELECTIONS EXCEED [...] (SBU) Summary: Residents of four of Jammu & Kashmir's Assembly constituencies came out in strength to vote in by-elections on April 24, undaunted by threats and violence in the third major exercise of electoral democracy in the state since 2002. Another data point in the trend of Kashmiris' [...] | 2006-04-25 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI2789 | JAMMU & KASHMIR ASSEMBLY BY-ELECTIONS EXCEED [...] (SBU) Summary: Residents of four of Jammu & Kashmir's Assembly constituencies came out in strength to vote in by-elections on April 24, undaunted by threats and violence in the third major exercise of electoral democracy in the state since 2002. Another data point in the trend of Kashmiris' [...] | 2006-04-25 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI279 | NO GOI DECISION YET ON LONDON CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha on SIPDIS January 13. In a follow-up conversation, Under Secretary (Afghanistan) Aquino Vimal told Poloff that MEA had not yet decided on the level of its official representation, but w [...] | 2006-01-13 10:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID KDEM IN AF |
06NEWDELHI2790 | NEW DELHI ADAPTING TO CRITICISM AS NEPAL SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: The GOI issued a strong statement of support for the "Nepalese people" on April 25, after widespread criticism over its Nepal policies including former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh on April 24 who assailed India's Nepal policy as "masterly inactivity" that "let down the people of [...] | 2006-04-25 14:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KDEM IN NP |
06NEWDELHI2852 | POST ASSESSMENT: CHEEMA UNLIKELY TO FACE TORTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-27 08:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI286 | UN REFORM DEMARCHE: GOI OKAY ON HRC, WITH TWO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-13 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM UN KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI2867 | EXPECTED SONIA GANDHI ELECTORAL VICTORY NOT ENOUGH [...] (C) Summary: Poloff's April 19-21 trip to Uttar Pradesh (UP) revealed that the political equation has changed since our previous visit in January. Then, most considered the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) to be on its way out. However, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has since used American [...] | 2006-04-27 11:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM KISL SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI2873 | BJP GENERAL SECRETARY PRAMOD MAHAJAN UNLIKELY TO [...] (C) Shot three times by his brother on April 23, BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan remained in "critical/but stable" condition on April 27. It is still not clear whether Mahajan will survive his shooting. Even if he does, it is highly unlikely that he will make a complete recovery and he [...] | 2006-04-27 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI2875 | YASIN MALIK VISA [...] (SBU) Action Request: Post recommends that Department request DHS to approve a 212(d)(3)(A) waiver of nonimmigrant visa ineligibilities as appropriate for Yasin MALIK (DOB: 3 April 1965),President of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF),to seek medical treatment in Bethesda, MD. We [...] | 2006-04-27 12:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PTER PGOV KDEM PHUM IN PK |
06NEWDELHI291 | LEFT'S BARK WORSE THAN ITS BITE AS ITS NOSTRILS [...] (SBU) Summary: Leftist groups in India plan to protest President Bush's impending visit in order to rally the faithful prior to State elections in Communist strongholds and in the hope of intimidating the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) into limiting economic reforms and de-emphasiz [...] | 2006-01-13 14:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON OVIP ASEC IN |
06NEWDELHI2910 | BHUTANESE CENSUS RELEASED, GROSS NATIONAL [...] (U) Bhutan released the results of its May 2005 census on April 27, listing the total population of the country at 672,425, roughly the same population as Baltimore City, Maryland. The census included all residents, regardless of nationality, who were present in Bhutan on May 30 and 31, 200 [...] | 2006-04-28 11:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF IN BT NP |
06NEWDELHI2911 | FOLLOW-UP ON BARAPIND EXTRADITION ASSURANCES: GOI [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 27, 2006, Post received MEA Diplomatic Note T-413/11/2004 answering questions regarding the 1997 extraditions of Daya Singh Sandhu and Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu, posed in USG Diplomatic Note 06/254/POL, dated March 7, 2006 (Ref A). The full text of the GOI response is incl [...] | 2006-04-28 11:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI2915 | RAJASTHAN UPDATE: EMI FOUNDER RECEIVES [...] (U) Summary: Emmanuel Ministries International (EMI) founder MA Thomas was granted anticipatory bail on April 21, but remains in hiding, All India Christian Council President John Dayal twld us on April 27. Dayal also reported that EMI President Samuel Thomas (son of MA Thomas) remains in j [...] | 2006-04-28 11:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI2919 | POST ASSESSMENT: CHEEMA UNLIKELY TO FACE TORTURE [...] (U) This is a corrected copy, with changes throughout. 2. (SBU) Summary: As with the pending case involving Kulbir Singh Barapind (Ref A),Post's assessment is that the law enforcement climate in India, and specifically in Punjab, has dramaticalhy improved since Harpal Singh Cheema ("Cheem [...] | 2006-04-28 13:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI292 | LEFT'S BARK WORSE THAN ITS BITE AS ITS NOSTRILS [...] (SBU) Summary: Leftist groups in India plan to protest President Bush's impending visit in order to rally the faithful prior to State elections in Communist strongholds and in the hope of intimidating the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) into limiting economic reforms and de-emphasiz [...] | 2006-01-13 14:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON OVIP ASEC IN |
06NEWDELHI294 | NSA NARAYANAN MULLS SENATOR KERRY'S SUGGESTIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting with visiting Senator John Kerry that focused exclusively on the civil nuclear agreement and nuclear non-proliferation, NSA MK Narayanan reiterated the GOI's support for its draft separation plan, and allowed that New Delhi "will not backtrack" on obligati [...] | 2006-01-14 09:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG MNUC KNNP SENV PTER IN PK CH |
06NEWDELHI2967 | INDIA STRENGTHENS RESOLVE IN AFGHANISTAN DESPITE [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA and PA. Please see Para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following the Taliban's decapitation of an Indian mobile phone network engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan, Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran made a thinly veiled reference to Pakistani support for the T [...] | 2006-05-01 14:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS EAID IN PK |
06NEWDELHI2983 | INDIA'S STATE ELECTIONS: A REFERENDUM ON CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: The usual religious and caste issues have been all but absent in the April/May electoral contests in four states and one Union Territory, raising the prospect that the vote will be viewed as a referendum on UPA economic and foreign policies. The Communists hope to move the elect [...] | 2006-05-02 09:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI2997 | INDIA REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Reflecting the priority the GOI places on participating in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran called together resident Chiefs of Missions on May 1 to promote the GOI candidacy. Adding to the previous GOI non-paper outlining India's qualificaitons [...] | 2006-05-02 11:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KUNR AORC UNHRC KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI2998 | TERRORISTS MASSACRE 35 HINDUS IN J&K AFTER [...] (U) This is an Action Request for PA and SCA. Please see Para 18. 2. (C) Summary: Terrorism raised its ugly head in J&K twice, after April 30 and May 1 attacks in Jammu left over 35 Hindus dead in an attempt to fan the flames of religious hatred and spoil the atmosphere before PM Singh m [...] | 2006-05-02 13:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM PBTS KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI3006 | GOI RESPONSE POSITIVE TO UN DEMOCRACY FUND [...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (United Nations/Political) Sanjiv Arora said that the GOI plans actively to promote the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF, Ref A) to Indian NGOs and civil society organizations, including via the MEA's Internet site, and to facilitat [...] | 2006-05-03 07:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM UNGA KUNR IN AF KG |
06NEWDELHI3007 | GOI SHARES ITS SELECTION CRITERIA FOR NEXT UNSYG [...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (United Nations/Political) Sanjiv Arora shared the GOI's thinking on who it will support as the next UN Secretary-General. Avoiding commenting on any declared or stealth candidates (including UN Under-Secretary-General for [...] | 2006-05-03 07:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM UNGA KUNR PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI3048 | BOUCHER AND INDIAN OFFICIALS AGREE ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: Having just returned from Kathmandu, Assistant Secretary Boucher related to MEA Joint Secretaries Pankaj Saran (Nepal) and S. Jaishankar (Americas) that the political parties intended to show progress. The U.S. would wait for the civilian government to issue a formal request for [...] | 2006-05-04 07:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PGOV IN NP PTER |
06NEWDELHI3050 | INDIAN SPECIAL ENVOY PROPOSES WAY FORWARD IN NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Special Envoy to Nepal Dr. Karan Singh told visiting SCA A/S Richard Boucher and NSC Senior Director Elisabeth Millard that he believes that the Nepalese political situation remains very fragile, and that it is uncertain who will lead the political process forward should c [...] | 2006-05-04 08:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI3107 | TERRORISM FINANCE: JI-4 TALKING POINTS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Poloff on April 28 delivered Reftel talking points to MEA Attache (Americas) Priyanka Chauhan, who accepted them without substantive comment. Econoff on April 28 delivered Reftel talking points to Finance Ministry Joint Secretary (Department of Economic Affairs) Dr. K.P. Krishnan, who a [...] | 2006-05-05 11:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC IN ID |
06NEWDELHI3117 | EMMANUEL MINISTRIES PRESIDENT FREE ON BAIL, COURT [...] (SBU) Emmanuel Ministries International (EMI) President Samuel Thomas was released from judicial custody on May 2, and his next hearing will be on May 12, EMI Hospital Administrator Jacob Matthew told us on May 5. Jacob commented that the property registration dispute with the Rajasthan Gove [...] | 2006-05-05 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI3130 | HURRIYAT UPBEAT ABOUT MEETING WITH PM SINGH AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The moderate separatist Kashmiri Hurriyat led by Mirwaiz Omar Farooq was quite pleased with their May 3 meeting with Indian PM Singh and his commitment to dialogue on the full range of Jammu and Kashmir issues and to improved human rights. The Hurriyat are also gearing up to begin [...] | 2006-05-05 14:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PBTS PINR KDEM PHUM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI315 | DEMARCHE ON IAEA COMMITTEE ON SAFEGUARDS AND [...] (U) PolCouns delivered Reftel demarche on January 17 to MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali Rao, who had no substantive comment but agreed to review US ideas for GOI feedback at a later date. MULFORD [...] | 2006-01-17 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KNUC PREL PARM IAEA IN |
06NEWDELHI3153 | FINAL PUSH ON IRAN/HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) The Ambassador used a May 8 meeting with NSA Narayanan to reiterate our message on Iran's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council and to underline our expectation that New Delhi will send clear instructions to the Indian delegation that will be voting on May 9. Narayanan was familiar wit [...] | 2006-05-08 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL IR IN |
06NEWDELHI317 | GOI PREFERS BILATERAL GOVERNMENT MECHANISM ON [...] (S) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali Rao told PolCouns on January 17 that the GOI is uncomfortable with the direct communication between our Consulate in Mumbai and the Sabero company, and requested that we instead use a bilateral government mech [...] | 2006-01-17 14:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL CBW ETTC MTCRE IR IN |
06NEWDELHI318 | SUCCESS OF US-INDIA MISSILE DEFENSE PLANEX CALLS [...] (C) Summary: The U.S.-India Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Planning Exercise (Planex) held January 11-12, 2006 in Hyderabad sparked lively discussions on virtual threat depictions, MD designs and operational challenges related to ballistic MD execution. The Planex players successfully complet [...] | 2006-01-17 14:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS TSPL KSTC PREL MOPS IN |
06NEWDELHI3199 | INDIAN MUSLIMS AND CONGRESS NERVOUS OVER U.S. IRAN [...] (C) Summary: A cross-section of Indian Muslims have told Poloff in recent weeks that Indian Muslim opinion, both Sunni and Shia, is opposed to Washington's policy on Iran's nuclear program and that Indian Muslims would --as they did for Iraq in 2003-- likely peacefully take to the streets in l [...] | 2006-05-09 11:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PREL SCUL IN IR |
06NEWDELHI3248 | RIFTS EMERGE AMONG INDIAN MUSLIMS OVER FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In an ugly marriage of convenience, Indian Muslim extremists from the Wahhabi-influenced Deobandi sect and radical pro-Iran Shias have joined forces with the opportunistic regional Samajwadi Party (SP) of Uttar Pradesh (UP) to mount an anti-US political campaign. More moderate [...] | 2006-05-11 08:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PTER SCUL IN IR IZ |
06NEWDELHI3266 | SRI LANKAN ENVOY URGES INDIAN ENGAGEMENT, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Sri Lanka's visiting Foreign Minister has requested India's help to resume peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),while concurrently seeking India's assistance to choke LTTE's financial and logistical resources. Despite Sri Lanka's request, domestic politic [...] | 2006-05-11 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS IN |
06NEWDELHI3270 | INDIA SKEPTICAL OF SCO AS SECURITY FORUM [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to MEA Joint Secretary for Eurasia Bhagwati on May 10 seeking India's help to prevent the inclusion of anti-US language at the upcoming SCO meeting in Shanghai. Bhagwati stated clearly that as an observer to SCO, India has no role in drafting th [...] | 2006-05-11 13:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS PTER SNAR SCUL ETRD ENRG IN |
06NEWDELHI3271 | STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS MOSTLY A VOTE FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: The outcome of State Assembly elections was largely as anticipated (Ref A),with the Left Front (LF) retaining power in West Bengal and unseating Congress in Kerala, while Congress held on to power in Pondicherry, and in a coalition in Assam (Details Refs C and D). The only rea [...] | 2006-05-11 14:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI3272 | INDIA ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR NASA [...] (U) This is an action request for OES and SCA. Please see para 6. 2. (SBU) In a remarkably warm May 9 meeting at the ISRO Satellite Center in Bangalore, ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair welcomed Michael Griffin as the first NASA Administrator to visit India in 30 years and outlined a broad a [...] | 2006-05-11 14:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MOPS MTCR PREL SENV TSPA IN |
06NEWDELHI3289 | BIO NOTES: NEW PAKISTANI DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER [...] (U) The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on May 4 informed Post of the arrival of Mohammad Afrasiab, previously Minister (Political) at the Pakistan Embassy in Beijing, as their new Deputy High Commissioner. (NOTE: In his CV and nearly all press references, Afrasiab uses only his family [...] | 2006-05-12 05:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IN PK CH NZ |
06NEWDELHI3300 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-12 09:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CBW CWC OPCW IN |
06NEWDELHI3304 | INDIA WARMLY WELCOMES VISITING PAKISTANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indian government rolled out the red carpet for visiting Pakistani People,s Party Parliamentarians, arranging a meeting with PM Singh, a lunch hosted by MEA MOS E. Ahamed, and meetings with BJP supremos LK Advani and Jaswant Singh. The meetings show the value India is placing [...] | 2006-05-12 10:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS ECON IN PK |
06NEWDELHI3307 | FRESH CHARGE AGAINST EMI PRESIDENT FALLS FLAT [...] (C) Summary: Emmanuel Ministries International's (EMI) President Samuel Thomas told Poloff on May 11 that the court struck down charges of sedition brought by the Rajasthan government on May 10. He noted that the charges were filed under Section 124 of the Indian Penal Code for having a map o [...] | 2006-05-12 11:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM SCUL CASC IN |
06NEWDELHI3313 | PARLIAMENT SET TO DEBATE THE UPA'S PRO-AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary: The UPA's pro-American foreign policy could come under intense criticism from both the Left Front (LF) and the BJP during the current parliamentary session that began May 10. The Communists, energized by victories in the just-concluded state assembly elections, will take a hosti [...] | 2006-05-12 11:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MNUC KNNP PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI3382 | GOI FAVORS NEPAL CEASE-FIRE MONITORING UNDER UN [...] (C) Summary: Noting that that India does not want to be unilaterally involved in maintaining the peace in Nepal, MEA Under Secretary (Nepal) Manish Gupta indicated on May 16 that the GOI would not oppose UN involvement in monitoring the cease-fire between the Maoists and Government of Nepal. [...] | 2006-05-16 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AORC ECON EPET MASS KDEM IN NP |
06NEWDELHI3417 | BIO NOTES: THE (PAKISTANI) AMBASSADORS AKRAM [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan High Commission (New Delhi) Counselor Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, a frequent Poloff interlocutor, shared with Poloff his impressions of Pakistani Ambassadors Munir and Zamir Akram. Qazi worked for Munir for five years in Geneva (probably 1995-2000),and for Zamir for se [...] | 2006-05-17 09:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IN PK NP SZ |
06NEWDELHI3433 | POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT TO NEPAL VITAL, [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for G, IO and USUN. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) Summary: The international community needs to provide full diplomatic and political support to the Government of Nepal (GON) and be ready to provide aid when requested, MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Sa [...] | 2006-05-18 06:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER AORC ECON EPET MASS KDEM IN NP |
06NEWDELHI3466 | WHY IT'S TOUGH FOR INDIA TO CLIMB DOWN FROM SIACHEN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-18 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | IN MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
06NEWDELHI3471 | CONGRESS SHOOTS ITSELF BY REVIVING THE CASTE QUOTA [...] (C) Summary. The Congress party needlessly set off a political firestorm by proposing a bill to add a 27 percent quota for "other backward castes (OBCs)" in public higher education institutions. OBCs are castes that do not face traditional discrimination but have been determined to be "econo [...] | 2006-05-18 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO IN |
06NEWDELHI3499 | SARAN ARGUES FOR PRESSURE ON MAOISTS, CRITICIZES [...] (U) This is an action request for SCA and USUN. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Foreign Secretary Saran used a May 19 meeting with the Ambassador (other topics septel) to explain India's concern about the current UN Secretariat approach to Nepal and to appeal for US engagement with the UN to ens [...] | 2006-05-19 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC MOPS NP IN |
06NEWDELHI3506 | AN INDIAN ROGUE'S GALLERY ENTERTAINS A PAKISTANI TALIBAN APOLOGIST [...] (C) Pakistani hard-liner and Taliban advocate Fazlur Rahman visited India from May 15-19. During his visit, he was guest of honor at a Delhi reception hosted by the Deobandi Political organization Jamiat-i-Ulama-i-Hind (JuH),that we steered well clear of. The JuH failed to convince most promine [...] | 2006-05-19 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PTER SCUL IN PK AF |
06NEWDELHI3546 | INDIA WELCOMES FORMATION OF NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (U) In a welcome sign of leadership, India today issued a statement welcoming the formation of the new Iraqi government. See para 4 for complete text. 2. (C) PolCouns spoke May 22 to Indian Middle East envoy Ambassador Chinmaya Garekhan to deliver the points in Reftel. Garekhan said the GO [...] | 2006-05-22 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EPET ENRG KISL IZ IN |
06NEWDELHI3548 | RAJASTHAN GOVERNOR REFUSES TO SIGN ANTI-CONVERSION BILL [...] (C) Summary: On May 19, Rajasthan Governor Pratibha Patil unexpectedly refused to sign Rajasthan's controversial anti-conversion bill (Ref C),instead sending it back to the state cabinet based on concerns that it is unconstitutional. The cabinet must now present arguments to the Governor that wou [...] | 2006-05-22 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI3549 | AGAINST BACKDROP OF KASHMIR TERROR, HURRIYAT [...] Summary: Terrorists killed seven and injured scores more in a spectacular mid-day May 21 attack on a Congress party rally in downtown Srinagar. The next day, even as more grenades exploded in Srinagar, the peaceful separatist All Party Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Omar Farooq rejected [...] | 2006-05-22 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI356 | LUCKNOW'S SHIAS UPBEAT ON U.S. OPPOSE TERRORISM, [...] (C) Summary: Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders emphasized to Poloff during his January 14-16 visit to Lucknow that the overwhelming majority of India's Shias oppose Islamic terrorism (much of which has been directed against Shias) and want India to cultivate close relations with the US. Leaders [...] | 2006-01-18 11:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IZ PK |
06NEWDELHI3580 | BHUTANESE REFUGEES ON BACKBURNER BUT NOT [...] (C) In light of the turmoil in Nepal, the GOI has not recently discussed the refugee situation with the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB),MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran told visiting PDAS Camp and PolCouns in a May 17 meeting. Saran indicated that he would visit Bhutan during the [...] | 2006-05-23 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM IN BT NP |
06NEWDELHI3582 | INDIA SEEKS TO PROTECT POSTAL SERVICES FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: Communist labor unions boast 600,000 members in the public sector postal department and the UPA government cannot remain in power without Communist support. In a demonstration of the fetters that the Communists can maintain over UPA economic policy, the Congress-dominated UPA [...] | 2006-05-23 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ELAB PGOV EINV PREL EFIN ETRD IN |
06NEWDELHI3583 | CONGRESS FARES BADLY IN SPECIAL SESSION OF [...] (C) Summary. Congress ineptitude and a predilection for scoring "own goals" on domestic policy turned what should have been a routine wrap-up session of Parliament into an embarrassment for the UPA that has left the Prime Minister's political stock in the doldrums. Congress convened the May [...] | 2006-05-23 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PARM MNUC ENRG PINR MARR IN |
06NEWDELHI3586 | INDIA WILL CONSIDER ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director for the Gulf Manohar Ram was noncommittal about the message in Ref (A) demarche, but was receptive to suggestions that India provide training to the Iraqi Parliament, renew Ind [...] | 2006-05-23 13:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ IN |
06NEWDELHI3665 | INDIANS MINDFUL OF IRANIAN MISCHIEF AT NAM [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for the Americas Dr. Jaishankar on May 25. After Charge walked him through the demarche and noted Washington's keen interest in India's views in light of the US-India civil nuclear energy agreement, Jaishanka [...] | 2006-05-25 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KNNP AORC IAEA PARM IR IN |
06NEWDELHI3667 | UN REFORM DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-25 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AMGT AORC UNGA IN |
06NEWDELHI3668 | UN REFORM DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche expressing concern about the NAM line on UN reform to MEA Joint Secretary (UN/Political) Sanjiv Arora on May 25, hours before his departure for Kuala Lumpur. Arora was familiar with the issues, having covered some of the same ground (he said) in May 10 a [...] | 2006-05-25 13:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AMGT AORC UNGA IN |
06NEWDELHI369 | LUCKNOW'S SHIAS UPBEAT ON U.S., OPPOSE TERRORISM, [...] (C) Summary: Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders emphasized to Poloff during his January 14-16 visit to Lucknow that the overwhelming majority of India's Shias oppose Islamic terrorism (much of which has been directed against Shias) and want India to cultivate close relations with the US. Leaders [...] | 2006-01-18 13:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IZ PK |
06NEWDELHI370 | HAVING SURVIVED 2005, THE UPA WILL BE MORE [...] (C) Summary: Most political observers expect the Congress-led UPA government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to remain in power until the end of its term in 2009, although it is likely to proceed cautiously on economic liberalization and closer ties with the US out of fear of provoking its [...] | 2006-01-18 13:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM PINR KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI3730 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF [...] (U) This is an Action Request for EB and S/CT, please see Para 3. 2. (C) Poloff on May 4 delivered Reftel talking points to MEA Director (Americas) Gaitri Kumar, who accepted them without substantive comment. Econoff on May 5 delivered Reftel talking points to Finance Ministry, Departmen [...] | 2006-05-30 08:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC IN PK |
06NEWDELHI3755 | MEA QUESTIONS SYRIA DEMARCHE [...] (C) Acting PolCouns delivered ref A demarche to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar on May 30, and explained SIPDIS why a Syrian FM Walid Mu'allim visit -- if in fact true -- would undermine international efforts to isolate Syria and would be poorly viewed in Congress and the Admin [...] | 2006-05-30 12:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KISL IN SY |
06NEWDELHI3799 | THE PRESIDENT SENDS KEY UPA LEGISLATION BACK TO [...] (C) Summary: Although Parliament passed the "office of Profit Bill" on May 17 in a special session of Parliament, the President refused to sign it and sent it back for parliamentary reconsideration on May 30. The President is apparently concerned that the Bill could be inherently unconstitut [...] | 2006-05-31 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI3833 | INDIA WELCOMES NEW U.S. APPROACH ON IRAN, BUT IS [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. S. Jaishankar after NSA Narayanan remained unavailable throughout the day either to meet with or speak on the phone to the Ambassador. Jaishankar acknowledged our demarche's requests for Indian action, but made no further s [...] | 2006-06-01 13:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI3835 | TERRORISTS INCREASINGLY TARGETING HINDUS [...] (C) Summary: Recent terror attacks targeting Hindus could impact Indo-Pak rapprochement and spark religious tension. A foiled May 31 dawn attack on the hardline Hindu Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur that would likely have led to communal violence was averted because of [...] | 2006-06-01 13:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC KIRF IN PK |
06NEWDELHI3844 | MEA SAYS SYRIAN FM WILL NOT VISIT INDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-02 09:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KISL IN SY |
06NEWDELHI3873 | ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHIC NOTES ON PAKISTANI DIPLOMATS [...] (C) Summary: This message contains biographic reporting on two Pakistani diplomats currently serving to New Delhi -- a key posting for any Pakistani Foreign Service officer. The first, Counselor (Political) Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, will be of interest because of his meteoric rise through t [...] | 2006-06-05 10:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IN PK |
06NEWDELHI3880 | SCION'S DRUG OVERDOSE SHOCKS BJP [...] (C) Summary: On June 3, Rahul Mahajan, the son of recently murdered BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, was hospitalized following a suspected drug overdose. The family's private secretary, Bibek Maitra, who was with Rahul, died. On June SIPDIS 4, the private hospital treating Rahul claimed that [...] | 2006-06-05 11:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PTER PINR SNAR IN |
06NEWDELHI3882 | NAM DECLARATION ON IRAN: MEA SAYS GOI POSITION ON [...] (C) Summary: DCM delivered Ref A demarche on June 5, stressing USG concern that India agreed to such a one-sided and weak NAM statement regarding Iranian nuclear activity, and noting that sending mixed messages to Iran at this critical juncture is not productive. Minister of State for Exter [...] | 2006-06-05 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK IN IR AF |
06NEWDELHI3926 | GOI READOUT OF BRASILIA NSG MEETING POSITIVE [...] (C) Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told DCM on June 5 that the GOI's impression of the Nuclear Suppliers Groups (NSG) plenary in Brasilia was positive, noting that a number of countries' positions were more supportive than before. MEA Joint Secretary (Americans) S. Jaish [...] | 2006-06-06 11:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP PARM IN |
06NEWDELHI396 | ENERGY AND TRADE DOMINATE CODEL GILLMOR'S MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: A congressional delegation led by Congressman Gillmor (R-OH) held a wide-ranging discussion with Indian Members of Parliament at a meeting convened by the Indo-US Parliamentary Forum on January 13. Energy and trade dominated the session, with the Indian Parliamentarians stress [...] | 2006-01-19 14:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OVIP KNNP ENRG ECON ETRD IN PK |
06NEWDELHI4000 | LUCKNOW SHIAS CELEBRATE ZARQAWI'S DEMISE [...] (C) Summary: Indian Muslim reaction to the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi varied. In Lucknow, where there is a clear Shia majority, there were public celebrations, with most in the community jubilant. In the rest of India, however, Shias are a small minority and although privately happy, wer [...] | 2006-06-08 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL KPAO IN |
06NEWDELHI4005 | SIACHEN NOT IN DANGER OF BEING SOLVED, SAY OUR [...] (C) Summary: A Siachen deal during the May 23-24 talks in Delhi was never a slam dunk, according to Indian and Pakistani diplomats who were members of their respective countries' delegations. Although the atmospherics were excellent, rumors of a new formulation to break the logjam were just [...] | 2006-06-08 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MOPS PGOV PTER PBTS IN PK |
06NEWDELHI4061 | IRAN'S AMBASSADOR TO INDIA CONGRATULATES U.S. ON [...] (C) On June 9 Embassy New Delhi's Public Central Mailbox received an email message from S.Z. Yaghoubi, Iran's Ambassador to India, addressed directly to Ambassador Mulford. 2. (C) Begin text (Personal Message) Dear Colleague, Congratulations for getting rid of our common enemy who w [...] | 2006-06-09 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL IN IR |
06NEWDELHI4062 | THE COMMUNISTS ARE ON A ROLL AND LOADED FOR BEAR [...] (C) Summary: India's Communist parties were energized by their victories in the recently concluded state elections (Reftel A),and have been more rhetorically aggressive in their criticism of the UPA. While the Communists will be more ambitious in their confrontation, they remain unlikely t [...] | 2006-06-09 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR ECON EINV EFIN IN |
06NEWDELHI4100 | MEA POSITIVE ON ANTI-LTTE CONTACT GROUPS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-12 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN CE |
06NEWDELHI4169 | FS SARAN BRIEFS ON NEPAL PM VISIT [...] (C) Summary: The most important outcome from the June 5-9 visit of Nepalese Prime Minister G.P. Koirala to New Delhi was the GOI's expression of unconditional political support for the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the announcement of an economic aid package worth USD 210 million, in finite t [...] | 2006-06-14 11:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO ECON ENRG MASS IN NP |
06NEWDELHI4200 | CONGRESS ON THE DEFENSIVE WITHIN ITS COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Congress is feeling increasingly isolated, as regional parties nominally part of the UPA openly join BJP and Left Front (LF) protests against the recent petroleum product price hikes. The Prime Minister on June 7 asked the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MPNG),s Secretary [...] | 2006-06-15 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EINV EFIN ELAB EPET ENRG IN |
06NEWDELHI4202 | RUMORS OF A THIRD FRONT YET AGAIN MAKE THE ROUNDS [...] Summary: Congress MP and insider Rashid Alvi told us on June 12 that the party inner circle is concerned that untrustworthy regional allies could defect to the NDA and perhaps make a move to unseat the UPA before the next session of Parliament (currently scheduled for the third week in July). [...] | 2006-06-15 12:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL ECON EINV SCUL PREL IN |
06NEWDELHI4206 | INDIA SHARES OUR CONCERNS ABOUT DECLARATION ON [...] SUMMARY: A senior Indian official said India shared U.S. views on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, found the self-determination clauses unacceptable, and was not comfortable with the process by which the declaration had been framed, but would not be averse to an extension o [...] | 2006-06-15 14:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM AORC PREL IN |
06NEWDELHI4253 | LEFT PARTIES ISSUE UNFAVORABLE REPORT CARD TO UPA [...] (C) Summary: Further demonstrating the divisions in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA),(Reftels),Left parties made public a predictably unconstructive, damning, and backwards-looking "report card" of UPA performance on June 15. A group of left leaders, including Communist Party of Ind [...] | 2006-06-16 12:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EINV SCUL PREL ENRG EPET IN |
06NEWDELHI4254 | MEA AWAITING CENTRAL ASIAN ENERGY TRADE [...] (C) Summary: USAID South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/E) regional coordinator delivered ref A demarche to the GOI Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Eurasia Jaimini Bhagwati, who was generally supportive of all trade initiatives but cautious about the prospects [...] | 2006-06-16 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EINV ENRG EPET ETRD IN PGOV |
06NEWDELHI4255 | FOLLOW-UP WITH CERT-IN: COOPERATIVE APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff on June 6 revisited India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) for the third time, with SciCouns and EconOff accompanying. CERT-In is pursuing a multi-platform outreach program to cybersecurity experts in the public, private, and academic sectors. Although last [...] | 2006-06-16 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCIP TINT PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI4283 | BARAPIND EXTRADITION COMPLETE [...] (SBU) At DRL's request, PolOffs witnessed immigration officials admit Kulbir Singh Barapind to India at Indira Gandhi International Airport on June 18, and his hand over to officers of the Punjab Police Force. Barapind told PolOff that he had been well cared for, was not concerned for his sa [...] | 2006-06-19 10:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI4334 | BARAPIND TRANSFERRED TO PUNJAB, REPORTED IN GOOD [...] (SBU) Extradited terrorism suspect Kulbir Singh Barapind has been transferred to police custody at the Phillaur Police Station in Punjab and is in "good condition," reported Barapind's Punjab-based lawyer Darshan Singh Dyal. Initial reports on June 19 from Barapind's brother, Balwant Singh, [...] | 2006-06-20 11:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI4336 | COMMUNISTS HOPE TO "CAPITALIZE" ON NAXALITE [...] (C) Summary: Communist ideologues view the resurgent Naxalite movement as a potential political windfall. Looking closely at events in Nepal, they have concluded that the Indian Naxalites could eventually reform, join the Indian mainstream and ally with the Communists. The non-Maoist Commu [...] | 2006-06-20 11:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI4369 | NEW KASHMIR BUS SAFELY LAUNCHED, BUT TERROR [...] (SBU) Summary: The second trans-LoC bus, connecting Poonch in J&K with Rawalkote in Pakistani Kashmir for the first time in 58 years, kicked off yesterday without a hitch or an attack. This bus may end up being more heavily used than the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route because more families are [...] | 2006-06-21 12:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PBTS SCUL ELTN IN PK |
06NEWDELHI4401 | BIOGRAPHIC NOTES: MEA ADDITIONAL SECRETARY KC SINGH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-22 11:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KNNP IN |
06NEWDELHI4405 | INDIA FAVORS PARALLEL DEMARCHE TO SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-22 12:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI4406 | BARAPIND SATISFIED WITH HIS CONDITIONS [...] (U) This is an action request for DRL. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Extradited terrorism suspect Kulbir Singh Barapind told PolOff and PolFSN that he has not been mistreated by the Punjab Police and is fully satisfied with the medical care the Punjab authorities are providing. H [...] | 2006-06-22 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM CJAN PTER PREL KCRM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI4432 | BIOGRAPHIC NOTES: MEA ADDITIONAL SECRETARY KC SINGH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-23 12:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KNNP IN |
06NEWDELHI4466 | MEA WILL NOT ATTEND BHUTANESE REFUGEE MEETING [...] (C) The GOI will not attend the proposed July 14 meeting in New York of the truncated Core Group on Bhutanese Refugees (Reftel),MEA Director (North) Vikas Swarup told PolOff on June 26. Swarup stated that the GOI would be interested in receiving a read-out of the meeting, but that due to "s [...] | 2006-06-26 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IN BT NP |
06NEWDELHI4588 | INDIA WALKED A FINE LINE ON IRAN AT THE SCO SUMMIT [...] (C) Indian Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora told the Ambassador June 28 that he had informal conversations with Iranian President Ahmedinejad 3-4 times at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, and while Ahmedinejad had been reserved due to India's IAEA votes against I [...] | 2006-06-29 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI4589 | UN MANAGEMENT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] A/Pol/Couns delivered reftel demarche regarding UN Management reform and UN spending cap on June 28 to Gaitri Kumar, MEA, Director (Americas) and to Ravi Shankar, MEA, Director for United Nations Political affairs. Neither had any substantive response. 2. (U) Visit New Delhi's Classif [...] | 2006-06-29 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IN IS PREL UNGA |
06NEWDELHI4605 | BIOGRAPHIC NOTES: MEA ADDITIONAL SECRETARY KC SINGH [...] (C) Summary: Additional Secretary (International Organizations) KC Singh's position combines several large MEA portfolios of USG interest, including the UN, nonproliferation, and counterterrorism. USG interlocutors over the past several months have had opportunities to interact with Singh in [...] | 2006-06-30 08:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KNNP IN |
06NEWDELHI4666 | POLITICAL PLAYERS PREPARE FOR BATTLE IN UTTAR [...] (C) Summary: Although the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Legislative Election is not scheduled until March 2007, campaigning has begun in earnest and is already deeply bitter and personal. The enmity between Congress and the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) is deep, with Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav th [...] | 2006-07-03 12:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL SCUL PREL IN |
06NEWDELHI4667 | STAGED ENCOUNTERS A BLEMISH ON INDIAN CT, LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: A review of Indian media would suggest that police, military and paramilitary officers have become expert at intercepting terrorists and at killing them in self-defense. Scratch the surface, however, and what lies underneath is an "encounter killing" -- an extrajudicial execut [...] | 2006-07-03 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM IN |
06NEWDELHI4702 | TERRORIST FINANCE: IIRO PRENOTIFICATION [...] (C) Poloff on July 3 delivered reftel talking points to MEA Director (Americas) Gaitri Kumar, who accepted them without substantive comment and promised to forward them to "the appropriate agencies." EconCouns on same day delivered talking points to Finance Ministry Joint Secretary (Departme [...] | 2006-07-05 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC IN |
06NEWDELHI4729 | GOI PRESSING MAOISTS TO FOREGO VIOLENCE, OPPOSES [...] (C) On July 5 Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran agreed with the Ambassador's assertion that the UN needs to play a role in Maoist disarmament and welcomed the Government of Nepal's (GON's) dispatch of a letter to this effect. Saran underlined the need for the Maoists to disarm. In a separate Ju [...] | 2006-07-06 11:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO ECON ENRG MASS IN NP |
06NEWDELHI4819 | PRIVATIZATION POLICY LEADS TO PRIME MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary: A relatively minor affair regarding the 10 per cent privatization of a public sector company in Tamil Nadu caused the UPA to suspend its entire privatization program (Septel),and the opposition BJP to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Singh. On July 7, New Delhi was a [...] | 2006-07-10 12:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR ECON EINV EFIN IN |
06NEWDELHI4824 | GOI STILL UNDECIDED IN UNSC VOTE BUT SEES [...] (C) The DCM used a July 7 meeting with Additional Secretary (International Organizations),K.C. Singh to probe SIPDIS how the GOI planned to vote in the upcoming election for the Group of Latin American Countries UN Security Council seat. Guatemala and Venezuela are the two candidates. Decl [...] | 2006-07-10 14:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KUNR PREL VE IN |
06NEWDELHI4825 | GOI STILL UNDECIDED IN UNSC VOTE BUT SEES [...] (C) The DCM used a July 7 meeting with Additional Secretary (International Organizations),K.C. Singh to probe SIPDIS how the GOI planned to vote in the upcoming election for the Group of Latin American Countries UN Security Council seat. Guatemala and Venezuela are the two candidates. Decl [...] | 2006-07-10 14:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KUNR PREL VE IN |
06NEWDELHI4826 | US/GOI COUNTER TERRORISM COOPERATION MAY SUFFER FROM ALLEGED SPY SCANDAL [...] (C) MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh used a July 7 meeting with the DCM to raise the recent Indian press allegations (primarily in the ""Indian Express"") that a US diplomat used our Cybersecurity Forum to recruit officers in India's National Security Council Secret [...] | 2006-07-10 14:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER KCIP PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI4827 | GOI AGREES WITH UN REFORM INITIATIVE IN PRINCIPLE [...] (C) The DCM used a July 7 meeting with MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh to warn SIPDIS (REF B) that India's obstinate role on UN reform was increasingly at odds with our emerging strategic partnership. The DCM presented ref A demarche and urged the Indians to reco [...] | 2006-07-10 14:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC KUNR IN |
06NEWDELHI4900 | GOI DECISION-MAKING, POST-MUMBAI BLASTS: WHAT TO [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of October's Diwali bombings in Delhi (Ref D),NSA Narayanan put us on notice that although that attack did not surpass the GOI's threshold for absorbing terrorism, he could not say definitively how close it came to crossing the line. His more recent warnings of [...] | 2006-07-12 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC PGOV ELNT IN PK |
06NEWDELHI4947 | INDIAN THINK TANKS STRESS NEED FOR UN INVOLVEMENT, [...] (C) Summary: Representatives from Delhi-based think tanks stressed to PolOffs on July 11 that proposed negotiations with the Maoists in Nepal will not be successful without UN involvement and a strong and united front by the country's political parties. The representatives also stressed their [...] | 2006-07-13 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO IN NP |
06NEWDELHI4948 | NERVOUS NORTH INDIAN MUSLIMS ANTICIPATE A POST [...] (C) Summary: The Mumbai attacks have focused attention on the fragile communal situation in the North Indian Hindi belt, most particularly in Uttar Pradesh (UP). Indian security agencies are warning that both the Students' Islamic Organization of India (SIMI) and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) have esta [...] | 2006-07-13 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KISL SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI4973 | CONGRESS PARTY THINKING ON PAKISTAN - POST MUMBAI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-14 11:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINR MOPS KISL IN PK |
06NEWDELHI4989 | TERROR ATTACKS IN INDIA LIKELY TO DAMAGE INDO-PAK [...] (C) Summary: In addition to the Prime Minister's public suggestion that Pakistan is behind the July 11 terror bombings, there is even stronger private Indian suspicion of a connection between Pakistan and the Mumbai terrorists. Indian media and conservative think-tanks are almost unanimous in [...] | 2006-07-14 14:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER IN |
06NEWDELHI5030 | PM SINGH BESIEGED BY MULTIPLE POLITICAL CRISES [...] (C) Summary: After weeks under fire over primarily domestic issues, the July 11 Mumbai and Srinagar attacks have added a foreign policy dimension to criticism of PM Singh's performance, which will spill over into the July 24 Parliament session. Manmohan Singh is under attack politically from [...] | 2006-07-18 10:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IN PK |
06NEWDELHI5035 | DALAI LAMA REPRESENTATIVE REQUESTS USG SUPPORT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dalai Lama Representative Tempa Tsering, delivered a letter to the charge' on July 17 requesting greater USG engagement with the Government of Nepal (GON) on the Tibetan refugee issue in light of increased pressure from China. He noted that the PRC will send Vice Foreign Minis [...] | 2006-07-18 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN PREF |
06NEWDELHI5036 | INDIA SUSPENDS PAKISTAN PEACE PROCESS INDEFINITELY [...] (C) Summary: The MEA and the Pakistani High Commission laid out their positions in separate meetings with Poloff on July 17 and 18. The GOI is convinced that Pakistan is behind the Mumbai bombings, but is not yet prepared to abandon the India/Pakistan peace process or to make clear public a [...] | 2006-07-18 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI5048 | IRANIANS CANCEL FOREIGN MINISTER MOTTAKI'S VISIT [...] (U) The GOI informed Poloff on July 19 that the Iranian Foreign Minister's visit to India will not take place on July 19 as announced, but will be rescheduled to a later, as yet undetermined, date. MEA Undersecretary Sherma (Iran) told Poloff that the Iranians canceled the planned meeting at [...] | 2006-07-19 08:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI512 | UNDERSECRETARY BURNS AND FS SARAN DISCUSS NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Saran reviewed ten potential deliverables for the SIPDIS President's visit during a January 20 working lunch. In a meeting later that day, U/S Burns stressed to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia that I [...] | 2006-01-25 05:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR PGOV PINR ENRG PHUM PTER SCOI IN |
06NEWDELHI5129 | AMBASSADOR CRUMPTON LETTER TO KC SINGH [...] (C) The condolence letter from Ambassador Crumpton to Ambassador K.C. Singh was delivered on 13 July. 2. (C) We received the following response dated 14 July on 19 July. Please advise if Ambassador Crumpton wishes to receive the original of the letter. "Dear Hank, Thank you very much f [...] | 2006-07-21 04:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | IN KCIP PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
06NEWDELHI5132 | PURPORTED "INDIA'S MOST WANTED" LIST EXPANDS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-21 06:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PINR KCRM IN PK |
06NEWDELHI5133 | WHY AL-QA'IDA WOULD HAVE DIFFICULTY GAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: We -- and many of our contacts -- are skeptical about the July 13 telephone claim by a man calling himself "al-Qa'ida's Kashmir spokesman Abu Hadeed" to Current News Service in Srinagar -- our J&K journalist contacts say terrorist groups regularly use CNS to distribute their me [...] | 2006-07-21 06:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL SCUL IN PK |
06NEWDELHI5135 | INDIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD: ADVISING [...] (C) Summary: The National Security Advisory Board -- populated by civilians, but supported by the GOI National Security Council Secretariat -- is a little-discussed institution designed to provide creative long-term assessments to the National Security Advisor, and through him to the Cabinet [...] | 2006-07-21 07:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI5136 | INDIA'S NSCS: PROFESSIONALS IN A "BUREAUCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: India's National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) was a little-known institution until a SIPDIS recent series of "Indian Express" articles alleged that several of its employees were involved in a spy ring (Ref A). From collating intelligence inputs to supporting National S [...] | 2006-07-21 07:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI5138 | STORM CLOUDS GATHERING OVER PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-21 10:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER ECON IN |
06NEWDELHI5238 | GOI BOLSTERING SECURITY FOR AFGHANISTAN ROAD [...] (C) On July 25, Poloff met with MEA Undersecretary Aquino Vimal (Afghanistan) to discuss current Indian aid programs in Afghanistan. Vimal confirmed that the GOI has sent additional federal police forces (Indo-Tibetan Border Patrol) in batches of 20-30 troops per month, to bolster security f [...] | 2006-07-26 08:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IN AF |
06NEWDELHI5239 | PURPORTED "INDIA'S MOST WANTED" LIST EXPANDS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue talks on Terrorism and Narcotics Trafficking on May 30 in Islamabad, Home Secretary VK Duggal and his Pakistani counterpart Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah exchanged their countries' "most wanted" lists of fugitives each capital seeks e [...] | 2006-07-26 08:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINR KCRM IN PK |
06NEWDELHI5266 | POLLING DATA SHOWS STRONG SUPPORT FOR SONIA GANDHI [...] (C) Summary: A poll commissioned by a leading Indian news network concluded that Sonia Gandhi remains India's most popular politician, with Manmohan Singh a distant third (after former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee). According to the results, Sonia Gandhi would enjoy solid majority sup [...] | 2006-07-27 06:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON KMDR KPAO IN |
06NEWDELHI5285 | THE CIVIL NUCLEAR INITIATIVE MOVES TO CENTER STAGE [...] (C) Summary: The U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Initiative has moved to the top of the agenda in Parliament. Both the Prime Minister and Minister of State for External Affairs tried to assuage angry MPs from the Left and the Right on July 26 and 27, with limited success. Despite the dramatic floo [...] | 2006-07-27 12:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PARM PINR TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
06NEWDELHI546 | POLLING DATA SHOWS THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF PM SINGH [...] (C) Summary: Despite domestic setbacks, two recent polls indicate that the Congress-dominated UPA remains popular with the Indian voter due to sustained economic growth, a popular foreign policy plank and the enduring appeal of the Congress Party and the Gandhi family brand. Congress Presiden [...] | 2006-01-25 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI547 | DEOBANDI MUSLIMS RENOUNCE THEIR LEADER'S [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, three Maulanas from the influential seminary at Deoband called on Poloff, renounced the anti-American statements made by Mahmood Madni, the General Secretary of the Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind - JUH (the political arm of Deobandi Islam) and distanced themselves from call [...] | 2006-01-25 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL OVIP PHUM PINR ASEC PTER SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI5470 | INDIAN MUSLIM RESENTMENT SMOLDERING OVER LEBANON AND GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Events in Lebanon and Gaza have attracted considerable attention in India, but are of particular concern to the country's 130 million Muslims. The Urdu press has treated Lebanon/Gaza events in great detail. Editorial opinion --some planted by Iranian agents-- is uniformly anti-Isra [...] | 2006-08-04 09:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KISL SCUL EINV IN |
06NEWDELHI5495 | A GARRULOUS SONIA GANDHI OPENS UP TO MARIA SHRIVER [...] (C) Summary: In a relaxed August 3 conversation with California first lady Maria Shriver, Sonia Gandhi revealed a rare glimpse of herself. Usually withdrawn and reserved in public, she spoke at great length and radiated confidence on women's' issues and some aspects of her private life. Mrs. Gandhi [...] | 2006-08-04 13:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SCUL KWMN PINS IN |
06NEWDELHI550 | GOI STUMPED ON ITS NEPAL POLICY [...] (C) Summary: New Delhi is trying to decide its next steps on Nepal, and hopes for more "clarity" in a few days, Joint Secretary Pankaj Saran said in a January 25 meeting with SIPDIS PolCouns and Poloffs. The GOI is committed to maintaining its current pro-democracy position (including the [...] | 2006-01-25 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MASS PTER ASEC IN NP |
06NEWDELHI553 | IRAN EAGER FOR INDIAN TIES, DELHI WORRIED ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told PolCouns and Poloffs on January 25 that India is worried about losing overland access to Afghanistan via Iran if its relations with Tehran sour further, but did not appear worried about the energy security impact of t [...] | 2006-01-25 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP EPET ELTN IR IN AF |
06NEWDELHI554 | MEA UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK DESPITE PUNDITS' NAYSAYING [...] (C) Summary: In a January 25 meeting with PolCouns, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha provided a positive read-out of the January 17-18 Third Round of the Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue talks, and of Indo-Pak relations generally, despite the pall cast by the cross-bo [...] | 2006-01-25 13:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ETRD ELTN MOPS KNNP IN PK |
06NEWDELHI5549 | SCA A/S BOUCHER MEETS WITH GOI CENTRAL ASIA CHIEF [...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher used an August 7 meeting with Minister of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Eurasia) Jaimini Bhagwati to brief on current U.S. SIPDIS relations with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and to probe India's relationships with Central Asia. Boucher specific [...] | 2006-08-08 11:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET PBTS TRGY OVIP IN KZ KG |
06NEWDELHI555 | GOI WILLING TO ENGAGE RGOB ON REFUGEES IN NEPAL, [...] (C) Summary: The GOI pressed Bhutanese Foreign Minister Wangchuk to find a solution to the refugee problem during his January 15 visit to New Delhi, Joint Secretary-North (Nepal-Bhutan) Pankaj Saran told us during a January 25 meeting. Acknowledging a direct GOI interest, he noted that Indi [...] | 2006-01-25 14:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM IN BT NP |
06NEWDELHI5558 | A/S BOUCHER PUSHES INDIA ON NAM, UN [...] (C) Summary. In an August 7 meeting with Indian MEA Joint Secretary (JS) Americas Dr. S. Jaishankar, A/S Boucher: SIPDIS -- urged India to use its influence in the upcoming Havana Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit as a positive force to curb attempts at unhelpful resolutions, such as supp [...] | 2006-08-08 12:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN IN |
06NEWDELHI556 | JEHADI TERRORISM STALKS INDIA'S TIES WITH AMERICA [...] (C) Summary: India enters the new year under the continued threat of jehadi terrorist attacks that could harm American interests and negatively affect Indo-Pak relations. The nature and scope of terrorist attacks launched by jehadi groups, particularly Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),ev [...] | 2006-01-25 14:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINR ASEC KISL IN PK |
06NEWDELHI5621 | TWO GRUMPY OLD MEN HIJACK NATIONAL POLITICS AND [...] (C) Summary: Two grumpy old men, Natwar Singh of Congress and Jaswant Singh of the BJP, have made unwise decisions that will likely end their political careers. Too proud to admit to poor judgment, both men have blamed Congress for their problems and taken the offensive. Ordinarily, their f [...] | 2006-08-11 11:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM EPET IN |
06NEWDELHI5692 | PM'S I-DAY SPEECH WARNS PAKISTAN, LAUNCHES 2007 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Amidst suffocating security due to the very severe terror threat, PM Singh's annual Independence-day speech delivered from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Old Delhi largely ignored foreign relations and needed structural economic reforms to focus on populist domestic issues, prim [...] | 2006-08-17 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL PTER PINR IN PK |
06NEWDELHI5738 | SRI LANKA: NEW DELHI STILL BELIEVES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Despite assessing the current situation in Sri Lanka as a stalemate, India has no plans to change its policy of pushing for a political solution. New Delhi continues to tell the SLA that it should not see war as an option. Public opinion and refugee inflows into Tamil Nadu are seen as [...] | 2006-08-18 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CE IN |
06NEWDELHI5798 | INDIA STILL UNDECIDED ON ENHANCED UNIFIL [...] (C) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) UN Political (UNP) Division, in charge of India's UNIFIL portfolio, reported that as of August 21 the GOI has still not decided on a contribution to an enhanced UNIFIL mission. UNP Under Secretary Manish confirmed senior level officials from MEA, S [...] | 2006-08-21 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS KPAL IN |
06NEWDELHI5801 | SRI LANKANS SEEK MORE INDIAN INVOLVEMENT [...] (C) Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner A. Sabarulla Khan delivered an Aide Memoire to Acting PolCouns August 21, using the occasion to mention that the same note had been recently delivered to the GOI and that MEA Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar received it positively and endorsed the notion of formin [...] | 2006-08-21 13:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS CE IN |
06NEWDELHI583 | GOI PROMISES MILITARY SUPPORT TO SRI LANKA AND [...] (C) Summary: During U/S Burns' January 21 consultations on regional issues, the GOI relayed its concerns over the increasingly possible return to war in Sri Lanka and the conflict between the need for Iranian gas and the looming crisis over Tehran's nuclear program. Indian Foreign Secretary [...] | 2006-01-27 08:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MOPS ENRG EPET IR CE IN |
06NEWDELHI5929 | IRANIAN FM SAFARI TO VISIT INDIA AUGUST 28 [...] (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Under Secretary for Iran Anil Sharma confirmed Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari will visit India beginning August 28. Stressing this is not a replacement for the canceled FM Mottaki visit of July 19, Sharma noted the visit materialized quickly [...] | 2006-08-25 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP EPET IAEA IR IN |
06NEWDELHI5962 | BIODATA: DIXIT, SHEILA (DELHI CHIEF MINISTER) [...] (C) Chief Minister, Sheila Dixit has been the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. Her second term began in December 2003. Dixit is a Punjabi Hindu, a dominant political bloc in the capital, has remained close to the Gandhi dynasty, and remains a key political advisor to Congress Party Presid [...] | 2006-08-28 11:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL KWMN IN |
06NEWDELHI6085 | IRANIAN DFM SAFARI FINDS LITTLE LOVE IN NEW DELHI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-31 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KNNP ENRG EPET KISL IR IN |
06NEWDELHI6086 | PROGRESS ON MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH GOI; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 30 meeting the GOI revealed that it currently has no Missile Defense capabilities - at least none it is willing to share - yet wants to pursue further R&D cooperation with the U.S. India will participate in the September 18-19 multinational BMD conference in London, [...] | 2006-08-31 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR PINS MARR MASS MCAP KSTC IN |
06NEWDELHI613 | POLITICAL CHALLENGES COMPLICATE AND DIVERT [...] (C) Summary: Several simmering political developments have come to a head in the past few weeks, diverting some of the GOI's attention from foreign policy issues such as Iran, the US-India civil-nuclear agreement and the POTUS visit. The January 24 ruling by India's Supreme Court that the UPA dis [...] | 2006-01-27 11:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI6133 | THE PM PICKS A WINNER: SHIV SHANKAR MENON TO BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 31 announcement that seasoned diplomat Shiv Shankar Menon will succeed Shyam Saran as Foreign Secretary with Saran moving to a newly-created post as the PM's Special Envoy for the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal represents not only a domestic coup for PM Singh, but also bod [...] | 2006-09-01 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI6230 | NSA NARAYANAN SUGGESTS SARAN-BURNS MEETING AS [...] (C) Summary. In a September 6 meeting with National Security Advisor Narayanan, Ambassador Mulford urged India to re-engage in negotiations on the 123 Agreement. Narayanan would not commit India to doing so, but offered as a sign of India's engagement to send Foreign Secretary Saran to meet [...] | 2006-09-06 15:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
06NEWDELHI6254 | G-8 SEEKS TO COORDINATE CT EFFORTS WITH INDIA [...] (U) Summary: G-8 officials met on August 31 to discuss joint efforts to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation with GOI in light of a rising trend in terrorist attacks in recent years. Most meeting participants stressed India's interest in gaining international cooperation against Pakist [...] | 2006-09-07 12:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KTFN EFIN IN RS |
06NEWDELHI6256 | CUBAN AMBASSADOR CLAIMS IRAN'S NUCLEAR ISSUES WILL [...] (SBU) Cuban Ambassador to India, H.E. Juan Carretero, told a Delhi think tank discussion group that Iran's right to continue its nuclear program will not be discussed at the NAM Summit, as "NAM does not entertain individual countries' issues except for the question of Palestine and Israel's r [...] | 2006-09-07 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI6298 | INDIA'S ROLE IN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT: [...] (C) SUMMARY: India may attempt to transform its role to that of a "bridge power" between the developed North and the impoverished South during the upcoming NAM Summit in Havana. In the context of considerable public and internal GOI debate about the utility of NAM and India's proper place in t [...] | 2006-09-08 13:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON ECIN IN |
06NEWDELHI6320 | MEA STILL CAUTIOUSLY POSITIVE ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary. MEA North Division Joint Secretary Pankaj Saran told PolCouns: -- in his analysis, the desire for success in Nepal's peace process "is overwhelming;" -- India continues to see eye-to-eye with the U.S. on key issues regarding Nepal; -- the Seven-Party Alliance must appear s [...] | 2006-09-11 10:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MARR NP IN |
06NEWDELHI6409 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SASHASTRA SEEMA [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and CS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),New Delhi on September 8 [...] | 2006-09-14 06:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI6423 | LEBANON DEMARCHE: GOI FIRM ON PEACEKEEPING VERSUS [...] (C) PolOff delivered Ref A demarche on September 12 to MEA's West Asia and North Africa (WANA) Division Deputy Secretary N.J. Gangte, who said that the GOI has already SIPDIS pledged humanitarian aid and will continue to administer it. He confirmed that the GOI is supportive of the long-ter [...] | 2006-09-14 10:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IS LE IN AORC |
06NEWDELHI6431 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: AERONAUTICAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and CS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA),Bangalor [...] | 2006-09-14 11:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI6504 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D),N [...] | 2006-09-18 12:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI6511 | INDIAN PUBLIC RESPONDING POSITIVELY TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-19 05:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI6520 | INDIA, US "CONVERGE" ON SRI LANKA, LESS ON [...] (C) Summary. In a September 18 courtesy call, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar told PolCouns: -- India and the U.S. have a "broad convergence" of interests on Sri Lanka; -- India continues to tell the GSL that there can be no military solution to the conflict, [...] | 2006-09-19 10:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM CE BG IN |
06NEWDELHI6523 | KASHMIR: POLICE REPORT TERRORIST INFILTRATION [...] (S) Summary: Military leaders in India sounded an ominous warning last week, just as Prime Minister Singh was leaving for his meeting with Pakistani President Musharraf in Havana, that terrorist infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir had risen sharply this year. Like many similar press releases [...] | 2006-09-19 11:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI6527 | EMBASSY, INDIAN EXPERTS COORDINATE ON NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over Sep. 18th and 19th, PolCouns led a round-table on Nepal and met with leading Indian Nepal experts with the objective of enhancing our ability to coordinate with India on Nepal. From these meetings, it appears that two camps exist within India's policy making elite on prosp [...] | 2006-09-19 14:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KDEM NP IN |
06NEWDELHI6568 | READOUT ON FRANCE-INDIA SECURITY TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During visits to France in early September by Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Advisor Narayanan, Indian officials confided that they are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. On Middle East issues, France and India agreed that the GOI [...] | 2006-09-21 07:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | AF FR IN IR KNNP LE MNUC PA PARM PGOV PINR |
06NEWDELHI6583 | DELHI STRIKES: 4 DEAD; CONGRESS LEADERSHIP [...] (U) On September 20, four people died in clashes between police and protesters during a "bandh," or general strike the Trader's Association ordered in Delhi. The Trader's Association ordered the strikes in response to action taken by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to fulfill a Supreme Cou [...] | 2006-09-21 12:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ELAB IN |
06NEWDELHI659 | FS SARAN DISMISSES ANONYMOUS PRESS CLAIMS THAT [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Saran dismissed anonymously-sourced press reports that India would abstain in the upcoming February 2 IAEA BOG vote on Iran (other topics reported septel) when he met the Ambassador on January 30. Saran showed surprise when the Ambassador described the Reuters report in [...] | 2006-01-30 13:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PREL ENRG EPET IR IN |
06NEWDELHI6622 | SECOND SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) PolOff Delivered demarche (reftel) to MEA Deputy Secretary for UN Economics and Social T. Armstrong Changsan, SIPDIS who noted the MEA had seen U.S. comments on the issue and said they were "similar" to what the GOI was thinking. Changsan promised to provide a formal response after cons [...] | 2006-09-22 12:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UN IN |
06NEWDELHI6647 | KASHMIR: SELF RULE, SOFT BORDER SOLUTION GAINING [...] (S) Summary: Indian government responses to Musharraf's recent book, in which he discussed a four part solution to the Kashmir issue, are likely to be harsh publicly, and targeted for domestic consumption. However, journalists with access to the Prime Minister's office say the proposal is ve [...] | 2006-09-25 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI6711 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (U) PolOff delivered demarche (reftel) to MEA United Nations Economics and Social Deputy Secretary T. Armstrong Changsan on Sep. 26. Changsan had no substantive response. Post notes that the GOI normally refers UN Human Rights Council matters to its UN mission in New York. MULFORD [...] | 2006-09-27 09:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL IN |
06NEWDELHI6737 | INDIAN PM FACING OUTCRY AGAINST ANTI-TERROR PLAN [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Singh has come under fire in India for his agreement with Pakistan to combat terrorism jointly. Opposition BJP leaders and hardliners in PM Singh's own party and India's security establishment have unleashed a barrage of statements criticizing the agreement. They [...] | 2006-09-27 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI6766 | "PRAGMATIC" MAOISTS GETTING CLOSER TO KOIRALA? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepalese Maoists are getting closer to PM Koirala, according to Sudhindra Bhadoria of the left-leaning New Delhi-based South Asian Forum for People's Inititatives, because they are pragmatists who are not "hard and fast" on the issues of arms and the role of the monarchy in the fu [...] | 2006-09-28 12:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS KDEM PK NE IN |
06NEWDELHI6807 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: DIRECTORATE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. BIS requested a PSV on Directorate General of EME (EME),Master General of Ordnance Branch, Integrated HQ of Ministry of Defence (Army),DHQ PO, New Delhi 110011. E [...] | 2006-09-29 11:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI6841 | INDIA ACCUSES PAKISTANI INTELLIGENCE OF DIRECTING [...] (S) Summary: India's new Foreign Secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon, struck out at Pakistan on October 1 in his first few hours in office, backing Mumbai police claims to have hard evidence that Pakistani intelligence was behind the July 11 bombings in Mumbai. Menon further tied the success of the [...] | 2006-10-03 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN |
06NEWDELHI6886 | PRIME MINISTER COUP IN POLITICAL BATTLE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-05 08:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PINR SOCI IN |
06NEWDELHI6913 | THE COMMUNISTS AND CONGRESS SPAR OVER THE INDO/US [...] (C) In its September 12-13 Central Committee meeting the CPI(M) leadership assailed the UPA government's relationship with the US, accusing it of sacrificing Indian autonomy and taking dictation from Washington on foreign policy and economic issues. The CPI(M) pledged to continue agitating [...] | 2006-10-05 12:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET MARR MASS PGOV PREL IN PK |
06NEWDELHI6926 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: INDIA [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. BIS requested a PSV on India Meteorological Department (IMD),New Delhi, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, GOI. IMD was listed as the Ultimate Consignee [...] | 2006-10-06 09:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI6980 | INDIA CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel demarche to MEA Acting Joint Secretary (Americas) at OOB October 10. Polcouns also delivered demarche to Joint Secretary (East Asia) Ashok Kantha, who cited India's strong statement condemning the DPRK nuclear test. 2. (C) Early on October 9, DepPolCou [...] | 2006-10-10 11:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IN KN |
06NEWDELHI699 | INDIANS SEEK FRENCH CIVIL NUCLEAR DEAL, BUT THE [...] (C) Summary: As part of the preparations for Jacques Chirac's February 19-20 trip to India, Special Representative of the President Maurice Gourdault-Montagne visited New Delhi on January 27 for the fifteenth round of strategic dialogue focused on fleshing out the details of a France-India Civ [...] | 2006-01-31 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC ENRG MASS FR IN |
06NEWDELHI7005 | HIGH STAKES FOR INDIA IN NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: India's stakes in Nepal are high, yet, of all its neighbors, Nepal is the easiest to manage, according to MEA Americas Director Santosh Jha. Jha said the Maoists are long on guns, but short on strategy. They have created an "aura" of support, said Jha, but would be exposed in e [...] | 2006-10-11 10:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM NE IN |
06NEWDELHI7006 | STRONG ANTI-INCUMBENCY TREND EVIDENT IN WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: The bellwether state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) faces an election in February 2007 that could see the current Samajwadi Party (SP) government ousted and the assumption to power of a coalition government with Congress participation. Such a development would enhance political stability [...] | 2006-10-11 12:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL ECON EAGR KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI7095 | INDIA'S SRI LANKA POLICY DESCRIBED AS DECISIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 27 September roundtable discussion on India-Sri Lanka relations, the consensus among prominent journalists and think-tankers was that the GOI should pursue a Track II dialogue with the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) in three phases: achieve a sustainable cease-fire agreement [...] | 2006-10-16 01:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN CE |
06NEWDELHI7098 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: CENTRE FOR [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at the Centre for Development of Advanced computing ( [...] | 2006-10-16 06:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI7106 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: OIL AND NATURAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Kavita Vijh conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC),Kolkata, on [...] | 2006-10-16 09:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI7118 | FY07 SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL: NEW DELHI RECOMMENDS [...] (SBU) Embassy New Delhi's Political, Defense Attache, and Defense Cooperation offices evaluated reftel request for FY07 Section 1206 proposals and concur that the USG should not transfer assistance to India at this time. This evaluation is made in the context of India's current military capab [...] | 2006-10-16 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS IN |
06NEWDELHI7126 | INDIA OPEN TO GPOI IN GENERAL; NOT READY FOR FULL [...] (C) Summary. In response to reftel demarche conveying U.S. interest in a partnership with India on the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI),on October 12 the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for United Nations-Political (UNP),Sanjiv Arora, told Poloff and visiting PAC [...] | 2006-10-16 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI7130 | UNSCR 1718 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Political Counselor delivered reftel talking points October 14 to the Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for the Americas S. Jaishankar and MEA Joint SIPDIS Secretary for East Asia Ashok Kantha, neither of whom had any SIPDIS substantive response. PYATT [...] | 2006-10-17 04:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP KN PARM IN |
06NEWDELHI7153 | CONGRESS AT THE HALF WAY MARK - MORE CONFIDENT [...] (C) Summary. At the halfway mark of the United People's Alliance (UPA) government, Congress Party Chief Ministers met late last month in Nainital to sort out internal issues. Congress emerged strong and confident, having patched-up feuds and solidified party support behind flagbearers PM Manmohan [...] | 2006-10-17 12:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAGR PINR PREL IN |
06NEWDELHI7155 | MAOISTS UNWILLING TO SHARE, ACCORDING TO INDIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Ajai Sahni of the Institute for Conflict Management, warned that current peace talks will result in Nepal being handed over to the Maoists, who have no intention of sharing power. The Maoists are tactical negotiators who should not be underestimated, said Sahni. Describing [...] | 2006-10-18 04:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS KISL NP IN |
06NEWDELHI7205 | UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ASSURES GOI PEACE TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 17 visit to New Delhi, UN representative Ian Martin told GOI interlocutors that, although talks have stalled in Nepal, they have not completely broken down and he is optimistic the GON and Maoists will eventually resume negotiations, although he did not have a [...] | 2006-10-19 13:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NP UN IN |
06NEWDELHI7273 | KASHMIR: PENDING EXECUTION CAUSING STRIFE FOR CONGRESS NEW DELHI 00007273 001.2 OF 003 [...] (C) Summary. The Srinagar Valley erupted in protest during the first weeks of Ramazan when the Indian Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for Mohammad Afzal Guru, a convicted facilitator of the 2001 attacks on the Indian Parliament. The Indian President has granted Afzal's family a temporary re [...] | 2006-10-20 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI7274 | INDIA'S LATEST DEFENSE SCANDAL: FEW LONG-TERM [...] (C) Summary. Former NDA Defense Minister George Fernandes was accused on October 10 of receiving bribes in a 2000 defense procurement contract for Barak missiles from Israel. The scandal revived memories of last year's Denel affair, where a South African company was blacklisted and all outsta [...] | 2006-10-20 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS KCRM ECON IN |
06NEWDELHI7289 | INDIA,S CENTRAL ASIA EXPERTS HIGHLIGHT CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading Indian experts on Central Asia, Russia and China offered India,s perspective on South and Central Asia regional cooperation at a roundtable with PolOffs October 19. Participants identified Afghan security and ensuring a secular Central Asia as India,s priorities in the [...] | 2006-10-23 10:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI7304 | EMBASSY HOSTS ONE OF DELHI'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Mission India hosted its Iftar on October 18 in New Delhi. Now an annual event, this Mission Iftar is eagerly awaited by the Muslim community and has become one of the "must attend" Iftar parties during the fasting month of Ramzan. Influential Muslims attended from all over India. Man [...] | 2006-10-23 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SCUL KISL SOCI KPAO IN |
06NEWDELHI7305 | INDIA'S TAMIL-BASED PARTIES RELUCTANT TO EXPEND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Citing lingering ill feelings over the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the embarrassment caused by the hasty withdrawal of Indian peacekeeping force deployed to Sri Lanka from 1987-1990, and the unpredictability of the LTTE,leaders of Tamil Na [...] | 2006-10-23 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF IN CE |
06NEWDELHI7306 | MOD STRESSES NO IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary. Department of Defense Production Joint Secretary (Exports) Kiran Chadha told A/USTR Ambassador SIPDIS Hartwick in an October 20 meeting: -- the GOI is firm that there will be no changes in the immediate future to defense procurement procedures, despite the August 30 release [...] | 2006-10-23 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ECON ETRD IN |
06NEWDELHI7338 | PRANAB MUKHERJEE NAMED INDIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (C) After much delay, Prime Minister Singh named Pranab Kumar Mukherjee to fill the External Affairs Minster slot vacated by the departure of K. Natwar Singh in December 2005. PM Singh has been acting as MEA Minister since K. Natwar Singh's exit under a cloud for his alleged role in the oil f [...] | 2006-10-24 14:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV INR PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI7358 | A.K. ANTONY NAMED MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (U) In an October 23 cabinet reshuffle, President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam named Former Chief Minister of Kerala A.K. Antony Minister of Defense. See paragraphs 3-7 for biographical information on Antony. 2. (C) Our sources tell us that Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and PM Singh [...] | 2006-10-26 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI736 | BHUTANESE AMBASSADOR, CITING FEAR OF MAOISTS, [...] (C) The Government of Bhutan is focusing on Bhutan's constitutional process and may not have time to address the refugee issue, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering told PRM/A Director Rusch and Poloff on January 31. During the meeting, in which Rusch reiterated points in Ref. A, Tshering stated tha [...] | 2006-02-01 12:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM IN BT NP |
06NEWDELHI7402 | INDIA ASKING FOR VERIFICATION OF DEPORTEE [...] (C) Charge met on October 25th with Home Secretary V.S. Duggal to discuss India's ongoing unwillingness to issue travel documents for 188 Indian nationals, who do not possess passports or other documentation, and who have been detained in the US for deportation. Home Secretary Duggal said Ind [...] | 2006-10-27 11:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM CJAN IN |
06NEWDELHI7408 | MOD BRIEFS ON 2006 DEFENSE PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES [...] (U) Summary. In an October 24 briefing for the diplomatic corps and business community, officials from the Ministry of Defense, including then-Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt, Director General Shilabhadra Bannerjee, and Major General H. S. Sehgal explained the [...] | 2006-10-27 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD IN |
06NEWDELHI7442 | CABINET SHUFFLE GENERATES LITTLE EXCITEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary; The opposition BJP and de facto opposition Left parties (supporters of the UPA coalition),criticized the government's October 24 Cabinet shuffle. The BJP interpreted the move as confirming the overriding influence of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi over the Prime Ministe [...] | 2006-10-30 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI7466 | GOI ON THE SAME PAGE REGARDING SRI LANKA, MINOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: India's newly appointed Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee stated on October 30 that it is in India's interest to work with Bangladesh to curb terrorism. While monitoring Bangladesh's deteriorating security situation, Mukherjee noted the current political crisis is an "internal ma [...] | 2006-10-31 09:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN CE |
06NEWDELHI7514 | INDIA STRONGLY DENIES HOWITZER SALES TO BURMA, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy contacts have confirmed press reports that India has supplied Burma 105 mm Howitzers and associated equipment. However, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) denied that any such deals had transpired. India's rationale for supplying weapons to the junta is ostensibly [...] | 2006-11-02 07:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MARR BM IN |
06NEWDELHI7577 | DECADES OF CORRUPTION LEADS TO URBAN CHAOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since 1962, shopkeepers aided by corrupt civil servants in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have ignored New Delhi's Master plan and illegally constructed over 50,000 shops in residential zones. After residents, angered by the i [...] | 2006-11-03 12:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ECON EINV PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI7584 | INDIAN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR VIEWS DELAY IN [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met with National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan on November 3rd to discuss the status of the US-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative as well as terrorism and Indo-Pakistan relations (Septel). Narayanan downplayed concern about Indian public reaction if the leg [...] | 2006-11-03 15:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PARM TSPL ETTC ENRG KNNP IN |
06NEWDELHI7585 | NARAYANAN SEES PAKISTANI EFFORT TO BUILD TERRORIST [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador met with National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan to discuss counter-terrorism issues and the state of India-Pakistan relations ahead of the Foreign Secretary talks on November 14th and 15th. Narayanan warned that the recently thwarted terrorist attack in Mysore [...] | 2006-11-03 15:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI759 | U/S DOBRIANSKY DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN [...] (C) As part of the February 1 Global Issues Forum, U/S Dobriansky met with Foreign Secretary Saran to discuss initiatives to promote democracy and human rights with India, including presidential deliverables, the UN Deeocracy Fund and UN Human Rights Commission reform. U/S Dobriansky opened [...] | 2006-02-02 14:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC PHUM PTER AF HU JP IZ IN |
06NEWDELHI760 | INDIA NONCOMMITTAL ON IRAN, CURIOUS TO KNOW [...] (C) In a February 2 meeting with the Ambassador to deliver reftel points, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran refused to be drawn on Iran's IAEA BOG vote, although he noted the Secretary had spoken to Prime Minister Singh on February 1. SIPDIS Saran indicated the Chinese had already given India the EU-3 [...] | 2006-02-02 14:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP IAEA IR IN |
06NEWDELHI761 | INDO-US GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM REVIEWS PRM/TIP ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: A US delegation led by Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky discussed Bhutanese and Tibetan refugees, trafficking in persons, and forced labor with the Indian delegation headed by Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran at the Global Issues Forum in New Delhi [...] | 2006-02-03 03:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF ELAB PHUM IN NP BT |
06NEWDELHI7618 | ANTI-AMERICAN GROUPS USE SADDAM VERDICT TO SQUEEZE [...] (C) Summary: The GOI on November 5 issued a tepid response to the verdict and death sentence on Saddam Hussein that questioned the validity of the judicial process. This GOI response reflects the considerable pressure the Congress Party is facing from two key groups that it needs to remain [...] | 2006-11-06 15:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP PARM MNUC KISL KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI7629 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ISRO INERTIAL SYSTEMS UNIT, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at the ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU),Thiruvananthapuram, [...] | 2006-11-07 06:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI7635 | DEMARCHE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to convey U.S. interest in building support for five human rights country resolutions to be voted on during the UNGA Third Committee to MEA Deputy Secretary T. Armstrong Changsan (UN Economics and Social) on Nov. 7. Having just returned from New York, Cha [...] | 2006-11-07 10:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN IN |
06NEWDELHI7636 | DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING THE CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche requesting that the GOI oppose the annual Cuba Embargo Resolution at the UNGA to MEA Under Secretary Manish (UN Political) on Nov 7. He said that the GOI had taken note of our points, but was not prepared to offer a formal reply at this time. MULFORD [...] | 2006-11-07 10:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU IN |
06NEWDELHI7661 | NEW DEFENSE MINISTER ANTONY ASSURES AMBASSADOR OF [...] (C) Summary. In a courtesy call by the Ambassador, new Defense Minister A.K. Antony: -- emphasized the importance of concluding the civil nuclear cooperation agreement; -- said India is consciously seeking to expand its defense relationship with America; -- confirmed he will follow the [...] | 2006-11-08 07:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR IN |
06NEWDELHI7692 | DEMARCHE TO INDIA ON AMENDING THE CUBA EMBARGO [...] (U) PolOff delivered (reftel a) demarche requesting that the GOI support the Australian amendment to the annual Cuba Embargo Resolution at the UNGA to MEA Deputy Secretary Manish (UN Political) on Nov 8. He said that he would pass the information to his superiors at the MEA, but offered no su [...] | 2006-11-08 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU IN |
06NEWDELHI7723 | GOI NOT IN FAVOR OF COUNTRY SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) PolCouns delivered the points in reftel (a) to MEA Joint Secretary Manjeev Singh Puri (UN Economic and Social) on Nov. 9. Puri stated that the GOI is not in favor of country specific resolutions, noting that this would include any resolution specific to the United States. He said that th [...] | 2006-11-09 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UN UNHRC IN |
06NEWDELHI7725 | INDIA STILL TESTING THE WATERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent visit to Dushanbe, New Delhi PolOff met with MFA and Ministry of Energy officials and local diplomats to explore Indo-Tajik relations. Indian rehabilitation and construction efforts include a small hydropower project, construction of a tunnel, rehabilitation of the a [...] | 2006-11-09 13:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS ECIN ENRG SNAR TI IN |
06NEWDELHI7748 | BOUCHER DISCUSSES PAKISTAN, IRAN, AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Indian Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha on November 10th to discuss India's relations with Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Boucher emphasized the importance to the United States that India voice its conc [...] | 2006-11-13 08:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI7749 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: GUJARAT NARMADA VALLEY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd. (GNFC),Bhar [...] | 2006-11-13 08:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI7759 | BOUCHER DISCUSSES NUCLEAR TALKS, BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reflecting the rapid maturation and quickly broadening scope of US-India strategic coordination, visiting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Subramanyam Jaishankar discussed the o [...] | 2006-11-13 10:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI7762 | AN INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH COMMUNIST LEADER [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with PolCouns, CPI(M) leader and ideologue Sitaram Yechury expressed a desire to maintain regular relations with the Embassy. With a straight face, Yechury was adamant that good relations benefited both India and the US and had moved beyond the stage of [...] | 2006-11-13 11:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB PGOV PINR PREL IN BG NP SL |
06NEWDELHI7764 | BAD VIBES BEFORE HU JINTAO'S INDIA VISIT? [...] SUMMARY: (C) China's presidential visit to India may not culminate in any major breakthroughs in Sino-Indian relations. Despite Chinese claims that a momentous announcement will be made during President Hu's possible address to a joint session of the Indian Parliament on his upcoming visi [...] | 2006-11-14 01:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PBTS IN CH |
06NEWDELHI7783 | DEMARCHE TO INDIA ON INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION [...] (U) PolOffs delivered ref (A) diplomatic note on Oct. 31 to Ministry of External Affairs (Americas) Director Santosh Jha and again on Nov. 14 to MEA (UN Economic and Social) Under Secretary R. Masakui. Jha had no formal response to the diplomatic note. Masakui replied that it had been forwa [...] | 2006-11-14 12:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ILC UNGA UN IN |
06NEWDELHI7788 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MUNICIPAL CORPORATION [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh (MCC),Chandigarh, on N [...] | 2006-11-15 06:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI7797 | INDIA-PAKISTAN FOREIGN SECRETARIES RESUME DIALOGUE [...] (C) At their just concluded their meetings in New Delhi, Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries Shivshankar Menon and Riaz Mohammad Khan agreed to a fourth round of composite dialogue despite ongoing Indian concerns about continued terrorist attacks. Press reports said Indian Foreign Minis [...] | 2006-11-15 11:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI7802 | GOI NOT IN FAVOR OF COUNTRY SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) As stated in Ref A, the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs (UN Economic and Social),in his reply to Ref C demarche, responded that the Government of India (GOI) has informed high-level U.S. representatives many times that the GOI is not in favor of country specific resol [...] | 2006-11-15 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BO UNGA UN IN |
06NEWDELHI7824 | WHAT DO UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS MEAN FOR [...] (C) Summary: Uttar Pradesh (UP) is larger than most countries in the world and, with 80 MPs, has the largest Parliamentary delegation in the 545 seat Lok Sabha. For decades, the state has seen growing misrule by kleptocratic and caste-ridden regional parties, accompanied by increasing viole [...] | 2006-11-16 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI7827 | DELHI TRADERS BEND TO RULE OF LAW, FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY The long simmering crisis in Delhi surrounding the "sealing" of illegal businesses seems to be inching towards a dramatic conclusion. On November 6, the Supreme Court (SC) stuck by its earlier decision (reftels),denying a petition by traders seeiing relief and ordered the Municipa [...] | 2006-11-16 13:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV KJUS PHUM PREL PINR ASEC SCUL IN |
06NEWDELHI7852 | DEMARCHE TO INDIA ON NOVEMBER 17 EMERGENCY SPECIAL [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of External Affairs (UN Political) Manish, who had no formal response at the time, but indicated that he would inform his superiors and deliver the text of the resolution to them. MULFORD [...] | 2006-11-17 13:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS IN |
06NEWDELHI7870 | FS MENON TELLS USDP EDELMAN INDIA WILL EMPOWER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 15 November meeting with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, visiting Under Secretary of SIPDIS Defense for Policy, Eric Edelman, outlined the reorganization of the Department of Defense (DOD) Policy Office, noting the addition of an Assistant Secretary for all Asia incl [...] | 2006-11-20 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER MOPS IN |
06NEWDELHI7884 | U/S EDELMAN INFORMS DEFENSE SECRETARY DUTT AESA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-21 12:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP KSTC KOMC IN |
06NEWDELHI7885 | U/S EDELMAN AND DEFMIN ANTONY AGREE ON POSITIVE [...] (C) Summary. Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony told Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that his ministry assessed that the Defense Policy Group meeting had been a success, and that he anticipated further U.S.-India cooperation in the future, adding that on the whole the milit [...] | 2006-11-21 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP KSTC KOMC IN |
06NEWDELHI7886 | BOTH SIDES BULLISH ON U.S.-INDIA MIL-MIL TIES [...] (C) Summary. U.S.-India military-to-military ties - already growing rapidly - were given a fresh boost in back-to-back Defense Procurement and Production Group (DPPG) and Defense Policy Group (DPG) meetings in New Delhi during the week of November 12. In addition to the high-level networking [...] | 2006-11-21 12:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS ETTC KSTC KOMC IN |
06NEWDELHI7935 | IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI REACHES OUT TO PM SINGH, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first visit to India since becoming Foreign Minister, Iran's FM Mottaki invited PM Singh to Iran, discussed the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) natural gas pipeline, the proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) deal, the IAEA and Iran's nuclear program, Iraq and Afghanistan [...] | 2006-11-22 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ELTN ENRG KNNP KISL IR IN |
06NEWDELHI7937 | NEPALESE MAOIST SUPREMO PRACHANDA CONQUERS DELHI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepal's Maoist Chairman Prachanda made a splashy debut in New Delhi last week, addressing a leadership conference and sharing the stage with world leaders like Afghan President Karzai and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Prachanda criticized Stalin and Lenin, preached [...] | 2006-11-22 12:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI7942 | HU JINTAO'S VISIT TO INDIA: LOFTY WORDS BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 20-23 visit to India of Chinese President Hu Jintao, while not earth-shattering, appears to have concentrated on economic agreements through a "ten-pronged strategy" while downplaying contentious border disputes. The Joint Declaration announced on 21 November conta [...] | 2006-11-22 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD EINV MNUC PARM IN CH |
06NEWDELHI7954 | INDIA-PAKISTAN FOREIGN SECRETARIES LAUNCH COUNTER-TERROR JOINT MECHANISM, REVIEW SIACHEN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-22 14:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | IN KDEM KISL MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
06NEWDELHI7986 | BJP FLEXING ITS MUSCLES AGAIN ON TERRORISM, [...] (C) During the first three days of the Winter Session of Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flexed its muscles, galvanized its base and reinvigorated its role as an opposition party. On November 22, the BJP staged a massive demonstration in Delhi. Reports put attendance somewhere b [...] | 2006-11-27 07:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PINR KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI7997 | INDIA REBUILDING ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL [...] (S) Summary: In a November 24 conversation, Israeli DCM Yoed Magen described to us a renewed positive trend in India's relationship with Israel. Magen told the DCM that Israeli National Security Advisor Ilan Mizrachi is coming to Delhi from November 27th through 30th for a high level intell [...] | 2006-11-27 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
06NEWDELHI8003 | INDIA'S COMMUNIST PARTIES DEBATE HOW TO USE THEIR [...] (C) Summary: India's Left parties have a guaranteed niche in Indian politics and enjoy some advantages. India has the largest number of poor people of any country on earth, including many of the most exploited and oppressed populations found anywhere. These make a natural constituency for [...] | 2006-11-28 06:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON IN CH NP |
06NEWDELHI8017 | U/S EDELMAN INFORMS DEFENSE SECRETARY DUTT AESA [...] (U) This cable replaces New Delhi 7884, to reflect changes made in the clearance process not included in the original. 2. (C) Summary. Undersecretary Eric Edelman told Indian Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt that the Department of Defense has concluded that the U.S. would be prepared to make [...] | 2006-11-29 03:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP KSTC KOMC IN |
06NEWDELHI802 | SEEKING GUIDANCE ON ENGAGING INDIA ON CCIT [...] (U) This is an Action Request for IO and S/CT -- see Para 3. 2. (C) Background: MEA Joint Secretary (UN/Political) Sanjiv Arora told us on February 2 that, following MEA's discussion with Ambassador Tahir-Kheli (Ref A),New Delhi approached the Saudi delegation on the Convention on Terro [...] | 2006-02-03 12:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KTIA IN SA |
06NEWDELHI8020 | NARAYANAN TELLS PISTOLE INDIA SEEKS TERRORIST [...] (S) Summary: In a frank November 27th discussion with FBI Deputy Director Pistole, National Security Advisor Narayanan explained that while the overall intelligence relationship had improved, the U.S. could only strengthen its counter-terrorism cooperation with India by sharing signals intell [...] | 2006-11-29 04:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN |
06NEWDELHI803 | UNPRECEDENTED INDIA VISIT BY SAUDI KING BOOSTS [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary Sanjay Singh told PolCouns and Poloff on February 2 that Saudi King Abdullah's January 25-28 New Delhi visit - the first in 50 years by a Saudi monarch - was a great success, and far broader in scope than was reported in the media. The visit highlighted energy [...] | 2006-02-03 14:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ETTC PTER UNGA IN SA PK IR IS |
06NEWDELHI804 | KASHMIRI POLITICS AS FILTHY AS DAL LAKE [...] (C) Summary. The GOI recently broadened its Kashmir dialogue by holding several public and private meetings with non-Hurriyat leaders. These discussions are intended to broaden the GOI's set of separatist interlocutors beyond the Hurriyat, while also conveying the GOI's displeasure at the Mi [...] | 2006-02-03 14:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL KCRM KISL MOPS ECON IN |
06NEWDELHI8042 | A COMMUNIST LEADER DISTANCES THE CPI(M) FROM CHINA [...] (C) Much of the press coverage of the recently concluded visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao commented on the frosty nature of the visit and depicted the nefarious role of the CPI(M) in working on behalf of Chinese interests in India. One of the most outspoken CPI(M) critics was DNA columnist [...] | 2006-11-29 11:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON IN CN |
06NEWDELHI8047 | GOI BRIEFING: ARMS MANAGEMENT IN NEPAL MUST BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiva Shankar Mukherjee presided over a November 28 briefing of the New Delhi diplomatic corps, with International Organizations Additional Secretary K.C. Singh also in attendance, to stress the need for speed in getting a team of UN monitors to observe [...] | 2006-11-30 01:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KDEM NP CH IN |
06NEWDELHI8067 | HU JINTAO FAILS TO COMMIT TO INDIAN RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: There are more questions than answers in the aftermath of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-23 visit to India - the first by a Chinese president in 10 years. While taking moderate strides on economic confidence-building measures, it appears that hopes for forward moveme [...] | 2006-11-30 12:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD EINV MNUC PARM IN CH |
06NEWDELHI8100 | INDIAN INTELLIGENTSIA IN A SEASON OF CRITICIZING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Indian intelligentsia has been harshly critical of late of the efficacy of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO),the organization responsible for designing and developing India's weapons systems. Government officials have chimed in, blaming the agency for [...] | 2006-12-01 12:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM IN |
06NEWDELHI8129 | INDIA'S MEA PROVIDES READOUT OF SRI LANKA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs' Joint Secretary responsible for Sri Lanka, Mr. Mohan Kumar, SIPDIS provided Polcouns with a readout of Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee's meeting with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Kumar said that Mukherjee hammered home [...] | 2006-12-04 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER KTIA MOPS IN CE |
06NEWDELHI8137 | PM SINGH VISIT TO JAPAN: TIME FOR THE U.S. TO SEIZE THE DAY ON CLOSER TRILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Singh will visit Tokyo December 13-16 as a follow-on to the ASEAN summit. He and PM Abe are expected to have a feel-good series of meetings, including talks on deepening the bilateral relationship, economic and cultural "deliverables," recognition of the expansion of I [...] | 2006-12-05 08:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KDEM JA IN |
06NEWDELHI8156 | RUMORS ABOUT BANGLADESH; MEA CONTINUES TO DENY AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Burma Sri Lanka, Maldives) Mohan Kumar informed PolCouns that rumors are rife in Dhaka that the U.S. wants neither Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League (AL),nor Khaleda Zia, head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),to win January's s [...] | 2006-12-05 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MASS PTER KISL IN BG |
06NEWDELHI8169 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: KRISHAK BHARTI COOPERATIVE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Krishak Bharati Co-operative Limited (Kribhco),Hazira, Sura [...] | 2006-12-06 05:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI8184 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ORDNANCE FACTORY KHAMARIA, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Ordnance Factory Khamaria (OFK),Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, o [...] | 2006-12-06 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI8185 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. BIS requested a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC),under the GOI's Department of Atomic Energy, website: www.barc.ernet.in. BARC was li [...] | 2006-12-06 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI8186 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: TERMINAL BALLISTICS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. BIS requested a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL),Defence Research Development Organization laboratory, Ministry of Defence ( [...] | 2006-12-06 11:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI8209 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NATIONAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. BIS requested a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI),website: www.ngri.org.in. NGRI was listed as the Ultimate Consigne [...] | 2006-12-07 09:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI8223 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ORDNANCE FACTORY DEHRADUN, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Embassy Science Officer (SO) Donald Brown and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Ordnance Factory Dehradun (OFD),Dehradun, Uttaranchal, on N [...] | 2006-12-08 07:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI8224 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: DEFENCE ELECTRONICS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Embassy Science Officer (SO) Donald Brown and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at the Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL),Dehr [...] | 2006-12-08 07:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD BEXP IN |
06NEWDELHI8243 | THE SACHAR REPORT DOCUMENTS THE DISMAL STATE OF [...] (C) Summary: In 2005, the UPA government established the Sachar Commission with a mandate to prepare a report on the current status of Indian Muslims. The report was completed on November 17, 2006 and was made public early in December. It asserts that Indian Muslims are among the poorest co [...] | 2006-12-08 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL ELAB ECON KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI8250 | S/CT DEPUTY COORDINATOR PALMER AND ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary. In a December 7 meeting, S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer and Ministry of External Affairs Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh discussed: -- Indian flexibility on dates for the next CTJWG, presumably in February; -- Pakistani-based terrorism, i [...] | 2006-12-08 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN |
06NEWDELHI8268 | U/S BURNS AND INDIAN DEFENSE SECRETARY DUTT [...] (C) Summary. In a December 8 meeting, Undersecretary Burns and Indian Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt discussed: -- the civil-nuclear cooperation initiative: U/S Burns briefed DS Dutt on the current status and assured Dutt that the final bill is fully consistent with the July 18 and March 2 [...] | 2006-12-11 10:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD IN |
06NEWDELHI8273 | BURNS AND MENON DISCUSS PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 7 U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue working lunch, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon discussed: -PAKISTAN: Menon said that the latest round of Foreign Secretary-level talks was productive, but Pakista [...] | 2006-12-11 12:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PARM PBTS IN PK |
06NEWDELHI8277 | JAISHANKAR'S POST GAME ANALYSIS OF U/S EDELMAN [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the DCM, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar provided his analysis of SIPDIS Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman's November visit. Agreeing that substantive developments occurred and the ability of both sides to work collaborati [...] | 2006-12-11 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS ETTC KSTC KOMC IN |
06NEWDELHI8278 | U/S BURNS MEETING WITH INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN [...] (C) Summary: On December 7, Under Secretary Burns and National Security Advisor Narayanan discussed the impending passage of the U.S-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Bill and hopes that a 123 Agreement could be implemented quickly. They agreed that after conclusion of the historic a [...] | 2006-12-11 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS IN |
06NEWDELHI8356 | HOME MINISTRY AGREES TO CLOSER COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an extremely collegial exchange, S/CT Deputy Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Virginia Palmer identified several areas for future counterterrorism (CT) cooperation in a Dec. 8 meeting with three senior Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) officials, who briefed her on the current [...] | 2006-12-15 01:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PARM KISL PK BG IN |
06NEWDELHI8373 | MOVING THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP FORWARD: PDAS MANN AND JOINT SECRETARIES JAISHANKAR AND KUMAR [...] (S) Summary: On December 13, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Steven Mann met SIPDIS with out-going MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar and his designated replacement Ms. Gyatri Kumar to follow-up on the progress made during Under Secretary Burns' [...] | 2006-12-15 08:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PINR EAGR MASS IN |
06NEWDELHI8387 | INDIAN COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERTS URGE GREATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Stay the course in Afghanistan," urged Indian counterterrorism experts in Dec. 7 meetings with visiting S/CT Deputy Director Virginia Palmer. Describing a need for the Karzai government to extend its writ beyond Kabul, for a national identity to improve morale, and for greater unity f [...] | 2006-12-18 06:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS KISL PK AF IN |
06NEWDELHI8419 | HINDI BELT MUSLIMS EAGER TO COMBAT POLIO BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The persistence of polio in Western Uttar Pradesh (UP) has been the subject of considerable media speculation and analysis, with much of the focus on the Muslim community. Poloff and POL FSN traveled to the area December 11-13 to gauge Muslim views on the subject. The near-u [...] | 2006-12-19 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI8424 | DEMARCHE TO INDIA ON UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-19 12:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA AMGT AORC IN |
06NEWDELHI843 | TSA TEXT DELIVERED; ACCEPTANCE LIKELY [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel text to MEA Deputy Secretary (Americas) Santosh Jha on February 6, who commented that the interested GOI agencies would likely agree to the proposed changes, and commence work on a Hindi translation. Post will follow up to confirm acceptance and translation. MULFO [...] | 2006-02-06 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSCA PREL TSPA IN |
06NEWDELHI8463 | CRUCIAL MUSLIM CONSTITUENCY SPLIT BEFORE IMPENDING [...] (C) Summary: The crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is facing an election in early 2007 that could displace the current Samajwadi Party (SP) government. Muslims have long been considered a crucial SP "vote bank." A December 11-13 trip to the Muslim dominated areas of Rampur, Moradabad and [...] | 2006-12-21 11:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI8469 | NEW DELHI DECLARES PM SINGH'S TOKYO "VERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan watchers in New Delhi regard PM Singh's Tokyo visit a success, one that achieved India's main goal of taking the relationship one level higher. Economic cooperation agreements highlighted the summit for the Indians, while political principles which had been established in [...] | 2006-12-22 01:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EQRD KNNP MARR JA IN |
06NEWDELHI85 | GOI ON UN REFORM PRIORITIES, LET DESIGNATION [...] (S) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff conveyed Ref B demarche on LET surrogates' terrorist designation to the MEA officials responsible for UN affairs. New Delhi remains hopeful that the CCIT will be completed soon, despite its disappointment at a failure to finish the text in 2005, and would like [...] | 2006-01-05 10:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER EFIN PHUM KUNR KDEM IN |
06NEWDELHI8518 | POINTS REGARDING UNSCR 1737 DELIVERED TO INDIA [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel points December 26 to Ministry of External Affairs (UN Political) Deputy Secretary Anish Kumar, who passed the non-paper to his superiors. On December 27, Kumar indicated that the proper authorities had seen the non-paper, but he gave no substantive response. MULF [...] | 2006-12-27 05:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KNNP IN |
06NEWDELHI8525 | POINTS REGARDING UNSCR 1737 DELIVERED TO INDIA [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel points December 26 to Ministry of External Affairs (UN Political) Deputy Secretary Anish Kumar, who passed the non-paper to his superiors. On December 27, Kumar indicated that the proper authorities had seen the non-paper, but he gave no substantive response. MULF [...] | 2006-12-27 08:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KNNP IN |
06NEWDELHI888 | CARTOON WARS: INDIAN MUSLIMS (BARELY) PROTEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Indian Muslim reaction to the controversy over publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper spilled out into the streets on February 6 in the form of a peaceful city-wide strike in Muslim-majority Srinagar, a student demonstration in New Delhi, and small [...] | 2006-02-07 13:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL ASEC OVIP KDEM SOCI IN IR DA |
06NEWDELHI889 | MEETING WITH INDIA'S CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF [...] (C) Summary: On February 3, the Ambassador, US Naval Attach, and the Navy Programs Officer from the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) met with Admiral Prakash, India's Chief of Naval Staff. The primary purpose of the meeting was to inform ADM Prakash that the Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft [...] | 2006-02-08 00:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ENRG MNNC ETTC IN IR |
06NEWDELHI948 | IRAN'S ANTI-US COLD WAR FALLS FLAT IN INDIA [...] (C) Summary. India's IAEA Iran vote, the Danish cartoons, and the POTUS visit are reverberating on the Indian political scene, provoking Indian Muslim leaders and activists to speak out. On the domestic front, however, the Congress-dominated UPA government has begun to act on the promises m [...] | 2006-02-08 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IAEA KNNP KISL KDEM SCUL IN IR IZ |
06NEWDELHI95 | GOI SEEKS PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP OF UN HRC [...] (U) This message contains an ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: MEA's UN Economic and Social division reiterated the GOI's support for the creation of the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC),and requested that the USG engage in a closer dialogue with New Delhi on UN reform [...] | 2006-01-05 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KUNR IN |
06NEWDELHI994 | AMBASSADORIAL ASSESSMENT OF BARAPIND EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) The MEA on February 7 sent Diplomatic Note T-413/11/2004 with reference to the requested extradition of Kulbir Singh Barapind (Ref A),along with the text of the relevant section of the Indian Penal Code. The Note outlines that persons extradited to India are protected by law from tort [...] | 2006-02-09 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN |
06NEWDELHI995 | WITH AN EYE ON CHINA, PRESIDENT KALAM TO "ENGAGE" [...] (C) Summary: Signaling GOI intentions to step up engagement with Rangoon despite its concerns about democracy, President Kalam will make a "goodwill visit" to Burma on March 8-10. This will be the highest level visit from India to Burma since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi traveled to Rangoon [...] | 2006-02-09 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR IN BM |
06NEWDELHI997 | WITH AN EYE ON CHINA, PRESIDENT KALAM TO "ENGAGE" [...] (C) Summary: Signaling GOI intentions to step up engagement with Rangoon despite its concerns about democracy, President Kalam will make a "goodwill visit" to Burma on March 8-10. This will be the highest level visit from India to Burma since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi traveled to Rangoon [...] | 2006-02-09 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR IN BM |
06NICOSIA356 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-09 15:27:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC CY |
06NICOSIA415 | DEMARCHE ON U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-20 15:23:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP IN PREL CY |
06OSLO276 | NORWAY SKEPTICAL ABOUT INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (C) On March 7 we delivered reftel points to Roald Naess, Ambassador and Chair of the Nuclear Suppliers Group Consultative Group (NSG) and Hilda Janne Skorpen, Assistant Director General at the MFA. Naess said that in his capacity as NSG chair he had "no particular views" on the points. Howev [...] | 2006-03-08 15:22:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PARM PREL IN NO KNNP KSCA SIPDIS |
06OSLO427 | NORWAY'S ROLE IN NEPAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-04 14:35:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PTER IN NP NO |
06OSLO543 | NORWAY'S DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SOLHEIM'S NEPAL VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-28 13:23:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PTER IN NP NO |
06OSLO553 | A/S BOUCHER'S MEETING WITH NORWEGIAN DFM JOHANSEN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-03 12:35:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PARM PREL IN PGOV PHUM PTER NP CE |
06PARIS1330 | CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...] | 2006-03-02 17:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR |
06PARIS1486 | CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...] | 2006-03-08 17:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR |
06PARIS1488 | SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Reftel points were delivered to French officials at the MFA and CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) who recommended to USG attention French President Chirac's immediate public statement in support of the U.S.-India agreement as well as his own visit to India a week prior to [...] | 2006-03-08 17:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA KNNP PREL ENRG PARM ETTC IN FR |
06PARIS4441 | U/S JOSPEH, U/S LEVEY JUNE 20 MEET WITH FRENCH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 20 meeting between U/S Joseph and Treasury U/S Levey and French Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye, a range of proliferation-related topics were covered, including the US-French-UK-German-Italian meeting later that day aimed at preliminary consultations regarding [...] | 2006-06-27 15:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM ETTC IR KN IN FR |
06PARIS4580 | FRENCH STILL CONSIDERING OSCE BID, BOUCHER TOLD [...] (C) SUMMARY. Concerned officials say they will tell Kazakh Foreign Minister Tokayev that Kazakhstan will have to meet higher standards if it wants to Chair the OSCE in 2009. But, they admit, the personal relationship between the two Presidents may carry the day. During other meetings in Pari [...] | 2006-07-03 15:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IEA OSCE PGOV ENRG ELAB ETTC TRGY ZK IN |
06PORTLOUIS752 | MAURITIUS DENIES PLAN TO CEDE AGALEGA ISLANDS TO INDIA, BUT ISSUE SHOWS MAURITIAN SUBORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: Mauritian officials deny any intention to cede Agalega islands to India, as alleged in an Indian newspaper report. They have said that India agreed to help with economic development and infrastructure improvement but they were unable to deny categorically that India has no ulterior mot [...] | 2006-12-15 08:26:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EPET PBTS ECON PHSA PINS IN MP IO |
06PRAGUE259 | CZECHS WELCOME INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL, ASK ABOUT [...] (C) A/DCM March 9 met with Czech MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil to solicit Czech support for the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative. Povejsil warmly welcomed the deal, congratulating the United States on successfully completing a difficult negotiation. He shared that the C [...] | 2006-03-13 06:55:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC EZ |
06PRAGUE46 | CZECHS IN ASIA: CONTINUED FOCUS ON CHINA, BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic plans active engagement with East and South Asia in the first half of 2006, with most attention focused on China. During a visit to Prague in December, the Chinese PM closed an investment agreement that, according to critics, noticeably favors Chinese interests [...] | 2006-01-13 18:04:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV EZ CH BM IN PK AF VM CB |
06PRETORIA4074 | INDIAN PM VISITING SOUTH AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Indian PM Singh will visit South Africa September 30 - October 3 to discuss political and economic issues, as well as to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence. South African President Mbeki hopes to deepen his political partners [...] | 2006-09-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG IN SF |
06RANGOON290 | MANDALAY: DIPLOMATIC VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: During an Embassy "Outreach Week in Mandalay" (ref A),the Charge called on the Indian and Chinese Consuls General to exchange views on local political and economic developments. Despite the close relationship that China and India enjoy with the Burmese regime, both Consuls need [...] | 2006-03-03 06:55:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD BM CM IN |
06RANGOON356 | ALL SMILES: INDIAN PRESIDENT VISITS BURMA [...] (C) Summary: For the second week in a row, a regional head of state visited Burma and allowed the ruling generals to bask in perceived legitimacy. Indian President Kalam's March 8-11 visit was the first-ever to Burma by an Indian head of state. The two countries concluded MOUs on petroleum [...] | 2006-03-16 06:43:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON EAID BM IN |
06RANGOON370 | CHIN STATE'S UNEASY COHABITATION WITH THE REGIME [...] (U) Summary. Burma's ethnic minority Chin population, long victims of the Burmese regime's "Myanmarization" program, has reached a stage of uneasy but peaceful cohabitation with ruling authorities in its home state. In underdeveloped Chin State along Burma's western border with India, ethnic [...] | 2006-03-20 08:54:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECON ETRD CVIS KFRD BM IN |
06RANGOON612 | BORDERS OVER DEMOCRACY: INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The Indian Ambassador dropped by May 4 to chat with Charge. He offered insights into how India views it relationship with Burma: by and large a friendly neighbor in comparison to Pakistan, Bangladesh, or China. While he agrees that political reform is needed and will come even [...] | 2006-05-05 11:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BM IN |
06ROME1585 | GOI INQUIRY REGARDING ITALIAN SATELLITE LAUNCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy requests Department assistance to follow up on several pending export license requests for U.S.-origin components for the Italian Space Agency's (ASI) AGILE scientific satellite mission, which ASI would like to launch from India in October. The Min [...] | 2006-05-24 11:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC TSPA KFPC ETRD IT IN |
06ROME1590 | ITALY: NEW UNDERSECRETARY TO THE PM CALLS [...] (C) Ambassador paid an introductory call May 23 on the new Undersecretary to the Prime Minister Enrico Letta (nephew of Berlusconi U/S Gianni Letta). Letta, a 1988 IV grantee and VP of Aspen Italy, has a very positive view of the U.S. and said he considers Italy's relationship with the U.S. e [...] | 2006-05-24 15:43:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PREL NATO MOPS IZ IN IT |
06ROME1770 | ITALY: MOI AMATO TALKS IMMIGRATION, IRAN, MIDDLE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and Senator George Allen met May 30 with Italy's new Minister of Interior Giuliano Amato. Allen thanked Amato for the GoI's excellent counter terrorism cooperation. Amato discussed Italy's problem with illegal aliens arriving from Libya, the challenge of containing Iran' [...] | 2006-06-15 10:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV UN IZ IN IT |
06ROME3350 | LARGEST-EVER INDIAN TRADE DELEGATION VISITS ITALY [...] The visit of a major Indian trade delegation highlighted Italian and Indian interest in increased trade. Bilateral trade reached 3.7 billion euro in the first nine months of 2006, on pace to set a new record. We believe Italy,s interest derives from its perennial bilateral trade deficit wit [...] | 2006-12-21 09:45:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV IN IT |
06ROME727 | ITALY TAKES A WAIT-AND-SEE APPROACH ON U.S.-INDIA [...] (U) SciCouns and EconOff delivered reftel talking points to Filippo Formica, head of the MFA's Arms Control and Disarmament Office in the MFA's Directorate General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights. Formica said the GOI does not have a final position on supporting the U.S [...] | 2006-03-09 06:14:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN IT |
06SANAA579 | SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-07 09:34:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG KNNP ETTC IN YM |
06SANJOSE549 | COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO U.S./INDIA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 19:30:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC CS |
06SANSALVADOR1181 | SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT UNVEILS TIP VICTIMS SHELTER [...] (U) On the margins of the Regional Migration Conference being hosted by the Government of El Salvador (GOES),Minister of Governance Rene Figueroa announced at a May 3 press conference the unveiling of a GOES shelter for trafficking in persons victims. Figueroa stated that the shelter openin [...] | 2006-05-04 21:05:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG ES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS |
06SANTIAGO304 | HEADS UP: IOM SEEKS TO REPROGRAM CHILE PROJECT [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. Summary: The International Office of Migration (IOM) in Chile has asked for Post's assistance in obtaining Department approval to reprogram USD 160,000 in State/PRM funding from an existing trafficking in persons program to a new one. GOC aut [...] | 2006-02-10 14:54:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL CI GTIP OIM TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS |
06SANTIAGO465 | MEDIA REACTION - U.S./INDIA CIVILIAN NUCLEAR ACCORD [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-07 10:03:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OPRC CI IN |
06SANTODOMINGO267 | DOMINICANS WILL INVITE PRESIDENT BUSH TO MAY 28-29 [...] (C) The Dominican Foreign Minister is moving quickly to mobilize heads of state for a "counter-Petrocaribe" summit in late May and hopes to get Latin American partners to help persuade President Bush to attend. 2. (C) Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Tronocos reiterated to the Amb [...] | 2006-01-25 20:22:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR ENRG IN KTIA OVIP PGOV PREL |
06SEOUL491 | KOREA LAUNCHES SPECIAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) Korea added to its rapidly lengthening list of trade negotiations by announcing on February 7 the launch of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations with India during the visit to Seoul of Indian President Abdul Kalam. The same week, Korea and Mexico held a first [...] | 2006-02-13 22:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL KS IN MX |
06SEOUL510 | INDIAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT FOCUSED ON ECONOMICS [...] (SBU) On February 13, Park Young-shik, Southwest Asia and Oceania Division Deputy Director at MOFAT, told poloff that the February 6-9 visit of Indian President Abdul Kalam resulted in the signing of three documents: (1) a joint statement on the start of negotiations for a South Korea-India C [...] | 2006-02-14 08:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON KS IN |
06SEOUL876 | FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE FOR U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 09:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP ENRG IN KS |
06SOFIA395 | BULGARIA REACTS TO THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Elizabeth Konstantinova in the MFA's NATO and International Security Directorate March 13. Konstantinova said the GOB did not have an official position on the initiative, but it supported adherence to all non-proliferation regimes to which it is a party [...] | 2006-03-16 14:39:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN BU |
06STATE113089 | JUNE 7 U.S.-CHINA CONSULTATIONS ON ARMS CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-10 15:18:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL CH KN IN IR PGOV |
06STATE60256 | UNDER SECRETARY SHINER,S APRIL 3, 2006 [...] (U) Classified by: Wendell Albright, Acting Director, EAP/J, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) April 3, 2006; 4:00 P.M.; Washington. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. Under Secretary Shiner Louis Bono, Special Assistant, E Wendell Albright, Acting Deputy Director, EAP/J Rober [...] | 2006-04-14 21:02:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAID EAGR ETTC ENRG EAIR JA IN CH |
06STATE61225 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' APRIL 10 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: Acting EAP A/S Kathleen Stephens, reason 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) Participants: Morning meeting U.S. Under Secretary Burns EAP A/S Kathy Stephens (acting) P Special Assistant Andrew Shaw EAP/J Director Wendell Albright (acting) JAPAN Deputy Foreign Minister Ni [...] | 2006-04-18 15:23:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PREL MARR MCAP MNUC PARM PINR SNAR IZ IR IN AF JA |
06STATE87307 | (S) NIAG 6023 FOLLOW-UP: INDIAN ENTITY ASSISTANCE [...] (S/NF) BACKGROUND: Per ref B instructions, Embassy New Delhi informed MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali Rao on May 16 that the Indian firm GEA Energy Systems Ltd. had delivered a large cargo of water filtration equipment to Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Pla [...] | 2006-05-30 21:46:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IN IR |
06SUVA287 | Fiji's Sugar Industry: An Uncertain Future [...] (SBU) For decades, sugar has been the backbone of Fiji's economy. Nearly a quarter of the population depends on the sugar industry. The EU decision to drastically cut sugar subsidies over the next four years, however, casts a giant shadow over the industry's future. A variety of fixes ha [...] | 2006-07-17 17:43:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ENRG SENV EUN FJ IN |
06TAIPEI479 | POU CHEN GROUP FOCUSES ON CHINA'S RETAIL MARKET AND [...] (SBU) Summary. As widely reported in the Taiwan press, Taiwanese businessmen have largely greeted President Chen's exhortation to avoid excessive focus on the mainland either negatively or dismissively. However, according to Chi Jui Tsai, Chairman of Pou Chen Group, the world's largest shoe [...] | 2006-02-15 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL TW HK CH BG IN |
06TALLINN739 | ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE [...] (SBU) Summary: Two and a half years after NATO and EU accession, remains a strong ally on all fronts. It is deeply committed to trans institutions and pro-free market economic policy. Estonia is a stead War on Terror (GWOT) in both Afghanistan and Iraq, where its troops h casualties includi [...] | 2006-08-15 15:17:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EN OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NP IN TH MG FI |
06TASHKENT799 | INDIAN EMBASSY'S LOW EXPECTATIONS FOR PM VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Indian PM Manmohan Singh will officially visit Tashkent on April 25-26 to talk with President Karimov and lay a wreath at the National World War II Memorial. According to Indian DCM B.M. Vinod Kumar, the GOI's expectations are very low for the visit, as this trip seems primarily t [...] | 2006-04-24 03:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UZ IN |
06TASHKENT882 | WE AGREE TO AGREE: KARIMOV RECEIVES INDIAN PM [...] (C) Summary: After years of GOU pressure, the Indian PM finally visited Tashkent on April 25-26. The timing was convenient, as President Karimov departed one week later to Pakistan. The PM's visit resulted in numerous agreements, but most lacked substance, according to the Indian DCM. Seven [...] | 2006-05-03 13:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON IN PGOV PREL PTER UZ ZK |
06TELAVIV4897 | FORMER PM BARAK DISCUSSES REGIONAL CHALLENGES WITH [...] (C) Summary: Senators John McCain (AZ),Joe Lieberman (CT),Susan Collins (ME) and John Thune (SD),as well as Representative Mark Kirk (IL) met with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak on December 17 to discuss developments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. Ba [...] | 2006-12-21 09:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPAL IZ IR US RU CH IN |
06TELAVIV5005 | SENATOR SPECTER'S MEETING WITH LIKUD LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Senator Arlen Specter (PA) and the Ambassador met with former prime minister (PM) and current Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu on December 27 to discuss Syria and the Iranian nuclear threat. Senator Specter reported on Syrian President Asad's interest in negotiations with [...] | 2006-12-29 14:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IS IR SY KJUS IN |
06TELAVIV683 | ISRAELI MOD DG TOREN FORCEFULLY OBJECTS TO U.S. [...] (S) Responding to ref A points, MOD DG Jacob Toren told the Ambassador on February 8 that: -- He cannot agree with the U.S. position and urges the U.S. to re-examine its objections. Agreeing to the U.S. position on the ELTA radar transfer to Russia sets another precedent that Israel cannot [...] | 2006-02-15 15:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MASS MARR RS IS IN MILITARY RELATIONS ISRAEL |
06TELAVIV879 | ISRAELI FM LIVNI TELLS CODEL BERMAN: ABBAS CANNOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Codel Berman met on February 26 with FM Livni and representatives from the MFA. Livni raised two main issues: aid to the Palestinians and U.S. treatment of PA President Abbas. She voiced concern that Abbas could be a "fig leaf" for Hamas. In a briefing prior to convening in Li [...] | 2006-03-02 10:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG IS CH IN EAGR ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM |
06THEHAGUE1301 | DONOR COUNTRIES COALESCE ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 1, 2006, seven members of the Core Group on Bhutanese Refugees, the UNHCR and the European Commission met in The Hague to set a near-term strategy to break the impasse in resolving the 16-year-old Bhutan refugee problem. Representatives agreed to lobby both Nepal (to take [...] | 2006-06-09 11:46:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL BT IN NP NL |
06THEHAGUE1303 | DONOR COUNTRIES COALESCE ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 1, 2006, seven members of the Core Group on Bhutanese Refugees, the UNHCR and the European Commission met in The Hague to set a near-term strategy to break the impasse in resolving the 16-year-old Bhutan refugee problem. Representatives agreed to lobby both Nepal (to take [...] | 2006-06-09 12:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL BT IN NP NL |
06THEHAGUE2587 | NETHERLANDS: BOUCHER'S DECEMBER 6 VISIT TO THE [...] (C) Summary: During his December 6 visit to The Hague, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher highlighted the strategic importance of a stable Afghanistan in a zone of potential stability stretching from Central to South Asia. He stressed the results of a rec [...] | 2006-12-11 14:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO AF IN PK NL |
06THEHAGUE508 | NETHERLANDS/INDIA: RESPONSE TO U.S.-INDIA CIVIL [...] (C) The GONL is willing to cooperate with USG efforts to define the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative as an exception to the Nuclear Suppliers Group Guidelines. However, the key for the GONL will be successful implementation of the initiative, including especially Indian negotiat [...] | 2006-03-08 16:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC NL |
06TOKYO1566 | MOFA UPDATE ON EAST ASIA SUMMIT DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: In comments to the Embassy on March 22, our MOFA contact on regional integration averred that efforts to create an East Asian community would move ahead, even if progress is slow and unsteady. He informally suggested that the United States might want to take advantage of Russia [...] | 2006-03-24 08:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEAN APEC ETRD CH IN RS JA |
06TOKYO1612 | AMBASSADOR YAMAMOTO DISCUSSES COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) Summary. During a March 27 meeting with the DCM, MOFA Ambassador for Counterterrorism (CT) Cooperation, Reconstruction Activities in Iraq and North Korea Nuclear Issues Tadamichi Yamamoto: -- stressed the need to identify implementable steps for the next U.S.-Japan-Australia CT Trilate [...] | 2006-03-28 07:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL SNAR EAID IN MY RP JA |
06TOKYO1886 | MOFA REORGANIZES SOUTH ASIA DEPARTMENT; SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is creating a South Asia Department by merging parts of the Southwest Asia, First Southeast Asia and Second Southeast Asia divisions of the Asian Affairs Bureau. The move stems from a perceived organizational need to devote more resources [...] | 2006-04-07 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IN JA |
06TOKYO1982 | EAP A/S HILL'S MEETING WITH ASIAN DG SASAE ON [...] (C) Summary. In an April 11 tour d'horizon of issues affecting the Asian region, MOFA Asian Affairs DG Sasae told A/S Hill: -- Japan is emphasizing relations with Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam in its strategic thinking with ASEAN; -- Japan will not stand in the way of Russia becoming a [...] | 2006-04-12 09:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ECON ETRD EAID ASEAN ID TW IN CH |
06TOKYO1984 | EAP A/S HILL'S APRIL 12 MEETING WITH MOFA NORTH [...] (C) During an April 12 meeting, MOFA North American Affairs DG Kawai told EAP A/S Hill that Prime Minister Koizumi hopes to resolve several outstanding bilateral issues before he visits Washington in June 2006. Japan understands issues remain concerning the relocation of some Marine Corps as [...] | 2006-04-12 10:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EAGR MARR MNUC KNNP PARM KN IN IZ |
06TOKYO2240 | MOFA DEPUTY MINISTER PUSHES FOR NEW ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Mitoji Yabunaka proposed that the U.S. and Japan begin preparations for a new U.S. Japan economic framework in a meeting with the Charge on April 24. The full proposal, with a broad focus and more emphasis on cooperation could be fle [...] | 2006-04-25 23:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAID EAGR ETTC ENRG JA IN CH |
06TOKYO2339 | MOFA NON-PROLIFERATION DG NAKANE TO VISIT INDIAN [...] EST MinCouns called on MOFA Director General for Disarmament, Science and Non-Proliferation Ambassador Takeshi Nakane on April 28 to get a preview of possible agenda items for Nakane's May 1 bilateral meetings in New Delhi with his GOI counterpart. Japan and India initially had been discussi [...] | 2006-04-28 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL JA IR IN KNNP IAEA PARM ENRG |
06TOKYO2638 | S/P KRASNER'S MAY 10 MEETING WITH MOFA DG KAWAI ON [...] (C) Summary. In a May 10 meeting between S/P Director Stephen D. Krasner and MOFA DG for North American Affairs Kawai, DG Kawai: -- expressed appreciation for the successful completion of 2 2 talks, and called for focusing U.S-Japan efforts now on implementation of the DPRI agreement; - [...] | 2006-05-15 03:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR XF IN CH RS JA |
06TOKYO2650 | S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER'S MAY 11 MEETING WITH MOFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a May 11 meeting, MOFA Disarmament DG Takeshi Nakane told visiting S/P Director Dr. Stephen D. Krasner that although Japan has not yet fixed its position, it remains concerned about the possible effect the U.S.-India nuclear agreement may have on the NPT regime, remains u [...] | 2006-05-15 07:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA IR IS IN JA |
06TOKYO2655 | S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER'S MAY 11 MEETING WITH ASIAN [...] (C) Summary: MOFA Asian Affairs DG Sasae told visiting S/P Director Stephen D. Krasner that: -- China is seeking to improve its relations with Japan; -- Japan's participation in Asian regional groupings can and will be consistent with U.S. and Japanese goals for APEC; -- Sasae per [...] | 2006-05-15 07:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL APEC ARF CH KS IN JA |
06TOKYO2666 | U.S.-JAPAN-ROK POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL TALKS, [...] (C) Summary. During Session 5 of the U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral policy planning talks on May 12, ROK Deputy Minister for Policy Planning Park In-kook characterized the NPT regime as under siege and that its "fatal loophole" allows parties to reach the brink of developing nuclear weapons under [...] | 2006-05-15 09:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA KS RS IN JA |
06TOKYO2867 | MUKHERJEE JAPAN VISIT TO BUILD ON EXCHANGES, [...] (C) Summary. The May 25-28 visit of Indian Minister of Defense Mukherjee to Tokyo will build on the momentum created by the Global Partnership announced by PM Singh and PM Koizumi in April 2005. The two defense ministers will announce specific plans to increase the number of exchanges betwee [...] | 2006-05-24 07:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR JA IN |
06TOKYO2937 | JAPAN PRESSING FOR A MEETING WITH THE U.S. ON UNSC [...] (C) Summary: Japan hopes to receive a response to the proposal on UN Security Council reform that Foreign Minister Aso passed to Secretary Rice during their May 2 meeting prior to the June 29 Summit, according to MOFA UN Policy Division Director Shigeki Takizaki. In addition, Japan "needs" a [...] | 2006-05-26 09:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BR GM IN CH JA |
06TOKYO2940 | THE AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH ADMINISTRATIVE VICE [...] (S) During a May 26 meeting, Administrative Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi expressed deep appreciation for the Ambassador's efforts on the abduction issue. In a tour d'horizon, the Ambassador and Yachi discussed the upcoming summit, regional issues, realignment and beef. Foreign Minist [...] | 2006-05-26 10:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL ECON MARR KUNR AF IR IZ IN KN KS CH JA |
06TOKYO2988 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER,S MAY 30 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. During a May 30 meeting with MOFA Vice Minister Yachi to discuss the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, SCA A/S Boucher said that he expected congressional approval for necessary amendments to U.S. domestic law. India and the U.S. must also satisfy NSG partners bef [...] | 2006-05-31 09:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN JA |
06TOKYO2989 | A/S BOUCHER'S MAY 30 MEETING WITH MOFA DG NAKANE [...] (C) Summary. SCA A/S Boucher reviewed for MOFA Arms Control DG Nakane on May 30 the status of the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Nakane explained that Japan had not yet determined its position, but that MOFA must be sensitive to the public,s nonproliferation concerns. He a [...] | 2006-05-31 09:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN JA |
06TOKYO2990 | SCA A/S BOUCHER'S MAY 30 MEETING WITH MOFA ASIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 30 meeting with visiting SCA A/S Boucher, MOFA Asian Affairs Bureau DG Sasae stated: -- Japan is committed to nation building in Sri Lanka; -- MOFA is carefully explaining to the public and the Diet Japan's interests in supporting the India nuclear initiative; -- [...] | 2006-05-31 09:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM IN AF NP CE IR JA |
06TOKYO3105 | METI'S KITAMURA PROMOTES ASIA FTA AS DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: METI Minister Nikai's proposal for an Asian FTA was an alternative to an "aggressive" Chinese push for an ASEAN 3 FTA, METI Trade policy DG Toshiaki Kitamura told visiting EAP/PDAS Kathleen Stephens on May 29. The Chinese plan, which will be recommended by an ASEAN 3 expert [...] | 2006-06-06 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ASEAN APEC CH KS AS IN NZ JA |
06TOKYO3308 | JAPAN: REPORT URGES PM KOIZUMI TO ENDORSE INDIA [...] (C) The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) on June 11, 2006 reported that Prime Minister Koizumi is expected to endorse the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement during his summit with President Bush in late June 2006. The article states that Koizumi's decision reflects the importance To [...] | 2006-06-15 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP ENRG JA IN |
06TOKYO5574 | GOJ STRUGGLES TO UPGRADE INDIAN ECONOMIC [...] (C) Despite India's position as a top Japanese aid recipient from 2003-05, growth in Japan-India trade over the past five years has lagged behind growth in India's trade with China, the United States, and others. What growth that has occurred has been one-sided, and Japan now ranks below the [...] | 2006-09-27 00:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL EFIN EAID JA IN |
06TOKYO5824 | MOFA DIRECTOR GENERAL DISCUSSES THAILAND, BURMA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: MOFA Director General for Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs Chihiro Atsumi told Charge October 6 that: -- Japan is not happy with the recent coup in Thailand and is concerned about the signals it sends to other states in the region, particularly Burma, but at the same time [...] | 2006-10-06 09:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETRD PINR TH BM IN CE JA |
06TOKYO6468 | INDIAN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR VISITS JAPAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The primary purpose of Indian National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan's visit to Tokyo October 22-25, was to lay the ground work for Prime Minister Singh's upcoming official visit, currently scheduled to take place in mid-December. During his visit, Narayanan was received by a [...] | 2006-11-09 09:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON IN JA |
06TOKYO6839 | LDP INTEREST IN AID TO INDIA SURPRISINGLY HIGH, [...] (SBU) After a recent lecture on trends in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA),Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers peppered Takushoku University President Toshio Watanabe with questions about how to use aid to turn India into a counterweight to China, Watanabe told Econoff in a Novembe [...] | 2006-12-04 08:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON JA PGOV IN |
06TOKYO6926 | INDIAN PM VISIT: LIKELY JOINT STATEMENT, ECONOMIC [...] (C) Preparations for Indian Prime Minister Singh's December 13-16 visit to Japan are proceeding well, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official told Econoff, and it appears the prime ministers will issue a joint statement announcing negotiations toward an "economic partnership agreement" [...] | 2006-12-11 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL MARR JA IN |
06TOKYO7067 | JAPANESE PLEASED WITH VISIT OF INDIAN PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese officials are pleased with Indian Prime Minister Singh's December 13-16 Tokyo visit, according to MOFA contacts. During the visit, the "Global Partnership" inaugurated in 2000 was elevated to a "Strategic and Global Partnership" calling for closer political and diplomati [...] | 2006-12-20 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAIR EINV ETRD SCUL KNNP IN JA |
06ULAANBAATAR300 | Mongolia to Stay Shanghai Coop Org Observer [...] (SBU) Poloff met on April 21 with MFA Acting Director for Policy Planning T. Janabazar. Poloff asked about a press report (ref a) that stated that Mongolia, along with Iran, India, and Pakistan, would soon become Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members. Janabazar categorically state [...] | 2006-04-21 07:36:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD PTER CH MG IN PK IR |
06USNATO729 | INDIA TO SEEK NATO POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer reported to the NATO PermReps today that India would like to seek, on a strictly confidential basis, the opening of political consultations with NATO. The Indian Ambassador told the Secretary-General in a private meeting that India will send [...] | 2006-12-19 15:44:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PGOV PREL IN PK AF |
06USUNNEWYORK1033 | INDIAN DPR PLEDGES TO COOPERATE WITH USG ON NEPAL, UN BUDGET, AND SYG SELECTION [...] (C/NF) During a May 19 lunch with USUN Deputy PermRep Wolff, Indian Deputy PermRep Ajai Malhotra (protect) reported that he had been sent to New York with instructions from Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran to cooperate with the USG on the broad range of issues facing both countries at the UN. [...] | 2006-05-19 21:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UNSC KUNR AORC NP IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1065 | SYG SELECTION: INDIA PUSHES UNHELPFUL GA RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary. The Indians are reportedly leading an aggressive General Assembly (GA) effort by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to advocate for a GA resolution that would demand the Security Council recommend more than one candidate to be the next Secretary-General. The proposal, which seeks to capi [...] | 2006-05-24 13:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UN IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1075 | UN SECRETARIAT SAYS NEPALIS SUPPORT EXPANDED UN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 23 meeting with visiting IO/UNP Deskoff and USUN Poloff, UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) officer Tamrat Samuel briefed on his recently-completed visit to Nepal and India and outlined his views of a possible expanded role for the UN in Nepal. Samuel said ne [...] | 2006-05-26 13:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO NP IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1254 | INDIA AND THE U.S.: BILATERAL TIES NOT REFLECTED [...] (C) Summary and Comment. India's positions on key issues of importance to the U.S. in New York do not appear to have kept pace with the increasingly strong bilateral ties developing in New Delhi and Washington. India is perceived as one of a handful of countries (which includes Egypt, Pakistan, B [...] | 2006-06-21 22:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON AORC KUNR UNSC IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1287 | NEPAL: INDIA SUPPORTS UN ROLE IN MAOIST DDR BUT IS [...] (SBU) Summary. Indian Mission to the UN diplomat Harsh Shringla told Poloff June 20 that while his government supports the early establishment of a UN mission in Nepal to monitor Maoist disarmament, New Delhi would greatly prefer to avoid adding Nepal to the UNSC agenda for discussion -- lest [...] | 2006-06-29 14:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO NP IN |
06USUNNEWYORK2155 | NEPALESE PERMREP TO FORMALLY ASK FOR UN [...] (C) Summary and comment: DPR Wolff met November 13 with Indian DPR Malhotra and November 14 with Nepalese PermRep Acharya to discuss the Nepalese request for UN assistance in implementing the November 8 peace deal between the government of Nepal and the Maoists. Malhotra and Acharya confirmed [...] | 2006-11-14 23:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IN NP UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK670 | INDIA: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] Mission received a note from the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidature to the Human Rights Council. The elections will be held in New York in May 2006. 2. Mission will respond that careful consideration will be given by the United S [...] | 2006-04-03 18:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM UN IN |
06VATICAN91 | HOLY SEE RESPONDS TO INDIAN CRITICISM OVER CONVERSION ISSUE [...] (C) Summary. Holy See contacts gave further background to Embassy Vatican on the recent controversy over remarks made by the pope criticizing anti-conversion laws in India. Our contacts suggested that the pope's remarks were neither surprising to the GOI, nor drafted in an ad hoc manner; and that [...] | 2006-05-31 08:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI VT IN |
06VIENNA722 | U.S-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY: AUSTRIAN EU [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: Embassy conveyed ref (a) points to MFA A/S-equivalent for Nonproliferation Dorothea Auer on March 3. Pol Unit Chief followed up on March 8 with Auer and her deputy, DAS for IAEA and nuclear issues Alexander Kmentt. Auer and Kmentt made it clear that Austria is [...] | 2006-03-09 14:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN EUN AU |
06WELLINGTON714 | NZ FAVORS USG CONSULTATIONS ON RECAAP PIRACY [...] (C) PE Couns discussed GNZ views on the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against ships in Asia (ReCAAP) with Michael Swain, Deputy Director of the Security Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Despite reftel observation that [...] | 2006-09-10 21:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EWWT IN KCRM KTIA MY PBTS PHSA PREL SNAR UK |
06YEREVAN323 | CONTRASTING INDIA AND IRAN FOR THE ARMENIANS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered points contained refs A and B to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian March 6, editorializing that, whereas India, though not a signatory of the NPT, had now agreed with the United States to enter the non-proliferation mainstream, Iran, an NPT signatory, was stil [...] | 2006-03-05 13:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM IR IN KSCA PARM PREL |
07ACCRA483 | GHANA AT 50: A WORLD VIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the seventh and final in a series of scene setter cables looking at Ghana at 50 and the third looking at Ghana's external relations. Throughout its history Ghana has been independent and vocal on the international stage. It has preferred multilateral solutions, espe [...] | 2007-03-01 18:05:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR CH ECON GH IN PGOV PHUM PREL RS |
07ADDISABABA1096 | ETHIOPIA: DEMARCHE TO ETHIOPIA OVER NORTH KOREAN [...] (S/NF) Ambassador delivered demarche points on steps Ethiopia is taking to diversify its military production units away from imports from North Korea (ref C) to Prime Minister Meles April 10. Meles noted that the goods imported from North Korea were primarily chemicals for ammunition producti [...] | 2007-04-12 12:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM MASS MCAP ET KN RS IN CH |
07ANKARA2304 | TURKEY CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Historical ties, shared experience, and common interests in the region have forged a 60-year bond of friendship and alliance between Pakistan and Turkey that has endured political and ideological changes in the two countries. Despite an Islamic ideology that is in marked contra [...] | 2007-09-10 13:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV MARR MASS IN PK TU |
07ANTANANARIVO802 | PRESS REPORTS INDIAN LISTENING POST IN MADAGASCAR [...] (C) Press reports indicate the Indian Government has opened a "listening post" on the northern coast of Madagascar to monitor seagoing traffic in the Indian Ocean. Most recently "Asia Times Online" reported the station took a year to construct and opened in July to contribute to India,s secu [...] | 2007-08-10 06:01:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECPS PREL MOPS MARR MCAP IN MA XO |
07ATHENS1768 | GREEK RESPONSE TO GYMNICH DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On September 4, A/PolCouns delivered reftel non-paper on U.S. positions on issues to be considered at the September 7-8 EU informal foreign ministers meeting (Gymnich) to MFA European Correspondent Penny Douti. Her following responses are keyed to the major issues raised in the non-pape [...] | 2007-09-05 11:40:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN GR |
07BANGKOK5107 | ENGAGING ASEAN AND OTHERS ON BURMA [...] (C) Embassy Bangkok stands ready to continue to urge the Thai government to press the Burmese authorities to release political prisoners and engage in genuine dialogue to pave the way for a transition to a civilian, democratic government. Septel will report the Ambassador's latest conversatio [...] | 2007-09-26 10:43:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM KDEM TH BM RP SN IN CH |
07BEIJING1102 | FEBRUARY 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key points made at the February 15 MFA press conference were: -- Six-Party Talks have entered a "substantive stage." The Spokesperson outlined the structure of working groups and called for the United States and DPRK to resolve financial issues. -- China is ready to expand imports from th [...] | 2007-02-15 10:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD UNSC CH KN JA IR IN RS XA |
07BEIJING2059 | MARCH 27 PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, PM WEN [...] Key points made at the March 27 MFA press conference were: -- The MFA Spokesman said no date has been set for the next round of Six-Party Talks, discussed DAS Glaser's visit on the Banco Delta Asia issue and ducked other questions about why last week's Talks broke down. -- Premier Wen will [...] | 2007-03-27 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC CH KN KS JA RS ST SP IN PK |
07BEIJING2443 | APRIL 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, BDA, [...] Key Points at the April 12 MFA Press Conference by MFA Spokesman Qin Gang were: -- Asked repeatedly about BDA, Qin said China hopes the situation can be properly resolved as soon as possible, that the handling of the BDA issue will be conducive to the social and financial stability of Macau [...] | 2007-04-12 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KN KS VM JA KG CD IN SU |
07BEIJING2631 | PRC/INDIA: 10TH ROUND OF BORDER TALKS TO TAKE [...] (C) Executive Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo will arrive in New Delhi April 20 to conduct the tenth round of China-India border negotiations, stated MFA Asia Department officer Xu Liyi. On April 19, Xu told poloff that EVFM Dai, who also holds the title of China's Special Representative to [...] | 2007-04-19 08:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CH |
07BEIJING2746 | APRIL 24 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, BDA, [...] Key points at the April 24 MFA Press Conference made by MFA Spokesman Liu Jianchao were: -- Technical questions remain on the Banco Delta Asia issue, specifically how DPRK parties can acquire their money through normal transfer of funds. -- Liu made no comment on whether FDA officials woul [...] | 2007-04-24 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KS KN IN PK AF RS |
07BEIJING3173 | PRC: BORDER TALKS WITH INDIA MAKING STEADY [...] (C) The last round of border talks between China and India was the most in depth to date, according to MFA Asian Affairs Department Director for India, Nepal and Sri Lanka Huang Xilian. The two countries' differences on the Eastern section of the border remain quite large. Beijing and New De [...] | 2007-05-11 12:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CH |
07BEIJING3466 | MAY 22 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SED, INDIAN GENERAL'S [...] Key points at the May 22 MFA Press Conference were: -- Jiang outlined Vice Premier Wu Yi's planned schedule of meetings, including with the President, during the upcoming SED session in Washington. -- The visit by India's Army Chief of Staff aims to improve bilateral military ties. -- T [...] | 2007-05-22 10:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD SU UK CV DR IN PE GM |
07BEIJING3535 | MAY 24 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, ENVOY TO SUDAN, [...] Key points at the May 24 MFA Press Conference were: -- IAEA and UNSC decisions must be implemented, but all parties must intensify diplomatic efforts so as to arrive at an enduring, comprehensive solution that serves the interests of all, said the spokeswoman. -- China hopes the Sudanese G [...] | 2007-05-24 10:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD SU JA KN IR PM BM MX IN GM |
07BEIJING3601 | MAY 29 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: A/S HILL VISIT, SUDAN, [...] Key points at the May 29 MFA Press Conference were: -- A/S Hill will visit Beijing on May 30 to exchange views on the Six-Party Talks and other international and bilateral issues. -- China seeks a comprehensive solution to the Darfur issue, Spokesperson Jiang replied when asked about EU pr [...] | 2007-05-29 11:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD SU JA IN KS ID GE |
07BEIJING3661 | MAY 31 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: A/S HILL IN BEIJING, [...] Key points at the May 31 MFA Press Conference were: -- A/S Hill discussed Six-Party Talks and BDA with VFM Wu Dawei and bilateral issues and Sudan with AFM He Yafei on May 30. -- China strongly objects to Lee Teng-hui's visit to Japan. -- Japan should recognize demands for compensation [...] | 2007-05-31 10:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV ETRD SU JA IN KS GE SW RS BM |
07BEIJING5307 | SENATOR LIEBERMAN MEETING WITH VFM ZHANG YESUI ON [...] (C) Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) urged Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui to "do everything possible" to stop the Iranian supply of weapons, particularly Chinese-made weapons, to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Lieberman advised Zhang to take Congressional bills on trade with C [...] | 2007-08-14 03:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMUC PTER PHUM IN IR TW CH |
07BEIJING5969 | CHINA URGES UNITED STATES TO OPPOSE INDIA'S UNSC [...] (U) This cable contains an action request (paragraph 4). 2. (C) MFA Inernational Organizations Department United Naions Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun expressed to poloff September 12 China's concern over an Indian proposal in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) concerning UN Security Coun [...] | 2007-09-12 06:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA UN IN CH |
07BEIJING5977 | DESPITE POTENTIAL HICCUPS, PRC PUSHES FOR IMPROVED [...] (C) In the wake of Japanese PM Abe's September 12 resignation, his earlier cabinet reshuffle, landmark August visit to India and multilateral naval exercises, Embassy contacts underscored China's continued desire to improve China-Japan relations. Neither Abe's resignation nor his recent cabin [...] | 2007-09-12 12:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH JN IN |
07BEIJING6121 | SEPTEMBER 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 10:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SENV UNSC CH JA KN FR SF IN SU |
07BEIJING6197 | CORRECTED COPY: SEPTEMBER 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING [...] Key points at the September 18 MFA Press Briefing were: -- No new date has been set for the Six-Party Talks. -- The Chinese government opposes the Dalai Lama's meeting with German Chancellor Merkel. -- China and Japan will hold consultations on the East China Sea in late October. -- T [...] | 2007-09-20 09:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SENV UNSC CH JA KN FR SF IN SU |
07BEIJING6540 | OCTOBER 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: BURMA UNREST, [...] Key points at the October 9 MFA Press Briefing: -- Burma has "become calmer" through the efforts of both the Burmese government and the international community. Any action by the UN Security Council should be "cautious and prudent" and calculated to promote "stability" within Burma. The "pr [...] | 2007-10-09 14:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CH IN KN BM |
07BEIJING6732 | OCTOBER 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DALAI LAMA VISIT [...] Key points at the October 18 MFA Press Briefing: -- China regards the Dalai Lama's visit to the United States as blatant interference in China's internal affairs that has greatly undermined the relationship between the United States and China. FM Yang strongly protested the visit in an Octo [...] | 2007-10-18 09:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH BM TU VM VT IN RS KN |
07BEIJING6733 | FM YANG "STRONGLY PROTESTS" DALAI LAMA'S U.S. [...] (C) Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi expressed China's "strong opposition and indignation" to October 17 activities in connection with awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama. FM Yang said that the United States' actions will have "severe adverse consequences for bilateral relatio [...] | 2007-10-18 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CH IN |
07BEIJING6976 | CHINA/RUSSIA/INDIA: PRC TALKS UP TRILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministers from China, Russia and India met in Harbin October 24 for the seventh in their series of trilateral meetings. The role of the UN in the Asia-Pacific region was a key issue in talks, as well as climate change, counter-terrorism and scientific and academic exchan [...] | 2007-11-05 10:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS CH IN RU |
07BEIJING7098 | CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM ON CHINA-JAPAN TIES DESPITE LACK [...] (C) Chinese and Japanese contacts were cautiously optimistic about Japanese PM Fukuda's impact on China- Japan relations, highlighting his "balanced" approach, but they were hesitant to predict any significant developments in the near term. The October round of talks on joint energy explorati [...] | 2007-11-14 09:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH JN IN |
07BEIJING7262 | U.S.-CHINA POLICY PLANNING TALKS: CHINESE (AND [...] (C) China's foreign policy must contribute to domestic economic development and be non-ideological and based on interests, not values, China's top policy planning diplomat told visiting U.S. Policy Planning Director David Gordon. U.S.-China relations have transcended the purely bilateral and a [...] | 2007-11-29 04:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PARM SENV IR KN JP IN AU CH |
07BEIJING7295 | CHINA-INDIA DEFENSE TALKS BUILD CONFIDENCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: The first Chinese-Indian "Annual Defense Dialogue," held in November, and mid-December's planned joint military exercises will bolster confidence in bilateral relations, according to Chinese MFA officials and academics and Indian Embassy officials. However, academics believe the [...] | 2007-11-30 10:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS CH IN PK |
07BEIJING7577 | DECEMBER 20 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: PRODUCT [...] Key points at the December 20 MFA Press Briefing: -- On U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama's reported call for a ban on U.S. imports of Chinese toys, China believes that a few defective products should not be the grounds for an overall ban. -- China believes all sides will continue w [...] | 2007-12-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR EIND CH BM IN KS KN |
07BEIJING7634 | DECEMBER 27 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: PM FUKUDA VISIT, EAST CHINA [...] Key points at the December 27 MFA Press Briefing: -- China extends a warm welcome to FM Fukuda, scheduled to arrive in China December 27. -- The spokesman said that the majority of DPRK nuclear disablement will be completed by the end of the year and that China hopes all sides will follow [...] | 2007-12-27 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH KS KN RS JA IN |
07BEIRUT326 | LEBANON: POSITIONS FOR ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN [...] (C) Polchief delivered ref (A) demarche to Oussama Khacchab, Americas Desk Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khacchab pointed out that Lebanon did not receive the agenda for the Foreign Ministers Meeting until late on March 1, and that its positions on several key positions remain u [...] | 2007-03-02 16:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE IR SU IN PA |
07BERLIN1084 | GERMAN QUERY CONCERNING RUSSIAN SUPPLY OF NUCLEAR [...] (U) This message contains an action request -- please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) Joerg Polster, German MFA International Energy and Nuclear Energy Policy desk officer, queried Global Affairs officer May 23 concerning press reports that Russia had delivered a batch of nuclear fuel to two reac [...] | 2007-05-30 10:36:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC ETTC PREL KNNP GM RS IN |
07BERLIN1142 | GERMANY DISCUSSES U.S. POSITION ON RUSSIA'S SUPPLY [...] (U) This message contains an action request -- please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Global Affairs officer delivered ref A response to ref B German query to Joerg Polster, German MFA International Energy and Nuclear Energy Policy Division desk officer, June 5. Polster said the U.S. position o [...] | 2007-06-07 15:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY IN GM |
07BERLIN1497 | GERMANY SEEKS CONSULTATIONS ON U.S.-INDIA CIVIL [...] (C) Global Affairs officer passed ref A nonpaper to MFA officials July 27. In a follow-on discussion July 31, MFA Deputy Office Director for Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation Dietrich Becker and NSG Desk Officer Joerg Polster stated Germany has yet to take a position on the U.S.-India Civil [...] | 2007-08-01 15:13:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG KNNP KTIA IN GM |
07BERLIN1751 | U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION: INITIAL [...] (SBU) Global Affairs officer delivered reftel demarche September 17 to MFA Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Desk Officer Joerg Polster. Polster expressed appreciation for the opportunity to offer German views on the U.S. draft text but expressed doubt that Germany's interagency working group wou [...] | 2007-09-18 08:01:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP KTIA PGOV PARM PREL IN GM |
07BRASILIA1881 | U.S.-INDIA AGREEMENT: BRAZIL STILL REVIEWING DRAFT POLICY [...] (U) On September 24, ESTH Off delivered reftel's demarche and draft text of a policy exception for the Nuclear Suppliers Group for the U.S.-India 123 Agreement to the Deputy Head of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS),Luis Galvao. The [...] | 2007-10-03 09:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP KTIA PGOV PARM PREL IN BR |
07BRASILIA2047 | BRAZIL PLANS TO RENEW NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH INDIA [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. At a meeting with EmbOffs on October 19, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies, Minister Santiago Mourao, said the USG [...] | 2007-10-29 09:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA IN BR |
07BRUSSELS1462 | A/S BOUCHER DISCUSSES SOUTH ASIA WITH THE EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 17, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher led the U.S. South Asia delegation to the COASI (the EU's Asia-Oceania Working Party) Troika on South Asia, discussing Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, U.S.-EU-India relations, and the situati [...] | 2007-05-02 12:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN AF PK IN CE NP BG |
07BRUSSELS3516 | U.S. - EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON DISARMAMENT AND [...] (C) The U.S.-EU troika consultations on disarmament and nonproliferation (CODUN/CONOP) on December 3, 2007 demonstrated shared interests and a willingness from both sides for continued cooperation and discussion. Differences remain, however in approaches to some key challenges, with the EU pr [...] | 2007-12-18 11:54:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KNNP PARM PREL EUN PTER KN IR IN |
07BUENOSAIRES1644 | NEW PROTECTIONIST NON-TARIFF BARRIERS TARGET [...] (SBU) President Kirchner and Economy Minister Peirano announced an ill-defined package of non-tariff protectionist measures that targets imports of plastics, textiles, artificial leather, and tires. Growing Argentine imports from China (up 54% in the first half of 2007) were singled out as a [...] | 2007-08-22 18:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV AR CH HK IN ID KN KS MY PK RP |
07BUENOSAIRES1648 | ARGENTINA: NON-TARIFF TRADE BARRIERS NOT YET OFFICIAL, BUT [...] (SBU) President Kirchner's announcement late last week of non-tariff measures aimed at curbing Asian imports is affecting U.S. companies. Argentine customs has held up many Asian import shipments, including those from U.S. high technology companies Dell and Honeywell, pending clarification of [...] | 2007-08-23 09:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON AR CH HK IN ID KN KS MY PK RP SN |
07BUENOSAIRES1708 | ARGENTINA: CHINESE REACTION TO NON-TARIFF BARRIERS [...] (SBU) Ten days after President Kirchner announced the imposition of non-tariff barriers on burgeoning Asian imports, local media has reported that China struck back with retaliatory phytosanitary inspections of Argentine soy shipments, though two grain trading company reps say the inspections o [...] | 2007-08-29 19:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EAGR ECON AR CH HK IN ID KN KS MY PK |
07CALCUTTA10 | ULFA GOES ON A KILLING SPREE AGAINST HINDU "OUTSIDERS" [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the January 5-7 weekend, ethnic insurgent separatists from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) carried out a string of attacks in remote areas of Assam, killing more than 65 people. The majority of attacks targeted migrant Bihari workers from India's Hindi- speakin [...] | 2007-01-08 12:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV IN BG PREL PBTS PHUM PINR |
07CALCUTTA11 | SIX PEOPLE KILLED IN VIOLENCE IN RURAL WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In the evening and early morning of January 6-7, six people were killed in fighting around the West Bengal sub-district of Nandigram. The violence occurred between local villagers opposing the state government's plans to develop a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the area and m [...] | 2007-01-08 14:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC IN |
07CALCUTTA16 | ASSAM SITREP - JANUARY 10, 2007 [...] (SBU) On January 9, Defense Minister A K Anthony and Army Chief J.J. Singh met Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and local Army officials of the 4 Corps in Assam to review the security situation in the state. There are reports of a mass exodus of Hindi-speaking migrants from Assam following th [...] | 2007-01-10 12:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM ASEC CASC MARR IN BG |
07CALCUTTA17 | WEST BENGAL CM TO PROCEED MORE SLOWLY ON SEZS AFTER VIOLENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nandigram remained quiet, but tense, after weekend clashes that left 6 people dead. Government of West Bengal (GOWB) CM Bhuddadeb Bhatacharjee indicated that his party will re-examine the notice of land acquisition for the SEZ that triggered the violence. Bhattacharjee and his [...] | 2007-01-10 14:01:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EINV EIND ETRD ASEC IN PHUM |
07CALCUTTA24 | ULFA CONTINUES ITS WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN ASSAM [...] (SBU) Summary. The ethnic-Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) continued its wave of violence in Assam over the past week January 15-22, bringing total casualties to near 90. Assam Chief Minister Gogoi has been appointed head of the Unified Command, which includes arm [...] | 2007-01-22 13:42:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC MARR IN BG |
07CALCUTTA6 | SENATOR SPECTER'S VISIT TO ORISSA [...] (SBU) Summary: December 22-23 Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, accompanied by his spouse Mrs. Joan Specter, Colonel Gregg Olsen, staff aide Scott Bowen Boos and medical escort Dr. Needleman, visited Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa. While in Bhubaneshwar, Senator Specter met a range of [...] | 2007-01-05 07:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ETRD ENRG KNNP TRGY IN BEXP |
07CANBERRA1745 | U/S BURNS' 12/5 MEETINGS WITH AUSTRALIAN DPM [...] (C/NF) Summary: During wide-ranging conversations December 5 with newly appointed Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, and Agriculture Minister Tony Burke, Under Secretary Nicholas Burns emphasized the importance Washington placed on a continued cl [...] | 2007-12-12 00:27:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AS CH ID IN IR IZ JA MNUC PREL PTER |
07CHENNAI100 | BANGALORE CALM AFTER CAUVERY RIVER WATER VERDICT [...] (SBU) Summary: Bangalore remained calm on February 6 following an interstate river water tribunal verdict on February 5 over a long-simmering dispute involving the sharing of water that flows through the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Perceived injustice in Karnataka sparked impro [...] | 2007-02-06 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWWT ASEC CASC SOCI KCRM ECON IN |
07CHENNAI103 | ROOTING OUT TRAFFICKING IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 29, G/TIP Trafficking in Persons Coordinator Gayatri Patel and Embassy INL officer met with NGOs and law enforcement officials in Hyderabad, the capital of the south India state of Andhra Pradesh (AP),to review projects to combat the trafficking of women and children [...] | 2007-02-07 11:12:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN SOCI KCRM ELAB PHUM PREL IN |
07CHENNAI143 | TAMIL TIGERS' ARMS SMUGGLING ON THE UPSWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Smuggling of arms and bomb-making materials by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam between the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka appears to be on the rise. Indian authorities seized three vessels last week carrying arms and bomb-making material. Most troublingly, one [...] | 2007-02-22 11:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN CE |
07CHENNAI15 | TERROR SUSPECT ARRESTED IN BANGALORE [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 6, Bangalore City Police announced the arrest of Bilal Ahmed Kota, a Kashmiri also known as Imran, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. The suspect was arrested at a Bangalore suburb from a private bus coming into the city from north Karnataka. Bangalore pol [...] | 2007-01-08 11:30:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
07CHENNAI187 | INDIA'S SECURITY CONCERNS OVER CHINESE BIDDER FORCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The leftist government in the southeastern Indian state of Kerala has been forced to rebid a $1 billion port project due to the Government of India's refusal - over security concerns - to authorize the participation of two Chinese corporations in the winning proposal. Kerala off [...] | 2007-03-10 11:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PGOV IN CN |
07CHENNAI198 | LTTE SMUGGLING AND ONGOING FISHERIES DISPUTE RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent upswing in smuggling by Tamil Tigers has combined with an ongoing fisheries dispute to mobilize anti-Sri Lanka sentiment in Tamil Nadu. Possibly in an effort to tamp down on smuggling by the Tigers, the Sri Lankan Navy has allegedly fired on Indian fishing vessels re [...] | 2007-03-15 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIS IN CE |
07CHENNAI214 | CHINDIA: TALES OF SYNERGY PREMATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January swing through India's high-tech heartland, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, visiting Washington-based econoffs met with India's leading software firms and discussed the challenges these firms face in the China market. Most felt that the media hype about "Chind [...] | 2007-03-20 11:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD IN CN |
07CHENNAI223 | CHINDIA: TALES OF SYNERGY PREMATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January swing through India's high-tech heartland, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, visiting Washington-based econoffs met with India's leading software firms and discussed the challenges these firms face in the China market. Most felt that the media hype about "Chind [...] | 2007-03-22 08:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD IN CN |
07CHENNAI224 | INDIA'S SECURITY CONCERNS OVER CHINESE BIDDER FORCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The leftist government in the southeastern Indian state of Kerala has been forced to rebid a $1 billion port project due to the Government of India's refusal - over security concerns - to authorize the participation of two Chinese corporations in the winning proposal. Kerala off [...] | 2007-03-22 08:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PGOV IN CN |
07CHENNAI236 | NEW INDIAN URANIUM PROJECT JEOPARDIZED BY ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: As part of a larger plan to meet the growing demand for nuclear fuel, the Government of India is planning a uranium mining project in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. This project is part of an overall planned expansion of the nuclear sector in Andhra Pradesh. Despite India's des [...] | 2007-03-26 10:38:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN SENV KNPT PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI244 | PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS USED TO DEVELOP TAMIL NADU'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Deficit budgets and demands for more projects in Tamil Nadu have resulted in a tight funding climate for infrastructure projects. The state government has used public-private partnerships, in the form of dedicated companies known as Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs),to finance much [...] | 2007-03-29 10:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV IN |
07CHENNAI250 | QUOTA ISSUE: TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED STRIKE PASSES [...] (SBU) A government-sponsored "bandh" (close-down strike),called jointly by the ruling DMK party and its allies (including the Congress Party),paralyzed the entire state of Tamil Nadu from dawn to dusk on March 31. The government called the strike to protest the Supreme Court's March 29 deci [...] | 2007-04-02 10:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI CASC IN |
07CHENNAI261 | EPA ADMINISTRATOR VISIT TO HYDERABAD PROMOTES COOPERATION [...] The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Stephen L. Johnson visited Hyderabad on March 30 - 31 to promote U.S.-India cooperation on environmental protection and sustainable economic development. The Administrator met with government officials, business leaders, a [...] | 2007-04-04 09:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG OVIP IN |
07CHENNAI280 | SRI LANKA CONFLICT: SPILLOVER INTO INDIA CONTINUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The effects of the intensifying conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankan forces continue to spillover into India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. The death of five Indian Tamil fishermen on March 29, gunned down by unknown assailants, has raised [...] | 2007-04-13 11:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIS MOPS IN CE |
07CHENNAI281 | CLAIMS OF CIA CONSPIRACIES ABOUND IN KERALA COMMUNIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two warring factions within Kerala's deeply divided ruling party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist),accuse each other of manipulating the media and liberally use the choicest insult: that their media antagonists are bankrolled by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [...] | 2007-04-16 10:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
07CHENNAI289 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: TAMIL NADU'S MANUFACTURING BOOM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two recently announced proposed projects - an almost $1 billion automobile joint venture between India's Mahindra & Mahindra, Nissan, and Renault and a $30 million dollar investment by Dell - highlight Tamil Nadu's continued growth as a manufacturing hub. While Tamil Nadu also [...] | 2007-04-17 10:44:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI303 | KERALA HOPES FOR OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala government officials hope the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratories will set up a research and development facility in the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram (also known as Trivandrum). According to state government sources, Kerala is awaiting a forma [...] | 2007-04-24 09:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ETTC PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI31 | BANGALORE TOP COP CONFIDENT ON SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Karnataka's new Director General of Police says multinational companies and other Western interests need not be worried about security in Bangalore, India's high-tech hub and the reported target of recently arrested terror suspects. He assured us, however, that security forces a [...] | 2007-01-12 07:30:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
07CHENNAI314 | AFTER CLOSING COKE, KERALA ACTIVISTS TARGET PEPSI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 10, Pepsi won a four-year court battle for survival in Kerala. But the legal victory has spurred a battle on another front: a virulent media campaign directed against it. A similar campaign succeeded in locking out Coca Cola in 2004, despite court verdicts in Coke's f [...] | 2007-05-01 08:51:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI317 | LABOR SHORTAGES EMERGE IN SOUTH INDIA [...] SUMMARY: Five years of rapid economic growth in south India has increased the demand for skilled labor. Businesses are aggressively recruiting talent from elite schools, at the same time training up recruits from lower ranked institutions in an effort to get them ready to contribute. But the [...] | 2007-05-02 07:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI318 | TAMIL NADU SAYS LTTE TO BLAME FOR KILLING AND ABDUCTING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Through a surprise announcement that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (not the Sri Lankan Navy) shot five Tamil Nadu fishermen dead on March 29 (reftel),Tamil Nadu has embarrassed and silenced Tamil Tiger supporters in the state. The Tamil Nadu government also alleged that [...] | 2007-05-02 07:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIS IN CE |
07CHENNAI337 | ATTACK ON NEWSPAPER OFFICES KILLS THREE AS DMK SUCESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three people were killed in an attack on a newspaper after it published a survey suggesting that the younger son of Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister has a huge lead over the older son in popular support to succeed the patriarch of the ruling DMK party. The violence, an infringement [...] | 2007-05-10 11:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CASC IN |
07CHENNAI340 | TELECOM MINISTER DAYANIDHI MARAN RESIGNS; NO IMMEDIATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Union Communication and Information Technology Minister, the high-profile Dayanidhi Maran sent his resignation to Prime Minister Singh after losing the support of his own DMK party. Maran's fall from the favor of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK party leader Karunanidhi (who als [...] | 2007-05-14 10:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI349 | AN ANTI-U.S. ECHO CHAMBER IN BANGALORE'S URDU SPEAKING [...] (SBU) Summary: Deeply felt Muslim resentment over the Iraq war and U.S. policies in the Middle East, as well as misperceptions of American society emerged during a planned literary discussion in Bangalore between Urdu writers and journalists and visiting American author Eddy Harris. End summar [...] | 2007-05-16 06:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO KISL IN |
07CHENNAI353 | ECONOMIC GROWTH DRIVES THE STORY IN SOUTH INDIA [...] SUMMARY: During a May 14-15 visit to Chennai, Charge d'Affaires Geoffrey R. Pyatt surveyed the dynamic economic climate in south India. Mr. Pyatt visited Ford India's manufacturing facility outside of Chennai, Cognizant Technology Solutions' campus in Chennai's IT corridor, and had lunch wit [...] | 2007-05-17 09:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV CVIS CMGT IN |
07CHENNAI363 | BOMBING AT HISTORIC MOSQUE IN HYDERABAD KILLS FIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A bomb exploded at Hyderabad's historic Mecca Masjid, the city's oldest and largest mosque, today at approximately 1:25 p.m. local time, killing five people and injuring many others. The bomb detonated during Friday prayers when the mosque was filled with up to 10,000 worshi [...] | 2007-05-18 13:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IN KISL PGOV PTER |
07CHENNAI365 | HYDERABAD MOSQUE BOMBING: CITY CALM; POLICE SEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hyderabad was calm, but tense over the weekend after the May 18 bombing of the Mecca Masjid (ref A). Citizens heeded calls from government and religious leaders to remain peaceful, despite the news that at least five people were killed by the police as the authorities tried t [...] | 2007-05-21 12:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC CASC KISL IN |
07CHENNAI385 | NAXALITES ATTACK POWER PLANT IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 30, Naxalites attacked a hydroelectric power plant in northeast Andhra Pradesh, causing damage to the plant's control room and injuring one employee. The attack, along with the recent killing of a Congress party functionary, demonstrates the Naxalites' continued ability [...] | 2007-05-31 09:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI398 | ANDHRA PRADESH SOFTWARE EXPORTS SOAR; NAIDU FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's information technology sector continues to boom, with software exports from the state increasing by almost 50% last year. Despite the growth in IT, politicians of all stripes, including the state's influential former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, are worri [...] | 2007-06-07 11:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI399 | CHIEF MINISTER'S DAUGHTER TO UPPER HOUSE; THE DMK'S FRESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi's 39 year-old daughter Kanimozhi is one of the six candidates set to be elected without contest to India's upper house of Parliament (the Rajya Sabha). Although a political novice, Kanimozhi will attract much attention as she is likely to em [...] | 2007-06-08 11:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI411 | HYDERABAD, LIKE BANGALORE, EXPANDS JURISDICTION TO MANAGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh recently announced a plan to expand the limits of the state's capital Hyderabad with eye towards improving management of the city's rapid development. The primary purpose of the project, known as Greater Hyderabad, is to mitigate uneven infrastructure development by [...] | 2007-06-18 10:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI412 | SUSPECTED CHIKUNGUNYA INFECTION HAUNTS KERALA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The southern Indian state of Kerala has been gripped by an outbreak of suspected chikungunya infection - a debilitating but non-fatal mosquito-borne viral illness that is not transmitted from human-to-human. With media reports of thousands of people hospitalized in Kerala, nea [...] | 2007-06-18 10:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI TBIO PGOV CASC IN |
07CHENNAI43 | TAMIL NADU RICE FARMERS DISRUPT GM CROP TRIALS [...] Summary: Farmers in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu destroyed a trial crop of genetically modified rice grown from seeds provided by Mahyco, Monsanto's Indian affiliate, on November 12. Local farmers allege the trial did not meet Indian bio-safety standards and said they feared possible "con [...] | 2007-01-18 05:07:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD ECIN TBIO IN |
07CHENNAI445 | Plea from NGOs: Don't Downgrade India to Tier 3 [...] SUMMARY: During a July 3 visit to Hyderabad, Ambassador Mulford met with representatives of anti-trafficking NGOs to hear their views on India's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The NGO representatives argued that the 2007 TIP report did not sufficiently or accurately acknowledge [...] | 2007-07-09 10:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ELAB KCRM KWMN PREL PHUM IN |
07CHENNAI475 | Nuclear-Powered Nimitz Visits Chennai: The Only Emission Is [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The July 2-5 visit of USS Nimitz to Chennai was an overwhelming success, overcoming criticism, protests, and bureaucratic hurdles to make an indelible impression on the bilateral strategic relationship. Citing the incident-free shore visits by thousands of sailors and their read [...] | 2007-07-23 10:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR MNUC PREL PGOV KPAO ASEC IN |
07CHENNAI477 | JAYALALITHAA SPLITS INDIA'S THIRD FRONT IN PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India's United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA),commonly known as the Third Front, failed its first test of unity on July 19 when members of Tamil Nadu's AIADMK, one of the key Third Front parties, voted in India's presidential election rather than abstaining as the Third [...] | 2007-07-24 10:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI486 | POLICE SHOOT AND KILL SIX IN ANDHRA PRADESH LAND PROTESTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 28, police shot and killed six villagers in Mudigonda in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh after a political protest demanding free land for the poor turned violent. Two other protesters were killed in separate incidents with the police. The protest, sponsored by the [...] | 2007-07-30 11:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM IN |
07CHENNAI50 | PDAS Mann in Chennai: Visas, Refugees and Politics [...] (SBU) Summary: During his December 16-17 visit to Chennai, SCA bureau Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann met with visa staff and viewed visa processing, had talks with Sri Lankan refugee leaders and discussed politics and Indo-U.S. relations with journalist-insider Malini Parthasa [...] | 2007-01-19 10:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CMGT IN CE |
07CHENNAI500 | SOUTH INDIAN COPS CONFIDENT THEY CAN HANDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Aggressive police activity in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has pushed the Maoists (also known as the Communist Party of India - Maoist and/or "Naxalites") into neighboring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, both of which historically have seen less Maoist activity. However, p [...] | 2007-08-10 09:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | IN PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI |
07CHENNAI512 | KERALA PLANS LAW TO CURB CORPORATE RETAIL GIANTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala's leftist government is drafting a law to curb the entry of large corporations, whether multinational or Indian, into the retail sector. The state's Finance Minister says the law will regulate, not ban, the entry of corporations into the retail sector. Although media con [...] | 2007-08-14 11:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI518 | CODEL ENSIGN EXPERIENCES SOUTH INDIA'S HIGH-TECH SECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator John Ensign (R-NV) made his first visit to Bangalore August 5-8 to see South India's info-tech boomtown firsthand. He met with top executives from several companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),Infosys, General Electric (GE),Brickwork, Texas Instruments [...] | 2007-08-22 06:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ECON EINV PGOV PREL SCUL CVIS IN |
07CHENNAI52 | BANGALORE VIOLENCE: HINDU-MUSLIM CLASHES FOLLOW SADDAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Hindu-Muslim riots broke out in several Bangalore neighborhoods over the January 19-21 weekend following a meeting organized by a Karnataka-based Muslim politician to condemn the execution of Saddam Hussein. On January 19, Hindus and Muslims clashed after Muslims marching to the [...] | 2007-01-22 10:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
07CHENNAI530 | HYDERABAD BOMBING UPDATE AND EAC MEETING REPORT [...] (SBU) On August 27, 2007 the RSO convened an EAC meeting to discuss and update members on new information surrounding the bombings in Hyderabad on Saturday, August 25. The meeting was attended by Pol/Econ, PAS, FCS, and FCS. The meeting was chaired by the Acting Consul General from PAS. The EAC [...] | 2007-08-27 12:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC PGOV PREL KTER IN |
07CHENNAI54 | CODEL SPECTER IN SOUTH INDIA: COMMUNISTS, COMPUTERS AND [...] (U) Summary: During a December 17-22 visit to the south Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) viewed first-hand India's high-tech and business boom, met with judicial officials and journalists, and experienced traditional culture and politics, the latter [...] | 2007-01-22 11:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON SCUL IN |
07CHENNAI541 | HYDERABAD TERROR GROUPS HAVE INTERNATIONAL LINKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging conversation only days before the August 25 bombings in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's Police Intelligence Chief told post that his office closely monitors 40 to 50 Indian nationals in Hyderabad who have links to Islamic terrorist groups. He said many of these y [...] | 2007-08-29 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IN KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER |
07CHENNAI559 | MAOIST BOMB ATTACK MISSES FORMER ANDHRA PRADESH CHIEF [...] (U) Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and current Member of Parliament N. Janardhana Reddy and his wife N. Rajyalaxmi, Minister for Women and Child Welfare in the AP state government, narrowly escaped a bomb attack on Friday, September 7 in Nellore district in southern Andhra Pradesh (approx [...] | 2007-09-11 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
07CHENNAI565 | INDIAN AEROSPACE ORGANIZATIONS TIE "RESTRICTIVE" LICENSING [...] (SBU) Summary: High-level representatives of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) recently complained to us about delays in receiving visas and in obtaining export licenses for equipment purchased from the United States. HAL told us that it will [...] | 2007-09-13 11:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CVIS ETTC KFPC ETRD ESTH BEXP EIND IN |
07CHENNAI569 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: ANDHRA PRADESH: ECONOMY BOOMING BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The economy of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh continues to boom. But despite strong economic growth led by the IT and pharmaceutical industries centered in the state's capital Hyderabad, the agricultural sector continues to lag and unemployment remains high. The r [...] | 2007-09-14 05:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PINR PHUM PTER KISL IN |
07CHENNAI593 | KERALA COMMUNISTS WORRY ABOUT COST OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The southern Indian state of Kerala has long been known for achieving a high level of social development despite poor economic growth and low incomes. Kerala's approach, known as the "Kerala model" of development, focuses on government spending on education and health care. [...] | 2007-09-21 06:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR SOCI IN |
07CHENNAI602 | KERALA COMMUNISTS FEAR LOSSES IN POSSIBLE PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and its allies in the southern Indian state of Kerala are apprehensive about possible parliamentary elections should India's Left Parties withdraw support from the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in New Delhi. The s [...] | 2007-09-26 11:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI605 | RELIGIOUS MONKEY BUSINESS ROILS INDIAN WATERS, POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political tempers have flared in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu as a canal project off the state's coast has turned into an unlikely source of political and religious controversy. The long-proposed Sethusamudram project will dredge a passage through the Palk Strait be [...] | 2007-09-28 09:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI606 | G/TIP VISITS RESCUED BONDED LABORERS IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: The director of the Department's office charged with combating human trafficking visited South India to hear first-hand accounts from victims of bonded labor and to witness government and NGO programs designed to help them. He also spoke with Karnataka's Chief Secretary, who do [...] | 2007-09-28 09:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN |
07CHENNAI611 | TENSIONS RISE IN BANGALORE AS HANDOVER DEADLINE [...] (SBU) Summary: The south Indian state of Karnataka (and its capital, Bangalore) appears set for several months of political turmoil, which may help Congress gain more than a dozen seats if national parliamentary elections are held in 2008. The ruling BJP-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition is crum [...] | 2007-09-28 09:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
07CHENNAI620 | TURMOIL IN KARNATAKA AS GOVERNING COALITION TEETERS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Buoyed by unexpected success in the South Indian state of Karnataka's September 28 local elections, the ruling Janata Dal (Secular) party refused to hand over the position of Chief Minister (CM) on October 3 to its BJP coalition partner as required in their coalition agreement. [...] | 2007-10-05 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
07CHENNAI629 | PRESIDENTIAL RULE IMPOSED IN KARNATAKA: ADVANTAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Pratibha Patel imposed direct rule over the southern Indian state of Karnataka on October 9, following the recommendation of the state's governor the day before. The governor submitted his recommendation after the October 8 resignation of the Chief Minister (CM),which [...] | 2007-10-12 05:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL IN |
07CHENNAI640 | CORRUPTION PLAGUES ANDHRA PRADESH'S BIG TICKET SPENDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress party has been spending billions of dollars on social programs targeted at the "common man." The spending programs, though politically popular, have led to much talk that Chief Minister YSR Reddy's government is engaged in corruption beyond the [...] | 2007-10-22 11:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI654 | TRICKLE OF SRI LANKAN REFUGEES TO INDIA COULD BECOME FLOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The flow of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has steadily declined to less than 200 a month. But the situation could quickly reverse itself: our contacts say that up to 50,000 refugees could arrive in India within a few months if war breaks out [...] | 2007-10-26 03:26:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI661 | TAMIL NADU BJP EAGER FOR ALLIANCE WITH JAYALALITHAA'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India's major political parties, the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),are minor players in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Two regional parties - the DMK and the rival AIADMK - dominate the state, leaving Congress with approximately 10-15 percent and BJP wit [...] | 2007-11-01 13:07:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI662 | BJP CLAIMS A NEW MAJORITY IN BANGALORE [...] (SBU) Summary: A newly reformed BJP-JD(S) coalition now claims to have a majority in the South Indian state of Karnataka's legislature. It has demanded that the governor re-activate the state's legislative assembly and ask the coalition to form a government. The Congress-appointed governor h [...] | 2007-11-02 06:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL IN |
07CHENNAI668 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh recently enacted a law allowing the government to identify places of worship where the propagation of any religion other than the religion traditionally practiced at the identified location is prohibited. Thus far, the state has only id [...] | 2007-11-09 08:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI IN |
07CHENNAI671 | BJP SET TO LEAD ITS FIRST GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Union Cabinet decided on November 8 to end "President's Rule" in the South Indian state of Karnataka, paving the way for the BJP to lead a governing coalition -- the first time that the BJP has led a government in a southern state. The BJP will join the JD(S) to govern, in [...] | 2007-11-09 10:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL IN |
07CHENNAI689 | BETRAYAL ENDS THE BJP'S WEEK-LONG REIGN IN KARNATAKA [...] (SBU) Summary: The BJP's first, brief taste of power in South India ended on November 19 when Karnataka's Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa resigned his position after a mere seven days in office. He submitted his resignation when it became clear that his government would fail to win its initial [...] | 2007-11-20 10:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON PREL IN |
07CHENNAI690 | TAMIL NADU CHIEF MINISTER'S TRIBUTE TO DEAD TAMIL TIGER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's poem eulogizing a leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam killed in an attack by the Sri Lankan air force raised questions about his views on the banned group. Media reports and protests by opposition parties caused a political s [...] | 2007-11-20 11:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI694 | TAMIL NADU GARMENT INDUSTRY (MOSTLY) CHILD LABOR FREE BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tirupur, a small city near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu's second largest city, is a remarkable economic success story. In the span of just a few decades, Tirupur's garment industry has grown to account for more than half of India's knitwear exports. With a rapid growth creating a de [...] | 2007-11-28 11:31:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN |
07CHENNAI696 | TIRUPUR GARMENT INDUSTRY: EXPORT SUCCESS STORY ANXIOUS [...] SUMMARY: Tirupur, a small city near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu's second largest city, is a remarkable economic success story. Over just a few decades, Tirupur's garment industry has grown to account for more than half of India's knitwear exports. The town's knitwear industry provides more than [...] | 2007-11-30 06:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI703 | NASA DISCUSSES WITH ISRO PROSPECTS FOR COOPERATION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: NASA officials visited the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Bangalore headquarters on November 6. The NASA team outlined the agency's plans for lunar exploration to an audience of 35 scientists, heard ISRO's plans for the future of India's space program, and discusse [...] | 2007-12-04 10:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA ETTC KNNP KSCA ECPS IN |
07CHENNAI706 | TURNING TRASH TO TREASURE IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: Rapid urban growth has spawned several challenges for the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, including managing the disposal of an increasing amount of solid waste. A variety of projects are on the drawing board or already in practice to convert this mountain of waste into somet [...] | 2007-12-07 06:16:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV SENV ECON IN |
07CHENNAI707 | COMMUNISTS GRAB LAND IN KERALA, BUT NO NANDIGRAM THIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Workers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)),together with more than 700 locals, tried to grab a 127 acre piece of government land in Kerala. After pushing out a group of tribal families that had previously claimed the land for themselves, the CPI(M) cadres tor [...] | 2007-12-10 05:32:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI709 | INFOSYS FOUNDER ON IPR IN CHINA, HIRING IN U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a wide ranging discussion with us, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Infosys Technologies Narayana Murthy discussed the state of Infosys, with particular emphasis on its expansion plans outside of India. Murthy told post that his company's expansion into China has been h [...] | 2007-12-14 10:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EINV CH IN |
07CHENNAI77 | TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED, GIRLS RESCUED IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] Summary: Since mid-October 2006, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police, assisted by local NGOs, have rescued 80 girls and arrested 94 traffickers from four districts in the state. Most of the traffickers have been booked under non-bailable charges. Most of the rescued girls were placed in shelter h [...] | 2007-01-31 11:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN SOCI KCRM ELAB IN |
07CHENNAI83 | ANDHRA PRADESH: MAOIST REVERSES ... BUT WILL THEY LAST? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With effect from mid-January 2007, The Communist Party of India Maoist (CPI-Maoist),also known as Naxalites, says it has suspended major activities in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The move comes after several months of Maoist setbacks in the state, including killings of several party l [...] | 2007-02-01 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
07CHENNAI84 | US DUMPING DUTIES FORCE INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Elias Sait, Secretary General of the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI),contends that the imposition of U.S. anti-dumping duties on Indian shrimp and subsequent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bond requirements have reduced the number of seafood exporters to [...] | 2007-02-01 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV EFIS EIND SENV IN CE BR EC |
07CHENNAI86 | TAMIL NADU POLICE ARREST SUSPECTED LTTE SMUGGLERS, STEP UP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Seizing thousands of kilos of iron ball bearings from suspected smugglers, Tamil Nadu (TN) police appear to have busted an emerging LTTE supply line. TN police believe the ball bearings were meant to be used in LTTE's explosive devices to enhance their lethality. The seizures l [...] | 2007-02-02 08:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
07CHIANGMAI156 | NORTHERN THAI ACTIVISTS PREDICT CRACKDOWN IN BURMA [...] (C) A violent government crackdown against ongoing protests in Burma is the likeliest scenario seen by northern Thai-based activists and NGOs who met with CG and visiting Thailand Desk Officer September 25. As a first step, they anticipate the GOB will attempt to cut off protestors' communica [...] | 2007-09-26 11:40:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM MARR MOPS TH BM CH IN |
07COLOMBO250 | SRI LANKA: GROWING COUT AND APPEAL OF NON-WESTERN [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Sri Lanka is increasingly looking to non-Western partners like China, India, Korea, Malaysia, and even Iran to fund major infrastructure projects. These donors are promising aid without conditions, while the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European donors and t [...] | 2007-02-09 09:42:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EINV PREL CE CH IN IR JA KS MY |
07COLOMBO516 | SRI LANKA REQUESTS US MILITARY TEAM TO ASSESS AIR DEFENSE FOLLOWING LTTE AIR ATTACK [...] (C/NF) Summary: Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa convoked Ambassador and Defense Attache on March 30 to request the visit of a U.S. military team to assess how Sri Lanka can improve its air defense capabilities to defend against possible future LTTE air attacks. Rajapaksa outlined the countr [...] | 2007-04-01 05:33:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PTER PREL CE IN |
07COLOMBO58 | SRI LANKA: INDIAN FOR MIN URGES GOVERNMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee, in Colombo ostensibly to invite President Rajapaksa to the next SSARC summit in April, expressed India's concern to the President and other senior leaders over civilian casualties in the two-decade old ethnic conflict. He ga [...] | 2007-01-11 13:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PGOV MOPS IN CE |
07COLOMBO838 | SRI LANKA: INDIAN NAVY REPORTEDLY LIFTS OBJECTIONS [...] (C) On June 5, Sri Lanka Director of Naval Projects and Plans (DNPP) Commodore Lakshman Illangakoon contacted Embassy's Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) to provide a readout of a meeting in New Delhi with the Indian Navy Commander and others (no further information) on the proposed U.S.-provided [...] | 2007-06-13 06:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MASS MOPS IN CE |
07DAKAR1693 | SENEGAL: INDIAN IFFCO TO CONTROL ICS [...] Summary: On July 16 the Government of Senegal and the Indian Farmer Fertilizer Cooperative Limited Group (IFFCO) signed a new agreement to rescue Senegal's major phosphate producer, ICS. The goal of the negotiations was to recapitalize ICS, gain creditors' confidence, attract new shareholder [...] | 2007-08-14 15:49:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ETRD IN SG |
07DAKAR666 | POSSIBLE SENEGAL-INDIA AGREEMENT TO REVIVE PHOSPHATE [...] (SBU) Two days before the reelection of President Wade, the Government of Senegal (GOS) and the India Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited Group (IFFCO) signed what is described as an interim agreement on February 23, to revive production at Senegal's national phosphates company, Industries [...] | 2007-03-22 17:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EIND ETRD IN SG |
07DUBAI491 | CODEL GRAHAM MEETS WITH DUBAI EXECUTIVE OFFICE HEAD NABIL AL [...] (C) Summary: In an August 12 meeting with a CODEL led by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC),Nabil al Yousuf (Director of UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum's (MbR) Executive Office) outlined elements of Dubai's strategic plan and highlighted recent gro [...] | 2007-08-19 14:25:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON OREP IN AE |
07HANOI687 | UPDATE ON OUTBREAK COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN VIETNAM AVIAN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (GVN) has a comprehensive prevention and control approach for avian and pandemic influenza (AI) based on a national surveillance system in the developing world context. The approach integrates both animal and human health sectors. The GVN leader [...] | 2007-04-12 00:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU KPAO SENV OCII AJ CB CA CH EG IN ID LA MX |
07HELSINKI280 | FINLAND WILL SUPPORT U.S. POSITION AT ANTARCTIC [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on the upcoming Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) to Mr. Jukka Nikulainen, First Secretary in the Northern Dimension unit of the GOF Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Finnish delegation to the ATCM meeting includes: -Ambassador Erik Ulfstedt, [...] | 2007-04-18 13:32:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC AY IN KSCA KTIA SENV THPY FI |
07ISLAMABAD1028 | FM KASURI'S FEBRUARY 20-21 VISIT TO NEW DELHI [...] (C) Summary: In a March 1 meeting with PolOff, MFA Director-General for South Asian Affairs Jalil Jilani provided a readout of Foreign Minister Kasuri's February 20-21 visit to New Delhi. Jilani previewed the upcoming March 6 anti-terror talks in Islamabad and described the nuclear accord [...] | 2007-03-03 11:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IN MNUC PK PREL PTER |
07ISLAMABAD1279 | PAKISTANI PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] (C) President Musharraf, Foreign Minister Kasuri, and Foreign Secretary Khan have all recently emphasized to Ambassador that one purpose of Pakistan's "Moderate Muslim States" initiative is to pressure Iran to modify its behavior. Pakistan believes that by not inviting Iran to the February [...] | 2007-03-20 13:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IN MNUC PGOV PK PREL |
07ISLAMABAD1377 | PAKISTAN WANTS EFFECTIVE VERIFICATION IN P-6 [...] (C) On March 26, Deputy Chief of Mission delivered points in reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional Secretary for UN Affairs Tariq Osman Hyder. Hyder responded that Pakistan was firm in its opposition to a negotiating mandate for the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty that did not inclu [...] | 2007-03-27 12:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK IN KNNP PREL |
07ISLAMABAD1417 | UPCOMING BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-29 11:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PK PREL IN AF |
07ISLAMABAD1514 | PAKISTANI PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] (C) President Musharraf, Foreign Minister Kasuri, and Foreign Secretary Khan have all recently emphasized to Ambassador that one purpose of Pakistan's "Moderate Muslim States" initiative is to pressure Iran to modify its behavior. Pakistan believes that by not inviting Iran to the February [...] | 2007-04-05 14:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IN MNUC PGOV PK PREL |
07ISLAMABAD1779 | DELEGATION ADVANCES NON-PRO DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-20 10:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | IN KNNP PGOV PK PREL |
07ISLAMABAD2316 | SCENESETTER: CHAIRMAN JCS GENERAL PACE MEETING [...] (C//NF) Embassy Islamabad welcomes your meeting with Chief of Joint Staff General Ehsan Ul Haq of the Pakistan Army. Your meeting comes at an important time in U.S.-Pakistan relations: Politicians, opinion makers, and the press are paying close attention to what Pakistanis view as unfair pu [...] | 2007-05-23 11:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PK AF IN |
07ISLAMABAD2654 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL FALLON'S JUNE 15-17 VISIT [...] (C) We look forward to your arrival in Pakistan. As always, your discussions with senior officials will strengthen joint U.S.-Pakistan efforts in the War on Terror. You may also have the opportunity to encourage your military counterparts to support democratization and the protection of huma [...] | 2007-06-14 12:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV AF IN PK |
07ISLAMABAD274 | BOUCHER DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, INDIA, TRADE WITH [...] (C) On January 12, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Kasuri for a wide-ranging discussion, which included Pak-Afghan and Pak-India relations, Reconstruction Opportunity Zones, the development plan for Pakist [...] | 2007-01-17 12:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PREF PK AF IN CA |
07ISLAMABAD2780 | BOUCHER'S FOREIGN MINISTRY DISCUSSIONS FOCUS ON CURRENT EVENTS, STRATEGIC DIALOGUE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-22 11:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF ECON IN PGOV PHUM PK PREL PTER |
07ISLAMABAD414 | APHC'S PAKISTAN VISIT HIGHLIGHTS PAKISTAN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-22 13:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IN PK PREL PTER |
07ISLAMABAD4794 | PAKISTAN, INDIA APPEAR TO HAVE AGREED ON PRICE [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan and Iran are very close to signing a bilateral gas pipeline deal, now that the gas pricing issue is resolved, according to November 8 press reports. Pakistan has also reportedly won the ability to resell Iranian gas to both India and Pakistan. Imported Iranian gas woul [...] | 2007-11-08 13:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL PK IN IR |
07ISLAMABAD5086 | Ministerial Meeting on Turkmen- Afghan-Pakistan- India [...] (C) Summary: A Ministerial meeting to further discussions on the Turkmen- Afghan- Pakistan- India(TAPI) pipeline has been postponed. Pakistan media implies that Turkmenistan's gas deals with Russia are the reason for the delay and not Pakistan's state of emergency. Pakistan continues to seek U [...] | 2007-11-30 03:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL EPET ELTN PK IN IR |
07ISLAMABAD528 | PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF MEETS SPEAKER PELOSI AND 110TH [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 meeting lasting more than an hour-and-a-half, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Committee/Sub-Committee Chairs of the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Appropriations Committees called on Pakistani President Musharraf. The Speaker [...] | 2007-01-31 12:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF IN MOPS PK PREL PTER XF |
07ISLAMABAD845 | UPCOMING PAKISTANI BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 13:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | IN KNNP MCAP PK PREL |
07ISLAMABAD890 | UPCOMING PAKISTANI BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 10:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | IN KNNP MCAP PK PREL |
07JAKARTA3050 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Mission discussed reftel themes with Harry Purwanto, Director for North American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs, on November 1. We noted that Indonesia would appear to share U.S. objectives, given the participation of an Indonesian peacekeeping battalion in UNIFIL. 2. (C [...] | 2007-11-01 10:45:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER EUN SY LE IN |
07JAKARTA3358 | DEFENSE COOPERATION -- DASD CLAD'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: DASD Clad discussed U.S.-Indonesia mil-mil cooperation and East Asian regional security with MinDef Sudarsono on December 5. Sudarsono said Indonesia wanted an effective but low-visibility security relationship with the United States. He said the GOI was focusing its air capaci [...] | 2007-12-10 09:47:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV ID IN CH XE |
07JAKARTA3363 | INDONESIA -- SENATOR KERRY DISCUSSES BURMA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Kerry expressed concern about the Burmese situation in a meeting with President Yudhoyono on December 10. Yudhoyono noted that he was also concerned and had urged the regime to take needed steps, but ASEAN had limited influence and needed U.S. help to push China and Indi [...] | 2007-12-11 08:18:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ID BM CH IN |
07KATHMANDU1001 | BHUTANESE REFUGEES WORRY ABOUT ONGOING [...] (C) Recent press reports in Nepal and India have concluded that 70,000 - 80,000 Nepali-ethnic Bhutanese, called Lhotsampa, were not permitted to participate in the mock elections held in Bhutan in April. The reports also suggested that these people might be subject to eviction from Bhutan. G [...] | 2007-05-18 11:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL PGOV BT IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1028 | NEPAL: FORMER PM: "EVERYONE IS KEEPING MUM" [...] (C) On May 23, former Prime Minister and President of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (National People's Power Party) (RJP) Surya Bahadur Thapa told the Ambassador that King Gyanendra had no intention to step down. Thapa had told Gyanendra that it might be wise to abdicate in order to "preserve [...] | 2007-05-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN PTER NP |
07KATHMANDU1045 | NEPAL: MADHESI CONCERNS ARE PRIORITY IN CENTRAL [...] (C) Political leaders and government officials in the capitals of three Central and Eastern Terai districts -- Janakpur, Siraha, and Biratnagar -- expressed concern to Emboff during a May 16-18 visit that political turmoil in the troubled Southern borderland with India would increase dramatica [...] | 2007-05-25 12:33:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM IN NP |
07KATHMANDU105 | NEPAL: UN ARMS MONITORING BEGINS [...] (C) On January 17, Ian Martin's political advisor John Norris told the Deputy Chief of Mission that the UN arms monitoring team had begun the arms management process at the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) 3rd Division cantonment site in Chitwan District at around noon. The process began with [...] | 2007-01-18 12:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1112 | INDIAN AMBASSADOR ACKNOWLEDGES MAOISTS ARE OUT OF [...] (C/NF) Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee agreed with the Ambassador June 4 that the Maoists had intensified their campaign of threats and intimidation. Mukherjee admitted he was being recalled by the Government of India (GOI) for consultations amid fears that the Maoists were out of control. [...] | 2007-06-05 12:48:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1197 | NEPAL: INDIAN OFFICIALS TAKE TOUGHER STAND ON [...] (C) On June 15, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee confirmed to the Ambassador that the Government of India had taken a tougher line on Maoist abuses. Mukherjee's recent visit to New Delhi had coincided with the visit of Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist General Secretary Ma [...] | 2007-06-18 13:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MARR IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1292 | NEW DELHI OFFERING NEPAL SIGNIFICANT SECURITY [...] (C) On June 29, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee assured the Ambassador that the Government of India (GOI) would significantly enhance security assistance to the Nepali Police and Armed Police Force. The Indian Ambassador said New Delhi had already clamped down on the Nepal-India borde [...] | 2007-07-03 06:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM PINR IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1314 | NEPAL: ARMY CHIEF OPPOSES INTEGRATION OF MAOISTS [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Rookmangud Katawal told the Ambassador July 2 that he opposed integrating Maoist combatants into the Nepal Army for "five years." He estimated it would take that long for democracy to take root in Nepal. He said he had stressed to Prime Minister G.P. Koirala on [...] | 2007-07-06 09:03:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PTER IN CH NP |
07KATHMANDU1345 | KING'S SUPPORTERS HAVE LOST HOPE [...] (C) On July 11, Royal confidant Prabhakar SJB Rana told the Ambassador that King Gyanendra's supporters had lost all hope for the future of the monarchy. Rana said the King was aware of his extremely weak position, but he still hoped that the Government of India and the passage of time might r [...] | 2007-07-13 08:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM ECON IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1580 | FINANCE MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT ESCALATING [...] (C) On August 20, Nepali Finance Minister Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat told the Ambassador, USAID Director Beth Paige and visiting senior Senate Appropriations Committee staffer Tim Rieser that the Government of Nepal (GON) anticipated a shortfall of approximately USD 30 million in funds for the Const [...] | 2007-08-22 08:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID KDEM IN NP |
07KATHMANDU165 | NEPAL: IAN MARTIN COMMENTS ON ARMS MANAGEMENT, [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST -- See para. 3. Summary ------- 2. (C) The UN Secretary General's Personal Representative Ian Martin informed the Ambassador January 22 that the process of Maoist arms management was progressing fairly smoothly at the two main People's Liberation Army camps [...] | 2007-01-24 11:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER MARR UN IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1665 | INDIAN AMBASSADOR ON UNMIN MANDATE AND CONCERNS OF [...] (C) During a meeting August 31 with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee noted that he is increasingly concerned about UN mission creep in Nepal. He started by saying that unless work begins now in New York on an extension of the current mandate, the UN staff here will s [...] | 2007-09-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1801 | NEPAL: TEXTILES AND APPAREL PRODUCTION [...] In response to EEB's request, Post gathered the following 2007 data on textiles and apparel production in Nepal. Note that Nepal's fiscal year runs from July 16 to July 15 so the date is given as FY 05/06 and FY 06/07. - Total industrial production: FY 05/06 USD 2.39 billion and FY 06/07 USD [...] | 2007-09-26 11:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTEX IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1868 | NEPAL: LOW EXPECTATIONS FOR PARLIAMENTARY SPECIAL [...] (C) Senior staff at the Interim Parliament expect the special session which begins October 11 will address two topics only: a purely proportional system for the Constituent Assembly election and the declaration of a republic. Maoist Members of Parliament cited these two issues when they invok [...] | 2007-10-10 10:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IN NP |
07KATHMANDU188 | PARTY LEADERS CONCERNED ABOUT A MAOIST DEPUTY [...] (C) In separate meetings January 22, 23 and 26, Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chairman Pashupati Shumsher Rana, and Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal all told the A [...] | 2007-01-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1922 | NEPAL: MAOIST LEADER ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN [...] (C) On October 29, K.B. Rokaya, a Nepali Christian leader who was recently appointed as a member of the National Human Rights Commission at the urging of the Maoists, delivered a letter dated October 28 from Krishna Mahara, in his capacity as a member of the Maoist Central Committee, via Emboff [...] | 2007-10-30 10:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1935 | SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] (C) On October 31 Post contacted the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in New Delhi as the mission responsible for relations with Nepal regarding Argentine's effort to persuade the International Criminal Police Organization's (INTERPOL) General Assembly to confirm the issuance of six Red Notic [...] | 2007-11-01 09:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV IN AR NP |
07KATHMANDU1944 | EXIT PERMIT PROCESS FOR RESETTLEMENT OF BHUTANESE [...] (C) In meetings with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration Sauerbrey October 31, Nepal's Home and Foreign Ministers expressed receptiveness to streamlining the exit permit process for Bhutanese refugees, although they could not state what the new process would be or when i [...] | 2007-11-05 08:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL BT IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1945 | AS SAUERBREY'S MEETINGS WITH PRIME MINISTER AND [...] (C) In a meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration Sauerbrey November 3, Prime Minister Koirala expressed concern about four aspects of the resettlement program for Bhutanese refugees: the citizenship status of the refugees, speed of the resettlement program (he [...] | 2007-11-06 07:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM CH BT IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1983 | NEPAL'S POLITICIANS STRUGGLING TO FIND THE WAY [...] (C) Nepal's peace process, which established an interim government and brought the Maoists into the Parliament, is experiencing a crisis. Despite weeks of talks, the Six-Party Alliance and the Maoists have yet to agree on a new date for the Constituent Assembly election, which was postponed i [...] | 2007-11-15 10:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UN IN NP |
07KATHMANDU204 | NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR POSITIVE ABOUT ARMS [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 26, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee expressed confidence that India could squeeze the Maoists and the Government of Nepal (GON) into doing the right thing regarding arms management. Mukherjee assured the Ambassador that India would do wha [...] | 2007-01-29 09:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL MARR IN NP |
07KATHMANDU266 | NEPAL: INDIAN DCM CONCERNED ABOUT TERAI UNREST [...] (C) In a February 1 meeting with the DCM, Indian DCM Dr. Kheya Bhattacharya said that she was dismayed by the current unrest in the Terai, adding that she thought the Prime Minister had missed an "historic opportunity" to solve the problem with his January 31 speech to the nation by speaking o [...] | 2007-02-02 09:48:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP |
07KATHMANDU316 | COMMUNIST PARTY OF BHUTAN INTENSIFIES ACTIVITIES [...] (C/NF) According to several recent reports in the Royal Government of Bhutan's (RGOB) news service and the Indian press, the Communist Party of Bhutan - Marxist Leninist Maoist (CPB) has intensified its activities in the Bhutanese refugee camps in eastern Nepal. A close Embassy contact and r [...] | 2007-02-07 12:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PREL PGOV PTER BT IN NP |
07KATHMANDU402 | CANADIAN AMBASSADOR PLEASED BY PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Canada's New Delhi-based Ambassador to Nepal David Malone told the Ambassador recently he was pleased to hear of Prime Minister Koirala's recent decision to approve third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees. He indicated that the Government of Canada had not yet decided how many re [...] | 2007-02-21 09:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PTER BT IN CA NP |
07KATHMANDU486 | NEPAL: INDIA DIGS IN ON ARMS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukherjee told the Ambassador on March 5 that the Government of India (GOI) was encouraging the Prime Minister to hold the line on weapons management before allowing Maoist entry into an interim government. Mukherjee also reported that he personally [...] | 2007-03-06 14:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF BH IN NP |
07KATHMANDU487 | NEPAL: INDIA DIGS IN ON ARMS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukherjee told the Ambassador on March 5 that the Government of India (GOI) was encouraging the Prime Minister to hold the line on weapons management before allowing Maoist entry into an interim government. Mukherjee also reported that he personally [...] | 2007-03-07 02:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF BH IN NP |
07KATHMANDU550 | UNDER SECRETARY FORE CALLS FOR ROUNDTABLE TO [...] (C) On March 10, Under Secretary of State Fore urged Prime Minister Koirala to hold a national roundtable to begin to address the political concerns of Madhesis as well as ethnic minorities and other historically disadvantaged groups. The Prime Minister responded that he had asked Subash Nemwa [...] | 2007-03-15 09:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG PREF PHUM BH IN NP |
07KATHMANDU551 | UNDER SECRETARY FORE CALLS FOR ROUNDTABLE TO [...] (U) THIS IS A CORRECTED COPY OF KATHMANDU 550. CORRECTION IN FINAL PARAGRAPH (COMMENT). Summary ------- 2. (C) On March 10, Under Secretary of State Fore urged Prime Minister Koirala to hold a national roundtable to begin to address the political concerns of Madhesis as well as ethnic [...] | 2007-03-15 10:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG PREF PHUM BH IN NP |
07KATHMANDU557 | NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR WORRIED ABOUT MAOISTS [...] (C) Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Mukherjee agreed with the Ambassador March 12 that Maoist leader Prachanda should provide evidence of his claim of a royalist plot to assassinate official Americans and that, if he failed to provide evidence, the Government of Nepal (GON) should issue a publ [...] | 2007-03-16 08:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC IN NP |
07KATHMANDU647 | NEPAL: INDIANS WANT TIMELY ELECTIONS [...] (C) On March 28, Indian Charge d'Affaires Dr. Kheya Bhattacharya stressed to the Ambassador the importance of holding the Constituent Assembly election by June as specified in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Since only an interim government could declare the date for the election und [...] | 2007-03-28 12:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN NP |
07KATHMANDU667 | KEY ALLIANCE LEADERS DIVIDED OVER INTERIM [...] (C) In meetings March 29 and March 30 with Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) General Secretary MK Nepal and Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) President Sher Bahadur Deuba, the two senior Seven-Party Alliance leaders expressed divergent views on the formation of an interim [...] | 2007-03-30 16:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IN NP |
07KATHMANDU668 | PRIME MINISTER UNEASY ABOUT FORMING INTERIM [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala told the Ambassador March 30 that he faced tremendous pressure to form an interim government with the Maoists before he departed April 1 for New Delhi to attend the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit. Koirala said he was being pressed by [...] | 2007-03-30 16:57:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP |
07KATHMANDU732 | THE KING AND THE MAOISTS: FROM FOE TO FRIEND TO FOE [...] (SBU) An article by a former senior Maoist turned dissident that appeared in mid-January 2007 in one of Nepal's leading newsweeklies casts light on the somewhat bewildering turns that have characterized the relationship between King Gyanendra and Maoist chief Prachanda. Maoist dissident Rabin [...] | 2007-04-09 12:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PTER PINR IN NP |
07KATHMANDU739 | AFTER PUSHING FOR AN INTERIM GOVERNMENT, INDIANS [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee agreed with the Ambassador April 9 that the re-appointment of Krishna Prasad Sitaula as Home Minister would exacerbate existing tensions in the Terai and make it more difficult to impose law and order. They also agreed that problems remained with t [...] | 2007-04-10 12:39:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PREF BT IN NP |
07KATHMANDU740 | FORMER PM TO INDIA TO ASCERTAIN FATE OF MONARCHY [...] (C) On April 9, Royal confidant Prabhakar SJB Rana told the Ambassador that Former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa would travel to New Delhi soon to confer with top Indian political leaders about the fate of Nepal's monarchy and the country's uncertain future. Rana requested that the Ambas [...] | 2007-04-10 12:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IN NP |
07KATHMANDU759 | MFA COMMENTS ON IRAN'S STATUS AS SAARC OBSERVER [...] (C) On April 12, Arjun Bahadur Thapa, the Joint Secretary for the Foreign Ministry's South Asia and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Division, stated to Emboff that Iran had sent a note to the Prime Minister of India and the SAARC Secretary General expressing its interes [...] | 2007-04-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SAARC IN IR NP |
07KATHMANDU761 | PRIME MINISTER SAYS ELECTION DELAY LIKELY, [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala told the Ambassador April 13 that an election delay was likely. The Ambassador acknowledged that free and fair elections now would be difficult, noting that security in the country remained poor and marginalized ethnic groups continued to feel excluded from the poli [...] | 2007-04-13 11:55:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PREF MASS ETRD IN BT NP |
07KATHMANDU809 | CORE GROUP MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER ON [...] (C) In a meeting April 20 with Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan, members of the Core Group representing the U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark and Norway laid out the basis for technical discussions on third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees. FM Pradhan emphasized the need to repatriate [...] | 2007-04-20 12:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV BT IN NP |
07KATHMANDU855 | NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR WANTS COOPERATION ON NEPAL [...] (C) Newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zheng Xianglin told the Ambassador April 27 that he wanted to see more cooperation among China, India, and the U.S. to help Nepal's peace process succeed. The People's Republic of China (PRC) and the U.S. had a common interest in Nepal achieving [...] | 2007-04-27 11:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR ELTN CH IN NP |
07KATHMANDU856 | BRITISH AND INDIAN AMBASSADORS AGREE: NEED TO NAG [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, British Ambassador Dr. Andrew Hall, and the Ambassador April 26 agreed that the Government of Nepal (GON) should set a date for a Constituent Assembly election and enforce law and order. The Maoists needed to be made aware that serious abuses in t [...] | 2007-04-27 11:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KDEM PHUM UN IN NP |
07KATHMANDU907 | NEPAL: FORMER PM ENCOURAGES INDIANS TO SEND CLEAR [...] (C) On May 4, former Prime Minister and President of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (National People's Power Party) (RJP) Surya Bahadur Thapa expressed concern to the Charge that the Maoists would increase their efforts to destabilize the country in the coming months. During recent consultatio [...] | 2007-05-07 11:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PTER IN NP |
07KATHMANDU965 | NEPAL: ROYAL CONFIDANT CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) On May 12, royal confidant Prabhakar Rana expressed optimism to the Ambassador that the Government of India might take a more positive role in Nepal's politics. According to Rana, who met with Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee on May 11, Mukherjee planned to push Prime Minister Koir [...] | 2007-05-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN KDEM NP |
07KATHMANDU988 | NEPAL: PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA FEISTY, FRUSTRATED [...] (C) On May 17, Prime Minister Koirala expressed his frustration to the Ambassador with the Maoist failure to change their behavior since joining the Interim Government. Koirala said he was determined to enforce law and order and to crack down on the criminal activities of the Maoist Young Comm [...] | 2007-05-17 11:36:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM MARR UN CH IN NP |
07KHARTOUM460 | US/SUDANESE RELATIONS AT THE DIVIDE [...] (C) Summary. U.S./Sudanese relations are poised to pass from one watershed into another. From the U.S. perspective, Sudan's rejection of UN peace-keeping in Darfur pushes relations toward direct confrontation, just as Sudanese see the U.S. imposition of additional sanctions as proof of enduri [...] | 2007-03-23 11:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU AL CH IN |
07KOLKATA104 | WHAT DOES NANDIGRAM MEAN FOR THE CPM? [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 14 Nandigram violence resulted in at least 14 deaths, badly damaged Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's administration and revealed the ruthless face of West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM). It also shifted the dynamics between the CPM and [...] | 2007-03-29 11:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL IN |
07KOLKATA109 | SUSPECTED NEPALI MAOISTS ATTACK VILLAGE IN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Violence from Nepal's Terai region is spilling over to the neighboring Indian state of Bihar. On March 31, about 200 suspected Nepali Maoists attacked a small village block in the Sitamarhi district of North Bihar, killing one security guard and injuring a dozen civilians. Thi [...] | 2007-04-04 06:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN NP |
07KOLKATA114 | ASSAM: ULFA BLAST DURING PM VISIT. PROSPECT OF PEACE TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 8, a bomb carried by boys working for the secessionist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) accidentally detonated earlier than planned and killed one person in Guwahati, Assam. The explosion took place during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's April 8-9 to the state. [...] | 2007-04-09 12:29:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN |
07KOLKATA116 | EASTERN INDIA ALERT TO AVIAN INFLUENZA RISK FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Summary: With the recent reported cases of Avian Influenza (AI) in Bangladesh and Burma, neighboring Indian states have alerted officials to monitor for possible outbreaks and have banned imports of poultry products from those two countries (reftels). On April 7, the "Hindustan Times" [...] | 2007-04-10 05:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR TBIO KFLU CASC EAID AMED PGOV IN BM BG |
07KOLKATA119 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH: VETERAN CHIEF MINISTER OUSTED IN [...] (U) Summary: On April 9, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang was replaced by his Power Minister Dorjee Khandu. Dissident legislators in the state Congress Party compelled the Congress Party national leadership, already unhappy with Apang's rule, to effect the change. The shuffle may [...] | 2007-04-10 09:49:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
07KOLKATA126 | KOLKATA PUBLIC AFFAIRS REACHES OUT TO EASTERN INDIA'S MUSLIM [...] (SBU) Summary. Students and faculty at Muslim schools (madrassas) in West Bengal are enthusiastic to interact with U.S. government officials generally and have been appreciative in particular with the outreach by the Kolkata American Center through participation in MicroAccess English-languag [...] | 2007-04-18 06:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO KIRF KISL PHUM SOCI SA IN |
07KOLKATA129 | USTR AMBASSADOR SCHWAB MEETS WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 14 U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Susan Schwab visited West Bengal (WB) to understand local views on India's trade interests and the conditions of its agricultural sector. During her visit, Amb. Schwab met with WB Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattacha [...] | 2007-04-18 10:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR ETRD PREL PGOV SOCI EAID IN |
07KOLKATA144 | INDIA'S MAOIST MENACE GROWS [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent large scale attacks by Maoist insurgents in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and other states reflect growing Maoist strength and organization in India. Mostly operating under the banner of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist),India's Maoists now maintain a [...] | 2007-05-03 12:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SOCI PHUM ECON IN NP |
07KOLKATA145 | RENEWED VIOLENCE IN NANDIGRAM INDICATES A POLITICAL BATTLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two people were killed and five injured in Nandigram on April 29 in a recurrence of violence between supporters of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee ("Committee to Resist Displacement from Land") (BUPC). While the fighting in [...] | 2007-05-03 12:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV IN PHUM |
07KOLKATA149 | ASSAM ROCKED BY TWO BOMB ATTACKS, 26 INJURED [...] (U) On Friday May 4 and Sunday May 6 at least 26 persons were injured in two separate bomb attacks in India's Northeastern state of Assam. In both incidents, the bombs were improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Assam Police suspect that ethnic separatist group the United Liberation Front o [...] | 2007-05-07 11:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PTER ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA152 | YOUNG BOYS AND MEN SUFFER SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AS TRADITIONAL [...] Summary: A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) funded report entitled "Dancing Boys: Traditional Prostitution of Young Males in India" highlights the problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of "launda dancers" - young boys and men, who are hired to dance (in women's clothing) at marri [...] | 2007-05-09 10:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID TBIO KHIV IN |
07KOLKATA154 | ANTI-NARCOTICS OFFICIALS DESTROY THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF OPIUM [...] (SBU) On May 5, press reported a massive Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) operation in West Bengal to destroy illicit and unlicensed opium crop in Murshidabad and Nadia districts worth Rs. 1,200 crore (USD 290 million). GOI awards licenses for legal opium cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya [...] | 2007-05-10 06:31:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC SOCI EAGR IN |
07KOLKATA157 | POULTRY FARM IN NORTH BENGAL REPORTS LARGE NUMBER OF BIRD [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the first week of May, thousands of birds have died at a poultry farm in Siliguri, located in Northern West Bengal, near the border with Bangladesh. The Government of West Bengal (GOWB) has sealed the poultry farm. Preliminary health reports have found no evidence of an H5N1 [...] | 2007-05-11 09:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR IN BG |
07KOLKATA164 | EAST INDIAN STATES SEE PROTESTS AGAINST RETAIL AND MINING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 12, two states in East India experienced several protests against investments by large corporations. In Jharkhand's state capital Ranchi, small scale food vendors attacked newly-opened Reliance Fresh supermarkets fearing that that the lower cost retail markets would destro [...] | 2007-05-16 12:28:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV EAGR EMIN ASEC IN KS |
07KOLKATA166 | TERRORIST GROUP UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM KILLS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16, ethnic Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) gunned down three Hindi-speaking market traders in two different incidents in Golaghat district in Upper Assam. These attacks came soon after ULFA's killing on the previous day, May 15, of six H [...] | 2007-05-17 05:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG |
07KOLKATA167 | INDIAN AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO DETAIN INDEFINITELY HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11 Manipuri human rights activist Irom Sharmila was summoned to New Delhi to face charges of attempted suicide stemming from her six-year hunger strike against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Sharmila has been protesting the continued human rights violation [...] | 2007-05-17 11:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI PTER IN |
07KOLKATA171 | INDIAN MILITARY ENGAGING WITH BURMESE COUNTERPARTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During April and May, Senior Indian military officials appear to have undertaken a concerted effort to increase engagement with their Burmese counterparts. Several meetings have taken place both at political and military levels between officials of the two neighboring countrie [...] | 2007-05-22 13:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PHUM PGOV IN BM CH |
07KOLKATA177 | SIX DEAD AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN ASSAM [...] On Sunday May 27 six persons were killed and over 25 injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) at Athgaon in the capital district of Guwahati in Assam. A time device planted in an auto-rickshaw parked in a busy area went off around 10.4 [...] | 2007-05-30 02:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG |
07KOLKATA189 | SIX KILLED IN ASSAM BLAST [...] (SBU) On June 23 six persons were killed and nine injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),in the capital city of Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The death toll included two minors. The blast, which took place in t [...] | 2007-06-25 11:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN BG |
07KOLKATA191 | MAOISTS BLOCKADE JHARKHAND TRANSPORT [...] Summary: (SBU) Beginning June 26 the two-day east India economic blockade called by the Communist Party of India-Maoist to protest against the setting up of special economic zones (SEZs),adversely affected the movement of all minerals from the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand. The majority [...] | 2007-06-29 08:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN |
07KOLKATA195 | NEW POLICE UNIT IN KOLKATA TO IMPROVE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN [...] (U) Summary. On June 28, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal launched the state's first Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) at its headquarters in Kolkata in a concerted effort to combat trafficking of persons in the state. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee inaugur [...] | 2007-07-03 10:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG |
07KOLKATA196 | 200 MAOIST INSURGENTS KILL SEVEN, INCLUDING FIVE POLICE, IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30 an estimated 200 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed seven people, including five policemen, in separate but simultaneous attacks on two police stations in the Rohtas district of the eastern Indian State of Bihar. On the same day, the Bihar [...] | 2007-07-05 11:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA197 | VIETNAMESE PM LEADS LARGE TRADE DELEGATION TO KOLKATA [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 4, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Kolkata with a 172 member delegation to renew, what he describe as "an old and good friendship" with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-ruled state of West Bengal and to strengthen economic relations. Dung' [...] | 2007-07-06 12:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINV ETRD EMIN IN VM |
07KOLKATA209 | MEGHALAYA STATE POLICE SEIZE 5 KILOS OF HEROIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6 in Northeast India, Meghalaya state police reportedly recovered 5 kilograms of heroin in the state capital Shillong. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the seizure. One suspect is an Indian federal government employee, the other is Moulvi (Muslim prea [...] | 2007-07-12 10:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SNAR ASEC KCRM IN BG BM |
07KOLKATA215 | URANIUM MINES IN INDIAN STATE OF JHARKHAND LACK PROPER [...] (SBU) Summary: As India seeks to develop its nuclear power industry, the GOI is expanding its uranium mines in India's eastern state of Jharkhand. The Jadugoda mines, located in East Singhbum district, are presently the sole fuel source for India's ten pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR [...] | 2007-07-19 13:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENGR EMIN ELAB SENV TRGY ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA217 | OFFICIALS IN NE INDIA INVESTIGATING POULTRY DEATHS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Between July 7 and 10, about 100 chickens died in a farm near Manipur's capital city of Imphal. The state veterinary department deployed rapid response teams to collect samples and sent these to the High Security Disease Detection Laboratory (HSDL) in Bhopal. The Health Depart [...] | 2007-07-20 10:49:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO PREL PGOV SENV IN BM |
07KOLKATA218 | MAOISTS BOMB STATE GOVT OFFICE BUILDING TO "SPUR" POLICE [...] (U) Summary: On July 17th Maoists set off an explosion at a government office in Jharkhand's Bokaro district. A portion of the office building was damaged but no injuries were reported. A note left by the Maoists at the scene claimed that the explosion was in protest against the state governm [...] | 2007-07-23 11:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM IN |
07KOLKATA219 | GOI CONFIRMS AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DEAD POULTRY IN MANIPUR [...] (U) On July 25, the Chief Secretary of Manipur has confirmed the existence of avian influenza in poultry. In a government notice, the Chief Secretary said that the Government of India (GOI) informed the Manipur state government that, "Avian influenza in poultry is reported from a small unit i [...] | 2007-07-26 03:31:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU SENV ECON TBIO EAGR PGOV IN NP BG BM |
07KOLKATA220 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - MANIPUR SITREP, JULY 23 2007 [...] (U) The National Institute of Virology in Pune reported that the virus detected in the samples taken from the dead poultry in Manipur is H5N1. The Manipur government has set up a control room as part of the GOI Action Plan for Preparedness, Control and Containment of Avian Influenza. Contac [...] | 2007-07-26 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU SENV TBIO EAGR PGOV IN BM BG |
07KOLKATA223 | RESOURCE CRIPPLED BIHAR FIGHTS AGAINST POLIO [...] (SBU) Summary: The state of Bihar continues to see an increase in polio cases. As of the end of July 2007, 17 cases have been reported, compared to 13 during the same period last year. In 2006, Bihar reported 61 cases of polio out of a total of 660 in India, which was double the number from [...] | 2007-07-30 11:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KHIV SENV PGOV IN |
07KOLKATA227 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: MANIPUR SITREP JULY 31, 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: As of July 31, culling operations continued in Manipur at over 34 locations in and around Imphal. Culling is scheduled to be completed by July 31 and an assessment taken on August 1. Although there is no news of the infection spreading, there are unconfirmed media reports of an [...] | 2007-07-31 11:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO SENV EAGR IN BM BG PGOV |
07KOLKATA228 | LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS IN W. BENGAL MAY MEAN LEFT FRONT GRIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Left Front leaders welcomed the July 22 Haldia municipal election results as indicative of support for their policy of industrialization in W. Bengal. However, of the 26 seats up for grabs, the Left won 19 and the opposition 7, compared to the 2002 elections when the Left won [...] | 2007-07-31 12:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR EIND IN |
07KOLKATA230 | FLOODING HITS INDIA'S EAST AND NORTHEAST HARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Heavy rains since July 25 have flooded large areas in Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura. Almost all the districts of Assam are flooded, killing 16 people and affecting 1.1 million people. Water levels in rivers across Assam have receded over the past 48 hours. Assam's [...] | 2007-08-02 11:18:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI EAID PGOV AEMR AMED IN |
07KOLKATA233 | BIHAR SUFFERS WORST FLOOD IN THREE DECADES WITH 77 DEATHS [...] (U) SUMMARY: As of August 6, flood conditions in the East Indian state of Bihar remain serious, with a rising toll of now 77 deaths. However, water levels are stabilizing. The Indian Army and Air Force are supporting state government's relief and rescue efforts. Bihar officials say there is [...] | 2007-08-06 11:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR MARR PREF IN |
07KOLKATA234 | MANIPUR FINISHES AI BIRD CULL AND 550 CHICKENS DIE IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 4 culling operations in response to the recent H5N1 Avian Influenza outbreak ended in Manipur, with an estimated 330,000 birds culled. Local authorities are now concentrating on surveillance and monitoring activities. Samples taken from four people living on the Chingme [...] | 2007-08-06 12:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR TBIO SENV CASC IN BM |
07KOLKATA242 | ULFA AGAIN TARGETS HINDI SPEAKING MIGRANTS WHILE RESENTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to India's Independence Day on August 15, insurgents from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) have killed at least 27 Hindi-speaking migrants in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. Simultaneously with thi [...] | 2007-08-14 21:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR IN BG |
07KOLKATA249 | KOLKATA: U.S. SPEAKER EDDY HARRIS SUPPORTS MUTUAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 03:26:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL KPAO IN |
07KOLKATA250 | ORISSA STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED OVER EPIDEMIC LEVELS [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 1, ConGen met with Orissa State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) officials to discuss the HIV/AIDS situation in Orissa. The interaction revealed worsening conditions in this eastern Indian state. The National Aids Control Organization (NACO) characterizes Orissa as a "h [...] | 2007-08-21 11:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KHIV KWMN KGLB TBIO IN |
07KOLKATA251 | W. BENGAL'S NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING HEAD OUTLINES PLANS FOR THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: ON AUGUST 6 POLOFF SPOKE AT LENGTH WITH NEWLY-APPOINTED WEST BENGAL DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (SPECIAL CELL) SANJOY MUKHERJEE. MUKHERJEE WILL RUN THE RECENTLY-CREATED ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT (AHTU) IN W. BENGAL. DURING THE MEETING, MUKHERJEE EXPLAINED IN DETAIL THE [...] | 2007-08-21 12:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG |
07KOLKATA256 | JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER VISITS KOLKATA TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES [...] (U) ON AUGUST 23, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER ABE ARRIVED IN KOLKATA ACCOMPANIED BY A MORE THAN 120-MEMBER BUSINESS DELEGATION. JAPAN HAS INVESTED HEAVILY IN THE STATE OF W. BENGAL AND PROVIDED MILLION-DOLLAR LOANS FOR PROJECTS IN THE CHEMICALS AND ENERGY SECTORS AS WELL AS INFRASTRUCTURE. ABE W [...] | 2007-08-24 10:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINV ETRD EIND IN JA |
07KOLKATA258 | THE HIV/AIDS SCENARIO IN INDIA'S EAST AND NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: In July, India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) released the results of an analytical exercise supported by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) that provided new, lower estimates of HIV prevalence in India. The exercise, conducted in 2006, found that [...] | 2007-08-24 12:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KHIV TBIO KWMN SENV ELAB IN |
07KOLKATA261 | ORISSA CONTINUES TO GROW IN IT, INDUSTRY, ANDMANUFACTURING [...] (U) Summary: During a July 31-August 2 visit to the East Indian state of Orissa, ConGen met with a range of local politicians, bureaucrats, business people and media representatives to assess the present economic conditions in the state. The Orissa government has been intent on developin [...] | 2007-08-27 10:45:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EIND EINV PHUM EMIN IN KS |
07KOLKATA263 | A FOURTH INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY CAMERA GOES MISSING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 27, an industrial radiography camera containing radioactive iridium 192 was stolen from Tata Steel's manufacturing plant in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, the fourth such theft since August 2005. The first camera theft occurred on August 14, 2005 from the Industrial Radi [...] | 2007-08-31 02:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ENRG TRGY ETTC TSPL PGOV EIND SENV IN |
07KOLKATA264 | WEST BENGAL POLICE CONCERNED BY RISING OPIUM CULTIVATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In the past three months, West Bengal Police have recovered 13 kilograms of opium worth USD 600,000, reflecting an apparent increase in illicit narcotic activity in the state. According to police officials, farmers in the state's Nadia district, lured by the prospect of higher [...] | 2007-08-31 13:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SNAR KCRM IN BG NP |
07KOLKATA28 | MANIPUR STATE ELECTIONS LIKELY TO RESULT IN WEAKER CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Election Commission has announced three voting phases for the Manipur state assembly elections to be held on February 8, 15, and 23. The phased voting will help in managing the extensive security required, given the persistent violence from ethnic insurgencies in [...] | 2007-01-25 13:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN BM |
07KOLKATA289 | INDIAN CONGLOMERATE RELIANCE SUSPENDS ITS WEST BENGAL RETAIL [...] (U) SUMMARY. Faced with violence against its facilities and growing political opposition to expansion of retail in India, the Reliance Group on September 13 suspended its billion-dollar agricultural retail project in West Bengal. The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and the W. B [...] | 2007-09-18 04:34:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO EAGR ECON EINV PGOV IN |
07KOLKATA291 | NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE MIZORAM STRUGGLES WITH NEAR EPIDEMIC [...] (U) Summary: From August 28-30, ConGen visited the northeast Indian state of Mizoram to assess the state's social issues. The state borders Burma and has a relatively small population of around one million people. While literacy is high at over 88 percent, the state economy is weak and reli [...] | 2007-09-19 14:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KHIV SNAR TBIO IN BM |
07KOLKATA292 | TEA, TIGERS AND TRAFFICKING GO HAND IN HAND IN BENGAL'S [...] (U) Summary: Located in a narrow strip of land between Nepal and Bangladesh, the N. Bengal city of Siliguri is a regional economic crossroad. People and goods intersect there, and as India's GDP growth nears ten percent, smaller cities like Siliguri are experiencing rapid expansion. This e [...] | 2007-09-20 05:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PHUM KWMN SENV IN NP BG ELAB |
07KOLKATA295 | WEST BENGAL VILLAGERS WANT FOOD NOT IDEOLOGY: ATTACK [...] (U) Summary: On September 16, villagers in West Bengal's (WB) Left Front ruled Bankura district attacked local Communist leaders who had arranged a meeting to protest the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement (referred to as the 123 agreement). The villagers insisted they wanted food, not sloga [...] | 2007-09-21 11:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
07KOLKATA297 | TEA, TIGERS AND TRAFFICKING GO HAND IN HAND IN BENGAL'S [...] (U) Summary: Located in a narrow strip of land between Nepal and Bangladesh, the N. Bengal city of Siliguri is a regional economic crossroad. People and goods intersect there, and as India's GDP growth nears ten percent, smaller cities like Siliguri are experiencing rapid expansion. This e [...] | 2007-09-21 11:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PHUM KWMN SENV IN NP BG ELAB |
07KOLKATA30 | DALAI LAMA SPEAKS IN KOLKATA ON TIBETAN AUTONOMY [...] (SBU) On January 15 in Kolkata, the Dalai Lama spoke at the 40th anniversary celebrations of the of non-governmental organization Young Men's Welfare Society (YMWS). He made remarks on "Ethics in Human Development." During the question and answer period following his remarks, the Dalai Lama [...] | 2007-01-29 10:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SENV CH IN |
07KOLKATA305 | BURMESE MIGRANTS IN NORTHEAST INDIA FACE DISCRIMINATION: [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Northeast region is home to thousands of Burmese refugees and migrants who have fled political oppression and economic backwardness in Burma. Ethnic Chins are the largest group, estimated at 50,000 to 100,000, and are primarily in the India's Northeastern state of Mizo [...] | 2007-09-27 16:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL BM IN |
07KOLKATA31 | DCM TALKS AGRICULTURE IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DURING HIS JANUARY 18-19 VISIT TO KOLKATA, DCM DISCUSSED FOOD-PROCESSING, FDI IN THE RETAIL SECTOR, AND LAND POLICY WITH COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA - MARXIST (CPM) AND GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL (GOWB) LEADERS. THOUGH GOWB OFFICIALS WERE GENERALLY POSITIVE ABOUT THE STATES PROSPE [...] | 2007-01-29 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR ECIN EINV ELAB ENRG IN |
07KOLKATA311 | INDIA TIGHTENS SECURITY ON THE BURMA BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 2, Assam Rifles soldiers detained three Burmese individuals at Khudengthabi security checkpost in Manipur state in Northeast India, bordering Burma. India has not sealed its border with Burma. However, security at key crossing points has been increased. Peaceful de [...] | 2007-10-11 02:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL BM IN |
07KOLKATA323 | VIOLENCE IN WEST BENGAL'S NANDIGRAM VILLAGES CONTINUES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past five days, sporadic violence has occurred in the Nandigram area of West Bengal's East Midnapore district. Supporters of both the Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) have engaged in attacks, [...] | 2007-10-30 13:01:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC SOCI IN |
07KOLKATA324 | MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...] | 2007-10-30 13:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC SOCI IN |
07KOLKATA325 | MAOISTS IN JHARKHAND STRIKE AT ANOTHER LOCAL FOOTBALL MATCH, [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkhand-Bihar border. The GOI and Jharkhand government [...] | 2007-10-30 15:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA327 | MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...] | 2007-11-01 07:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV SOCI IN |
07KOLKATA331 | TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON TALKS TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 28, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson met with West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Politburo Member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to discuss economic development in India and West Bengal, and the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha r [...] | 2007-11-04 11:09:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD EAGR WTRO IN |
07KOLKATA336 | IROM SHARMILA CONTINUES SIX-YEAR HUNGER STRIKE TO PROTEST [...] (U) Human Rights activist Irom Sharmila has been detained for six years in a government hospital in Manipur and force fed by local authorities as she maintains her hunger strike to protest human rights abuses in Manipur and to demand the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). [...] | 2007-11-06 12:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KWMN PREL IN |
07KOLKATA345 | COMMUNISTS BRUTALLY CRUSH OPPOSITION IN RURAL WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: From November 6 to 11, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists conducted a brutal campaign to "recapture" the rural West Bengal area of Nandigram from the opposition Bhumi Uchhed Protirodh Committee (BUPC) (Committee Against Eviction From the Land). Following initial [...] | 2007-11-13 14:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREF ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA351 | COMMUNISTS DEFIANT ON NANDIGRAM HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During November 6-11, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists violently assaulted villages under the control of the opposition Bhumi Ucched Protirodh Committee (BUPC) in West Bengal's rural Nandigram area. CPM cadres, locally called "Harmad Bahini" (Portuguese pirates [...] | 2007-11-19 12:01:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN IN |
07KOLKATA353 | A/S SAUERBREY MEETS WITH CHIN LEADERS ON ACCESS TO REFUGEES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 7 stopover in Kolkata, Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey discussed with Burmese Chin leaders the condition of the several thousand Chin migrants in India's Northeast. The lack of access by UNHCR to the Chins and other [...] | 2007-11-20 04:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN PREF |
07KOLKATA355 | KOLKATA'S CRISIS MANAGEMENT FOR CYCLONE SIDR: LESSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, cyclone Sidr had only a moderate impact on West Bengal and Kolkata's consular district. However, to retain information on lessons learned regarding Post's planning and preparations for the cyclone, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) and other post personnel co [...] | 2007-11-20 13:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT CASC IN |
07KOLKATA356 | INDIAN ARMY DEPLOYS TO QUELL MUSLIM RIOTS IN KOLKATA [...] (U) Summary: On November 21, central Kolkata was rocked by violence as Muslim supporters of the All India Minorities Forum (AIMF) and Furfurasharif Muzadeddia Anath Foundation (FMAF) enforced roadblocks in Kolkata to protest the recent Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) attacks in Nandigr [...] | 2007-11-21 13:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR CASC PHUM IN |
07KOLKATA359 | KOLKATA QUIET, TASLIMA NASREEN FORCED TO LEAVE [...] (U) Kolkata has remained quiet since rioting on November 21 by Muslim protestors required the Indian Army to be called in and a curfew imposed until the early morning of November 22. However, the Army is still deployed in central Kolkata as a precautionary measure. The November 21 violence st [...] | 2007-11-23 12:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV AEMR PHUM IN |
07KOLKATA364 | CORPORATE KOLKATA HOPES NANDIGRAM WILL NOT AFFECT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of recent violence in Nandigram, Post surveyed leading industry contacts to discuss the potential impact of the violence on investment in W. Bengal. Business owners and senior corporate managers generally believe that the recent government sponsored attacks in Nan [...] | 2007-11-28 11:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EINV EFIN EIND EAGR IN |
07KOLKATA367 | RAMSEY CLARK AND HUMAN RIGHTS TEAM VISIT NANDIGRAM, [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 30, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark led a three-member delegation to visit villages in West Bengal's Nandigram district. Clark and his team came for an on-the-spot assessment of human rights violations by Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) activists a [...] | 2007-11-30 09:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM IN |
07KOLKATA376 | CHINA AND INDIA DISPUTE BHUTAN BORDER: INDIAN SOLDIERS MOVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Against the backdrop of efforts to improve bilateral relations, India and China continue to jostle over territory along India's northeast border with China. On December 12, India relocated 6,000 soldiers of the 27th Mountain Division (units of the 164 Mountain Brigade) from Jam [...] | 2007-12-14 13:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR CH IN |
07KOLKATA378 | KOLKATA HOLIDAY EAC MEETING [...] (SBU) On December 13, the Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to reftel. Post is not aware of any threat information that is aimed at American interests in Eastern India. Post employees were reminded to provide their supervisors with contact information if traveli [...] | 2007-12-17 03:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC IN |
07KOLKATA382 | NAGA INSURGENTS SEEK UNITY PRIOR TO NAGALAND STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary. December 3-7, ConGen and Embassy New Delhi PolCouns visited Nagaland and discussed with officials and contacts the Naga insurgencies and preparations for the February 2008 state assembly elections. While many decried the internecine violence among the insurgent factions, most [...] | 2007-12-19 11:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM ASEC BM IN |
07KOLKATA383 | ADIVASI TRIBALS IN ASSAM AGITATE; STATE CONGRESS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Assam's "tea tribes" or Adivasis have increased their protests and agitations to pressure the state and national governments for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status under the Indian Constitution. In recent weeks, members of the Adivasi community have organized a violent rally in Guwaha [...] | 2007-12-19 11:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ASEC PREF IN |
07KOLKATA385 | HINDUS AND CHRISTIANS CLASH OVER CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN [...] (U) Summary: Since December 24 one person has been killed, at least 30 persons injured and several churches have been damaged as tribal Christians and Hindu fundamentalists have clashed over Christmas celebrations in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Trouble started on December 24, when a [...] | 2007-12-26 09:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA386 | MAOIST INSURGENTS IN EASTERN INDIA EXPAND INFLUENCE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Development projects in rural India including India's Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have provided the country's Maoist insurgents (or Naxalites) with an opportunity to solidify their base and to increase their reach into more semi-rural areas. In the extensive "red corridor" o [...] | 2007-12-26 11:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM EIND ECON EINV ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA388 | TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH IN ORISSA FOLLOWING CHRISTMAS VIOLENCE [...] Summary: (SBU) Tensions prevailed in the curfew bound tribal-dominated Kandhamal and Phulbani districts of the Eastern India state of Orissa following violence which began on December 24. At least, one person has been killed and several have been reported injured during the violence. Propert [...] | 2007-12-27 16:34:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA39 | USG SUPPORT FOR ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS STRONG, [...] (U) Summary: On January 18, DCM visited anti-trafficking non-governmental organization (NGO) Apne Aap's shelter at Topsia, located in a Muslim neighborhood that is one of Kolkata's poorest slums. DCM interacted with Apne Aap leaders and spoke with Deputy Public Prosecutor Taj Mohammed about [...] | 2007-02-06 09:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR IN |
07KOLKATA391 | KOLKATA EAC-BHUTTO ASSASINATION [...] (SBU) On December 28, the acting Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The SD Team and Local Guard Force have been reminded to remain vigilant and to report all security anomalies immediately. 2. (SBU) Post reviewed exist [...] | 2007-12-28 11:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC IN |
07KOLKATA41 | WEST BENGAL'S LAND BATTLE HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During the past six months, the Government of West Bengal (GOWB) and Tata Motors have found themselves embroiled in a political battle over acquisition of agricultural land in Singur district. The controversy has been fueled by a lack of transparency in the land acquisition pr [...] | 2007-02-07 12:17:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EIND EINV PGOV IN |
07KOLKATA50 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNER DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS CONSIDERS ENTERING [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 12, ConGen spoke with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus about his plans to enter Bangladesh politics. Yunus, on a two-day visit to Kolkata, expressed a strong interest to enter the political fray and said that he was reviewing his options. He expressed support [...] | 2007-02-13 13:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN BG |
07KOLKATA54 | ITALIAN PM PRODI LEADS LARGEST EVER TRADE MISSION TO [...] (SBU) Summary. February 11-12, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi visited Kolkata with over 300 business representatives, Italian Commerce Minister Emma Bonino and other senior government officials as part of a "global strategy to open new markets in Asia." The delegation consisted mostly o [...] | 2007-02-14 14:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EFIN EIND IT IN |
07KOLKATA56 | CHINA AND RUSSIA MAKING THEIR PITCH TO EAST INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DEMONSTRATING GREATER CHINESE EFFORT AT PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN EAST INDIA, ON FEBRUARY 12, FOREIGN MINISTER LI XHAOXING TRAVELED TO BIHAR TO INAUGURATE A NEW MEMORIAL HALL AT THE HISTORIC SITE OF THE ANCIENT NALANDA UNIVERSITY. A WEEK EARLIER, CHINA'S AMBASSADOR TO INDIA USED THE [...] | 2007-02-15 12:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD PGOV EINV RS CH IN |
07KOLKATA59 | SECOND PHASE OF MANIPUR ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS OFFERS NO CLEAR [...] (U) On February 14, three valley districts of the Northeast Indian state of Manipur -- Imphal West, Imphal East and Bishnupur -- constituting 29 constituencies out of the 60-seat Assembly, went to the second phase of the state Legislative Assembly polls. The national-ruling Congress Party, pr [...] | 2007-02-16 13:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA66 | FORMULATION OF A NEW INTEGRATED ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT TIP [...] (U) Summary: On February 1-2 approximately 50-75, lawyers, judges, NGO activists, and government officials from West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, and Jharkhand participated in the "Eastern Regional Workshop to Discuss the Proposed Plan of Action to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking" organized b [...] | 2007-02-22 06:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN |
07KOLKATA67 | LEFT PARTIES TO PUSH THIER AGENDA AND CHALLENGE UPA DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Parliament's "budget session" opened on February 23 and is expected to last approximately eight weeks. During the session, India's Left parties, headed by the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM),plan to challenge the economic policies of the Congress-dominated Un [...] | 2007-02-23 08:17:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI IN |
07KOLKATA68 | LEFT PARTIES TO PUSH THEIR AGENDA AND CHALLENGE UPA DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Parliament's "budget session" opened on February 23 and is expected to last approximately eight weeks. During the session, India's Left parties, headed by the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM),plan to challenge the economic policies of the Congress-dominated Un [...] | 2007-02-23 13:34:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG EAGR PGOV PREL IN |
07KOLKATA69 | LEFT OBJECTS TO CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JAMIAT-E-ULEMA [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, ConGen met with West Bengal Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind (JUH) General Secretary Siddiqullah Chowdhury at the JUH offices to discuss Muslim issues and concerns in West Bengal. Chowdhury has come to local prominence recently in leading Muslim opposition to development of [...] | 2007-02-26 14:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC PREL ECON SOCI IN |
07KOLKATA71 | AFTER TWO ROUNDS OF PEACEFUL VOTING, VIOLENCE HITS MANIPUR [...] (U) Summary: On February 23, Manipur held the third and final phase of its Legislative Assembly elections for the remaining 12 seats in the 60-seat legislature. Unlike the first two phases, this final round of polling was marred by violence and intimidation due to ethnic rivalries in the poll [...] | 2007-02-27 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PHUM IN |
07KOLKATA72 | CONGRESS RETAINS CONTROL IN MANIPUR AS LOCAL PARTIES FALTER [...] (U) Summary: The Congress Party gained control of the Manipur Assembly, winning 30 out 60 seats, and partnering with the Communist Party of India (CPI) to form an absolute majority. Local parties, including the Manipur People's Party, lost due to their extreme political stances that did not [...] | 2007-02-28 11:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
07KOLKATA74 | MAOISTS BRAZENLY KILL JHARKHAND PARLIAMENTARIAN DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday March 4 Maoist rebels shot and killed Sunil Mahto, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and General Secretary of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party. The attack occurred at a football tournament in the village of Ghatshila, [...] | 2007-03-05 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV IN |
07KOLKATA84 | ASSAM -- NATIONAL GAMES OVER, ULFA CONTINUES ATTACKS [...] (U) Summary: On March 9, the terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) continued its campaign of bombs and attacks in Assam, setting off a bomb in a crowded marketplace. The group also indicates that it will step up its attacks, including by targeting Congress Party officials, ho [...] | 2007-03-13 04:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN |